US08214909B2
An information display device for displaying prescribed information on a prescribed display body, includes: an authentication operation request section for allowing a user to make user authentication; and an operation permission section for accepting an operation on said information display device for a prescribed permission time since said information display device is lastly operated, if the user who makes the authentication operation is authorized to perform the operation of said information display device; wherein said operation permission section sets said permission time based on the display contents on said display body.
US08214908B2
An automatic performance apparatus which can make it difficult to discriminate between music contents which require copyright protection and music contents which do not require copyright protection. An encrypted content file distributed by a contents distributing site via a network is received, and copyright protection information indicative of whether or not the received encrypted content file requires copyright protection is acquired. The received encrypted content file is decoded to generate a decoded content file. When the acquired copyright protection information indicates that copyright protection is required, a storage medium stores the encrypted content file, or a re-encrypted content file generated by re-encrypting the decoded content file by an encrypting method different from an encrypting method used to obtain the encrypted content file. On the other hand, when the acquired copyright protection information indicates that copyright protection is not required, the storage medium stores the decoded content file.
US08214904B1
Disclosed are systems, methods and computer program products for detecting unknown security threats. In one example, a system receives from an antivirus application deployed on a user's computer information about an unknown security event associated with a software executing on the computer and a user's verdict indicating that the software is harmful or clean. The system identifies the user of the computer and a role of the user. The role indicates user's level of expertise in the field of computer security. If the user has a high level of expertise in computer security, the system accepts the user's verdict. If the user has a low level of expertise, the system analyzes the information about the security event to verify that the user's verdict is correct. If the user's verdict was accepted or verified to be correct, the system updates an antivirus database associated with the antivirus application.
US08214903B2
A method and system for analyzing scripts. A script is processed, which executes text blocks of code derived from the script and copied to an output file in a sequential order. The script is the first text block that is copied to the output file. Executing the text blocks includes interpreting each text block to generate and execute a corresponding interpreted block of code. Processing the script results in the text blocks being sequenced in the output file in the sequential order. The text blocks include an original text block of code that includes text that may be directly inferred from text appearing in the script. The blocks of code include a new text block of code, which includes text that may not be directly inferred from text appearing in the script. The new text block is generated from executing the original text block.
US08214900B1
A method and apparatus for monitoring a computer to detect operating system process manipulation by malicious software programs is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for detecting operating system process manipulation through unexpected process behavior includes accessing process behavior indicia regarding memory addresses used by at least one user mode process to request computer resources and comparing the process behavior indicia with a user mode request to identify operating system process manipulation.
US08214896B2
Provided is a method of securing a Universal Serial Bus (USB) keyboard. According to the method, a keyboard security operation is performed at a host controller driver level, which is one level lower than a USB hub driver level. Thus, it is possible to rapidly and effectively prevent a malicious program from leaking information input from a keyboard that is in communication with a main frame and transfers data via a USB.
US08214894B2
An information processor is disclosed that includes an authentication part configured to authenticate a user based on predetermined information; an information obtaining part configured to obtain first information to be used to authenticate the user from an external device; and an authentication control part configured to cause the authentication part to authenticate the user by inputting information based on the first information to the authentication part as the predetermined information. The information obtaining part is configured to obtain the first information using a program module whose correlation with the information obtaining part is recorded in a recording medium.
US08214891B2
The invention described herein uses a multi-touch manager for authorizing multi-touch devices by first providing a multi-touch test to a multi-touch device. In turn, the multi-touch manager receives a multi-touch response from the multi-touch device. The multi-touch manager then compares the multi-touch response with a multi-touch answer and authorizes the device based upon the comparison.
US08214890B2
A user working on a client computer is allowed to remotely login to a server over a computer network. A first secure connection is established between the client and the server. Communications with a trusted device which is in the user's control is established via a communication channel between the trusted device and the client, where this channel is not part of the network. A second secure connection is established between the trusted device and the server through the client, where this second secure connection is tunneled within the first secure connection. The user remotely logs into the server over the second secure connection using the trusted device.
US08214880B1
In one of many possible embodiments, a system includes a provisioning subsystem communicatively coupled to a network device by a communication network. The provisioning subsystem is configured to incorporate, in a configuration profile, a unique parameter associated with the network device. The configuration profile includes one or more parameters for provisioning the network device to access at least one service provided over the communication network. The provisioning subsystem is further configured to encrypt the configuration profile having the unique parameter and to provide the encrypted configuration profile to the network device. In certain embodiments, the network device is configured to decrypt the encrypted configuration profile and verify that the configuration profile is intended for the network device.
US08214871B2
A method, device and network for compressing cable modem data signals and conserving bandwidth within the network. Cable modems transmit upstream data signals to a fiber node which compresses the data signals and transmits the compressed signals upstream to a headend which decompresses the data signals. The fiber node compression may be by a shaping filter or a fast Fourier transform (FFT) function. The headend decompression may be by an inverse shaping filter or an inverse FFT function.
US08214869B2
Systems and methods are disclosed which detect a change in the status of a multimedia asset in a multimedia delivery system, and take steps to make the multimedia asset available after the status change. The multimedia asset can then be locally recorded on the user's digital video recorder (DVR) before the status changes. Alternatively, the user can be directed to an equivalent asset, for example, video-on-demand (VOD). The user may also receive a notification, which can be displayed on a TV or computer monitor or send to a remote device, for example to a mobile phone as an email or a short message. The user may be able to purchase the asset and/or initiate recording the asset. The status can be, for example, an expiration date of an asset, or a change of the source or format of an asset.
US08214864B2
A delivery control central device installed in a lead car of a train delivers video information including moving image information and still image information to a delivery control terminal device of each subsequent car via an inter-car transmission path. The video information is delivered based on video content and a content display schedule that are both wirelessly received from a ground station through a transceiver device. The delivery control terminal device of each car is sequentially connected to the delivery control terminal device of an adjacent car, sequentially delivers the delivered video information to the adjacent car, and delivers the delivered video information to a video output device via an in-car transmission path inside its own car. A video output device generates video signals from the delivered video information, outputs the video signals to a display device, and displays the video signals by the display device.
US08214861B2
Disclosed is a system and a method of providing a VOD (Video On Demand; below referred to as ‘VOD’) preview channel through channel zapping in a real-time broadcast service. To do this, the present invention includes a VOD preview channel for a VOD service between real-time broadcast channels, and allows a user to view a VOD screen as well as a real-time channel through channel zapping. As a VOD screen, a playing screen for playing a pre-downloaded VOD preview content for the corresponding VOD preview channel is displayed, and the corresponding VOD can be watched through such functions as an initial viewing and a continuous viewing if a viewing on the screen is wanted.
US08214856B2
Viewers of video on demand (“VOD”) programs are automatically presented with Emergency Alert System (“EAS”) information during an invocation of the EAS system. A VOD Support System receives notification of an EAS event and directs EAS information to be stored in a VOD Server. The VOD Support System then invokes a function in the VOD Server, causing the VOD server to suspend all active VOD streams and, instead, stream out the EAS information comprising a preamble and emergency information identified by the VOD Support System. Upon completion of streaming this information, the VOD Server will automatically resume each of the VOD programs previously suspended. VOD viewers watching a VOD session that is interrupted by an EAS test are thus automatically returned to their VOD programming at the point where their program was interrupted.
US08214855B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a program stream from a program source on a first channel. The method also includes detecting an unrecoverable error in the program stream, and receiving a standalone decodable repair stream from an error repair source on a second channel. The repair stream refers to a portion of the program stream, where the portion corresponds to the unrecoverable error. The method also includes combining the repair stream and the program stream to produce a presentable stream for user viewing.
US08214846B1
One or more computer-readable media that enable a method of recording object configurations at and after an incident occurs in the object. The present invention captures object configurations surrounding an incident that allows changes to be made in response to the incident to be analyzed. The present invention also may generate an incident classification based on a comparison of the configuration when the incident occurs and after it is resolved.
US08214843B2
Energy costs for conducting compute tasks at diverse data center sites are determined and are then used to route such tasks in a most efficient manner. A given compute task is first evaluated to predict potential energy consumption. The most favorable real-time energy costs for the task are determined at the various data center sites. The likely time period of the more favorable cost as well as the stability at the data center are additional factors. A workload dispatcher then forwards the selected compute task to the data center having the most favorable real-time energy costs. Among the criteria used to select the most favorable data center is a determination that the proposed center presently has the resources for the task.
US08214841B2
Methods, systems, services and program products are provided for implementing carbon offset computing. During performance of a specified computing task data concerning resource consumption regarding that specified computing task is gathered and stored. Upon completion of the specified computing task, the amount of carbon offset required to compensate for resource consumption associated with performance of the completed specified computing task is calculated based upon stored or known resource consumption data. The calculated amount of carbon offset information may be transmitted to a carbon offset function provider, and a carbon offset function provider implements the specified amount of carbon offset based upon the calculated amounts communicated for the completed specified computing task.
US08214828B2
A method for managing software modules of at least two operating systems sharing physical resources of a computing environment, but running in different partitions separated by a virtualization boundary comprises accumulating module information in a virtualization subsystem that directs the creation and management of the partitions. The accumulated module information is used across the virtualization boundary to manage the use of the software modules. Also, a method for managing software modules comprises making at least two operating systems aware that they are being hosted in a virtualized computing environment.
US08214827B2
A system that listens to the data traffic running over the Service Provider Premises between the plurality of surfers and the Internet. The system can identify downloading of a content object. The data transportation of each user can be parsed for identifying a connection that is involved in downloading a content object from a content server. When a downloading of a content object is identified, the download process is monitored and resuming information is stored. In case that the download process is incompletely terminated the stored resuming information can be used to accelerate the response to a request to renewal the download process of the same object.
US08214824B2
A device management apparatus which receives software to be used in an image processing apparatus from a distribution apparatus and redistributes the software to an image processing apparatus includes a first acquisition unit configured to acquire from the image processing apparatus user history information indicating usage history of a user of the image processing apparatus, a second acquisition unit configured to acquire from the distribution apparatus execution instruction information of the software including conditions for executing a process associated with installment of the software, a search unit configured to search for a user satisfying conditions included in execution instruction information acquired by the second acquisition unit based on the user history information acquired by the first acquisition unit, and an instruction unit configured to issue, when a user satisfying conditions included in the execution instruction information is found by the search unit, an execution instruction based on the execution instruction information to an image processing apparatus which is a distribution destination of the software.
US08214814B2
Embodiments of the invention enable application programs running across multiple compute nodes of a highly-parallel system to compile source code into native instructions, and subsequently share the optimizations used to compile the source code with other nodes. For example, determining what optimizations to use may consume significant processing power and memory on a node. In cases where multiple nodes exhibit similar characteristics, it is possible that these nodes may use the same set of optimizations when compiling similar pieces of code. Therefore, when one node compiles source code into native instructions, it may share the optimizations used with other similar nodes, thereby removing the burden for the other nodes to figure out which optimizations to use. Thus, while one node may suffer a performance hit for determining the necessary optimizations, other nodes may be saved from this burden by simply using the optimizations provided to them.
US08214811B2
Mechanisms for instantiating an interface or abstract class in application code are provided. An object-oriented programming language is extended such that interfaces and abstract classes can be instantiated in application code without a concrete class specified. Metadata is defined which maps each interface or abstract class instantiation in the application code to a concrete class to be used either by the compiler at build time, or the virtual machine at runtime. Once the appropriate concrete class is determined from the metadata, the class is instantiated with a conventional class loader. The metadata may be provided, for example, as a separate file, such as a markup language file, defined with a virtual machine switch, as annotations in the application code, or the like.
US08214808B2
A system and method for speculative assistance to a thread in a heterogeneous processing environment is provided. A first set of instructions is identified in a source code representation (e.g., a source code file) that is suitable for speculative execution. The identified set of instructions are analyzed to determine the processing requirements. Based on the analysis, a processor type is identified that will be used to execute the identified first set of instructions based. The processor type is selected from more than one processor types that are included in the heterogeneous processing environment. The heterogeneous processing environment includes more than one heterogeneous processing cores in a single silicon substrate. The various processing cores can utilize different instruction set architectures (ISAs). An object code representation is then generated for the identified first set of instructions with the object code representation being adapted to execute on the determined type of processor.
US08214806B2
A method for profiling performance of a system includes steps of: monitoring execution of the system at multiple points during the system's operation; analyzing results derived from the monitoring in order to provide analyzed results; reconfiguring the monitoring non-uniformly according to the analyzed results; and repeatedly performing iterations of the above steps until a particular event occurs. The iterations may be terminated upon: reaching a specified level of analysis precision, determining a source of one or more performance bottlenecks, determining a source of unexpectedly high output or low completion time, completing a predefined number of iterations, reaching an endpoint of an application, or having performed iterations for a specified period of time.
US08214800B2
Method and system for associating software components with vendor hardware module versions in an open architecture test system are disclosed. The method includes receiving a set of hardware versions of a vendor hardware module, receiving a set of software components supported by the vendor hardware module, processing the set of hardware versions, where the set of hardware versions is represented as an equivalence class of hardware version numbers using a mask value, obtaining user choices of hardware versions of the vendor hardware module, validating the user choices of hardware versions of the vendor hardware module, and creating a system profile in accordance with the user choices of hardware versions.
US08214792B2
A business enterprise is assessed by a consultant using a computer implemented tool for practicing component business modeling techniques. The tool builds a map of components, filters the map to form a heat map and identifies collaborations. Key performance indicators are evaluated.
US08214789B2
A system and method for navigating drawings on a computing system is provided. The method includes loading drawings and associated object data. The drawings and the associated object data are arranged into at least two types of navigation networks, each type of navigation network having a plurality of parameters to interact with the drawings. Keys in a keyboard are mapped based on the plurality of parameters of the at least two types of navigation networks. A navigation network for the drawings is selected from the at least two types of navigation networks and the drawings are displayed. The drawings are manipulated using the mapped keys based on the selected navigation network, wherein the at least two types of networks include at least two of a row and column network, a flow chart network, a wiring diagram network, and a component location drawing navigation network.
US08214786B2
Embodiments of the present invention include dense, but accessible and well-interconnected component arrangements within multi-component systems, such as high-end multi-processor computer systems, and methods for constructing such arrangements. In a described embodiment, integrated-circuit-containing processing components, referred to as a “flat components,” are arranged into local blocks of intercommunicating flat components. The local flat-component blocks are arranged into interconnected, primitive multi-local-block repeating units, and the primitive local-block repeating units are layered together in a three-dimensional, regularly repeating structure that can be assembled to approximately fill any specified three-dimensional volume. The arrangement provides for relatively short, direct pathways from the surface of the specified volume to any particular local block and flat component within the three-dimensional arrangement.
US08214784B2
A system and method for extracting the parasitic contact/via capacitance in an integrated circuit are provided. Parasitic extraction using this system can lead to an improved accuracy on contact/via parasitic capacitance extraction by taking into account of the actual contact/via shape and size variation. The common feature of the various embodiments includes the step of generating a technology file, in which the contact/via capacitance in the capacitance table is derived from an effective contact/via width table. Each element of the effective contact/via width table is calibrated to have a parasitic capacitance matching to that of an actual contact/via configuration occurring in an IC.
US08214783B2
The present invention provides a method and system for stage evaluation of a state machine model. Two types of transitions are used: first-stage transitions and second-stage transitions for a two-stage evaluation. In one embodiment, top-down processing and bottom-up processing may be combined using a two-stage evaluation. First-stage transitions are used with top-down processing while second-stage transitions are used with bottom-up processing. Certain conditions are used to determine if a switch from one type of stage processing to another type of stage processing is needed.
US08214774B2
A System-on-Chip (SoC) may include logic blocks connected to each other and to external connections, and a hardware debug infrastructure logic connected to the logic blocks and for performing functional changes to a design layout of the SoC. The hardware debug infrastructure logic may include software re-configurable modules based upon the logic blocks obtained from substituting a mask programmable ECO base cell configured as a functional logic cell for a logic cell in the design layout.
US08214761B2
The present invention is to provide an imaging apparatus superior in operability and visibility at the time of setting and adjusting functions thereof.The apparatus includes GUI screen image generating means for generating a GUI screen image for operating the imaging apparatus to display the GUI screen image on image display means; operating means for operating the GUI screen image displayed on the image display means; controlling means for controlling the imaging apparatus in accordance with the operation of the GUI screen image by the operating means; storing means for storing hierarchy type main menu information; menu generating means; and menu editing means capable of editing the unique menu information generated by the menu generating means. The controlling means controls the GUI screen image generating means when detecting a predetermined operation by the operating means, and the GUI screen image generating means generates the GUI screen image in which the index information to operate the menu editing means is included in the unique menu information, in accordance with the control by the controlling means, and displays the GUI screen image on the image display means.
US08214750B2
Described herein are processes and devices that collapse areas in a region of a virtual universe to conserve computing resources. One of the devices described is a virtual resource conserver. The virtual resource conserver determines a first area of a region in a virtual universe. The first area has objects or avatars. A first computing resource processes data for presenting and controlling the objects or avatars in the first area. The virtual resource conserver determines a second area of the region that is similar in topology to the first area. The virtual resource conserver moves the objects or avatars from the first area to the second area and transfers data for presenting and controlling the avatars or objects from the first computing resource to a second computing resource. Finally, the virtual resource conserver reduces usage of the first computing resource, thus conserving resources in the virtual universe.
US08214743B2
The exemplary embodiments provide a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for managing data. A graphical user interface is generated. The graphical user interface comprises a first selecting component for receiving a selection from a user of at least one attribute of a record from a set of records to be measured for relevancy, a second selecting component for receiving a selection from the user for a granularity of the at least one attribute to be measured for relevancy, and a displaying component for displaying a result to the user, wherein the result includes a visual representation of the relevancy of the at least one attribute selected by the user based on the granularity selected by the user.
US08214731B2
Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to portlet content refreshing and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and apparatus for independently refreshing portlet content in a portal view. In an embodiment of the invention, a system for refreshing portlet content in a portal view can include a portal server configured to render a portal page, a portlet aggregator configured to provide portlet markup for different portlets in different refresh controllers having independently refreshable portions, and a refresh servlet coupled to the portlet aggregator that includes programming to configure the portal page with the different refresh controllers.
US08214727B2
An apparatus for encoding an information bit stream using turbo code is provided. The apparatus includes a temporary bit generator for creating a temporary bit stream, an interleaver for independently receiving the information bit stream and the temporary bit stream, a first constituent encoder for independently receiving the information bit stream and the temporary bit stream and generating a first parity bit stream and a second constituent encoder for receiving an output of the interleaver and generating a second parity bit stream. Performance of a turbo code can be enhanced without changing a code rate by making a decoded bit stream longer.
US08214719B1
Some of the embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method comprising receiving a stream of codewords from a hard disk controller (HDC), receiving a write gate signal, the write gate signal configured to request a read/write (R/W) channel to write at least a first part of the stream of codewords to a media, and receiving a symbol count signal indicating a number of symbols in the first part of the received stream of codewords. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US08214698B2
The presented solid state storage system provides an efficient manner of processing read and write operations in a memory block that has a faulty page of memory within it. The solid state storage system includes a flash memory area and a memory controller. The memory controller stores link information into a buffer, allocates a first temporary physical block to resume operations of the bad block past the first bad page, updates and stores mapping information associated with the remaining portions of the bad block past the first bad page, and merges together those valid pages from among the bad block into a final physical block by merging together all prior successfully operated valid pages from among the bad block with any subsequently successfully operated valid pages which are associated with successful operations subsequently to the failure in the first bad page of the bad block.
US08214687B2
Disaster recovery is performed based on journaling events prioritization in information in an information technology environment. One implementation involves prioritizing log file events for scheduling of jobs on a computing system, by logging events concerning each job execution plan, in a log file, and for disaster recovery, prioritizing logged events based on corresponding job urgency and relevance level and performing recovery by reapplying the events of log files in the priority order such that more urgent and relevant jobs are recovered first.
US08214680B1
A local area network system includes switching circuitry and in-band data ports under control of the switching circuitry. Device management circuitry is configured to manage the local area network device and system power is configured to provide power to the switching circuitry and the device management circuitry. An out-of-band data port is coupled to the device management circuitry. The out-of-band data port is supplied with a Power-over-Ethernet supply.
US08214674B2
Integrated circuit having a Microcontroller Unit and Methods of Operation therefore. An integrated circuit comprises a microcontroller unit with synchronous logic operably coupled to non-clocked intelligent logic. The non-clocked intelligent logic is arranged to autonomously monitor multiple events associated with an operation of the synchronous logic and, in response thereto, the non-clocked intelligent logic initiates autonomously an alternate operational mode of the microcontroller unit. A method of operating a microcontroller unit is also described.
US08214671B2
Under the present solution, dependencies and relationships of objects are stored and are updatable by consumers and optionally manufacturers through a local UI or web interface. These dependencies and relationships are stored in a “collection profile” which describes the capabilities of objects. When a request to reduce energy is received the system can query the collection profile to determine the downstream effect of reducing energy to a single object. The collection profile will identify which other objects rely on that object and would also need to have energy reduced. Being able to identify these linkages and effects of changes across the system will be critical for good energy management.
US08214669B2
The invention is directed towards minimizing power consumption in computer systems. One embodiment of the invention is a power management system that is used for a computer system that has at least one device and one power domain. This embodiment uses two different power managers to manage the power consumption of the device and the power domain. Specifically, this embodiment has (1) a first power manager that determines when to change power state of the device, and (2) a second power manager that determines when to change power state of the power domain. Each of these power managers decides to change the power state of its corresponding device or domain based on information from several different sources. These sources can include power-management clients and power managers of related domains or devices.
US08214667B2
A central processing unit (CPU) start-up circuit for controlling a CPU of a portable electronic device includes a power management unit (PMU) connected to the CPU, an awaking circuit connected to the CPU, and a main power supply connected to the CPU, the PMU and the awaking circuit. The main power supply provides working electric power to the CPU, the PMU detects the status of the main power supply and generates a status signal (SS) according to the detecting result, the awaking circuit detects the status of the main power supply and generates a waking signal (WS) according to the detecting result, and the SS and the WS are both transmitted to the CPU to cooperatively control the CPU to be switched on and switched off.
US08214663B2
A mechanism is provided for using a power proxy unit combined with on-chip actuators to meet a defined power target value identifying a target power consumption of a component of a data processing system. A power manager in the data processing system identifies a proxy power threshold value, for the defined power target value, identifying a maximum power usage for the component, and a power usage estimate value identifying a current power usage estimate for the component. The power manager sends a set of signals to one or more on-chip actuators in the power proxy unit associated with the component in response to the power usage estimate value being greater than the power proxy threshold value. The one or more on-chip actuators adjusts a set of operational parameters associated with the component in order to meet the defined power target value.
US08214662B2
A multiprocessor control unit acquires first non processing time information on a first non processing time represented for each processor, wherein the first non processing time represents a time in which a first block is not executed in a first barrier establishment time from barrier synchronization start until barrier synchronization establishment of the first program block, and acquires second non processing time information on a second non processing time represented for each processor, wherein the second non processing time represents a time in which a second block is not processed in a second barrier establishment time from barrier synchronization start until barrier synchronization establishment of the second program block. The multiprocessor control unit controls a power supply for the processors while the first and second program blocks are consecutively executed in parallel, using the first and second non processing time information acquired.
US08214661B2
Managing power-consumption, for use in a storage system comprising first data stored on one or more storage devices is provided. A receiver receives a policy comprising a power-management parameter, a first parameter and a rule associated with the policy. An analyser, responsive to receipt of a policy, analyzes second data associated with the rule. A determiner, responsive to the analysis, determines third data in accordance with the second data. The third data is associated with migration of the first data.
US08214656B1
Embodiments of methods, devices and/or systems for managing the encryption of data are described.
US08214651B2
Disclosed are embodiments of a radio frequency identification (RFID) authentication system and an associated authentication methodology. The embodiments incorporate an identification device (e.g., an identification badge, a key fob, etc.) with an embedded RFID tag. The embedded RFID tag is associated with a specific user and stores a private key generated as part of a public key-private key encryption scheme. The private key is read by an RFID reader and used to decode public key encrypted data stored within or accessible by a computer system (e.g., a desktop computer system, a laptop computer system, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a digital fax machine, wireless telephone, etc.). Thus, the embodiments provide a portable way to use public key-private key encryption scheme data anywhere using RFID technology.
US08214647B2
Check data corresponding to distributed confidential information is generated, and the confidential information and check data are distribution-coded. When the confidential information is restored, the confidential information and check data are restored and it is determined whether or not the restored check data correspond to the restored confidential information. If the data correspond to the information, the information is determined to be correct and is output. If not, the information is judged to be false (i.e., tampered distributed information), and a symbol indicating that falsity has been detected is output.
US08214641B2
Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to providing file access in a multi-protocol environment. In aspects, a file server is operable to receive requests formatted according to two or more file access protocols. If a request is formatted according to a first file access protocol, the file server applies access rights associated with the file to an account associated with a requester to determine whether to grant access. If the request is formatted according to the second file access protocol, the file server may first attempt to find an account for the requester. If an account is not found, the file server may then grant access based on access rights associated with the file as applied to information in the request without consulting an account on the file server.
US08214637B2
A public key certificate issuing system is disclosed which comprises a certificate authority for issuing a public key certificate for an entity, the certificate authority including a plurality of signature modules each executing a different encryption algorithm and a registration authority that receives a public key certificate issuance request from the entity.
US08214635B2
In one embodiment, a server and a client are configured to trust a certificate of an intermediate proxy device. The proxy device may then intercept a client-server security session request message sent from the client to the server. In response, the proxy device initiates a proxy-server security session with the server and obtains server security information from the server. Then, the proxy device initiates a client-proxy security session with the client using the trusted proxy certificate, and obtains client security information from the client. Upon obtaining the client security information, the proxy device creates a dynamic certificate using the obtained client security information and the trusted proxy certificate, and establishes the initiated proxy-server security session with the dynamic certificate. The proxy device then establishes the initiated client-proxy session, wherein the client-proxy security session and proxy-server security session transparently appear to the client and server as the requested client-server security session.
US08214628B2
A performance monitoring device has an interrupt detection unit that detects generation of an interrupt process to be executed by a processor in accordance with TLB entry invalidation executed in an operating system. A counter value acquisition unit acquires a counter value of a predetermined event counted by the processor when the interrupt process is detected by the interrupt detection unit. A process information acquisition unit acquires identification information for identifying a process executed on the processor from the operating system immediately before the interrupt process is detected by the interrupt detection unit. An associating unit associates the counter value acquired by the counter value acquisition unit during the interrupt process with the identification information acquired by the process information acquisition unit immediately before the interrupt process.
US08214618B2
A memory management method and apparatus based on an access time in a multi-core system. In the memory management method of the multi-core system, it is easy to estimate the execution time of a task to be performed by a processing core and it is possible to secure the same memory access time when a task is migrated between processing cores by setting a memory allocation order according to distances from the processing cores to the memories in correspondence with the processing cores, translating a logical address to be processed by one of the processing cores according to the set memory allocation order into a physical address of one of the memories, and allocating a memory corresponding to the translated physical address to the processing core.
US08214615B2
In a system where a first storage system and a second storage system are connected to a third storage system, when the first storage system virtualizes and provides a device in the third storage system as a device in its own storage system, update data stored in a cache in the first storage system is written into the device of the third storage system to be reflected, attributes of the device are transferred to the second storage system, and the second storage system virtualizes the device of the third storage system as a device of its own storage system.
US08214614B2
A method and a processing device are provided for mapping a non-page aligned memory buffer to an address space of a process. A beginning portion of a non-page aligned memory buffer and an ending portion of the non-page aligned memory buffer may be copied from respective original memory pages to new memory pages. Unused portions of the new memory pages may be initialized to zeros, ones, or other values. A safe buffer may be created, which resides in the new memory pages and all original memory pages of the non-page aligned memory buffer, except for the original memory pages including either the beginning portion or the ending portion of the non-page aligned buffer. The safe buffer may then be mapped to an address space of a process while avoiding unintended information disclosure.
US08214611B2
Efficiently utilizing the bandwidth of the host interface unit even after restoration. A controller manages a storage area of a disk as multiple logical units (LUs), as well as measures the bandwidth used by each host interface unit as load information, stores the load information at the time of the backup, and at the time of the restoration, restores the backup data in logical units in the restoration destination and, with reference to the load information, distributes the paths connecting the logical units in the access source and the logical units in the restoration destination to the host interface units.
US08214608B2
A storage control system monitors storage operations directed to storage blocks in a storage device. The storage control system uses arrays of counters to track a number of the storage operations, sizes of the storage operations, types of transitions between the storage operations, and time durations between different types of successive storage operations. The storage blocks are classified into different behavioral groups based on the access pattern history of the individual blocks. The behavioral group classifications are then used by the storage control system to determine when to access the storage blocks from the storage device, when to load the storage blocks into a tiering media, or when to time out the storage blocks from the tiering media.
US08214606B2
The plurality of host systems or the plurality of applications include an insertion unit for sending the identifier. The storage controller includes an analysis unit for identifying a host system or an application based on the identifier contained in the access information and analyzing an access pattern of access information sent from the identified host system or application, a management unit for managing the identifier, the analysis result of the access pattern analyzed with the analysis unit, and a control method for controlling the processing of data to be sent from a host system based on the analysis result or data to be stored in a logical volume, and a data processing controller for controlling the processing of data to be sent from a host system or data to be stored in a logical volume according to the control method managed by the management unit.
US08214605B2
A method for reading out data from a storage medium which stores the data in such a way that they are distributed in sectors, each sector being assigned a sector identifier as a function of the datum respectively stored in the sector. The method includes the following steps: a) assigning a data identifier corresponding to the datum to be read out; b) grouping the data identifiers into at least one group; and c) carrying out a search algorithm in which the sector identifier in each sector is compared by sector and by group to the data identifiers contained in the group, and when one of the data identifiers corresponds to a sector identifier the particular datum is read out from the sector.
US08214590B2
A system and method for dynamic redistribution of parity groups is described. The system and method for dynamic redistribution of parity groups operates on a computer storage system that includes a plurality of disk drives for storing parity groups. Each parity group includes storage blocks. The storage blocks include one or more data blocks and a parity block that is associated with the data blocks. Each of the storage blocks is stored on a separate disk drive such that no two storage blocks from a given parity set reside on the same disk drive. The computer system further includes a redistribution module to dynamically redistribute parity groups by combining some parity groups to improve storage efficiency.
US08214587B2
A storage apparatus has a channel board 11; a drive board 13; a cache memory 14; a plurality of processor boards 12 that transfer data; and a shared memory 15. The channel board 11 stores a frame transfer table 521 containing information indicative of correspondence between a LDEV 172 and each of the processor boards 12, set in accordance with a right of ownership that is a right of access to the LDEV 172. The processor boards 12 store LDEV control information 524 in a local memory 123, which is referred to by the processor board at the time of access. The channel board 11 transfers a data frame that forms the received data I/O request, to one of the processor boards 12 corresponding to the LDEV 172 specified from the information contained in the frame by using the frame transfer table 521.
US08214582B2
Provided is a system storing data received from an application or file system in a non-volatile memory system of single-level cells and multi-level cells in accordance with one or more data characteristics. The non-volatile memory system includes a non-volatile memory cell array having a plurality of multi-level cells forming a MLC area and a plurality of single-level cells forming a SLC area, and an interface unit analyzing a characteristic of the write data and generating a corresponding data characteristic signal. A flash transition layer receives the data characteristic signal, and determines whether the write data should be stored in the MLC area or the SLC area based on whether or not the write data will be accessed by the file, or whether the address associated with the write data is frequently updated or not.
US08214573B2
A method and system for handling a management interrupt, such as a system management interrupt (SMI) and/or a platform management interrupt (PMI), includes allocating two or more processor cores from a plurality of processor cores to form a group of management interrupt handling processor cores. Generated management interrupts are directed to this first group of processor cores and not to remaining processor cores, which form a second group. At least one of the processor cores in the first group handles the management interrupt without disrupting the current operation of the processor cores in the second group.
US08214570B2
A chip includes a transmitter circuit and a register provided to store a value representative of an equalization co-efficient setting. The transmitter circuit includes an output driver configured to adjust an output data signal based at least in part on the equalization co-efficient setting.
US08214559B2
Arbitration of IO accesses and band control based on the priority of virtual servers is enabled while curbing performance overhead during IO sharing among the virtual servers. A virtual machine system includes a CPU, a memory, a hypervisor that generates plural virtual servers, and an IO controller that controls an IO interface. The IO controller includes: a DMA receiving unit that receives DMA requests from the IO interface; a decoder that decodes received DMA requests and locates the corresponding virtual servers; a DMA monitoring counter that monitors DMA processing status for each of the virtual servers; a threshold register set in advance for each of the virtual servers; and a priority deciding unit that compares the DMA monitoring counter and the value of the threshold register, and based on processing priority obtained as a result of the comparison, decides the priority of processing of the received DMA requests.
US08214543B2
Systems and methods for controlling the capabilities of an High Definition Audio (HDA) system, wherein the system determines whether an optional component such as a plug-in card is connected to the system and then configures itself in a baseline configuration if the optional component is not connected or configures itself in a different, alternative configuration if the optional component is connected. In one embodiment, a codec of the system includes a programmable processor configured to read configuration authorization information and also read configuration information from the optional component if it is connected to the system. The processor also controls the configuration of the HDA system and the operation of the codec based on the authorization and configuration information. The system can thereby provide different features and functionality using the same hardware.
US08214540B2
A peripheral device includes: an input/output block connected to a device subject to connection; a communication block configured to communicate with a device subject to communication; and a conversion block configured, if the device subject to communication is a storage device, to convert a storage access command output by the device subject to connection to the input/output block into a communication command that is transferred between the communication block and the device subject to communication, wherein the communication block transmits the communication command generated by the conversion block to the device subject to communication and transfers, with the device subject to communication, one of data that is written by the device subject to connection to the device subject to communication and data that is read from the device subject to communication.
US08214537B2
In order to constitute a domain name system obtained by providing and utilizing a DNS service by using a self-supporting (not rented) DDNS server in a dynamic IP address environment, a DDNS server inside a network of a central site and routers which are DDNS clients inside networks of other sites are provided. The DDNS server includes: a means for registering a relationship between domain names of the DDNS clients and global addresses of the DDNS client; a means for responding to a request for resolving a name from the DDNS client; and a means which, at a time when a global address of the DDNS server is updated, notifies DDNS server information including the global address of the DDNS server to the DDNS client. Moreover, the DDNS client includes: a means for registering (updating) the global address of the DDNS server when the DDNS server information is notified; and a means for issuing a request for resolving a name to the DDNS server.
US08214531B2
Systems and techniques to synchronize network configuration for a hardware accelerated network protocol. According to an aspect, a network configuration record is maintained for a hardware-accelerated network-protocol device, a network configuration store is monitored to identify a network configuration change, and the hardware-accelerated network-protocol device is reconfigured, in response to the identified network configuration change, based on the network configuration record and the network configuration change.
US08214530B2
It is an object to provide a data collection system that is configured to reduce a communication amount, etc. at the time when data are collected from a plurality of devices, so as to reduce a communication amount attended by the collection of data without increasing processing loads imposed on devices. A symbol classifying unit of a data relay device classifies received data that have been already compressed. A data recompressing unit replaces codes contained in the classified already compressed data with other codes, so as to recompress the already compressed data. A symbol set clustering unit sends a transfer destination renewal device a communication speed at the time when the recompressed data are transferred to other devices, a processing speed at the recompressing time, etc. The transfer destination renewal device generates transfer destination information on the basis of the communication speed, the processing speed, etc.
US08214528B2
Embodiments of the present invention allow for address scaling of existing addresses in a FC, FCoE, CEE or other type of network. More specifically, subaddresses can be used in conjunction with existing addresses, so that a combination of a subaddress and existing address can identify an addressable entity. Thus, multiple entities can be share a single existing address and be distinguished among each other by way of their respective subaddresses. Some embodiments of the invention allow for use of the inventive subaddressing scheme in conjunction with devices or network elements (e.g., gateways, switches, etc.) that may not be subaddressing aware. Further embodiments allow for the multiple distinct devices to communicate with a single Fiber Channel switching element through a single port by using N_Port_ID Virtualization.
US08214523B2
Link used variables are defined for links related to an interconnection fabric. The links used variables are representative of whether or not a link is used for handling flows between a plurality of hosts and devices. Constraints for links, and hop counts or port counts are also defined. An objective function is used by an integer programming solver to determine connections as a function of the definitions.
US08214519B2
A method and apparatus for managing bookmark information of a media server through a network based on the UPnP AV standard is disclosed. If a request for bookmarking a content item is made, a bookmark item is created and the created bookmark item is linked to the content item by adding the ID of the created bookmark item to the property information of the content item and recording the ID of the content item to be bookmarked in the created bookmark item.
US08214511B2
Provided is a real-time streaming protocol (RTSP) based progressive streaming method. The progressive streaming method based on a real-time streaming protocol, wherein a server transfers SDP information and performs streaming of a contents file to a client connected, the method including the steps of: a) if a “pause” request message is received from the client, transmitting a “pause” response message including the number of TCP packets already transferred to the client, and pausing streaming of the contents file; and b) if a “replay” request message including the number of the TCP packet to be transferred is received from the client, transmitting a “replay” response message and restarting transmission of the TCP packets from the next TCP packet to the TCP packet transferred to the client before the contents file is paused.
US08214504B2
A method of establishing connections between at least a first and a second terminal on a communication network includes: sending to the second terminal a network signal requesting the network availability to establish the connection and a terminal signal requesting the availability of the second terminal to run an application exchanging data between the first and second terminals; receiving at the second terminal the network signal and the terminal signal; and sending on the network a response signal carrying information based on the network and terminal signals and assuming a content corresponding to the availability/unavailability of the network to establish the connection combined the availability/unavailability of the second terminal to run the application.
US08214502B2
A communication path setup apparatus which is capable of causing newly added nodes to take over information on configurations of disconnected nodes as they are. An existing piece of communication equipment of a music system is selected. A non-existing piece of communication equipment having a predetermined relationship with the selected existing piece of communication equipment is searched for, and the found non-existing piece of communication equipment is presented as designatable communication equipment. Configuration information on a designated non-existing piece of communication equipment is reflected on configuration information on the selected existing piece of communication equipment.
US08214494B1
Techniques are described for providing network device management. In some implementations, a native mobile device application enables use of a mobile device to add new devices to a network, remove devices from a network, change network and device profile settings, troubleshoot a network, provide an interface into network devices, communications, diagnostics, etc., and provide remote access to the network for installation, programming, troubleshooting, and inclusion.
US08214492B2
A method for adapting a session timeout period of an application comprising one or more parts, each part of the application having a corresponding predetermined session timeout period for receiving an input from a user connected to a part of the application, comprising the steps of determining the rate of timed out sessions for the part of the application after the number of connections to the part has reached a predetermined level; comparing the rate of timed out sessions of the part of the application with a predetermined threshold value of the rate of timed out sessions; adapting the predetermined session timeout period of that part (400) of the application based on the comparison to give rise to an adapted session timeout period.
US08214491B2
The present invention relates to a method for determining a network delay, on a network having a first client and at least one second client, comprising the steps of time synchronizing the first client and the second client, performing an action by the first client and capturing the action and its corresponding timestamp in a first log file, capturing a reaction of the second client caused by the action of the first client and its corresponding timestamp in a second log file, and determining the network delay by computing the time difference between the timestamp of the reaction and the timestamp of the action causing the reaction through comparison of the second log file with the first log file.
US08214487B2
Systems and methods to measure network usage are provided. A particular method includes collecting first usage data from a first network device of a network at a network usage tracking system. The first network device determines the first usage data based on an inband measurement of data passing through the first network device. The method includes collecting second usage data from a second network device of the network at the network usage tracking system. The first network device and the second network device are different network devices. The method includes matching the first usage data and the second usage data to user accounts. The network usage data is determined based on the first usage data, the second usage data, and the user accounts.
US08214479B2
This invention relates to the field of Telecommunications, in specific to a distribution mechanism for distributing calls within a Mobile Switching Center Server Blade Cluster. In particular, a method and a corresponding distributor entity for providing scalability and redundancy in blade cluster comprising a plurality of server blades of a telecommunication system are disclosed. The method comprises the steps of receiving a message of a subscriber comprising a unique subscriber identifier determining by use of the unique subscriber identifier a first value and determining by said first value a first server blade of said blade cluster, Further, by use of the unique subscriber identifier a second value is determined and by use of said second value a second server blade of said blade cluster, whereby the first server blade is excluded from being determined.
US08214478B2
A system and method for path saturation in a storage area network so that the throughput of the storage area network may be determined. The system and method includes a software utility suite that uses either a system administration scripting language, e.g., Perl or Korn shell, or by compiled or machine language software. The software utility suite includes a set of software tools to be installed on one or more computer systems sharing access to a data storage system, such as a storage area network (SAN). The software tools running on these separate computer systems communicate and collaborate in a peer-to-peer fashion in order to coordinate loading, testing and measurement of storage throughput on the shared data storage system. The software tools further coordinate the collection, storage and presentation of results data obtained through such loading, testing and measurement of the storage throughput of the shared data storage system.
US08214466B2
Providing for virtualization of a role-based command line interface (CLI) view that enables highly scalable association of such a view with an inter-networking operating system (IOS) device is disclosed herein. By way of example, an IOS correlation component can define VPN routing/forwarding tables (VRFs) to reference a virtual role-based CLI view. Whereas typically an instance of the CLI view must be re-created in memory for each VRF, the subject specification provides for referencing a single CLI view that is global to an IOS platform, greatly increasing scalability of the IOS platform. According to further aspects, transferable CLI views are provided that can be saved in a portable file format and distributed amongst various network devices. The subject disclosure, therefore, provides for greatly increased efficiency and scalability with respect to configuration and implementation of IOS CLI views.
US08214465B2
Methods and systems of transporting media signals to user devices as a function of users associated therewith and to allocating assets in such systems as a function of users receiving the media signals so as to permit signals, assets, and other features to be directed, allocated, and otherwise distributed as a function of the users associated therewith.
US08214463B2
A method and apparatus for managing bookmark information of a media server through a network based on the UPnP AV standard is disclosed. If a request for bookmarking a content item is made, a bookmark item is created and the created bookmark item is linked to the content item by adding the ID of the created bookmark item to the property information of the content item and recording the ID of the content item to be bookmarked in the created bookmark item.
US08214462B1
A system and method for providing a personalized media service. In one aspect, the system includes an on-demand system, a plurality of subscriber devices, and a network to which the on-demand system and the subscriber devices are coupled so that the on-demand system and the subscriber devices can communicate with each other. The on-demand system enables a user to create one or more personalized media channels by enabling the user to specify his/her media preferences for each channel. The on-demand system includes a media server for streaming media to the plurality of subscriber devices. The media is preferably implemented using a video-on-demand server.
US08214454B1
Systems and methods for seamless retrieval of coupons and other non-standard items to a mobile device. Some method embodiments comprise: receiving a communication that specifies a user id and a coupon id, and storing the user id and a location of the coupon in a table in response to said receiving. A response to the communication is sent to the mobile device to invoke an application that accesses the table to determine the coupon location and uses the coupon location to download the content. The communication may be a web page request from a browser on the mobile device, and the application may be a coupon organizer external to the web browser. The communication may further include origination information, so that once the retrieval is complete, the mobile device once again displays the original web page and the user is given the perception that the download was accomplished within the browser.
US08214447B2
A method for an audio system controls a number of audio devices from a master device over a wired network for at least one wired audio device and over a wireless network for at least one wireless device. The method receives a reply in response to a poll message from each of the wired audio devices and aggregate polling information indicative of the state of the wireless devices from one of the wireless devices.
US08214443B2
A system and method are disclosed that enable an email service provider to implement an email forwarding service without losing associated page views. In one embodiment, rather than forwarding the entire email message, the email forwarding service generates a summary email message, and sends this summary email message to the forwarding email address pre-specified by the subscriber. This summary email message includes a link that is selectable by the user to view the original email message on a web site of the email service provider. Thus, even if the forwarding email address is hosted externally, the subscriber still views the full email message on a web site of the provider of the email forwarding service.
US08214440B2
A system for clearing content displayed in the live session display area of an instant messaging system. The system enables a session participant to clear the content currently visible to each other participant in the session, either immediately, or in response to a criteria such as elapsed time or elapsed time since active in the session. The content that is cleared from the live session display area is not permanently lost, but is only temporarily hidden from the live session display area. The system further enables a local participant to recall such temporarily hidden content back into the live session display area.
US08214430B2
Network image processing apparatuses constituting a network image processing system display, in list form, a document in units of action. When a user selection is received, a script that defines document handling is remanded to an apparatus that executed an action corresponding to the user selection.
US08214419B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for implementing an efficient saturating multiplier associated with addition and subtraction logic. The result of the multiplier is saturated before accumulating. The result of the multiplier can be stored in a result register in unsaturated form. The output of the result register can then be saturated and provided to addition and subtraction logic to allow efficient implementation of a saturating multiplier.
US08214410B2
Multiple files in a versioned file system are grouped to form a fusion unit on a server. The fusion unit is exposed to a client as a browsable folder having separate files. When the server receives an indication of a change to file belonging to the fusion unit, the server determines whether the change to the file causes a conflict on the fusion unit. If the change does cause a conflict, then the conflict is reported; otherwise the fusion unit is updated to incorporate the change.
US08214402B2
An architecture for providing interactive sessions for physical database design is described, allowing users to readily try different options, identify problems, and obtain physical designs in a flexible way. Embodiments based on a .NET assembly and modifications to a database management system (DBMS) are also described.
US08214399B2
Each of one or more songs in a song list is analyzed to determine whether the song satisfies a set of criteria at its current location. For each of the one or more songs that satisfies the set of criteria, the song is kept at its current location in the song list. For each of the one or more songs that does not satisfy the set of criteria, an attempt is made to select (e.g., randomly) another song in an unprocessed portion of the song list that satisfies the set of criteria. If a selected song satisfies the set of criteria then the song and the selected song are swapped. However, if greater than a threshold number of attempts to select a song that satisfies the set of criteria are made, then the song is kept at its current location in the song list.
US08214398B1
Role-based access controls improve user access in a computer system. A profile associated with a role is generated. The profile is enforced with respect to one or more users associated with the role. Optionally, the profile is generated based at least in part on a user interaction.
US08214393B2
Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to integrated database deployment. In aspects, code corresponding to a software project and data that encodes database operations are placed in a deployment package. When executed in a first environment such as a development environment, the code is arranged to access a first database of the first environment. The database operations indicated in the package may be used to create and/or update a second database of a target entity such that the second database is consistent for use by the code after the code is installed on the target entity.
US08214388B2
An improved system and method for adding a storage server 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. Any data table may be flexibly partitioned into column chunks using one or more columns with various partitioning methods. Additional storage servers may then be added and column chunks may be redistributed among the storage servers in the column chunk data store.
US08214386B2
A method of providing a news release to a user is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises: providing access to the user, over a network, to data stored in a computer-readable digital storage medium; and structuring the data provided to the user over the network so that the user experiences a news release having a plurality of sections, the sections including a headline, a summary, key points, and a network address.
US08214378B2
An ontology that is used to determine relationships between instances of objects having types. The ontology is made from a text file containing a DAML+OIL description of the ontology and includes a set of ontology objects and an accelerator that accelerates determination of the relationships. The accelerator is implemented using database tables and indexes. The ontology may be used as a data filter. A decision-centered visualization system uses the ontology to relate data items contained in event instances to task instances and to determine for a given task instance what portion of the data in the data item should be provided for display by a given task instance.
US08214365B1
A uniformity of a cluster of samples is determined, and a corresponding raw confidence value is calculated. A confidence interval weight is calculated using a confidence interval to determine reliability of the uniformity. A trace length weight is calculated, as a function of traces of the samples. An n-gram weight is calculated, as a function of numbers of n-grams generated by the samples. A compactness weight is calculated, as a function of the similarity of the samples. A cluster weight is calculated as a function of the four above-described weights. A cluster confidence measurement is calculated as a function of the cluster weight and the raw confidence value. When a new sample is assigned to the cluster, an assignment confidence measurement is calculated, as a function of the cluster's confidence measurement and the sample's trace length, n-grams and similarity.
US08214363B2
Disclosed is a computer implemented system and method of discerning an entity class from a query. A query is received and broken into query fragments comprised of terms. The terms of the query fragments are compared to terms belonging to one or more bag of words models with matches removed. The bag of words models to which the terms removed from the query fragments belong are remembered. The remaining n terms of the query fragments are processed to obtain query phrases containing 1-n grams from the query fragments. Each query phrase is submitted to a search engine. A sampling of snippets from the search results are extracted. Non stop words from the snippets are stemmed. A similarity score is computed for the stemmed snippet words with respect to each entity class bag of words model. Snippet entity classes are selected based on the bag of words models having the highest similarity score with the stemmed snippet words. The similarity scores of the selected snippet entity classes are consolidated to obtain a candidate list of entity classes to which the query phrase belongs based on the summed similarity scores for the snippet entity classes. The entity classes that exceed a predetermined threshold are selected as the entity classes to which the query phrase belongs. The remembered bag of words models to which the terms removed from the query fragments belong are used to choose the context sensitive entity classes to which the query phrase belongs.
US08214361B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for searching a data set and returning search results organized in a hierarchy of categories are disclosed. A set of categories is provided for organizing a set of search results, wherein each category is associated with one or more search results. The set of search results is organized into a hierarchy of categories, the hierarchy including at least one category from the set of categories. At least a portion of the hierarchy of categories is displayed and a user request to modify the hierarchy of categories is received. The hierarchy of categories is modified in accordance with the user request.
US08214359B1
An improved duplicate detection technique that uses query-relevant information to limit the portion(s) of documents to be compared for similarity is described. Before comparing two documents for similarity, the content of these documents may be condensed based on the query. In one embodiment, query-relevant information or text (also referred to as “snippets”) is extracted from the documents and only the extracted snippets, rather than the entire documents, are compared for purposes of determining similarity.
US08214357B2
There is disclosed a computer-implemented method operable on a mobile communication device for linking words to advertising resource links. In an embodiment, the method comprises: scanning a list or a body of text in order to identify a tagged keyword; linking at least one corresponding advertising resource link to each identified tagged keyword; and visually distinguishing a tagged keyword upon the at least one advertising resource link becoming accessible to the mobile communication device. In another embodiment, the method further comprises providing as an advertising resource link one or more of an advertising website, an email address, an SMS text address, a telephone number, or a purchase option screen corresponding to the identified tagged keyword.
US08214354B2
Techniques for using arbitrary sets of objects to constrain objects in database systems. The constraint set of objects is associated with the constrained object in the database system and the database system will perform an operation which adds an object to the constrained object only if the object being added belongs to the constraint set. In a preferred embodiment, the techniques are employed to obtain constraint sets of terms from ontologies which are then used to constrain columns containing those terms. An implementation of the techniques makes a materialized view out of the objects in the constraint set and uses the materialized view to define a referential integrity constraint on the constrained column.
US08214351B2
Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for selecting rule engines for processing abstract rules based on functionality and cost. In general, an abstract rule is analyzed to determine which functions are required to process the rule. The abstract rule is assigned to a rule engine by evaluating metadata describing the functions and costs of the rule engines. The abstract rule is then translated to the format required by the selected rule engine.
US08214350B1
Systems, methods, and computer program products identify one or more web page impressions satisfying one or more simply queries, each of the one or more web page impressions associated with a respective impression ID. Respective impression IDs of the one or more web pages satisfying the one or more simple queries are stored in an impression log. Subsequent to storing the respective impression IDs, a query is received from a client device, and a number of impression IDs for the one or more web pages satisfying the query are identified based on the identified one or more web page impressions satisfying the one or more simple queries.
US08214334B2
Systems and methods are provided for scanning files and directories in a distributed file system on a network of nodes. The nodes include metadata with attribute information corresponding to files and directories distributed on the nodes. In one embodiment, the files and directories are scanned by commanding the nodes to search their respective metadata for a selected attribute. At least two of the nodes are capable of searching their respective metadata in parallel. In one embodiment, the distributed file system commands the nodes to search for metadata data structures having location information corresponding to a failed device on the network. The metadata data structures identified in the search may then be used to reconstruct lost data that was stored on the failed device.
US08214327B2
An optimization method and system. The method includes receiving by a computing system a data footprint associated with data and a human resource model. The data footprint comprises a primary data section, a secondary data section, and an archive data section. A plurality of data storage strategies are associated with the primary data section, said secondary data section, and said archive data section. The plurality of data storage strategies are compared to each other. A data staging orchestrator software module is executed. The computing system determines based on results of executing the data staging orchestrator software module, an optimal migration time, an optimal migration speed, and an optimal migration cost for managing storage for portions of the data. The computing system executes a risk modulation software module and determines a risk associated with the managing.
US08214325B2
Parsing of event queries in an enterprise system is described. The enterprise system receives queries, which are broken down into query components. The query components each represent segments of the query. The enterprise system identifies sources of event data and sends queries towards the sources of the event data. The query components are processed close to the data source. The responses are combined to generate an event query response that indicates the event data of each of the query components.
US08214324B2
Systems, methods and articles of manufacture are disclosed for generating an incremental ETL job from an instance of an abstract ETL operator model representing an exhaustive ETL job for loading data from a source schema to a target schema. In one embodiment, the abstract operator model may be extended to include incremental variants of operators of the abstract ETL operator model. From the instance of the abstract ETL operator model and from the extended ETL operator model, a corresponding instance of the extended ETL operator model may be generated. An incremental ETL job may be deployed from the instance of the extended ETL operator model. The incremental ETL job may be executed to load data from the source schema to the target schema.
US08214312B2
A radio frequency (RF) calibrating system and a method for calibrating RF power of communication devices are provided. The method collects RF signals transmitted from the communication devices, and generates a group of training samples by retrieving measurement data from the RF signals. The method further constructs a neural network according to the group of training samples, calibrate RF power of the communication devices using the neural network, and generate corresponding calibration results of the RF power. In addition, the method generates a frequency spectrum of the RF power according to the calibration results of the RF power, and displays the frequency spectrum on a display device of the RF calibrating system.
US08214309B1
A self adapting cognitive-neural method and system for image analysis is disclosed. The method comprises detecting a set of potential items of interest in an image using a cognitive algorithm, refining the set of potential items of interest using a neural analysis, and adapting the cognitive algorithm based on information gained from the results of the neural analysis. The method may further comprise fusing the results of the cognitive and neural algorithms with a fusion classifier. The neural analysis can include eye tracked EEG, RSVP, or presentation to an operator for visual inspection.
US08214294B2
A system and method for coordinating identification of an object transported between a sender and a receiver includes the object. The object is one of a plurality of similar objects. An object identifier is associated with the object. The object identifier is an element in a non-repeating, non-linear series of object identifiers for the similar objects. A communication system is between the sender and the receiver for communicating at least a characteristic of the object identifier.
US08214289B2
A system and method for secure transfer of a debt payment, according to one or more embodiments, provides for: receiving a request for a billing service from a biller; providing a reference code to the biller in response to the request, in which the reference code uniquely corresponds to a bill code; receiving a reply corresponding to the bill code from a customer via a network-based device in response to the bill code being included in a bill to the customer; and transferring a payment corresponding to the reference code to the biller while keeping selected financial information of the customer secure with respect to the biller.
US08214288B2
A system and method for facilitating a financial transaction over a network including use of a passphrase account identifier is described herein. In one embodiment, a system for facilitating a financial transaction over a network comprises a communication interface; and a payment provider system configured to receive via the communication interface a passphrase account identifier from a merchant system, match the passphrase account identifier to a corresponding funding instrument number of a corresponding funding instrument, communicated the corresponding funding instrument number to an issuer system, receive from the issuer system a notification indication of one of acceptance of the funding instrument or decline of the funding instrument, and communicate back to the merchant system the notification indication.
US08214287B1
An Internet-based system to market financial and banking services to both participating and registered individuals and business customers. A portion of the transaction fees that are associated with various products and services provided by financial institutions such as checking and savings accounts, loans, trust services and escrow services are converted into charitable contributions which are processed by the system clearing house and then are forwarded to one or more charitable organizations designated by the participating individual or business. “Finders” fees for savings accounts and certificates of deposit will also be converted into charitable contributions.
US08214285B2
Modern technologies of signal processing and real-time feedback adaptive control are applied to a fraud screen model to enable the fraud screen model to adapt to changes in shopping behavior to effectively maintain the model's performance on a review rate score curve continuously. Multiple techniques disclosed herein integrate control technologies with modeling technology to control the review rate score curve in real time.
US08214275B1
Property valuation that uses multiple transactions in predicting a value for a property. Instead of choosing only one prior transaction, valuation uses multiple transactions for a given property to provide a more accurate mark-to-market value. Preferably, a weighted combination of mark-to-market values provided by an HPI and individual ones of the multiple transaction records provide a predicted value for the given property. Weighting factors recency and transaction type to correct for both sources of potential inaccuracy.
US08214274B2
A financial activity network includes a central managing system connected to a plurality of participant terminals. Rules governing operation of the financial activity are stored for future reference. A participant provides investment information such as a map location for the predicted strike by the natural event and, optionally, one or more secondary parameters relating to the natural event, such as the time interval between the time of investment and the time of an event strike and/or the severity of the event strike according to an established scale. In one example, an external objective independent information source is consulted, with the external objective independent information source providing monitoring, interpretation and derived determination of parameters pertaining to the natural event. Methods and articles of manufacture are also disclosed.
US08214273B2
A mechanism for transmitting metadata that contain identifying characteristics of advertisements to be inserted, details of an advertisement-spot, and targeted viewing group details as in-content descriptors to a mobile handset is disclosed. Tight synchronization and control of the display of advertisements within an advertisement-spot during wireless content transmission is thus provided.
US08214270B2
The method and system of the present invention provides for data gathering of energy systems, calculation of billing information for the energy systems to include both traditional energy sources and renewable energy sources, and creation of various outputs to include various user interfaces applicable to overall management of the energy systems. The user interfaces can include integrated, real-time billings to a consumer that measure the cost of the primary energy as well as savings provided by renewable energy sources. The present invention also provides predictive analysis for various aspects of energy use in order to better manage particular facilities that may incorporate renewable energy sources. The gathered data and the various user interfaces enables a user to modify or adjust the use of the renewable energy sources at selected sites to maximize their impact on reducing the cost of the primary energy bill.
US08214269B2
A transactional tax settlement system for use with a personal communication device is provided. The system has particular usefulness in determining a taxing authority and calculating a tax rate imposed by the taxing authority in a communication network environment. The system may be used to determine a tax authority and corresponding tax rate for a buyer/seller transaction over a network, e.g., the Internet. The system may also be used to determine a tax authority and corresponding tax rate in a mobile telecommunications network, e.g., a cellular phone. The system includes a tax information system for determining the taxing authorities and corresponding tax rates by evaluating factors pertaining to the transaction such as, location, tax status, and transaction description. In addition, the tax information system may validate a payment modality, collect taxes, and account for the transaction.
US08214252B2
A system comprising a consumer good, especially a packet of cigarettes or packet of pharmaceutical products, and a server has a consumer good fitted with a concealed code, wherein the code is associated with an advantage having a monetary value and can be transmitted to a server via a telecommunication link, the server being used to check whether the code is registered as valid, and depending on the result of this test, an advantage with a monetary value is credited by the server to the telecommunication number of the caller.
US08214251B2
Methods and systems of evaluating customer satisfaction with a plurality of print-related items are disclosed. A plurality of evaluator ratings, each including an ordinal scale value, may be received for each print-related item in a set. A rating distribution may be determined for each print-related item based on the received evaluator ratings. A similarity value between the rating distribution for the print-related item and each other print-related item may also be determined. The set of print-related items may be divided into one or more clusters based on the corresponding similarity values. A comparison of the one or more clusters may be displayed. The comparison may include a comparison of the similarity values and/or a rating variability between rating distributions associated with the print-related items in one or more clusters and/or a comparison of average rating distributions associated with one or more clusters.
US08214250B2
A method of optimizing multi-enterprise supply chain agreements using an electronic scenario based option contract includes creating at a buyer computer a plurality of scenarios of forecasted demand for one or more products and communicating from the buyer computer to a seller computer an offer to enter into an option contract for the supply of the one or more products, the option contract including an option corresponding to each of the plurality of scenarios of forecasted demand. The method further includes executing the option contract, receiving at the buyer computer an indication of current buyer demand for at least one scenario associated with the one or more products, and exercising at least a portion of the option in the option contract based at least in part on the indicated buyer demand.
US08214248B1
Systems and methods for assessing viability and marketability of an asset are provided. In exemplary embodiments, an asset assessment system receives disclosure information for the asset. The disclosure information comprises information indicating at least one taxonomy segment associated with the asset. An attribute grade may then determined based on the disclosure information, while a market grade may be determined based on market data for the at least one taxonomy segment. A final grade based on the attribute grade and the market grade is then calculated. This final grade provides an indication of the viability and marketability of the asset. The final grade may then be output.
US08214244B2
A technique for performing commercial venture analysis involves establishing an empirically-derived structure and evaluating companies using analytical techniques within that structure. The technique may involve defining jobs, or goals a customer is attempting to reach, with dozens or even hundreds of outcomes. Ideally, the structure and tools facilitate analysis that would not be possible otherwise. Moreover, the nature of the system enables real-time input for changing conditions and the ability to calculate returns for new markets in which products or services do not exist.
US08214242B2
Signaling correspondence between a meeting agenda and a meeting discussion includes: receiving a meeting agenda specifying one or more topics for a meeting; analyzing, for each topic, one or more documents to identify topic keywords for that topic; receiving meeting discussions among participants for the meeting; identifying a current topic for the meeting in dependence upon the meeting agenda; determining a correspondence indicator in dependence upon the meeting discussions and the topic keywords for the current topic, the correspondence indicator specifying the correspondence between the meeting agenda and the meeting discussion; and rendering the correspondence indicator to the participants of the meeting.
US08214232B2
Various techniques are described that enable a smaller insurer (or an insurer with a less developed dataset) to be able to characterize whether certain healthcare insurance claim elements are potentially fraudulent or erroneous. Datasets from larger insurers (with well developed datasets) and/or datasets from a consortium of insurers can be leverage by the smaller insurer. Related techniques, apparatus, systems, and articles are also described.
US08214231B2
A system and method for uniquely identifying data streams associated with medical equipment are described. The system may be implemented in a variety of ways, including as a combination of a medical device, a data stream identifier, and a medical device identifier. The medical device generates a plurality of data streams. The data streams are uninterrupted transmissions of data from the medical device. The data streams include information regarding the operation of the medical device. The data stream identifier attaches a unique data tag to the data streams. The medical device identifier is configured to generate a medical device tag. The 10 medical device tag includes information to uniquely identify the medical device and is accessible from an external computer. The data stream identifier and the medical device identifier are secured to the medical device.
US08214225B2
The present invention provides a graphical user interface for presentation, exploration and verification of patient information. In various embodiments, a method is provided for browsing mined patient information. The method includes selecting patient information to view, at least some of the patient information being probabilistic, presenting the selected patient information on a screen, the selected patient information including links to related information. The selected patient information may include elements, factoids, and/or conclusions. The selected patient information may include an element linked to unstructured information. For example, an element linked to a note with highlighted information may be presented. Additionally, the unstructured information may include medical images and waveform information.
US08214224B2
The present invention provides systems and methods for automatically ensuring adherence to clinical guidelines during the course of patient treatments. A data source contains patient records, including records for patients being treated; a guidelines knowledge base contains clinical guidelines; and a quality adherence engine is configured to monitor adherence with the clinical guidelines for patients being treated. At least some of the patient records may include information obtained from mining unstructured patient data. The system includes an output component for outputting quality adherence information. The outputted quality adherence information may include reminders, including reminders to take clinical actions in accordance with the clinical guidelines. The outputted quality adherence information may also include warnings that the clinical guidelines have not been observed.
US08214216B2
A simply configured speech synthesis device and the like for producing a natural synthetic speech at high speed. When data representing a message template is supplied, a voice unit editor (5) searches a voice unit database (7) for voice unit data on a voice unit whose sound matches a voice unit in the message template. Further, the voice unit editor (5) predicts the cadence of the message template and selects, one at a time, a best match of each voice unit in the message template from the voice unit data that has been retrieved, according to the cadence prediction result. For a voice unit for which no match can be selected, an acoustic processor (41) is instructed to supply waveform data representing the waveform of each unit voice. The voice unit data that is selected and the waveform data that is supplied by the acoustic processor (41) are combined to generate data representing a synthetic speech.
US08214215B2
A speech recognition system described herein includes a receiver component that receives a distorted speech utterance. The speech recognition also includes an updater component that is in communication with a first model and a second model, wherein the updater component automatically updates parameters of the second model based at least in part upon joint estimates of additive and convolutive distortions output by the first model, wherein the joint estimates of additive and convolutive distortions are estimates of distortions based on a phase-sensitive model in the speech utterance received by the receiver component. Further, distortions other than additive and convolutive distortions, including other stationary and nonstationary sources, can also be estimated used to update the parameters of the second model.
US08214214B2
A prosody analyzer enhances the interpretation of natural language utterances. The analyzer is distributed over a client/server architecture, so that the scope of emotion recognition processing tasks can be allocated on a dynamic basis based on processing resources, channel conditions, client loads etc. The partially processed prosodic data can be sent separately or combined with other speech data from the client device and streamed to a server for a real-time response. Training of the prosody analyzer with real world expected responses improves emotion modeling and the real-time identification of potential features such as emphasis, intent, attitude and semantic meaning in the speaker's utterances.
US08214213B1
A system and method for performing speech recognition is disclosed. The method comprises receiving an utterance, applying the utterance to a recognizer with a language model having pronunciation probabilities associated with unique word identifiers for words given their pronunciations and presenting a recognition result for the utterance. Recognition improvement is found by moving a pronunciation model from a dictionary to the langue model.
US08214210B1
A system for processing a query operates by receiving a first query segment that includes audio speech. Next, the system generates a representation for this first query segment, where the representation includes at least two paths associated with alternative phrase sequences for an ambiguity in the audio speech. The system then compares the paths in the representation to a group of documents and determines matching scores for the group of documents based on the comparisons. Finally, the system presents a ranking of the group of documents, where the ranking is based on the matching scores for the group of documents.
US08214208B2
An embodiment of the present invention provides a speech recognition engine that utilizes portable voice profiles for converting recorded speech to text. Each portable voice profile includes speaker-dependent data, and is configured to be accessible to a plurality of speech recognition engines through a common interface. A voice profile manager receives the portable voice profiles from other users who have agreed to share their voice profiles. The speech recognition engine includes speaker identification logic to dynamically select a particular portable voice profile, in real-time, from a group of portable voice profiles. The speaker-dependent data included with the portable voice profile enhances the accuracy with which speech recognition engines recognize spoken words in recorded speech from a speaker associated with a portable voice profile.
US08214200B2
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for approximating an MDCT coefficient of a block of windowed sinusoid having a defined frequency, the block being multiplied by a window sequence and having a block length and a block index. A finite trigonometric series is employed to approximate the window sequence. A window summation table is pre-computed using the finite trigonometric series and the defined frequency of the sinusoid. A block phase is computed for each block with the defined frequency, the block length and the block index. An MDCT coefficient is approximated by the dot product of a phase vector computed using the block phase with a corresponding row of the window summation table.
US08214198B2
In a computer for supporting translation work, an acquisition unit retrieves a pair of original document including a plurality of original sentences and translated document including a plurality of translated sentences from a document storage unit. An estimation unit counts the number of original sentences included in the original document and the number of translated sentences included in the translated document, and estimates a position of a translated sentence corresponding to each original sentence in the translated document based on a ratio of the number of original sentences to the number of translated sentences and a positional order of each original sentence in the original document. An alignment unit aligns each original sentence with the translated sentence located at the estimated position, and outputs information indicating the correspondences between the original and translated sentences.
US08214193B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to testing policy changes associated with a production network. A virtual network that represents at least a portion of the production network can be generated. A first transaction log based on a first execution of the virtual network using test traffic and a first set of policies that are implemented in the production network can be obtained. A second transaction log based on a second execution of the virtual network using the test traffic and a second set of policies to be implemented in the production network can be obtained. Based on a comparison of the first and second transaction logs, it can be determined whether the second set of policies has a desired effect in the virtual network.
US08214189B2
A performance evaluation simulation apparatus divides a process into basic process units based on an execution log, calculates a throughput of each basic process unit from information held in the execution log, changes an arrangement structure so that a basic process unit with the calculated throughput exceeding a predetermined threshold is disposed in a hardware model, and performs a performance evaluation simulation on the hardware model and a software model to generate statistical information on which performance evaluation is based.
US08214183B2
A method for determining a model of an interface between a user and the users environment on board a vehicle, the method including, constructing an interface model based on a first type of information representative of interface elements of the vehicle, and a second type of information representative of the knowledge that a user has concerning the use of the interface elements of the vehicle; acquiring data representative of at least one human activity which occurs during the interaction between the user and the interface elements, the acquiring of the representative data is achieved by at least one data-acquisition apparatus; analyzing the data that is acquired; and adjusting the interface model as a function of the data that was analyzed.
US08214181B2
A method for generating a model representative of a process. The process includes a result variable representing a product of the process, and a plurality of process variables representing characteristics of the process other than the product of the process. The method includes steps of acquiring a plurality of test values of the result variable; acquiring, for each process variable of the plurality of process variables, a plurality of test values of the process variable, each test value being associated with a result variable value; providing, for each first coefficient of a plurality of first coefficients, a separate test value of the first coefficient associated with each process variable; and, for each second coefficient of a plurality of second coefficients, providing a separate test value of the second coefficient associated with each test value of each process variable.
US08214179B2
An acoustic modeling system and an acoustic modeling method use beam tracing techniques that accelerate computation of significant acoustic reverberation paths in a distributed virtual environment. The acoustic modeling system and method perform a priority-driven beam tracing to construct a beam tree data structure representing “early” reverberation paths between avatar locations by performing a best-first traversal of a cell adjacency graph that represents the virtual environment. To further accelerate reverberation path computations, the acoustic modeling system and method according to one embodiment perform a bi-directional beam tracing algorithm that combines sets of beams traced from pairs of avatar locations to efficiently find viable acoustic reverberation paths.
US08214167B2
A computer-readable storage medium storing an information processing program executed by a computer of an information processing apparatus that obtains, from an input device including an acceleration sensor for detecting acceleration and an angular velocity sensor for detecting an angular velocity, acceleration data indicative of the acceleration and angular velocity data indicative of the angular velocity, is provided. The information processing program causes the computer to perform data obtaining and acceleration correction. The data obtaining repeatedly obtains the acceleration data and the angular velocity data. The acceleration correction corrects, based on the magnitude of the angular velocity indicated by the angular velocity data, the acceleration indicated by the acceleration data.
US08214155B2
The present invention concerns a method for identifying the functionality of each member of a family of nucleic acids interact with the first family. Nucleic acids from the first family are put into functionally related clusters that share biological information obtained from the second family. The invention also relates to the refinement and accurate prediction of interactions between the first family and the second family of nucleic acids. The invention also applies to the use of such functional information to identify targets and mechanisms for therapeutic applications.
US08214153B1
Selecting which sub-sequences in a database of nucleic acid such as 16S rRNA are highly characteristic of particular groupings of bacteria, microorganisms, fungi, etc. on a substantially phylogenetic tree. Also applicable to viruses comprising viral genomic RNA or DNA. A catalogue of highly characteristic sequences identified by this method is assembled to establish the genetic identity of an unknown organism. The characteristic sequences are used to design nucleic acid hybridization probes that include the characteristic sequence or its complement, or are derived from one or more characteristic sequences. A plurality of these characteristic sequences is used in hybridization to determine the phylogenetic tree position of the organism(s) in a sample. Those target organisms represented in the original sequence database and sufficient characteristic sequences can identify to the species or subspecies level. Oligonucleotide arrays of many probes are especially preferred. A hybridization signal can comprise fluorescence, chemiluminescence, or isotopic labeling, etc.; or sequences in a sample can be detected by direct means, e.g. mass spectrometry. The method's characteristic sequences can also be used to design specific PCR primers. The method uniquely identifies the phylogenetic affinity of an unknown organism without requiring prior knowledge of what is present in the sample. Even if the organism has not been previously encountered, the method still provides useful information about which phylogenetic tree bifurcation nodes encompass the organism.
US08214148B2
An inertial navigation system includes a housing mountable to a vehicle and a sensor assembly located within the housing. The sensor assembly includes at least one accelerometer or gyroscope operable to measure an amount of movement of the sensor assembly. In addition, at least one adjustable mount attaches the sensor assembly to the housing and is adjustable to change its stiffness, and thus its natural frequency, based on a signal initially generated by the sensor assembly, processed by a processor, and then received through a feedback control loop. In one embodiment, the adjustable mount may take the form of a piezoelectric device. In another embodiment, the adjustable mount may take the form of a magnetorheological fluid device.
US08214139B2
Techniques are described for position source selection. In an implementation, an electronic device provides a variety of functionality including at least functionality to determine position. The electronic device may be further configured to select between a plurality of position sources to determine position based upon a variety of selection criteria. In an implementation, a last known position may be stored when position is being determined through the plurality of position sources. The last known position may be used as an alternative to determining position via the position sources when one or more of the position sources are unavailable. In another implementation, the last known position may be employed to automatically select one of the plurality of position sources to be used by the electronic device for determining position.
US08214122B2
A method for improving energy efficient operation of a vehicle includes monitoring vehicle operating characteristics, modeling operation of the vehicle by utilizing the vehicle operating characteristics to estimate energy consumption rates of the vehicle across an allowable vehicle operating range, and generating a control output to the vehicle on the basis of the energy consumption rates.
US08214115B2
A system and method for managing the heat produced by operation of an internal combustion system utilizes an electronic controller to control operation the engine that is coupled to a transmission. The transmission can include a high drive ratio and a low drive ratio. Stored in the controller are a plurality of different performance curves. When the transmission is in the low drive ratio, the controller selects a performance curve that comparatively increases the amount of torque and/or power the engine produces. When the transmission is in the high drive ratio, the controller selects a performance curve that comparatively reduces torque and/or power produced by the engine. Because the engine generates less heat when it produces less torque, the engine can accommodate additional emissions control devices and/or techniques that may otherwise adversely affect heat rejection.
US08214112B2
The present invention makes it possible to smoothly and quickly shift a transmission from a neutral position to a driving position and prevent a shift shock and a start delay by appropriately controlling an engine output when a vehicle with an idle stop function is started after an idle stop.
US08214108B2
A vehicle system and method includes a primary vehicle (PV) and an auxiliary vehicle (AV) selectively connectable to the primary vehicle. The PV and AV vehicles each having an ECU, a propulsion system a braking system, and a directional control system for steering at least one wheel thereon. The ECU of the PV and the ECU of the AV in communication with one another to form an interactive control system that control operation of the systems of the PV and the AV when connected to one another. The vehicle system also includes a docking system for connecting the AV and the PV. The docking system includes an automatic docking actuator that automatically connects the AV to the PV when actuated. Optionally, a remote control device communicates with the ECU of the AV for controlling the AV through the ECU of the AV when disconnected from the PV.
US08214107B2
A vehicle behavior control apparatus includes a rotary body formed as a part of a power plant installed in a vehicle, and a shaft deflection unit that sets a vehicle behavior target value for obtaining a target vehicle behavior, and deflects a direction of a rotary shaft of the rotary body relative to a vehicle body in accordance with the vehicle behavior target value. Thus, the vehicle behavior can be controlled appropriately by using a pre-existing vehicle constitutional component such as an engine or a motor as the rotary body, and using a gyro moment generated by deflecting the direction of the rotary shaft of the rotary body.
US08214106B2
A suspension control system for a motor vehicle having a chassis and wheels connected to the chassis by a suspension system the stiffness of which is variable under the control of the suspension control system comprises a controller adapted to modify autonomously the stiffness of the suspension system depending on a current state of motion of the vehicle.
US08214096B2
The present invention provides an apparatus and method for controlling an accelerator for electric vehicles. The method comprises steps of: acquiring an actual accelerator pedal depth value and a current vehicle speed; determining a maximum output torque of motor under the current vehicle speed based on the current vehicle speed; and controlling the output torque of motor in such a way that the growth rate of the output torque higher than that of the actual accelerator pedal depth value at the beginning and then closed to that of the actual accelerator pedal depth value during the actual accelerator pedal depth value growing. The invention makes the output torque grown rapidly within the shallow range of accelerator pedal depth, while makes the output torque grown closed to that of the accelerator pedal depth within the relative deep range of accelerator pedal depth. Thus during the initial stage of acceleration, the vehicle may rapidly output a bigger torque, with an excellent dynamic response, to improve the driving comfort.
US08214090B2
Disclosed is a method and device for generating a yaw rate command for an aircraft along a ground trajectory. The yaw rate command is generated by determining a current curvature, lateral deviation and angular deviation of the ground trajectory. A yaw rate calculator then calculates a yaw rate and generates the yaw rate command based on the determined current curvature, lateral deviation and angular deviation.
US08214083B2
A manipulator comprises a tube body including a bending portion, a bending wire for a bending drive of the bending portion, a motor including a rotary shaft which rotates in accordance with a drive command signal, a reduction gear unit connected to the rotary shaft and configured by a plurality of gears meshing with each other, a detection unit which detects an operation state of the motor, a storage unit which stores load variation values periodically caused by the meshing of the plurality of gears constituting the reduction gear unit as correction information, a load calculation section which calculates a load exerted on the tube body as a bending load estimated value, and a notifying unit which notifies a calculation result of the load calculation section.
US08214082B2
A nursing system of the present invention can position where a person to be nursed through a sensor network widely deployed in an environment, instantaneously detect if the person to be nursed has an accident, and forward a message to inform a relative or medical staff. An autonomous robot will actively move beside the person to be nursed and transmit real-time images to a remote computer or PDA so that the relative or medical staff can swiftly ascertain the situation of the person to be nursed and the person to be nursed in case of emergency can be rescued as soon as possible.
US08214075B2
A method of modelling a flight of an aircraft using at least one computer system is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes: sourcing flight details from at least one data source using at least one data acquisition system, the flight details representative of the activity of the aircraft within a flight information region, and compiling a flight model from the flight details using a processing system, the flight model indicating the activity of the aircraft over the duration of the flight in two or more FIRs or for an entire flight undertaken in a single FIR.
US08214063B2
A method and system of determining tuning parameters for use in tuning a controller used in a process control loop for a motor and associated load. The method includes providing tuning parameters, applying an excitation test signal, receiving frequency response data to determine phase and gain margins, creating an instability region defined by a bounded area that connects the phase and gain margins with a boundary on a gain vs. phase plot, assigning and applying cost functions, and computing stability determinations.
US08214061B2
A distributed intelligence lighting system is comprised of a global controller, one or more local controllers, wall stations, sensors and lighting fixtures. In one aspect, the lighting system provides schedule-based, occupancy-based, and/or daylight-responsive automated control and multi-level or ON/OFF manual control of lighting loads. System components communicate over a topology-free and polarity-free modular low voltage digital network that combines power and control wiring in an easily installed labeled and keyed cable. Embodiments according to the system do not require any components to be addressed, manually configured, or programmed (beyond setting the project location and current time and date) for energy code compliance. Manual and after-hours override control is accomplished via local low voltage wall stations or occupancy sensors. Global controllers generally each incorporate an onboard modem and user interface with LCD display, both permitting programming of advanced features, override, system monitoring, and diagnostics.
US08214059B1
A self-addressing control unit system and method for controlling a sequence of or an array of display signs comprising of a remote or master controller and a plurality of control units interconnected by a physical or logical parallel electrical bus having multiple connections to transfer data or power between the plurality of control units; wherein the electrical bus further comprises of a main broadcast line, an addressing line and a feedback line to every control unit. The remote or master controller transmits an initial address to a first of the plurality of control units on the addressing line of the bus where a calculator or computer within each of the plurality of control units computes its own address by performing a mathematical operation that changes the initial address by adding a constant of one to the address received to produce its own new address.
US08214056B2
A nerve cuff comprising a wall band member having an inner surface defining a lumen when the wall band member is in a closed configuration for receiving a nerve therethrough. At least one longitudinal and contiguous conductor extends within the lumen. The conductor is insulated and has at least one exposed portion thereby providing an electrode. When mounting the nerve cuff to a nerve, each electrode is in electrical communication with the nerve. A multi-channel nerve cuff further comprises a plurality of longitudinal ridges formed on the inner surface with each adjacent pair of ridges defining a longitudinal chamber. Each chamber comprises a respective conductor extending therein. When mounting the multi-channel nerve cuff to the nerve, the ridges abut the nerve providing for each chamber to isolate respective longitudinal portions of the nerve. A method and an apparatus for manufacturing such nerve cuffs are also disclosed.
US08214053B2
To realize a body surrounding solenoid-type body heating device with small coil impedance which can generate a magnetic flux of predetermined density to one part of the living body near the affected area in the solenoid coil, a body heating device 10 includes a cylindrical solenoid coil 17 in which the body can be inserted easily, a high-frequency power supply 11 to drive the solenoid coil, and a body holder 15 which can be inserted easily in the solenoid coil 17. In the body heating device 10, an across-body direction cross section of the solenoid coil 17 has an arched-shape over a half of the solenoid coil 17 in the peripheral direction and a straight-lined shape in the rest, and a secondary solenoid coil 21 with shorter length and coiled more densely than the solenoid coil 17 is inserted in the solenoid coil 17. A magnetic core 40 which can be inserted easily in the solenoid coil 17 is installed on the body holder 15.
US08214050B2
Improved methods for obtaining physiological parameters of a patient in accordance with various embodiments of the present invention can be used to monitor patient status and/or in conjunction with patient therapy. Physiological parameters can be monitored with an implantable device including a first lead and a second lead. Physiological parameters can be measured along at least three distinct vectors defined by the first lead and second lead, the first lead and an electrode located on the device body, and the second lead an the electrode. An output indicative of the physiological parameter can then be provided. Therapy, such as baroreflex therapy, can optionally be optimized based on the physiological measurements.
US08214038B2
A cardiac rhythm management device is configured to discriminate between ventricular and supraventricular tachycardias (referred to as SVT/VT discrimination) by utilizing a morphology criterion in which the morphology of electrogram waveforms during ventricular beats are analyzed to determine if the beats are normally conducted. After the delivery of a cardioversion/defibrillation shock, however, the intraventricular conduction system is left in a modified state which alters the subsequently generated electrogram signal. Use of the morphology criterion for SVT/VT discrimination is discontinued after delivery of such a shock and resumed after a predetermined minimum number of normally conducted ventricular beats has been detected.
US08214034B2
A device and method for multi chamber pacing a patient's heart having heart failure and intrinsic conduction, wherein ventricular tracking is used to pace the ventricle when the sinus rate exceeds a preset atrial maximum tracking rate. The ventricular tracking pacemaker increases the range of pacing the ventricle. The ventricular tracking minimizes the loss of ventricular pacing caused by intrinsic conduction when the sinus rate is below an atrial maximum tracking rate, and it induces a new ventricular pacing behavior for sinus rates above the atrial maximum tracking rate without any significant pacing hysteresis as the sinus rate returns towards the lower rate limit.
US08214029B2
A system and a method that promotes the restoration of physical functions of the neuromuscular system by incorporating into one device the treatment modalities of biofeedback based repetitive practice, includes an actuator, a joint position measurement system, a force sensing measurement system, an EMG measurement system, a neuromuscular low-level stimulation system, a controller, and a display device.
US08214028B2
A system, method and memory medium for operating on an electrocardiogram (ECG) signal. A multiscale short-time Fourier transform (STFT) is performed on a set of ECG samples {s(n)} to obtain a transform array. For each sufficiently energetic peak in the transform array, a refined window width value and a refined window displacement value is generated by: computing an inner product between the set of samples and each of a plurality of functions, where the plurality of functions are sufficiently close to a coarse approximation function given by the peak location; and solving a linear system Av=c for the unknown vector v, where the vector c is determined by the inner products, where the matrix A is determined by the center times of the plurality of functions. After appropriate selection, the refined window width and refined window displacement may be used to represent ECG waveform features.
US08214020B2
In a method and an imaging system for implementing a CT-assisted or MRT-assisted minimally-invasive interventional procedure at an anatomical location inside the body of a patient, the inspiratory or respiratory position of the patient within the respiratory cycle of the patient is continuously detected and a measurement value, identifying a current position of the patient within the respiratory cycle, is detected at a point in time that a CT or MRT slice image of the anatomical location is obtained. This measurement value is stored together with the image data of the slice image so that the measurement value and the image data can be retrieved together and displayed together.
US08214010B2
The present invention provides scanning mechanisms for imaging probes for imaging mammalian tissues and structures using high resolution imaging, including high frequency ultrasound and/or optical coherence tomography. The imaging probes include adjustable rotational drive mechanism for imparting rotational motion to an imaging assembly containing either optical or ultrasound transducers which emit energy into the surrounding area. The imaging assembly includes a scanning mechanism including a movable member configured to deliver the energy beam along a path out of said elongate hollow shaft at a variable angle with respect to said longitudinal axis to give forward and side viewing capability of the imaging assembly. The movable member is mounted in such a way that the variable angle is a function of the angular velocity of the imaging assembly.
US08214002B2
According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a portable terminal including: a first housing; a second housing slidable in a sliding direction with respect to the first housing; a first magnet disposed in the first housing; a second magnet disposed in the second housing to face the first magnet in a closed state; and a third magnet disposed in the second housing to face the first magnet in an opened state, wherein an S pole of the first magnet is positioned on a side of the first housing facing the second housing, and wherein an N pole of the second magnet, an S pole of the second magnet, an S pole of the third magnet and an N pole of the third magnet are aligned as a sequence along the sliding direction.
US08214000B2
Provided is a locking device for an internal battery pack cover of a mobile phone, which is mounted on a lower case frame of a main body of the mobile phone, and which includes a locking member formed on the lower case frame; and a locking module coupled to the cover and rotating around a hinge axis with a sliding movement of a button unit to be mounted within or released from the lock member, thereby causing the cover to be coupled to or detached from the main body.
US08213999B2
A controlling method and a controlling system for a handheld communication device are provided. In the present method, a tilting state of the handheld communication device is detected by using a G-sensor when a notice is activated. Then, whether the tilting state is changed from a face up state to a face down state is determined. The handheld communication device is controlled to perform a function when the tilting state is confirmed to be changed from the face up state to the face down state. Accordingly, the handheld communication device may be controlled to perform a function timely according to the positioned state of the device without going through complicated procedures, so as to provide a more intuitive and convenient way to control the handheld communication device.
US08213995B2
An input processing method of a mobile terminal and a device performing the same are disclosed. Information on a user facility performed by a touch event generated at an area of the mobile terminal is compared with voice sensing data collected through a microphone to perform a specific user facility. As a result, erroneous touch event and imprecision generated during the voice sensing are improved.
US08213982B2
Various embodiments of an internal multi-band antenna architecture for a mobile computing device are described. An internal antenna architecture for a mobile computing device may include multiple antenna elements, including a first internal antenna element configured to operate in a downlink frequency sub-band of at least one frequency band for communication in a first mode, and a second internal antenna element configured to operate in an uplink frequency sub-band of the at least one frequency band for communication in the first mode. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US08213980B2
A method and system for controlling the transmission power of at least one downlink (DL) enhanced uplink (EU) signaling channel such that enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH) DL signaling is delivered efficiently and reliably. The system includes at least one wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), at least one Node-B and a radio network controller (RNC). At least one of the WTRU and the Node-B compute EU transmission failure statistics on the DL EU signaling channel and report the EU transmission failure statistics to the RNC. The RNC then adjusts a transmission power offset of the DL EU signaling channel to be used in determining transmission power level of the DL EU signaling channel at the Node-B based on the EU transmission failure statistics.
US08213979B1
Methods and systems for adjusting a transmit power of a forward link or reverse link signal make use of variable adjustment parameters. The wireless signal is received to obtain a received signal. An observed signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and an observed frame error rate (FER) for the received signal are determined. In an outer loop process, an adjustment increment is selected based on how much the observed FER differs from the target FER, and the target SNR is adjusted by the adjustment increment. In an inner loop process, a power adjustment command is selected based on a comparison between the observed SNR and a target SNR. The power adjustment command instructs the transmitter of the wireless signal to either increase or decrease the transmit power of the wireless signal. The power adjustment increment may also depend on the observed FER.
US08213977B2
The invention includes a method and apparatus for displaying and controlling information for managing an event. A method according to one embodiment includes displaying accountability information associated with a unit deployed to the event where the accountability information is indicative of accountability of the unit with respect to at least one function to be performed for the event, displaying communication information in a manner for facilitating communications for the event, and displaying status information associated with the at least one unit deployed to the event, wherein the information is displayed in a manner tending to enable control of the information for managing the event.
US08213961B2
A mobile computing device has a transceiver circuit, a location determination circuit, and a processing circuit. The transceiver circuit is configured to receive a remote position fix from a remote computer via a wireless network. The location determination circuit is configured to receive satellite data and to calculate a local position fix. The processing circuit is configured to operate an application, to receive a request for a position fix from the application, to determine whether the remote position fix is available, and to provide the local position fix to the application based on whether the remote position fix is available.
US08213958B2
An electronic device and a method for managing call records includes presetting a virtual icon corresponding to each call types; obtaining current position information of the electronic device from the GPS when a call is established and generating a call record when the call is finished. The electronic device and method for managing call records further include determining the call type of the call from the call record, and finding the location on a map of the electronic device according the recorded position information, and marking the corresponding virtual icon at the location on the map.
US08213953B1
The load of a coverage area in a wireless wide area network can be used as a basis to determine which vocoder to use in establishing a call between a wireless device in that coverage area and a wireless device in a different coverage area. If the load of the coverage area is above a threshold, then a higher-compression vocoder may be used during the call for communications between the wireless device and an access point serving the wireless device in that coverage area. However, if the load of the coverage area is below the threshold, then a lower-compression vocoder may be used during the call for communications between the wireless device and the access point.
US08213951B2
System(s), method(s), and device(s) that facilitate managing resources associated with communication devices are presented. A mobile device(s) at cell edge identifies its in-use resource blocks (RBs) to a neighbor base station, or in-use RBs of a neighbor base station to the serving base station. In the former instance, the neighbor base station sorts RBs in ascending order based on signal strengths respectively associated with the RBs and mobile devices; in the latter instance, the serving base station ranks RBs in ascending order based on signal strengths respectively associated with the RBs and neighbor base stations. RBs having weakest signal strength are reused first for mobile devices at cell edge. Base station establishes a direct wireless radio path with another base station facilitated by employing a sequence of subframes where all subframes but a specified subframe are blanked, and data is transmitted between base stations during the specified subframe.
US08213945B2
A mobile communication system can predict a temporary access concentration to a particular wireless base station, select an appropriate wireless base station and assign down channels for each mobile terminal. In respective wireless base stations, switching scheduling to a channel congestion avoidance mode is performed by checking the obtained use history of respective wireless base stations to determine the periodicity regarding the channel congestion of the respective wireless base stations. Once switched to the channel congestion avoidance mode, a wireless base station for each mobile terminal is selected based on idle channel conditions of surrounding wireless base stations and moving direction characteristics of mobile terminals currently connected to the wireless base station. The only down channel of each mobile terminal is connected to the selected wireless base station, and the wireless communication is established.
US08213932B2
A mechanism enabling users roaming in a visited network to specify whether they prefer to dial numbers belonging to their home network in local format or in international format from the visited network. Restrictions based on the type of call, and the geographic locations and preferences of the users involved in the call, are correspondingly applied. Information about the location of the user, taking into account the access location and user preferences, is sent from a home subscriber server to a serving call session control function entity, both in the home network of the user.
US08213904B2
A method for updating wireless application protocol (WAP) data at an electronic communication device during a mobile internet protocol (MIP) registration process includes processing at an authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) server a first access request message that identifies the electronic device (step 805). It is then determined that the electronic device requires updated WAP provisioning (step 810). The AAA server is then changed to a WAP provisioning ongoing state (step 815). An access reject message including updated WAP provisioning data is then transmitted from the AAA server (step 820). A second access request message, including the updated WAP provisioning data is then verified at the AAA server (step 830). The AAA server is then changed to a WAP provisioning valid state (step 835). Finally, an access accept message is transmitted from the AAA server (step 840).
US08213902B2
Some embodiments of a smart card accessible over a personal area network have been presented. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a wireless transceiver to communicatively couple to a personal area network (PAN) to receive an authentication request via the PAN from a device. The device may include a computer. The apparatus further includes a storage device to store a digital certificate that uniquely identifies a user. An authentication module in the apparatus may authenticate the user in response to an authentication request from the device using the digital certificate, wherein the user is allowed to access the computer upon authentication.
US08213895B2
A powerline communications device comprises a powerline communications interface and at least one other communications interface configured to communicate over a computing network. The powerline communications interface is further configured to receive electrical power. The computing network may comprise mediums including powerlines, telephone lines, and/or coaxial cables. In some embodiments, the powerline communications interface may communicate with a network apparatus, such as a personal computer, via an Ethernet interface. The powerline interface, the telephone line interface, and/or the coaxial cable interface may all be associated with the same media access control (MAC) address. The powerline communications device may receive a message via a first medium and repeat the message via a second medium based on a quality of service (QoS) metric. In some embodiments, the powerline communications device may communicate using multiple frequency bands.
US08213891B2
A gain control apparatus in a receiver of multiband OFDM system includes: an amplifier amplifying a received signal based on a first auto gain control signal; an analog-to-digital converter for converting the amplified signal into a digital signal; band reception signal extractor for extracting a signal of a desired reception band from the converted digital signal for each reception band, and controlling gain of the extracted signal according to a second auto gain control signal; a reception power detector for detecting a reception power value of whole band from the converted digital signal; and a multiband integration baseband processor for generating the first auto gain control signal by using the detected reception power value of the whole band, and generating the second auto gain control signal to be provided to the band reception signal extraction units, resource allocation information for each band and a reception power for each reception band.
US08213885B2
A transmitter and method for determining impedance measurement in an active radio frequency transmitter of an antenna are provided. Voltage and current samples are obtained from a modulating signal delivered to an antenna. The voltage and current samples are converted from analog to digital format, and decimation occurs to reduce the number of samples. Complex demodulation is performed of each of the voltage and current samples to baseband levels and decimation of the voltage and current samples is performed to reduce the number of samples. An impedance estimate can then be estimated from the voltage and current samples.
US08213881B2
A signal processing system is disclosed. The system includes: a first synthesizer and a second synthesizer, for respectively generating a first frequency and a second frequency; a first RF circuit; a first analog front end (AFE); a second RF circuit; and a second AFE, wherein the first RF circuit and the first AFE can support a signal transmission of a first bandwidth, the second RF circuit and the second AFE can support a signal transmission of a second bandwidth, a central frequency of the first bandwidth is substantially equal to the first frequency, and a central frequency of the second bandwidth is substantially equal to the second frequency.
US08213875B1
A mobile communication device is provided. The mobile communication device comprises a touch screen adapted for receiving touch inputs and for presenting a visual display, a processor coupled to the touch screen, and an application. The application, when executed by the processor, analyzes a plurality of inputs to the mobile communication device to infer a behavior pattern and presents a sequence of teachings about how to use selected features of the mobile communication device on the touch screen, the selected features distinct from the inputs and selected based on the inferred behavior pattern.
US08213871B1
A data management tool is provided. The tool comprises a first processor, a server application that, when executed on the first processor, manages allocation of equipment serial numbers (ESNs) used in executing test cases related to mobile devices, aggregates test progress data in a defect board, maintains a test chat forum, and sends a notification of a defect when the defect is reported to the server application, a second processor, and a thick client that, when executed on the second processor, receives the notification of the defect, participates in the test chat forum and requests one of the equipment serial numbers from the server application.
US08213870B2
Systems and methods for transmitting packets to a receiver. In an implementation, the method includes storing, in a memory, a plurality of predefined spatial mapping matrices for use in a transmission of one or more packets to a receiver; sequentially transmitting one or more packets to the receiver, in which each of the sequential transmissions of one or more packets comprises using a different one of the plurality of predefined spatial mapping matrices stored in the memory; and selecting one of the plurality of predefined spatial mapping matrices stored in the memory for use in a subsequent transmission of one or more packets to the receiver, in which the selection of the one of the plurality of predefined spatial mapping matrices for use in the subsequent transmission is based on a quality of reception of the one or more data packets transmitted in each of the sequential transmissions.
US08213869B2
A method and device for filtering electromagnetic interference generated by the antenna of a transmitter on a sensor sensitive to electromagnetic waves, characterized in that it includes: vi. elements suitable for sampling the signal received by the sensor, vii. elements for count down the elapsed time, called the detection time, after the sampled signal has exceeded a threshold value, the signal, before exceeding the threshold value, being in a range of standard values, viii. elements for comparing in real time the detection time with a threshold time value, ix. elements suitable for providing a diagnosis of electromagnetic interference to be filtered if the sampled signal reverts to a standard value after a detection time of less than the threshold time value, and a diagnosis of an uninterfered sampled signal if this is not the case, x. elements for generating an output signal from the sensor eliminating the diagnosed electromagnetic interference.
US08213867B2
A system, apparatus and method is disclosed for multiband wireless communication. Frequency bands and/or transmission formats are identified as available within a range for wireless communication. Signal quality metrics for each frequency band are evaluated by a receiver to identify qualified frequency bands. The qualified frequency bands can be ranked according to one or more signal quality metrics, where the list of qualified bands can be communicated to a transmitter. The transmitter is arranged to evaluate the list of qualified bands and select a communication method based on the available frequency bands and a selected communication optimization scenario. Multiple frequency bands and communication methods can be utilized by the transmitter such that a combination of licensed, unlicensed, semilicensed, and overlapped frequency bands can be simultaneously used for communication. The receiver continually monitors communications and can report link performance to the transmitter for adaptive control of the selected communication methods.
US08213864B1
A Bluetooth host in a normal mode is enabled to monitor activities at USB endpoints. A Bluetooth USB radio has one or more active Bluetooth connections with peer Bluetooth radios. When each of the Bluetooth connections is in sniff mode, the Bluetooth host enables cancellation of normal USB activities at USB endpoints to enter a low power mode. The Bluetooth connections are still alive while the Bluetooth host is in the low power mode. In the low power mode, the Bluetooth host is enabled not to poll the bulk endpoint and to poll a USB interrupt endpoint in extended intervals for Bluetooth data received from the Bluetooth USB radio. The Bluetooth host is enabled to switch from the low power mode to the normal mode to process the received Bluetooth data over the bulk endpoint when a specific HCI event is received over the interrupt endpoint.
US08213862B2
Embodiments of the present invention enable energy transfer via short-range RF communication between a main device and an associated device, thereby allowing the main device to energy charge the associated device. Accordingly, the need for a separate charger for the associated device can be eliminated. Embodiments of the present invention are suitable for applications in which the main device and the associated device operate in close proximity to each other. Further, embodiments of the present invention are suitable for applications in which the associated device is more energy-constrained than the main device. According to embodiments, energy transfer applications can be supported using near field communication (NFC). In an embodiment, energy transfer via NFC is enabled between a Bluetooth enabled cellular phone and a Bluetooth headset. In another embodiment, energy transfer via NFC is enabled between a Bluetooth enabled digital camera and a Bluetooth enabled digital frame.
US08213857B2
Providing content to a device. Content stored on a device can be examined or searched based on the programming of channels that are available to the device over various networks. The content can be searched using other rules related to user preferences or content characteristics. Based on the results of the examination of the content, playlists are generated. Each playlist includes content from the device that matches or partially matches the content associated with one of the channels. Using the playlists, a user can load content from their device that has a theme consistent with a particular channel. When signal loss is detected for a given channel, the playlist associated with that channel can be loaded and played by the device. The device can resume playing the channel when the signal is again adequately detected.
US08213850B2
A cleaning member including a member body that is brought into contact with a surface of a member to be cleaned; and a sensor that is fixed to a portion of the member body except a portion in contact with the member to be cleaned and is made of a metallic film.
US08213849B2
Systems and methods of inductively heating a fuser member in an electrophotographic device are disclosed. The systems and methods can include a heating component with a susceptor layer comprising carbon nanotubes (CNTs). An excitation unit with an electrical coil can be positioned a proximate distance from the heating component. Current through the electrical coil can inductively heat the susceptor layer and the heating component. The heat from the susceptor layer and the heating component can be used to fuse toner onto an image-receiving substrate. The CNTs can reduce electronic hardware costs in the electrophotographic device in relation to the costs associated with conventional materials.
US08213834B2
A disclosed photoconductive drum includes a mechanism where, when the sleeve inner circumferential surface pressing member is in contact with the inner circumferential surface of the photoconductive sleeve member, a displacement of the first end surface member with respect to the photoconductive sleeve member in the center line direction leads to increasing a pressing force applied from the sleeve inner circumferential surface pressing member to the inner circumferential surface of the photoconductive sleeve member.
US08213824B2
A high voltage power controlling apparatus of an image forming apparatus including a DC (direct current) power controller to convert and output a first PWM (pulse width modulation) signal provided from an engine controller into a switching waveform signal, a first voltage transformer to transform the switching waveform signal output from the DC power controller, a rectifier to rectify output power transformed by the first voltage transformer into DC power, first through N(where N is a positive integer greater than one) DC supplies to adjust and output the DC power rectified by the rectifier such that the DC power is adjusted to a predetermined level, first through N AC (alternating current) power controllers to convert and output a second PWM signal provided from the engine controller into switching waveform signals, and second through N+1 voltage transformer to transform the switching waveform signals output from the first through N AC power controllers, to overlap the transformed powers with the DC powers having predetermined levels of the first through N DC supplies, and to output the overlapped powers to first through N developers, respectively.
US08213819B2
In a fixing apparatus provided with a plurality of fixing heaters having heat distribution characteristics that are different from each other inside a fixing roller, and an image forming apparatus provided with the fixing apparatus, an auxiliary heater is provided, the auxiliary heater being provided inside the fixing roller and to which power is distributed only during the warm-up period until the fixing roller in a lower temperature state reaches a predetermined fixing temperature. The plurality of fixing heaters includes a first fixing heater having first heat distribution characteristics that mainly heats a center portion of the fixing roller, and a second fixing heater having second heat distribution characteristics that mainly heats both end portion regions of the fixing roller.
US08213818B2
A temperature control apparatus includes a temperature sensor which detects a temperature of a heating element, a controller for controlling heat generation of the heating element in accordance with a detected temperature by the temperature sensor, and a monitoring circuit which monitors the detected temperature, and stops operation of the controller in a predetermined stop period defined on the basis of the detected temperature when a predetermined operation mode of plural operation modes is set.
US08213809B2
Consumer infrared (CIR) systems typically are used in remote control systems. Most CIR systems expect a known carrier frequency and encoding scheme. However, there are many applications of a universal CIR receiver which can receive and decode CIR signals regardless of the carrier frequency or encoding scheme. A CIR receiver circuit is disclosed which can both decompose a received CIR signal into run length representation and detect the carrier frequency. The result can then be supplied to a host device for further processing, interpretation and/or actions.
US08213803B2
Method and system for determining a point-ahead angle from a first spacecraft to a second spacecraft, each spacecraft having a laser communication (“lasercom”) terminal is provided If ephemeris data regarding the second spacecraft is unavailable to the first spacecraft while the second spacecraft is mobile, (a) obtaining attitude information regarding the first spacecraft; and (b) obtaining gimbal offload commands from a fast steering mirror and a first spacecraft telescope subsystem of the first spacecraft; wherein a point-ahead determination module receives the attitude information and the gimbal offload commands; and determining an estimate of the point-ahead angle from the first spacecraft to the second spacecraft based on the attitude information and the gimbal offload commands.
US08213801B2
A light emitting device, a light receiving device and a data transmission system and a data transmission method using the same are provided. The data transmission system includes the light emitting device and the light receiving device. The light emitting device includes a light emitting unit and a control circuit, and the light receiving device includes an image capture unit, a recognition unit and a decoding unit. The control circuit controls the light emitting unit to sequentially display a plurality of pattern images in a plurality of frame times to form a spatiotemporal pattern image according to setting data corresponding to a temporal domain and a spatial domain. The image capture unit captures the spatiotemporal pattern image. The recognition unit recognizes the spatiotemporal pattern image to output recognized data. The decoding unit decodes the recognized data to output decoded data.
US08213795B2
Systems and methods of polarization-time coding are disclosed. One method includes encoding information in orthogonal polarizations of light and correlated information in multiple time slots, and transmitting the information using the orthogonal polarizations in the time slots. Another method includes receiving a first input pair which specifies a first polarization state and a second input pair containing which specifies a second polarization state; transforming each input pair according to a matrix specifying a conjugate operation to produce four output pairs. The method further includes transmitting at a first time the first output pair using the first polarization state and the third output pair using the second polarization state. The method further includes transmitting at a second time the second output pair using the first polarization state and the fourth output pair using the second polarization state.
US08213794B2
A programmable optical network architecture and associated components employing a two-level orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)/wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) mechanisms for bandwith virtualization.
US08213788B2
A viewfinder including a base member for removably mounting on an electronic device suitable for taking digital photographs, attachment means connected to said base member for coupling the base member to an electronic device, an open-ended housing disposed on the base member, and a sighting grid disposed adjacent an open end of the open-ended housing and method for using same is provided.
US08213785B2
A focus detection optical system includes a condenser lens positioned behind an expected image plane of a photographing lens, an auxiliary lens positioned behind the condenser lens, and a separator lens including a pair of lenses behind the auxiliary lens. An object image formed on the expected image plane is divided into two images by the pair of lenses and reformed on a pair of areas on a sensor. The auxiliary lens is a plastic lens having a negative refractive power. The separator lens is a glass lens or a hybrid lens consisting of a glass substrate and a plastic lens having a curved surface which is layered onto the glass substrate, and the focus detection optical system satisfies the following condition (1): 0.068
US08213779B2
A video receiver system comprises a video elementary stream decoder that decodes an elementary stream and one or more trick mode processing modules that modify the elementary stream to enable a trick mode effect. The trick mode processing module(s) produce a trick mode elementary stream for input to the video elementary stream decoder module. For example, the one or more trick mode processing modules can replace plural non-key frames of the elementary stream with one or more P-type skipped frames for a fast forward effect, where the trick mode elementary stream comprises one or more entry point key frames and the one or more P-type skipped frames. The video receiver system can selectively route the elementary stream to either the video elementary stream decoder module or the one or more trick mode processing modules.
US08213772B2
An editing apparatus for performing editing in which a second video is added to or inserted into a first video, includes: an editing unit performing the editing; a generating unit generating a first electronic mark indicating characteristics of the first video, as an edited video electronic mark, which is an electronic mark indicating characteristics of an edited video obtained as the result of the editing; a detecting unit detecting, of the first electronic marks, a first electronic mark indicating characteristics of a first video corresponding to an editing section, as an invalid electronic mark; and a deleting unit deleting the invalid electronic mark from the edited video electronic marks.
US08213771B2
Authoring a Blu-ray disc (BD), comprising: generating a template code representing templatized navigation commands, the template code specifying a first object to be processed, wherein the templatized navigation commands are used to provide navigational control of the BD using playable content; converting the template code to generate multiple lines of low level code; and automatically placing the low level code at multiple positions on the BD to effect desired behaviors by the BD.
US08213770B2
An apparatus and method for storing digital broadcast data in a digital broadcast receiving terminal. If the digital broadcast receiving terminal enters a weak electric field strength region during reception of digital broadcast data, digital broadcast receiving terminal stops the process of receiving the digital broadcast data so as to check whether digital broadcast receiving terminal re-enters again into the strong electric field strength region. Then, if the digital broadcast receiving terminal re-enters the strong electric field region, the terminal shifts a TS value of a received digital broadcast data frame to the value obtained by adding a frame interval of the digital broadcast data frames to the TS value of the previous data frame that had been completely stored just before the digital broadcast receiving terminal entered the weak electric field strength region. Thus, the invention enables the digital broadcast receiving terminal to drop the digital broadcast data frames received during the weak electric field strength intervals so that it may smoothly and continuously play back the digital broadcast data frames received only during the strong electric field strength intervals.
US08213768B2
A packet transmitting apparatus (401) capable of transmitting a copyright-protected content across an IP network includes: a transmission condition setting/managing unit (403) that extracts from inputted non-A/V data or A/V data at least one information of billing information, reproduction control information, copy control information for the A/V data, and packet output control information, and generate encryption mode information indicating an encryption mode which becomes a condition during transmission of the A/V data; an encrypted data generation unit (422) that encrypts inputted A/V data based on a transmission condition determined by combining input terminal information, data format information, and attribute information, and adds an encryption information header based on the encryption mode information and time-based discontinuity information to the encrypted A/V data so as to generate encrypted data; and a packetization unit (406) that generates a packet by adding a packet header and information representing a time-based discontinuity point to the generated encryption data.
US08213767B1
Techniques for generating automated tags for a video file are described. The method includes receiving one or more manually generated tags associated with a video file, based at least in part on the one or more manually entered tags, determining a preliminary category for the video file, and based on the preliminary category, generating a targeted transcript of the video file, wherein the targeted transcript includes a plurality of words. The method further includes generating an ontology of the plurality of words based on the targeted transcript, ranking the plurality of words in the ontology based on a plurality of scoring factors, and based on the ranking of the plurality of words, generating one or more automated tags associated with the video file.
US08213762B2
A film-shaped lightguide plate having high light entrance efficiency, and which is easy to make, has a lightguide plate body having an upper surface as a light-exiting surface, a lower surface opposite to the upper surface, and a peripheral side surface extending between the respective peripheral edges of the upper and lower surfaces. A circumferential part of the peripheral side surface forms a light-entrance surface that faces a light source. The lightguide plate further has an additional lightguide portion formed on at least one of the upper and lower surfaces of the lightguide plate body at the light-entrance surface side. The additional lightguide portion has a light-entrance surface facing the light source, together with the light-entrance surface of the lightguide plate body. The additional lightguide portion receives light from the light source through its light-entrance surface and guides the light into the lightguide plate body.
US08213755B2
A virtual image display device with an optical waveguide to guide, by internal total reflection, parallel pencil groups meeting a condition of internal total reflection, a first reflection volume hologram grating to diffract and reflect the parallel pencil groups incident upon the optical waveguide from outside and traveling in different directions as they are so as to meet the condition of internal total reflection inside the optical waveguide and a second reflection volume hologram grating to project the parallel pencil groups guided by internal total reflection inside the optical waveguide as they are from the optical waveguide by diffraction and reflection thereof so as to depart from the condition of internal total reflection inside the optical waveguide.
US08213748B2
An image processing apparatus includes: an image acceptance unit that accepts an image; a character information adding unit that adds a character identifier for uniquely identifying a character, a character position indicating a position of the character in the image, a character size indicating a size of the character, and a character color indicating a color of the character as character information, to the image accepted by the image acceptance unit; a font allocation unit that allocates a font without drawing element as a font corresponding to the character identifier within the character information added by the character information adding unit; and an electronic document generation unit that generates an electronic document for reference to the font information allocated by the font allocation unit, based on the character information added to the image by the character information adding unit.
US08213745B2
A method for modifying an input digital image having input dimensions defined by a number of input rows and input columns to form an output digital image where the number of rows or columns is reduced by one, comprising an image energy map determined from the input image; determining a seam path responsive to the image energy map; imposing constraints on the seam path; and removing pixels along the seam path to modify the input digital image.
US08213742B2
An image reading apparatus to read image of rectangle shape document set on a setting board, is supplied capable of assigning correct edge image to an output image. In the image reading apparatus, a image data storing section stores image data reading area lager than the rectangle shape document; an edge feature extracting section extracts edge feature according to the image data; a rectangle feature extracting section extracts edge feature of side regions respectively corresponding to each side of the rectangle shape document according to the edge feature; a region selecting section selects two regions from the side regions; a coordinates calculating section calculates coordinates specifying position of straight lines representing four sides through using inclination information of the selected respective two regions; and a compounded-image outputting section replaces the feature region with frame image according to the coordinates, compounds the frame image with image data, and outputs the compounded image.
US08213740B1
Systems and methods for coherent image correlation are provided. The systems include sonars with overlapping frequencies that observe terrain from overlapping aspects to form sonar images. First and second sonar images are formed and are grazing angle compensated. The first image is formed using the open or closed aperture theorem. Forming the second image using the open or closed aperture theorem constraint is optional. If the first and second images are not aligned, a range of possible rotations can be defined and image pairs can be created for a sampling of rotational angles. In addition, the images can be aspect compensated to remove windowing and beam pattern effects, if necessary. Once both images are grazing angle compensated and aligned, values are calculated for each possible image shift. To obtain a correlation image, the correlation coefficient for each possible image shift is calculated.
US08213735B2
Methods and apparatus for binarizing images represented by sets of multivalent pixel values in a computationally efficient manner are described In a grayscale image to be binarized, one group of pixel values represents “foreground”, e.g., text to be converted to black, while another group represents a shaded “background” region to be converted, e.g., to white. The difference between foreground and background is often a function of the scale of the image components, e.g., text and/or other images. Filters in the form of morphological operators, computationally efficient quick-open and quick-close morphological operators are employed to binarize images, e.g., grayscale images. The methods and apparatus effectively handle both smooth and sharp image background structures in a computationally efficient manner.
US08213722B2
A method for inspecting a uniformity of CD (CD) of a photo mask pattern increases a production yield. The method obtains a CD by precisely measuring a photo mask by using, an electron microscope. Then, a measurement image having, a plurality of patterns formed in the photo mask is obtained by photographing the photo mask at a high speed through an optical microscope. A gray level based on the CD is calculated by capturing just a pattern area in the measurement image, and an estimated value and a correlation coefficient is obtained, when an open density of the measurement image is relatively low. Accordingly, a uniformity of CD can be confirmed more clearly in a measurement of high speed for a measurement image having a relatively low open density.
US08213721B2
A product identification apparatus for determining whether an inspection target product to be identified is the same as a predetermined verification product includes: an extraction unit configured to extract an input pattern formed of asperities on the surface of a predetermined part of the inspection target product from a captured image obtained by capturing the image of the predetermined part of the inspection target product; and a comparison unit configured to compare the input pattern with an identification pattern extracted from a captured image obtained by capturing in advance the image of a part of the verification product so as to determine whether the input pattern is the same as the identification pattern or the input pattern includes the identification pattern.
US08213708B2
A method for manipulating a stereoscopic image, comprising receiving an original stereoscopic image including a left image and a right image; identifying one or more objects; determining actual object sizes and actual object locations in both the left and right images; determining original perceived three-dimensional object location and new perceived three-dimensional object locations for the identified one or more objects; determining a size magnification factors and location displacement values for each of the one or more objects; generating a new stereoscopic image by changing the actual object sizes and the actual object locations responsive to the corresponding size magnification factors and location displacement values; and storing the new stereoscopic image in a processor-accessible memory system.
US08213695B2
The present invention provides devices for screening the skin of an individual in real time using a region-fusion based segmentation with narrow band graph partitioning algorithm to analyze and classify a region of interest of the skin as benign or malignant. Also, provided is a method for screening the skin of an individual using the devices described herein. In addition the present invention provides a digital processor-implemented system for classifying a region of interest on the skin and a processor readable medium having processor-executable instructions to perform skin cancer detection.
US08213694B2
A system is provided for reconstructing image data having truncated scans. The system includes a padding section for providing non-zero padding to truncated portions of the image data, a pre-weighting section for pre-weighting the image data including both the non-truncated portions and the non-zero padded portions, a filter section for filtering the pre-weighted image data, and a reconstruction section for reconstructing the filtered image data.
US08213693B1
A system to navigate an imaged subject in relation to an acquired image of the imaged subject is provided. The system includes an intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) imaging system having a transducer operable to acquire image data so as to create a four-dimensional image model of the imaged subject. The model is defined in spatial relation and orientation relative to an image coordinate system. A tracking system is operable to track movement and orientation of the transducer through the imaged subject relative to a tracking coordinate system. A controller is electrically connected in communication with the imaging system and the tracking system. The controller is operable to register the image coordinate system with the tracking coordinate system, and to calibrate the image coordinate system and the tracking coordinate system relative to a common reference having fiducials of known spatial relation.
US08213678B2
The present invention relates to a system and method of analyzing the movement of a user. More particularly the present invention relates to a new technique for assessing a user's motor functions. It is an object of the present invention to provide a simple, robust, and low-cost technique for analyzing the movement of a user, which can be used in an unsupervised home environment. This object is achieved according to the invention by a method of analyzing the movement of a user, the method comprising the steps of causing the user to perform a coordinated movement in accordance with an instruction, generating video image data in form of a sequence of images by video recording the user, determining in the sequence of images a degree of synchronicity of optical flow on the left and right body half using a computer system comprising computer vision technology, and assessing the user's motor functions based on the degree of synchronicity.
US08213677B2
An embodiment of the present invention includes: a tracking object image extracting section that extracts a tracking object image, which represents a tracking object, from an image captured by a monocular camera; a two-dimensional displacement calculating section that calculates, as actual movement amounts, amounts of inter-frame movement of the tracking object image; a two-dimensional plane projecting section that generates on a two-dimensional plane a projected image of a three-dimensional model, which represents in three dimensions a capturing object captured by the monocular camera; a small motion generating section that calculates, as estimated movement amounts, amounts of inter-frame movement of the projected image; and a three-dimensional displacement estimating section that estimates amounts of three-dimensional motion of the tracking object on the basis of the actual movement amounts and the estimated movement amounts.
US08213675B2
Disclosed are a device and a method for displaying a private image on a public display device. Image sequence pattern is generated for the private image and the corresponding masking image. The masking image is made from the dynamic inverse image of the private image, based on the refresh rate of the display device and the image sequence pattern. The masking image can screen the private image more effectively. The private image and the masking image is displayed on the display device according to the image sequence pattern.
US08213674B2
The present disclosure relates generally to embedding auxiliary data and data hiding. One claim recites a method including: receiving data representing a media signal; using a programmed electronic processor, calculating perceptibility characteristics of the media signal, in which the perceptibility characteristics include contrast; using a programmed electronic processor, calculating a non-linear contrast to gain mapping using the perceptibility characteristics; using a programmed electronic processor, embedding an auxiliary signal in the media signal with reference to the non-linear contrast to gain mapping. Other claims and combinations are also provided.
US08213671B2
A speaker having improved sound quality by reducing a phase difference and also having an outstanding outward appearance is provided. In a speaker comprising a vibrating element 10, a drive unit 20 for vibrating the vibrating element 10, and a frame 30 supporting the vibrating element 10 and the drive unit 20, the vibrating element 10 comprises a front face region 10A which forms a continuously curved face having a convex-shaped cross-sectional portion T1 formed in its central portion and a concave-shaped cross-sectional portion T2 formed around the portion T1, and a connecting region 10B located on the rear side of the front face region 10A and connected to the drive unit 20.
US08213667B2
Headphones include a head harness and two ear pieces provided to respective ends of the head harness. Each ear piece is movably coupled to the head harness by a ball and socket arrangement structured to allow spherical articulation of each ear piece with respect to the head harness.
US08213658B2
An acoustical horn having an inlet or throat, and an outlet or mouth wherein the shape of at least a portion of the horn between the throat and the mouth is defined by an exponential function including a negative exponential term.
US08213657B2
There is provided an apparatus comprising a primary winding and a corresponding primary core element, the primary winding/core element configured for the transmission of audio related signalling, using inductive coupling, with an appropriately positioned secondary core element/winding, the apparatus for providing induced audio related signals for an audio loop.
US08213646B2
A stereophonic apparatus uses three speakers respectively installed toward a front of a vehicle on both shoulders of a seat back of a driver's seat and toward a back of the vehicle on an exact center in front of a driver. This configuration provides more effectively exerted positioning effects for a virtual sound source realized by using the three speakers, especially for the effects in a frontward field of sound.
US08213641B2
One or more attributes (e.g., pan, gain, etc.) associated with one or more objects (e.g., an instrument) of a stereo or multi-channel audio signal can be modified to provide remix capability. In some implementations, a method can include obtaining a first plural-channel audio signal having one or more objects; obtaining side information, at least some of which represents a relation between the first plural-channel audio signal and the one or more objects; obtaining a set of mix parameters; and generating a second plural-channel audio signal using the side information and the set of mix parameters.
US08213639B2
A sound and light control apparatus includes an audio signal input terminal for receiving an audio signal, a voltage dividing circuit electrically connected to the audio signal input terminal for dividing the voltage of the audio signal into two divided voltages, a control knob electrically connected to the voltage dividing circuit for adjusting the divided voltages, at least one audio signal output terminal electrically connected to the voltage dividing circuit and at least one loudspeaker for transmitting one divided voltage to the loudspeaker, a frequency-divider crossover circuit electrically connected to the voltage dividing circuit for filtering the other divided voltage according to a plurality of different audio frequencies to generate corresponding frequency division voltages, and transmitting each frequency division voltage to a corresponding frequency division voltage output terminal electrically connected to a light emitting diode and enabling the light emitting diode to produce light corresponding to the frequency division voltage.
US08213637B2
A scheme to design an audio precompensation controller for a multichannel audio system, with a prescribed number N of loudspeakers in prescribed positions so that listeners positioned in any of P>1 spatially extended listening regions should be given the illusion of being in another acoustic environment that has L sound sources located at prescribed positions in a prescribed room acoustics. The method provides a unified joint solution to the problems of equalizer design, crossover design, delay and level calibration, sum-response optimization and up-mixing. A multi-input multi-output audio precompensation controller is designed for an associated sound generating system including a limited number of loudspeaker inputs for emulating a number of virtual sound sources. Method includes: estimating, for each loudspeaker input signals, an impulse response at each of a set of measurement positions that cover the P listening regions; specifying a target impulse response (target stages) for each virtual sound source at each measurement position; and determining adjustable filter parameters of the audio precompensation controller so that a criterion function is optimized.
US08213633B2
The invention provides a sound source separation system, a sound source separation method, and an acoustic signal acquisition device which can precisely separate a target sound and a disturbance sound coming from an arbitrary direction, and which ensures miniaturization of a device. A sound source separation system 10 comprises two microphones 21, 22 disposed side by side in a direction in which a target sound comes from, a target sound superior signal generator 30 which performs a linear combination process for emphasizing the target sound, using the received sound signals of the microphones to generate a target sound superior signal, a target sound inferior signal generator 40 which performs a linear combination process for suppressing the target sound, using the received sound signals of the microphones 21, 22, to generate a target sound inferior signal, and a separation unit 60 which separates the target sound and a disturbance sound, using a target sound superior signal spectrum and a target sound inferior signal spectrum.
US08213632B2
A reproduced sound of high quality is allowed to be listened to by a listener while natural sound image localization is provided. By providing a housing 4L having internal space mounted at a predetermined position of the head of the listener, a speaker unit 7L mounted on one surface of the housing 4L and positioned away from an entrance of an external acoustic meatus of the listener for a predetermined distance when the housing 4L is mounted on the head 100 of the listener, and a tubular duct 8L extended so as to allow a sound generated by the housing 4L to reach the vicinity of the entrance of the external acoustic meatus of the listener, the sound generated by the housing 4L can be directly reached to an eardrum 103L in the inside of the external acoustic meatus from the vicinity of the entrance of the external acoustic meatus of the listener via a tubular duct 8L. In this manner, a sound at an sufficient level can be listened to by the listener while the natural sound image localization is provided as an open type.
US08213628B2
The invention concerns a listening device (1) for transmitting electroacoustic signals comprising an earphone (2) and means for connecting said earphone (2) with a remote electroacoustic source (3). The invention is characterized in that it comprises an acoustic filter (4) and that its shape is perfectly adapted to the external auditory canal of the ear so as to provide sufficient soundproofing to the external environment. The invention also concerns a headphone comprising one or two such listening devices.
US08213625B2
A headset is able to be coupled via a cable to an intercom system, is able to be wirelessly coupled to a wireless device via a wireless transceiver of the headset, and is able to be connected to a wired device via another cable. A controller of the headset separately monitors the microphone conductors and audio conductors by which the headset may be coupled to the intercom system to detect whether or not one or both of a communications microphone and an acoustic driver of the headset are coupled to the intercom system, and monitors the operating state of the wireless transceiver to detect whether or not the wireless transceiver is inactive, on standby or in use; and selectively couples a system ground conductor to one of the microphone conductors, selectively provides a local sidetone, and/or selectively provides a local microphone bias voltage in response to what is observed through such monitoring.
US08213624B2
The perceived loudness of an audio signal is measured by modifying a spectral representation of an audio signal as a function of a reference spectral shape so that the spectral representation of the audio signal conforms more closely to the reference spectral shape, and determining the perceived loudness of the modified spectral representation of the audio signal.
US08213614B2
A system for generating and printing travel documents for a customer associated with a journey having one or more parts, the system comprising: a travel documentation distribution module capable of generating travel documentation for the customer and capable of passing the documents for storage on a customer device at the request of the customer; and a printer located in the vicinity of a starting point of one of the parts of the journey which is capable of responding to a short range communication from the customer device to print the travel documents for said part of the journey for the customer.
US08213609B2
A key generating device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a parameter determining unit that randomly determines a plurality of parameters that are needed when generating a secret key and a public key; a bilinear group selecting unit that selects a plurality of bilinear groups and bilinear mapping on the basis of the plurality of parameters; and a key generating unit that generates the secret key and the public key on the basis of the parameters and the plurality of bilinear groups.
US08213606B2
In response to executing an arithmetic instruction, a first number is multiplied by a second number, and a partial result from a previously executed single arithmetic instruction is fed back from a first carry save adder structure generating high order bits of the current arithmetic instruction to a second carry save adder tree structure being utilized to generate low order bits of the current arithmetic instruction to generate a result that represents the first number multiplied by the second number summed with the high order bits from the previously executed arithmetic instruction. Execution of the arithmetic instruction may instead generate a result that represents the first number multiplied by the second number summed with the partial result and also summed with a third number, the third number being fed to the carry save adder tree structure.
US08213603B2
Disclosed herein is an encryption processing apparatus including: a first register device; a second register device; a first flag operation device; a first operation device; a second operation device; a round operation device; a third and a fourth operation device; a second flag operation device; and a fifth operation device.
US08213596B2
A method and apparatus is set forth for accelerating the total acoustic echo cancellation convergence time in a microphone array full-duplex conferencing system with beamformer. The invention is based on sequentially switching the beamformer to untrained sectors during periods of far-end speech activity and performing real-time cancellation of far-end echo signals from the near-end signals to consecutively adapt and store filter coefficients for the echo canceller corresponding to each sector.
US08213593B2
A call is processed by examining a nature of address indicator in a signaling message associated with the call and allowing the call to complete in a jurisdiction associated with a national nature of address indicator if the nature of address indicator is international. A call is also processed by examining a nature of address indicator in a signaling message associated with the call. A number of digits associated with a calling party number in the signaling message is determined and the call is allowed to complete if the nature of address indicator is national and the number of digits associated with the calling party number exceeds ten.
US08213589B1
In one aspect of the invention there is provided a system for tracking seed data that has been inserted into a secured private information database listing. The system includes a network, computer, and database. Incoming communications to the network are monitored and when matched to a phone number corresponding to the seed data, the system plays back a pre-recorded voice message and stores a caller identification phone number and/or records a caller voice message from the incoming phone call. The information is sent to a user to determine if the incoming phone call was conducted by breaching the secured private information database listing.
US08213583B2
A system may generate an access number, provide the access number to a user via a telephone call, and provide the access number to an authentication server. The system may regulate access by the user to a restricted resource based on the access number provided to the user and the access number provided to the authentication server.
US08213565B2
A method for correcting truncated projection data of a rotation for a reconstruction technique for computed tomography scans with truncated projection data in the computed tomography images produced by a C-arm is proposed. At least one truncated projection is recorded. The truncated portions prior to acquisition of the rotation for the at least one truncated projection is captured. The truncated projection and the truncated portions are assembled into at least one complete projection. Truncated projection data is acquired during the rotation. The truncated data is estimated based on a model of the patient geometry from the at least one complete projection. A reconstruction technique is performed on the basis of the acquired and the estimated data.
US08213564B2
A method for determining attenuation coefficients for an object using a movable x-ray source and a detector for recording projections is provided. The method includes defining a trajectory for the movable x-ray source, defining filtering lines for the filtering of projection data, and defining positions on the filtering lines, at which the projection derivative is to be formed using a mathematical algorithm for a back-projection. The method also includes defining sampling positions on the trajectory, traversing, by the x-ray source, the trajectory and recording a projection for each sampling position. Projection derivatives with respect to the trajectory path are calculated numerically for each of the positions directly on the filtering lines, and using a mathematical algorithm, attenuation coefficients are determined for the object from the calculated projection derivatives, for the reconstruction.
US08213562B2
An embodiment of the present invention takes the form of an apparatus or system that may incorporate a single component to connect the control rod blade to the control rod drive system (CRD) of a Nordic-type of BWR. An embodiment of the present invention may eliminate the need of using multiple components to connect the control rod blade with the CRD.
US08213555B2
Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture are described for improving distortion performance and for direct current offset cancellation in receivers. In one example, a method of improving distortion in a receiver includes determining a direct current (DC) amplitude of an offset signal, generating the offset signal, and providing the offset signal to an output of a mixer to improve the distortion performance of the mixer.
US08213550B2
Wideband digital receiver with integrated dynamic narrowband channelization and analysis. Signals received in a wide band are channelized into a plurality of narrower band channels within the wide band and input into a programmable narrowband filter. A set of descriptors is formed, each corresponding to an associated output signal of each of the channels. The descriptors are analyzed to determine if further processing is warranted. For each descriptor warranting further processing, one or more corresponding analysis algorithms is/are selected from a library of available analysis algorithms. The programmable narrowband filter is adjusted and a new descriptor is formed of its output. The initial set of descriptors is augmented with the new descriptor. The new descriptor is analyzed to determine if further processing of received signals is warranted.
US08213549B2
An apparatus for determining a symbol estimate includes a detection unit, an information storage, a channel decoder, and an estimator. One or more detectors of the detection unit is configured to detect a first data stream and the one or more detectors or one or more other detectors are configured to detect a second data stream when interference cancellation is carried out and when interference cancellation is not carried out parallel to detection of a first data stream to obtain results of detection. The information storage is configured to store the results of the detection of the second data stream, and the channel decoder is configured to channel decode a detected first data stream. The estimator is configured to determine a symbol estimate by using the stored results of the detection of the second data stream and based on the success of the channel decoding of the first data stream.
US08213536B2
Systems and methods for reducing the peak-to-average ratio (PAR) at the transmitter can reduce the dynamic range required in various analog components. PAR can be reduced by applying a time-domain compensation signal which reduces the magnitude of peaks in the time-domain signal prior to transmission where the time-domain compensation signals use tones that are reserved for the purpose of reducing the PAR. The reservation of these reserved tones for PAR can be implemented by altering the typical startup procedures in a digital subscriber line (xDSL) system. The use of the reserved tones to reduce the PAR can be implemented using a low complexity algorithm or using an adaptive technique.
US08213527B2
A first wireless communication device recovers data from a transmission received over a wireless channel from a second wireless communication device and processes the received data with each of multiple channel variation compensations to produce corresponding processed received data subjected to respective ones of the multiple channel variation compensations. For symbols in the received data and in each of the processed received data, distances are computed to their closest symbols in a symbol constellation set used in the wireless transmission. A corresponding distance metric is computed from the distances for symbols in the received data and from the distances for symbols in each of the processed received data resulting in a distance metric for the received data, and a distance metric for each of the processed received data. Channel variation of a wireless channel between the first and second wireless communication devices is estimated based on the distance metrics.
US08213525B2
The present invention relates to impulse noise estimation and removal in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmissions, and particularly to transmissions in power line communications and digital subscriber line (DSL) transmissions. The method includes the steps of: modulating data to be transmitted; performing an inverse fast Fourier transform; inserting a cyclic prefix into the data; transmitting the data as a set of OFDM symbols via a channel; receiving the set of OFDM symbols; removing the cyclic prefix; performing a fast Fourier transform; estimating impulse noise; canceling the impulse noise based upon the estimated impulse noise to produce a set of impulse noise-free data; estimating the channel; and demodulating and detecting the data transmitted based upon the estimated channel and the set of impulse noise-free data.
US08213522B2
The digital broadcast receiving apparatus according to the present invention includes: a first decoding unit which decodes video data of a first digital broadcast and outputs first video data that is decoded; a second decoding unit which decodes video data of a second digital broadcast and outputs second video data that is decoded; and a selection unit which selects one of the first video data and the second video data, and the first decoding unit outputs the first video data synchronous with a referential clock when the first video data is selected by the selection unit, and the first decoding unit outputs the first video data with timing delayed or accelerated by as much as an offset value with respect to timing of predetermined periodicity when the first video data is not selected by the selection unit.
US08213515B2
A video encoding method determines the best video encoding mode for a macroblock in the SKIP mode and comparing this cost with other modes. This avoids sub-pixel interpolations for fractional pixels. This models the cost function in a quadratic model and computes the cost for a nearest integer pel and plural adjacent integer pels. This permits determination of the coefficients of the quadratic model. An estimated cost is obtained using the actual fractional pel position in the quadratic model. This can be used for obtaining the cost of a P Skip mode. This can be used for the decision of B direct or B skip modes in B frames.
US08213505B2
An encoding apparatus for generating, in an intra prediction mode, difference data by subtracting prediction values from input image data, and performing encoding processing on the input image data by processing the difference data. The apparatus includes a first prediction mode detecting section for detecting a first best prediction mode, a second prediction mode detecting section for detecting a second best prediction mode, and a prediction value generating section for selecting a best prediction mode. The first prediction mode detecting section detects the first best prediction mode by utilizing processing in the second prediction mode detecting section.
US08213503B2
Techniques and tools for skip modes in encoding and decoding of inter-layer residual video are described. For example, an encoder encodes multiple macroblocks of a picture of inter-layer residual video. For a current macroblock that is skipped, the encoder selects a skip mode from among multiple available skip modes and uses the selected skip mode when encoding the current macroblock. The skip modes can include intra skip mode and predicted-motion skip mode. A corresponding decoder, for the current macroblock, selects and uses the skip mode for the current macroblock during decoding. As another example, an encoder encodes multiple channels of a picture of inter-layer residual video. For each channel, the encoder determines whether to skip the channel. The encoder signals channel skip information to indicate which channels are skipped. A corresponding decoder parses the channel skip information and determines on a channel-by-channel basis whether to skip the respective channels.
US08213492B2
A processing module produces improved main channel estimate. This process involves initially estimating the channel impulse response. This result is based on and combined with a known sequences such as that provided by training sequences of the midamble within RF bursts. From this combination, it is possible to produce an estimated signal from a convolution of the channel impulse response and midamble. The estimated signal may be cancelled or subtracted from the received signal to produce a clearer image of the disturber signal. A blind data recovery performed upon the disturber signal. The recovered disturber data may be used as a reference for disturber channel estimation in order to produce a disturber channel impulse response. With the estimated disturber channel impulse response and the recovered disturber data, an estimated disturber signal may be reconstructed and subtracted from the received signal. This allows the cancellation of the estimated disturber signal. Without a clear or dominant disturber signal, a better representation of the main channel impulse response may be produced. This results in more accurate processing of the received RF bursts and improved receiver performance.
US08213485B2
Method and apparatus for high rate code-division multiple access wireless communication is described. Each of a channel encoded data is modulated by an associated code having a small number of pseudo-noise spreading chips per orthogonal waveform period, thus producing a set of streams of modulated symbols. Each of the set of streams of modulated symbols is then gain adjusted, and combined to yield two streams of combined symbols. The combination is the set of streams is carried out to reduce a peak-to-average ratio of the transmission. The resulting two combined symbol streams are modulated by a complex multiplyer using a user long code and a pseudorandom spreading code (PN code) and upconverted for transmission.
US08213478B2
Provided is a laser device. In the laser device, an active layer is connected to a stem core of a 1×2 splitter on a substrate, a first diffraction grating is coupled to a first twig core of the 1×2 splitter, and a second diffraction grating is coupled to a second twig core of the 1×2 splitter. An active layer-micro heater is designed to supply heat to the active layer. First and second micro heaters are designed to supply heats to the first and second diffraction gratings, respectively, thereby varying a Bragg wavelength.
US08213477B2
Provided is a semiconductor laser including: a substrate (semiconductor substrate); an optical waveguide (active layer waveguide) with a mesa structure that includes an active layer (strain-compensated multiple quantum well active layer) including Al, is provided over the semiconductor substrate; a semiconductor protective layer that is provided so as to cover the top and the side of a mesa of the active layer waveguide; a current block layer that is provided so as to embed the active layer waveguide and the semiconductor protective layer; and a clad layer (p-type InP clad layer) that is provided over the semiconductor protective layer and the current block layer, wherein, the semiconductor protective layer has a semiconductor layer (p-type InGaAsP protective layer) that includes As, but does not include Al.
US08213475B2
Provided is a group-III nitride semiconductor laser device with a laser cavity enabling a low threshold current, on a semipolar surface of a support base the c-axis of a hexagonal group-III nitride of which tilts toward the m-axis. In a laser structure 13, a first surface 13a is a surface opposite to a second surface 13b and first and second fractured faces 27, 29 extend each from an edge 13c of the first surface 13a to an edge 13d of the second surface 13b. A scribed mark SM1 extending from the edge 13c to the edge 13d is made, for example, at one end of the first fractured face 27, and the scribed mark SM1 or the like has a depressed shape extending from the edge 13c to the edge 13d. The fractured faces 27, 29 are not formed by dry etching and thus are different from the conventional cleaved facets such as c-planes, m-planes, or a-planes. It is feasible to use emission of a band transition enabling a low threshold current.
US08213461B2
A transmission frame for controlling data transmission includes a plurality of slots, each slot used for the transmission of data over an interconnect that couples master units to slave units. Slots in the transmission frame are in three groups: (a) a first group in which slots are each allocated to one predetermined master unit for data transmission with any slave unit; (b) a second group of slots each being allocatable to any master unit for data transmission with any slave unit; and (c) a third group of slots each allocated to a predetermined one of the master units and slave units. Where a slot of the third group is not needed by the allocated master unit or slave unit, the slot can then be reallocated to another master unit. Hence, more slots can be used and the efficiency of data transfers over the interconnect can be improved.
US08213459B2
The present invention relates to systems and methods for establishing a data-path between a mobile station and a home access service network gateway (“ASN-GW”). During the authentication process, a visited ASN-GW receives a first message that identifies a home ASN-GW associated with the mobile station. After the mobile station has been authenticated, the visited ASN-GW receives a first data-path request message from a base station serving the mobile station, requesting a path for data-packet communication for the mobile station that extends between base station and the visited ASN-GW. The visited ASN-GW responsively uses the received identification to send a second data-path request message to the home ASN-GW which requests a path for data-packet communication that extends between the base station and the home ASN-GW. Once the data-path has been established, the home ASN-GW may monitor and/or place restrictions on the data being transmitted to and from the mobile stations.
US08213457B2
A device may be used for conditioning an upstream bandwidth. The device includes a return path extending at least a portion of a distance between a supplier side connector and a user side connector, and a coupler connected within the return path, the coupler providing a secondary path. A detection circuit is connected electrically downstream the coupler, and a level detector is connected electrically downstream the detection circuit. A microprocessor is connected electrically downstream the level detector. The microprocessor includes a first buffer and a second buffer. A variable signal level adjustment device is connected within the return path electrically upstream from the coupler. The variable signal level adjustment device is controlled by the microprocessor.
US08213452B2
A method, system, and computer program product for ordering grants of upstream bandwidth in a two-way grant-based communication system, such as a DOCSIS-based communication system. Typically, a central controller, such as a CMTS, sends a grant message to a set of end user devices, e.g., cable modems, wherein the message defines when each end user device can transmit upstream. The invention first determines, for each end user device, the time needed for processing the grant message. The central controller then constructs the grant message, such that grants for the end user devices associated with the shortest grant message processing times occur early in the grant message and represent the earliest grants. Grants for end user devices associated with the longest grant message processing times occur later in the grant message and represent later grants. With this ordering of grants within the grant message, the CMTS can assume a smaller processing time for processing the grant message by CMs, such that the grant message does not have to be sent so far in advance. Performance of the system is increased due to decreased roundtrip delay.
US08213447B2
The present invention enables the coupling and decoupling of multiple processing devices to a network without disrupting the network. In an embodiment, the invention provides a switch having a network port and several initiator ports each configured for coupling to a processing device. The switch is configured to route data from the network port to the initiator ports and from the initiator ports to the network port. A management agent facilitates operation of the switch by processing port initializations, replying to device registration requests, and processing predetermined unsolicited discovery commands. During operation, the management agent enables configuration changes caused, for example, by the coupling and/or decoupling of processing device to initiator ports.
US08213446B2
The present invention provides frame-interleaving systems and methods for Optical Transport Unit K (OTUK) (i.e. Optical Transport Unit 4 (OTU4)), 100 Gb/s Ethernet (100 GbE), and other 100 Gb/s (100 G) optical transport enabling multi-level optical transmission. The frame-interleaving systems and methods of the present invention support the multiplexing of sub-rate clients, such as 10×10 Gb/s (10 G) clients, 2×40 Gb/s (40 G) plus 2×10 G clients, etc., into two 50 Gb/s (50 G) transport signals, four 25 Gb/s (25 G) transport signals, etc. that are forward error correction (FEC) encoded and carried on a single wavelength to provide useful, efficient, and cost-effective 100 G optical transport solutions today. In one exemplary configuration, a 100 G client signal or 100 G aggregate client signal carried over two or more channels is frame-deinterleaved, followed by even/odd sub-channel FEC encoding and framing. In another exemplary configuration, a 100 G client signal or 100 G aggregate client signal carried over two or more channels is received and processed by a single 100 G FEC framer, followed by frame-deinterleaving into two or more sub-rate channels.
US08213438B2
The invention relates to a method of operating a communication network, the network comprising a plurality of stations which are able to transmit data to and receive data from one another so that a message comprising a plurality of data packets is sent from an originating station to a destination station via at least one opportunistically selected intermediate station. The method makes use of probe signals transmitted from each station on a selected probing channel to which other stations respond to indicate their availability as destination or intermediate stations. A Request to Send message is sent, with a Clear to Send message returned by an available station. The station with data to send opportunistically selects an available station and the selected station uses a Packet Acknowledge message to confirm successful reception of the transmitted data packet. An End-to-End Acknowledge message is sent by the originating station, directly or indirectly, to confirm receipt of said data packets.
US08213435B2
A VPLS model is implemented in a network-facing provider edge (n-PE) device configured to receive a packet from an access network; the packet having a first Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) tag of a first predetermined bit length. The n-PE device mapping the service instance identifier of the first VLAN tag into a second VLAN tag of a second predetermined bit length greater than the first predetermined bit length, the second VLAN tag identifying a Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) instance. The n-PE device then sends the packet with the second VLAN tag across a service provider (SP) core network via a pseudowire (PW) that functions as a logical link to another PE device. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. 37 CFR 1.72(b).
US08213432B2
A network configuration management method has a step of sequentially propagating a network ticket that a network configuration monitoring node has issued to each of a predetermined number of nodes (predetermined number of nodes
US08213422B2
An Internet Priority Service (IPS) provides to authorized users priority access to communication over the Internet during emergencies. Transmission of data packets from an authorized user that accesses the IPS are given priority for transmission over the Internet. The level of priority given to a data packet depends on the type of application associated with the data packet. Each user or group of users may also be given a respective IPS level of priority. Furthermore, for a particular authorized user, access to the IPS may be limited to a specific number of application types, which for example do not have high bandwidth requirements. Assigning different priority levels as a function of application type and user or group of users, and limiting IPS access to specific application types allows efficient methods of emergency communication to be implemented over the Internet during emergencies.
US08213414B2
The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems, and computer program products for providing TDM terminating services in a packet network. According to one method, a combined set including a plurality of TDM channels is received over a packet network. The combined set of TDM channels is terminated in the packet network as a combined TDM facility. Terminating the TDM channels as a combined TDM facility may include providing at least one terminating TDM service for the TDM channels, such as performing CAS signaling or providing a PRI interface for the TDM channels.
US08213413B2
In some embodiments, the invention may include a combination of real-time packet detection, processing and routing. When implemented in a distributed architecture, such systems can yield a low cost, high availability and/or secure network capable of switching real-time data and delivering the quality of service expected in mission critical systems.
US08213412B2
A communications system and method is configured to provide multimedia services utilizing a signaling protocol such as a session initiated protocol (SIP), via a local access network. The method includes providing a local proxy having an internet protocol (IP) address, wherein the local proxy is integrated with the local access network. The method further includes providing a client device having a signaling protocol client, wherein the client device is coupled to a remote access network that is external to the local access network. Additionally, the method includes initiating a session by the client device accessing the IP address of the local proxy.
US08213411B2
Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with provisioning an internet protocol (IP) multimedia core network subsystem (IMS) are described. One exemplary system embodiment includes logic for provisioning an IMS charging database with charging data and logic for provisioning an IMS user database with user data. The exemplary system embodiment may also include logic for provisioning an IMS call session control function (CSCF) logic with data that relates a user to charging information based, at least in part, on a charging class of service (COS) identifier.
US08213404B2
A communications system includes a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) user agent. A server communicates with the SIP user agent and allocates an SIP ID for the user agent for subsequent communications using SIP. A database can be associated with the server and contain data relating to free SIP ID's that can be allocated to the SIP user agent and allocated SIP ID's.
US08213396B1
Methods and systems for disabling paging to a WCD that fails to communicate properly with a RAN are introduced. In an exemplary embodiment, a first WCD that fails to communicate properly with the RAN may inform the RAN of the failure to communicate by relaying a message to the RAN via a second WCD. The second WCD preferably is able to communicate properly with the RAN. Upon receiving the message from the second WCD, the RAN may disable paging to the first WCD, thereby helping to conserve data storage, processing cycles, and paging channel capacity at the RAN.
US08213393B2
The intranet IP address management solution of the appliance and/or client described herein provides an environment for efficiently assigning, managing and querying virtual private network addresses, referred to as intranet IP (IIP) addresses of virtual private network users, such as a multitude of SSL VPN users on an enterprise network. The appliance provides techniques and policies for assigning previously assigned virtual private network addresses of a user to subsequent sessions of the user as the user logs in multiple times or roams between access points. This technique is referred to IIP stickiness as the appliance attempts to provide the same IIP address to a roaming VPN user. The appliance also provides a configurable user domain naming policy so that one can ping or query the virtual private network address of a user by an easily referenceable host name identifying the user. The appliance and/or client agent also provide techniques to allow applications to seamlessly and transparently communicate on the virtual private network using the virtual private network address of the user or client on the private network.
US08213385B2
A method and apparatus for supporting handover of mobile communications is provided. A router performs routing services in a service area. The router maintains a location table configured to store current router addresses of mobile nodes that have the router as a home router. The router receives data intended for mobile nodes that are listed in the location table and are in the routers service area. The router receives a user datagram protocol (UDP) message from a mobile node when it leaves the service area. The UDP message includes an IP address of a new router in the mobile node's new service area. The router updates the location table with the new IP address and transmits data intended for the mobile node to the new router until the data is redirected at the source.
US08213384B2
In a method for communication by radio a first network radio station allocates radio resources to a subscriber station and communicates with the subscriber station using a portion of the radio resources. A second network radio station uses another portion of the radio resources to send a signaling signal which is intended exclusively for the subscriber station. The first network radio station and/or the second network radio station receives a message from the subscriber station, acknowledging receipt of the signaling signal. In response to the message from the subscriber station, the communication of the subscriber station is handed over from the first network radio station to the second network radio station.
US08213365B2
A system and a method in a wireless network utilizing session initiation protocol (SIP) for call control. The SIP payload (SDP) contains a list of voice codecs to coordinate the selection of voice bearer resources (between a calling party and a called party) such that the number of transcoders in the voice bearer path is minimized. An additional aspect of the embodiment of the present invention includes a serving MSCe that is operable to determine whether to initiate or discontinue ringback to the calling party. If ring back is to be initiated, ringback can be initiated from a Serving MGW controlled by the serving MSCe. The call negotiation process according to the described embodiment of the invention eliminates the requirement for any transcoding in specific situations to result in the number of transcoders used in the voice bearer path to be reduced to 0 (TrFO, Transcoder Free Operation) or to 1 (RTO, remote transmitter operation).
US08213364B2
The invention discloses a method for releasing a high rate packet data (HRPD) session, including the following steps: S302, in the case that the access network (AN) determines to reauthenticate the access terminal (AT), it authenticates the AT via the established connection with the AT; S304, in the case that the reauthentication of the AT is not passed, the AN or the AT initiates the release of the HRPD session; S306, the AN closes the HRPD session with the AT, and sends to the packet control function (PCF) entity a first releasing message indicating of releasing the resource and the connection and starts a first timer; S308, the PCF eneity sends to the packet data service node (PDSN) a second releasing message indicating of releasing the connection and starts a second timer; S310, the PDSN releases the connection and feeds back a second release response message to the PCF entity, and the PCF entity stops the second timer upon receiving the second release response message; S312, the PCF entity sends a first release response message to the AN, and the AN stops the first timer upon receiving the first release response message.
US08213362B2
A method for a new node to join an ad-hoc network is provided. The method includes two basic functions. When the new node is allowed to join the network, the indicating device of the node being joined generates an indication. When the new node joins the network, the indicating device of the new node also generates an indication. The method further includes two commands, the join-rejection command and the joined-rejection command, to cancel the join procedure when the indicating device of the new node and the node being joined do not indicate correspondingly. Accordingly, the method efficiently reduces the possibility of joining an unanticipated node.
US08213349B2
In a mesh network using a TDMA protocol: determination is made of a first set of antenna angles to be used by a receiving antenna of a recipient node to capture data respectively sent by a plurality of sending nodes; reception is made of data sent by the sending nodes using the respective antenna angle of the first set; at least one correlation operation is made between the various redundant copies of the same item of data, received by the recipient node; at least one copy not necessary for the decoding of the received data is deduced determination is made of at least one time slot during which the copy not necessary for the decoding is received; and during that time slot, the antenna angle used by the receiving antenna to receive data sent by the sending node allocated to that time slot is updated.
US08213343B2
A method of and apparatus for communication of conversational data signals, especially voice signals, between transceiver terminals over a radio link, especially a Bluetooth link, capable of full-duplex transmission of conversational data packets in alternate directions within a pair of time slots. Local conversational activity is detected at each of the terminals and conversational activity signals indicative of the detected local conversational activity are sent to the other terminal. Reception at either terminal is disabled if conversational activity signalling indicates absence of remote conversational activity, and transmission by either terminal is disabled in the absence of local conversational activity, saving power. Audible comfort noise may be generated at the terminal from a locally generated comfort noise signal if reception is disabled in response to the conversational activity signalling indicating absence of remote conversational activity.
US08213340B1
A telecommunication network includes a communication ring having a plurality of nodes. The communication ring includes a plurality of links wherein each link interconnects one node to another node. Each node includes one or more network elements. Management functions for the nodes, the communication ring, the links, and the network elements are provided by a manager. The manager can discover and define the nodes, the links, and the communication ring and establish more than one network element at a node. The manager provides a coherent view of the telecommunication network despite a node being supported by more than one network element.
US08213337B2
System and method for managing connections in a mobile device. A first application may be executing on the mobile device. A first application request, including first quality of service (QOS) parameters and first connection information for the first application, may be received. The first QOS parameters and the first connection information may be stored in a routing table. A first connection for the first application may be established based on the first QOS parameters and the first connection information. A second application may be executing on the mobile device. A second application request, including second QOS parameters and second connection information for the second application, may be received. The second QOS parameters and the second connection information may be stored in the routing table. A second connection for the second application may be established based on the second QOS parameters and the second connection information.
US08213327B2
A management server that includes a signal control unit for controlling a signal for a packet for measuring communication quality, and a signal communication quality measurement unit that measures communication quality of a signal based on a result of signal control by the signal control unit; and a communication quality measurement device includes a payload control unit for controlling payload of packets for communication quality measurement and a payload communication quality measurement unit that measures communication quality of payload based on a result of payload control by payload control unit.
US08213321B2
A method and system monitor a communications network, e.g., a controller area network (CAN), and more specifically, an in-vehicle communications network, by maintaining a count of each type of error code and a histogram of all network messages seen by each of the controllers during a measurement period; and by determining a bus health index of the communication bus based upon a percentage of a given type of error to the total count of all errors during a measurement period. An individual controller or controller area network bus segment can be indicated as having a communications problem as a result of the health index.
US08213305B2
A system, apparatus, method and article to perform dynamic service management for multicore processors are described. The apparatus may include, for example, a processing device having multiple types of processors to process packets. A service manager may dynamically assign executable files for multiple services to the multiple types of processors during execution of the executable files based on packets processed for each service. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US08213304B2
A method and an arrangement for transferring information including delay sensitive data, such as speech and video data, in a packet radio service is provided. Data blocks are transmitted from a mobile station to a radio resource entity during a first active data transfer period using an uplink temporary block flow (TBF) connection. The uplink TBF connection is maintained during a passive period that follows the first active data transfer period, wherein during the passive period the mobile station does not send data blocks to the radio resource entity.
US08213297B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for an Internet protocol (IP) address resolution process during an original switch stack fragmentation, by employing a secondary communication link. A method for IP address resolution of a fragmented switch stack over a secondary communication link (e.g., an I2C bus) can include detecting a first switch stack fragment by a first stack master, detecting a second switch stack fragment by a second stack master, disabling all switches of the first switch stack fragment and the second switch stack fragment, connecting the first stack master and the second stack master to a stack management module via a secondary communication link, and electing one stack fragment to use the IP address of the original switch stack based on at least one election criteria. The method can further include instructing the stack master of the elected one stack fragment to power up the switches of the elected one stack fragment.
US08213286B2
A photodetector comprising: a substrate; a photodiode fixed to the substrate, the photodiode configured to output a signal according to a light amount of a laser beam when applied with the laser beam; and a translucent resin covering the photodiode, the translucent resin being irradiated with ultraviolet light in advance for a predetermined time such that a change in transmittance of the translucent resin for the laser beam having a predetermined wavelength is set within a predetermined range.
US08213274B2
There is provided an optical disc reproducing method capable of reproducing a non-finalized DVD+R. When a seek operation is performed from a present address on the non-finalized DVD+R to an outer circumferential side target address, the outer circumferential direction total jump number of tracks is calculated from a difference between the present address and the target address. When a first condition is satisfied in which the present address is in an inner circumferential zone, the target address is in a second outer circumferential zone, and the outer circumferential direction total jump number is 701 to 2500, the jump number of tracks is set to 340 smaller than the outer circumferential direction total jump number, and a traverse seek using a moving mechanism to move an optical pickup in a radius direction by 340 is performed.
US08213271B2
A horizontal cavity, surface emitting laser (HCSEL) with internal polarization rotation is used in thermally assisted recording in hard disk drives. The desired polarization of the laser is accomplished with two beam reflections off of facets within the diode. The facets are formed in a single ion beam etching step. This device can be used in a thermally assisted recording head to produce polarization incident on the disk aligned with the direction of the tracks on the disk.
US08213270B2
In an optical disk recording apparatus, a monitor monitors a recording power of a laser light. A laser control circuit enables a laser diode to perform test recording while using the monitor to monitor the recording power of the laser light and while controlling a laser drive voltage, so that the monitored recording power reaches a given reference value during the test recording. A voltage measurement section measures the laser drive voltage when the recording power of the laser light reaches the reference value. A calculation section calculates an initial laser drive voltage from the reference value of the recording power and the measured laser drive voltage corresponding to the reference value. A main controller allows the laser control circuit to set the calculated initial laser drive voltage and to start the recording while supplying the laser control circuit with the target value so that an actual recording power of the laser light promptly reaches the target value during the course of the recording.
US08213265B2
There is provided a method of tracking an object in a three-dimensional (3-D) space by using particle filter-based acoustic sensors, the method comprising selecting two planes in the 3-D space; executing two-dimensional (2-D) particle filtering on the two selected planes, respectively; and associating results of the 2-D particle filtering on the respective planes.
US08213262B2
A monostatic sodar system includes an array of essentially identical acoustic transducers. Each transducer includes a cone transducer element which generates and receives sound and a horn which guides the sound to and from the cone to a circular or hexagonal active region from which sound is emitted during a sound emission and into which sound is received during a reception of emitted sound that has been reflected by the atmosphere. Each transducer defines a generally hexagonal perimeter shape and occupying a generally hexagonal area of the array. The system includes a signal generator that generates signals that are used to drive the transducers, a phase and switching control, a receiver that receives signals from the transducers, a processor, an open-top enclosure, and a sound reflector within the enclosure.
US08213256B2
An anti-fuse circuit includes an anti-fuse coupled to a sensing node, a driving unit configured to rupture the anti-fuse in response to a rupture enable signal, an anti-fuse status detecting unit configured to output an anti-fuse status detecting signal in response to a voltage at the sensing node corresponding to a rupture status of the anti-fuse, and a sensing current supplying unit configured to supply sensing current to the sensing node in response to a rupture sensing signal.
US08213247B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of memory cell transistors arranged in a matrix and each configured to store data, and a test circuit configured to output to outside the semiconductor memory device an output signal indicative of an amount of test current flowing through a selected one of the plurality of memory cell transistors, wherein the test circuit includes a plurality of reference cell transistors employed to successively produce varying amounts of currents, a comparison circuit configured to successively compare the amount of test current with each of the varying amounts of currents, and a code generating circuit configured to generate a code indicative of a result of the successive comparisons performed by the comparison circuit, wherein the code is output as the output signal.
US08213245B2
A semiconductor memory device includes data transmission devices for transmit data in synchronization with each other. The semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of data transferring unit, a first control unit, a multiplexing unit, and a second control unit. The plurality of data transferring unit transfers data to a plurality of global lines. The first control unit controls the plurality of data transferring unit in response to a column select signal to select a column of a memory cell. The multiplexing unit multiplexes the data transferred to the plurality of global lines. The second control unit controls the multiplexing unit, wherein the second control unit synchronizes the column select signal with a column address signal having a column address information of the memory cell.
US08213227B2
A non-volatile memory (NVM) cell structure comprises a PMOS program transistor having source, drain and bulk region electrodes and a gate electrode that is connected to a data storage node; an NMOS control transistor having source, drain and bulk region electrodes that are commonly-connected to receive a control voltage and a gate electrode that is connected to the data storage node; a PMOS erase transistor having source, drain and bulk region electrodes that are commonly-connected to receive an erase voltage and a gate electrode that is connected to the data storage node; and an NMOS read transistor having source, drain and bulk region electrodes and a gate electrode connected to the data storage node.
US08213222B2
A magnetic tunnel junction having a compsensation element is disclosed. The magnetic tunnel junction includes a reference element, and a compensation element having an opposite magnetization moment to a magnetization moment of the reference element. A free magnetic layer is between the reference element and the compensation element, and an electrically insulating and non-magnetic tunneling barrier layer separates the free magnetic layer from the reference element. The free magnetic layer includes Co100-X-YFeXBY wherein X is a value being greater than 30 and Y is a value being greater than 15.
US08213220B2
The present disclosure provides a non-volatile memory device. A memory device includes a first magnetic element having a fixed magnetization. The memory device also includes a second magnetic element having a non-fixed magnetization. The memory device further includes a barrier layer between the first and second magnetic elements. A unidirectional current source is electrically coupled to the first and second magnetic elements. The current source is configured to provide a first current to the first and second memory elements. The first current has a first current density and is in a first direction. The current source is also configured to provide a second current to the first and second magnetic elements. The second current has a second current density, different than the first current density, and is in the first direction. The first and second currents cause the non-fixed magnetization of the second magnetic element to toggle between substantially parallel to the fixed magnetization of the first magnetic element and between substantially antiparallel to the fixed magnetization of the first magnetic element.
US08213219B2
A loadless static random access memory cell is provided. The memory cell includes four transistors. The first transistor has a gate terminal corresponding to a word line of the memory cell, a source/drain terminal corresponding to a first bit line of the memory cell, and a drain/source terminal corresponding to a first storage node of the memory cell. The second transistor has a gate terminal corresponding to the word line, a source/drain terminal corresponding to a second bit line of the memory cell, and a drain/source terminal corresponding to a second storage node of the memory cell. The third transistor has a gate terminal coupled to the second storage node, a drain terminal coupled to the first storage node, a source terminal corresponding to a reference voltage, and a body terminal directly connected to the third gate terminal. The fourth transistor has a gate terminal coupled to the first storage node, a drain terminal coupled to the second storage node, a source terminal corresponding to the reference voltage, and a body terminal directly connected to the fourth gate terminal.
US08213213B2
A reference current generator for a resistance type memory and a method thereof is disclosed. The reference current generator comprises N parallel circuit sets. Each of the N parallel circuit sets is formed with at least one first reference element and second reference elements connected in parallel. The number of the first reference elements plus the number of the second reference elements is N. The resistance value of first reference elements (a first resistance value) is not equal to the resistance value of the second reference elements (a second resistance value). An equivalent resistance provided with a equivalent resistance value between the first and second resistance value is formed by connecting the N parallel circuit sets in series between an input terminal and output terminal. A reference current is outputted from the output terminal by applying an operation voltage to the input terminal.
US08213209B2
In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, element properties of an element property extraction pattern formed on a semiconductor wafer is extracted as element properties of a current control element corresponding to the element property extraction pattern. A supply energy to the current control element is set which is formed between nodes on the semiconductor wafer, based on the extracted element properties. The set supply energy is supplied to the current control element to irreversible control an electrical connection between the nodes through the device breakdown by the current control element.
US08213194B2
A control device for regulating the constant output current of a flyback converter, the control device adapted to control the on time period and the off time period of a primary winding switch and including a first circuit adapted to multiply a first signal representative of current flowing through the primary winding and a second signal representative of an input voltage and outputting a signal representative of the multiplication, a second circuit adapted to compare the output signal of the first circuit and a third signal representative of the direct output voltage, the control device determining, on the basis of the output signal of the second circuit, the on time period and the off time period of the switch so that the output signal of the first circuit is equal to the signal representative of the direct output signal to have the output current of the flyback converter constant.
US08213191B2
The present invention is to provide a constant-current circuit capable of voltage compensation and zero-voltage switching, wherein the constant-current circuit is a single-switch isolated flyback converter and includes a control circuit, a sensing resistor, a transformer, a voltage divider, and a primary-side power switch. The control circuit obtains information related to a primary-side current of the transformer by way of the sensing resistor and obtains a compensation signal from an input voltage by way of the voltage divider, so as to control the primary-side power switch accordingly. Due to a compensating effect of the compensation signal, a peak voltage resulting from the sensing resistor is adjusted to a reference voltage through adding the compensation signal thereto, thereby enabling the constant-current circuit to generate a constant output current over a wide range of input voltage.
US08213190B2
A single-stage isolated high power factor AC/DC converter with a leakage inductor energy recovery function includes a buck-boost circuit, for step-down or step-down a power supply; a transformer, electrically connected to the buck-boost circuit, for transforming the stepped-down or stepped-up power supply; a switch, electrically connected to the buck-boost circuit; an input capacitor, electrically connected to the buck-boost circuit; and an output circuit, for outputting the power supply transformed by the transformer. When the switch is cut off, the buck-boost circuit provides an energy recovery path to return energy stored in a leakage inductor of the transformer to the input capacitor. The energy stored in the leakage inductor of the transformer in a flyback converter or a forward converter is returned to the input capacitor through the energy recovery path. The problem caused by the leakage inductor of the transformer is solved without using any additional element.
US08213183B2
An electronic device includes a case, a board module, and an electrostatic discharging module. The case has a conductive area. The board module is disposed in the case and has a ground end. The electrostatic discharging module is disposed on the case. Besides, the electrostatic discharging module includes a first discharging element and a second discharging element. The first discharging element is electrically connected to the ground end, and the second discharging element is electrically connected to the conductive area. There exists a gap between the first discharging element and the second discharging element, so that leak current generated by the board module can be prevented from being transmitted to the case, and that an electrostatic charge can be transmitted from the case to the ground end.
US08213181B2
An apparatus including: an intermediate chassis configured to move in at least a first direction and configured to define a reaction surface; a movable chassis configured to move in at least a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and configured to define a follower wherein the reaction surface and follower interact to convert movement of the intermediate chassis and reaction surface in the first direction to movement of the follower and movable chassis in the second direction. Also, an apparatus including a first movable housing portion having side faces including one or more interface components; and a second housing portion; wherein the first movable housing portion is movable relative to the second housing portion between a compact configuration in which the one or more interface components are obscured by the second housing portion and an expanded configuration in which the one or more interface components are exposed.
US08213177B2
A moveable device foot for an electronic device is described. The device foot can include a rigid weight bearing member and a flexible sealing member that is integrally formed with the weight bearing member. The device foot can be formed using a double-shot injection molding process. The weight bearing member of the foot can be mounted to an interior portion of the electronic device such that it extends through an external casing of the electronic device. The flexible sealing member can be mounted to the external casing to seal the interior of the electronic device. During operation of the electronic device, the device foot can be configured to move relative to the external casing, such as in response to an external force applied to the electronic device.
US08213176B2
An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a silencer. The silencer includes an enclosure with a first airflow path configured to allow air to pass through the enclosure and attenuate noise entering the enclosure. The enclosure also includes an opening configured to provide a second airflow path if the first airflow path is obstructed.
US08213173B2
This disclosure includes a portable data storage device comprising a mass data storage device, a cartridge housing enclosing a mass data storage device, and a flexible interconnect. The flexible interconnect includes an external electrical connector mechanically coupled to the cartridge, an internal electrical connector mechanically and electrically coupled to a data port of the mass data storage device, and a set of flexible electrical conductors electrically coupling the external electrical connector to the internal electrical connector. The flexible electrical conductors are routed within the cartridge such that no portion of the set of flexible electrical conductors lies in a volume defined by the space between the external electrical connector and the internal electrical connector.
US08213171B2
An mechanism for retaining devices in a computer system is disclosed herein. A computer storage device enclosure includes an chassis configured to house a computer storage device. The chassis includes a storage device retention mechanism. The storage device retention mechanism includes a flexible retention member disposed along and connected to an outer side wall of the chassis. The flexible retention member is configured to retain a rear corner of the storage device installed in the chassis by contacting a side, rear and upper surface of the storage device at the rear corner.
US08213160B2
A solid electrolytic capacitor including a solid electrolytic capacitor component comprises a porous anode body 2 composed of valve metal having a anode lead 1 protruding therefrom, a anode oxide film, a solid electrolyte layer 4, a graphite layer 5, a silver paste layer 6, a resist layer 3 separating the anode lead 1 used as a anode portion and the porous anode body 2 used as a cathode portion, and a anode lead element 7 connected to the anode lead 1, the anode oxide film, solid electrolyte layer 4, graphite layer 5, silver paste layer 6 being successively formed on the surface of the porous anode body 2, wherein the solid electrolytic capacitor component is bonded on a mounting substrate 21 having a anode terminal 21a, a cathode terminal 21b, and an insulating portion 21c therebetween with a precuring insulating adhesive 9 formed on the insulating portion 21c of the mounting substrate 21 and precuring conductive adhesives 8 formed on the anode terminal and cathode terminal, and sealed with exterior resin 10.
US08213144B2
A method and apparatus is disclosed for providing protection against arc flash during maintenance on a low voltage power circuit including a circuit breaker having a specified trip function for responding to a fault is provided. The specified trip function is overridden with a maintenance trip function that results in reduced arc energy in the fault during a trip over arc energy during a trip with the specified trip function. The specified trip function is restored following maintenance.
US08213140B2
In an apparatus and method for the operation of an electrical machine, the electrical machine is connected to an external controller via a direct switch-off line and is rapidly switched off when the external controller identifies a fault in order to prevent an electrical machine from being operated in-correctly.
US08213132B2
A narrow track-width magnetoresistive sensor by defining a trench formed between first and second hard bias layers and depositing the sensor into the trench. The sensor can include a sensor stack sandwiched between first and second electrically conductive lead layers. First and second electrically insulating side walls are formed at either side of the sensor stack. First and second hard bias layers extend from the sides of the sensor stack, being separated from the sensor stack by the first and second electrically insulating side walls. First and second physically hard insulation layers are provided over each of the hard bias layers.
US08213131B2
A system in one embodiment includes a magnetic sensor having a free magnetic layer, a nanocrystalline seed layer formed on an insulative amorphous material; a chromium-containing underlayer formed on the seed layer; and a hard bias layer formed on the underlayer and separated from the sensor by the insulative amorphous material. A method according to a further embodiment includes forming an amorphous insulative layer encapsulating a sensor stack; forming a nanocrystalline seed layer on the amorphous insulative material; forming a chromium-containing underlayer on the seed layer; and forming a hard bias layer on the underlayer. Additional systems and methods are presented.
US08213127B2
Embodiments of the present invention help to suppress reduction of the operation quantity of a microactuator. According to one embodiment, a microactuator comprises a silicon substrate and a piezoelectric element. The silicon substrate has some rigidity and provides elastic counter force to the piezoelectric element. In the piezoelectric element, a secondary piezoelectric layer is laminated on a primary piezoelectric layer opposite from the silicon substrate. The contraction force of the secondary piezoelectric layer acts on the primary piezoelectric layer so that it bends toward the secondary piezoelectric layer opposite from the silicon substrate. When the primary piezoelectric layer expands, the contraction force of the secondary piezoelectric layer acts on the primary piezoelectric layer so that it warps against the primary piezoelectric layer.
US08213121B2
A method and apparatus for preventing solder bridging. The method includes providing a substrate layer upon which a solder pad is disposed. The method further includes providing a signal conductive layer within the substrate layer. The method also includes forming a solder pad upon the signal conductive layer. The solder pad has a base surface. The method additionally includes forming a barrier portion above the base surface of the solder pad. The barrier portion is for controlling solder flow during a reflow process.
US08213120B2
A tape drive system according to one general embodiment includes a magnetic head; a drive mechanism for passing a magnetic recording tape over the head; a cable coupled to the magnetic head, the cable comprising a first layer of liquid crystal polymer, and at least 16 electrically conductive leads operatively coupled to the first layer of liquid crystal polymer; and a controller coupled to the cable, and communicating with the head using the cable. A cable according to another general embodiment includes a first layer of liquid crystal polymer; and at least 16 electrically conductive leads operatively coupled to the first layer of liquid crystal polymer.
US08213119B2
A method and system for reading readback waveforms representing written magnetization states of a pair of magnetic islands of a two-level patterned magnetic recording medium, and a structure that include a multi-level patterned magnetic medium. Reading the readback waveform representing the written magnetization state includes: identifying the written magnetization state by decoding the readback waveform; and displaying and/or recording the written magnetization state. The magnetic medium of the structure includes distributed pillars. Each pillar includes a first and second magnetic island. Each magnetic island has a magnetic easy axis oriented at a first tilt angle (α1) and a second tilt angle (α2), wherein α1 and α2 satisfy: α1≠α2, either or both of α1 and α2 differing from 0, 90, 180, and 270 degrees, or combinations thereof.
US08213114B2
Disk drive hub with motor coil wiring arrangement to reduce thickness and suppressed torque decrease
The disk drive device includes a base member, a hub, a bearing unit which is arranged on the base member and which rotatably supports the hub, and a spindle drive unit which drives the hub to rotate. The spindle drive unit includes a stator core having a salient pole, a coil wound around the salient pole and a magnet opposed to the salient pole. The hub formed of magnetic material includes an outer cylinder portion engaged with an inner circumference of a recording disk and an inner cylinder portion to which an outer circumference of the magnet is fixed. The diameter of the inner cylinder portion is larger than the diameter of the outer cylinder portion.
US08213109B2
A storage apparatus includes at least one device insertion section, at least one robot, a replacement detection section, a first determination section, and a movement section. A device can be inserted into the device insertion section. The robot has a moving mechanism. The replacement detection section detects a start of the replacement of the device. When it is detected by the replacement detection section that the replacement of the device is started, the first determination section determines a position of the device insertion section at which the device is replaced. The movement section moves the robot so as to close an opening formed by removal of the device from the device insertion section based on the determination result of the first determination section.
US08213096B2
An imaging lens includes a first group having a positive or negative refractive power, a second group having a positive refractive power, a third group having a positive or negative refractive power, which are sequentially arranged from the object side of the imaging lens. The first group includes an aperture stop, and the second group includes a positive lens, and a cemented lens of a positive lens and a negative lens. The third group is composed of a cemented lens of a positive lens and a negative lens, and the following formula (1) is satisfied: 0.5≦f2/f≦1.2 (1), where f: focal length of the entire system of the imaging lens, and f2: focal length of the second group.
US08213088B2
An optical device for an image projector for providing a projected wide field of view image, includes a first dichroic mirror or splitter, arranged in an input path for receiving light of a plurality of wavelength bands, and adapted to output by reflection on a first path respective first portions of selected ones of the wavelength bands and by transmission on a second path respective second portions of the selected ones of the wavelength bands. Light modulating devices, arranged in respective ones of the first and second paths to receive the first and second portions, generate and output on respective first and second intersecting output paths modulated ones of the first and second portions. A second dichroic mirror or combiner, adapted to reflect one and transmit the other of the first and second portions, is arranged in an area of intersection of the first and second intersecting output paths, to output, by reflection and transmission, respectively, the modulated ones of the first and second portions on a common output path.
US08213086B2
A coating composition for antireflection that includes a low refraction-thermosetting resin having a refractive index of 1.2 to 1.45, a high refraction-ultraviolet curable resin having a refractive index of 1.46 to 2, and an ultraviolet absorber; an antireflection film manufactured using the coating composition; and a method of manufacturing the antireflection film. The antireflection film has excellent abrasion resistance and antireflection characteristic. Further, since the antireflection film can be manufactured in one coating process, it is possible to reduce manufacturing cost.
US08213083B2
A wavelength selection filter selectively resonating and reflecting light of a given wavelength contained in incident light, includes a substrate having a rectangular waveform concave and convex structure which is formed on a plane on which the incident light falls incident, the concave and convex structure including convex portions and concave portions which are arranged in one axial direction and a multilayer structure including a first layer and a second layer respectively coating one and the other one of side surfaces, in the one axial direction, of each of convex portions of the concave and convex structure. A refractive index of the first layer and a refractive index of the second layer are both higher than a refractive index of the substrate.
US08213081B2
The invention relates to an objective replacement device for a microscope, wherein the sample is located in a sample chamber and surrounded by an immersion medium within the sample chamber, means for positioning and aligning the sample relative to the focus of an objective being present, wherein the detection beam path is aligned horizontally, which is to say perpendicular to the direction of action of gravity. For an objective replacement device for a microscope of the type described above, according to the invention a device is provided for exchanging the objective, at the focus of which the sample is positioned and aligned, with at least another objective, the position and alignment of the sample within the sample chamber remaining the same.
US08213080B2
An inspection apparatus for a biological sample is herein disclosed, wherein a sample, entering a communicating space via a first opening, is sucked upward to a test area by capillarity and then sucked downward to a second opening by a siphonic action; then the sample becomes still as a result of the communicating tube principle. Hence, the present invention provides sufficient amount of biological sample for the test area and also simplifies the inspection process.
US08213079B2
A method of manufacturing a polarization-modulating optical element is provided. The element causes, for light passing through the element and due to stress-induced birefringence, a distribution of retardation between orthogonal states of polarization. The method includes joining a first component and a second component. A non-plane surface of the first component is provided with a defined height profile is joined with a plane surface of the second component. A mechanical stress causing the stress-induced birefringence is produced in the such formed polarization-modulating optical element.
US08213077B2
Multi-clad optical fibers and fiber amplifiers are disclosed. Various embodiments include multi-clad, large core fiber amplifiers. In various implementations mixing of pump modes is enhanced relative to that obtainable with conventional double-clad fibers. In some embodiments end terminations are provided with increased length of end-cap fiber. In at least one embodiment a multi-clad fiber is provided, with a pump cladding formed by stacking a layer of low index rods in the preform. Various embodiments include a multi-clad fiber amplifier system. The system includes a pump source to pump said fiber amplifier. The system also includes an optical fiber having a core and a cladding, wherein the cladding includes a pump cladding having a corrugated boundary. In various embodiments the pump cladding is formed by rods in a preform, which are disposed to mix the pump modes and/or scatter or reflect pump energy into the core.
US08213061B2
A detection device that includes a setting component, a measuring component, an accumulating component, a determining component, and an increasing/decreasing component is provided. The joint quantity measuring component measures joint quantities between the photoelectric conversion elements that are dependent on precision when arraying the plural photoelectric conversion elements. The joint error quantity accumulating component accumulates error quantities of the joints that are obtained from the joint quantities that have been measured and a reference quantity. The determining component determines whether or not the accumulated error quantity has exceeded an allowable range. The interpolation pixel increasing/decreasing component increases/decreases, on the basis of direction of error, interpolation pixels between specific photoelectric conversion elements when it has been determined that the accumulated error quantity has exceeded the allowable range.
US08213058B2
An image forming apparatus including: a user interface unit to display a user interface to select one or more low noise modes to reduce noise produced during a print standby state and a printing state of the image forming apparatus; and a controller to control the driving of a laser scanning unit and to control a print speed, according to one or more of the selected low noise modes selected through the user interface. Therefore, noise generated in the print standby state, and/or the printing state, are reduced, according to a low noise mode selected by a user.
US08213053B2
A type detecting part detects types of drawing objects included in a printing job. A rate detecting part detects a rate of each type of drawing object. A storing part stores the rate of each type of drawing object as a count value of a statistics counter which counts predetermined units of drawing objects for each type of drawing object. A comparing part compares a previously set printing quality with a recommended printing quality which is derived from count values of statistics counters. A changing part changes the previously set printing quality to the recommended printing quality when the previously set printing quality is different from the recommended printing quality.
US08213044B2
A printing device comprising: a data acquiring unit configured to acquire image data; an image processing unit configured to generate display image data and printing image data based on the image data by with pixel value of a pixel at a first position in an image of the printing image data, performing an image process of modifying a pixel value of a first subject pixel of the printing image data at the first position or another position, the first position being determined according to a first parameter P1, with pixel value of a pixel at a second position in an image of the display image data, performing an image process of modifying a pixel value of a second subject pixel of the display image data at the second position or another position, the second position being determined according to a second parameter P2, and determining the second parameter P2 such that a ratio (P2/P1) of the second parameter P2 and the first parameter P1 is in a specified range that includes a ratio (Px2/Px1) of a display pixel count Px2 representing a size of the image of the display image data and a printing pixel count Px1 representing a size of the image of the printing image data; a display unit configured to display an image based on the display image data; and a printing unit configured to perform printing based on the printing image data.
US08213040B2
An image forming apparatus include a program for performing a process concerning image formation by using a hardware resource, and a slot which a recording medium is inserted into and removed from. A status monitoring part monitors whether or not a recording medium is inserted or removed; a recording medium starting part starts the recording medium inserted into said slot into a state in which said recording medium is assessable; and a program starting part reads a program from said recording medium started into the accessible state, and starting said program.
US08213039B2
An application server, a data server, and a printer are connected to one another via a communication network. The application server executes application software. Then, the application server generates print data for printing an interim result or final result of processing performed by the application software, and sends the print data to the data server. The data server provides the supplied print data to the printer. The printer performs printing in accordance with the provided print data.
US08213032B2
An information processing method of an information processing apparatus that receives a job ticket, includes performing a function according to the job ticket, and determining whether a notification that the process has normally ended is received. In one embodiment, if it is determined that the notification is not received, a JDF analysis/correction unit may search for a confirmed subsequent function in the system based on a system map, and can determine whether there is another apparatus including the subsequent function in the system based on the search result. If the JDF analysis/correction unit determines that there is another apparatus including the subsequent function, the job ticket is updated and transmitted to the subsequent apparatus, along with input data.
US08213029B2
For generating photo albums on events such as weddings, the photo albums can always be generated in the same quality. A professional photographer photographs the bride and groom on a wedding. Images are read from a developed film and stored in a file server. A template used for generating a photo album is added with composition information representing composition of images to be inserted in image insertion areas therein. When an operator selects one of the images to be inserted in any one of the image insertion areas with reference to an editing screen having a catalog display field and a template display field, processing information representing a magnification ratio and/or a trimming position is generated based on the composition information so that the selected image has the composition appropriate for the image insertion area. The selected image is processed according to the processing information.
US08213028B2
An image processing system and a software program which simplify customizations when a program for operations in connection with image processing is installed in a plural number of image processing apparatuses. When a program for operations in connection with image processing is newly installed in a first MFP, the first MFP makes an inquiry to other MFPs which are connected to the first MFP via a network. When a second MFP is already installed with the same program and has information on individual users' settings for the program, the first MFP receives the setting information from the second MFP. Then, referring to history information and device information, the first MFP judges whether to store the setting information therein and whether to make modifications to the setting information.
US08213025B2
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for determining the amount of light scattered in an object in a machine vision system comprising: a light source illuminating said object with incident light having a limited extension in at least one direction; and, an imaging sensor detecting light emanating from said object, wherein said emanated light is reflected light (R) on the surface of said object and light scattered (S) in said object, said detected light is resulting in at least one intensity distribution curve on said imaging sensor having a peak where said reflected light (R) is detected on said imaging sensor. A width (w) of said at least one intensity distribution curve around said peak is measured, whereby said measured width (w) indicates the amount of light scattered (S) in said object.
US08213010B2
Measuring and tracking velocity of individual aerosol particles in a bio-threat detection system are accomplished using a single beam laser source in combination with a birefringent crystal that splits the laser beam into two beams having orthogonal polarization. Scattered light is collected with an elliptical reflector and directed into two detection channels, sampling total elastic scatter in the first channel and sampling polarized elastic scatter in the second channel. The difference in intensity of the scattered light in the polarized channel is used to identify the position of the particles. By taking the ratio of signal output from the polarized detector to the total scatter detector, a threshold level can be established to determine the presence of particles traversing the two beams. The particles are time stamped as they traverse the two beams and the time difference between the pulses can be used to measure the velocity of the particles.
US08212993B2
An improved method for surveying actual measurement data of a component, which originate from an optical scan, is characterized in that the actual measurement data (2) of the component (1) are surveyed by means of a measurement program (24) for a tactile coordinate measuring instrument, wherein the measurement program (24) generates a virtual measuring stylus of a virtual coordinate measuring instrument, which surveys the actual measurement data of the component.
US08212992B2
A changeable assembly for a projection exposure apparatus for semiconductor lithography contains at least one damping element. Projection exposure apparatus for semiconductor lithography and measuring assemblies for a projection exposure apparatus for semiconductor lithography can include at least one sensor for detecting parameters and vibrations of the projection exposure apparatus, wherein the measuring assembly is embodied in such a way that it can be inserted into an exchange opening, provided for an optical element, in the projection exposure apparatus.
US08212977B2
An in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device includes: a lower substrate and an upper substrate which face each other; a gate line and a data line on the lower substrate such that the gate line and the data line cross each other to define a pixel region that is divided into a transmissive region and a reflective region; a thin film transistor arranged at a crossing of the gate line and the data line; a reflective plate in the reflective region; a pixel electrode and a common electrode arranged in an alternating pattern at the pixel region; a retardation layer arranged on the upper substrate to correspond to the reflective region; a liquid crystal layer between the upper substrate and the lower substrate; and a first polarizing plate and a second polarizing plate at outer surfaces of the lower substrate and the upper substrate, respectively.
US08212972B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a display device where a display panel and a transparent cover which are pasted together can be separated from each other without breaking the liquid crystal display panel and the transparent cover. The present invention provides a display device having: a liquid crystal display panel having a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between a first substrate and a second substrate which is provided on the viewer side relative to the first substrate; a polarizing plate provided on the above described liquid crystal display panel on the above described viewer side; a viscous film pasted on the viewer side relative to the above described polarizing plate; and a transparent cover pasted on the viewer side relative to the above described viscous film, wherein the above described viscous film is made up of a multilayer body of gluing agents.
US08212971B2
A polarizer capable of being manufactured in simple steps, and a method of manufacturing the polarizer, as well as a liquid crystal projector are provided. The polarizer includes a substrate having light permeability, and a plurality of linear projections being arranged on the substrate and extending along one direction within a plane thereof. Each of the linear projections having a base layer and a plating layer in the named order from the substrate, the base layer containing a catalyst material for electroless plating process, and the plating layer being deposited by using the base layer as a catalyst.
US08212968B2
A liquid crystal device comprising: a pair of substrates having an electrode arrangement thereon; an orientation control means provided on at least one of said substrates; and a ferroelectric or antiferroelectric liquid crystal layer interposed between said substrates, said liquid crystal layer being uniaxially oriented by virtue of said orientation control means, wherein means for suppressing an orientation control effect of said orientation control means with respect to said liquid crystal layer is provided between said liquid crystal layer and said orientation control means.
US08212959B2
A low profile display enclosure system for enclosing a display device for viewing that protects the display device from environmental effects and is configured to dissipate heat generated within the display enclosure. The substantially sealed display enclosure comprises a rigid bezel, a substantially transparent front cover coupled to the bezel, and a rear cover assembly that includes a heat sink portion. The thickness of the bezel is minimized to provide the enclosure with a low profile about the periphery of the display device enclosed therein. Thermal control devices may be mounted within the enclosure to modulate a temperature within the enclosure.
US08212955B2
An exemplary backlight module includes at least one light source, a light guiding plate having a light incident portion adjacent to the at least one light source, a bezel having a plurality of protrusion; and a reflector disposed between the light guiding plate and the protrusions of the bezel. The protrusions abut edges of the reflector, and provide supporting force to attach the reflector to the bezel. A related liquid crystal display is also provided.
US08212954B2
A liquid crystal display device is provided that includes a plurality of pixels that forms a display unit. Each of the pixels includes at least a pair of substrates that is arranged opposite each other with a liquid crystal layer disposed therebetween; and a common electrode and a pixel electrode that are disposed on one substrate of the pair of substrates with an insulating film disposed therebetween so as to drive liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer. An electrode of the common electrode and the pixel electrode that is disposed closer to the liquid crystal layer has a slit having a predetermined tilt angle with respect to a longitudinal direction of each of the pixels and opposite outer edges that are in parallel to the slit.
US08212950B2
A liquid crystal display panel includes a first and second substrates which are opposite, and further includes scanning lines, data lines, pixel electrodes and switches, intersection of two adjacent scanning lines and data lines forming a pixel region. The pixel electrodes are disposed in pixel regions. Each pixel electrode crosses one data line and includes a first and second sub-pixel electrodes which are electrically connected to each other; the first and second sub-pixel electrodes are arranged on two sides of the data line; there is a gap between the first and second sub-pixel electrodes, and the data line is configured in the gap. A problem that conventional liquid crystal display panel has a complex manufacture process, leaks light at a dark state and has a low penetrability can be solved, thereby improving yield of the products.
US08212949B2
A system for selectively revealing indicia includes a transitioning assembly that is configured to be retrofit with an existing dispenser. The transitioning assembly includes a transitioning window that is coupled to a switch that is configured to be mounted in operative contact with an actuator provided by the dispenser. Upon the engagement of the actuator, the switch is triggered, resulting in the transitioning window transitioning from an at least partially opaque state to an at least partially transparent state, so as to reveal indicia therebehind to an observer.
US08212948B2
A display device (200) configured to provide two-dimensional and three dimensional perception. The device comprises a display panel (230), a backlight arrangement (201) and control circuitry (232). The backlight arrangement comprises a first layer (210) in the form of an optically clear lightguide, a birefringent second layer (202) and a third layer (204). At least one interfacing surface between any two of the layers comprises a microstructure (206) in the form of a plurality of essentially parallel structures extending in a direction of extension (x) of the structures. The device further comprises first (218) and second (219) light sources that are configured to emit light into the lightguide in a first (z) and a second direction (-z), respectively. The first and second directions are essentially opposing directions and the first and second directions are essentially perpendicular to the direction of extension of the microstructure.
US08212947B2
The disclosure includes a liquid crystal device, a projector and an optical compensation method of a liquid crystal device. In one embodiment, a liquid crystal device includes a liquid crystal panel having a pair of substrates, each of which has an alignment film. A vertically-aligned liquid crystal, which has liquid crystal molecules pretilted by the alignment films, is interposed between the pair of substrates and modulates light. A pair of polarizing films interposes the liquid crystal panel therebetween. A first retardation film is disposed between the pair of polarizing films and includes (i) a first substrate and (ii) a first deposited film maintaining a first refractive anisotropy and being obliquely deposited on the first substrate so that a first optical axis of the first refractive anisotropy is tilted in a direction in which a variation in characteristic of the light due to the pretilted liquid crystal molecules is canceled.
US08212946B2
A television device has a display panel having a video display situated therein, the display panel being housed in a substantially rectangular housing. A support electronics housing separate from the display panel, is sized to be no wider than a standard household wall stud spacing and no deeper than a standard household wall cavity depth. The support electronics housing carries electronics that support use of the display panel as a television. One or more electrical cables electrically interconnects the support electronics housing with the display panel. An electronic video interface resides in the support electronics housing and having an electrical connector to provide video signals thereto. A power source resides in the support electronics housing that receives household electrical power and supplies electrical power to the display panel through the one or more electrical cables. A mounting bracket assembly mounts the display panel to a wall such that the rear surface is approximately flush with the wall. The support electronics can be situated remotely from the display panel to permit flush mounting of the display panel to the wall, and may be inserted into a wall cavity between wall studs. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract.
US08212936B2
A request recognition section (373) recognizes an input operation for a source switching request to switch broadcast program contents extracted from broadcast waves to contents recorded in a recording and reproducing apparatus to display the contents on a display unit (350). Values of a plurality of setting factors such as brightness, contrast, and black level related to picture quality, which correspond to the source to be switched, specified corresponding to the previous contents source are read from a memory (360). Predefined values of the setting factors set corresponding to the previous contents source are compared with values newly read, and the values of the respective setting factors are sequentially changed stepwise. It is possible to prevent a flicker on a screen caused by a sudden change in the picture quality during processing of changing the picture quality, thereby favorably adjusting the picture quality.
US08212929B2
An image processing method includes the following steps. Firstly, foreground image data and background image data are received, wherein the foreground and the background image data corresponds to the same pixel in a display panel. Then, a foreground ratio and a background ratio are determined in response to an operational event. Next, a first value is obtained by multiplying the foreground image data by the foreground ratio, and a second value is obtained by multiplying the background image data by the background ratio. Then, an output image data is obtained by adding the first value and the second value. After that, the output image data is displayed at the pixel in the display panel.
US08212924B2
A multimedia processor includes an audio processor configured to process an audio input signal to generate an audio output signal and an assistant signal, and a video processor coupled with the audio processor and configured to process video input signal and the assistant signal to generate a video output signal simultaneously according to the video input signal and the assistant signal. Provided with the assistant signal, the video processor acquires more video processing-related information for rendering video content in a more realistic manner. Mal-motion detection can thus be prevented, and video quality can be improved.
US08212922B2
An information display apparatus includes a display device configured to display a video, a speech detection unit configured to detect a playback state of a playback speech, a closed caption display unit configured to generate character information associated with the playback speech and display it on the display device together with the video, and a closed caption display unit configured to carry out a changing control for changing according to the detected playback state a display state of the character information that is displayed on the display device by the closed caption display unit.
US08212914B2
An imaging sub-system, a liquid crystal (LC) element, and a digital focus processor are provided. The LC element is placed in the light path of the imaging sub-system, functioning as the aperture of the imaging sub-system, and includes a periodically patterned electrode which is patterned according to a periodical modulation function and configured to blur an intermediate image captured by the imaging sub-system by applying a controllable voltage thereto. The digital focus processor is configured to deconvolute the periodical modulation function to remove the blur away from the intermediate image and determine an all-in-focus real image.
US08212913B2
A zoom lens system according to the present invention, from an object side to an image side, comprises a first lens unit having positive optical power, a second lens unit having negative optical power, a third lens unit having positive optical power, and a fourth lens unit having positive optical power. In zooming, the first to the fourth lens units all move along the optical axis. The conditions (1): 0<√(f4·fW·tan ω)/LW<0.13 and (2): 0.05≦f3/f4≦0.97 are satisfied (where, 16
US08212912B2
The number of thermal sensors in an imaging device that requires temperature measurement is reduced. The imaging device includes: a lens array (112) including lenses; an imaging element (122) provided at a predetermined distance from the lens array (112) and having imaging areas respectively corresponding to the lenses; a light-shielding wall (113) which partitions a space between the lens array and the imaging element so as to prevent light entering each of the lenses from reaching the imaging areas different from a corresponding one of the imaging areas; an imaging signal input unit (133) configured to generate an imaging signal by digitalizing an electric signal provided by the imaging element; and a temperature estimation unit (143) configured to calculate, from the imaging signal, a length of an image of the light-shielding wall projected on an imaging plane of the imaging element, and to estimate a temperature using the calculated length of the image of the light-shielding wall.
US08212909B2
The object of the present invention is to provide a digital camera capable of deciding display form of the multi-display optimally suited an external monitor on the basis of detecting pixel information of the external monitor connected to the digital camera. In one aspect of the present invention, a digital camera includes a memory that stores a plurality of image frames, a display that shows an image frame, an output means that outputs image data to an electric instrument, a multi-display forming means that shows simultaneously a plurality of image frames stored in the memory, an image selection means that selects a given image frame among the plurality of image frames of the multi-display shown on the display, and a controller that controls such that when the multi-display is shown on the display, only the given image data selected by the image selection means is output from the output means.
US08212903B2
A sensor array, including: a plurality of pixels; first and second video lines; and a plurality of intermediate circuits. Each intermediate circuit is electrically connected to a respective pixel from the plurality of pixels and electrically connected to both the first and second video lines. A method for modifying resolution of a sensor array, the array including first and second video lines, a plurality of pixels, and a plurality of intermediate circuits; and, including: electrically connecting each intermediate circuit to a respective pixel and to the first and second video lines; for a first mode, transmitting a signal from a pixel in the plurality of pixels to the first video line via a respective intermediate circuit from the plurality of intermediate circuits; and for a second mode, transmitting a signal from the pixel to the second video line via the respective intermediate circuit from the plurality of intermediate circuits.
US08212899B2
There is provided an imaging apparatus which uses a defect correction circuit to perform predetermined signal processing with respect to image signals output from an imaging section in which a plurality of pixels each formed of a photoelectric transducer with a color filter provided thereon are two-dimensionally arranged. The defect correction circuit includes a pattern extraction circuit which extracts image pattern information based on a signal of an adjacent pixel that is adjacent to a judgment target pixel and signals of peripheral pixels that are close to the adjacent pixel and have the same color as the adjacent pixel in the image signals, and a substitution circuit which substitutes a signal of the judgment target pixel by signals of peripheral pixels that are close to the judgment target pixel and have the same color as the judgment target pixel.
US08212897B2
A digital image acquisition system having no photographic film comprises an apparatus for capturing digital images and a flash unit for providing illumination during image capture. The system has a portrait mode for generating an image of a foreground object against a blurred background, the portrait mode being operable to capture first, second and third images (A, B and C) of nominally the same scene. One of the first and second images (A, B) is taken with flash and the other is taken without flash, and the third image (C) is blurred compared to the first and second images. The portrait mode is further operable to determine foreground and background regions of the scene using the first and second images (A, B), and to substitute the blurred background of the third image (C) for the background of an in-focus image of the scene. In one embodiment the in-focus image is one of the first and second images. In another embodiment the in-focus image is a fourth image.
US08212892B2
An image pickup apparatus includes a light source section that can radiate light of the same wavelength onto the same region of a subject twice within a one-frame period making up one image, a brightness detection section that detects brightness of two returning light images when light has been radiated twice, and a synthetic image generation section that generates a synthetic image obtained by synthesizing the two returning light images using the light of the same wavelength and under the same exposure quantity based on the detection result of the brightness.
US08212886B2
An interface converting circuit applied between a 3D de-interlace chip and a rear-end image compression chip. The interface converting circuit includes: a reducing FPS circuit, for dividing a first vertical synchronization signal to generate a second vertical synchronization signal, and converting a first horizontal synchronization signal to a second horizontal synchronization signal by masking the first horizontal synchronization signal according to the second vertical synchronization signal; a pixel clock multiplier, for multiplying a first pixel clock signal to generate a second pixel clock signal; and, a data-width converter, for converting an input signal with M bits data width, which is transmitted at a frequency of the first pixel clock signal by the 3D de-interlace chip, to an output signal with M/2 bits data width, which is transmitted at a frequency of the second pixel clock signal.
US08212878B2
An on-vehicle camera calibration apparatus includes: an on-vehicle camera; a camera parameter calculation unit configured to calculate camera parameters from a characteristic amount of a road surface sign photographed by the on-vehicle camera and recognized by an image processing and to output the camera parameters, wherein the camera parameters include an installation height and installation angle of the on-vehicle camera in photographing; and a camera parameter calibration unit configured to perform optical axis calibration control of the on-vehicle camera by the camera parameters output from the camera parameter calculation unit.
US08212874B2
A system and method for automatically calibrating the aiming direction of a camera onboard a vehicle. The method uses GPS and solar almanac data to estimate the location of the sun relative to the vehicle, and compares this to the solar position in an image from the camera. The comparison is performed with an ongoing recursive calculation which yields an improved estimate of the sun position relative to the vehicle, while simultaneously calibrating the aiming direction of the camera. The aiming calibration data is used to improve the accuracy of the camera's images as used for all of the camera's other functions.
US08212872B2
A system including a camera, display screen and processing device. A privacy mask obscures a portion of the displayed images. The processing device transforms the privacy mask in accordance with changes in the field of view of the camera, wherein, in a first field of view, the privacy mask is defined by a plurality of vertices having coordinates (x1, y1), . . . (xn, yn), and, in a second field of view, the processing device determines transformed coordinates, (x1′, y1′), . . . (xn′, yn′), for each of the vertices based upon changes in the field of view of the camera. The privacy mask is definable by pixel rows and the processing device identifies opposing ends of a plurality of the pixel rows, each of the identified ends defining one vertex of the privacy mask. The privacy mask may also include an unmasked area completely encircled by masked area.
US08212866B2
A method and apparatus are provided for obtaining a sub-resolution spatial information of a sample labeled with at least one type fluorescent label. The sub-resolution spatial information has localization information about the positions of fluorescent molecules of the at least one type fluorescent label in at least one spatial direction. The method acquires localization image data by employing fluorescence localization microscopy. The acquired localization image data is processed to obtain the localization information about the positions of fluorescent molecules of the at least one type fluorescent label in at least one spatial direction. The step of processing includes determining in each of the detected images of the series the positions of the barycenters of the detected fluorescence emission distributions from the single fluorescent molecules of the one or more fluorescent labels in at least one spatial direction.
US08212864B2
A method and device for detecting a potential defect in an image comprises acquiring a digital image at a time; storing image acquisition data, wherein the image acquisition data includes at least one of a position of a source of light relative to a lens, a distance from the source of light to the lens, a focal length of the lens, a distance from a point on a digital image acquisition device to a subject, an amount of ambient light, or flash intensity; determining dynamic anthropometric data, wherein the dynamic anthropometric data includes one or more dynamically changing human body measurements, of one or more humans represented in the image, captured at the time; and determining a course of corrective action based, at least in part, on the image acquisition data and the dynamic anthropometric data.
US08212854B2
A method and system with means for preventing unauthorized monitoring of a local conference room in which a local conferencing system is located comprising generation of a deterministic sound signal, and loading the deterministic sound signal on a first loudspeaker connected to, or integrated in the conferencing system, detecting the deterministic signal by analyzing a microphone signal picked up by a microphone connected to, or integrated in the conferencing system, and transferring the conference system into a security mode, if the deterministic signal is not detected.
US08212853B2
The instant video messaging system includes a display unit, an image capture unit, and a capture adjustment sub-system. The display unit is configured to display consecutive images transmitted from a remote end via a network. The image capture unit is configured to capture the consecutive images in a predetermined area. The capture adjustment sub-system is connected to the display unit and the image capture unit and configured to locate select subject aspects, determine if the select subject aspects comply with a predetermined presentation, adjust the select subject aspects of the captured images, and transmit the consecutive images to the remote end via the network.
US08212846B2
A display controlling method is provided. The display controlling method includes following steps. A plurality of display data of a frame is received. The display data is analyzed to obtain a plurality of grayscale distributions corresponding to the display regions. According to the grayscale distributions, a backlight controlling signal for adjusting a brightness of each of the light emitting groups is generated. According to the backlight controlling signal, a plurality of interferences corresponding to the display data is obtained. According to the interferences, grayscales of the display data are correspondingly adjusted. Therefore, the optical interference of each of the pixels from the light emitting groups not corresponding to the pixels can be eliminated.
US08212833B2
A method for entering secure data at an input device includes displaying a graphical input region having input elements, such as a number keypad, and receiving selections of the input elements via a display selection device, such as a mouse or touch screen. An attribute of the displayed graphical input region is changed so that inputs by the display selection device change for the same data input. Examples include changing the position, size and/or layout of the input elements and/or graphical input region. The graphical input elements may instead be provided with two characters so that typing one character results in input of the corresponding character, and then changing the association of the characters on the displayed input elements.
US08212832B2
An apparatus and method utilizes system memory as backing stores so that local graphics memory may be oversubscribed. Surfaces may be paged in and out of system memory based on the amount of usage of the surfaces. The apparatus and method also prioritizes surfaces among different tiers of local memory (e.g. frame buffer), non-local memory (e.g. page locked system memory), and system memory backing stores (e.g. pageable system memory) locations based on predefined criteria and runtime statistics relating to the surfaces. As such, local memory may be, for example, expanded without extra memory costs such as adding a frame buffer memory to allow graphics applications to effectively use more memory and run faster.
US08212826B1
Disclosed are an apparatus, a computer device, a system, computer readable media and a method for using graphics processing unit (“GPU”)-generated data to characterize, in-situ, the ability of a cable to reliably carry digitized video, among other things. In one embodiment, a computing device includes a processor coupled via a system bus to a graphics engine and a video cable-testing apparatus. This apparatus has an input port configured to couple to the digitized video cable to receive pixel data generated by the graphics engine. It also has a signal integrity evaluator (“SIE”) configured to identify the digitized video cable as the source an amount of data corruption, the amount of data corruption being a function of the pixel data. The signal integrity evaluator includes a classifier to classify the amount of data corruption into classes that each represents various degrees of degradation of the computer-generated video images.
US08212823B2
A data path for a SIMD-based microprocessor is used to perform different simultaneous filter sub-operations in parallel data lanes of the SIMD-based microprocessor. Filter operations for sub-pixel interpolation are performed simultaneously on separate lanes of the SIMD processor's data path. Using a dedicated internal data path, precision higher than the native precision of the SIMD unit may be achieved. Through the data path according to this invention, a single instruction may be used to generate the value of two adjacent sub-pixels located diagonally with respect to integer pixel positions.
US08212820B2
A touch-based computer graphics user interface enhances a stylus pen with virtual suction to create a virtual vacuum or suction tool. The virtual tool may simulate a physical world suction tool and/or provide capabilities not available in the real world. The virtual suction tool allows the user to feel as if he or she has transcended the boundary between the virtual world and the real world by physically holding in his or her hand an object that is able to interact with and virtually attract and contain items removed from or expellable into the virtual world. The resulting highly intuitive user interface provides fun and exciting video game play and has other applications as well.
US08212817B2
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with spatial temporal visual analysis of thermal data are described. One example system includes recording a set of temperature data including multiple dimensions of data from a set of sensors attached to racks of computers in a data center. The example system also includes displaying the multiple dimensions of data in a two dimension graphic. The example system also includes performing spatial temporal visual analysis techniques to correlate temperature states, discover thermal exceptions, and so on, in the graphic.
US08212810B2
A method and a device for calibration (or “electronic” adjustment) of a display unit are provided and include a display and autostereoscopic adapter disc, particularly provided for fixing to the display. A method and a device for generation or playback of 3D images by the display unit including autostereoscopic adapter disc and display are also provided. Misalignment of the adapted disc with the display are compensated for by corresponding adjustment of the image display on the display.
US08212807B2
A geospatial data system may include at least one geospatial database containing three-dimensional (3D) geospatial structure data and geospatial texture data associated with the geospatial 3D structure data. At least one geospatial data access device may also be included and comprise a display and a processor cooperating therewith for communicating remotely with the at least one geospatial database to retrieve and display a scene on the display based upon the 3D structure data and the geospatial texture data associated therewith. The geospatial data access device(s) may further comprise at least one user input device cooperating with the processor for permitting user selection of a point-of-view (POV) within the scene on the display with the POV determining revealed portions and obscured portions of 3D geospatial structures within the scene on the display. The processor may selectively retrieve geospatial texture data based upon the revealed portions and not the obscured portions.
US08212802B2
A display device includes driving apparatus having first, second, third, and fourth gate drivers. The first and second gate drivers are connected to gate lines and are positioned on one side of the display device side by side. The third and fourth gate drivers are connected to gate lines and are positioned on the other side of the display device side by side. The first and third gate drivers apply the gate signal to the same gate line, and the second and fourth gate drivers apply the gate signal to the same gate line.
US08212798B2
A display device includes: a screen unit; a drive unit; and a signal processing unit, wherein the screen unit includes rows of scanning lines, columns of signal lines, matrix-state pixel circuits and a light sensor, the drive unit includes a scanner supplying a control signal to the scanning lines and a driver supplying a video signal to the signal lines, the pixel circuit emits light in accordance with the video signal, the light sensor outputs a luminance signal in accordance with the light emission, and the signal processing unit corrects the video signal in accordance with the luminance signal and supplies the signal to the driver.
US08212788B2
A computing system includes a touch-input receptor and a touch-detection module. The touch-detection module is configured to track a touch input directed to the touch-input receptor. The computing system also includes a control module to change a parameter of the computing system indicated by an initial portion of the touch input tracked by the touch-detection module. The control module is configured to change the parameter by an amount indicated by a subsequent portion of the touch input tracked by the touch-detection module.
US08212777B2
A navigation device with dual airflow sensors. The navigation device includes a first sensor to detect a first airflow in response to movement of the navigation device in approximately a first direction. The navigation device includes a second sensor to detect a second airflow in response to movement of the navigation device in approximately a second direction. The navigation device also includes first and second airflow directors which are aligned with the first and second sensors, respectively. Each airflow director includes multiple openings to direct the first and second airflows across the first and second sensors, and to maintain the first and second airflows substantially independent of one another. The navigation device also includes a microcontroller to generate a two dimensional navigation signal based on input signals from the first and second sensors.
US08212765B2
In a scanning backlight for an LCD display, several backlights (101, 102, 103, 10n) provide a precisely positioned dimming pulse corresponding to a transition point of the LCD screen. The dimming pulse must be variable with video synchronization frequency and dimming duty cycle, which is a performance intensive calculation. One microcontroller performing this operation is limited in scope. By using several ballast controllers (141, 142, 143, 14n), the solution is scalable, in that it is flexible if the number of backlights (101, 102, 103, 10n) changes. Additionally, by using several controllers (141, 142, 143, 14n), added functions can be performed by the ballast controllers (141, 142, 143, 14n).
US08212763B2
In conventional liquid crystal display controllers such as for portable telephone sets, the display is reduced in the stand-by state but the liquid crystal display duty is not changed, i.e., even the common electrodes of the rows that are not producing display are scanned, and the consumption of electric power is not decreased to a sufficient degree in the stand-by state. A liquid crystal display controller (2) includes a drive duty selection register (34) capable of being rewritten by a microprocessor (1), and a drive bias selection register (32). When the display is changed from the whole display on a liquid crystal display panel (3) to a partial display on part of the rows only, the preset values of the drive duty selection register and of the drive bias selection register are changed, so that the display is selectively produced on a portion of the liquid crystal display panel at a low voltage with a low-duty drive.
US08212762B2
An output amplifier includes an amplifier circuit, a driving stage circuit, an output stage circuit, a first unity gain buffer, and a second unity gain buffer. The amplifier circuit provides an inverted signal and a non-inverted signal, in which the amplifier circuit amplifies an input pixel signal to generate the inverted signal and the non-inverted signal. The output stage circuit passes a supply voltage or a ground voltage to the pixel circuit according to the inverted signal and the non-inverted signal. The driving stage circuit passes the supply voltage or the ground voltage to the pixel circuit. The first unity gain buffer enhances and passes the inverted signal from the amplifier circuit to the driving stage circuit. The second unity gain buffer passes and enhances the non-inverted signal from the amplifier circuit to the driving stage circuit.
US08212745B2
In a driving method of a panel, one field period is formed by arranging a plurality of subfields that have an address period for selectively causing address discharge in a discharge cell, and a sustain period for causing as many sustain discharges as the number corresponding to luminance weight in the discharge cell. One field period is formed by arranging a plurality of subfield groups having a plurality of subfields whose luminance weights monotonically increase. In the discharge cell for causing address discharge in a certain subfield other than the head subfield in each subfield group, address discharge is caused even in the head subfield.
US08212742B2
A large size tiled display device includes a plurality of display panels having an image display part including a plurality of pixels. Each pixel includes at least three sub-pixels. A frame has a plurality of panel receiving portions to receive the plurality of display panels. The frame has an outer wall frame and a partition wall frame, each of which has a vertical surface and an inclined surface extending from the vertical surface that tapers the frame. A light guide plate is formed of a cluster of optical fibers. The light guide plate is disposed on the display panels to reproduce an image formed on the image display part of the display panels. Each optical fiber corresponds to one sub-pixel.
US08212740B1
Control of multiple display screens associated with a computer, wherein the auxiliary screen display content that depends on conditions of the computer. During some times the auxiliary screen displays content associated with the presently executing program, and during other times the auxiliary screen displays history information. The rules can be automatically changed or manually changed.
US08212739B2
A tunable impedance surface capable of steering a multiband radio frequency beam in two different, independently band-wise controllable directions. The tunable surface has a ground plane and a plurality of first conductive elements disposed in a first array a first distance therefrom, the first distance being less than a wavelength of a lower frequency band of the multiband radio frequency beam. A first capacitor arrangement controllably varies capacitance between selected ones of the first conductive elements. A plurality of second conductive elements are disposed in a second array a second distance from the plurality of first conductive elements, the second distance being less than a wavelength of a higher frequency band of the multiband radio frequency beam, the plurality of first conductive elements serving as a ground plane for the plurality of second conductive elements. A second capacitor arrangement controllably varies capacitance between selected ones of the second conductive elements.
US08212736B2
An antenna device and a communication device capable of changing over polarization characteristics of an antenna to improve transmission capacity in various kinds of polarization environments and used configuration by preventing reduction of the communication capacity for a reception signal degrading or varying depending on momentarily changing polarization conditions between a base station and a terminal. The antenna device (110) includes a plurality of first antenna elements (111,112) for a first polarizing direction, a second antenna element (121) provided in the direction orthogonal to the first polarizing direction, a plurality of switches (131,132) for switching connection between the plurality of first antenna elements (111,112) and the second antenna element (121), and power supply parts (141,142) respectively provided on the plurality of first antenna elements (111,112).
US08212733B2
A frequency down converter. A plate body of the frequency down converter includes a main surface. A first wave guide includes a first section and a second section connected to the first section. The first section is connected to the main surface and extends parallel thereto. The second section extends perpendicular to the main surface. A second wave guide includes a third section and a fourth section connected to the third section. The third section is connected to the main surface and extends parallel thereto. The fourth section extends perpendicular to the main surface.
US08212730B2
A low profile antenna has a meander length based on the full electrical wavelength of the signal being transmitted or received. The antenna can have either an open-loop structure or a closed-loop structure with a matching network. The low profile enables the antenna to be used in a card for a device such as a personal computer, personal digital assistant, wireless telephone and so on with minimal risk of the antenna breaking off, as compared with a prior art antenna having a higher height and thus more likelihood of being broken from its card.
US08212729B2
A radio antenna assembly for use in a communication device has an antenna element disposed adjacent to a ground plane to form a physical relationship with the ground plane. A mechanical device is used to change the physical relationship for changing the operating impedance of the antenna element or shifting the frequency band of the antenna assembly. The physical relationship can be changed by mechanically changing the shape of the antenna element. When the antenna element comprises a first radiating element and a second radiating element disposed at a lateral distance from the first radiating element, the physical relationship can be changed by changing the distance. When a physical object is disposed between the antenna element and the ground plane, the physical relationship can be changed by moving or twisting the physical object. The object can be electrically conducting, dielectric or magnetic.
US08212725B2
The method is to fabricate a microelectronic device with an integrated antenna. This method may include forming at least a first semiconducting layer on a substrate, forming in at least one zone of the first semiconducting layer of a structure to limit the circulation of current in the zone of the first semiconducting layer, forming a plurality of layers on the semiconducting layer and at least one antenna in the plurality of layers, with the antenna being formed opposite the zone. The antenna may be operable at radio frequencies above 10 GHz, and may have an improved emission efficiency.
US08212720B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a method of detecting movement to aid GNSS receivers. By detecting when the user is stationary, the Doppler frequency estimation can be corrected or the SNR can be boosted more both of which lead to improved performance. The embodiments allow a GNSS receiver to process signals in when the signal level would otherwise be too low—for example indoors. The embodiments can improve performance when one or more satellites are temporarily blocked but one or more satellites are still being tracked.
US08212719B2
A method and apparatus for background decoding of a broadcast satellite-navigation message to maintain integrity of long-term-orbit information used in a Global-Navigation-Satellite System or other positioning system is described. The method may include processing the long-term-orbit information associated with at least one satellite to obtain a first position of a receiver; obtaining at least one portion of broadcast ephemeris transmitted from the at least one satellite; and processing, as a substitute for at least one portion of the long-term-orbit information, the at least one portion of broadcast ephemeris to obtain a second position of the receiver.
US08212715B2
A radar system includes at least two modules, each having a phase detector and a first high-frequency source and each having an antenna output and/or each having one or more antennas. At least two modules include a device for synchronization between the first high-frequency source of a first module of the at least two modules and the first high-frequency source of a second module of the at least two modules of the radar system. The phase detector has a first input for a first reference signal. The phase detector also has a second input for a first loop signal. A module for a radar system has the design of one of the modules of the radar system described above.
US08212708B2
The remote controller includes: a casing with a battery holder provided to house a battery; a lid to cover the battery holder of the casing and provided with a latch-hook extending downward at its end; a switch-contact to carry out electrical switching conducted by the operation panel; a controller to send remote signals from transmitter in response to the electrical switching of the switch-contact; a plurality of protrusions provided symmetrically on the front and rear surfaces of the latch-hook on the lid; and latch-pawls provided on the casing internally to engage with the protrusions. The remote controller can hold the lid reliably and additionally can open/shut the lid easily.
US08212694B2
A data output circuit is presented. The data output circuit includes: a data serializer and a driver. The data serializer is configured to generate serial data using first parallel data. The driver is configured to drive the serial data to generate output data. The data serializer is also configured to generate the serial data by multiplexing second parallel data generated by changing a power domain of the first parallel data.
US08212688B2
A method of controlling traffic signals at a road intersection, which has a plurality of signal groups, each of which controls at least one direction of traffic within the intersection. The method comprises the steps of obtaining and utilizing traffic data to calculate a current traffic state and the rate of change in the traffic state. The method further comprises formulating at least one action and the duration of the action in response to these calculations. Each action comprises switching at least one traffic signal. One or more policies based on the calculations and the action are resolved. A continuous decision making process is applied to evaluate a reward for the policies resolved and a policy that maximizes the reward is selected.
US08212687B2
Disclosed are apparatus and methodologies for providing improved functionality of a meter in a 2-way communications arrangement, such as an Advanced Metering System (AMS) or Infrastructure (AMI). More particularly, the present technology relates to methodologies and apparatus for providing load side voltage sensing for utility meters which preferably are operable with remote disconnect features in an Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) open operational framework. The present subject matter provides enhanced capabilities resulting in improved functionality, increased safety, and greater economy vis-à-vis fraud detection for individual metrology components in an open operational framework. Meters per the present subject matter utilize a detection circuit, which is situated generally downstream of a remote disconnect functionality. Such detection circuit is able to sense whether voltage exists or doesn't exist at such relatively downstream, or load side location. Providing such functionality allows for: (a) verification that a remote disconnect switch did open subsequent to an instruction or command to do so, (b) identification of possible user fraud, as would possibly be reflected by the presence of voltage at a time when the remote disconnect switch is open, (c) verification that the remote disconnect switch did re-close after having been given an instruction or command to close, and (d) verification of lack of voltage present before re-closing such remote disconnect switch, which serves an important safety feature.
US08212681B2
An automated theater warning technique makes use of a digital cinema projection system to provide a display of a visual message indicative of an emergency condition. Upon receipt of a trigger generated in response to an emergency condition, the digital cinema projection system automatically switches from displaying the feature presentation to displaying the visual message. The digital cinema projection system can advantageously display different messages responsive to different conditions.
US08212666B2
A motor vehicle has a hybrid drive that includes a first drive unit and a second low-emission drive unit. The motor vehicle can be driven in travel mode in different modes of operation of the hybrid drive at least either by the first drive unit or by the second low-emission drive unit. To determine a current emission of pollutants and/or substances that are harmful to the climate and/or the noise emissions of such a motor vehicle, a display device is placed at a location of the motor vehicle so as to be clearly visible from outside the motor vehicle during the travel mode for displaying a current mode of operation of the hybrid drive.
US08212661B2
An electronic communication system provides text or voice messages to remote receiving devices, such as cell phones or PDA's. The remote receiving devices are equipped with velocity sensors, or position sensors from which velocity may be inferred. The remote receiving devices periodically report a velocity or current position to an alert signal control node of the communication system. The alert signal control node determines a most recent-determinable velocity for each receiving device before transmitting a message alert signal. If the velocity exceeds a predetermined threshold, the alert signal may be delayed until the velocity drops below the threshold. The system may be operated as a safety measure to prevent reception of distracting alert signals while driving, thereby silencing messaging devices at appropriate times.
US08212655B2
A RFID transceiver interrogates RFID tags located on process components and provides identification data stored on the RFID tags to a process measurement device coupled to the process components. Based on the identification data received, the process measurement device configures itself to interpret data provided by the process components. Proper configuration allows the process measurement device to provide meaningful process data to a control room.
US08212637B2
An electromagnet switch has a metal contact for a switch terminal that projects from a case and is wired to one end of a coil. A male connector member surrounds an outer periphery of the metal contact. The male connector member is connected to a female connector member that is provided at a tip end of a cable used for supplying electric power to the coil. Such a penetrating hole is formed in a case that reaches the metal contact.A tester terminal can contact the metal contact through the penetrating hole for conducting conductive testing of the electromagnet switch, in a commercial field.
US08212635B2
The RF signal generated by a ZigBee radio on the outside of a building structure is conveyed to the interior of the building by guiding it along an electric cable bundle that passes through the building's wall to supply domestic electric power to the interior of the structure. The RF signal is launched by a unique coupler comprising a pair of insulated foil conductors.
US08212631B2
In general, in accordance with an exemplary aspect of the present invention, an electrical system configured to use power combining of microwave signals, such as those from monolithic microwave integrated circuits or MMICs is provided. In one exemplary embodiment, the system of the present invention further comprises a low loss interface that the circuits are directly connected to. In another exemplary embodiment, the circuits are connected to a pin which is connected to the low loss interface. In yet another exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a multi-layer power amplifier is provided that comprises two or more chassis and circuits attached to impedance matching interfaces according to the present invention. This multi-layered power amplifier is configured to amplify an energy signal and have a significantly reduced volume compared to existing power combiners.
US08212625B2
Provided are a differential voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) and a quadrature VCO using center-tapped cross-coupling of a transformer. The differential VCO and the quadrature VCO can be driven by low power through a current reuse structure and have an excellent phase noise characteristic by center-tapped cross-coupling through a transformer. Further, variable capacitance units for frequency variation are divided into variable capacitance units for coarse tuning and variable capacitance units for fine tuning. Therefore, it is possible to obtain a wide tuning range while voltage oscillation gain is reduced. Further, the differential VCO and the quadrature VCO are configured in such a manner that the respective variable capacitance units operate linearly throughout the entire capacitance region due to control voltage distribution by resistors. Accordingly, it is possible to obtain a linear control voltage-oscillation frequency characteristic. The quadrature VCO according to the present invention can output four-phase quadrature signals while having an excellent phase noise characteristic, without substrate loss and current consumption caused by the switching transistors.
US08212624B2
An oscillator circuit increases and reduces signal levels of first and second oscillation signals in a complementary manner in response to a transition of a signal level of a reference clock. An oscillation control circuit compares each of the signal levels of the first and second oscillation signals to a comparison voltage, and causes the signal level of the reference clock to transition according to results of the comparison. A reference control circuit increases or reduces the comparison voltage so that a difference between a signal level of an intermediate signal which is proportional to respective swings of the first and second oscillation signals and a reference voltage is reduced.
US08212617B2
A system for a Class AB Amplifier output stage that includes a first push pull system connected to an output terminal including a first driving transistor coupled to the output terminal and a second push pull system connected to the output terminal including a second driving transistor coupled to the output terminal. The amplifier also includes a current mode amplifier where the current mode amplifier's output is coupled to the first driving transistor's gate. The amplifier further includes a pair of resistors, a first resistor coupled to a first input terminal of the current mode amplifier, a second resistor coupled to a second input terminal of the current mode amplifier and coupled to the second driving transistor.
US08212609B2
An internal voltage generation circuit includes a first enable signal generator configured to delay an active signal to generate a first enable signal, a comparison signal generator configured to compare the internal voltage with an internal reference voltage to generate a comparison signal, a pulse signal generator configured to receive the first enable signal and to generate a pulse signal, a transmission device configured to buffer and transfer the comparison signal as a pull-down signal, and a drive device configured to drive the driving signal to the first level in response to the pull-down signal.
US08212607B2
An internal voltage generator and a method of generating an internal voltage are disclosed. The internal voltage generator includes: a charge pumping block configured to perform charge pumping base on a period pulse signal to generate an internal voltage, and output the generated internal voltage to an interval voltage terminal; a voltage detection block configured to detect the voltage level of the internal voltage terminal; a driving voltage supply block configured to supply a first power supply voltage or a second power supply voltage having a higher voltage level than the first power supply voltage as a driving voltage, depending on the detection result of the voltage detection block; and a period pulse generation block configured to drive the period pulse signal to the is driving voltage supplied from the driving voltage supply block. The period pulse signal driven by the second power supply voltage has a longer pulsing period than the period pulse signal driven by the first power supply voltage.
US08212606B2
An apparatus is provided that includes a drift trimming stage that includes a first current source providing a current with a first temperature dependency and a second current source providing a current with a second temperature dependency. The first and the second current source are coupled at a first node and configured to have equal currents at a first temperature. There is further a third current source providing a current with a third temperature dependency and a fourth current source providing a current with a fourth temperature dependency. The third current source and the fourth current source are coupled at a second node and configured to have equal currents at the first temperature. There is a first resistor coupled between the first node and a third node, a second resistor coupled between the second node and the third node. The first node and the second node are coupled to provide a combined voltage drop across the first resistor and the second resistor for reducing the offset drift.
US08212596B2
There is provided a PLL circuit including a first loop filter and a second loop filter, which includes a current signal generation circuit that includes a first output driver that generates a first current signal to be output to the first loop filter and a second output driver that generates a second current signal to be output to the second loop filter, and a control circuit that selects which of the first output driver and the second output driver is to be activated.
US08212594B2
Clock-domain-crossing systems and methods include an integrator that accumulates input samples over multiple clock cycles in a first clock domain to generate an accumulation result. Clock-domain-crossing circuitry samples the accumulation result in the first clock domain after each of a repeating accumulation count to generate a first domain accumulation. The first domain accumulation is sampled in a second clock domain after a time delay to generate a second domain accumulation. The time delay ensures proper setup and hold time parameters for the second clock domain relative to the first clock domain. A differentiator generates output information in the second clock domain by delaying the second domain accumulation and subtracting the delayed second domain accumulation from the second domain accumulation. The systems and methods preserve temporal characteristics of the input information in the first clock domain when it is transferred to the second clock domain as the output information.
US08212586B2
An integrated circuit capable of dual configuration of data flow and operable in a plurality of operational modes is provided. The circuit includes eight corner pins, wherein the eight corner pins comprise a first corner pin and a second corner pin on each side of the circuit in each of four side sets, wherein a first corner pin of one side of the circuit is proximate and adjacent to a second corner pin of an adjacent side counterclockwise from the first corner pin and together constitute a paired corner set, each paired corner set comprising a differential input and a differential output.
US08212584B2
A novel implementation of a majority gate and a 2-1 MUX by using both gates of FinFET transistors as inputs is presented. A general methodology of using both gates of FinFET as inputs to implement any digital logic circuit is also presented. Circuits implemented using this methodology have significant advantages over CMOS logic counterpart and pass transistor logic counterpart in terms of power consumption and cell area.
US08212575B2
A matrix analyzer for determining the size and location of a conductive item placed thereon. The matrix analyzer includes plural row conductors and column conductors with a corresponding grid of conductive areas exposed on the surface of the matrix analyzer. When a conductive item, such as an ink droplet, is jetted onto the matrix analyzer, the intersection of various row conductors and column conductors exhibit a low resistance. The rows and columns of the matrix analyzer can be sequentially accessed to find those intersections where the low resistance exists. From such data, the size and location of the ink droplets can be determined.
US08212558B2
A magnetic resonance apparatus has a magnet unit at least partially surrounding an examination region, a local coil, and a local coil positioning device. The local coil positioning device includes a transmission device arranged at the local coil to transmit signals and at least one signal reception device arranged at a fixed position relative to the examination region to detect the signals sent by the signal transmission device. A corresponding local coil positioning device comprising a signal transmission device to transmit signals and at least one signal reception device to detect signals sent by the signal transmission device. A local coil for an examination in a magnetic resonance apparatus has a signal transmission device, advantageously an ultrasound signal transmission device. The position of the local coil can be automatically determined by the signal transmission device and the at least one signal reception device without an intervention by a person overseeing the magnetic resonance apparatus being necessary. A positioning of the local coil can thus be conducted particularly quickly and without the risk of an incorrect positioning. The examination duration is reduced, the comfort of the patient is increased and a better utilization of the magnetic resonance apparatus is enabled.
US08212549B2
An ammeter is provided with a plurality of individual wound coils interconnected in a generally U-shaped array to measure the magnitude of current in a conductor extending through a sensing region inside the U-shape. Additional pairs of position-sensing coils determine the position of the conductor relative to the sensing region and provide outputs to circuitry which permits the magnitude measurement to be displayed only if the conductor extends through the sensing region.
US08212548B2
A power monitoring system configurable to monitor electrical energy sensed by multiple sensors of one or more sensor arrays which may be organized in one of several array arrangements.
US08212538B2
A switching regulator includes a switching transistor, an inductor, a feedback voltage generator, a hysteresis comparator circuit, and a feedback loop circuit. The switching transistor alternately switches on and off. The inductor charges when the switching transistor is on. The feedback voltage generator generates a first feedback voltage by dividing an output voltage. The hysteresis comparator circuit has a voltage comparator to compare the first feedback voltage against a reference voltage to output a comparator output signal as a result of the comparison. The feedback loop circuit feeds the comparator output signal back to the feedback voltage generator to generate a second feedback voltage. The first feedback voltage has an alternating current component substantially dependent on the second feedback voltage varying with the comparator output signal.
US08212524B2
Disclosed herein are a method of controlling the operation of battery modules in a battery system, which includes two or more battery modules or battery module assemblies, wherein the battery system further includes energy consuming loads for consuming charged energy, and the method includes, when a specific battery module or a specific battery module assembly is abnormally operated, connecting the abnormally operated battery module or the abnormally operated battery module assembly to the corresponding energy consuming load to forcibly discharge the charged energy, and a battery system that is capable of performing the battery system control method.
US08212520B2
A resonance type non-contact charging device includes a high frequency power source, a primary side resonant coil, a secondary side resonant coil, a charger, a secondary battery, and a stop control unit. The primary side resonant coil receives supply of high frequency electric power from the high frequency power source. The secondary side resonant coil is arranged apart from the primary side resonant coil in a non-contact manner. The secondary side resonant coil receives electric power from the primary side resonant coil through magnetic field resonance between the primary side resonant coil and the secondary side resonant coil. The charger receives supply of high frequency electric power from the secondary side resonant coil. The secondary battery is connected to the charger. The stop control unit stops the high frequency power source before stopping the charger when charging is to be stopped.
US08212519B2
Methods and systems are provided for determining a state of charge of a battery. The battery is subjected to a predetermined magnetic field such that the battery and the predetermined magnetic field jointly create a resultant magnetic field. The resultant magnetic field is sensed. The state of charge of the battery is determined based on the resultant magnetic field.
US08212515B2
A microcomputer which obtains a rotor position signal from a biphase signal delivered by a resolver mounted on an electric motor according to a rotation phase of a rotor relative to a stator, thereby controlling the motor based on the rotor position signal. The microcomputer includes a digital signal converter which is configured by hardware and converts the biphase signal delivered from the resolver into a digital data position signal, the digital signal converter being mounted on a single chip.
US08212514B2
In one embodiment, a motor drive is provided that includes a control board and an option board coupled to the control board via a serial interface, wherein the option board includes a configurable data transfer rate. A method of operating a motor drive that includes configuring a transfer rate of an option board coupled to a control board via a serial interface. A tangible machine-readable medium implementing the method is also provided.
US08212510B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for a controlling an electric motor that is at least partially disposed within a motor housing. The rotational speed and position of the electric motor are sensed, and a temperature of the electric motor is sensed. The sensor signals are converted to optical signals and are propagated in a fiber optic cable. The electric motor is controlled based, at least in part, on the propagated optical signals.
US08212506B2
In an AC motor driving circuit, a current-type rectifier circuit having a filter circuit and first bidirectional switches bridge-connected to the filter circuit is provided in an output of an AC power supply. An AC motor is connected to an output of the rectifier circuit through a voltage-type inverter. One terminal of each of second bidirectional switches is connected to corresponding one of output terminals of the current-type rectifier circuit. The other terminals of the second bidirectional switches are collectively connected to one terminal of a series circuit having a DC power supply and a reactor. The other terminal of the series circuit is connected to one output terminal of the current-type rectifier circuit. With this configuration, a large capacitor for a DC link can be dispensed with, so that a reduction in circuit size and weight can be attained.
US08212503B2
The invention provides a driving circuit for a voice coil motor. In one embodiment, the driving circuit includes a logic circuit, a digital-to-analog converter, and an output circuit. The logic circuit generates a series of samples of a digital output signal according to a digital input signal, wherein the samples of the digital output signal sequentially alter from a first input value of the digital input value to a second input value of the digital input signal according to an alteration pattern determined by a mode selection signal. The digital-to-analog converter converts the digital output signal to an analog output signal. The output circuit generates a driving current signal according to the analog output signal for driving the voice coil motor.
US08212502B2
A first motor generator-control unit (MG1-ECU) and a second motor generator-control unit (MG2-ECU) are provided independently for respective motor generators. The MG2-ECU performs electric power balance control by correcting an MG2 torque command value as required, so that the sum of the MG1 electric power and the MG2 electric power is within a range of allowable input/output electric power of a DC power supply. The electric power balance control is performed using an estimate of the MG1 electric power based on data obtained by the MG1-ECU. The estimate is determined so that a communication delay time between the MG1-ECU and the MG2-ECU is corrected. In this way, the electric power balance control can be performed appropriately for restricting, within a predetermined range, the total input/output electric power of the electric motors as a whole of a hybrid vehicle mounted with a plurality of motor generators (electric motors).
US08212496B2
An apparatus and method for detecting an end of life (EOL) condition of a lamp that exhibits a re-ignition behavior. A voltage is applied to the lamp to cause the lamp to start emitting light, and a lamp re-ignition voltage to normal lamp voltage difference after a mask-off period expires is monitored. The lamp is determined to have reached the EOL condition when a predetermined percentage of high difference half cycles occur during a set number of lamp voltage half cycles that are measured during a measurement window. The method continuously monitors the lamp re-ignition voltage to normal lamp voltage difference and records whenever the lamp re-ignition voltage to normal lamp voltage difference is higher than the re-ignition difference threshold level at any lamp voltage half cycle. An EOL lamp is detected when a predetermined number of high difference half cycles occurs in a set total number of lamp voltage half cycles measured in a rolling measurement window.
US08212495B2
A circuit arrangement for operation of lamps, including a half-bridge arrangement which has an upper and a lower electronic switch (Q1, Q2), which are connected in series, each having a control connection and forming a neutral point (N1) at their connection point. The circuit arrangement further includes: a load circuit, in which a load circuit current (IL1) flows, is connected to the neutral point (N1); a feedback device; a stop device; a timer coupled to the input of the stop device; and a trigger device. A sequence controller is configured to preset an on-time (ton) during the preheating time of the electrodes of the lamps, by means of the timer, and after the preheating time of the electrodes of the lamps, this on-time is continuously increased until it corresponds at least to one quarter of the period duration of the resonant frequency of the reactance network.
US08212492B2
This invention provides an electronic ballast for a fluorescent lamp, including a rectifier for converting an alternating current input voltage into a direct current output voltage, and a circuit including a combined power factor correction (PFC) stage and an inverter, wherein the PFC stage and the inverter share a switch. Also provided is a controller for an electronic ballast, including a duty ratio controller that controls a duty ratio of a switch of the ballast, and means for adjusting the duty ratio according to a nonlinear function, so that an arc is sustained across the lamp. The controller and the ballast allow dimming of the fluorescent lamp while maintaining a high power factor.
US08212479B2
A high-pressure discharge lamp having a discharge vessel with a central part that bulges out and which defines a lamp axis with a sealing part being attached to each end of the discharge vessel. The shaft of in each case one electrode, comprising a head and a shaft, is sealed in the sealing part, and a capillary tube closely surrounding the shaft of the electrode is between the central part of the discharge vessel and the sealing part. A tubular neck is integrally formed as a component of the discharge vessel between the central part and the capillary tube, and is separated from the shaft.
US08212478B2
A dielectric barrier discharge (DBD-) lamp (1) comprising a discharge volume (2) which is delimited by a first and a second wall (4, 5) is disclosed, wherein both walls (4, 5) are exposed to different electrical potentials by means of a power supply (11) for exciting a gas discharge within the discharge volume (2). By providing at least one electrically conductive ignition aid or igniter which extends within the discharge volume (2) and which electrically contacts the first and the second wall (4, 5) with each other, a significant reduction of the initial ignition voltage of the lamp (1) can be obtained, especially after long pauses of operation of the lamp (1).
US08212476B2
Disclosed are a welding aid for a spiral-wound filament of a lamp and a lamp comprising such a welding aid. The spiral-wound filament has a spiral-wound filament body and at least one spiral-wound filament tail. The welding aid is arranged at a distance d from the spiral-wound filament body and is designed to connect the at least one spiral-wound filament tail to a current-conducting support, the distance d being defined in accordance with a power P at which the lamp is operated.
US08212466B2
A solid state lighting apparatus includes a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs). Each of the LEDs includes an LED device configured to emit light having about a first dominant wavelength and a phosphor configured to receive at least some of the light emitted by the LED device and responsively emit light having about a second dominant wavelength. A combined light emitted by the LED device and the phosphor of a first one of the plurality of LEDs has a first color point and a combined light emitted by the LED device and the phosphor of a second one of the plurality of LEDs has a second color point that falls outside a seven step Macadam ellipse around the first color point.
US08212459B2
A motor is disclosed. The motor can include: a rotor equipped with a shaft; a base, in which a housing hole is formed and which includes a housing support portion protruding along a periphery of the housing hole; a housing, which may be inserted in the housing hole to be supported by the housing support portion and in which a through-hole is formed so that the shaft may be inserted in one side of the through-hole; and a rotor support, which may be inserted into the other side of the through-hole and in which a support indentation is formed to rotatably support the shaft. This motor can be manufactured by a simple process at a low manufacturing cost.
US08212457B2
Provided is a piezoelectric ceramic composition which can increase Qmax of a resonator and inhibit the resonator from changing its oscillation frequency F0 under a low temperature environment. The piezoelectric ceramic composition has a structure represented by the following general formula (1): (PbαLnβMeγ)(Ti1−(x+y+z)ZrxMnyNbz)O3 (1) where Ln is a lanthanoid element, Me is an alkaline-earth metal element, α>0, β>0, γ≧0, 0.965≦α+β+γ≦1.000, 0.158≦x≦0.210, y≧0, z≧0, and 1−(x+y+z)>0.
US08212452B2
In a light-transmitting vibration unit and the module thereof, which the vibration unit comprises a first and a second substrates stacked sequentially with each other, and made of a conductive polymer material, such that both first and second substrates have light transmittance and uniform resistance, and after a vibration driven component is electrically coupled to the first and second substrates, an electric field will be acted for converting electric energy into mechanical energy to produce vibrations. If the vibration unit is coupled directly to a touch-sensitive display unit, an image displayed by the touch-sensitive display unit will be able to pass through the vibration unit, and the vibrations produced by the vibration unit will be more directly transmitted to a touch object.
US08212440B2
A rotation structure rotates a rotatable segment via the attraction between a number of electromagnetic elements disposed on another rotatable segment around a screw and a magnet disposed on another rotatable segment. The rotated angle of the rotatable segment can be controlled by selectably magnetizing the electromagnetic elements in response to an instruction generated by pressing a button formed on another rotatable segment.
US08212437B2
An electrical motor/generator is provided with at least one of a superconducting rotor, a stator including dovetailed winding dividers, and a stator cooling arrangement with at least one cooling tube per winding slot positioned such that each armature winding is thermally coupled to at least one cooling tube.
US08212435B2
Methods and apparatus for increasing the efficiency of a voice coil motor (VCM) are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a cylindrical and radially symmetric VCM includes a plurality of sets of magnets, and a single coil. The plurality of sets of the magnets are each arranged in an array configuration, and cooperate to form a magnetic field. The coil receives current and has a plurality of windings. A first space is defined within the coil, and the plurality of sets of the magnets are arranged such that a first set of the magnets is positioned within the first space and a second set of the magnets is positioned external to the coil.
US08212433B2
An electret having a high surface charge density, is provided and along with an electrostatic induction conversion device including such an electret. In some embodiments, the electret includes a laminate having a layer (A) containing a polymer compound (a) having a relative dielectric constant of from 1.8 to 3.0 and a layer (B) containing a polymer compound (b) or inorganic substance (c) having a relative dielectric constant higher than the polymer compound (a). The difference between the relative dielectric constant of the polymer compound (b) or inorganic substance (c) and the relative dielectric constant of the polymer compound (a) is at least 0.3. The layer (A) is disposed on the outermost surface on a side opposite to the side where electric charge is injected at the time of injecting electric charge into the laminate to form the electret; and the layer (B) has a thickness of at least 1 μm.
US08212429B2
A communication system in which an operating voltage can be selected from a plurality of interface voltages enables an interface voltage to be switched in a stable manner during operation of the system. When the interface voltage is to be switched, a host device (1) and a slave device (2) perform the switching while maintaining the signal level of buses in a stable manner. This structure enables the communication system to switch an interface voltage using a small number of signal lines.
US08212428B2
Provided is a portable power supply apparatus for generating microwave plasma, capable of minimizing a power reflected from a plasma generation apparatus and improving power consumption of the plasma generation apparatus by generating the plasma by using a microwave having a specific frequency, monitoring the power reflected from the plasma generation apparatus after the generation of the plasma, detecting a changed impedance matching condition, and correcting the frequency.
US08212421B2
A temperature activated switching circuit 100, comprising a temperature activated switch U1 for switching an output 102 at a threshold temperature, the temperature activated switch U1 having at least one power input VCC for receiving power; and power switching circuitry for connecting a power source to said power input VCC of the temperature activated switch U1, the power source being initially disconnected from the power input VCC, and the power switching circuitry being configured to connect said power source to the power input VCC based on a detected temperature, in order to power up the temperature activated switch U1 before said detected temperature reaches said threshold temperature.
US08212415B2
Disclosed is a noncontact electric power transmission system having a power transmitter circuit section 10 and a power receiver circuit section 30 which are adapted to be coupled to transmit electric power from a transmitter coil Lp provided in the power transmitter circuit section 10 to a receiver coil Ls provided in the power receiver circuit section 30, in a noncontact manner by means of electromagnetic induction. The noncontact electric power transmission system comprises: a separately-excited or self-excited switching circuit 2 provided in the power transmitter circuit section 10; a control IC 3 operable to drive the switching circuit 2; an LC series resonant circuit including a capacitor Cp connected in series to the transmitter coil Lp or an LC parallel resonant circuit including a capacitor Cp connected in parallel to the transmitter coil Lp; and an LC parallel resonant circuit including a capacitor Cs connected in parallel to the receiver coil Ls, wherein an oscillating frequency (Fosc) of the control IC 3, a resonant frequency (Fpr) of the LC series resonant circuit or the LC parallel resonant circuit in the power transmitter circuit section 10, and a resonant frequency (Fsr) of the LC parallel resonant circuit in the power receiver circuit section 30, have the following relationship: Fpr
US08212404B2
A system and method of isolating an uninterruptible power supply system is disclosed that comprises bypassing an inverter section of the power supply to couple primary power to a load bus; and, thereafter, isolating the power supply by simultaneously uncoupling the power supply from the load bus and coupling the primary power to the load bus.
US08212402B2
Aspects of the invention are directed to systems and method for limiting losses in an uninterruptible power supply. In one aspect, the present invention provides an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) comprising an input to receive input power having an input voltage, an output to provide output power having an output voltage, a neutral line, an automatic voltage regulation (AVR) transformer coupled to the input and the output of the UPS and having an input, an output, a core and at least one switch controllably coupled to at least one of the core, the input and the output, and a means for isolating the core of the AVR transformer from the neutral line when the input voltage is substantially equal to a defined output voltage.
US08212401B2
A redundant power distribution system and a method of providing redundant isolation are described. The system includes a normal operation circuit branch and an external bypass circuit branch, enhanced with a generator bypass connection, both connected to a critical load, the generator bypass circuit branch including a diverse, redundant power source. The normal operation circuit branch delivers power to the critical load during normal operations and the external bypass circuit branch delivers power to the critical load from the redundant power source via the enhanced generator bypass connection during bypass operations. The system also allows the critical load to be electrically isolated from all of or a portion of the normal operation circuit branch.
US08212400B2
A multi-rail power-supply system provides power to circuitry requiring at least one additional rail between a high and a low-voltage rail. The system comprises a first power regulator that interconnects the high-voltage rail and an intermediate node and sets a first voltage rail that has a magnitude that is less than the high-voltage rail, wherein current that flows from the high-voltage rail is employed by a first set of peripheral circuitry prior to sinking through the first power regulator to the intermediate node. The system further comprises a second power regulator that interconnects the intermediate node and the low-voltage rail and sets a second voltage rail that has a magnitude that is greater than the low-voltage rail, wherein current that flows from the intermediate node is sourced by the second regulator and is employed by a second set of peripheral circuitry prior to flowing to the low-voltage rail.
US08212397B2
Decentralized power generation installations are connected to a low-voltage electrical system LV. These installations can make available control energy. The control of the active power output by the power generation installations into the low-voltage electrical system takes place by means of active variation of the system voltage by means of a transformer T with a variable transformation ratio.
US08212396B2
An apparatus power restart method in response to the network connection status is provided. The method uses an outlet or an Uninterruptible Power Supply (“UPS”) with multiple sockets, wherein a network port and a power reset switch are included. The outlet or UPS is powered via an external power source. A network connection is established through one or more network devices. The electric power control apparatus incorporating the claimed power restart method includes a network connection detection circuit and an electric power control circuit. By monitoring the network connection, the network devices connected to the electric power control apparatus can be restarted in sequence or simultaneously when the network connection fails. Thereby the network connection can be maintained. Additionally, the electric power control apparatus has a server module whereby the users can access the apparatus via the network connection. This allows the user to configure the apparatus.
US08212391B2
A circuit array controls operation of two loads that operate with a rectified AC voltage. The circuit array includes a semiconductor switch on a circuit path with the two loads and a control unit to generate a switch control signal that controls the semiconductor switch. The control unit includes a phase detection device to detect whether a phase of the AC voltage is positive or negative, and to output a detection signal that is based on whether the phase is positive or negative, and a logic unit to generate the switch control signal based on load control signals and the detection signal.
US08212390B1
An adaptive power supply span powers devices used in telecommunications. It includes a power circuit and control circuit that receives power and sense signals therefrom and provides a control signal thereto and distinguishes between a first network interface load having a constant voltage input power requirement and a second network interface unit load having a constant current input power requirement. A voltage control circuit and current control circuit are interconnected together and connected to the power circuit. A control signal from the voltage control circuit and current control circuit extends to the power circuit. The control circuit maintains a fixed output voltage for constant voltage regulation for the first network interface unit load, if the output current remains below a threshold current. The circuit limits the output current to a regulated value for constant current regulation below the initial maximum value for powering a second network interface unit if the initial output current is greater than the threshold current for a time greater than a threshold time.
US08212384B2
An electric energy supplying device includes a set-up circuit coupled to an electric energy source, a limited current circuit and a voltage regulator coupled to the set-up circuit, a battery coupled to the set-up circuit with a charge electrocircuit for being charged by the electric energy the charge electrocircuit, another set-up circuit is coupled to the battery for receiving the electric energy from the battery and includes an output device for coupling and supplying the DC electric energy to a failed or weak or not charged battery of a vehicle, and an inverter circuit is coupled to the battery and includes an output device for coupling and supplying the AC electric energy to charge various electric facilities.
US08212383B2
The power supply apparatus for sliding door 100 includes the vehicle body side fixing member 110 provided in the guide rail receiving portion 143, the bracket side fixing member 120 provided in the bracket 151, the wiring body 130 for supplying power from the vehicle body 140 side to the sliding door 150 side and the running member for bracket 160 for running and holding the wiring body 130 on the back surface of the bracket 151. The wiring body 130 is held with the vehicle body side fixing member 110 and the bracket side fixing member 120, and is arranged to run on the back surface of the bracket 151 with the running member for bracket 160.
US08212378B2
In accordance with at least some embodiments, a maritime well system includes a sea-surface control unit. The maritime well system also includes a sea-bed control unit coupled to the sea-surface control unit by a sub-sea cable configured to carry a direct current (DC) voltage output from the sea-surface control unit at least 30 kilometers to the sea-bed control unit. The maritime well system also includes a sub-sea tree coupled to the sea-bed control unit via a connecting line configured to carry a converted voltage output from the sea-bed control unit to the sub-sea tree. In accordance with at least some embodiments, the cross-sectional area of the sub-sea cable is designed to carry a predetermined amount of power to the sea-bed control unit as DC power and is at least 10 times smaller than a cross-sectional area needed for carrying the predetermined amount of power to the sea-bed control unit as alternating current (AC) power.
US08212375B2
The invention is directed to an optical network terminal (ONT) for use in a passive optical network (PON) that provides reliable battery status reporting and, optionally, remote monitoring and configuration of an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) unit. In particular, the UPS unit provides power to the ONT via a power line and transmits data to the ONT via the power line. Generally, the described invention supports one-way or two-way communication of status, alarm, and configuration signals using a single power line. Specifically, such signals may be transmitted over the power line by inserting a carrier frequency, such as a carrier frequency of approximately 1 MHz, onto the power line. In this manner, the invention may provide a simple battery status monitoring system while also reducing the cost of installation.
US08212374B2
A constant-speed wind power generator including a plurality of wind scoops, at least two wind-catching cylinders, a fan, a vertical shaft, a steering gear, a first booster, a spring wheel, a second booster, an accelerator, a generator, and an iron tower. The first booster and second booster respectively comprise gears meshed with each other with diameters from small to large. The accelerator comprises a plurality of gear drive mechanisms with different diameters and the diameter of a driving gear of each gear drive mechanism is greater than that of a driven gear. The vertical shaft is disposed on the iron tower, and a plurality of the wind scoops are fixed on the vertical shaft. The fan is fixed on the vertical shaft corresponding to the wind-catching cylinders. The generator is capable of producing a stable power generation.
US08212372B2
The present invention provides a wind turbine generator in which an oil seal structure provided in a blade rotating ring bearing of a wind turbine blade is improved and leakage of lubricant oil to outside is prevented or suppressed. A wind turbine generator in which a rotor head has wind turbine blades, the rotor head rotates when the wind turbine blades receive wind power and drives a power generator disposed in a nacelle to generate electricity, the nacelle is disposed on an upper end of a tower that stands on a foundation such that the nacelle can yaw-slew, a blade rotating ring bearing is disposed between the wind turbine blade and the rotor, the wind turbine generator includes a pitch control mechanism that can adjust a pitch angle of the wind turbine blades, wherein seal mechanisms are mounted on both ends of opposed rolling body holding surfaces of an outer race and an inner race of the blade rotating ring bearing with rolling bodies interposed between both the ends, sides of the seal mechanisms closer to the blade are formed into a double sealed structure in which a space is disposed between seal members and the seal member are disposed in an axial direction of the blade, pressurized fluid is supplied to the space, and lips of the seal members are pushed against a mating sidewall surface.
US08212370B2
The die bonding resin paste of the invention comprises a polyurethaneimide resin represented by the following general formula (I), a thermosetting resin, a filler and a printing solvent. [wherein R1 represents a divalent organic group containing an aromatic ring or aliphatic ring, R2 represents a divalent organic group with a molecular weight of 100-10,000, R3 represents a tetravalent organic group containing 4 or more carbon atoms, and n and m each independently represent an integer of 1-100.]
US08212362B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip having a first main surface having an electrode pad in an exposed state, and an interlayer insulation layer formed on the first main surface so that the electrode pad is partially exposed; a re-wiring layer including a wiring pattern having a linear portion having one end portion electrically connected to the electrode pad and extending from the electrode pad, and a post electrode mounting portion with a recessed polygonal shape and connected to the other end portion of the linear portion; a post electrode formed on the post electrode mounting portion and having a bottom surface with a contour crossing an upper contour of the post electrode mounting portion at more than two points; a sealing portion disposed so that a top of the post electrode is exposed; and an outer terminal formed on the top of the post electrode.
US08212351B1
According to an embodiment disclosed herein, a microelectronic device to be encapsulated is built on, or alternatively in, a substrate. The device is then coated with a sacrificial layer. A lid layer is deposited over the sacrificial layer, and then appropriately perforated to optimize the removal of the sacrificial layer. The sacrificial layer is then removed using one of several etching or other processes. The perforations in the lid layer are then sealed using a viscous sealing material, thereby fixing the environment that encapsulates the device. The sealing material is then cured or hardened. An optional moisture barrier may be deposited over the cured sealing layer to provide further protection for the encapsulation if needed.
US08212340B2
A chip package including a shielding layer conformally covering the underlying molding compound for is provided. The shielding layer can smoothly cover the molding compound and over the rounded or blunted, top edges of the molding compound, which provides better electromagnetic interferences shielding and better shielding performance.
