US08286261B2
A microscope, in particular a scanning probe microscope, comprising a programmable logic device.
US08286255B2
In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for providing data protection through the detection of tags associated with data or a file. In embodiments the present invention may provide for a step A, where data may be scanned that is intended to be communicated from the client computing facility. In response to step A, at step B, restricted data may be identified by identifying an absence of a tag associated with the data. And finally, in response to step B, at step C, an interruption to the intended communication may be caused.
US08286254B2
A system for automatically handling requests to grant or deny access to resources in a network or computer system. In a preferred embodiment of the invention a “learning mode” can be designated so that whenever a permission query is detected the system automatically supplies an answer to the query without requiring the user to make a response or take other action. The automated answer can be set so that the permission is always granted or other criteria can be used for the automated answer such as by categorizing the type of access permission and using a default response according to the category.
US08286253B1
When a resource-limited device (such as a mobile telephone) joins a network associated with an enterprise, the agent in the device generates digital signatures for all the files in the device and sends them to an enterprise controller. The controller compares them to the global signature database; it filters out the sensitive digital signatures and feeds them back to the agent in the device. The agent receives the feedback of digital signatures and consolidates them into its own local signature database. The agent analyzes each file that is attempting to be output from the device according to the local signature database and DLP policy. If the signature of the file is present in the local database then the action to output file is blocked. If a new file is created on the device, the agent generates and sends its digital signature to the controller for inspection. If the signature is sensitive, this new digital signature will be placed into the local signature database. If the DLP controller updates the global signature database, the device will send its signatures once again for comparison.
US08286250B1
A computer-implemented method, a system and a computer program product for determining whether a browser extension leaks information over a network, is provided. A control flow graph (CFG) is generated from a source code included in the browser extension. The CFG is particular to the programming language included in the source code. A sensitive path in the CFG is determined. The sensitive path begins at a sensitive source node and ends at a sensitive end node. A set of tainted variables in the CFG are identified, where each tainted variable stores sensitive or personal information. A subset of tainted variables is generated where each tainted variable in the subset is included in the sensitive path. When a tainted variable in the subset is included in the sensitive end node, the browser extension is determined to leak information over the network.
US08286238B2
Methods and apparatuses enable in-memory patching of a program loaded in volatile memory. A service processor identifies a program to be patched and an associated patch for the program. The patch is loaded into memory, including applying relocation fix-ups to the patch. The service processor directs the program to the patch in place of the segment of the program to be patched. The program implements the patch while maintaining program state, and without suspending execution of the program.
US08286231B2
A method for communicating information packets from a first host system operating in a first security domain and in accordance with a non-secure communications protocol, using a dataguard, to a second host system operating in a second security domain different than the first security domain, and where the second host system is also operating in accordance with the non-secure communications protocol. The method may involve: using a first driver operating with the dataguard to interface the dataguard with the first host system; using a first proxy task group operating with the dataguard to interface the dataguard to the first driver and to communicate with the first driver in accordance with a protocol of the first security domain; using a second driver operating with the dataguard to interface the dataguard to the second host system; and using a second proxy task group operating with the dataguard to interface the dataguard to the second proxy task group and to communicate with the second driver in accordance with a protocol of the second security domain.
US08286228B2
A system and method for securely streaming encrypted digital media content out of a digital container to a user's media player. This streaming occurs after the digital container has been delivered to the user's machine and after the user has been authorized to access the encrypted content. The user's operating system and media player treat the data stream as if it were a being delivered over the Internet (or other network) from a streaming web server. However, no Internet connection is required after the container has been delivered to the user and the data stream suffers no quality loss due to network traffic or web server access problems. In this process of the invention, the encrypted content files are decrypted and fed to the user's media player in real time and are never written to the user's hard drive or storage device. This process makes unauthorized copying of the digital content contained in the digital container virtually impossible.
US08286224B2
When an authentication identifier is contained in a first message required for receiving authentication with respect to IEEE 802.1x from a terminal device, the authentication is assumed to be successful and then a data link is established with the terminal device, and a filtering unit is set so as to pass a first packet which should be passed for receiving authentication with respect to a higher layer protocol from among packets sent from the terminal device through the data link and to block a second packet different from the first packet. If a second message required for receiving authentication with respect to the higher layer protocol from the terminal device is received through the filtering unit, the authentication with respect to the higher layer protocol is performed. When the authentication is successful, the filtering unit is set so as to pass the second packet.
US08286212B2
On-demand asset distribution is described. In embodiment(s), a client device can maintain an on-demand asset received from a content distributor, such as with a recording media. The client device can allocate upstream bandwidth for distribution of segments of video data for the on-demand asset to other requesting client devices. When the client device that maintains the on-demand asset receives a request from another client device for the on-demand asset, the segments of the video data for the on-demand asset can be communicated to the requesting client device utilizing the allocated upstream bandwidth.
US08286210B2
A switching module, system and method facilitate communications between one or more non-CEC enabled devices and a television of an audio/visual (A/V) system. The switching module is able to accommodate both Consumer Electronic Control (CEC) enabled and non-CEC enabled devices for communication with the television. In response to user control of a user interface of the switching module, when a non-CEC enabled device is coupled to the switching module, a high definition multimedia interface (HDMI) input port of the HDMI switching module is selected and a default HDMI device type and corresponding HDMI logic address is set for the non-CEC enabled device. This information is displayed for the user by the television.
US08286207B1
System for processing programs and system timing information derived from multiple broadcast sources
A system for initiating scheduled program processing functions such as program display, recording or playback, derives a time clock based on a current time reference indication produced by a particular broadcast source. The derived time clock is used in initiating scheduled processing functions for programs derived from the particular broadcast source and time clocks derived from sources other than the particular broadcast source are disregarded. The system displays a second time clock different to the derived time clock. In addition, the system forms a composite program guide from data from multiple broadcast sources to associate current time reference indications with their corresponding broadcast sources.
US08286202B2
Systems and methods of memorializing a viewer's viewing experience are disclosed. An exemplary embodiment presents a movie to the viewer, detects an occurrence of one of a plurality of event capture triggers, captures at least one image of the viewer in response to detecting the event capture trigger, and stores the image of the viewer.
US08286192B2
A system for handling performance counters and events includes an operating system that receives a request of a first application for performance data associated with a type of event to be performed by a second application, causes a hardware counter pertaining to the event type to be activated, and provides a file descriptor corresponding to the hardware counter to the first application. The operating system then receives a second request of the first application for a value of the hardware counter, where the second request includes the file descriptor, and provides the value of the hardware counter to the first application.
US08286190B2
In a system for providing user input information to multiple independent, concurrent applications, the applications send subscription messages to a device receiving user input such as a telephone receiving key presses from a keypad. Each subscription message identifies a pattern of user input that the application is to be notified of. The device monitors the user input to identify the occurrence of the identified patterns. When a specified pattern of user input is detected, the device notifies the corresponding application via a signaling channel linking the application with the device. The subscription messages use regular expressions including various formats to specify the patterns of interest, such as a single digit (explicitly or wildcard), one of a set of digits, a range of digits, and a repeating pattern of digits. The subscription messages can also contain tags associated with the regular expressions, which are returned to the application upon reporting the occurrence of a pattern to enable the application to readily identify the context of the notification.
US08286177B2
Systems and methods of adjusting allocated hardware resources to support a running software application are disclosed. A system includes adjustment logic to adjust an allocation of a first hardware resource to support a running software application. Measurement logic measures at least one hardware resource metric associated with the first hardware resource. Service level logic calculates an application service level based on the measured at least one hardware resource metric. When the first application service level satisfies a threshold application service level, the allocation of the first hardware resource is iteratively reduced to reach a reduced allocation level where the application service level does not satisfy the threshold application service level. In response thereto, the allocation of the first hardware resource is increased by an increment, such that the application service level again satisfies the threshold application service level.
US08286176B1
Systems and methods for monitoring the performance associated with fulfilling resource requests and determining optimizations for improving such performance are provided. A processing device obtains and processes performance metric information associated with processing a request corresponding to a set of resources. The processing device uses the processed performance metric information to determine a resource configuration to be associated with the set of resources. In some embodiments, in making such a determination, the processing device assesses performance metric information collected and associated with subsequent requests corresponding to the content associated with the set of resources and using each of a variety of alternative resource configurations. The processing device may also consider a number of factors, including performance selection criteria obtained from an original content provider. Aspects of systems and methods for generating recommendations to use a particular resource configuration to process a subsequent request corresponding to the content associated with the set of resources are also provided.
US08286175B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed for determining the best cluster of computing resources to handle each of a plurality of workloads by optimally grouping multiple workloads and determining the best resource cluster to handle each group.
US08286167B2
An image processing apparatus where a job is implemented by one or more constituent functions is disclosed. The image processing apparatus includes a control unit configured to display states of the job and the constituent functions, to allow a user to select one of the constituent functions and add a subsequent function after the selected one of the constituent functions, and to receive a request to execute the job.
US08286152B2
Systems, methods, and computer products for just-in-time compilation for virtual machine environments for fast applications start-up and maximal run-time performance. Exemplary embodiments include a just in time compilation method for a virtual machine environment coupled to a memory, including identifying a program structure for compilation, creating a low optimization compiled version of the program structure that is relocatable in the memory, storing into a persistent cache the low optimization compiled version of the program structure that is relocatable and relocating the low optimization compiled version of the program structure into a virtual machine address space in the memory, wherein relocating the low optimization compiled version of the program structure includes transforming the low optimization compiled version to a compiled version with fixed addresses in the memory that can be executed.
US08286143B2
Method and system for detection and notification of performance changes in program code. In one aspect, stored previous routine test results and current routine test results are accessed, indicating a previous and current time of execution of the program code, the current routine test performed later than the previous routine test. The previous and current times of execution are automatically compared and a change in performance of the program code is determined. Users are notified of the change in performance, where each user is notified after the change in performance is determined to be significant enough to the particular user according to associated predetermined criteria.
US08286141B2
An instruction trace of a first instruction string is generated from a second instruction string obtained by sampling, at predetermined intervals, the first instruction string. The second instruction string is divided into partial instruction strings. A combination of the partial instruction strings is selected based on the similarity of stored partial instruction strings. A plurality of combination patterns are generated by combining instructions included in the selected partial instruction strings. A likelihood is calculated for each of the combination patterns, and the combination patterns are stored in the storage unit based on the likelihood.
US08286137B2
A system and method for program verification by model checking in concurrent programs includes modeling each of a plurality of program threads as a circuit model, and generating a full circuit for an entire program by combining the circuit models including constraints which enforce synchronous execution of the program threads. The program is verified using the synchronous execution to reduce an amount of memory needed to verify the program and a number of steps taken to uncover an error.
US08286135B2
Systems and methods provide a display indicating performance characteristics of a computer application. The display may include a call graph having nodes that represent subunits of the application. A first set of statistics for the subunit may be represented in the size or dimensions of the node. A second set of statistics may be displayed in the interior of the node. A third set of statistics may be displayed in response to selecting the node.
US08286131B2
An Environment Management System (EMS) provides on-demand instances of environments for testing hardware and/or software configurations. In various embodiments, the EMS includes a processing engine that handles parsing and execution of commands in a definition file that express the lifecycle of a testing environment. Accordingly, the EMS provides flexibility to end users in the way that environments are configured and deployed. An environment definition file is provided that may contain a standard set of scripts for implementing the lifecycle of the environment, along with any custom logic specific to a user or customer.
US08286130B2
A method for using type analysis to generate an implementation of a type includes the step of identifying a request to generate a first implementation of a type. A type model associated with the type is received. A second implementation of the type model is identified as suitable for a high-performance implementation. The second implementation is generated on a target processor. The second implementation is represented as the first implementation.
US08286122B2
A graph structure is generated to describe an area with a free area and an occupied area. In this case a topological graph structure for the free area is determined. A point of the topological graph structure is selected and for this a nearest adjacent occupied area point is determined. For this nearest adjacent occupied area point location information is determined. The graph structure is formed from at least the selected point of the topological graph structure and from the associated location information of the nearest adjacent occupied area point.
US08286119B2
A method for integrated circuit design includes providing a layout of an integrated circuit; determining key parameters of the integrated circuit; determining target values of the key parameters; and performing a first shrinkage of the layout using a first shrink percentage to generate a shrunk layout. The shrunk layout is evaluated by generating values of the key parameters from the shrunk layout. A portion of the values of the key parameters failing to meet respective ones of the target values is found. Guidelines for tuning manufacturing processes of the shrunk layout are provided, so that the portion of the values of the key parameters can meet the respective ones of the target values.
US08286113B1
A system and method are provided for verifying implementation of a logic core in a complete bitstream. A logic core bitstream is extracted from the complete bitstream. The logic core bitstream is compared to a reference bitstream of the logic core for a target device. In response to no discrepancy in the comparison of the logic core bitstream and the reference bitstream, a data value is stored indicating that the logic core implementation contained in the complete bitstream is verified.
US08286112B2
A method for determining an estimate of statistical properties of an electronic system comprising individual components subject to manufacturing process variability is disclosed. In one aspect, the method comprises obtaining statistical properties of the performance of individual components of the electronic system, obtaining information about execution of an application on the system, simulating execution of the application based on the obtained information about execution of the application on the system for a simulated electronic system realization constructed by selecting individual components with the obtained statistical properties determining the delay and energy of the electronic system, and determining the statistical properties of the delay and energy of the electronic system.
US08286111B2
A thermally aware design automation suite integrates system-level thermal awareness into design of semiconductor chips, performing fine-grain static and/or transient thermal simulations of the chips based on thermal models and boundary conditions. The thermal simulations are performed in accordance with one or more grids, with boundaries and/or resolutions being determined by adaptive and/or hierarchical multi-dimensional techniques. The adaptive grid techniques include material-boundary, rate-of-change, and convergence-information heuristics. For example, a finer grid is used in a region having higher temperature gradients compared to a region having lower temperature gradients. The hierarchical grid techniques are based on critical, intermediate, and boundary regions specified manually or automatically, each region having a respective grid resolution. For example, a critical region is analyzed according to a grid that is finer than a grid of an intermediate region, and resolution of a grid of a boundary region is adapted to boundary conditions.
US08286110B1
A system and method is provided for generating a programmably implemented model which emulates a power delivery network serving an integrated circuit (IC) core in an electronic system. The system and method generally comprise measures for establishing a power integrity (PI) topology including models for a voltage regulator module that generates at least one predetermined supply voltage level, and for a conductive power rail portion of the power delivery network (PDN). The system and method further comprise measures for interconnecting to the conductive power rail portion model a first behavioral model indicative of the current consumption characteristics of the IC core, and a second behavioral model indicative of the current consumption of an IO interface buffer driving an output signal of the electronic system.
US08286101B2
A user interface for manipulating objects of various types in a consistent manner. Each on-screen object is surrounded by a control region including a number of zones for performing various control operations on the object. Multiple input modes are available for interacting with the zones, allowing object manipulation commands to be initiated in several different ways, such as via stroke input, pressing a mouse button, double-clicking, menu selection, voice input, and the like. The user interface is operable using any of several different types of input devices.
US08286088B2
A system according to invention principles advantageously automatically displays a parameter value within the closest Flowsheet parameter acquisition time interval column. A user interface system provides patient medical parameter data for trend indicative display covering a time period comprising user selectable acquisition time intervals. The system includes an acquisition processor for acquiring, from a patient monitoring device, data representing a patient parameter comprising a plurality of data values at a corresponding plurality of different times within multiple user selectable patient parameter acquisition intervals of a time period. The data processor determines for a particular user selectable acquisition time interval a patient parameter data value closest in time to a center time point of the particular user selected acquisition time interval and excludes other patient parameter data values acquired within the particular user selectable acquisition time interval. A generator generates data representing an image showing a trend indicative display of the patient parameter including the determined patient parameter data value associated with the particular user selectable acquisition time interval and omits the excluded data values.
US08286082B2
A method for providing, by a remote machine, access to a desk band associated with a resource on a local machine includes receiving, by a first agent on the remote machine, an identification of a desk band associated with a resource on a local machine. The first agent, in communication with a shell on the remote machine, maintains a taskbar window in a remote desktop environment. The taskbar window includes at least one window associated with a resource provided by the remote machine and a window region representing the desk band by using graphical data stored on the remote machine. The first agent transmits, to a second agent on the local machine, window attribute data and output data associated with the taskbar window in the remote desktop environment. The second agent displays at least a portion of the received output data in a local window on a local desktop environment.
US08286080B2
In one embodiment, a method comprises generating and displaying to a user a user selection interface, the user selection interface representing a plurality of content selection vectors extending from its origin and mapped to respectively distinct media attributes within a prescribed attribute type; detecting a user input that extends from the origin toward at least one of the content selection vectors and that identifies a selected position within the user selection interface; displaying to the user an updated user selection interface representing a corresponding updated origin at the selected position and representing a plurality of updated content selection vectors having a determined relation to the at least one content selection vector; and selecting and displaying at least one identifier for a corresponding video content element having the corresponding media attribute having a highest correlation with the at least one content selection vector relative to the selected position from the origin.
US08286077B2
Remote batch editing of formatted text may be provided. A request to edit a source document comprising text using a first markup language may be received. The source document may be converted to a second markup language and provided to the requestor. Changes to the converted document may be received and edit commands may be generated for those changes. The edit commands may then be applied to the source document.
US08286067B2
A method for delivering control information together with sampled data between a DSP and an RF/analog front-end in a high speed communication modem, which embeds sampled data and control information in frames to be transferred over one interface. A frame may comprise various fields, each may consist of one or more bytes or octets. The frame may have a data field for carrying the sampled data, and at least one control field for transferring the control information to update RF/analog front-end registers. The control field may include an octet containing a control address, an octet containing a control command, and an octet containing control data. The frame may also provide means of synchronization, e.g., by using a sync field to identify the frame boundary.
US08286066B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatuses related to NVM devices with bi-directional error correction protection. In some embodiments, multiple multi-level parity cells are used to represent parity values stored in codewords of an NVM device. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US08286063B2
The present invention provides a decoding method and device for Reed-Solomon (RS) codes. The method includes the following steps: A: filling data to be decoded in a byte interleaver by column in turn; B: performing cyclic shift to data in a check region of the byte interleaver by row and/or by column, so as to make the data of each row in the check region become check data in sequence of data of corresponding row in an information region of the byte interleaver; C: performing RS decoding by row method, and writing information data of each row obtained after decoding into the corresponding row in the information region of the byte interleaver in turn; and D: reading business data of the decoded information data from the information region of the byte interleaver by column. The method and device of the present invention achieve the best interleaving effect.
US08286062B2
A method of encoding data using low density parity check (LDPC) code defined by a m×n parity check matrix is disclosed. More specifically, the method includes encoding input source data using the parity check matrix, wherein the parity check matrix comprises a plurality of z×z sub-matrices of which row weights and column weights are ‘0’ or ‘1’.
US08286058B2
The present invention relates to a receiver device and method of detecting a block length of a data block in a data network, wherein a respective theoretical maximum value for a metric of a decoding operation is calculated for each of a plurality of candidate block lengths, and the calculated respective theoretical maximum value is compared to a respective actual value of the metric obtained for each of the plurality of candidate block lengths by the decoding operation. The candidate block length with the highest ratio between the respective actual value and the respective theoretical maximum value is then selected from the plurality of candidate block lengths to determine the block length of the data block.
US08286057B2
A receiver employs iterative decoding of packet data, where the packet data represents a data frame encoded with at least two logical dimensions. A logical dimension refers to a layer, or sub-layer, of a layered network architecture. Consequently, a first logical dimension of encoding might refer to error detection in a packet frame at the data link layer, while a second logical dimension of coding might refer to error detection/correction encoding at a physical layer. For example, a data frame might be divided into several packets, each with a corresponding cyclic redundancy check (CRC) value as coding in the first logical dimension, which are then transmitted with a convolutional code as coding in the second logical dimension. The receiver performs iterative decoding in the first and second logical dimensions until either i) all errors are identified and corrected or ii) another type of stopping condition is met.
US08286051B2
A digital communication device is provided for decoding a data stream to generate a receiver output. In the digital communication device, a burst error detector determines burst noise locations corresponding to the data stream according to an error-check equation and accordingly generates a burst error indicator. Thereafter, an inner decoder decodes the data stream to generate an inner decoded stream, comprising an erasure marker for performing an erasure marking process on the inner decoded stream based on the burst error indicator to generate an erasure indicator corresponding to the inner decoded stream. An outer decoder then decodes the inner decoded stream with reference to the erasure indicator to generate the receiver output.
US08286046B2
Systems and methods of testing integrated circuits are disclosed. The systems include a test module configured to operate between automated testing equipment and an integrated circuit to be tested. The testing interface is configured to test the integrated circuit at a higher slew rate than the slew rate at which signals are received from the automated testing equipment. In order to do so, the testing interface includes components configured for generating addresses, commands, and test data to be conveyed to the integrated circuit. A variety of test data patterns can be produced and the test data can be address dependent. The systems are optionally configured to include a test plan memory component configured to store one or more test plans. A test plan may include a sequence of test patterns and/or conditional branches whereby the tests to be performed next are dependent on the results of the preceding tests. The test plan memory is, optionally, be detachable from the test module.
US08286031B2
The disk controller has a plurality of channel control units, a plurality of cache memories, a plurality of disk control units, and a plurality of internal switch units. Each channel control unit or disk control unit sends to one of the cache memory units a request packet requesting execution of processing. The cache memory unit sends a response packet in response to the received request packet. Each internal switch unit monitors the request packet sent from the channel control unit or disk control unit, and judges whether or not the response packet to the request packet has passed through the internal switch unit within a first given time period since the passage of the request packet. In the case where the response packet has not passed through the internal switch unit within the first given time period, the internal switch unit sends a failure notification.
US08286022B2
A differential serial communication receiver circuit automatically compensates for intrapair skew between received differential signals on a serial differential communication link, with deterministic skew adjustment set during a receiver training period. Intrapair skew refers to the skew within a pair of differential signals, and is hence interchangeable with the term differential skew in the context of this document. During the receiver training period, a training data pattern is received, such as alternating ones and zeros (e.g., a D10.2 pattern as is known in the art), rather than an actual data payload. The differential serial communication receiver circuit includes a differential skew compensation circuit to compensate for intrapair skew. The differential skew compensation circuit receives a pair of complementary differential input signals including a noninverting input signal and an inverting input signal, and in response generates a skew compensated first differential output signal and a skew compensated second differential output signal. The differential skew compensation circuit compares the relative delay of the skew compensated first differential output signal and the skew compensated second differential output signal, and in response delays at least one of the noninverting input signal or the inverting input signal to reduce intrapair skew.
US08286016B2
A device having multiple cores executes an algorithm to control Thin-Film Thermoelectric Coolers (TFTEC) that employ the Peltier effect to remove heat from the various cores of the multi-core processor. The algorithms may combine Thread Migration (TM) and Dynamic Voltage/Frequency Scaling (DVFS) to provide Dynamic Thermal Management (DTM) and TFTEC control.
US08286012B2
The present invention provides a method and system for controlling leakage power consumption at a System on Chip (SoC) level during a normal run or a boot-up mode. The leakage power reduction is achieved by incorporating a central programmable controller in the SoC architecture and test structures of idle SoC peripherals to place them into an Absolute Minimum Power consumption state with respect to static and dynamic power.
US08285992B2
A method and system for providing secure, anonymous access to a wireless local area network, including configuring an access point to drop packets except packets exhibiting an URL access protocol like HTTP and HTTPS, intercepting a URL access request by an access point from a mobile device via a web browser, re-directing the URL access request to a web server by the access point generating a security key by one of the access points and the web server, communicating the generated security key to the said web server securely by the access point or vice versa and setting the security key by the access point is described. A mobile device including means for forwarding a request for secure access to a wireless local area network via a URL access request, means for receiving a mobile code or a signal for displaying a security key and means for setting the security key is also described.
US08285989B2
The present invention relates to a method for establishing a secured communication session in a communication system between a user using an untrusted device and a server. According to the present invention the user first obtains an authentication algorithm and an encryption algorithm and then creates a session key. Next the user obtains a public key of the server and sends a personal identity number to the server for authentication by using the authentication algorithm, the personal identity number being encrypted by using the encryption algorithm and the public key of the server. The user also sends the session key to the server for encrypting purpose between the user and the server, the session key being encrypted by using the encryption algorithm and the public key of the server.
US08285988B2
Aspects of a method and system for command authentication to achieve a secure interface are provided. Command authentication between a host and a slave device in a multimedia system may be achieved by on-the-fly pairing or by an automatic one-time-programming via a security processor. In an on-the-fly pairing scheme, the host may generate a host key based on a host root key and host control words while the slave may generate slave key based the host key, a slave root key and slave control words. The slave key may be stored and later retrieved by the slave device to obtain the host key for authenticating host commands. The host may be disabled from generating and/or passing the host key to the slave. In an automatic one-time-programming scheme, the security processor may burn a random number onto a one-time-programmable memory in the host and slave devices for command authentication.
US08285986B2
An apparatus and method for providing data packet security in a wireless sensor network including a plurality of sensor nodes. The apparatus includes a memory unit for storing a plurality of node characteristic information and a plurality of settable security status information, each of the node characteristic information corresponding to at least one of the settable security status information; and a control unit for examining the node characteristic information of the control unit, if a data packet generation request is made, detecting the security status information corresponding to the examined node characteristic information from the memory unit, and generating data packets including the detected security status information.
US08285976B2
A branch predicting apparatus is disclosed that reduces branch mispredictions in a processor. The branch prediction apparatus includes a base misprediction history register. The branch prediction apparatus includes a meta predictor that receives an index value and a branch prediction to generate a misprediction value in accordance with the base misprediction history register. The branch prediction apparatus also includes a logic gate that receives the branch prediction and the misprediction value to generate a final prediction. The final prediction may be used to predict whether a branch is taken or not taken.
US08285967B1
This invention is a system and a method for operating a storage server in a data network using a new architecture. The method of creating the partial block map allows the snapshot writes on a direct mapped file. The method of reading data or writing data to the file created in direct mapping state and later converted to partial mapping state responsive to a copy on first write request by a client allocates new indirect block when needed to store the reference to newly allocated data block. The method of reading data from or writing data to the file in partial mapping state involves checking the mapping bit to find if the indirect block is in direct mapping state.
US08285960B2
Provided is a memory system that has a plurality of memory banks and a plurality of link controllers. For each memory bank, there is first switching logic for receiving output for each link controller, and for passing on the output of only one of the link controllers to the memory bank. For each link controller, there is second switching logic for receiving an output of each memory bank, and for passing on the output of only one of the memory banks to the link controller. According to an embodiment of the invention, there is switch controller logic for controlling operation of both the first switching logic and the second switching logic to prevent simultaneous or overlapping access by multiple link controllers to the same memory bank, and for preventing simultaneous or overlapping access to multiple banks by the same link controller.
US08285950B2
A computer implemented method for managing an execution mode for a parallel processor is provided. A monitor identifies a first efficiency rate for a first contested resource of the parallel processor operating in a first operating mode. Responsive to identifying the first efficiency rate for the first contested resource, the monitor identifies whether the first efficiency rate for the contested resource of the parallel processor operating in the first operating mode exceeds a threshold. Responsive to identifying that the efficiency rate for the contested resource exceeds the threshold, an operation of the parallel processor is changed to a second operating mode.
US08285948B2
A storage system in a remote copy configuration includes a redirect mechanism. The redirect mechanism determines whether to redirect read operations to a remote storage system, which is part of the remote copy configuration, based on a power management policy and a redirect policy. The redirect mechanism takes into account response time data, input/output demand, power utilization data, and input/output classes and priorities to determine whether to redirect read access requests to the remote storage system. Redirection of read operations to the remote storage system results in reduced power consumption at the local system.
US08285944B1
A write controller controls writing of packet data to a memory, and a read controller controls reading of packet data from the memory. The write controller signals the read controller if a packet is to be discarded. In response to a discard signal from the write controller, the read controller checks whether it is in the midst of processing the packet to be discarded. If the read controller has yet to process the packet to be discarded, then no corrective action is required. However, if the read controller is in the midst of processing the packet to be discarded, then the read controller adjusts its memory read pointer to point to the position in the memory at which it began reading the packet to be discarded.
US08285928B2
This storage control apparatus 100 is able sufficiently to manifest the merits of economization of electrical power. The storage control apparatus 100 includes one or more additional storage units 150 which are adapted for the supply of power to them to be turned ON and OFF individually. Each of these additional storage units 150 includes a plurality of storage devices 154 (for example, a plurality of HDDs). When a user actuates a management device 106, and causes one or more RAID groups and a spare HDD for each of these RAID groups to be set within the storage control apparatus 100, an MPU 140 of the storage control apparatus 100 controls the management device 106 to make the user set each RAID group and the spare HDD for it within the same additional storage unit 150.
US08285919B2
In some embodiments, a memory controller includes a plurality of processors of a first type and a processor of a second type coupled to the processors of the first type. Each of the plurality of processors of the first type is configured to determine a bad block rate of a memory channel of a solid state memory device to which it is configured to be coupled. The processor of the second type is configured to receive the bad block data rates from each of the plurality of processors of the first type and to report one of a total capacity or a bad block rate of the solid state memory device to a host device. The total capacity and the bad block rate of the solid state memory device are based on the bad block rates received from each of the plurality of processors of the first type.
US08285910B2
A method and system for taking over devices are provided. In a solution, a first control board first performs topology discovery on a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIE) bus, and reserves resources for a Switch (SW) where a NON-Transparent (NT) bridge is located and devices connected to down ports of the SW according to a set resource reservation policy when the topology discovery proceeds to the NT bridge, where the SW and the devices are currently controlled by a second control board. After the SW and the devices are taken over from the second control board, the resource reserved in advance may be allocated to the SW and the devices, so that the devices that are taken over operate normally under control of the first control board. Dual control is implemented through direct taking over devices, and a response speed for processing a device request is improved.
US08285904B2
A method includes delivering a user-level interrupt message indicative of a user-level interrupt to one or more recipients according to a user-level interrupt delivery configuration selected from a plurality of user-level interrupt delivery configurations. The one or more recipients correspond to one or more application threads executing on one or more processor cores of a plurality of processor cores in a multi-core system. A method includes generating an indicator of a user-level interrupt being undeliverable to one or more intended recipients of a user-level interrupt message according to a failed delivery notification mode configuration. The user-level interrupt may be issued by an application thread executing on a first processor core of a plurality of processor cores in a multi-core system.
US08285895B2
A system arrangement including a memory unit having a memory interface in accordance with a handshake-free protocol between the memory and an accessing master, a bus connected to the memory unit and first and second masters. The first master operative to access the memory unit through the bus and the memory interface and operative to perform interrupts following reception of an interrupt request through an interrupt interface. The second master operative to access the memory unit through the bus and memory interface. The second master being configured to transfer an interrupt request to the first processor before accessing the memory unit.
US08285890B2
A host device, a point of deployment (POD), and a method for recognizing an operation mode are disclosed. The host device interfaces with a point of deployment (POD), and includes an interface unit and a controller. The interface unit includes CD1#, CD2#, VS1#, VS2#, VPP1, VPP2, and IPDET ports. The controller outputs a mode confirmation signal to the POD via the IPDET port, and identifies that the POD supports an Internet Protocol (IP) Card M-Mode when the mode confirmation signal has been applied to the VS1# and VS2# ports.
US08285887B2
A link detection system for a network cable is applicable for detecting a connection state of the network cable. If the network cable is connected to the link detection system, the network state detection unit sends a voltage level of a first signal, so as to turn on the power supply of the LAN controller. If the network cable is unplugged, the LAN controller sends a second signal, so as to turn off the power supply of the LAN controller. Alternatively, if the network cable is linked to the network interface in an idle contact state, the network state detection unit sends another voltage level of the first signal, so as to not turn on the power supply of the LAN controller, thereby reducing the power consumption of the personal computer.
US08285877B1
A method and system for performing intelligent background data conversion are disclosed. Specifically, one embodiment of the present invention sets forth a method that includes the steps of generating a task list associated with a source data and, according to the task list, converting the source data to target data as specified in a predetermined profile at any time a processing unit inactive state is detected.
US08285868B2
A device receives a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) response that includes a load header associated with a downstream Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) device. The device also determines an amount of traffic to send to the downstream Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) device based on the load header. The device further sends the determined amount of traffic to the downstream Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) device.
US08285861B2
A method and an apparatus for creating an Internet Protocol Connectivity Access Network, IP-CAN, session are disclosed herein. The method includes: creating, by a First Policy and Charging Enforcement Function entity, PCEFa entity, a session with a Policy and Charging Rules Function entity, PCRF entity; performing, by the PCEFa entity, mobility registration with a second Policy and Charging Enforcement Function entity, PCEFb entity; creating, by the PCEFb entity, a session with the PCRF entity; and sending, by the PCRF entity, a session information to the PCEFa entity and the PCEFb entity. mobility The apparatus includes: a PCEFa entity, a PCEFb entity, and a PCRF entity. The method and the apparatus for creating an IP-CAN session under the present invention accomplish the purpose of creating an IP-CAN session in the new PCC architecture.
US08285850B1
A system and method for managing data transfers between client computers and a computer network. Each client comprises a data transfer controller and at least two data transfer rules. The data transfer controller associates each of at least two connection states with one of the data transfer rules. The data transfer controller also detects a connection state of a client device, applies a first data transfer rule to the client device in response to detecting a first connection state, and applies a second data transfer rule to the client device in response to detecting a second connection state. In a further embodiment, the data transfer controller associates a data transfer policy with attributes of a connection between the client device and the computer network, wherein a connection state comprises a set of values of the attributes of the connection.
US08285844B2
A technique for quickly locating, diagnosing and fixing problems with one or more servers is presented. The technique improves upon prior art techniques by providing a centralized utility by which multiple servers may be viewed and modified. More particularly, the technique allows a user to view, in a consolidated format, features of multiple servers and to modify parameters of such servers from a remote location.
US08285840B2
A social network helps mobile device users purchase applications for their devices and to purchase new mobile devices. The network utilizes information from a user's friends to effectively “recommend” applications and mobile devices, and in particular recommend mobile devices based on the applications recommended. The phone numbers of a user's contact list may be scanned by the system to identify friends of the user. A friend network database stores the user's information and friends' information throughout the network and supplies the information to an application store where users may download applications or purchase mobile devices. The information supplied by the database includes the applications and the mobile devices of friends or friends of friends. In response to a user inquiry, the store displays the amount and/or identities of friends and/or friends of friends who have downloaded a particular application or own a particular device.
US08285838B2
A hierarchical network infrastructure includes an interface that allows a user to define a management hierarchy between a plurality of edge processors. Input is received via the interface designating a management node and a first set of relationships between the management mode and at least one edge processor. A management hierarchy between the management node and the at least one edge processor is generated based on the first set of relationships. Using the management hierarchy, telemetry information can be relayed, hosts can be managed, and the software running on then, and information can be configured to trickled up the chain. Each sub tree of the management hierarchy may have different Access Control for local administrators.
US08285833B2
A data recording system that includes a plurality of network interface cards that may be employed within a single recording device. Each card may be provided with a plurality of network connecting ports to receive packetized data, such as real-time protocol (RTP) streams. For each RTP packet stream being recorded, the system may note the sequence number for the most recently accepted packet and any packet received with a lower sequence number can be readily discarded. The system then may record payload associated with the RTP streams into an audio file saved on a storage device.
US08285830B1
A computer-implemented method for combating cybersquatting is provided. The method may comprise receiving a trademark to be monitored for potential typosquatting and generating a list of one or more typo domains for the trademark. The method then collects data associated with the one or more typo domains and prepares a document that includes a subset of the domains with their associated collected data for submission to an administrative agency handling domain disputes.
US08285829B2
A method and apparatus for providing peer selection in a network are disclosed. For example, the method requests peer information from an application server supporting a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) service, and receives the peer information comprising a plurality of peer endpoint devices. The method then selects a peer endpoint device from the plurality of peer endpoint devices based on at least one preference.
US08285826B2
A grid computing system and method is provided for medical data processing. The grid computing system comprises a software infrastructure, and an imaging device capable of interfacing with the software infrastructure over a distributed electronic network. Also included is a plurality of CPUs capable of interfacing with the software infrastructure over the network. The performance of the plurality of CPUs is dependent on balancing load. A large medical dataset is split onto several processing nodes of the plurality of CPUs, respectively, such that performance and power is increased. In the grid computing method, a grid is limited to a nuclear medicine or radiology network. A tight and easy configuration management of computing nodes, and a tight load balancing between standardized nodes are provided. An existing network of CPUs is utilized, such that the greatest benefit is provided at the lowest cost.
US08285825B1
A method and system is disclosed for dynamically administering a quorum of multiple members based on their involvements in using at least one network resource in a computer network. At least one system administrator responsible for managing a particular network resource will divest his power to the members of the quorum so that his own involvement can be minimized. After identifying one or more stakeholders out of a group of users of the network resource, a weight for each user is updated in one or more rounds of evaluation based on his use of the network resource. The quorum membership is then modified accordingly based on the updated weights of the users so that the network resource is managed appropriated by relevant users.
US08285820B2
In one example, a method of providing dynamic content includes providing a client device with access to an online marketplace over a network. The method also includes facilitating transmission of a user identifier stored by the client device to a payment service provider. The method further includes receiving dynamic content from the payment service provider in response to the user identifier. In addition, the method includes serving the dynamic content to the client device over the network.
US08285811B2
Systems and methods are provided for aggregating a local media collection of a user with one or more shared media collections shared with the user to provide an aggregate media collection for the user. In general, one or more shared media collections shared with the user are first discovered. Optionally, the user may select one or more of the shared media collections for aggregation with the local media collection of the user. The shared media collections selected by the user, or alternatively all of the shared media collections, are then aggregated with the local media collection of the user to provide an aggregate media collection for the user. The aggregate media collection is provided as a primary list including an entry for each unique media item in the aggregate media collection. Sorted sub-lists are utilized to populate the primary list.
US08285809B2
A system, method and computer-readable code for segmenting an audio stream into a plurality of small digital audio files using gaps in the natural language of the audio stream is provided. The small digital audio files are transmitted, loaded, and played in a specific order, such that from the user's perspective, the audio stream is reproduced in an apparently seamless manner. This is done without reassembling the audio stream, either in whole or in part. The small digital audio files are created using natural language gaps, and are generally small enough to ensure that a first small digital audio file can be downloaded and played without significant delay, while successive small digital audio files are downloaded to be played in the future. Accordingly, the user receives audio-on-demand in a timely manner.
US08285801B2
A displayed string of emails is effectively compressed for improved readability by deleting some or all headers and/or by skipping the cursor from one message body to another in response to “hot” key actuation(s) by a user.
US08285798B2
A highly advantageous message policy management system and method are disclosed for managing email message flow with a sender set of policies which recommend actions to be taken by receivers based on characteristics of the email message.
US08285797B2
A device for use in a communication system and a method for its operation are provided. The method of operating a Device Management (DM) client of a device in a communication system includes receiving an out-of-band DM message from a DM server, determining if out-of-band message response (OOBMsgResponse) reporting is inhibited based on an OOBMsgResponse node in a Management Object (MO), and if it is determined that OOBMsgResponse reporting is not inhibited, sending a response message in response to the out-of-band DM message received from the DM server.
US08285796B2
A system and method for circumventing a do-not-disturb status of an instant messaging user including defining requesting, from one or more do not disturb circumvention mediators, do-not-disturb status circumvention of an instant messaging user. Circumvention permission for the do-not-disturb status of the instant messaging user is received. The do-not-disturb status of the instant messaging user is circumvented based upon, at least in part, the circumvention permission.
US08285792B2
A financial information providing system 1 includes a synchronous distribution node 10, asynchronous distribution node 20, and data providing system 30, client terminal 40. The synchronous distribution node 10 and asynchronous distribution node 20 distribute messages including financial information. The data providing system 30 edits the messages distributed by the synchronous distribution node 10 and asynchronous distribution node 20 and transmits an edited message to the client terminal 40. Each server 31 of the data providing system 30 adds a group number and sequence number to a message distributed by the synchronous distribution node 10 and adds a sequence number to a message distributed by the asynchronous distribution node 20.
US08285791B2
A method and apparatus for sending information to a data processing apparatus for identifying a document to share with a recipient. A handheld device is capable of communicating with the data processing apparatus. Information is captured from the document and stored in the handheld device as document data. A communications path is established between the handheld device and the data processing apparatus. The document data is sent to the data processing apparatus through the communications path. Reference documents are provided. Each reference document has reference data stored in a memory. At least a portion of the received document data is extracted as scanning data. The reference data is retrieved from the memory. The scanning data is compared with the reference data. When the scanning data matches at least a portion of the reference data of one of the reference documents, the one reference document is selected as the identified document for forwarding to the recipient.
US08285780B2
State sharing is facilitated in stream processing environments, including distributed stream processing environments. A customized shared state implementation representing the state to be shared is automatically created based on at least one of user preferences, hints of usage, and system performance.
US08285775B2
A method and system for immediate failure checking for lost message processing comprises receiving a first message of a web-service transaction comprising first message sequence information at a computing device in a transaction environment of a target web service, storing a first record of the first message within the computing device, receiving a subsequent message comprising corresponding message sequence information at the computing device, storing a second record of the subsequent message within the computing device, comparing the first message sequence information with the subsequent message sequence information using the computing device, identifying a transaction error using the computing device, if the subsequent message is not an initial message in a sequence of messages based on the comparing, reporting the transaction error from the computing device, and aborting processing of the web-service transaction if the transaction error has occurred, using the computing device.
US08285771B2
An apparatus for processing a plurality of real-valued subband signals using a first real-valued subband signal and a second real-valued subband signal to provide at least a complex-valued subband signal comprises a multiband filter for providing an intermediate real-valued subband signal and a calculator for providing the complex-valued subband signal by combining a real-valued subband signal from the plurality of real-valued subband signals and the intermediate subband signal.
US08285766B2
Microprocessor shifter circuits utilizing butterfly and inverse butterfly circuits, and control circuits therefor, are provided. The same shifter circuits can also perform complex bit manipulations at high speeds, including butterfly and inverse butterfly operations, parallel extract and deposit operations, group operations, mix operations, permutation operations, as well as instructions executed by existing microprocessors, including shift right, shift left, rotate, extract, deposit and multimedia mix operations. The shifter circuits can be provided in various combinations to provide microprocessor functional units which perform a plurality of bit manipulation operations.
US08285752B1
A system, method, and computer-accessible medium are disclosed for maintaining data at a plurality of summary levels in a single table. Data may be summarized into a plurality of summary levels. Each of the summary levels may comprise summarized data over a respective one of a plurality of intervals of time. The plurality of summary levels may vary in granularity of the summarized data. The summarized data in the plurality of summary levels may be stored in a single table in a database.
US08285748B2
A method and apparatus for proactive information security management is described. In one embodiment, for example, a computer-implemented method for controlling access to sensitive information, the method comprising: maintaining access constraint data that can be used to control access to the sensitive information, wherein the access constraint data includes match pattern data and apply pattern data; receiving a semantic query from a querier requesting access to the sensitive information; based on the match pattern data, determining whether the semantic query should be constrained according to the apply pattern data; where said semantic query should be constrained according to the apply pattern data, rewriting the semantic query according to the apply pattern data to produce a rewritten query; executing the rewritten query against a database that contains the sensitive information; and returning any results of executing the rewritten query.
US08285746B2
A method for securing the use of data on a first device where the data is sent from a second device, the method including registering at least a first application on the first device, starting the at least first application on the first device, transmitting data from the second device to the first device, determining whether the at least first application is registered, determining whether the at least first application is active, granting, based on the determination whether the at least first application is registered and whether the at least first application is active, the at least first application access to the data transmitted from the second device.
US08285739B2
A method, system and article of manufacture for creating queries against databases and, more particularly, for creating queries that are suitable to identify relevant information from one or more underlying databases. One embodiment provides a method of composing a query against data in a database. The method comprises receiving a query having one or more result fields and a plurality of query conditions. Each query condition defines selection criteria for selection of data records from the database. Each selected data record has data that satisfies at least one of the plurality of query conditions. Each of the plurality of query conditions has an associated weight. The method further comprises receiving an accuracy threshold for qualifying data records. The accuracy threshold defines a requested minimum accuracy of each selected data record defining a qualifying data record forming part of a valid result set returned for the query. For each selected data record, it is determined whether the accuracy threshold is satisfied with respect to a cumulative weight of those weighted query conditions that are satisfied.
US08285735B2
A system and a method create metadata for media files. The metadata may be information relating to, based on and/or associated with the media files. The metadata of the media files may be searched by one or more terminals. An event database connectable to a terminal may use a location, a date and/or a time of creation of the media files to associate specific events with the media files. Further, the specific events may be used by the database to create keywords associated with the media files. As a result, the system and the method may organize and/or may provide searching for media files. A web page may be generated for an event that accumulates the media files related to the event.
US08285730B2
Methods and systems for reviewing content items created by users for presentation in association with a website are provided. Automatic scrubbing (followed by manual review, if necessary) of user-created content items that have yet to be presented in association with a website is provided as is manual review of user-created content items that have already been presented in association with a website at the request of a user.
US08285722B2
An internet browsing gateway is utilized to locate mobile web content and improve search capabilities for wireless devices. Mobile browsing data is logged as web pages are requested from and returned to wireless devices associated with the same wireless network. An index server continually updates search indexes in real time as users request searches and search results are returned. As a result, the mobile content that is discovered becomes more relevant for users of the same wireless network or mobile carrier. In other words, the search results are more localized in accordance with the location of the wireless network that services the mobile users within a specific geographic region. When a web search is requested from a wireless device, the index server queries the search indexes. The search results are ranked using a search algorithm that incorporates the browsing data to improve the accuracy and relevance of searches.
US08285721B2
An item record in an item database contains an item description generated by a seller of an item. A server machine is configured to access the item database, analyze the item description, and extract descriptive information by inferring an attribute and a corresponding attribute value from the item description. The attribute and its attribute value constitute an attribute-value pair. The server machine uses the attribute-value pair to map the item record to a product record stored in a product database. The mapping of the item record to the product record is based on comparing the attribute-value pair of the item record to a reference attribute-value pair in the product record to identify the product record. The mapping is performed upon detection of a match between the attribute-value pairs.
US08285713B2
An image search method and system using face detection, begins with receiving a query submitted by a user. Next a query word is searched in the query from an image resource using an image search engine to obtain an initial image collection. Any faces are detected in each image in the initial image collection which has been searched. A search for the query word in a text surrounding each image having the face in the initial image collection is performed. A determination is made whether the query word indicates at least one person's name in the surrounding text matching the query word. An image an image in the initial image collection is returned to a user in which the face is included and the query word in the surrounding text indicates the person's name.
US08285709B2
In one embodiment, a method includes concurrently executing a set of multiple queries, through a processor, to improve a resource usage within a data warehouse system. The method also includes permitting a group of users of the data warehouse system to simultaneously run a set of queries. In addition, the method includes applying a high-concurrency query operator to continuously optimize a large number of concurrent queries for a set of highly concurrent dynamic workloads.
US08285706B2
Human computation games are provided wherein a player is shown a page, such as a web page. The player is then asked to provide one or more terms that are intended to cause a search engine to return the page in response to performing a query using the terms. The terms provided by the player during game play are then collected, stored, and utilized to improve the performance of the search engine.
US08285705B2
Hosted searching of different local area network (LAN) information is described. The apparatus for hosted searching of different private LAN information includes a LAN crawler to automatically and repeatedly crawl a LAN having multiple devices, and a hosted on-demand search system including a set of one or more centralized-search servers to create and synchronize a separate private search database for each of the private LANs based on received reports from of different instances of the LAN crawler deployed on the multiple private LANs, at least some of which are operated by different entities.
US08285704B2
Hosted searching of private LAN information is described. The apparatus includes a LAN crawler to automatically and repeatedly crawl a LAN having multiple devices, using a discovery module to discover the devices, a generic-probing module to attempt to collect the descriptive information according to a first set of probing requirements, and multiple specific-probing plug-ins each of which attempt to collect the descriptive information according to a second set of specific probing requirements. In another embodiment, the apparatus also includes a hosted on-demand search system including a centralized-search server to create and synchronize a private search database. The centralized-search server includes an application interface to receive a request to access the private search database from a third-party add-on application, to provide the accessed information to the third-party add-on application, and to receive from the third-party add-on application an application rendered component to be displayed on the user interface.
US08285699B2
Embodiments are configured to provide a summary of information associated with one or more search results. In an embodiment, a system includes a summary generator that can be configured to provide a summary of information including one or more snippets associated with a search term or search terms. The system includes a ranking component that can be used to rank snippets and the ranked snippets can be used when generating a summary that includes one or more ranked snippets. In one embodiment, the system can be configured to include one or more filters that can be used to filter snippets and the filtered snippets can be used when generating a summary. Other embodiments are available.
US08285698B2
In general, the present invention protects actual search queries submitted to web search engines using a set (i.e., at least one) of supplemental queries (hereinafter referred to as securing search queries). As a result, collections of search queries will not form statistically stable categories, and will not disclose the search subject. Any hits resulting from securing search queries will be filtered from results that are returned to the requestor. In addition, the securing search queries can be associated with protective Internet Protocol addresses to reduce the possibility of the requestor of the actual search query to be identified.
US08285695B2
A catalog page generation system, comprising a first generation circuit, a first determination circuit, and a second generation circuit, is provided. The first generation circuit generates a catalog page of objects included in a first directory or a first folder. The first determination circuit determines whether or not a second directory different from the first directory or a second folder different from the first folder exists. The second generation circuit generates existence information if the first determination circuit determines that the second directory or the second folder exists. The existence information indicates the existence of another directory or another folder of the same level as the first directory or the first folder.
US08285693B2
Software on a server accesses a batch file including a plurality of events generated by a remote game client application executing an instance of the computer-implemented game. The software accesses a game state data object associated with the instance of the computer-implemented game. The game state data object includes one or more game state parameters formatted as a serialized unstructured string of text data. The software parses the game state data object to identify the one or more game state parameters. The software processes the plurality of events in the batch file against game logic to update one or more of the game state parameters in the game state data object. The game logic incorporates information extracted from a social graph. And the software stores the game state data object in a memory cache.
US08285692B2
A computer readable medium having software instructions that, when executed, perform a method for preserving data stored in a file system with a plurality of files. The method involves determining whether storage capacity of the file system has reached a threshold level, wherein the threshold level is stored in at least one of a plurality of size-reducing policies, obtaining a criterion from the at least one size-reducing policy, identifying a subset of the plurality of files that match the criterion, accessing metadata of each of the identified subset of files, wherein the metadata of each of the identified subset of files comprises at least one option for reducing a size of the file, and performing a size-reducing action to reduce a size of each of the identified subset of files based on the option for reducing the size of each of the identified subset of files and the criterion.
US08285688B2
A repository contains multiple versions of an object but only a single version of the object is supplied when a query is made. The single version is automatically selected from among a number of versions, based on a configuration associated with a workspace in which the query originates. The selected version is presented in a version resolved view, without exposing any information related to versioning of the object. A number of configurations are established, each configuration containing no more than one version of each object in the repository. However, only one configuration is associated with each workspace from which a query can originate. A single configuration is commonly associated with the workspaces of all developers. When developers decide that a set of objects in the repository is ready for use in live operation, the set of objects is “deployed” by copying the design time configuration to generate a new configuration.
US08285686B2
A system and method for executing replication requests for objects in a distributed storage system is provided. A replication queue is identified from a plurality of replication queues corresponding to a replication key. The replication key includes information related to at least a source storage device in a distributed storage system at which objects are located and a destination storage device in the distributed storage system to which the objects are to be replicated. A distributed database is scanned using an identifier of the replication queue to produce a list of replication requests corresponding to the replication queue. The records of the distributed database are distributed across a plurality of nodes of the distributed database. The replication requests in the list of replication requests are executed in priority order. Replication requests are deleted from the distributed database only when the replication requests are complete.
US08285683B2
A method and system for reducing storage requirements and speeding up storage operations by reducing the storage of redundant data includes receiving a request that identifies one or more data objects to which to apply a storage operation. For each data object, the storage system determines if the data object contains data that matches another data object to which the storage operation was previously applied. If the data objects do not match, then the storage system performs the storage operation in a usual manner. However, if the data objects do match, then the storage system may avoid performing the storage operation.
US08285681B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for performing data storage operations, including content-indexing, containerized deduplication, and policy-driven storage, within a cloud environment. The systems support a variety of clients and cloud storage sites that may connect to the system in a cloud environment that requires data transfer over wide area networks, such as the Internet, which may have appreciable latency and/or packet loss, using various network protocols, including HTTP and FTP. Methods are disclosed for content indexing data stored within a cloud environment to facilitate later searching, including collaborative searching. Methods are also disclosed for performing containerized deduplication to reduce the strain on a system namespace, effectuate cost savings, etc. Methods are disclosed for identifying suitable storage locations, including suitable cloud storage sites, for data files subject to a storage policy. Further, systems and methods for providing a cloud gateway and a scalable data object store within a cloud environment are disclosed, along with other features.
US08285679B2
Provided are a method, system, and computer program product for creating a buffer point-in-time copy relationship for a point-in-time copy function executed to create a point-in-time copy relationship. A point-in-time copy function is initiated to create a new point-in-time copy relationship from a source volume comprising a first volume to a target volume comprising a second volume. Detection is made that the target volume of the new point-in-time copy relationship is a source volume of a first pre-existing point-in-time copy relationship having as a target volume a third volume. Detection is also made that the target volume of the first pre-existing point-in-time copy relationship is a source volume of a second pre-existing point-in-time copy relationship having as a target volume a fourth volume. A buffer point-in-time copy relationship having a source volume comprising the target volume of the first pre-existing relationship and a target volume comprising a fifth volume is created in response to detecting that the target volume of the new point-in-time copy relationship is the source volume of the first pre-existing point-in-time copy relationship and the detected that the target volume of the first pre-existing point-in-time copy relationship is the source volume of the second pre-existing point-in-time copy relationship.
US08285671B2
The present invention relates to a method for performing integrated storage operations on an information store. The present invention comprises identifying a plurality disparate types of storage operations stored in a policy option table. A first storage operation is performed according to a first set of storage criteria stored in the policy option table and a second operation, disparate from the first storage operation, is performed according to a second set of storage criteria stored in the policy option table.
US08285650B2
A method and apparatus for billing data services. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a system having a controller that manages a communications interface coupled to a communication system. The controller can be programmed to calculate a charge for service according to a degree of asymmetric bandwidth usage of upstream and downstream data traffic consumed by customer premise equipment (CPE). Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US08285642B2
An implementation foundation for a telecommunication service provider provides an efficient, robust, and reliable cornerstone for any new telecommunication service provider architecture. The implementation foundation includes a universally applicable data model that encodes the fundamental entities of interest to telecommunications service providers. The data model is free of constraints on any particular technology, and provides a reusable foundation for implementing new telecommunication service providers. The data model is composed of business entities that technically support business processes for a telecommunication service provider. As a result, new telecommunication service providers may be implemented in a rapid manner on a proven foundation, without complex and unwieldy customized technologies that rely on immensely complicated point-to-point message connections.
US08285641B2
A system for transferring funds to pay bills and to and from selected accounts on an optimized is provided. A mediation engine may manage the payments made to selected payees, including by scheduling the payments and selecting sources for funds. A rules-based optimizer may automatically select the least-cost or other most efficient or desirable transaction, given the customer's available funds, types of funds and payment date. All payment providers and payees may manipulated using one seamless view. A customer service representative may also view the transfers.
US08285638B2
A method and system provides arrangements creating a relationship between a real-world entity and a virtual world environment. A virtual world patron can participate in various virtual world activities including transactions to acquire virtual products, virtual services, and/or virtual items of value. Feedback may be provided and records kept regarding the virtual world activities and transactions. The virtual world patron may also have an opportunity of engaging in related real-world activities and transactions. Designated virtual objects with special distinguishable attributes may be sponsored by a real-world entity. Some virtual world communication techniques may be used to help establish a recognizable association between the real-world entity and the designated virtual objects.
US08285632B2
A method, network entity and computer program product are provided for conducting a prediction market to test product concepts. In particular, an interface may be provided from which a user may select one or more markets in which the user would like to participate in a prediction market. Information associated with each of a group of product concepts falling within one of the selected markets, including a stock price, may be retrieved and displayed to the user. The user may indicate a number of shares he or she would like to purchase in at least one of the product concepts, and the stock price associated with each of the product concepts may be adjusted based on the number of shares purchased. A report may be generated and transmitted to a merchant associated with the product concepts being tested, wherein the report may include a volume weighted average price associated with each product concept.
US08285628B1
Illustratively, there can be a securitization system that is comprised of a computer or computers using a network, and a process, for the conversion of assets into marketable securities. In one embodiment, the securitization system includes a distribution system to distribute at least some of the marketable securities generated by the securitization system to one or more buyers. The process may utilize a new definition of securitization that expands the universe of securitizable assets, the universe of asset securitization methodologies, and the universe of securities that can be designed and generated thereby.
US08285624B2
A method for managing redemptions, the method comprising: receiving, a request to redeem shares of a fund for a given market participant (MP), comprising a number of shares to redeem or a value-specifying parameter; communicating before a strike time an identification of a set of assets to distribute including a number of each one of the assets, to a MP representative, which MP representative is restricted from liquidating and disclosing the set of assets; calculating, a true-up amount, based on a monetary value at the strike time of the set of assets and either the monetary value as of the strike time of the number of shares requested to be redeemed, or the monetary value as of the strike time comprising a number of shares approximated by the value-specifying parameter, causing a transfer of all or a portion of the set of assets to the MP representative.
US08285622B1
A method and system for providing budget recommendations based on financial data from similarly situated individuals whereby financial transaction data associated with a given individual is analyzed to identify financial profile information associated with the given individual. The financial profile information associated with the given individual is then used to determine/define one or more “financial peer” identification criteria/parameters to be used for identifying individuals who are financially similarly situated with respect to the given individual. Financial data associated with various other individuals is obtained from one or more sources and the financial data associated with the other individuals is analyzed using the one or more financial peer identification criteria/parameters to identify one or more financial peers of the given individual. The financial data associated with the identified one or more financial peers of the given individual is then analyzed, aggregated, averaged, and/or otherwise processed, to provide the given individual one or more budget recommendations.
US08285621B1
A system for managing assets of a trust owning a controlled foreign corporation (CFC). The system includes means for associating the CFC with the trust owning the CFC and means for tracking assets associated with the CFC and the trust owning the CFC. A method for managing assets of a trust owning a CFC includes (1) associating the CFC with the trust owning the CFC using a linking database, (2) tracking assets associated with the CFC and the trust owning the CFC using an asset database, (3) tracking transactions associated with the assets using a transaction database, and (4) determining profit/loss data associated with the transactions using a processor communicatively coupled with the transaction database.
US08285609B2
Systems and methods to outsource service and support operations are disclosed. An example method disclosed herein includes electronically maintaining an inventory at an outsourced service and support partner (OSSP) without intervention by a separate manufacturing entity by ordering inventory items from a supplier separate from the manufacturing entity and the OSSP at a cost determined based on an amount of similar or substantially identical inventory items obtained separately by the manufacturing entity for manufacturing units, and using the inventory to at least one of service a unit returned to the OSSP by a customer or ship an inventory item from the OSSP to the customer in response to receiving an order notification from the manufacturing entity at the OSSP.
US08285596B2
Customer relationship management (CRM) system for enhanced retention of customers of a business entity. In one embodiment, a historical data corresponding to a customer is maintained in the CRM system, with the historical data including information on prior interactions between the customer and the business entity. On receiving a call from the customer, the historical data is identified and an attrition risk (indicating the probability of retaining the customer) is computed based on the identified data. Different offers based on the computed attrition risk are then determined and communicated to the customer during the call.
US08285594B2
Some embodiments of the invention include tools for extracting data of interest from the world wide web (WWW). The extraction is accomplished using descriptions of data of interest. The descriptions of data of interest can include computer programs comprising a sequence of instructions and extractor patterns. The extractor patterns can be developed interactively using a web browser integrated into the graphical development environment for creating the descriptions of data of interest. The instructions can be selected from a predetermined list of instructions designed for extracting information from the WWW. The descriptions of data of interest can be grouped into categories sharing common query elements. Multiple descriptions of data of interest in the same category can executed simultaneously using the same query. The descriptions of data of interest can be accessed by a client computer using a web browser to initiate a query. In some embodiments, the descriptions of data of interest are used to provide information about products available for sale over the WWW.
US08285585B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a comprehensive, automated system and method for evaluating the performance of individuals or entities employed by an organization, particularly useful in peer-profiling physician performance in multi-facility environments. Embodiments of the invention can dynamically compose a virtual peer or group of peers and perform peer-profiling on each individual or group of individuals to be evaluated. For example, a composite physician may be generated from system-wide and/or state-wide healthcare data as a benchmark against which a particular physician is profiled according to industry-standard measurements. The composite physician would have equivalent or similar job function(s) as well as patient population. The composite physician enables a comprehensive “apple to apple” comparison with the particular physician, giving meaning to and facilitating the usefulness of performance evaluation results.
US08285573B1
In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method operating at a server system is disclosed. The server hosts and electronic procurement system. A first user purchase request to purchase an item is received, and a second user purchase request to purchase the same item is received. A determination is made if there is sufficient stock of the item available to fulfill both user purchase requests. The first and second user purchase requests are prioritized, if there is insufficient stock of the item available to fulfill both purchase requests. A purchase order is generated for at least one of the first and second user purchase requests in accordance with the prioritizing. Related methods and systems are also disclosed.
US08285542B2
A statistical language model is trained for use in a directory assistance system using the data in a directory assistance listing corpus. Calculations are made to determine how important words in the corpus are in distinguishing a listing from other listings, and how likely words are to be omitted or added by a user. The language model is trained using these calculations.
US08285540B2
A character string anonymizing apparatus classifies each of a plurality of pieces of text data, each including a character string, into a plurality of kinds of data in accordance with a classification condition, extracts a plurality of words included in each of the plurality of pieces of text data (hereinafter, referred to as linked data) classified into the same kind by the classification, extracts, among word sets including one or more of the extracted words, a word set in which the number of pieces of linked data including all words forming each of the word sets is greater than or equal to a threshold, and anonymizes, among words included in a character string included in each of the plurality of pieces of text data, a word matching at least some of the extracted words and not matching words forming the extracted word set.
US08285539B2
A method of processing text within a natural language understanding system can include applying a first tokenization technique to a sentence using a statistical tokenization model. A second tokenization technique using a named entity can be applied to the sentence when the first tokenization technique does not extract a needed token according to a class of the sentence. A token determined according to at least one of the tokenization techniques can be output.
US08285537B2
Recognition of proper nouns by an automated speech recognition system is improved by augmenting the pronunciation of each proper noun or name in the natural language of the speech recognition system with at least one “native” pronunciation in another natural language. To maximize recognition, preferably the pronunciations are predicted based on information not available to the speech recognition system. Prediction of pronunciation may be based on a location derived from a telephone number or postal address associated with the name and the language or dialect spoken in the country or region of that location. The “native” pronunciation(s) may be added to a dictionary of the speech recognition system or directly to the grammar used for recognizing speech.
US08285527B2
As part of the design process it is required to design circuits in order to reduce their power consumption. This is typically done by enabling or disabling flip-flops (FFs), however, such change in the circuit requires certain verification. As sequential clock gating changes the state function it is necessary to perform a sequential equivalence checking (SEC) verification. Applying a full SEC may be runtime consuming and is not scalable for large designs. Methods to reduce the problem of verifying sequential clock gating by reducing the sequential problem into much smaller problem that can be easily solved is therefore shown.
US08285525B2
A method for providing decision support includes using a programmed computer to input a regression model specification, and to repeat the input a plurality of times to obtain and store a plurality of regression model specifications. The method further includes using the programmed computer to analyze selected regression model specifications to determine at least one of common variables and functions of common variables, to thereby determine a reduced-redundancy request for input of variables, when a plurality of the stored regression model specifications are selected for use.
US08285522B1
The technology includes methods, a system, and a computer readable medium for predicting the failure of an electronic device during design of the device, by receiving data associated with the device, the data including data indicative of a device response to a specific load on the system while the device is in operation, and predicting potential failure of the device using a probabilistic model and the data, wherein the probabilistic model utilizes at least one of fast probability methods and simulation techniques.
US08285516B2
Certain embodiments of the invention may include systems, methods, and apparatus for determining steady state conditions in a gas turbine. According to an example embodiment of the invention, a method for determining stability in a gas turbine is provided. The method can include receiving a guide vane (VGV) command and a fuel stroke reference (FSR) command associated with a gas turbine control system, determining a filtered VGV change based at least in part on the received VGV command, determining a filtered FSR change based at least in part on the received FSR command, and outputting a unit stability signal after a pickup delay time when the filtered VGV change is less than a predetermined VGV stability threshold and the filtered FSR change is less than a predetermined FSR stability threshold.
US08285512B2
A surveying apparatus includes a support structure and a reflective surface mechanically coupled to the support structure. The reflective surface is configured to receive panoramic data over a 360° field of view. The surveying apparatus also includes an optical system mechanically coupled to the support structure and optically coupled to the reflective surface. The surveying apparatus further includes an imaging system mechanically coupled to the support structure and optically coupled to the optical system and a processor. The processor is configured to receive data from the imaging system and compute an angular measurement based on the received data.
US08285504B2
A method involves, via a sensor application interface, 1) receiving, from an application, a measurement request associated with a quality-of-service control; 2) in accord with the quality-of-service control, obtaining measurement data from a sensor; and 3) returning to the application i) the measurement data obtained from the sensor, and ii) an indicator of accuracy of the measurement data.
US08285502B2
An inductor current estimator for a switching power supply includes a first sensing and averaging component that generates an average of a switch voltage and a second sensing and averaging component that generates an average of an output voltage of the switching power supply. A first subtraction component receives the average of the switch voltage and the average of the output voltage. A first multiplying component receives an output of the first subtraction component and multiplies the output of the first subtraction component by a first model parameter. A second multiplying component multiplies an input to the second multiplying component by a second model parameter. An adding component adds an output of the first multiplying component and an output of the second multiplying component. A delay component receives an output of the adding component and provides an output to an input of the second multiplying component.
US08285493B2
A method and system of monitoring for chemical or other toxic agents includes operating a plurality of first type sensors having a first level of sensitivity to an agent in a monitored area. Concurrently a second type sensor is operated having a second level of sensitivity to the agent in the monitored area, where the second level of sensitivity is at least ten times more sensitive than the first level of sensitivity. Input from the plurality of first type sensors and the second type sensor is received and analyzed, at a central location, in order to determine the presence of the agent in the monitored area.
US08285479B2
A parking assist apparatus for guiding a vehicle to a target parking position includes an initial position guiding unit configured to generate an initial position guiding path at a predetermined timing, the initial position guiding path leading from a current position of the vehicle to an initial position where vehicle guidance to the target parking position is started. The initial position guiding unit is also configured to guide the vehicle along the initial position guiding path to the initial position. The apparatus also includes an obstacle detecting unit configured to detect an obstacle around the vehicle. When the obstacle detected by the obstacle detecting unit is located along the initial position guiding path, the initial position guiding unit generates the initial position guiding path such that the obstacle detected by the obstacle detecting unit can be avoided.
US08285478B2
The invention relates to a method for optimizing the display of data relating to the risks associated with obstacles. The method includes extracting from an obstacle database, a list of obstacles included in the geographic zone defined by the range, the orientation and the position of the aircraft. Obstacle related information and warning lists are received. The obstacle list is regrouped by applying to the obstacles criteria relating to the proximity of the obstacles relative to the aircraft; to the proximity of the obstacles to one another; and to their warning level. The symbology adapted to the obstacle display is generated. In particular, the invention applies to optimizing the display of warnings relating to the risks of collision with point-like or linear obstacles.
US08285477B2
A detection method for preventing an automobile from colliding is applied to an automobile. The detection method includes the following steps: step (a): providing at least two detection devices, each detection device is used to measure a predetermined information of the automobile. A one-stage linear Kalman filter in each device is used to enhance the signal-to-noise ratio of the predetermined information. In step (b): utilizing the one-stage linear filter to receive the predetermined information and obtain a corrected information from the predetermined information after the signal-to-noise ratio is enhanced. In step (c): calculating the corrected information to obtain a component information having vector components of a first direction and a second direction. In step (d): enhancing the signal-to-noise ratio to enable the component information to be a contrast information. Accordingly, the convergence time of calculating the contrast information can be substantially reduced. The position variation of the surrounding moving objects can be accurately estimated to prevent the sudden collision in a short time.
US08285476B2
A vehicle position calculating apparatus and vehicle position calculating method which can accurately calculate a current position of a vehicle regardless of the orientation of the vehicle at the time when acquiring positional information.An advancing direction detecting section in a vehicle position calculating ECU detects an advancing direction of a vehicle in a receiving area according to receiving area form information issued from a receiving area form acquiring section, moving distance information issued from a moving distance calculating section, and course change information issued from a course changing action detecting section. A vehicle position calculating section sets a reference position according to reference positional information issued from a reference position acquiring section, and calculates the current vehicle position by taking account of the advancing direction in addition to a relative change based on relative change information issued from the relative position change detecting section.
US08285471B2
Data indicating a sudden change in a bulk modulus of fuel and data indicating a usage state and a usage environment of an injector as of occurrence of an injection abnormality are stored in EEPROM mounted in the injector. Thus, it can be analyzed whether a cause of a defect such as the injection abnormality is use of inferior fuel based on the data related to the bulk modulus. In addition, it can be analyzed whether the cause of the defect such as the injection abnormality is a severe usage state and a severe usage environment based on the data related to the usage state and the usage environment. Thus, the data useful for analyzing the cause of the defect related to the fuel injection can be provided.
US08285465B2
A cooperative traction control system that integrates throttle control and torque distribution. The system also uses dual slip controllers and methods that involve controlling the distribution of torque between wheels in the front and rear axles of a vehicle and a relatively small or no adjustment of the engine throttle (or, more generally, engine torque output) to reduce wheel slip. The control is cooperative in the sense that two controllers—a front axle torque controller and a rear axle torque controller—work together (or are controlled together) to reduce wheel slip and thereby achieve improved straight-line movement of a vehicle from a standstill.
US08285464B2
The half-clutch state decision device of the present invention extracts a high-frequency component and a low-frequency component of an engine rotation speed through filtering when the engine rotation speed has dropped while a vehicle is stopped, and calculates a locus length of the high-frequency component and a locus length of the low-frequency component through accumulation thereof. Furthermore, it is decided whether a half-clutch state exists from a relationship between the calculated locus lengths of the high-frequency and low-frequency components. Specifically, it uses a two-dimensional map (FIG. 5) having the locus length of the high-frequency component and the locus length of the low-frequency component as parameters and wherein a half-clutch decision region is set, plots the locus length of each component on that two-dimensional map, and decides whether a half-clutch state exists based on whether that plot point is inside the half-clutch decision region.
US08285456B2
A control system is disclosed. The control system includes a first set of operator input devices and a laser target located on a first machine. The control system also includes a first laser measurement system located on a second machine and configured to measure a distance to the laser target. The control system further includes a communications system configured to selectively communicate a first mode of operation and a second mode of operation. In the first mode of operation, the second machine follows the first machine based on the measured distance. In the second mode of operation, the second machine moves based on a signal from the first set of operator input devices.
US08285452B2
To reduce tire wear, a turning motion assistance device for an electric vehicle is provided which includes a target wheel slip angle calculating unit for calculating a target wheel slip angle from the steering angle, a vehicle state quantity detector for detecting vehicle state quantities, an actual vehicle-body slip angle calculating unit for calculating an actual vehicle-body slip angle from the vehicle state quantities, an actual wheel slip angle calculating unit for calculating an actual wheel slip angle from the actual vehicle-body slip angle and the steering angle, a yawing moment requirement calculating unit for calculating a yawing moment requirement from a difference between the target wheel slip angle and the actual wheel slip angle, and a torque correction data calculating unit for calculating an amount of torque correction for generating the yawing moment required.
US08285451B2
Disclosed herein is a method for controlling an electric power steering system, wherein a motor is controlled by vector control and driven by a current command value calculated on the basis of a parameter such as a steering torque to provide a steering assist power to a vehicle steering system, and further wherein the current command value is limited on the basis of desired output characteristics and a desired angular speed during a field-weakening control and a non-field-weakening control of the vector control.
US08285450B2
A differential limiting control device for a vehicle calculates a yaw rate correspondence control amount according to deviation between actual yaw rate and target yaw rate when a vehicle turns, and also judges the vehicle's steering characteristic of the moment and magnitude relation between wheel speeds of right and left front wheels. The differential limiting control device then applies compensation toward an increase or decrease side based on a yaw rate correspondence control amount to a base control amount according to a combination of the steering characteristic and the magnitude relation between the wheel speeds, and controls a differential limiting force between the right and left front wheels based upon a final control amount obtained after the compensation.
US08285444B2
Disclosed herein is an integrated vehicle control system, which eliminates the possibility of interfering with motion control devices and is capable of accurately controlling the targeted behavior of a vehicle.
US08285437B2
A maintenance time notification device includes a storing unit storing a threshold value of a usage time or a traveling distance for each of a plurality of vehicle parts; a measuring unit measuring the usage time and the traveling distance of a vehicle since the vehicle began to be used for each of the vehicle parts; a maintenance period determination unit determining a maintenance period of each of the vehicle parts by comparing the usage time and the traveling distance measured by the measuring unit, with the threshold value; and a reporting unit reporting to a passenger based on a determination result of the maintenance period determination unit.
US08285436B2
A vehicle state judging apparatus includes a wheel speed sensor provided on a vehicle detecting a wheel speed, a shift position sensor detecting a position of a shift lever, an acceleration sensor detecting acceleration acting on the vehicle, and a judging unit judging a vehicle state from detection values of the wheel speed sensor, the shift position sensor and the acceleration sensor. The judging unit judges that a travel direction of the vehicle is switched when the judging unit detects that the shift lever is switched from a position other than forward movement to a position of the forward movement or switched from a position other than backward movement to a position of the backward movement, detects that the wheel speed is not lower than a first reference speed, and further detects that the wheel speed becomes not higher than a second reference speed before the moment of detection.
US08285431B2
A method for operating a vehicle includes determining a transmission input speed, operating the transmission using the transmission input speed, and providing a braking torque request to cause braking of the vehicle according to a scheme selected from the group consisting of a first braking mode and a second braking mode. The transmission input speed and the transmission operating range state are dependent on said braking torque request in the first braking mode, and wherein the transmission operating state, but not the transmission input speed, is dependent on the braking torque request in the second braking mode.
US08285428B2
A method and a device for an operating center for aiding in the preparation and management of missions of an aircraft. After a plurality of digital data has been received, the plurality of data comprising at least one datum of avionic type and one datum of open-world type, at least one flight plan is prepared from the plurality of data. The at least one prepared flight plan and the at least one datum of open-world type then are formatted. The formatted data in the form of an electronic document usable directly by a computer system of the aircraft are transmitted to the aircraft.
US08285421B2
A method and apparatus provides optimized installation site specifications for sprinkler head position and nozzle size for center pivot and/or linear movement type irrigation systems in which a plurality of sprinkler heads are typically mounted at multiple adjacent lateral positions along a water supply boom/line. A sprinkler head spacing and nozzle size computational apparatus and method is disclosed which employs a sprinkler precipitation depth-profile based modeling technique for determining and optimizing lateral positions and nozzle sizes for sprinkler heads disposed along the length of an irrigation system supply distribution boom/line. A required/desired irrigation application delivery rate/depth is specified by an irrigation system user/designer for one or more discrete segments along the irrigation system distribution boom/line according to specific irrigation needs. An optimized nozzle size and position for each sprinkler head disposed along the boom/line is adaptively determined based on the specified required precipitation delivery depth and summations of individual predicted application depth profiles for an initial sprinkler and successively added sprinklers such that a computed delivery accumulation depth falls within a predefined range of error tolerance for the specified required delivery depth for that segment of the distribution line. An associated computer apparatus executing program instructions for implementing the method generates and displays a graphic indication of required and predicted precipitation depth profiles and computed optimized lateral positions and nozzle sizes for the irrigation system sprinklers.
US08285419B2
A thermostat capable of receiving signals transmitted by a utility provider communicating a usage rate schedule or a request for a load curtailment period, and controlling one or more systems based on the information communicated by the utility. The thermostat changes the set point for each system to the stored predetermined control set point corresponding to the current usage rate schedule period or the curtailment mode period when requested. The thermostat is further capable of discontinuing operation of one or more systems for a minimum predetermined time period following a request for a load curtailment period.
US08285417B2
A robot and the like capable of executing a task in an appropriate condition from the viewpoint of execution economy even when a state of the task is altered. A cost is evaluated that represents a load or labor required for a robot (1) to execute a new task, and the cost information indicating the cost is transmitted to a support server (200) (bid procedure). The support server (200) designates the robot (1) having the lowest cost as a designated robot (1) and transmits an execution instruction for executing the new task to the designated robot (1). The robot (1) executes the task according to the execution instruction (contract procedure). By employing the task bid and contract system, a designated task is executed by an adequate robot (R) among a plurality of robots (R) in consideration of the execution economy of the designated task.
US08285416B2
A system and a method for stabilization control may control position and direction of an object having first and second bodies connected to each other. The system may include an artificial vestibular apparatus for outputting a movement signal corresponding to movement of the first body and a rotation signal corresponding to rotation of the first body; a translating actuation unit connected between the first and second bodies and controlling position of the second body in response to the movement signal; and a rotating actuation unit connected between the first and second bodies and controlling rotation of the second body in response to the rotation signal. If the system and the method are applied to a vision system of a mobile robot, the vision system may obtain stabile image information even when the mobile robot is moving. Thus, it is possible to prevent any blurring from occurring at the image information.
US08285415B2
A targeted product distribution system is described herein with respect to an exemplary management of product flow through a distribution center. Specifically, the system and method described herein is directed to the management and display of direct and easily-understood instructions, such that average individuals, as well as those with mental disabilities, will be able to contribute equally to the overall process.
US08285411B2
Methods for generating supports (30) for parts (50) produced by solid freeform fabrication (“SFF”) are disclosed. The method includes defining a plurality of layers (L) that make up the part, and for each layer, determining those regions (R) that require support. The method also includes merging the regions for the different layers (L) into one or more common regions that require support, and providing at least one support for each of the one or more common regions. The result is that fewer supports are used as compared to conventional SFF fabrication methods.
US08285409B2
Cycle time and throughput of a manufacturing facility is effectively manages by a control system that employs a combination of a long-term horizon model and at least one short-term horizon model to generate control signals for a set of machines in a manufacturing facility. The long-term horizon model determines long-term average time allocation percentage for each machine for a given set of throughput targets and cycle time targets for products to be manufactured. Each of the at least one short-term horizon model determines queues for immediate use at processing tools, while the queues are subjected to a secondary adjustment based on the time allocation constraints generated by the long-term horizon model. The combination of the long-term and the at least one short-term horizon models provides a stable long-term proactive WIP bubble-management as well as short-term WIP bubble management.
US08285402B2
A method, apparatus, and system for controlling a process are provided. The control device apparatus includes an input section configured to receive input signals from a controlled process, a first output section communicatively coupled to the input section wherein the first output section is configured to transmit the received input signals to a controller, and a second output section communicatively coupled to the controller, the second output section is configured to transmit control signals from the controller to the controlled process. The apparatus further includes a safety logic block communicatively coupled to the input section in parallel with the received input signals that are transmitted to the controller, the safety logic block is configured to generate a safety output signal using the received input signals, the safety logic block is further configured to transmit the safety output signal to the controlled process independent of the control signals.
US08285398B2
A lead includes a lead body extending from a distal end to a proximal end, and at least one conductor disposed within the lead body and extending from the distal end to the proximal end of the lead body. The lead further includes an outer terminal ring, a terminal pin, and an insulative sleeve disposed between the outer terminal ring and the terminal pin, where the insulative sleeve is coupled with the outer terminal ring with a snap-fit connection. A pin latch is disposed on an outer periphery surface of the insulative sleeve, where the pin latch is rotatable about a hinge point.
US08285397B2
A medical lead includes a pitted, grooved or threaded electrode array tip and a flexible tube or sheath encompassing the electrode array located near the lead tip. In some embodiments, the electrode array adheres to tissue, the tube or sheath adheres to the electrode array at the distal end of the electrode array or the tube or sheath adheres to tissue at the proximal end of the tube or sheath. Embodiments of the tube or sheath may be made from biodegradable material and can include electrode windows spaced along the tube or sheath corresponding to placement of electrode contacts of the electrode array.
US08285393B2
A device and method for treating an infarct scar on a heart comprising an electric cable with proximal and distal ends; a handle with proximal and distal ends with the proximal end connected to the distal end of the cable; a stem with proximal and distal ends with the proximal end of the stem connected to the distal end of the handle; a heating element with a first surface for contacting infarct scar tissue connected to the distal end of the stem wherein the heating element comprises at least two electrodes and at least one temperature sensor positioned on the first surface for sensing a temperature of infarct scar tissue adjacent to the sensor; an energy source connected to the electrodes via the electric cable; and a regulator connected to the energy source and the temperature sensor of the infarct scar tissue, for controlling the temperature of the infarct scar tissue from about 60 degrees C. to about 99 degrees C. Once the heart has been treated, a restraint is disclosed that allows for the shrinkage to be maintained over time.
US08285384B2
Devices with both electrical and mechanical signal transducers can be used for improving sound perception by individuals with severe to profound hearing loss or tinnitus.
US08285377B2
An exemplary method generates a map of a pacing parameter, a sensing parameter or one or more other parameters based in part on location information acquired using a localization system configured to locate electrodes in vivo (i.e., within a patient's body). Various examples map capture thresholds, qualification criteria for algorithms, undesirable conditions and sensing capabilities. Various other methods, devices, systems, etc., are also disclosed.
US08285376B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed for treating a condition of a patient's heart includes placing a first electrode and/or a second electrode in a right ventricle of the heart. In one example, a reference electrode is placed within the patient and internal or external to the heart. A pacing signal is generated including a first signal component, a second signal component and a reference component with the first and second signal components having opposite polarity and with both of the first and second components having a potential relative to the reference component. The pacing signal and the placement of the electrodes are selected to alter a contraction of a left ventricle of the heart.
US08285360B2
A blood flow dynamic analysis apparatus for analyzing the dynamic state of a blood flow of a subject using data about a plurality of frame images acquired from the subject with a contrast agent injected therein, includes a map creation device for creating maps each indicative of a characteristic amount related to the dynamic state of the contrast agent or the blood flow, based on the data about the frame images, an unaffected side detection device for detecting an unaffected side of the subject from within each of the maps, and a display condition determination device for determining a display condition used when each of the maps is displayed, based on pixel values of pixels existing in the unaffected side in the map.
US08285358B2
An apparatus for detecting the presence of substances, compositions, constituents, proportionalities, of examined objects, and abnormalities and diseases associated with human tissue responsive to detected amplitudes and/or frequencies, such as resonant frequencies from the object/body being examined. Data in a database is utilized to identify the unbalanced condition, the foreign, toxic or harmful substance. The identified condition/substance may be used as an aid to select an appropriate treatment or corrective action.
US08285353B2
The present invention relates, in general, to a system for analyzing tissue perfusion using the concentration of indocyanine green and a method of measuring the perfusion rate using the system and, more particularly, to a system for measuring tissue perfusion by injecting indocyanine green into a living body, detecting variation in the concentration of indocyanine green with the passage of time, and analyzing the detected variation, and a method of measuring the perfusion rate using the system. The present invention provides a method of measuring perfusion in a living body, which enables accurate measurement for respective regions in a wide range from a perfusion rate decreased to less than 10% of normal perfusion to a perfusion rate increased to greater than normal perfusion using the above-described mechanism of ICG in a living body, which cannot be conducted using the conventional technology.
US08285349B2
It is aimed to attain compatibility between a size reduction, a thickness reduction of a portable terminal and the ensuring of an energizing force is attained. An upper case 2 is coupled with a connecting portion 4 to proceed in a predetermined direction with respect to a lower case 3. Two cases 2, 3 have a close state in which they are overlapped mutually and an open state in which the upper case 2 is extended by moving in a predetermined direction. One end of a coil portion 33A is fixed to a second hole 46 and the other end of the coil portion 33A is fixed to a third hole 50, and the connecting portion 4 has a torsion coil spring 33 that applies an energizing force to two cases 2, 3 such that the cases 2, 3 are brought into the close state or the open state. The coil portion 33A is arranged in a clearance 56 that is formed by a part of two cases 2, 3 when the two cases oppose to each other in the moving direction, and the clearance 56 is arranged in a vicinity on a predetermined direction with respect to the third hole 50 in the close state.
US08285346B2
The present invention relates to a method and arrangements for saving battery power consumption of a UE in mobile telecommunication system. The method comprises the step of checking whether the UE fulfills at least one of the pre-determined criteria that a subscriber explicitly requests to receive paging at extended DRX cycle and that a new cell is not reselected during a pre-determined time. If the at least one of the pre-determined criteria is fulfilled the step of applying an extended DRX cycle is performed.
US08285344B2
The method defines a user environment based on detected motion data and/or ambient noise data. The user environment is then used to apply an appropriate audio adjustment mode. In one embodiment, the user environment definition further includes location data. In one embodiment, the location data is obtained from one of: a global positioning system (GPS), and network triangulation.
US08285343B2
A wireless headset has improved immunity to RF electromagnetic interference produced from wireless communications devices. A headset body is adapted to be worn by a user and includes a microphone and earpiece. An antenna receives wireless communication signals and passes them to RF and audio circuitry mounted within the headset body. The RF and audio circuitry include a Bluetooth module operatively connected to the antenna for transmitting and receiving wireless communication signals, an audio CODEC connected to the Bluetooth module, and audio connection lines connected between the CODEC and the earpiece and between the CODEC and the microphone. A filter is connected into each of the audio connection lines at the earpiece and microphone and operative for reducing the RF coupling from a mobile wireless communications device.
US08285342B2
A wireless telecommunication device including a foreground unit, and a background unit that is physically separated from the foreground unit and in local communication with the foreground unit. The foreground unit is provided to support incoming calls independently of the background unit. Furthermore, the foreground unit and the background unit cooperate to support outgoing calls. The scope of the invention also includes a method for doing business by offering the foreground unit for sale in a packaging having a form factor selected from the group consisting of a pen, a pen cap, a wristwatch, and a necklace.
US08285334B2
A mobile communication terminal including a controller configured to access a web page for receiving a broadcast when the terminal enters a broadcast mode for receiving the broadcast, a display configured to display the accessed web page, and a receiving unit configured to receive channel information related to the broadcast and linked to a specific information entity selected on the web page.
US08285322B2
A system and method for minimizing interference for mobile devices operating in a communication network that includes a centralized controller and a number of femtocells, each femtocell including a base station. The method calculates a power assignment priority for each femtocell, and determines a priority order of the femtocells, the priority order based on the power assignment priority calculated for each femtocell. The method calculates a power to assign to the base station for each femtocell based on the priority order. The method allocates a first portion of the power assigned to the base station for each femtocell as required for real-time traffic, and a second portion of the power assigned to the base station for each femtocell as required for non-real-time traffic.
US08285316B2
A method an system for establishing a multi-user communication session, having a session description, between terminals with incompatible media characteristics, in which users with terminals having incompatible media characteristics are invited to participate in the communication session. A transcoding session is set up for enabling transcoding between the incompatible media characteristics of the terminals based on information about the terminals of the users having accepted the invitation, this information comprising the media characteristics of the users' terminals. The session description is established according to the transcoding session and, during the communication session, media streams from the terminal of one user are transcoded according to the transcoding session and the transcoded media streams are transmitted according to the session description to the other users participating in the communication session, using the media characteristics of the terminals of those other users.
US08285309B2
A system for wirelessly transmitting information to a mobile appliance of a user of a means of transport. The system can include a first database containing journey-related information and a second database containing a profile for the user. The system can further include a first device configured to identify the mobile appliance of the user when the mobile appliance enters a range of a wireless local area network in the means of transport, a second device configured to select information from the first database based on the profile stored in the second database, and a third device configured to transmit the selected information to the mobile appliance of the user.
US08285308B1
A trusted third party information arbiter for facilitating third party information sources, such as advertisers or data processing services, to accurately target communications to mobile device users. Illustratively, the mobile device users can control target communications through the utilization of discretion requests/permissions processed by the third party information arbiter. Furthermore, the mobile device users may further interact with the trusted third party information arbiter to provide/release additional personal information. For example, a mobile device user may be provided an increasingly rich rewards or payments that may be provisioned by discount, coupons or offers associated with existing or new product advertisements or promotional information messages.
US08285302B1
A method, computer program product, and computing system for defining a device identifier for a data center device within a data center. Location coordinates are defined for the data center device within the data center. The device identifier is associated with the location coordinates to define geospatial information for the data center device within the data center. The geospatial information is processed to locate the data center device within the data center.
US08285296B2
Implementations of systems and techniques for scheduling wireless transmission of data blocks between a base station (BS) and one or more relay stations (RSs) in a wireless relay communication network.
US08285293B2
A method is provided of radio communication in a radio communications network comprising a macrocell base station and a femtocell base station. The method comprises the femtocell base station: transmitting in a first radio frequency band that is allocated to the macrocell, and detecting that a user terminal that is connected to the macrocell base station is in the femtocell. In response to said detecting the user terminal as being in the femtocell, the femtocell base station ceases to use that frequency band at least in the region in which the user terminal is located so as to avoid unacceptable interference to the user terminal.
US08285287B2
A wireless communication terminal including: a switching section for switching between a first communication system in which an upper limit value of a transmission rate varies and a second communication system; a reception section for receiving an information indicating the upper limit value of the transmission rate in the first communication system, from a base station; a comparison section for making a comparison between the upper limit value received by the reception section and a predetermined reference value, either at a communication start time or during communication with the base station in the first communication system; and a control section for performing switching control of the switching section so as to perform communication in the second communication system when the upper limit value is lower than the reference value as a result of the comparison by the comparison section.
US08285285B2
Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate utilizing reselection indicators in reselecting access points in wireless communications. In particular, an indicator can be provided relating to a restricted association access point that specifies whether intra-frequency reselection is allowed. If so, a mobile device receiving the indicator can reselect to other access points, to which it has access, operating in a similar frequency. If not, the mobile device can evaluate access points in other frequencies so as not to cause substantial interference to the restricted association access point. In addition, a predicted level of interference caused by communicating with an intra-frequency access point can be computed and evaluated to override the reselection indicator, in some cases. Thus, a restricted association access point can control reselection for some devices to mitigate interference while allowing the devices to override prohibitive restricted access points.
US08285282B2
The radio commutation terminal (200) receives an AAS-DLFP which is transmitted by using a specific region and is associated with the control information, when the control information transmitted by using a map region is cannot toe received. The radio communication terminal (200) transmits a ranging code to a radio base station (100) to notify the reception of the AAS-DLFP, when the AAS-DLFP is received. The radio base station (100) transmits a private map for the radio communication terminal (200) to the radio communication terminal (200) toy a directional beam, when the ranging code is received from the radio communication terminal (200).
US08285277B2
Methods and apparatuses for interfacing between broadband wireless communication systems and Local Area Network (LAN) systems are disclosed herein. For instance, the method can include receiving wireless data formatted according to the LAN protocol. The LAN-formatted data can be converted to a broadband wireless communication protocol (e.g., a wide area network, a cellular telephone communication network, a broadband satellite communication network, or a combination thereof) to generate broadband protocol data. Further, the broadband protocol data can be transmitted to one or more wireless devices.
US08285275B2
It is considered that a user selects a communication channel in accordance with a communication object when performing communication via a second base station (femto cell base station). Accordingly, it is desirable that a communication terminal device which can perform communication via a second base station have a function for selecting a communication path. Provided is a communication terminal device which can be used for communication via a second base station by selecting and transmitting request information for using a mobile telephone network connection with an Internet service.
US08285269B2
A mobile telecommunication network monitors short messages and multimedia messages sent to non-existent mobile subscribers and selectively treats such messages as if sent to an existent recipient. The network then provides the sender with ordinary signaling related to successful message delivery so as to form traps to attract and detect messages such as spam messages. Spam messages are detectable as statistically significant presence of identical or sufficiently similar messages in a sufficiently large subset of unused subscriber numbers being assigned as traps for spam messages. The treatment of messages addressed to numbers assigned to trap use can further model normal usage of mobile subscriptions so as to inhibit simple determination of subscriber numbers that are used for trapping spam messages.
US08285268B2
A mobile station capable of being upgraded by a delta file received from a software upgrade server via a wireless network. The mobile station comprises: 1) a memory for storing an original image file and the delta file, wherein the delta file is suitable for upgrading the original image file; and 2) a controller for modifying the original image file according to instructions stored in the delta file to thereby generate an upgraded image file.
US08285260B2
A mobile terminal and multimedia message processing method thereof is provided for efficiently processing a multimedia message composed of multiple pages. A multimedia message processing method of the present invention includes receiving a message arrival alert containing a preview page selected among multiple pages constituting a multimedia message; displaying the preview page; determining whether an event allowing or rejecting download of the remaining pages of the multimedia message is received; and rejecting, when an event for rejecting download of the remaining pages of the multimedia message is received, download of the remaining pages of the multimedia message. The multimedia message processing method of the present invention allows a user to determine whether to download the entire multimedia message after viewing a preview page carried by a message arrival alert, thereby avoiding download of unwanted multimedia message, resulting in reduction of data service cost and improvement of memory utilization.
US08285257B2
A message storage server stores a message by speech or video transmitted from a mobile communication terminal and performs emotion recognition on the message to generate emotion data. A mobile communication terminal, upon receiving a confirmation request from the message storage server of a message which the mobile communication terminal has transmitted as a message for another mobile communication terminal, displays the emotion data assigned to the transmitted message on its display.
US08285256B2
A system and method for projecting information from a wireless messaging device. User preferences are received for projecting the information. An event is detected. Information regarding the event is projected onto a surface in response to detecting the event.
US08285253B2
The invention pertains to a method for managing a telecommunication network, comprising at least one base station in which said at least one base station is located and authenticated through the use of at least one identification parameter for a landline of the telecommunication network to which the base station is connected.
US08285250B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for implementing mobile device-based bandwidth throttling. In one aspect, a method includes receiving policy from a wireless carrier that specifies one or more data usage thresholds allotted by the wireless carrier for data transferred over a wireless carrier network during a predetermined period of time, determining an amount of data that has been transferred by the mobile device over the wireless carrier network during the predetermined period of time, determining that the amount exceeds one or more of the data usage thresholds, and throttling the bandwidth of a mobile device over the wireless carrier network based on determining that the amount exceeds one or more of the data usage thresholds.
US08285249B2
A system and method for the real-time management of a device, and more particularly to the establishment and enforcement of policies or rules associated with the feature or functions that may be performed with the device. Modern communication devices are capable of many things, including making and receiving calls, exchanging data, playing games and music, sending and receiving email, accessing web sites, and paying for goods and services. Depending on who is using the communication device, such as a child or an employee, there may be a need or desire to regulate how that communication device can be used and to determine who will pay for what goods or services. In addition to providing all of the features associated with a device, service providers need to be able to establish and enforce rules (policies) regulating how and when that device can be used and who will pay for a good or service requested by the user of the device.
US08285245B2
Information from location nodes is downloaded to a control center. A mobile device associated with a user located in a specific area at a geographical location is in communication at least one node, which is, in turn, in communication with at least one control center. The nodes communicate with each other wirelessly via radio frequency (RF) using Bluetooth™ protocol. A messaging system is used to send specific messages to mobile devices, according to the profiles of the users of the mobile devices and their location relative to the nodes. Data mining and commercial communications are possible for users associated with mobile devices in particular locations.
US08285240B2
Receiver architectures and methods of processing harmonic rich input signals employing harmonic suppression mixers are disclosed herein. The disclosed receivers, mixers, and methods enable a receiver to achieve the advantages of switching mixers while greatly reducing the mixer response to the undesired harmonics. A harmonic mixer can include a plurality of mixers coupled to an input signal. A plurality of phases of a local oscillator signal can be generated from a single local oscillator output. Each of the phases can be used to drive an input of one of the mixers. The mixer outputs can be combined to generate a frequency converted output that has harmonic rejection.
US08285238B2
A compact receiver which is easy in adjustment of a reference signal level is provided. A receiver having an antenna for receiving a wireless signal, a single pole single through switch which passes a signal received via the aforesaid antenna and outputs the signal when a first control signal is in a first state, and connects a signal received via the aforesaid antenna to a reference potential when the first control signal is in a second state, and a difference circuit which outputs a difference signal of an output signal of the aforesaid single pole single through switch when the first control signal is in the first state and an output signal of the aforesaid single pole single through switch when the first control signal is in the second state is provided.
US08285236B2
A method may compensate for direct current (DC) offset in a radio frequency reception device. The method may include partitioning an analog portion of the reception device into a plurality of zones, for each zone, calibrating initial DC offset compensation to be applied within an operating range of a respective zone, the operating range of the other zones being limited to a threshold operating range, and determining DC offset compensation to be applied to the reception device throughout the operating range based on the basic DC offset compensations.
US08285235B2
A wireless communication apparatus includes: an antenna; a communication unit for receiving a radio signal via the antenna; a tuning unit for tuning an impedance of the antenna; an impedance controller for controlling the tuning unit to match the impedance of the antenna with an impedance of the communication unit; and a halting unit for halting controlling the impedance of the antenna in accordance with an intensity of the received radio signal.
US08285228B2
A signal transmitting circuit includes: a signal generating circuit arranged to generate an output signal to a loading device according to an input signal; an adjusting circuit; and a matching circuit having a first port coupled to the adjusting circuit and a second port coupled to the signal generating circuit, wherein the second port is arranged to couple to the loading device so as to provide a matching impedance corresponding to the loading device; and the adjusting circuit is arranged to generate an adjusting signal of which a voltage applied on the first port is substantially equal to a voltage of the output signal applied on the second port.
US08285227B2
A frequency manipulator comprises a frequency transformer and a frequency retransformer. The frequency transformer receives each of at least one signal in a known band from at least one transmitter, transforms the known band of each signal into a predetermined band and forwards each signal in the predetermined band to a channel device. The frequency retransformer receives each signal from the channel device, retransforms the predetermined band of each signal to the known band and forwards each signal in the known band to at least one receiver.
US08285225B2
Wireless communications transceivers include a transmitter that is configured to selectively frequency shift and transmit portions of broadband information over multiple non-contiguous narrowband frequency bands/segments, each of which is too narrow to carry the broadband information. A receiver also is configured to receive and selectively frequency shift portions of broadband information from multiple non-contiguous narrowband frequency bands/segments, each of which is too narrow to carry the second broadband information. Broadband information thereby may be transmitted and received in a regulated communications environment, even though a given provider may only be assigned discontinuous frequency bands/segments, none of which is wide enough to carry the entire broadband information.
US08285224B2
A transmitter/receiver for radio communication according to an embodiment of the present invention has: a transmission circuit for generating a transmission signal; a demodulation circuit for demodulating a receive signal; an antenna circuit for transmitting the transmission signal from the transmission circuit and receiving the receive signal and guiding the receive signal to the demodulation circuit; a phase shift circuit which is connected between the transmission circuit and the antenna circuit; and a switching circuit which switches between outputting a superimposed signal of the transmission signal and the receive signal between the phase shift circuit and the antenna circuit to the demodulation circuit, and outputting a superimposed signal of the transmission signal and the receive signal between the transmission circuit and the phase shift circuit to the demodulation circuit.
US08285221B2
A method, a system and a device for implementing a scalable, self-calibrating and configuring, radio frequency head in a wireless base station that performs phase calibration for coherent combining of a pair of transmitter outputs. Configurable Antenna Calibration (CAC) logic initiates phase calibration for coherent combining by selecting a first configuration and triggering the transmission of a reference signal by radio frequency (RF) transmitters using different sub-carriers. The CAC logic generates a vector of phase values by comparing the reference signal with the respective signals received by a calibration receiver. The CAC logic also generates calibration coefficients for coherent combining by normalizing the phase values. In addition, a passive combiner mechanism is employed to implement coherent combining. The CAC logic performs calibration of smart antennas by providing calibration coefficients via a second configuration which utilizes both a calibration transmitter and the calibration receiver.
US08285209B2
A short range radio transmitter device includes a radio signal modulator and transmitter, a receiver and a controller coupled to the receiver. The controller and receiver operate to examine a frequency spectrum to select a transmission frequency for the radio signal modulator and transmitter. A receiver system for use with the transmitter includes a data channel service enabled receiver and a controller. The controller of the receiver system automatically tunes the data channel service enabled receiver to a frequency identified in a data channel service component of a received signal.
US08285200B2
A method for IP [=Internet Protocol] communication between a mobile terminal and its correspondent node in a mobile radio network. The method comprises establishing (2-2) an IP connection between the mobile terminal and its correspondent node. After detecting a period of inactivity in the IP connection, (2-4) keep-alive messages are sent via the IP connection at predetermined intervals, which are varied. The method comprises monitoring (2-6) the lengths of several periods of inactivity at which the mobile radio network disconnects the IP connection. Based on the monitored lengths of periods of inactivity, a maximum interval (TINT) between keep-alive messages is determined (2-8) such that the maximum interval meets a predetermined criterion of statistical confidence, and the interval between keep-alive messages is set (2-1) to the maximum interval (TINT).
US08285196B2
An electronic infrastructure consisting a plurality of client mobile devices, a distribution server and network that communicatively couples the plurality of client mobile devices and distribution server, wherein the distribution server collects survey questionnaires from a questionnaire source, distributes survey questionnaire to the plurality of client mobile devices. Then, the distribution server receives responses from the users of plurality of client mobile devices and analyses the responses based upon several criteria. The questionnaire source is a user of the distribution server who delivers survey questionnaire. The criteria includes region based analysis, race based analysis, age based analysis, other criteria based analysis, high priority analysis and/or satisfaction level analysis. The survey questionnaire may be presented as one question per screen with multi choice answers, or multiple questions per screen in a tabular form.
US08285182B2
A fixing device has a frame, a heating roller, a press roller, a peeler, a guide member, and a wheel. The heating roller includes a roller rotation axis and a cylindrical surface. The press roller is pressed against the cylindrical surface to feed a recording medium together with the heating roller along a feeding path. The peeler has a peeling surface having a leading edge, where the peeling surface faces the feeding path. The guide member faces the peeling surface to guide the recording medium to downstream of the feeding path. The guide member is movable between a near position and a far position relative to the peeling surface. The wheel is positioned in a manner that a part of the circumferential edge protrudes from the peeling surface to the guiding member in a virtual plane perpendicular to the wheel rotation axis.
US08285174B2
A color electrophotographic image forming apparatus detachably mounts cartridges and includes a support supporting a cartridge, movable between inside and outside positions, an outer wall having an opening through which the support passes through when moving between the inside and outside positions, and a guide supporting the support to linearly move between the inside and outside positions so that when the support is in the outside position, the guide supports the support so that a downstream side thereof is pivotable downwardly about an upstream side of the support with respect to a movement direction to the outside position from the inside position. In this state, the cartridge is mounted to the support from above the support and is dismounted upwardly of the support.
US08285172B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit an original reading unit and a guide mechanism. The image forming unit includes a sheet supply unit; a transportation roller for transporting a medium from the sheet supply unit; an image drum unit for forming a toner image on a photosensitive drum; a transfer belt unit for transferring the toner image on the photosensitive drum to the medium; a fixing device for fixing the toner image to the medium; and a stacker for placing the medium. The original reading unit includes an original stage for placing an original; a scanner unit disposed below the original stage; and a transportation unit for transporting the original to the original stage and a sheet discharge unit. The guide mechanism includes a pair of guide walls integrally formed at upper edges of the image forming unit.
US08285167B2
A fixing device configured to fix a toner image on a moving printing medium includes: a fixing heat generator that generates heat by electromagnetic induction; a fixing medium that rotates and is heated while being carried by the heating medium; and a pressing member that presses a back surface of the printing medium coming into contact with the fixing medium, the fixing heat generator including a center coil and a pair of side coils provided at a center portion and both side portions thereof along a direction perpendicular to the direction of movement of the printing medium for heating the fixing medium by induction heating, the pressing member including a center heater and a side heater that heat a center portion and both side portions thereof in a direction perpendicular to the direction of movement of the printing medium integrated therein.
US08285164B2
A developing device is provided with a developer transporting member for transporting a developer containing a toner and a carrier; a toner transporting member opposite to the developer transporting member and opposite to an electrostatic latent image carrying member; a first electric field forming device, which is composed of a power source for the developer transporting member and a power source for the toner transporting member, for shifting the toner in the developer held onto the developer transporting member to the toner transporting member; and a second electric field forming device for shifting the toner held onto the toner transporting member to an electrostatic latent image on the carrying member. Operation of the first electric field forming device is controlled based on an electric current flowing in the developer transporting member power source, which is detected by a detecting block.
US08285162B2
An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of developing devices. Each developing devices performs an electrophotographic process to form an image. The image forming apparatus comprises a first developing device and a second developing device. The first developing device holds a black developer containing a first black coloring agent. The second developing device holds a gray developer. The gray developer contains a second black coloring agent and a coloring agent of a chromatic color. The chromatic color is a complementary color to the second black coloring agent.
US08285158B2
An image forming apparatus that is capable of preventing an abnormal operation due to a voltage drop of a commercial power source and continuing an image forming operation efficiently even if the voltage drop occurs. A fixing unit fixes a toner image transferred onto a sheet. A voltage detection unit detects an input voltage of the commercial power source. A setting unit sets a fixing electric power supplied to the fixing unit from the commercial power source. A control unit suspends an operation when the set fixing electric power is less than a predetermined electric power and when the input voltage is less than a first voltage, and to continue the operation while reducing the set fixing electric power when the set fixing electric power is not less than the predetermined electric power and when the input voltage is less than a second voltage.
US08285157B2
A developing device and an image forming apparatus are provided, which prevent the output of the sensor from being destabilized due to the loose aggregation and stagnation of a developer on the detection surface of a permeability sensor and stabilize the output of the permeability sensor so as to enable highly precise toner concentration control. The developing device includes a transport passage, a developing roller that supplies to a photosensitive drum the two-component developer passing through the transport passage, a transport member that stirs the two-component developer in the transport passage and supplies the two-component developer to the developing roller, and the permeability sensor that is disposed in the transport passage to detect a toner concentration of the two-component developer. The developing device also includes an electromagnet located adjacent to the permeability sensor. The electromagnet is supplied with an intermittent flow of current to make the developer active in movement.
US08285156B2
An apparatus and method that determines toner age in a printing apparatus. The method can include placing an imaging surface cleaner in contact with an imaging surface. The method can include placing a toner patch on the imaging surface. The method can include rotating the imaging surface in a process direction. The method can include measuring a frictional interaction between the imaging surface cleaner and the imaging surface as the toner patch passes the imaging surface cleaner. The method can include determining whether toner should be purged based on the measured frictional interaction. The method can include purging the toner if the toner should be purged.
US08285145B2
In a dense wavelength division multiplexed optical network, an upgradeable, modular, colorless, directionless, reconfigurable add/drop multiplexer having a small form factor. By using wavelength selective switches and couplers, the above features are achieved without the need for photonic cross connects.
US08285142B2
An aggregation node device of a passive optical network (PON) is provided which includes an aggregation optical line terminal (OLT) and an aggregation optical network unit (ONU). The aggregation OLT is connected to a user-side ONU. The aggregation OLT aggregates service data transmitted by a user-side ONU and transmits the aggregated service data to the aggregation ONU. The aggregation ONU is adapted to transmit the received aggregated service data to a network-side OLT. A PON system is further provided. The device and system can not only support the conventional time division multiplexing (TDM) services but also support the services based on variable-length packets and the multicast service. Moreover, it is not necessary to build an equipment room and supply power for an intermediate optical distribution network (ODN) which greatly reduces the network construction and operation costs.
US08285124B2
An information recording/reproducing apparatus includes a registration unit that registers scheduling information to periodically record information; a recording unit that records the information on a recording medium based on the scheduling information; a reproduction unit that reproduces the information recorded on the recording medium; a deletion unit that deletes the information according to a deletion instruction from the recording medium; and an erasure unit that erases, when the number of times of reproducing the information according to the deletion instruction is zero, the scheduling information associated with the information from the registration unit.
US08285117B2
An information processing apparatus includes a data processing unit that verifies data recorded on a disk and reproduces content recorded on the disk if a verification condition is satisfied. The data processing unit verifies the validity of an ID inserter that has recorded, on the disk, an ID corresponding to the disk. The data processing unit acquires an ID inserter certificate containing an apparatus ID of the ID inserter that has recorded the ID corresponding to the disk on the disk and an ID inserter blacklist having apparatus IDs of invoked ID inserters registered therein, determines whether the apparatus ID contained in the ID inserter certificate is registered in the ID inserter blacklist so as to verify the validity of the ID inserter that has recorded the ID corresponding to the disk, and stops reproduction of the content if it is determined that the ID inserter is not valid.
US08285116B2
A control unit of a recording apparatus determines a transfer mode of content data by an external device, re-encodes the content data by a re-encoding unit and records the re-encoded content data in a recording unit if the determined transfer mode is a first transfer mode with which the re-encoding unit is compatible, and records the content data in the recording unit, re-encodes the content data read out from the recording unit by the re-encoding unit, and re-records the re-encoded content data in the recording unit if the determined transfer mode is a second transfer mode with which the re-encoding unit is not compatible.
US08285115B2
The AV data reproducing apparatus includes: (i) a reading section for reading out, from a recording medium, additional function information indicating an additional function correlated with a manipulation input; and (ii) an additional function program executing section for executing the additional function in response to the manipulation input. With this, an operation unique to the content can be carried out by executing the additional function (additional function program) indicated by the additional function information stored in the recording medium together with the AV data. This makes it possible for the AV data reproducing apparatus to carry out an operation other than an operation intrinsically corresponding to a key.
US08285098B2
Various embodiments include photonic bandgap fibers (PBGF). Some PBGF embodiments have a hollow core (HC) and may have a square lattice (SQL). In various embodiments, SQL PBGF can have a cladding region including 2-10 layers of air-holes. In various embodiments, an HC SQL PBGF can be configured to provide a relative wavelength transmission window Δλ/λc larger than about 0.35 and a minimum transmission loss in a range from about 70 dB/km to about 0.1 dB/km. In some embodiments, the HC SQL PBGF can be a polarization maintaining fiber. Methods of fabricating PBGF are also disclosed along with some examples of fabricated fibers. Various applications of PBGF are also described.
US08285095B2
An optical-electrical hybrid transmission cable (100), comprising: an insulative layer (2); a shielding layer located on an inner side of the insulative layer; a pair of signal wires (6) disposed in the shielding layer and twisted together; a power wire (7) and a grounding wire (8) disposed in the shielding layer and arranged side by side; two bare optical fibers (5) disposed in the shielding layer and spaced apart from each other; and a plurality of fillers (9) disposed in the shielding layer and arranged in a discrete manner.
US08285089B2
A microelectromechanical systems device fabricated on a pre-patterned substrate having grooves formed therein. A lower electrode is deposited over the substrate and separated from an orthogonal upper electrode by a cavity. The upper electrode is configured to be movable to modulate light. A semi-reflective layer and a transparent material are formed over the movable upper electrode.
US08285084B2
An organizing condition for organizing a plurality of inputted images based on at least one of a content of each inputted image and an associated attribute of each inputted image is stored for each user. When a plurality of newly inputted images are organized, the stored organizing condition associated with the user who carries out the organization is acquired, and the newly inputted images are organized based on the acquired organizing condition.
US08285080B2
An image scanner using an area sensor having a tilt reads a plurality of low-resolution image data having phase shifts from each other, and the low-resolution image data are converted into those on an orthogonal coordinate system by affine transformation. The number of data to be used is decided based on one of these low-resolution image data. The low-resolution image data as many as the designated number of data are saved, and high-resolution image data is generated by executing super-resolution processing.
US08285074B2
Methods of generating image anchor templates from low variance regions of document images of a first class are provided. The methods select a document image from the document images of the first class and align the other document images of the first class to the selected document image. Low variance regions are then determined by comparing the aligned document images and the selected document image and used to generate image anchor templates.
US08285067B2
A digital image acquisition system includes a portable apparatus for capturing digital images and a digital processing component for detecting, analyzing and informing the photographer regarding motion blur, and for reducing camera motion blur in an image captured by the apparatus. The digital processing component operates by comparing the image with at least one other image, for example a preview image, of nominally the same scene taken outside the exposure period of the main image. In one embodiment the digital processing component determines the degree of artifacts and whether to inform the user that the image is blurred by identifying at least one feature in a single preview image which is relatively less blurred than the corresponding feature in the main image. In another embodiment, the digital processing component calculates a trajectory of at least one feature in a plurality of preview images, extrapolates such feature on to the main image, calculates a PSF in respect of the feature, and informs the user based on the calculated PSF. In another embodiment the digital processing unit after determining the degree of blur notifies the photographer of the existing blur or automatically invokes consecutive captures. In another embodiment, the digital processing unit determines whether the image quality is acceptable from real time analysis of the captured image and provides this information to the user. Such real time analysis may use the auto focusing mechanism to qualitatively determine the PSF.
US08285065B2
To improve modification result where areas targeted for modification overlap, an image processing apparatus is provided. The image processing apparatus has a modification area establishing unit capable to establish a plurality of modification areas on a target image by analyzing the target image; an overlap detecting unit that detects overlapping of the plurality of modification areas; and a modification processing unit that modifies an image within a partial area including an overlapping portion of the plurality of modification areas in a reduced modification level in the case that the overlapping is detected by the overlap detecting unit, the reduced modification level being smaller than a modification level used in the case that the overlapping is not detected, the partial area belonging to at least one of the plurality of modification areas.
US08285053B2
A codebook generating method comprises a dividing and transforming step dividing an original image into original blocks and transforming each of the original blocks into an original vector; a parameter setting step setting a distortion tolerance and a predetermined number of representative blocks; a single group setting step setting the original vectors as a group; a preliminary grouping step grouping all the original vectors in a group currently having largest distortion into two groups using a grouping algorithm, wherein the preliminary grouping step is repeated until the number of groups is equal to the predetermined number of representative blocks; and a grouping step grouping all the original vectors based on a plurality of initial centroids to obtain final centroids, and storing vectors corresponding to the final centroids in a codebook, wherein the centroids of the groups are treated as the initial centroids.
US08285050B2
A house change judging method is provided for judging a change of a house in a data acquisition region based on new and old data concerning two periods, which have been aerially acquired, including: extracting as a judgment target region a predetermined region in the new data by trimming with house polygon data corresponding to a predetermined region prepared in advance; computing, after the extraction, as evaluation values, two kinds of new and old difference values between the two periods with respect to a gradation value of color image data and an altitude value of altitude data across the entire judgment target region; and judging, after the computation, based on the evaluation values, whether a house change has occurred in the judgment target region by referring to a judging table including combinations of two kinds of preset evaluation criterion values.
US08285049B2
A processing device may recognize a number of input handwritten strokes, which may represent a mathematical expression, a chemical formula, or other two-dimensional structure. Rewriting rules of a grammar may be applied to the strokes to produce a number of possible recognition results. Each of the possible recognition results has a respective score based on a sum of rewriting rules applied to the strokes to produce respective ones of the possible recognition results. Input may be provided to identify misrecognized strokes and a correct terminal production, or symbol corresponding to the misrecognized strokes. Strokes may be misrecognized for many reasons, including parsing errors, over-grouping or under-grouping of matrices, and improper placement of a recognized terminal production, or symbol, with respect to a root structure. Correction hints may be leveraged for correcting types of errors mentioned above.
US08285045B2
An image analysis method, medium and apparatus for segmentation of a moving image, and a moving image segmentation system. The image analysis method includes receiving an image signal representing an image, detecting features of the image by calculating a difference between the current frame of the image signal and its previous frame, analyzing the image signal based on the detected features of the image, and performing segmentation on the image signal according to the analysis result, thereby separately performing segmentation on all types of moving images. In other words, by using an appropriate segmentation method according to a feature of an image, effective segmentation can be achieved.
US08285036B2
A method is provided for extracting an edge included in a color image formed of first pixels expressed by color component values of three colors. The method includes: calculating a lightness value of the first pixel based on the color component values; determining which one of the low, medium, and high lightness regions, the calculate lightness value belongs to; generating an extraction image formed of second pixels corresponding to the first pixels; and extracting an edge based on the pixel value of the extraction image thus generated. For a first pixel whose lightness value belongs to the medium lightness region and the low or high lightness region, a pixel value is calculated from the color component values of three colors, and from the color component values excluding at least one color, respectively. Then, the edge is extracted based on the calculated pixel value of the extraction image.
US08285028B2
Aims to provide an inspection apparatus which precisely detects an amount of misalignment of a component mounted on a panel through an adhesive which contains conductive particles. The inspection apparatus includes: an infrared-light illuminator (305) which is provided on a bottom-surface side of the panel and illuminates with light a panel recognition mark formed on the panel and a component recognition mark formed on the component; an IR camera (307) which is provided opposite to the illuminator (305) and captures images of the light-illuminated recognition marks; and an amount-of-misalignment calculation unit (446) which calculates, using the images captured by the camera (307), an amount of misalignment of the recognition marks as an amount of misalignment in mounting position, wherein the illuminator (305) emits light in an amount which causes halation, the light having a wavelength that allows the light to pass through the panel and the component but does not allow or does not easily allow the light to pass through the conductive particles.
US08285020B2
A method and system for acquiring, processing, storing, and displaying x-ray mammograms Mp tomosynthesis images Tr representative of breast slices, and x-ray tomosynthesis projection images Tp taken at different angles to a breast, where the Tr images are reconstructed from Tp images.
US08285016B2
An endoscope insertion direction detecting device includes a classification section for performing, on a scene of an endoscope image of a moving image picked up by an endoscope inserted into a body cavity, classification into classes for a plurality of different feature values relating to detection of an endoscope insertion direction in the body cavity; and an insertion direction computing section, provided for each of the classes for the feature values, into which the classification is performed, for computing an insertion direction of the endoscope.
US08285013B2
An image processing apparatus having improved detection performance for detecting an abnormal shadow, such as a tumor, and reducing a burden on the user is disclosed. In the image processing apparatus, an aligning unit aligns a previous image and a current diagnosis image with each other, and a corresponding position calculating unit calculates a position on a subject in the current diagnosis image corresponding to the position of an abnormal shadow on the subject in the previous image based on positional information of the abnormal shadow on the subject in the previous image and alignment information. A current diagnosis image abnormal shadow detecting unit detects the abnormal shadow in the current diagnosis image from the vicinity of the corresponding position in the current diagnosis image.
US08285007B2
Disclosed herein is a subwindow setting method for a face detector for detecting whether one or more facial images exist in each of subwindows having a set size while sequentially setting the subwindows in the width direction of an input image. A scan interval between two neighboring subwindows under consideration in the width direction is determined based on the facial color density of a first subwindow of the two neighboring subwindows. Further, a scan interval between the first and second rows in a height direction of the input image is determined based on the facial color density of the subwindows included in the first row.
US08284998B2
A method of estimating depths on a monocular image displayed on a display is utilized for improving correctness of depths shown on the display. Feature vectors are calculated for each patch on the monocular image for determining an intermediate depth map of the monocular image in advance. For improving the correctness of the intermediate depth map, an energy function in forms of vectors is minimized for calculating a best solution of the depth map of the monocular image. Therefore, the display may display the monocular image according to a calculated output depth map for having an observer of the display to correctly perceive depths on the monocular image.
US08284993B2
A decentralized tracking system is discussed herein. The decentralized tracking system can be comprised of two or more tracking elements and be used to track packages moving on a conveyor system. Each tracking element can operate independently, despite being highly sophisticated and dynamically coordinated with one or more other tracking elements. The conveyor system can be a modular and/or accumulation conveyor system that has sorting functionality. The decentralized tracking system can be used to divert packages for sortation by, for example, embedding a destination zone into the package's tracking data and/or preprogramming conveyor zones to sort specific packages based on a package identifier.
US08284992B2
In order to appropriately detect abnormalities for the purpose of surveillance with it being possible to prevent an unnecessary increase in data amount of the monitoring images, a monitoring system includes an image capturing section that captures a moving image of a monitored area, a variation reduced image generating section that generates a variation reduced image by reducing a temporal variation in an image, based on a plurality of moving-image making-up images included in the moving image captured by the image capturing section, a condition storing section that stores thereon a condition which is required to be satisfied by a variation reduced image which is generated by using a plurality of moving-image making-up images included in a moving image which is judged to show an abnormality, a satisfaction judging section that judges whether the variation reduced image generated by the variation reduced image generating section satisfies the condition, an output moving image generating section that, when the satisfaction judging section judges negatively, generates an output moving image which has a lower image quality than when the satisfaction judging section judges positively, based on the moving image captured by the image capturing section, and an output section that outputs the output moving image generated by the output moving image generating section.
US08284989B2
The invention describes a method for locating an object (B1, B1′, B2, B3) associated with a device (D1, D2, D3) to be controlled, which method comprises aiming a pointing device (1) comprising a camera (2) at a target area (A), generating an image (3) of the target area (A) aimed at by the pointing device (1) and analysing the target area image (3) to determine a property of the object (B1, B1′, B2, B3). A feedback signal (4), regarding the property of the object (B1, B1′, B2, B3), is generated based on analysis of the images (3) and reported to the user by rendering the feedback signal (4) into a tactile indication generated in at least part of the pointing device (1). The invention also describes a pointing device (1), a device control interface (8, 8′) and a system comprising such a pointing device (1) and device control interface (8, 8′) suitable for applying this method. Furthermore, the invention describes a method and a system (15) for controlling a device (D1, D2, D3) using such a method for locating an object (B1, B1′, B2, B3) associated with the device (D1, D2, D3).
US08284984B2
Methods and systems for image registration are described. An area of an image may be selected. A length of at least one encoded wavelength for the area may be accessed. One or more candidate wavelengths may be identified in the area in at least one direction that includes at least one large peak. The length of the at least one encoded wavelength may be compared to the length of at least one of the one or more candidate wavelengths to calculate an alteration ratio. The alteration ratio may identify at least one of a scale or a rotation of the image.
US08284982B2
A variety of loudspeaker arrangements may have any of multiple adjacent magnetic circuits, single magnetic circuits, an improved loudspeaker voice coil assembly, multiple voice coil windings (124-127, 315-317), and commutated current. The radial direction of flux may alternate at adjacent poles and may have a controller that commands the current through each of the windings. The position of the moving components may be measured or inferred by the controller (213). An encoding track (318a) applied to the surface of the assembly may allow the assembly to function as part of a position transducer to permit appropriate action based on position. Calculated or sensed actual position may be used to determine the relative current in each of the windings and the controller may have compensation such as a motion control algorithm, thermal monitoring, and management of the driver. The voice coil assembly (305c) may have foil conductors applied to a substrate to connect and interconnect a single or multiple voice coil windings with minimal effect on the magnetic gap (303b) width.
US08284979B2
Provided are a method of forming a sound hole in a condenser microphone case that prevents foreign substances from being thrown to improve reliability and the condenser microphone case. The method of forming the sound hole in the condenser microphone case includes cutting a portion of a bottom surface of a metal case in the cylindrical metal case having an opened side to mount components for a microphone, and simultaneously, pressing the cut portion to form a sound hole having a gap shape at the cut portion.
US08284975B2
A mobile communication terminal includes a receiver converting an audio signal outputted from the mobile communication terminal into an audible sound; a coupler dividing the audio signal outputted from the receiver into first and second audio signals which are different in phase from each other; an audio signal amplifier amplifying the second audio signal outputted from the coupler according to a predetermined amplification gain; a receiver port to which the receiver is detachably connected and which includes a first output port transmitting the first audio signal outputted from the coupler to the receiver and a second output port transmitting the second audio signal amplified by the audio signal amplifier to the receiver; and a controller controlling the mobile communication terminal and the amplification gain of the audio signal amplifier.
US08284970B2
An apparatus is provided that includes an input system, an output system, and a sensor for sensing magnetic fields. In one example, a signal processing circuit electrically connects the input system to the output system, and a magnetic sensor adapted to inhibit the acoustic input and function as a magnetic input in the presence of a magnetic field. In one example, the magnetic sensor includes a giant magneto resistive (GMR) sensor. In another example, the magnetic sensor includes an anisotropic magneto resistive (AMR) sensor. The magnetic field can be generated by, among other things, a magnet in a telephone handset. The hearing aid further is programmed based on time-varying characteristics of the magnetic field. Wireless activation or deactivation of the hearing aid is also described. Other examples and options are provided herein.
US08284966B2
An elastic shield comprising an acoustic channel having a sound inlet and a sound outlet, and a hollow portion being adapted to at least partly surround a miniature microphone, or alternatively, arranged to follow an outer contour of a miniature microphone. The present invention further relates to a miniature microphone assembly comprising a miniature microphone having a sound inlet, and an elastic shield comprising an acoustic channel having a sound inlet and a sound outlet, the elastic shield further comprising a hollow portion housing at least part of the miniature microphone in a manner so that the sound outlet of the acoustic channel is aligned with the sound inlet of the miniature microphone.
US08284943B2
Encryption of Internet Protocol (IP) traffic using IP Security (IPSec) at the edge of the enterprise network, in such a way as to support resilient BGP/MPLS IP VPN network designs. The IP traffic is securely tunneled within IPSec tunnels from the edge to the edge of the enterprise network. The IPSec traffic is also tunneled within MPLS tunnels from the edge to the edge of the service provider network. The enterprise network thus manages its own IPSec site-to-site VPN. The service provider thus independently manages its own MPLS network. The result provides an IP VPN or Layer 3 MPLS VPN to the enterprise; the enterprise IPSec network can thus be considered as an overlay to the MPLS service provider network.
US08284940B2
Disclosed herein is a system and method for providing Over-The-Air (OTA) service. The system according to the present invention includes a mobile terminal for, when a message is received from an OTA server, dividing OTA data, included in the message, into data segments of a predetermined size depending on a size of the message, and a smart card for receiving each of the data segments, decrypting the data segment using a preset OTA key, and storing the decrypted OTA data in a preset area.
US08284933B2
According to one embodiment, encrypting passwords includes performing the following for each input password of a plurality of input passwords to yield encrypted passwords, where at least two input passwords have different lengths and the encrypted passwords have the same length. An input password and a random number are received at logic configured to perform a key derivation operation comprising a pseudorandom function. An encryption key is derived from the input password and the random number according to the key derivation operation. The encryption key and a user identifier are received at logic configured to perform a cipher-based message authentication code (CMAC) function. An encrypted password is generated from the encryption key and the user identifier according to the CMAC function.
US08284932B2
This specification describes technologies relating to imparting cryptographic information in network communications. In general, aspects of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods that include identifying a location in a pre-defined portion of a network communication to be sent in a client-server environment, wherein the pre-defined portion is reserved for random data, inserting cryptographic information into the pre-defined portion of the network communication at the location, and sending the network communication in the client-server environment to facilitate modifying interactions in the client-server environment based at least in part on a result of processing of the cryptographic information; and on a receiving side, receiving cryptographic information inserted into the pre-defined portion of the network communication in the client-server environment, identifying the location, processing the cryptographic information, and modifying interactions in the client-server environment based at least in part on a result of the processing.
US08284930B2
In computing point multiples in elliptic curve schemes (e.g. kP and sQ) separately using, for example, Montgomery's method for the purpose of combining kP+sQ, several operations are repeated in computing kP and sQ individually, that could be executed at the same time. A simultaneous scalar multiplication method is provided that reduces the overall number of doubling and addition operations thereby providing an efficient method for multiple scalar multiplication. The elements in the pairs for P and Q method are combined into a single pair, and the bits in k and s are evaluated at each step as bit pairs. When the bits in k and s are equal, only one doubling operation and one addition operation are needed to compute the current pair, and when the bits in k and s are not equal, only one doubling operation is needed and two addition operations.
US08284925B2
A jack detection circuit includes a transition circuit and an AD converter. The transition circuit linearizes analog signals sent from a switching circuit. The AD converter converts the linearized analog signals to digital output signals thereby decreasing the complexity of signal recognition.
US08284914B2
Disclosed is a method and system for determining a telecommunications address of a location. A telephone call from a caller located at the location is received. Location data associated with the received telephone call is then obtained. The telecommunications address can then be determined from the location data.
US08284903B2
A filter capable of adjusting spectrum in multiple stages and that capable of attaining the reduction of size, as well as an X-ray imaging system having such a filter, are provided. The filter, which is for adjusting the spectrum of passing radiation, comprises a support plate having an aperture for passage therethrough of radiation, plural filter plates supported by the filter plate and having mutually different filter characteristics, and moving device for moving the plural filter plates selectively to a position to close the aperture and a position to open the aperture.
US08284900B2
Apparatus and method for improved transient response in an electromagnetically controlled X-ray tube
An x-ray tube assembly includes a vacuum enclosure including a cathode portion, a target portion, and a throat portion. The throat portion includes a magnetic field section, upstream section, and downstream section. The magnetic field section has a first susceptibility to generate eddy currents in the presence of a magnetic field intensity. The upstream section is coupled to the cathode portion and the magnetic field section and has a second susceptibility to generate eddy currents in the presence of the magnetic field intensity. The downstream section is coupled to the magnetic field section and has a third susceptibility to generate eddy currents in the presence of the magnetic field intensity. The first susceptibility to generate eddy currents is less than the second and third susceptibilities to generate eddy currents. The assembly includes a target within the target portion, and a cathode within the cathode portion.
US08284893B2
An X-ray computer tomography apparatus includes an X-ray tube, an X-ray detector, a rotating mechanism, a reconstruction unit which reconstructs multislice or volume image data based on the projection data detected by the X-ray detector, a profile generating unit which generates a CT value profile in the slice direction for each pixel by using image data, a profile portion extraction unit which extracts a profile portion exceeding a predetermined threshold from each of the CT value profiles, a scattered radiation distribution estimation unit which estimates a scattered radiation distribution centered on the profile portion based on the CT value integral and width of the profile portion, and a scattered radiation correction unit which corrects the image data based on the estimated scattered radiation distribution.
US08284888B2
A clock and data recovery device receives a serial data stream and produces recovered clock and data signals. The clock and data recovery device operates over a range of frequencies and without use an external reference clock. A first loop supplies a first clock signal to a second loop. The second loop modifies the first clock signal to produce the recovered clock signal and uses the recover clock signal to produce the recovered data signal. The first loop changes the frequency of the first clock signal based on frequency comparison and data transition density metrics.
US08284887B2
Disclosed herein is a clock data recovery circuit including: a first phase detector; a loop filter; a charge pump; a voltage-controlled oscillator; a second phase detector; a phase correction information generation section; and a phase correction information addition section.
US08284884B2
A method of frequency search for a digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) with multiple sub-bands. The method comprises providing multiple workable pre-control codes, each control code comprising a most significant bit (MSB), corresponding to each frequency of the DCO for selection, selecting one of the workable pre-control codes according to the MSBs thereof, and providing the selected control code to the DCO.
US08284883B2
In a method of identifying a time reference in signal received from a transmitter, a replica of a synchronization sequence is generated on the basis of at least one known transmission parameter and is compared to a sequence derived from the signal received from the transmitter to identify a reference point in the signal received from the transmitter.
US08284881B2
The present invention provides for method of seeking synchronization at a data interface between a transmitting element and a receiving element, and to related transmitting and receiving elements of the interface, in which the clock frequency of both elements is the same but which exhibit a phase difference, also known as mesochronous clock domains, the method including the steps of, prior to data transfer at the interface, delivering a strobe signal generated at the transmitting element to the receiving element, generating a strobe signal at the receiving element and synchronizing the same to the strobe signal received from the transmitting element, and maintaining the synchronized strobe signal generated at the receiving element for the sampling of data appearing at the interface from the transmitting element.
US08284880B2
A clock data recovery (CDR) circuit occupies a small area required in a high-integration semiconductor device, electronic device and system and is easy in design modification. The CDR circuit includes a digital filter configured to filter phase comparison result signals received during predetermined periods and output control signals, a driver configured to control the digital filter by adjusting the predetermined periods, and an input/output circuit configured to recognize an input and output of data and clock in response to the control signals.
US08284870B1
Recovering a data signal is disclosed. Recovering includes receiving an input signal from a magnetic recording channel, sampling the input signal according to a sampling clock having a sampling phase wherein the sampling phase is determined at least in part by comparing the sampled input signal to a signal associated with a decision, and filtering the sampled input signal according to a target.
US08284862B2
A set of data symbols is selected from a set of modulation constellation, and a sample-mean of the set of data symbols is determined. Each data symbol is first shifted by the sample-mean to obtain a shifted data symbol, and then the shifted symbol is multiplied by a first constant to obtain a scaled data symbol. A second constant is added to the scaled data symbol to obtain a mapped data symbol. The sample-mean is multiplied by a third constant to obtain a sample-mean mapped symbol. The set of mapped data symbols and the sample-mean mapped symbol are then transmitted as a resource block.
US08284845B1
In accordance with a specific aspect of the present invention, a compressed video stream, such as an MPEG-2 video stream, is received by a transport demultiplexor, synchronized, parsed into separate packet types, and written to buffer locations external the demultiplexor. Adaptation field is handled by a separate parser. In addition, primary elementary stream data can be handled by separate primary elementary stream parsers based upon the packet identifier of the primary elementary stream. Video packets can be parsed based upon stream identifier values. Specific packets of data are stored in one or more system memory or video memory buffers by an output controller based upon allocation table information. Private data associated with specific elementary streams or packet adaptation fields are repacketized, and written to an output buffer location. In specific implementations, the hardware associated with the system is used to acquire the data stream without any knowledge of the specific protocol of the stream. In another embodiment, the hardware is used to implement a splicing of streams of data.
US08284840B2
A video decoding method includes receiving video data and transforming the video data from a Huffman tree to at least one full tree and at least one one-side tree. One microcode corresponding to the video coding standard that has encoded the received video data is read where a format of the read microcode is determined. The method further includes reading video data from the transformed video data according to the consuming length of the read microcode if the format of the read microcode is a leaf, and decoding the read video data according to the decoding field of the read microcode to output a decoding result.
US08284829B2
A single carrier/multi carrier community receiver includes: a first discrete Fourier transform unit, for generating a frequency-domain signal by executing a first discrete Fourier transform on a received signal received via the single carrier/multi carrier; a first frequency-domain equalizer, for generating a first equalized frequency-domain signal by executing a first equalizing process on the frequency-domain signal; an inverse discrete Fourier transform unit, coupled to the first frequency-domain equalizer, for generating a first equalized time-domain signal executing an inverse discrete Fourier transform according to the first equalized frequency-domain signal; a slicer, coupled to the inverse discrete Fourier transform unit, for generating a sliced time-domain signal by executing a slicing process according to the first equalized time-domain signal; and a compensating circuit, for compensating the first equalized frequency-domain signal or the first equalized time-domain signal at least according to the sliced time-domain signal.
US08284828B2
Instability resulting from non-linear impairments is detected and an equalizer of an end device is reset. An equalization instability threshold is retrieved from a data storage device. An equalization parameter for the end device is monitored and, if the equalization parameter exceeds the equalization instability threshold, the equalizer is reset.
US08284827B2
The equalizer presented includes a first feed-forward equalization module, a second feed-forward equalization module, and a phase error corrector. The first and the second feed-forward equalization modules respectively receives an input real-part component signal and an input imaginary-part component signal of a complex input signal and respectively equalizes the input real-part component signal and the input imaginary-part component signal to generate a first real-part component signal and a first imaginary-part component signal. The phase error corrector is coupled to the first and the second feed-forward equalization modules for adjusting a complex phase corresponding to the first real-part component signal and the first imaginary-part component signal to generate a second real-part component signal and a second imaginary-part component signal according to a phase error information.
US08284823B2
A serial data communication system (10) comprises—a local clock generation device (12) adapted for generating a clock signal (16) with a duty cycle depending on a control signal (18), and—a serial data communication control device (14) adapted for generating the control signal (18) depending on the receipt of a serial data signal and for deriving a transmit and receive clock signal (20, 21) from the clock signal (16) received from the local clock generation device (12).
US08284822B2
Aspects of a method and system for utilizing direct digital frequency synthesis in multi-band applications are provided. A direct digital frequency synthesizer integrated in a multiband wireless receiver chip may be enabled to generate one or more reference signals that may be utilized to down-convert VHF, UHF and L-band signals to baseband signals. The direct digital frequency synthesizer may further generate one or more reference signals, which may be utilized to calibrate one or more circuits that process received VHF, UHF, and L-band signals. In this regard, the signals generated by the direct digital frequency synthesizer may be utilized to calibrate one or more LNAs in a receive processing chain of the chip and/or one or more filters that may be utilized to process baseband signals.
US08284820B2
According to an embodiment of the present invention, a shared processor architecture in a receiver system is disclosed. The receiver system is configured to have a first functional stage and a second functional stage for processing information carried by signals from a first transmitter system and a second transmitter system respectively. The first functional stage and the second functional stage correspond to an identical signal processing function. The shared processor architecture includes a first processor, allocated to the first functional stage and the second functional stage, for processing an output generated from the first functional stage or an output from the second functional stage.
US08284808B2
A device for generating light pulses includes a seed laser source for generating input light pulses. An optical pre-amplifier having variable gain receives the input light pulses from the seed laser source. An optical power amplifier receives the light pulses from the optical pre-amplifier and amplifies and compresses the received light pulses. The light pulses are compressed in the optical power amplifier in such a manner that the pulse duration of the output light pulses of the optical power amplifier is tunable via adjusting the gain of the optical pre-amplifier. Wavelength-tunable light pulses are obtained by supplying the output light pulses of the optical power amplifier to a highly non-linear optical fiber.
US08284804B2
An IP network includes a central entity and at least one customer premises equipment (CPE) device. The central entity generates a program clock reference (PCR) clock and provides audio-visual packets to a CPE based on the PCR clock. The CPE sets a first clock based on the PCR clock for decoding operations. The CPE sets a second clock that is independent from the first clock for audio and video output operations. For example, the CPE can process the audio-visual packets using the second clock.
US08284803B2
The subject disclosure relates to cross scope synchronization among different sets of nodes that synchronize the same data item(s) according to different synchronization scopes. In one aspect, create and update versions are defined for a scope in which a data item was created and updated, respectively, and create and update versions are defined for a local node shared for different groups of nodes synchronizing according to the different synchronization scopes (e.g., a server node).
US08284802B2
Embodiments of the present invention include enhanced functionalities and components within a Communication Endpoint Processor (CEP) that act as an interface between computational and communications domains. The embodiments disclosed herein deliver a complete memory mapped high performance interface that has the ability to support the simultaneous transmission of multiple frames of multiple sizes, and that has the ability to interrupt the transmission of lower priority frames in order to send higher priority frames.
US08284796B2
A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code to receive data from a source at a plurality of gateways for distribution using a selected priority. The data is transmitted from the plurality of gateways to a plurality of receivers using the selected priority. Every gateway in the plurality of gateways has an adaptive bandwidth control process and a respective set of parameters for controlling the adaptive bandwidth control process for sending the data at the selected priority. Transmission of the data from each gateway for the selected priority has a different impact on other traffic at different gateways in the plurality gateways for the selected priority when different values are set for the set of parameters for the different gateways.
US08284792B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises serializer/deserializer (SERDES) circuits. Each SERDES circuit is configured to transmit data on a respective lane to which the SERDES circuit is are coupled during use. The apparatus further comprises a transmit pipe coupled to the SERDES circuits. The transmit pipe comprises stages, and each stage is configured to process a maximum bandwidth unit (a maximum width of a port that is configurable on the lanes and smaller than a largest packet transmitted on the ports). In another embodiment, the apparatus comprises a transmit command queue; a transmit scheduler coupled to the transmit command queue; and a storage device coupled to the transmit scheduler that stores a scheduling calendar. The transmit scheduler is configured to schedule maximum bandwidth units for transmission on ports configured over the lanes on which packets are transmitted. The maximum bandwidth unit is smaller than a packet and is a maximum width of a port that is configurable on the lanes. The transmit scheduler is configured to schedule the maximum bandwidth units according to the scheduling calendar.
US08284778B2
A method, device, and program for determining states in a flow of packets are provided. A flow of transmitted packets is received. When the difference between the sequence number of the arriving packet and the next expected sequence number is equal to zero and when the TTL number of the arriving packet is equal to the TTL number of the previous packet, there is a stable state beginning with the first of the consecutively received packets. If a difference between the sequence number of an arriving packet and a next expected sequence number is greater than 1, or TTL of the arriving packet is not equal to the TTL number of the previous packet, there is a not stable state. Time between end of one stable state and start of the next stable state is the hole, and the states and holes correlate to events for analysis of the network.
US08284776B2
According to one general aspect, an apparatus may include an ingress port, a header cache, and a plurality of ingress recursion engines. In some embodiments, the ingress port may be configured to receive a packet that comprises a data portion and a header portion, wherein the header portion comprises at least one header. In various embodiments, the header cache may be configured to store at least a part of the header portion of the packet. In one embodiment, the plurality of ingress recursion engines may be configured to recursively process the header portion, from outer-most header to inner-most header, until an adjacency value for the packet is determined. In some embodiments, each ingress recursion engine may be configured to process a header from the header portion.
US08284761B2
A system and method for implementing dynamic end-to-end loss compensation in a VoIP communication system is provided. The invention utilizes standard signaling protocol to accommodate for the characteristics of various call endpoints, and in particular, provides for an SDP parameter that conveys terminal characteristics between endpoints of a VoIP connection.
US08284758B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving at a network device information on paths to a destination node, determining a number of common nodes or links between at least two of the paths, calculating a path diversity index based on the number of common nodes or links, and selecting a route to the destination node based on the path diversity index. An apparatus for calculating path diversity index for use in route selection is also disclosed.
US08284757B2
Method and apparatus are provided for encoding cell-specific information in a telecommunication system. Cell-specific information is encoded by a synchronization code. A synchronization signal including the synchronization code is sent, wherein the synchronization code includes a first repetitive cyclically permutable codeword generated from a first codeword ( c 1 , c 2 , … c i … , c ⌈ M 2 ⌉ ) , where ⌈ M 2 ⌉ is the smallest integer not less than M/2, 0≦ci≦N, 1≦i≦M for all i, M, N are positive integers, and the repetitive structure of the first repetitive cyclically permutable codeword is given by repeating the value of at least one codeword element of the first repetitive cyclically permutable codeword in at least one other codeword element position within the first repetitive cyclically permutable codeword.
US08284756B2
The present invention relates to private network communication techniques, and provides a DMR private network communication terminal, communication system, and an implementation method thereof. The DMR private network communication terminal includes: a communication module, adapted to receive/transmit DMR private network communication; a synchronization module, adapted to listen to a DMR synchronization pattern and establish synchronization with the DMR synchronization pattern, determine the time slot occupied by the DMR synchronization pattern, and thereby lock the pre-assigned communication time slot, and controls the communication module to receive/transmit DMR private network communication in the pre-assigned time slot.
US08284753B2
A wireless communication apparatus including a main queue to store MAC frames, a plurality of subqueues related to the main queue and used to control retransmission of the MAC frame, each of the subqueues having different priority for transmission of the MAC frame, respectively, an extracting device configured to extract the MAC frame from the main queue on the basis of a destination and the priority, and distribute the extracted MAC frame to one of the plurality of subqueues for each priority, and an aggregating device configured to extract MAC frames from the plurality of subqueues to form a MAC super frame.
US08284746B2
A wireless relay device connecting a wireless terminal to one of a plurality of access networks with different wireless interfaces and performing relay processing between the wireless terminal and one of the plurality of access networks being connected, the wireless relay device including a wireless interface on local side to be connected to the wireless terminal, a plurality of wireless interfaces on network side to be connected to the plurality of respective access networks, and a connection control section which boots the plurality of wireless interfaces on network side when the wireless interface on local side receives a signal from the wireless terminal, connects a wireless interface on network side establishing a fastest connection and the wireless interface on local side, and connects the wireless terminal to an access network corresponding to the wireless interface on network side establishing the fastest connection.
US08284744B2
Provided is a wireless communication system transmitting information to a communication terminal moving through a spot wireless area. In an integrated base station, an external information communication section controls communication with a server. A contents memory section stores contents received from the server. A wireless LAN communication section communicates with the communication terminal. A control section establishes connection with the communication terminal using a first connection not requiring an authentication procedure for connection with the communication terminal, or using a second connection requiring the authentication procedure for connection with the communication terminal. An access control (restriction) section permits access from the communication terminal to the contents memory section and prohibits access to the server when a type of connection with the communication terminal is the first connection, and permits access from the communication terminal to the contents memory section and to the server in the case of the second connection.
US08284736B2
A multiple-antenna transceiver in the present invention includes a frame controller and circuitry for transmitting and receiving. The transmitting component includes a sequence selection circuit, a MIMO modulation and coding circuit, and numerous TX RFE and AFE circuits. The receiving component includes a MIMO demodulation and decoding circuit, a sequence separation circuit, and numerous RX RFE and AFE circuits. The frame controller can enable and disable the TX and RX RFE and AFE circuits individually so as to reduce power consumption of the whole system.
US08284734B2
The method and apparatus as described are directed toward techniques and mechanisms to improve efficiency in wireless communication networks through optimization of handover scenarios. Determining whether an intra-base station or inter-node-B handover is too performed, and determining the protocol layers to reset during the handover based at least in part on the type of handover to be performed increases the overall efficiency of the wireless network.
US08284731B2
To provide a communication terminal apparatus that efficiently transmits feedback on information regarding the reception quality and transmission form to a communication control apparatus. A communication terminal apparatus (200) has a terminal-side receiving section (218) that receives control information from a communication control apparatus, a reception quality measuring section (214) that measures reception quality of a plurality of slots, a transmission form selecting section (215) that selects a single transmission form from among a plurality of transmission forms to assign data to the plurality of slots based on a measurement result of measured reception quality, a feedback information generating section (216) that generates feedback information for notifying reception quality information indicating the reception quality in a plurality of slots and transmission form information for designating a selected transmission form, and a terminal-side transmitting section (217) that transmits the generated feedback information to the communication control apparatus.
US08284727B2
A digital broadcast system having storing resistance to errors generated during the transmission of mobile service data, and a data processing method are disclosed. The digital broadcast system additionally encodes mobile service data. As a result, the mobile service data has strong resistance to a channel variation and noise, and at the same time the system can quickly cope with the channel variation.
US08284713B2
Systems and methods are provided to facilitate the distribution of audio signals over wireless networks. In one implementation, an audio system includes a head end having an encoder and a wireless network interface. Audio signals associated with a plurality of audio channels are processed by the encoder to provide an encoded signal in accordance with an audio codec. The encoded signal can be provided to a wireless network by the wireless network interface as a plurality of data packets associated with a network address in accordance with a wireless networking protocol, such as an IEEE 802.11 protocol. One or more remote endpoints can also be provided to receive the data packets from the wireless network, assemble the data packets to obtain the encoded signal, and extract at least one of the audio signals from the encoded signal in accordance with the audio codec. Multicast and unicast implementations are also provided.
US08284705B2
This application provides techniques for a mobile station (MS) to determine whether a base station (BS) successfully receives a response to a BS request for the MS to enter an idle mode.
US08284699B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for configuring network devices. A central management system stores shared configuration objects in a central configuration database. A network device stores shared configuration objects and device-specific configuration objects in a local configuration database. The local configuration database's shared configuration objects correspond to shared configuration objects in the central configuration database. The central management system determines the network device has received a request to update a shared configuration object, where the request did not originate from the central management system, and updates the central configuration database.
US08284693B2
Embodiments for space-time coding are disclosed. One method includes establishing a priority for each of a plurality of data streams. A number of data bits for each of the plurality of data streams are allocated. A desired signal quality for each of the plurality of data streams is determined based on the corresponding priority. Each of the plurality of data streams are modulated according to the allocated number of data bits of each of the plurality of data streams. A space-time code is selected for each of the plurality of data streams based at least partially on the desired signal quality for each of the plurality of data streams, wherein at least one of the space-time codes is at least one of a vector or a matrix. Each of the modulated data streams are space-time coded with the selected space-time code. The space-time coded modulated data streams are summed, and transmitted.
US08284692B2
The allocation of network resources, such as bandwidth, etc., can be dynamically adjusted based on the knowledge of the traffic volume, the transport protocol used by the payload and entitled level of services. The type of transport protocol can be determined by monitoring and analyzing characteristics of the data traffic. The frames or packets over a particular channel are monitored to identify the time between frames for a particular period of time. This time then can be used to calculate a recent average time. The timing of subsequently received frames can then be compared to this average to determine if the transport protocol is UDP, TCP or some other protocol. In other embodiments a recent average throughput can be calculated and be compared to a current throughput. This information, along with the load and entitled level of service is used to control the network resources.
US08284691B2
A method may include transmitting a first data burst and a second data burst to a circuit or network under test, the first data burst having a smaller size than the second data burst. The method may also include determining a first latency associated with the first data burst based on time information associated with the first data burst and determining a second latency associated with the second data burst based on time information associated with the second data burst. The method may further include calculating an estimated throughput of the circuit or network under test based on a difference in the first and second latencies, a difference in size for the first and second data bursts, and a first data rate at which the first and second data bursts were transmitted.
US08284690B2
According to various embodiments of the disclosed method and apparatus, nodes on a network are programmed to generate a probe transmission in response to a request from the node that will be receiving the probe. The receiving node may generate a probe request that specifies a plurality of parameters, such as a modulation profile for the probe; the payload content of the probe; the number of times to transmit the probe; a number of symbols for the payload of the probe; a preamble type for the probe; a cyclic-prefix length for the payload of the probe; a transmit power for the probe; and a transmit power scaling factor for the payload of the probe.
US08284688B2
A packet capture apparatus and method including receiving packets through a network, acquiring target packets including specific information from the received packets, extracting the target packets of each session, and storing the extracted target packets, estimating a capture cycle, a capture width, and a capture start time based on static information about the target packets to determine a start time and an end time of the reception of the packets based on the capture cycle, the capture width, and the capture start time, setting the start time and the end time in control by the packet capturing part, and using the start time and the end time being set to control intermittent packet capturing, where the packets are received during each capture width every capture cycle from the capture start time.
US08284687B2
An apparatus and method for rate control in a wireless communication system are provided. The apparatus includes a preprocessor, a rate controller, a determiner, and a transmitter. The preprocessor determines feedback information on a physical layer packet using a feedback message of MAC ARQ. The rate controller updates a CQI reported from a receiver using the determined feedback information. The determiner determines an MCS using the updated CQI. The transmitter transmits data using the determined MCS.
US08284681B2
Disclosed are an expandable network system and a redundant method applied to the system. According to one embodiment, the network system may be a ring-type or linear-type network system. A plurality of network nodes form one or more sub-networks. Many interconnected sub-networks form another network. While the network system is initialized, the method defines the role of each network port of each network node in each sub-network. Concurrently, every network port interconnected between the sub-networks is also defined to be a blocked port or a forward port. This mechanism defining the role of each port not only prevents the possible broadcast storm occurred in the network system, but also modifies the network signaling path by re-defining the roles of the ports while the connection changes. Therefore, the expandable network system and the method achieve a fast-redundant connection scheme, and the more flexible network-expanding function.
US08284676B1
In a network diagnostics system, network topology discovery determines the links that make up the network, artificial call quality management determines the set of test calls that need to be made to test the network, and real call quality management collects call-quality data about real calls in the network. The set of test calls is reduced by calls that would duplicate paths, or portions of paths, of the real calls, and artificial call quality management performs only the test calls of the reduced set and collects call-quality data thereon. Analysis analyzes the combined data of the real calls and the test calls to determine the possibly-bad call paths in the network.
US08284670B2
A mobile communications system for transferring packets to a mobile communications terminal according to address information of the mobile communications terminal is disclosed. The mobile communications terminal is located in a moving network connected to a given node in a core network. The address information of the mobile communications terminal includes common information related to the given node to which the moving network is connected, and individual information which is unrelated to the given node to which the moving network is connected and is unchanged when the given node to which the moving network is connected is changed.
US08284669B2
In the sending of data in a network from a sending node to a receiving node via a relay node, the receiving node sends a notification arranged to notify both the sending node and receiving node of receipt of data at the receiving node. Notifications acknowledge that the data has been correctly received over each individual stage of transmission, and further acknowledge to the sending node that data has been correctly transmitted over the whole transmission path and received at the receiving node. The burden on the network of sending acknowledgments is reduced while notifications of data transmission over single stages and over the whole transmission path are provided.
US08284666B2
A method and apparatus for controlling data packet flooding in a data-communication network to promote network security and provide for more efficient utilization of network resources. One or more network nodes include a flooding disable device, for example a disable bit in a L2 hardware lookup table associated with a particular device in an Ethernet application. When the disabler is set, packets from the particular device are not flooded on all ports even when the node cannot associate a particular port with the packets' intended destination. The flooding disable in the network node may be set statically or dynamically, either by a network operator or by a communication received from a server or other network device.
US08284648B2
An optical disk apparatus is provided that has a signal processing circuit for equalizing a signal so as to achieve predetermined equalization, in which interference between codes is permitted, by means of an adaptive equalization circuit or the like, and for performing binarization by means of a maximum likelihood decoding circuit in which interference is performed as a rule, and thereby achieves stabilized signal reproduction in a narrow-band transmission. When evaluating the quality of the recorded signal through the use of the recording parameter learning and the reproduction system such as recorded signal verification, the optical disk recording apparatus is capable of highly precisely evaluating the quality of the recorded signal by fixing a circuit characteristic after suspending the optimization operation of the adaptive equalization circuit or the like for optimizing the characteristic by the reproduced signal. An optical disk recording method is also provided.
US08284647B2
A method for detecting a thickness of an optical disc is provided. Firstly, a beam intensity signal and a focusing error signal are generated. Then, a first time interval for a focus point of the laser beam to move from a first layer to a second layer of the optical disc is acquired according to the beam intensity signal or the focusing error signal. Then, a second time interval between two peak values of an S curve of the focusing error signal is detected. Afterwards, the thickness between the first layer and the second layer is calculated according to a known S-curve detection range, the first time interval and the second time interval. The S-curve detection range is multiplied by said first time interval and divided by said second time interval to obtain the thickness between the first layer and the second layer of the optical disc.
US08284633B2
An improved electronic device and method provide an improved clock feature that includes a BEDTIME mode that is initiated by execution of a BEDTIME mode routine. The BEDTIME mode comprises a number of features that are conducive to sleep by performing operations that minimize distractions to a user, and all such operations are initiated by execution of the BEDTIME mode routine. The BEDTIME mode can be triggered in a variety of fashions, such as by setting an alarm or by docking the device with a predetermined other device such as a docking station.
US08284629B2
A system and method for implementing a low-power local-area wireless network for use with a mobile terminal satellite modem. This low-power local-area wireless network enables sensors on an asset to wirelessly transmit sensor data to a mobile terminal affixed on the asset. The mobile terminal reports the sensor data along with asset position information to a centralized facility via a communications satellite.
US08284623B2
A device with non volatile memory cells, with optimized programming, of the type comprising a sector of matrix memory cells organized in rows and columns, with the columns organized in a plurality of global bit-lines associated with at least one plurality of local bit-lines and respectively enabled by a first select signal and by at least one second select signal generated by a decoder, these columns being associated with at least one program load PL controlled by a logic circuit and suitable for applying a programming pulse to a plurality of cells belonging to the enabled bit-lines, comprising a plurality of discharge transistors, each associated with a corresponding column controlled by a control signal complementary to the control signal of the adjacent discharge transistor.
US08284622B2
A memory device comprises a memory array and a phase distribution circuit coupled to the memory array. In one aspect, the phase distribution circuit is operative to control respective durations of a precharge phase and an active phase of a memory cycle of the memory array based on relative transistor characteristics of a tracked precharge transistor of a first conductivity type and a tracked memory cell transistor of a second conductivity type different than the first conductivity type. For example, the phase distribution circuit may comprise a first tracking transistor of the first conductivity type for tracking the precharge transistor of the first conductivity type and a second tracking transistor of the second conductivity type for tracking the memory cell transistor of the second conductivity type. The relative transistor characteristics may comprise relative strengths of the tracked precharge and memory cell transistors.
US08284620B2
Circuits, methods, and apparatus that adaptively control 1T and 2T timing for a memory controller interface. An embodiment of the present invention provides a first memory interface as well as an additional memory interface, each having a number of address and control lines. The address and control lines of the redundant memory interface may be individually enabled and disabled. If a line in the additional interface is enabled, it and its corresponding line in the first interface drive a reduced load and may operate at the higher 1T data rate. If a line in the additional interface is disabled, then its corresponding line in the first interface drives a higher load and may operate at the slower 2T data rate. In either case, the operating speed of the interface may also be considered in determining whether each line operates with 1T or 2T timing.
US08284616B2
Memory cells utilizing dielectric charge carrier trapping sites formed in trenches provide for non-volatile storage of data. The memory cells of the various embodiments have two control gates. One control gate is formed adjacent the trench containing the charge carrier trap. The other control gate has a portion formed over the trench, and, for certain embodiments, this control gate may extend into the trench. The charge carrier trapping sites may be discrete formations on a sidewall of a trench, a continuous layer extending from one sidewall to the other, or plugs extending between sidewalls.
US08284615B2
A refresh control circuit for a semiconductor memory device includes a refresh controller configured to control the number of times a refresh signal is enabled during one refresh period in response to a refresh mode entering signal which indicates the start of a refresh mode, and a mode determination signal having refresh mode information, a refresh counter configured to output a row address for a refresh operation by counting the refresh signal in response to an active signal enabled in an active mode, and a row address decoder configured to decode the row address to generate a row address selection signal for sequentially accessing word lines within a cell array.
US08284614B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a refresh counter for counting a refresh signal and outputting a refresh address in response to an active mode signal enabled in an active mode, an external address input buffer for buffering an external address to output an internal address in response to a mode selection signal enabled in an external address refresh mode, an address selector for outputting the refresh address from the refresh counter as a selection row address in a normal refresh mode and outputting the internal address from the external address input buffer as the selection row address in the external address refresh mode in response to the refresh signal and the mode selection signal, and a row address decoder for generating a row address selection signal for sequentially accessing word lines by decoding the selection row address.
US08284598B2
A semiconductor memory device includes: a memory cell array provided with a plurality of memory cells in a matrix; and a power supply circuit configured to supply an intermediate voltage between a power supply voltage and a ground voltage to each of the plurality of memory cells.
US08284595B2
A MRAM includes: first and second bit lines provided to extend in a first direction; a storage block including at least one magnetroresistive element for storing data; and a reading circuit. The reading circuit includes a first terminal electrically connected to the first bit line, and a second terminal electrically connected to the second bit line. The second terminal has a high impedance preventing a steady-state current from flowing into at a time of a reading operation. The reading circuit supplies a reading current from the first terminal to the first bit line at the time of the reading operation. The storage block is configured such that the reading current flows from the first bit line to the magnetroresistive element and the magnetroresistive element is connected to the second bit line at the time of the reading operation. The reading circuit controls the reading current on the basis of a voltage applied to the second terminal through the second bit line.
US08284591B2
Provided is a semiconductor memory device including: first and second SRAM cells; a first bit line pair provided with the first SRAM cell; a second bit line pair provided with the second SRAM cell; a first switch circuit provided between the first bit line pair and the second bit line pair; and a controller that controls the first switch circuit to render the first bit line pair and the second bit line pair conductive, in a case of testing the first SRAM cell.
US08284585B2
A Josephson quantum computing device and an integrated circuit using Josephson quantum computing devices which can realize a NOT gate operation controlled with 2 bits will be provided. The Josephson quantum computing device (1) comprises: a superconducting ring member (10) having a π-junction (6) and a 0-junction (7); and a quantum state detecting member (20) constituted by a superconducting quantum interference device arranged outside of the superconducting ring member, wherein a bonding and an antibonding state brought about by a tunneling effect between a |↑> and a |↓> state as two states degenerate in energy of the superconducting ring member (10) are regarded as quantum bits. The bonding and antibonding states as the quantum bits are read out by the quantum state detecting member (20). The two bit controlled NOT gate operation can be performed by the two quantum bits comprising said quantum bits.
US08284583B2
In an exemplary aspect, the present invention provides a semiconductor memory device including sense amplifiers that drive bit lines to which memory cells are connected, and driver transistors that supply a power supply to the sense amplifiers, wherein the sense amplifiers are arranged in rows and constitutes a first sense-amplifier row in which transistors of a first conductive type are arranged and a second sense-amplifier row in which transistors of a second conductive type are arranged, and the driver transistors constitutes at least one transistor row including a first driver transistor of the first conductive type corresponding to the first sense-amplifier row and a second driver transistor of the second conductive type corresponding to the second sense-amplifier row between the first sense-amplifier row and the second sense-amplifier row.
US08284582B2
The present invention is directed to reduce array area and power consumption in a content addressable memory. A comparator for performing a match determination and a size determination is provided commonly for plural entries each storing data to be retrieved. Each entry includes data storage cells for storing data and mask cells for storing mask bits. The number of mask cells is smaller than that of the data storage cells. Search data is transmitted to the comparator via a search data bus. One of the entries is selected according to a predetermined rule. The comparator decodes the mask bits, generates a mask instruction signal, and performs match comparison and size comparison between the search data and data to be retrieved which is stored in the selected entry.
US08284579B2
The adverse effect of noise a constant voltage receives in a semiconductor device capable of data communication through wireless communication is suppressed. Further, communication is performed normally with a constant voltage with less noise even in the case where the amount of received power is large. The semiconductor device includes an input circuit for generating a DC voltage from an AC signal, a circuit for generating a constant voltage lower than the DC voltage, a circuit portion supplied with the constant voltage, a filter, and a feedback circuit for changing impedance with the constant voltage input from the circuit for generating a constant voltage, wherein the filter is electrically connected between the input circuit and the circuit for generating a constant voltage.
US08284570B2
A modulation control method and system for a resonance circuit that generally relate to electrical communication technique. In the system, a controlling chip of the resonance circuit is connected to associated controlling means providing voltage matching and resistance control. The controlling means provides controlling parameters to the chip in accordance with input voltage. The controlling chip modulates the resonance circuit accordingly. A phase-shifting pulse width modulation controlling chip or a pulse width modulation controlling chip is connected to a voltage matching module and a resistance controlling module, wherein the voltage matching module matches the voltage ranges and the resistance controlling module adjusts the equivalent resistance of RT terminal to the external as the voltage of loop circuit changes accordingly. In the method, a controlling chip is used to realize a controlling mode of frequency modulation, pulse width modulation, and combination thereof with respect to the resonance circuit through the voltage matching module and the resistance controlling module. The present invention is advantageous in low cost and high efficiency.
US08284569B2
A shield casing, which is configured to surround an electronic component mounted on a circuit board, includes a frame body including an engagement recess and a lid body including a hook unit configured to engage with the engagement recess. The lid body is fitted to the frame body to cover the frame body. The hook unit is elastically deformable in a second direction that is opposite to a first direction in which the lid body is fitted to the frame body as the lid body is fitted to the frame body, and then snaps into mating engagement in the engagement recess.
US08284567B2
A mobile terminal including an input device using a piezoelectric sensor and a method of operating the mobile terminal are provided. The mobile terminal includes: a body; and a piezoelectric sensor unit including a first piezoelectric sensor positioned at a first side surface of the body and to which at least one function key for performing a first specific function corresponding to a user function of the mobile terminal is set and a second piezoelectric sensor positioned at a second side surface of the body and to which at least one function key for performing a second specific function different to the first specific function is set.
US08284565B2
An electronic apparatus is provided that can include a circuit board; a switch attached to the circuit board; an electronic part mounted on the circuit board; a wiring pattern extending between the switch and the electronic part; and a protrusion protruding from a surface of the wiring pattern. The protrusion may be disposed adjacent to the switch on the circuit board and overlapping the wiring pattern.
US08284561B2
The present invention directs to fabrication methods of the embedded component package structures by providing preformed lamination structures, joining or stacking the preformed laminate structures and mounting at least one electronic component to the joined structures. By way of the fabrication methods, the production yield can be greatly improved with lower cycle time.
US08284550B2
A housing includes a first housing, two nuts, an insert, a second housing and two bolts. The nuts are fixed to the insert, and the insert is integrally formed with the first housing. The second housing includes two posts. The two bolts are received in the posts, and are fixed to the nuts.
US08284546B2
A portable computer is provided that has a housing. A removable battery may provide power to the portable computer. A connector on the battery may mate with a corresponding battery connector in the portable computer housing. The battery connector may be mounted in the portable computer housing a floating arrangement. This allows the position of the connector to move slightly to accommodate variations in the position of the battery. A cable may be used to route power between the battery and a main logic board. A cover may be used to hold the battery connector and cable to the housing of the portable computer without excessively impeding movement of the connector.
US08284544B2
A mobile communication device, a corresponding connecting mechanism and method are provided. The device comprises a connecting mechanism which rotatably couples a lid member and a base member at a linked end of the device. The connecting mechanism also translationally couples the lid and the base member. When the device is in the closed position, displacing the lid member of the device in the direction of the free end of the device may initiate movement of the device to the opened position.
US08284542B2
Electrical circuit breakers in an electrical panelboard are equipped with tie-down devices to secure the circuit breakers to the panelboard. Each circuit breaker includes a standard housing or case having a raised portion that forms a pair of end walls and a slot at the base of each of the end walls. The panelboard includes mounts for attaching the tie-down devices to the panelboard. Each tie-down device includes (1) a breaker-attachment portion adapted to be mounted on the circuit breaker housing around the raised portion and having a pair of mounting hooks adapted to fit into the slots for attaching the tie-down device to the circuit breaker housing, and (2) a panelboard attachment portion extending beyond the circuit breaker housing for attachment to the panelboard mount.
US08284535B2
A circuit breaker capable of microcontroller-based fault detection having a backup circuit for causing the circuit to trip in response to a microcontroller fault or a failure of a regulated power supply powering the microcontroller. The circuit breaker includes an RC circuit connected to an SCR. The resistor of the RC circuit is connected between the anode and gate of the SCR, and the capacitor is connected between the gate and cathode of the SCR. The microcontroller has a first pin coupled to the RC circuit, which is initially in a high input impedance state. In the event of a microcontroller fault or power supply failure, the capacitor will charge to a voltage sufficient to activate the SCR and trip the breaker. If the microcontroller startup routine is successful, the pin is configured as an output and is pulled low, shorting out the capacitor.
US08284532B2
An over-voltage protection system is connected between a power supply and two working circuits of an electronic device, and includes a first over-voltage protection circuit, a second over-voltage protection circuit, and a voltage load circuit. The over-voltage protection system detects voltage of the power supply, isolates the power supply from a first working circuit when the power supply exceeds a first predetermined voltage value, and isolates the power supply from a second working circuit when the voltage of the power supply exceeds a second predetermined voltage value and is lower than the first predetermined voltage value. The voltage load circuit bears partial voltage of the power supply to provide necessary power to the second working circuit when the voltage of the power supply exceeds a second predetermined voltage value and is lower than the first predetermined voltage value.
US08284529B2
The present invention relates to a reclosing control system and method using a superconducting fault current limiter. The reclosing control system includes a superconducting fault current limiting device in which two circuits, each having a switch and a superconducting fault current limiter connected in series with each other, are connected in parallel with each other. A recloser is disposed between the superconducting fault current limiting device and a distribution line and is configured to control reclosing. The distribution line is connected to the recloser and is configured to transfer power to a load.
US08284528B2
The DC switch includes a housing (2) provided with a power connection terminal (2a) adapted in use to be connected to a power source, and a load connection terminal (2b) adapted in use to be connected to a load. A contact unit (1) is interposed between the power connection terminal (2a) and the load connection terminal (2b). The contact unit (1) has mechanical contacts (10), and a semiconductor switch (11) serially connected to the mechanical contacts (10). The DC switch further includes a switching mechanism unit (3) having an operating handle (30) used for manual operation and movably attached to the housing (2), a position detection unit (4) configured to detect an operating position of the operating handle (30), and a control unit (7). The switching mechanism unit (3) is configured to open and close the mechanical contacts (10) in response to the manual operation of the operating handle (30). The control unit (7) is configured to turn on the semiconductor switch (11) upon judging that the operating handle (30) has been moved to a close position from an open position based on the operating position detected by the position detection unit (4).
US08284527B2
A magnetic head, according to one embodiment, includes a sensor film, a sensor cap film provided above the sensor film, a pair of shields including an upper magnetic shield and a lower magnetic shield which serve as electrodes that pass current in a film thickness direction of the sensor film, a track insulating film contacting both sides of the sensor film in the track width direction, a graded domain control film arranged on both sides in the track width direction of the sensor film adjacent the track insulating film, and an element height direction insulating film positioned on an opposite side of the sensor film relative to an air-bearing surface, wherein an edge position of the element height direction insulating film adjacent the sensor film on the air-bearing surface side is substantially the same as an edge position of the sensor cap film in the element height direction.
US08284523B2
Various methods and apparatus relating to disk drive actuators and methods of manufacturing them are disclosed and claimed. In certain embodiments, a disk drive actuator assembly comprises a pivot bearing defining a pivot bearing rotational axis; an actuator arm including a bore, the pivot bearing disposed at least partially within the bore; a first tapered shim, interposed in the bore between the pivot bearing and the actuator arm, the first tapered shim having a thickness at a first end greater than a thickness at a second end; and a second tapered shim, interposed in the bore between the pivot bearing and the actuator arm, the second tapered shim having a thickness at a third end greater than a thickness at a fourth end; wherein the second tapered shim frictionally engages the first tapered shim to hold the pivot bearing substantially in place relative to the actuator arm.
US08284519B2
In a magnetic head cleaning mechanism applicable to a magnetic tape apparatus employing a threading scheme, a cleaning brush is driven in a small space. The mechanism includes a threading arm to engage a leader block with a leader pin to draw the block engaged with the pin, a magnetic head to conduct data reading and writing operation on a magnetic tape, a rotatably supported brush link arm including a brush at a tip end thereof, and a cam gear disposed on the side of the magnetic head relative to a threader track. Ordinarily, the arm is on the side of the magnetic head relative to the threader track. When the leader block is moved to a position near the leader pin, the arm rotates with rotation of the cam gear to bring the brush into contact with the magnetic head on the threader track.
US08284517B1
A perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) head comprises a PMR pole having at least one side, a bottom, and a top wider than the bottom, a first portion of the at least one side being substantially vertical, a second portion of the at least one side being nonvertical, the top portion having a width not greater than one hundred fifty nanometers. The PMR head further comprises a nonmagnetic layer surrounding the bottom and the at least one side of the PMR pole, an intermediate layer substantially surrounding at least the second portion of the at least one side of the PMR pole, and a planarization stop layer adjacent to the first portion of the at least one side of the PMR pole.
US08284506B2
A system for aligning a plurality of high-precision lenses in a lens train. Each of the lenses has at least two alignment tabs disposed around the perimeter of the lens. The lenses are aligned by placing the lenses in a jig having a plurality of high-precision alignment blocks. The lenses are attached to a lower-precision shroud, having slots that receive the alignment tabs. A gap-filling adhesive is used to provide a high-precision fit for the lenses in the shroud.
US08284501B2
An optical imaging system includes a first lens group having a positive or negative optical power, an aperture diaphragm, and a second lens group having a positive optical power arranged in order from an object side. The first lens group includes a first front lens group having at least two negative lenses and a first rear lens group having at least one positive lens with an airspace in-between the first front and rear lens groups. The second lens group includes a second front lens group having first positive and negative lenses, second negative and positive lenses arranged in order from the object side, and a second rear lens group including at least one aspherical lens. When focusing on an object in a close range from infinity, the second lens group moves to the object side while an interval between the second front and rear lens groups are shortened.
US08284499B2
A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side: first, second and third lens groups having a negative refractive power, a positive refractive power and a positive refractive power, respectively. The first lens group includes a single compound aspheric lens formed of a spherical glass lens having a negative refractive power and a resin lens having a positive refractive power and an image side surface thereof is aspheric, and the conditional expressions (1) to (4) are satisfied f11/fw<−1.8, (1) 1.55
US08284497B2
The present invention provides a zoom lens ZL comprising a first lens group G1 having positive refractive power, a second lens group G2 having negative refractive power, a third lens group G3 having positive refractive power, and a fourth lens group G4 having positive refractive power, the first lens group G1 including a negative meniscus lens L11 and a positive meniscus lens L12, the second lens group G2 including a negative meniscus lens L21, a biconcave negative lens L22 and a positive meniscus lens L23, and the fourth lens group G4 including one positive lens L41, and the refractive indexes of at least three lenses in the zoom lens ZL being greater than 1.9.
US08284496B2
A zoom optical system in which: a positive first lens group, a negative second lens group, a positive third lens group, and a positive fourth lens group are arranged in that order from the object side and magnification is changed by properly changing distances between these lens groups; the first lens group consists of only one lens element and the most object-side surface of the first lens group has a convex shape which faces toward the object side; the second lens group includes, in order from the object side, a negative single lens, a negative cemented lens, and a positive single lens; and the following condition (1) or (2) is satisfied: 0.2≦ΔDw-w10/Lt≦0.35 (1) SFG4=(rG4o+rG4i)/(rG4o−rG4i)>0 (2) where ΔDw-w10 denotes the variation in the distance between the first and second lens groups in changing from the wide angle end position to the position in which the focal length is ten times or more as large as that in the wide angle end position, Lt denotes the total length of the optical system in the telephoto end position, SFG4 denotes the shape factor of the fourth lens group, rG40 denotes the radius of curvature of the most object-side surface of the fourth lens group, and rG4i denotes the radius of curvature of the most image-side surface of the fourth lens group.
US08284493B2
There is provided a projection lens unit for a pico-projector which comprises a lens array, a color composition prism, a cover glass and an image panel, the projection lens unit characterized in that: the lens array includes 1st to 6th lenses sequentially arrayed from a screen on which an image is projected, the 1st lens includes a stop side formed on a 1st side of the 1st lens, the stop side stops the passage of light, to perform the function of a diaphragm aperture, light passing from the 1st lens to the 6th lens travels in only one direction of the lens sides based on the diaphragm aperture, and parts of the lens sides through which the light does not pass are cut so that the whole height of the lens array is reduced.
US08284490B2
An optical window may be configured to minimize optical aberrations. The optical window may include a laminous optical window assembly. The laminous optical window assembly may have four or more alternating layers of positive refraction material layers and negative refraction material layers. The four or more alternating layers may be configured to minimize refraction of electromagnetic rays propagating therethrough such that a given incident electromagnetic ray is substantially collinear with a corresponding transmitted electromagnetic ray.
US08284487B1
A large format tiled flexible projection display screen. The tiled modules of the screen each include a rear projection screen film adhered to a transmissive flexible substrate with an optically clear adhesive. When electronic content is projected onto the tiled projection screens, the electronic content is visible on a front surface side of the substrates.
US08284485B2
An illumination optical system which irradiates a sample surface with light through an illuminating lens includes: a light source; a condensing optical system receiving the light emitted from the light source; and a lens array optical system including a first lens array surface and a second lens array surface each formed by a plurality of lens elements. The first lens array surface has a conjugate relation with a back focal position of the illuminating lens. The second lens array surface is placed at a back focal position of the lens array optical system, has a conjugate relation with a pupil position of the illuminating lens, and the light source and the condensing optical system are arranged to form an image of the light source on the first lens array surface.
US08284479B2
A system for optical communication including an optical amplifier card configured to receive a plurality of pump laser modules. The optical amplifier card includes a receptacle configured to receive the pump laser module, a connector configured to couple the pump laser module to the optical amplifier card, a monitor configured to measure at least the optical output power of the pump laser module, and a pump combiner communicatively coupled to the monitor. The pump combiner is configured to receive a signal from the monitor indicating a drop in the output power of a first pump laser module below a threshold level, and, in response to the signal, switch the optical amplifier card from using the optical power of the first pump laser module to using the optical power of a second pump laser module without substantially affecting normal operation of the optical amplifier card.
US08284478B2
A device for increasing the spectral bandwidth of optical pulses, comprises a hollow fiber waveguide, optical components for focusing the beam into the hollow fiber waveguide and for re-collimating the beam at the exit of the hollow fiber waveguide, the hollow fiber waveguide being contained in an air-tight chamber filled with a gas at a given pressure; the length of the hollow fiber is such that, for a given input pulse energy and gas pressure, the energy contained in a fundamental propagation mode of the optical pulses that has minimum propagation losses exhibits substantially periodic oscillations over the full length of the hollow fiber waveguide and reaches a local maximum at the output end of the said hollow fiber waveguide.
US08284461B2
A scanner for scanning items marked with tags is disclosed. The scanner has a laser for producing a beam, a mirror assembly to re-direct the beam, a deflecting arrangement to receive the re-directed beam, the deflecting arrangement including a horizontal deflector, a vertical deflector and a pair of synchronized drivers to drive the deflectors, a steering mirror to steer the deflected beam, a scanning mirror to direct the beam onto the tag to be scanned, and a light collection system to collect light reflected by the tags.
US08284450B2
In accordance with the present disclosure, there is provided a method for compensating tones on a compressed digital image data. The method comprises generating the compressed digital image from an input digital image data using a wavelet-based compression method; recovering a low resolution version of the input digital image data from the compressed digital image data by partially decompressing the compressed digital image; applying compensating tone reproduction curves (TRC) to the low resolution version of the input digital image data to generate a compensated low resolution image; re-compressing the image using the compensated low resolution image; and, subsequently decompressing all of the compensated pixel arrays to produce decompressed compensated image data.
US08284446B2
Consumable reduction is achieved for a printing device by utilizing a processor (32), memory (34) and software for receiving input information representative of an image to be printed and generating output information representative of a reduced consumable image in response to consumable smear, spatial relationship between adjacent dots and an image quality degradation. Factors such as print medium characteristics, heat or humidity and composure of the consumable are considered in performing the consumable reduction.
US08284445B2
According to the claimed invention, an image forming apparatus comprises an image forming unit which forms an image represented by data of a specific format; a reception unit which receives print data of each page containing object data representing each of a plurality of types of objects; a data rasterization unit which has object conversion units which convert the object data into data of the specific format; a composition unit which composites data of the specific format corresponding to the object data converted to page data of the specific format containing the object data; and a control unit which inputs the page data to a subsequent processing unit for each page to use the page data for image formation by the image forming unit, wherein the data rasterization unit converts object data into data of the specific format regardless of a break of each page containing the object data.
US08284443B2
Example embodiments of the present invention relate generally to an apparatus and system for managing form data obtained from an outside system, which may be combined with image data to be printed.
US08284438B2
Disclosed is an image forming method to perform a printing for a plurality of sheets of paper, comprising: expressing any one region in a first color, the one region being one of a predetermined number of regions which are provided at an end part of each sheet of the plurality of sheets of paper and are continuous in an extending direction of the end part of the sheets; expressing the other regions except the one region in a second color; and printing an additional image in which the one region expressed in the first color is shifted sequentially in the extending direction of the end part of the sheets, in an order of the printing of each sheet of paper.
US08284436B2
An image data processing apparatus, increase: a reader that reads image data included in an image file in read units of a specified data length from an external storage medium storing the image file; a storage that temporarily saves the image data read by the reader; and a data processor that requests image data to the reader and applying a specified data processing to the image data given from the reader in response to the request; wherein the reader reads image data requested by the data processor from the storage and supplies them to the data processor and, if the image data requested by the data processor cannot be read from the storage, reads image data of a specified data length including the image data from the storage medium and supplies them to the data processor, and the reader optimizes the read unit according to the form of the request from the data processor.
US08284433B2
Upon designating bookbinding print, preview images are displayed in a layout after bookbinding. When “store” of intermediate data is designated in a print process, a spooler (302) stores intermediate data and an output job setup file in a spool file (303). When the stored job is selected, a previewer (306) displays a list of jobs, and displays a print preview image. In this case, upon setting bookbinding print, pages are displayed in a spread state and order after bookbinding. Also, the open direction (right or left open), and the bookbinding unit are also expressed on preview images.
US08284431B2
Insertion of a watermark corresponding to the content of a file at the time of the printing of the file is made possible. Importance and/or confidentiality is defined per keyword in advance, and the watermark to be inserted is defined based thereon. At the time of the printing of the file, a keyword search within the file is performed, and the watermark to be inserted is automatically selected based on the search result (see FIG. 5).
US08284429B2
A facsimile machine is provided. The facsimile machine includes a first reading unit which reads an image of an original placed on a platen; a second reading unit which reads an image of an original while feeding the original; a transmitting unit which is configured to execute a first transmission operation to transmit the image of the original read by the first reading unit as facsimile data and a second transmission operation to transmit the image of the original read by the second reading unit as facsimile data; a transmission inhibition unit which inhibits the first transmission operation by the transmitting unit; and a release unit which releases the inhibition of the first transmission operation by the transmission inhibition unit.
US08284421B2
A printing client management method and a wireless LAN printer in a wireless network is provided. According to the printing client management method for a wireless Local Area Network (LAN), information is extracted from Media Access Control (MAC) frames of the printing clients that associate with a Basic Service Set (BSS) including the wireless LAN printer. A list of the printing clients is formed using MAC addresses of the MAC frames as indexes, and management of printing operations of the printing clients is completed according to the list.
US08284416B2
Separate multicolorant and monochromatic digital image marking engines are operated concurrently for print jobs having both monochromatic and color images. The marked multicolorant image sheets are batch printed and held in a sheet buffer and interspersed in sequence with the monochromatic marked sheets without interrupting the faster monochromatic marking engine or requiring multiple unnecessary run cost increasing start up and shut down cycles of the multicolorant marking engine.
US08284411B1
A method and apparatus for faster monochrome printing in an in-line electrophotographic printer is described. The printer is configured such that it has more light emitting sources for use in an image transfer assembly for black than for image transfer assemblies for any other color in the printer. When printing a color print job, less than all of the light emitting sources in the black image transfer assembly are used. A print controller directs print data for a monochrome print job to all of the available light emitting sources in the black image transfer assembly and increases the print medium transport speed. The system and method may be configured to operate with dedicated data channels for each light emitting source or may share some data channels for monochrome and color print jobs.
US08284410B2
A printing apparatus to perform a printing operation by driving hardware provided thereto according to a printing command received from a user, including a firmware unit to store function information of a plurality of models of the printing apparatus, and selectively perform the function of one of the plurality of models which corresponds to a model index designated as the printing apparatus is initialized.
US08284393B2
Disclosed is a tire shape inspection method that can reliably and without misidentification perform accurate shape defect inspection in a short period of time by excluding measurement values in a range in which embossed marks are formed from distribution information for surface height measurement values on the sidewall surface of a tire. In the method, a processor automatically detects the positions of the embossed marks based on sample surface shape information obtained from a sample of the tire, and automatically sets coordinate information for a mask range surrounding the area where said marks are present (S2-S15). The processor also causes a surface shape image based on the sample surface shape information and a mask range image based on the coordinate information for the mask range to be displayed superimposed on a display means, and changes the coordinate information for the mask range according to an operating input (S16). The processor also corrects deviation in the coordinate system between the surface height distribution information obtained from the tire undergoing inspection and the coordinate information for the mask range after changing, and excludes measurement values in the mask range from shape defect inspection processing.
US08284386B2
A system for verification of dispensed pharmaceuticals includes: a housing; a bar code scanning station mounted on the housing; a vision station mounted on the housing; a spectroscopy station mounted on the housing; an offloading station mounted on the housing; one or more conveyors mounted on the housing to convey pharmaceutical vials between the bar code scanning, vision, spectroscopy and offloading stations, and a controller associated with the bar code scanning, vision, spectroscopy and offloading stations and the conveyors to control their operations. A system of this configuration can use both vision and spectroscopy to verify the identity of the pharmaceutical in the container.
US08284364B2
Provided is a technology for preventing current leak of a charge holding capacitor which constitutes a pixel of a display device so as to prevent deterioration of display image quality of the display device. The display device includes a first contact hole connecting a first wiring layer and a second wiring layer which is formed over the first wiring layer, a second contact hole connecting the second wiring layer and a third wiring layer which is formed over the second wiring layer, and an electrode layer formed between the plurality of insulating films disposed between the second wiring layer and the third wiring layer, wherein at a position in a substrate surface direction, a distance between a electrode layer and the second contact hole is larger than a distance between the electrode layer and the first contact hole.
US08284362B2
A liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal layer sealed between a pair of substrates; an alignment layer formed on at least one of the substrates; a polymer formed of a photopolymerized material on the alignment layer; and a pixel electrode, including an electrode portion and a plurality of slits, formed on one of the substrates. The device also includes a source electrode and a Cs intermediate electrode, having the same potential as the pixel electrode, formed between the pixel electrode and one of the substrates; and a Cs bus line located between the Cs intermediate electrode and one of the substrates. The source electrode is formed along a first liquid crystal domain boundary, between the pixel electrode and one of the substrates. The liquid crystal layer contains part of a photopolymerizable monomer, which is a source material of the photopolymerized material.
US08284361B2
Provided is a method of fabricating an IPS mode LCD having improved image quality. After performing a rubbing process on an entire surface of an alignment layer in the IPS mode LCD, polarization and non-polarization irradiations are partially performed on a stepped portion around an electrode using masks. Accordingly, light leakage can be prevented and the contrast ratio can be improved. Also, the high quality of image can be obtained, thereby enhancing the reliability of products. Also, when non-polarized light is irradiated on a rubbed alignment layer, a high quality image can be obtained without any separate polarization apparatus. Consequently, the manufacturing process is simplified and manufacturing costs are reduced.
US08284358B2
To provide a retardation film in which the retardation condition is adjusted to achieve a liquid crystal display without coloration over a wide viewing angle range and having a high contrast ratio, and a method of designing the same, as well as a polarizing film and a liquid crystal display using the same. A liquid crystal display comprising a liquid crystal cell and polarizing films in a Cross-Nicol relationship with each other on both sides of the liquid crystal cell; wherein at least one polarizing film includes a retardation film having reverse wavelength dispersion property; and the liquid crystal display further includes a retardation film having a wavelength dispersion property substantially the same as a liquid crystal layer configuring the liquid crystal cell.
US08284357B2
A retardation layer includes plurality of regions different in retardation. A retardation plate includes a substrate and a solidified liquid crystal layer supported by the substrate. The solidified liquid crystal layer is a continuous film made of a same material, and has biaxial optical anisotropy. The solidified liquid crystal layer includes plurality of regions, the regions being different in an in-plane retardation and a thickness direction retardation.
US08284352B2
Disclosed herein are a liquid crystal display panel and a method for fabricating the same wherein color reproducibility and superior image quality are achieved. The liquid crystal display panel comprises a color filter array substrate including a black matrix and a plurality of color filters arranged on a substrate, wherein each of the color filter includes a first color filter, a second color filter and a third color filter, each of them yielding a different color; and at least one selected from a fourth color filter yielding a mixed color of the first and second color filters, a fifth color filter yielding a mixed color of the second and third color filters, and a sixth color filter yielding a mixed color of the first and third color filters.
US08284350B2
A lighting system has light-emitting diodes as light sources mounted on a circuit board, in which the light-emitting diodes include a red light-emitting diode, blue light-emitting diode and a green light-emitting diode, the light-emitting diodes are constituted of one single unit including one for each of the red, blue and green light-emitting diodes, and the one single unit is repeatedly arranged as plural pieces on the same circuit board, and each of the red, blue and green light-emitting diodes is individually connected electrically to emit a light.
US08284348B2
A backlight apparatus is provided that enables a balance of brightness to be maintained and long life to be achieved over the entire area of a display screen. Light guide plate 130 has upper end surface 132a and lower end surface 132b as inputting surfaces, and principal surface 131 as an outputting surface opposite the rear surface of liquid crystal panel 110. LEDs 140a and 140b are placed in proximity to upper end surface 132a and lower end surface 132b. LED drive circuits 160 supply LEDs 140a and 140b with a current that causes LEDs 140a and 140b to emit light that illuminates liquid crystal panel 110 via light guide plate 130. LED drive circuits 160 supply a lower current to LEDs 140a and 140b placed in proximity to a part having a higher ambient temperature within upper end surface 132a and lower end surface 132b.
US08284343B2
In a frame structure configured so that front and rear frames 10, 30 are attached to an intermediate frame 20, the strength of each frame 10, 30 can be easily ensured, and the front frame 10 or the rear frame 30 can be prevented from being easily removed from the intermediate frame 20 when subjected to a large impact force.The front and rear frames 10, 30 are provided so that respective side face portions 12, 32 thereof overlap each other, and a plurality of protrusions 21 are provided on a side face of the intermediate frame 20. The frame 10 (30), whose side face portion 12 (32) is positioned on a laterally inner side, is attached to the intermediate frame 20 by latching engaging portions 13 (33), provided in the side face portion 12 (32), by the protrusions 21, respectively. On the other hand, the frame 30 (10), whose side face portion 32 (12) is positioned on a laterally outer side, is attached to the intermediate frame 20 by latching engaging portions 33 (13), provided in the side face portion 32 (12), by the protrusions 21, respectively.
US08284342B2
A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel, a plurality of light sources for irradiating onto the liquid crystal display panel, at least two electrode boards at ends of each of the light sources for electrically connecting the light sources, an inverter board aligned parallel to the light sources for providing drive signals to the light sources through the electrode boards, and a first cover for accommodating the liquid crystal display panel, the light sources and the electrode boards on a first side thereof and for accommodating the inverter board on a second side thereof such that the inverter board is substantially on a same plane as a main portion of the cover.
US08284335B2
An electronic display device includes a display unit adapted to display an image, and a barrier unit overlapping the display unit, the barrier unit including a liquid crystal layer between first and second substrates, the first and second substrates facing each other, a common electrode between the liquid crystal layer and the first substrate, a transparent insulation layer between the liquid crystal layer and the second substrate, the transparent insulation layer having an inner surface facing the liquid crystal layer and an outer surface facing the second substrate, a plurality of first electrodes along a first direction between the outer surface of the transparent insulation layer and the second substrate, the first electrodes being spaced apart from each other along a second direction, and a plurality of second electrodes along the first direction between the inner surface of the transparent insulation layer and the first substrate.
US08284328B2
A liquid crystal television includes a display module generating heat, a substrate having a mounting surface and being placed at an interval from the display module, a component group mounted on the mounting surface, and a housing storing the display module, the substrate, and the component group. The mounting surface includes a first surface extending opposite to the display module and a second surface placed at a rear side of the first surface. A component in the component group having the greatest height with respect to the mounting surface is mounted on the first surface of the first surface and the second surface. The housing is provided with a first air vent hole positioned below the substrate and a second air vent hole positioned above the substrate. An airflow circulating through the first air vent hole, space between the display module and the first surface, and the second air vent hole is created within the housing. With such structure, a display apparatus reduced in thickness and improved in cooling effect is provided.
US08284316B2
A real-time image processing circuit includes: a first converting unit for converting an input image frame into hue data, first saturation data and first luminance data; a saturation processing unit operable to adjust the first saturation data based on saturation mapping information to generate second saturation data corresponding to the input image frame and having a saturation distribution range larger than that of the first saturation data; a luminance processing unit operable to adjust the first luminance data based on luminance mapping information to generate second luminance data corresponding to the input image frame and having a luminance distribution range larger than that of the first luminance data; and a second converting unit for converting the hue data, the second saturation data and the second luminance data into an output image frame corresponding to the input image frame and outputting the output image frame.
US08284315B2
A PAL signal demodulating apparatus comprises BPF filters that perform band pass filtering to pass a chroma band for frames 1 to 5, thereby producing the BPF output signals for the frames, a 3D color phase distortion correcting color signal acquiring unit that calculates correlations between frames 1 and 3 and between frames 3 and 5 and takes a weighted average of the BPF output signals for frames 2 and 4 with weights according to the two calculated correlations, thereby producing a 3D color phase distortion correcting color signal N, and a carrier chrominance signal extracting unit that takes the addition/subtraction of the BPF output signal for frame 3 and the 3D color phase distortion correcting color signal, thereby extracting carrier chrominance signals, to perform correctly U/V separation for a line different in color from its preceding and following lines in the same frame.
US08284314B2
A video processing device includes an input to receive pixel values for a set of pixels comprising a pixel window substantially centered around a select pixel that initially has a first pixel value. The video processing device further includes a first filter unit to determine a horizontal transient improvement value based on non-linear filtering of the pixel values in a horizontal direction, a second filter unit to determine a vertical transient improvement value based on non-linear filtering of the pixel values in a vertical direction, a third filter unit to determine a first diagonal transient improvement value based on non-linear filtering of the pixel values in a first diagonal direction, and a fourth filter unit to determine a second diagonal transient improvement value based on non-linear filtering of the pixel values in a second diagonal direction that is perpendicular to the first diagonal direction. The video processing device also includes an output to provide a second pixel value for the select pixel, the second pixel value based on the first pixel value, the vertical transient improvement value, the horizontal transient improvement value, the first diagonal transient improvement value, and the second diagonal transient improvement value.
US08284304B2
Even when a remaining amount of an image memory built in a digital camera is decreased, the photographing can be further continued while reserving a photographed image. An image which is obtained from an image input unit including image pickup means is accumulated into an image memory. When a remaining amount calculating unit detects that the remaining amount of the imag memory is small, an image record discriminating unit compares it with an image size in a photograph mode at that time which is obtained from an image size table, thereby discriminating whether the continuation of the photographing can be performed or not. When the photographing is impossible, an image selecting unit selects an old image, an image in which the number of colors is small, or the like on the basis of management data regarding the photographed images in a memory managing table. The selected image is transmitted by a PHS communication by a data transmitting apparatus. After it was transmitted, the image is erased from the image memory.
US08284301B2
A camera body includes an imaging element, a hot shoe, and a camera controller. The imaging element is configured to convert an optical image of the subject into an electrical signal, and is configured to produce image data about the subject. The hot shoe allows the flash device to be mounted. The camera controller is configured to calculate an evaluation value on the basis of the image data produced by the imaging element, and is configured to perform video autofocusing on the basis of this evaluation value. The camera controller is configured to control the imaging element and the flash device so that when the camera controller decides that auxiliary light is needed, and the camera controller decides that the external auxiliary light source of the flash device mounted to the hot shoe is not compatible with video autofocusing, the image data is acquired while an external main light source of the flash device intermittently emits light during the video autofocusing.
US08284298B2
A method of controlling a lens-interchangeable digital photographing apparatus including acquiring a temporary image using a first lens in response to a signal; producing additional temporary images that could be acquired were respective lenses used instead of the first lens, by processing the acquired temporary image; and displaying the temporary image and the additional temporary images on a display unit.
US08284295B2
A digital camera comprises an imaging/focus detection element, in which focus detection pixel rows are incorporated in a two-dimensional array of a plurality of imaging pixels, that outputs image signals and focus detection signals, a focus detection unit that detects a state of focal adjustment at a photographic optical system based upon the focus detection signal, an image blur detection unit that detects an image blur quantity, a reliability judgment unit that judges, based upon the blur quantity, whether or not the state of focal adjustment detected in correspondence to a focus detection pixel row disposed along a direction different from a rolling shutter scanning direction among the focus detection pixel rows is reliable, and a focal adjustment unit that executes focal adjustment for the photographic optical system based upon the state of focal adjustment judged to be reliable by the reliability judgment unit.
US08284294B2
A compound-eye image pickup apparatus includes: a plurality of image pickup devices each including a focusing lens; a moving device configured to move the focusing lens; an automatic focusing device configured to cause the moving device to move the focusing lens within a predetermined range, to acquire focusing positions of each of the plurality of image pickup devices; and a detecting device configured to detect whether or not the focusing position can be acquired, wherein when the detecting device detects that the focusing position of at least one of the plurality of image pickup devices is acquired and the focusing position of the remaining image pickup device is not acquired, the automatic focusing device moves the focusing lens of the image pickup device for which it is detected that the focusing position thereof is not acquired, within an additional range outside of the predetermined range to acquire the focusing position thereof.
US08284292B2
A probability distribution constructing method extracts a subject shape similar to a subject of a specific type repeatedly appearing in various sizes in plural images obtained by repeatedly photographing a field using a fixedly disposed camera, from plurality images, in accordance with a size of the similar subject shape and positional information of the camera on a view angle. Subsequently, the probability distribution constructing method determines the similar subject shape, and calculates an appearance probability distribution of the size of the subject, and detects the subject using the appearance probability distribution.
US08284291B2
A photographing optical lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface, a second lens element with negative refractive, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, and a fifth lens element having a concave image-side surface and having at least one inflecting point.
US08284287B2
Image sensor, which comprises a plurality of pixels arranged as a pixel array with rows and columns and at least one read-out arrangement for reading out the pixels row by row. The columns are grouped into blocks with a certain number N of columns. Each read-out arrangement comprises N column read out circuits and an addressing circuit for with at least two groups of addressing lines for addressing the blocks. The blocks are selectively addressed by the groups of addressing lines in a way that a read-out sequence of blocks addressed by the groups is continuous across all blocks.
US08284281B2
The invention relates to a method for reading a two-dimensional matrix of pixels of an image sensor, the matrix being organized in blocks of pixels forming macropixels, each macropixel being readable independently of one another in high resolution mode and/or in low resolution mode. The method includes the steps of, during the selection of the high resolution readout mode for a macropixel, in reading and storing the values of the pixels thereof, in order to define a reference macropixel, and during the subsequent high resolution readout cycles of this macropixel, in forming the difference between the read values of the pixels thereof and the values of the corresponding pixels of the reference macropixel.
US08284273B2
An imager is provided having an image-capturing device, a display, and a view angle controller. The image-capturing device captures a subject image and outputs an image signal. The display displays a through image consisting of multiple images continuously displayed. The view angle controller controls a view angle of an image so that a ratio of an area of a subject in an area of an image is maintained at a certain value when the display displays a through image.
US08284269B2
When the shooting mode selector lever switches the shooting mode to the still image shooting mode, the viewfinder mode is switched to the optical viewfinder mode, and switching from the optical viewfinder mode to the electronic viewfinder mode is performed by operation of the start-stop button. When the shooting mode selector lever switches the shooting mode to the movie shooting mode, the viewfinder mode is switched to the electronic viewfinder mode, and movie shooting is started by operation of the start-stop button.
US08284266B2
A method and apparatus for smoothing an image in a plurality of video frames consisting of a current frame and at least one previous frame. The position of at least one pixel in each of the plurality of frames is determined to provide respective determined positions. An adjusted position of the at least one pixel in the current frame is calculated based on the determined positions.
US08284263B2
An optical unit and image pickup apparatus capable of performing “auto focus function” and “image shake correction function” and characterized by easy assembling, compact configuration, high performance and reduced costs is provided. The optical unit and image pickup apparatus are provided with a polymer actuator to move an optical device, whereby performing auto focus function and image shake correction function can be performed. The polymer actuator is provided with electric wirings for image pickup device, thereby reducing the number of circuit board used for electric wiring of the image pickup device, with the result that an optical unit and image pickup apparatus characterized by easy assembling, compact configuration, high performance and reduced costs are provided.
US08284262B2
A shake correction device includes a shake detection unit detecting shake so as to generate a shake detection signal, a driving unit displacing a relative positional relationship between a lens unit and an imaging device with respect to an optical axis so as to displace the position on the imaging surface of an optical image formed on an imaging surface of the imaging device, a displacement detection unit detecting a displacement state of the correction lens unit or the imaging device, a filter processing unit performing a filter process of the shake detection signal, and a correction control unit displacing the relative positional relationship between the lens unit and the imaging device according to the filter-processed shake detection signal so as to correct the shake of the optical image on the imaging surface generated by the shake detected by the shake detection unit.
US08284256B2
Once an imaging mode is set, an imaging apparatus displays a through image with a tracking frame on the predetermined position. If a shutter button is pressed halfway, an object that is overlapped by the tracking frame is recognized as a main subject that a user wants to capture. Until the shutter button is fully pressed or until the halfway-press is released, it is detected where the recognized subject is in frame image data that is captured in sequence, and the tracking frame is displayed based on the detected position. If the halfway press of the shutter button is released before the shutter button is fully pressed, the tracking frame is displayed on the predetermined position. Then if the shutter button is pressed halfway once again, the process is repeated.
US08284254B2
A coordinated surveillance system uses a larger number of fixed low resolution detection smart camera devices and a smaller number of pan/tilt/zoom controllable high resolution tracking smart camera devices. The set of detection cameras provide overall continuous coverage of the surveillance region, while the tracking cameras provide localized high resolution on demand. Each monitor camera device performs initial detection and determines approximate GPS location of a moving target in its field of view. A control system coordinates detection and tracking camera operation. A selected tracking camera is controlled to focus in on, confirm detection, and track a target. Based on a verified detection, a guard station is alerted and compressed camera video is forwarded to the guard station from the camera(s). The guard station can direct a patrol guard to the target using GPS coordinates and a site map.
US08284246B2
A microscope system which is capable of changing observation states by driving various optical members and which includes a history record unit for recording history data related to a microscope operation history, a selection unit for selecting one or more microscope operation items from among a plurality of microscope operation items, and a state reproduction unit for reproducing a microscope state on the basis of a microscope operation item(s) selected by the selection unit and on the basis of a microscope operation history related to history data recorded in the history record unit.
US08284245B2
There are provided an image processing apparatus, an endoscope apparatus, and a color balance adjusting method capable of obtaining a good observation image. An image processing apparatus of the invention includes: an image signal input unit for inputting an image signal of a subject image picked up by an image pickup unit, the subject image including at least an image of a color balance adjustment tool; a control unit for calculating a value of coefficient to change brightness value of the image signal, based on a correction value to correct characteristic variation of the color balance adjustment tool, the correction value being shown in a correction value display portion included by the color balance adjustment tool, and a brightness value of the image of the color balance adjustment tool; and a color balance process unit for performing color balance adjustment by changing the brightness value of the image signal based on the coefficient value.
US08284244B2
A user system includes a log read-out section for reading out setting state log data, a log data sending section for sending the setting state log data, and a restoration operation activating section for receiving a restore command and performs a restoration operation. A remote operation system includes a log data receiving section for receiving the setting state log data, a log data analyzing section for analyzing the setting state log data, a communication requesting section for requesting sending of the setting state log data, and a restore command sending section for sending a restore command.
US08284225B2
A printer and a control method for a printer can externally detect the number of elements in the line head, and can determine the dot density of the line head from the detected number of elements. The printer has a thermal head 1 having an array of plural elements for forming print dots, a plural stage shift register 3 that shifts the input data according to a clock signal, a latch 2 that temporarily stores the output from each stage (3-1 to 3-n) of the shift register 3, a driver 2 that outputs the data held in each latch to the element of the thermal head 1 corresponding to each latch as print data based on a strobe signal, a output terminal 4 that outputs the output data of the last stage of the shift register 3, an element count detection data generating unit 13 that inputs to the shift register 3 input data of which the value corresponding to the first clock pulse is 1 and all following values are 0, and an element number counting unit 12 that detects the number of elements by counting the clock pulses until the data output from the output terminal 4 is 1.
US08284224B2
A thermal printer allows ink ribbon replacement without interference of a hook positioned in the opened state particularly in an ink ribbon replacement operation.A thermal printer includes a head lock lever 40 which includes a hook 41 at the tip of the lever. The hook is mounted such that it can be moved in the longitudinal direction relative to a turn shaft 26 during turning of the turn shaft 26, allowing the distance between the turn shaft 26 and the hook 41 to be changed. A movement control moves the head lock lever 40 such that the distance between the turn shaft 26 and the hook 41 in the opened state in which the thermal head 12 is separated from the platen roller 11 is smaller than that in the pressed state in which the thermal head 12 is pressed into contact with the platen roller 11.
US08284215B2
An apparatus and method for automatically controlling screens displayed on two display units installed in a mobile terminal are provided, in which, an event is identified, if an event occurs, and on and off states of the display units are controlled, if the event is identified as a control operation of the display units corresponding to a user's key input. If the event is identified as a control operation of the display units corresponding to an operation of a sensor, the display units are automatically controlled corresponding to rotation of the mobile terminal.
US08284213B2
A display control apparatus and method is disclosed wherein the amount of use of a memory to be used to store an image to be displayed can be reduced. The display control apparatus has an execution section, a first retaining section, an image processing section, a second retaining section and reflect section. The image processing section and the first and second retaining sections being controlled with an application program interface provided by the middleware and called by the application program. In addition, a display control method for a display control apparatus which causes an image corresponding to image data to be displayed on a display unit, including a first retaining step, an image processing step, and a reflection step.
US08284207B2
A multi-pass method of generating an image frame of a 3D scene while eliminating the overdrawing of objects within the multiple graphics processing pipelines (GPPLs) supported on a parallel graphics processing system The GPPLs include a primary GPPL, and each GPPL, includes a color frame buffer and Z depth buffer. The GPPLs support an object-division based parallel graphics rendering process, in which the 3D scene is decomposed into objects that are assigned to particular GPPLs for processing. The multi-pass method involves, during a first pass, locally a Global Depth Map (GDM) which is provided to the Z depth buffer of each GPPL. This step involves the transmission of graphics commands and data for all objects in the image frame, to all GPPLs to be rendered. Then, during subsequent passes, a complementary-type partial image consisting of visible pixels only is generated within the color buffer of each GPPL using the GDM and a Z test filter supported by the Z depth buffer. After subsequent passes are performed, a complete color image is recomposited within the primary GPPL, using the complementary-type partial images stored in the color buffers of the GPPLs, without comparing or recompositing depth values in the Z depth buffers.
US08284198B1
A server system allows an administrator to visualize storage space utilization of a storage system. In one implementation, the server system monitors the amount of used storage space in a storage system with respect to different types of usage. The server system generates a Graphical User Interface comprising a graphical chart displaying the amount of used storage space relating to a period of time. The graphical chart includes a breakdown of the different types of usage over the period of time. In another implementation, the server system receives a user input applied on the graphical chart, adjusts an allocation of storage space in the storage system in response to the user input, and updates the graphical chart to reflect the adjusted allocation of the storage space. In yet another implementation, the server system receives a selection of one or more snapshots to be deleted, determines one or more common files to the selected snapshots, computes a potential amount of reclaimed storage space based on the selection and the one or more common files to the selected snapshots, and to update the graphical chart in response to the selection without actually deleting the selected snapshots.
US08284197B2
A method and apparatus for rendering instance geometry whereby all culling, level of detail (LOD) and scene management is performed directly on a GPU.
US08284193B2
A system, method, and computer program for preserving design intent of a Non-Uniform Rational B-spline (NURBS) surface without representation of a parent surface, comprising representing an output surface having control points that is independent from a refinement of the surface; interpolating a base surface from the output surface; calculating a delta vector that is a difference between the output surface and the base surface; and transforming the delta vector based upon a local coordinate system of a normal vector and a tangent plane of the base surface and appropriate means and computer-readable instructions.
US08284176B2
Disclosed herein is a display device having an insulating substrate, an effective pixel area formed on the insulating substrate and having at least pixels arranged in the form of a matrix, and a peripheral circuit formed on the insulating substrate so as to surround the effective pixel area, the pixels being driven by the peripheral circuit to display a desired image in the effective pixel area, the display device including an extraneous light sensor provided in the effective pixel area for detecting extraneous light to output an extraneous light quantity detection result for use in controlling the luminance of the image.
US08284174B2
A stylus comprises a housing, a stylus body and a sliding enabling member. The slide enabling member slideably coupling the stylus body to the housing so the stylus body can slide relative to the housing from a retracted configuration to an extending configuration. The slide enabling member includes a sliding pin and two tracks engaging the sliding pin, the sliding pin is positioned on a sliding element located in the receptacle of the housing, and the tracks are two guiding grooves defined in a guiding element located in the chamber of the stylus body, the sliding pin slides in the tracks when the stylus body slides relative to the housing between the retracted configuration and the extended configuration.
US08284167B2
A method for showing page flip effect when use electronic device enjoy electronic document, the method provides a flip-page operation table, the flip-page operation table defines relationships between flip effect parameters and lengths of a first touch path or a second touch path. The method comprising: receiving touch signals, determining the touch path and lengths of the touch path according the touch signals; determining which page will be brought into view (hereinafter target page) according to the touch path; obtaining a flip effect parameter when the touch path increase to lengths defined in flip effect table; combining a combined page according to the current page, the next page and the flip effect parameter. Present invention also providing an electronic device capable of executing said steps.
US08284161B2
A wireless mouse for inputting commands to a host computer includes a casing, a control circuit, a wireless receiver, an electronic switch circuit and a resilient member. The control circuit includes a wireless module to transmit a wireless signal to the wireless receiver. The wireless receiver can be either received in the port of the casing or attached to a connector of the host computer. The electronic switch circuit includes a control terminal, a power input terminal connected to an external power source, and a power output terminal connected to the control circuit. The input and output power terminals are electrically connected or disconnected according to electrical potential at the control terminal. The resilient member is disposed on an inner side of the port. The resilient member is electrically connected with the control terminal by insertion of the wireless receiver in order to disconnect the input and output power terminals.
US08284157B2
Techniques for enhancing the use of a motion capture system are provided. A motion capture system tracks movement and audio inputs from a person in a physical space, and provides the inputs to an application, which displays a virtual space on a display. Bodily movements can be used to define traits of an avatar in the virtual space. The person can be directed to perform the movements by a coaching avatar, or visual or audio cues in the virtual space. The application can respond to the detected movements and voice commands or voice volume of the person to define avatar traits and initiate pre-scripted audio-visual events in the virtual space to provide an entertaining experience. A performance in the virtual space can be captured and played back with automatic modifications, such as alterations to the avatar's voice or appearance, or modifications made by another person.
US08284154B2
In a discharge tube, a conductive ferrule is provided on an end portion of a glass tube. The ferrule includes a body that is to be mounted to the outer circumference of the glass tube and has a contact portion to be electrically conductively fixed to a relay connector (or a bearing device). Further included is a conductive portion that extends from the body so as to have elastic contact with an outer lead. The outer lead will not be under load due to the weight of the discharge tube, but the conductive portion solely has elastic contact therewith. Thus, stress concentration on the outer lead can be prevented.
US08284148B2
A clockless transmission system includes display controller 101 and display driver 106. Display controller 101 includes data transmission circuit 102 configured to output general data obtained by multiplexing a clock by coding serialized pixel data for each pixel data during a data communication interval and also to output a predetermined control signal during a blanking interval. Display driver 106 includes clock and data recovery circuit 107 configured to output the pixel data from the general data transferred from the display controller and to increase a loop gain of a feedback loop in clock recovery such that the loop gain is larger than that when the general data is received, according to control data of the control signal, to recover and output a clock, and display driving circuit 109 configured to output a signal for driving a display based on the pixel data and the recovered clock.
US08284140B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel, a gate driver, a gray scale compensator, and a date driver. The gate driver sequentially applies gate data to the gate lines. The gray scale compensator compares the primitive gray scale data of the n-th frame with the primitive gray scale data of the (n−1)-th frame to output a compensated gray scale data of a n-th frame, when a primitive gray scale data of a (n−1)-th frame is lower than a gray scale data of a first gray scale and a primitive gray scale data of the n-th frame is higher than a gray scale data of a second gray scale. The date driver converts the compensated gray scale data into a date voltage corresponding to the compensated gray scale data and applies the data voltage to the date line. Therefore, response time of the liquid crystal molecules may be reduced.
US08284135B2
A display apparatus includes: a plurality of pixel circuits; and a signal supply circuit which supplies any one of a potential of a video signal, an extinction potential for extinguishing light-emitting devices, and a high-level potential higher than the extinction potential, wherein each of the plurality of pixel circuits includes a storage capacitor which retains a voltage corresponding to the video signal, a drive transistor which supplies a current based on the voltage retained in the storage capacitor to the corresponding light-emitting device, a light-emitting device which emits light in accordance with the current supplied from the drive transistor, and a write transistor which writes the voltage corresponding to the video signal to the storage capacitor after the potentials supplied by the signal supply circuit in order of the high-level potential and the extinction potential are given to the gate terminal of the drive transistor.
US08284131B2
A self-luminous display device includes: pixel circuits; and a drive signal generating circuit, wherein each of the pixel circuits includes a light-emitting diode, a drive transistor connected to a drive current path of the light-emitting diode, and a holding capacitor coupled to a control node of the drive transistor, and the drive signal generating circuit generates the drive signal containing a second level signal adapted to stop the light emission without reverse-biasing the light-emitting diode, a first level signal, lower than the second level signal, adapted to reverse-bias the light-emitting diode, and a third level signal, higher than the second level signal, adapted to enable the light-emitting diode to emit light, the drive signal generating circuit supplying the drive signal to the pixel circuits.
US08284129B2
A light emitting pixel includes a first organic light emitting diode (OLED) and a capacitor supplying to the first OLED current generated by an electric charge corresponding to a difference between a first voltage supplied to a first electrode of the capacitor and a second voltage supplied to a second electrode of the capacitor. The light emitting pixel further include a second OLED to supply the first voltage to the first electrode. The light emitting pixel further includes a voltage supply device to supply the first voltage to the first electrode in response to the second voltage.
US08284127B2
A display is conducted by using a time gray-scale system, in which one frame period is divided into a plurality of sub-frame periods, and a voltage applied to an EL element of a pixel is varied on a sub-frame period basis. Because of this, a display device is provided in which the fluctuations in brightness caused by an environment temperature of an EL element are suppressed with a gray-scale display method that is unlikely to be influenced by variations in characteristics of TFTs in a pixel portion and that is unlikely to be influenced by variations in a display period.
US08284125B2
An active matrix organic electro-luminescence display panel is provided. The display panel includes a substrate, an organic electro-luminescence device array, a driving circuit array and an insulating layer. A plurality of anodes of the organic electro-luminescence device array is disposed on the substrate. The circuit array is disposed on the organic electro-luminescence device array. The insulating layer is disposed on the substrate and located between the organic electro-luminescence device array and the driving circuit array. The insulating layer exposes a part of each the organic electro-luminescence device. Each driving circuit includes a scan line, a data line and a control unit. The control unit is electrically coupled to the scan line, the data line and a lower voltage source, while the corresponding organic electro-luminescence device is electrically coupled between the control unit and a higher voltage source.
US08284124B2
An organic electroluminescent display device includes an organic light-emitting diode, a first transistor outputting a data voltage by an nth scan signal (n is a natural number), a second transistor providing a current to the organic light-emitting by the data voltage, a capacitor storing the data voltage, and a third transistor supplying the second transistor and the capacitor with a pre-charge voltage by an (n−1)th scan signal, the pre-charge voltage having an opposite polarity to the data voltage.
US08284116B2
An antenna apparatus allows for internal impedance matching by employing an internal matching device therein. The antenna apparatus includes a board body formed of a dielectric material and having a flat structure. The antenna apparatus also includes an antenna device disposed on an upper surface of the board body, and the internal matching device disposed on a lower surface of the board body. The antenna device extends from a feed point and has a first impedance. The internal matching device is connected to the antenna device and has a second impedance used for matching the first impedance with a reference impedance. The antenna device and the internal matching device resonate at the reference impedance in a specific frequency band when a voltage is supplied through the feed point.
US08284106B2
An antenna that is small in size, has such input characteristics as to secure consistency in each band, and is capable of maintaining omnidirectionality. An antenna includes a grounded conductor, a shorting pin that is formed with a conductor, and a radiation conductor that has one end connected to the grounded conductor via the shorting pin, has the other end left open, and receives power supplied from a feeding point located at the one end. The radiation conductor is folded at a portion between the one end and the other end, and forms a lower arm closer to the grounded conductor and a folded upper arm, with at least part of the lower arm and the upper arm having a meandered portion.
US08284092B2
An analog-to-digital converter may include an annular delay circuit that includes a plurality of delay units connected in an annular shape, each of the plurality of delay units delaying a pulse current that is input to each of the plurality of delay units, a current source that outputs an electric current, in accordance with an input analog signal, to selected delay units, which is selected from among the plurality of delay units, and a digital signal generation unit that generates a digital signal in accordance with a number of circulations per predetermined period of time of the pulse current circulating around the annular delay circuit.
US08284090B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a hybrid analog to digital converter that may include a DAC coupled to a hybrid analog to digital converter input; an integrator having an input coupled to the hybrid analog to digital converter input and the DAC, and generating an integrator output; a comparator coupled to the integrator output and having a comparator output; a successive approximation register coupled to the comparator output; and a counter coupled to the comparator output to generate an hybrid analog to digital converter output. The hybrid analog to digital converter may be operable as a successive approximation register converter and a continuous time sigma delta converter.
US08284087B2
A method comprises disabling a video digital-to-analog converter (DAC) that is configured to provide an output current representative of a video signal to an output node of an accessory connector in an enabled state. The accessory connector is coupleable to an accessory device. The method further comprises determining, while the video DAC is disabled, whether the accessory connector is coupled to the accessory device based on a voltage at the output node while the output node is connected to the first voltage reference via a resistor having a resistance.
US08284086B2
An audio device (200) includes a first and second ICs (210) and (250) and a substrate (205). The first IC includes a sigma-delta, A/D converter (218) operable to convert an analog signal (234) into a pulse density modulated signal (236). A pulse density width modulator encoder (222) is operable to encode the PDM signal into a PDWM signal (244). The PDWM has short and long pulse widths defining first and second bit levels. The leading edges of each pulse bounds each pulse period. The second IC (250) includes a means (254) to receive the PDWM signal, an edge detector (304) operable to detect the leading pulse edges of the PDWM signal, a time-averaging circuit (308) operable to calculate each pulse period from the leading pulse edges and to generate a sample pulse (120) at near the midpoint of each pulse period, and a latch (312) operable to sample and hold the PDWM signal at the sample pulse to decode a PDM signal (278). The substrate is operable to support the first and second ICs and to conduct the PDWM signal between the first and second ICs.
US08284084B1
A programmable processing device having a control system and a programmable reference block. The control system sends digital control signals to the programmable reference block, which in turn generates analog variable signals used as reference signals for the programming of the one or more reconfigurable data converters.
US08284082B2
A player decodes and renders encoded digital data received from an encoder. During processing, the player periodically monitors dropped frames as well as time spent. If the dropped frames are below a minimum, the player determines to signal the encoder to increase bit rate or frame rate by consulting a table. If the player determines to increase bit rate, the player signals accordingly. However, if the player determines to increase frame rate, the player first verifies that the spent time is below a minimum. To the contrary, if the dropped frames are both above the minimum and a first maximum but not a second maximum, the player determines to signal the encoder to decrease bit rate or frame rate by consulting the table and signaling accordingly. However, if the dropped frames are above the second maximum, the player signals the encoder to decrease the frame rate without consulting the table.
US08284080B2
Aspects of the invention relate to a method and apparatus for scanning an array of sensors. More particularly, the invention is directed towards scanning an array of sensors to accurately determine actuated sensors on a contact-sensitive surface. In one embodiment, three sets of sensing lines can be incorporated into the sensing area for ghost-free detection of up to two keys. Further in other embodiments, n sets of sensing lines can be incorporated into the sensing area for ghost free detection of up to n−1 keys.
US08284077B2
An ion-dielectric touch sensor detects a touching operation applied by a touching object thereto. The ion-dielectric touch sensor includes a base board, a first electrode, a second electrode, and a dielectric layer. The base board forms an electrode mounting surface on which the first and second electrodes are arranged in such a way that the second electrode is closed to but spaced from the first electrode. The dielectric layer is coated on the electrode mounting surface of the base board and encloses the first and second electrodes. When the touching object touches the dielectric layer of the ion-dielectric touch sensor, a variation of the electrical resistance between the first and second electrodes is caused. The variation of electrical resistance is detected by a detection circuit connected between the first and second electrodes.
US08284064B2
A signal transmitter for a filling level sensor has two sliding contacts which are manufactured integrally with a holder and with spring elements. This leads to the manufacturing costs of the signal transmitter being particularly low. The sliding contacts are arranged on spring tongues and are connected to one another via a link. The spring tongues and the spring elements are therefore arranged in a row and allow the sliding contacts to be prestressed particularly uniformly against sliding tracks of the signal transmitter.
US08284057B2
An activation system for optical media in one embodiment includes a tag having at least one pair of conductors with at least one heating element coupled to the conductors. The heating element is oriented proximate one or more activation regions on the optical media, and wherein the heating element activates the optical media. The tag in one embodiment is an elongate flexible tag material with a number of conductors that couple on one end to heating elements wherein the heating elements are disposed within a media case such that they are proximate activation regions on a media article.
US08284053B2
A fuel dispenser comprises fuel dispensing apparatus mounted within a housing and a nozzle for dispensing fuel. The fuel dispensing apparatus includes control electronics and at least one touch display mounted in the housing and operatively coupled to the control electronics. The touch display is configured to allow a user to make selections for conducting a transaction. A camera or other suitable proximity detector is configured to detect the presence of a user and whether the user exceeds a height threshold without the user physically touching the fuel dispenser. In response to detecting the presence of the user, the fuel dispenser control electronics activates the display so that instructions are presented to the user in a first orientation or a second orientation depending on whether the user's height exceeds the threshold.
US08284052B2
A method comprises submitting a content message to an alerting engine from a health monitor, said content message being configured to cause said alerting engine to send an alert message to a communications device. The method may further comprise determining, using said health monitor, an expected alert message according to said submitted content; receiving, at said health monitor, an alert message forwarded from said communications device; comparing said received alert message with said expected alert message; and selectively sending an alarm message based on said determination.
US08284044B2
A system and method of handling poll-based alarms. The method begins by detecting a high-priority problem in a network. Next, network elements in the network related to the high-priority problem are mapped. The mapping step includes grouping network elements into focus groups wherein each focus group includes network elements having the same alarm. The mapped network elements are then polled for alarms. The polled alarms of the network elements are then correlated and processed.
US08284032B2
Disclosed is an apparatus and method for signal detection according to frequency bands used in an RFID system. The apparatus includes a low-noise amplifier for low-noise amplifying a received signal, a receiver unit for detecting a CW signal and a tag signal, a transmitter unit for frequency up-converting and outputting an input signal, a PLL for generating a frequency signal according to a transmission signal band or a reception signal band, a receiver unit switch for connecting the receiver unit with the low-noise amplifier or a directional coupler, an antennas switch for connecting the antenna with the directional coupler or low-noise amplifier, and a controller unit for controlling a frequency of the frequency signal generated by the PLL, turning off transmission power in a case of an LBT scheme, controlling the receiver unit switch and the antenna switch, and determining if a corresponding channel is an idle channel.
US08284031B2
Embodiments of the present invention include systems and methods for providing Quality of service to RFID. In one embodiment the present invention includes a method of providing quality of service in an RFID network comprising storing RFID priority information corresponding to the RFID network, wherein the RFID network comprises one or more tags and one or more readers mapping the RFID priority information into priority information corresponding to a second network.
US08284030B2
A method for recognizing time-variable functional states, e.g., in the course of a programming process, in RFID systems is disclosed, which includes at least one transponder or remote sensor and at least one base station, which transmits data and/or power to the transponder or sensor by a carrier signal. According to the invention, after a specified process state is attained at least one confirmation symbol is transmitted by the transponder or sensor to the base station. As a result, no unfavorable “worst case” scenario has to be provided for chronologically controlling time-variable processes because the base station is able to clearly recognize the beginning and end of the process, as well as the state thereof. RFID systems or remote sensor systems can thus be controlled more quickly and more reliably, resulting especially in reduced costs.
US08284020B2
A passive entry system and method for determining the location of a remote transmitter positioned near a vehicle. The system and method may include an irregularly shaped authorization zone. The authorization zone may be formed using as least three LF antennas. Alternatively, at least two antennas may be used to form at least one elliptically shaped authorization zone. A controller may determine the location of the fob when the fob is physically positioned within the authorization zone.
US08284018B2
A first proximity sensor array arranged on a first side of a stall-door comprises three linearly aligned sensors whereby left-to-right movement of a patron's hand within the sensing zone causes a bathroom stall door to open. A second proximity sensor array arranged on a second side of the stall door comprises three linearly aligned sensors whereby right-to-left movement of a patron's hand within the sensing zone causes the door to close. A second right-to-left movement across the same second sensor array causes the stall door to lock and a first display array arranged on the first side of the door and a second display array arranged on the second side of the door alight, indicating the stall is occupied and locked. A left-to-right movement across the second sensor array causes the stall door to unlock and open, and the display arrays indicate the stall is available.
US08284004B2
A method for cooling a transformer and transformer apparatuses are implemented. A transformer apparatus, according to one embodiment, comprises: a conduction cooled electrical transformer (240) mounted to a cold plate (252); and a heat pipe (262) for supplementing cooling of the transformer (240), the heat pipe (262) comprising a first end (303), a second end (305), and a sealed low pressure cavity containing an amount of a fluid (311), wherein the first end (303) of the heat pipe (262) is located in a hot region of the transformer (240), the second end (305) is maintained colder than the first end (303) by contact with the cold plate (252), and heat produced at the first end (303) by operation of the transformer (240) is moved to the second end (305) by a closed loop vapor cycle in the sealed low pressure cavity using the fluid (311) of the heat pipe (262).
US08283997B2
An elastic-wave filter device includes a package substrate and filter mounting pattern provided on a first main surface of the package substrate on which a longitudinally coupled resonator-type elastic-wave filter is mounted, a back-side terminal pattern is provided on a second main surface thereof, and an internal electrode pattern is provided inside the package substrate. When seen in plan view from a direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the first main surface of the substrate body, first via conductors electrically connecting a ground pattern element of the filter mounting pattern connected to a ground pad of the longitudinally coupled resonator-type elastic-wave filter and an internal ground pattern element of the internal electrode pattern are arranged asymmetrically with respect to a center line X-X passing through an input pattern element of the filter mounting pattern and through two output pattern elements.
US08283990B2
This disclosure provides a signal transmission communication unit and a coupler that can occupy a small area and have a reduced thickness. The signal transmission communication unit includes a base component including a signal transmission line and a ground electrode, a coupling planar conductor parallel to the base component and having a planar shape, an inductor circuit connected between the coupling planar conductor and the signal transmission line, and an LC-series circuits between part of the coupling planar conductor and the ground electrode and including a capacitor and an inductor connected in series. The inductor circuit is provided between the coupling planar conductor and the base component, and the LC-series connected circuit is provided between the coupling planar conductor and the base component.
US08283989B2
There is provided a voltage controlled oscillator using a Colpitts circuit capable of suppressing deterioration (decrease) in variable range (adjustable range) of an output frequency due to the influence of an inductance component on a conductive line, which connects a connection point between two capacitors of a feedback part and an emitter of a transistor. In a VCO using a Colpitts circuit, with respect to capacitors 22, 23 of a feedback part 2, a first feedback capacitance element (capacitor) 22 is disposed so as to directly couple a terminal for base (connection part 7) and a terminal for emitter on a base substrate 5, to which a terminal part 8 (T1) extending from a base of a transistor 21 and a terminal part 8 (T2) extending from an emitter of the transistor 21 are fitted, respectively, and a second feedback capacitance element (capacitor) 23 is disposed so as to directly couple the terminal for emitter and the terminal for grounding (ground electrode 51).
US08283988B2
A resonator element capable of improving impact resistance is provided. A quartz crystal resonator element is a resonator element formed by etching a Z plate which is cut at predetermined angles with respect to the crystal axes of a quartz crystal. The quartz crystal resonator element includes a base, a pair of resonating arms extending from the base in the Y-axis direction, and a positive X-axis notch and a negative X-axis notch formed by notching the base in the X-axis direction. The positive X-axis notch is formed by notching the base from the negative side of the X axis towards the positive side so that the width of the positive X-axis notch increases as it approaches the outer circumference.
US08283987B2
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a MEMS resonator system that reduces interference signals arising from undesired capacitive coupling between different system elements. The system includes a MEMS resonator, two or more resonator electrodes, and at least one resonator electrode shield. The resonator electrode shield ensures that the resonator electrodes interact with either one or more shunting nodes or the active elements of the MEMS resonator by preventing or reducing, among other things, capacitive coupling between the resonator electrodes and the support and auxiliary elements of the MEMS resonator structure. By reducing the deleterious effects of interfering signals using one or more resonator electrode shields, a simpler, lower interference, and more efficient system relative to prior art approaches is presented.
US08283985B2
Preferred embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods that automatically correct the desired on-time of switching elements as the resonant frequency changes, so as to maintain the correct proportional value.
US08283982B2
An equalization circuit adjusts (e.g., equalizes) an input signal according to the value of one or more adjustment signals (e.g., equalization coefficients) without a multiplication operation. For example, the circuit may add or subtract a value of a coefficient signal to the amplitude of an input signal. Here, whether the coefficient is added or subtracted may depend on the sign of a control signal.
US08283981B2
An operational amplifier that can suppress lowering of the current driving capability while performing a self adjustment of the common mode voltage is disclosed. A common mode voltage adjusting transistor and an auxiliary transistor are connected in parallel with a low-voltage side drive transistor of each of push-pull amplifying circuits that produce first and second amplified difference signals having different polarities in accordance with drive signals obtained by level-shifting a difference signal indicating a difference value of the levels of the first and second input signals by predetermined values. Current drive capabilities during a period of outputting said first and second amplified difference signals and a common mode voltage adjusting period respectively are increased by driving said auxiliary drive transistor by alternately using the drive signal obtained by level-shifting the difference signal and a common mode voltage adjusting signal.
US08283977B2
A digital pre-distortion system which can provide the flexibility to model the highly non-linear distortion associated with High Efficiency RF Power Amplifiers while through a novel implementation of a least squares estimation process allows an implementation well suited for an FPGA application where limited resources and in particular memory resources are available.
US08283971B2
An internal voltage generation circuit includes a voltage detection unit configured to generate a voltage detection signal that indicates whether a voltage level of an internal voltage is a first target voltage level or a second target voltage level higher than the first target voltage level, according to control of a normal operation signal. The internal voltage generation circuit also includes an operation control signal generation unit configured to selectively activate an operation control signal in response to the normal operation signal and the voltage detection signal, a periodic pulse signal generation unit configured to generate a periodic pulse signal in response to the operation control signal and the normal operation signal, and a charge pumping unit configured to generate an internal voltage by performing a charge pumping operation according to control of the periodic pulse signal.
US08283968B2
An analog switch including at least one first MOS transistor capable of transferring a signal from a first terminal to a second terminal; a connection circuit for bringing a substrate terminal of the first transistor to a voltage which is a function of the voltages of the first and second terminals; and a circuit for controlling a control voltage of the first transistor with the signal.
US08283964B2
Level shifters and high voltage logic circuits implemented with MOS transistors having a low breakdown voltage relative to the voltage swing of the input and output signals are described. In an exemplary design, a level shifter includes a driver circuit and a latch. The driver circuit receives an input signal having a first voltage range and provides a drive signal having a second voltage range. The first and second voltage ranges may cover positive and negative voltages or different ranges of positive voltages. The latch receives the drive signal and provides an output signal having the second voltage range. The driver circuit may generate a control signal having a full voltage range based on the input signal and may then generate the drive signal based on the control signal. The level shifter may be used to implement a high voltage logic circuit.
US08283961B2
Delay circuitry is described that includes clock mixing circuitry to provide a selectable propagation time. Output signals from the mixing circuitry are selectively coupled through a variable delay line to synchronize two clock signals.
US08283960B2
A digital voltage regulator including a dual rail delay chain having large size, feed forward cross-coupled inverters that interconnect the two rails. Stages of the delay chain include a dual-ended output that provides a data signal and a substantially simultaneous data complement signal to a flip-flop component associated with a sampling circuit. In use, the enhanced resolution delay chain and the reduced metastability window flop-flop increase the precision of the digital voltage regulator.
US08283959B2
A frequency multiplier circuit comprising a delay line receiving at one end thereof a reference clock for generating clock tap outputs from respective ones of a plurality of period matched delay elements; a clock combining circuit responsive to pairs of tap outputs for generating a rising and falling edge of an output clock pulse from respective ones of the pairs whereby the output clock period is less than the input clock period.
US08283956B2
A radiation-hardened charge pump circuit is provided. The circuit includes a first charge pump having a first charge pump output, a second charge pump having a second charge pump output, a first coincidence detector receiving as inputs the first charge pump output and the second charge pump output and producing as an output a first coincidence signal, and an analog 2:1 multiplexor for selecting either the first charge pump output or the second charge pump output based on the first coincidence signal. In alternative embodiment, the circuit includes at least three charge pumps, at least two coincidence detectors, decision logic, and a correspondingly-sized analog multiplexor.
US08283954B2
A resume and reset (RSMRST) signal output circuit, for outputting a low level voltage RSMRST signal, includes a first switch circuit, a delay circuit, and a second switch circuit. The first switch circuit receives a first voltage signal and converts the first voltage signal to a second voltage signal. The delay circuit is charged by the second voltage signal and outputs the second voltage signal it is when fully charged. The second switch circuit receives the second voltage signal and outputs the low level voltage RSMRST signal. The delay circuit is charged during a first state and discharged during a second state.
US08283953B2
An integrated circuit for switching a transistor is disclosed. In some embodiments, an operational amplifier is configured to drive a transistor, and slew rate control circuitry is configured to control the slew rate of the transistor source voltage during turn on. The transistor source voltage is employed as feedback to the operational amplifier to facilitate closed loop control of the transistor source voltage during switching of the transistor.
US08283949B2
The invention relates to controlling a device for converting charge into voltage comprising an amplifier and at least one capacitor mounted in inverse feedback between an input and an output of said amplifier, whereby said amplifier can be connected between at least one input stage, to receive a charge therefrom, and at least one output stage to deliver voltage thereto, said voltage being representative of the charge received at the input, said method comprising at least one phase comprising the voltage conversion of a charge received at the input. According to the invention the conversion phase comprises at least: one first sub-phase during which the amplifier is connected to the input stage and the amplifier is disconnected from the output stage; followed, by a second sub-phase during which the amplifier is disconnected from the input stage and the amplifier is connected to the output stage.
US08283947B1
A high voltage tolerant bus holder circuit and method of operating the bus holder circuit utilizes first and second control transistors connected in parallel between a control terminal of a pull-up transistor and a bus. The first control transistor is used to turn on the pull-up transistor during a pull-up mode of operation. The second control transistor is used to turn off the pull-down transistor when a voltage on the bus exceeds a threshold.
US08283946B2
Signaling systems, preamplifiers, memory devices and methods are disclosed, such as a signaling system that includes a transmitter configured to receive a first digital signal. The transmitter provides a transmitted signal corresponding to the digital signal to a signal path. A receiver system coupled to the signal line includes a preamplifier coupled to receive the transmitted signal from the signal path. The preamplifier includes a common-gate amplifying transistor that is configured to provide an amplified signal. The receiver system also includes a receiver coupled to receive the amplified signal from the preamplifier. The receiver is configured to provide a second digital signal corresponding to the amplified signal received by the receiver. Such a signaling system may be used in a memory device or in any other electronic circuit.
US08283942B2
A diagnostic tool for an auxiliary power unit comprising an alternating current generator having an exciter winding and an output winding and an automatic voltage regulator for providing control over the excitation winding of the generator includes a harness with plug connectors allowing the diagnostic tool to be directly introduced between the generator and automatic voltage regulator replacing the conventional connections without affecting operation of the auxiliary power unit. The diagnostic tool has a plurality of multimeters between the automatic voltage regulator and the alternating current generator providing voltage readings across and resistance readings for the generator's stator exciter winding and main and auxiliary output windings. A protocol relates voltage and resistance readings taken with the multimeters when the auxiliary power unit is on and off to possible faults in the generator or with the automatic voltage regulator.
US08283938B2
A monitoring system includes a controller, a number of input and output devices, a number of sensors, and a number of electronic devices. Each input and output device includes a switching circuit, a first input circuit, a second input circuit, and a connector. The connector is connected to a sensor or an electronic device. The controller controls the switching circuit to receive a detecting signal of the sensor or supply power to the electronic device. The first input circuit and the second input circuit are connected between the switching circuit and the controller.
US08283937B2
A monitoring system includes a controller, a number of sensors, a number of alarms, and a number of input/output devices. Each input/output device is connected between the controller and a sensor or an alarm. Each input/output device includes an input circuit, an output circuit, and a connector to selectively connect to the sensor or the alarm. The input circuit and the output circuit are connected between the controller and the connector. The controller controls status of the input circuit and the output circuit. When the connector is connected to the alarm, the controller controls the alarm to work via the output circuit. When the connector is connected to the sensor, the sensor outputs a detection signal to the controller via the input circuit.
US08283935B2
A method of forming a touch sensing circuit pattern includes steps of: forming a first axial conductive line on a transparent substrate; forming an insulation barrier on the first axial conductive line; forming two separated first axial electrodes, two separated second axial electrodes and the second axial conductive line on the transparent substrate. The first axial electrodes are arranged on two sides of the insulation barrier along a first direction. The second axial electrodes are arranged on two opposite sides of the axial conductive line along a second direction. The second axial conductive line is across on the insulation barrier and connects to the second axial electrodes. The method of the invention can simplify the manufacturing process.
US08283932B2
A noise measurement system in a power stabilization network, a variable filter applied to the power stabilization network, and a method for measuring noise in the power stabilization network are provided. A power line communication signal from the power stabilization network is attenuated relative to a particular frequency using a filter in order to allow the power line communication signal to operate within an input range of an Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) measurer. A signal from a forbidden frequency band is transmitted to the EMI measurer without any attenuation or influence on a noise floor.
US08283928B2
The invention relates to a method and arrangement for determining a power supply state variable, particularly of the maintenance state of a battery or rechargeable battery, in an active medical implant, wherein the power supply is subjected to a predetermined load, and the output voltage thereof is detected multiple times during at least one time segment of the load phase, and the measurement values are subjected to a comparison to a respective comparison value, or the chronological curve of the voltage obtained from the measurement values is subjected to a comparison to at least one comparison curve, wherein the comparison result is considered characteristic for the state variable.
US08283927B2
A two port parametric amplifier has a first port that receives an input signal to be amplified and upconverted and a second port that receives a local oscillator signal. The amplified upconverted input signal is emitted as an output at upper and lower sideband frequencies. The amplifier further has a pair of varactor diodes connected between the first port and the second port. The diodes are connected in parallel from the first port and in series from the second port.
US08283907B1
A method includes receiving an input voltage at a voltage regulator and generating an output voltage using the voltage regulator, which includes an inductor. The method also includes controlling a current through the inductor using a current limit reference and modulating the current limit reference based on the input voltage and the output voltage. Modulating the current limit reference could include modulating a reference current based on a product of first and second input currents. The first input current may be based on the output voltage, and the second input current may be based on a difference between the output and input voltages. The voltage regulator may operate in a pulse frequency mode associated with a repetition rate. The repetition rate and a percentage ripple associated with the output voltage may be substantially constant over variations in the input voltage and variations in the output voltage.
US08283902B1
A voltage regulator has a switch configured to alternately couple and decouple a voltage source through an inductor to a load, feedback circuitry to generate a feedback current, a current sensor configured to measure the feedback current, and a controller configured to receive the feedback current measurement from the current sensor and, in response thereto, to control a duty cycle of the switch. The feedback circuitry includes an amplifier having a first input configured to receive a desired voltage, a second input, and an output, a capacitor connecting the second input to the output of the amplifier, and a resistor connecting the output of the amplifier and the output terminal such that a feedback current proportional to a difference between the desired voltage and an output voltage at an output terminal flows through the resistor.
US08283899B2
An electronic device includes a rechargeable battery, an electrical circuit, a battery safety circuit, and a power down mode circuit. The electrical circuit is configured to generate a power mode control signal. The power down mode circuit receives the power mode control signal. If the power mode control signal has a first value, the power down mode circuit is configured to force a voltage at a first port of the battery safety circuit to a voltage value that is less than an under voltage lock out (UVLO) threshold value of the battery safety circuit to transition the electronic device from a normal operating mode to a low current power down mode. The electronic device may further include a wake up mode circuit.
US08283896B1
An energy storage device includes buck and boost switches that charge and discharge a charge storage element (e.g. a supercapacitor or ultracapacitor) over a broad voltage range. Integrated charge limiting prevents the storage element from sinking a potentially damaging level of current. Pulse-width modulated control signals are combined with higher-frequency signals to allow the resulting modulated control signals to pass through relatively small, inexpensive isolation transformers. Pairs of control signals may be combined to produce composite control signals that turn power switches on and off, or may be used to separately turn the power switches on and off.
US08283895B2
A circuit current balancing apparatus balances circuit currents among units of a battery device. The circuit current balancing apparatus is provided with a plurality of cell stacks respectively composed of at least one cell. The apparatus balances a circuit current of a control circuit connected to each of the plurality of cell stacks for controlling and monitoring a status of the cell stack. The apparatus also includes a comparator for calculating and outputting a voltage difference between an output voltage of the corresponding cell stack and a voltage of the control circuit connected to the corresponding cell stack, and a current source for adding or subtract a dummy current to/from a circuit current of the control circuit in correspondence with the output of the comparator.
US08283870B2
A bypass protection circuit connected to a light emitting diode (LED) group in parallel, comprises a switch circuit and a capacitor. The switch circuit comprises a plurality of switch components, an abnormal detection module and a switch control module. The abnormal detection module detects voltage of the LEDs respectively, and determines which one is broken and outputs an abnormal signal. The switch control module controls a switch component connected to the broken LED in parallel on/off according to the abnormal signal. The capacitor is charged by driving signals of the LEDs when the LEDs are operated according to a normal working mode or a first status of a burst dimming mode, and is discharged to maintain an operating power of the switch circuit when the LEDs are operated according to a second status of the burst dimming mode.
US08283865B2
An excimer discharge lamp includes an electric discharge container having a pair of plates which face each other and connected by a side wall. An electrical discharge space is formed between the plates. A pair of external electrodes are provided on exterior surfaces of the plates. A light emission gas of rare gas, halogen or halide is enclosed in the electrical discharge space. The pair of plates and the side wall are made of sapphire, YAG, or single crystal yttria. Impurities which exist in an inner surface of the electric discharge container surrounding the electrical discharge space contain at least silicon, carbon, or cerium, and the quantity thereof is 0.6 ng/cm2 or less.
US08283861B2
A field emission display includes an insulating substrate, a number of first electrode down-leads, a number of second electrode down-leads, and a number of pixel units. The first electrode down-leads are set an angle relative to the second electrode down-leads to define a number of cells. Each pixel unit is located in each cell and includes a cathode electrode, an electron emitter, an anode electrode, and a phosphor layer. The electron emitter is electrically connected to the cathode electrode. The anode electrode has a bearing surface inclined to the insulating substrate. The phosphor layer is located on the bearing surface.
US08283859B2
It is an object of the present invention to prevent an insulating film from peeling in a section where the insulating film is adjacent to a sealing region. Over a first substrate 104, a pixel portion 100 provided with a light emitting element, a source driver 101, a gate driver 102, and a sealing region 103 are provided. A light emitting element is sealed between the first substrate 104 and a second substrate 110 by a sealant 108. An insulating film 107 serves as a partition wall of the light emitting element. An end portion of the insulating film 107 which is adjacent to the sealing region 103 does not overlap with a step formed by a side surface and an upper surface of a conductive film 106 which serves as a wiring.
US08283853B2
A device including a layer comprising a light emissive area and a light non-emissive area. A light-extracting feature is disposed over the light non-emissive area. The light-extracting features can include surface aberrations and reflective index matching elements. A method of forming the device is also provided.
US08283851B2
An organic light-emitting display apparatus having a touch panel operation. The organic light-emitting display apparatus includes: a substrate; a display unit disposed on the substrate; an encapsulation substrate disposed above the display unit; a reflection layer formed on the substrate; and a photo sensor interposed between the reflection layer and the encapsulation substrate, and to detect light striking an object disposed on the encapsulation substrate.
US08283848B2
The present invention provides a red-emitting phosphor emitting luminescence of excellent color purity with high efficiency under the excitation with near UV light, and it also provides a color image displaying device employing that phosphor. This phosphor comprises an ARS2 matrix (A is at least one of Na, K and Rb, and R is at least one of Y, Gd and Lu) doped with 0.003 to 0.3 mol % of Bi and 0.1 to 3 mol % of Mn, and is suitable as a red-emitting phosphor used in a color image displaying device without a color filter.
US08283844B2
A lighting device is disclosed herein. In the lighting device, a plurality of the light emitting elements may be provided based on a desired amount of light. The lighting device may include a reflector provided over the light emitting elements and a lens provided over the reflector. The reflector may be configured to reflect light emitted from the light emitting elements to reduce light loss and to improve light distribution efficiency in the lighting device.
US08283843B2
A ceramic composite laminate includes a wavelength-converting layer and a non-emissive layer, wherein the ceramic composite laminate has a wavelength conversion efficiency (WCE) of at least 0.650. The ceramic composite laminate can also include a wavelength-converting ceramic layer comprising an emissive material and a scattering material, wherein the laminated composite has a total transmittance of between about 40% to about 85%. The wavelength-converting layer may be formed from plasma YAG:Ce powder.
US08283840B2
An energy harvesting and storage system includes an array of piezoelectric electrodes, in which the piezoelectric electrodes generate electrical energy from mechanical displacements of the piezoelectric electrodes; and an array of capacitor electrodes disposed in proximity to the piezoelectric electrodes, in which the array of capacitor electrodes stores a portion of the energy generated by the piezoelectric electrodes. An energy system includes a substrate including an array of micro-post electrodes connected to a cathode layer of the substrate; an isolation material covering the array of micro-post electrodes; and an anode layer including electrodes filling the remaining region between the isolation material-covered micro-post electrodes, in which the anode layer, electrodes, isolation material, micro-post electrodes, and substrate are monolithically coupled.
US08283838B2
A piezoelectric linear motor for providing enhanced displacement using a dome-shaped piezoelectric ceramic is provided. The piezoelectric linear motor includes a dome-shaped piezoelectric ceramic (100) processed such that different electrodes are formed on opposite surfaces of the piezoelectric ceramic. A vibration shaft (200) is fixed to a first surface of the piezoelectric ceramic so that the vibration shaft moves in conjunction with displacement of the piezoelectric ceramic. A movable element (300) is linearly driven through friction with the vibration shaft while coming into contact with the vibration shaft. The movable element moves in a movement direction of the vibration shaft if the inertial force of the movable element is less than the frictional force between the movable element and the vibration shaft when the vibration shaft moves. According to the present invention, the piezoelectric ceramic is formed in a dome shape, so that movement displacement is enhanced.
US08283831B1
A brushless DC motor has at least three stator sections and a single rotor rotating with the three stator sections. Each stator section is wound with three parallel windings having respective three nodes. Each stator section has nine terminals providing independent access to each node so that separate voltages and currents are applied to each parallel winding in the stator section. Thus, the current applied to each stator section is divided substantially equally among the three parallel windings, thereby reducing the current in each winding for the same power requirement for the motor, which reduces the I2R losses in the windings and the supply wiring and reduces the power handling requirements in the electronic switches providing the supply voltages. The three parallel windings are connected to external terminals of the motor to form either a delta winding configuration or a wye (star) winding configuration.
US08283830B2
In a rotating electric machine, each phase of a plurality of three-phase windings is divided into a plurality of partial windings, disposed on a stator core. For example, the partial windings of the U-phase are distributively arranged on four U-phase winding areas 2U1 to 2U4, and on each of these winding areas, two partial windings overlap through a pair of slots between which two teeth are interposed. At each coincident location of a pair of slots, two partial windings of different three-phase windings overlap. For example, a pair of slots on the U-phase winding area 2U1, a partial winding UA1 of a U-phase winding UA and a partial winding UB3 of a U-phase winding UB overlap. At a pair of slots on the U-phase winding area 2U1, a partial winding UG2 of a U-phase winding UG and a partial winding UB2 of a U-phase winding UB overlap.
US08283826B2
A bearing arrangement and a bearing block includes a magnetic radial bearing for the contact-less support of a rotor shaft of a rotating machine, and a touchdown bearing for catching the rotor shaft. Both bearings are connected to each other permanently and in an axially aligned manner, and are elastically suspended with regard to a bearing shield, a machine housing, or a foundation of the rotating machine.
