US08397276B2
A system to dynamically protect access to a first network receives a data unit containing a source address indicating a source of the data unit. The source address is matched with information stored in the system, and entry of the data unit to the first network is enabled or denied based on the matching. It is determined whether the data unit contains an identifier of a codec type that matches a stored codec type, and occurrence of an attack of the first network is indicated in response to determining that the identifier is of a codec type that does not match the stored codec type.
US08397271B2
RF signal amplifiers for cable television networks are provided that include an RF input port. a power amplifier coupled to the RF input port and a power divider having an input that is coupled to an output of the power amplifier. The power divider includes a first directional coupler that is coupled to an output of the power amplifier. The directional coupler includes a first output branch and a second output branch. A first bypass circuit is coupled between the first and second output branches of the first directional coupler. A response of the power divider includes a null that substantially blocks signals received at the input of the power divider from passing to outputs of the power divider in a subset of frequencies within the range of 5 MHz to 1550 MHz. These RF signal amplifiers may provide improved performance, robustness and reliability when used in MOCA networks.
US08397270B2
An electronic apparatus stores in a graphics memory a first and a second graphics object. An OSD processor generates a first digital stream which represents the first graphics object. The second graphics object is converted into picture data, for example by a main controller, and these data are written to a picture memory, from which a second digital stream is generated. A mixer combines the first and the second digital stream into a video signal to be displayed.
US08397267B2
In one embodiment, upstream transmission throughput in a cable network is markedly increased by moving up the US/DS frequency split by approximately an order of magnitude to a few hundred MHz. Additional transceivers (carriers) may be implemented to take advantage of the broader spectrum. A block of multiple upstream carriers (FIG. 2A) are associated to form a single logical upstream providing a high-bandwidth, in-order packet stream. The carriers have a common start time (704), pursuant to a single MAP message, and operation synchronously to transmit an upstream transmission frame (250). They may use OFDM or discrete carriers. A convergence layer (350) assembles the data from all of the upstream channels (320,322,324) for presentation to the MAC layer logic (308,310) as a single, serial, high-speed transmission from the CM.
US08397266B2
A software framework that allows seamless integration of generic media players into a web browser. A media player is a software module that implements specific interfaces; defines a playing state, such as playing, paused, or stopped; and associates with the playing state a current playback time. A generic media player implements interfaces, including timing interfaces and playback synchronization interfaces for exchanging timing and synchronization information with a web browser. A player-hosting peer, which is a software component built into the browser, manages generic player hosting by a web browser. The player-hosting peer negotiates playback state and rendering status between the browser and the media player. Both the media player and the player-hosting peer maintain playing state and current playback time. The relationship between the peer and the player is a master slave relationship, with the peer being the master. The peer issues commands to the player, and the player notifies the peer of any state changes. A proxy layer allows external media players to integrate seamlessly into a browser.
US08397264B2
A disclosed digital media device at user premises receives a media signal from a media source for presentation via a television display. The exemplary device also supports bi-directional communications with an application service provider device via user premises data communications network. The provider device, which is independent from the media source, offers an application service from a wide area network via the digital media device and user premises network. The digital media device may form a composite signal from the media signal and application service information, for example, for a composite audio and or video signal for television type presentation to the user. The digital media device may receive a selection signal based on the presentation, for transmission to the application service provider device or to the media source. The media device also offers a GUI presenting a moveable arrangement of icons for selectively accessing application services.
US08397260B2
This display includes a control portion controlling a selected screen portion to display a program other than a program displayed on a nonselected screen portion if a program subsequently displayed on the selected screen portion and the program displayed on the nonselected screen portion are identical to each other.
US08397256B2
AN IPTV receiver and a method of providing channel map information are provided. A network interface transmits and receives an IP packet through a network. An IP network stack checks a destination of the received IP packet and classifies the IP packet according to a protocol. A Service Information (SI) decoder parses a master SI table included in the IP packet to read channel map management information included in the master SI table, and parses a channel map record included in the IP packet to read a channel map instance included in the channel map record. An IPTV terminal function (ITF) operation controller controls the reception of the channel map record based on the read channel map management information.
US08397249B2
An electronic apparatus includes a disk drive unit, a first casing and a second casing. The disk drive unit is provided inside the electronic apparatus and has an insertion slot into which a disk medium is to be slid or placed. The first casing covers an upper side of the disk drive unit and includes a cover portion covering an upper edge of the insertion slot. The second casing joins to the first casing and provides a housing portion housing the disk drive unit.
US08397245B2
Some embodiments of the inventive subject matter are directed to receiving a request from a first instance of an operating system (e.g., a virtual operating system) to load a kernel extension that extends functionality of a kernel, where the kernel and the first instance of the operating system are managed by a second instance of the operating system (e.g., a global operating system), and where the first and second instances of the operating system share the kernel. Some embodiments are further directed to loading the kernel extension as a shared kernel extension. Some embodiments are further directed to receiving a request by the first instances of the operating system to unload the kernel extension and determining that a third instance of the operating system (e.g., another virtual operating system also managed by the global operating system) requires the kernel extension to remain loaded. Some embodiments are further directed to notifying the first instance of the operating system that the kernel extension was unloaded while leaving the kernel extension loaded in the kernel.
US08397241B2
Embodiments of the invention provide language support for CPU-GPU platforms. In one embodiment, code can be flexibly executed on both the CPU and GPU. CPU code can offload a kernel to the GPU. That kernel may in turn call preexisting libraries on the CPU, or make other calls into CPU functions. This allows an application to be built without requiring the entire call chain to be recompiled. Additionally, in one embodiment data may be shared seamlessly between CPU and GPU. This includes sharing objects that may have virtual functions. Embodiments thus ensure the right virtual function gets invoked on the CPU or the GPU if a virtual function is called by either the CPU or GPU.
US08397234B2
An apparatus for determining a priority value for a thread for execution on a multithreading processor system includes: a base value register for depositing a priority base value; and an evaluation unit for determining the priority value of the thread for execution on the multithreading processor system subject to the priority base value and an application priority value delivered from a thread's application.
US08397228B2
Methods and systems for updating device software are disclosed, including a method for updating an information handling system, the method comprising: receiving an update, wherein the update is identified with an update type selected from a predefined set of update types; determining a probability that the information handling system enters an essential operating state; and installing the update only in response to the probability being less than a threshold probability.
US08397222B2
Methods for constructing an Any-to-Any data machine (consisting of Any-to-Any data components and their environmental requirements) and an Any-to-Any code machine (consisting of Any-to-Any code components and their environmental requirements) and relating them together so that they harmoniously interact and so that the data Any-to-Any machine controls and is also acted upon by the code Any-to-Any machine so as to produce an Any-to-Any system that transforms data in a manner that is useful and which is analogous to the harmonious interaction of the Any-Any binary code and Any-to-Any transistor systems, and which handles data and transforms it in a sufficiently similar manner to the manner in which the human handles and transforms data that the human finds it easy and intuitive to operate, all supported by methods that enable data to be stored in a single logical grid structure that can accept and correctly relate, transmit and receive any data, together examples of methods to derive benefits from these inventions.
US08397217B2
Test template may comprise a source code template instruction associated with source code commands. The source code template instruction is utilized in generation of a test. The generation of instructions associated with the source code template instruction takes into account utilization of shared resources by both the source code commands and by generated instructions that are generated by other template instructions.
US08397216B2
A compiler generates code providing an execution sequence, from a declarative event-driven model, for execution by a computer. To assist in debugging the declarative event-driven model, the compiler also generates cross-references that relate steps in the generated code to elements of the declarative source code. The cross-references may be used as input to a debugger, along with the declarative source and the generated code, to assist a user who is stepping through the generated code (for example) in understanding which portion of the declarative source gave rise to the current step in the generated execution sequence.
US08397204B2
Described embodiments relate to methods, systems and computer readable medium for developing a system architecture. Resources constraints are defined, where each resource constraint corresponds to a maximum number of a each kind of resources available to construct the system architecture. Constraint values for each of at least three optimization parameters are defined, which includes a final optimization parameter. A design space is defined as a plurality of vectors representing different combinations of a number of each kind of resource available to construct the system architecture. For each of the plurality of optimization parameters, a priority factor function is defined. A plurality of satisfying sets of vectors is determined for each of the optimization parameters except for the final optimization parameter. A set of vectors is determined based on an intersection of the plurality of satisfying sets of vectors for the optimization parameters. A vector is selected from the set of vectors based on the ordered list of vectors and the final optimization parameter, where the selected vector is for use in developing the system architecture.
US08397193B2
A method is provided for identifying use of a proprietary circuit layout. A representation of a layout of a circuit is input and the locations of a set of predetermined physical features of the circuit are identified. This set of locations is then compared with a previously generated characteristic pattern file, the characteristic pattern file comprising a representation of relative locations of a set of these predetermined physical features in the proprietary circuit layout. If the set of locations matches the relative locations of the characteristic pattern file, then an output is generated indicating that use of the proprietary circuit design has been found.
US08397190B2
A hardware description language representation of an original circuit block containing one or more hierarchies may be obtained. Some, or all of the hierarchies may be dissolved to access each circuit component within the original circuit block at a same level of hierarchy. Designated circuit components may then be grouped together to create new circuit blocks at a new level of hierarchy. Components and signals within each new circuit block may be renamed to match logically corresponding components and signals within each other new circuit block. Missing pins may be added for each new circuit block, and connected to respective associated signals within the new circuit block, and logically equivalent pins may be given the same name to ensure the new circuit blocks are logically equivalent to each other and have identical interfaces. One of the new circuit blocks may be selected for physical build to obtain one or more physical instances corresponding to the selected new circuit block, and a top-level build may link each new circuit block instance to one of those one or more physical instances.
US08397188B1
Systems and methods for testing a component by using encapsulation are described. The systems and methods facilitate communication between two components that use two different languages in a test environment. Such communication is allowed by encapsulating an identifier of a function to create a call message, encapsulating an identifier of an event to create an event message, or encapsulating an identifier of the function to create a return message.
US08397179B2
A display control apparatus that makes it easy to recognize a target image when images are displayed in each of regions obtained by dividing a single screen, even when the method for dividing the screen has changed. For example, when the method for dividing the screen in an index view is switched, the post-switch location of a target thumbnail image is calculated based on the ratio between the pre- and post-switch division numbers and the pre-switch location of the target thumbnail image, in both the horizontal and vertical directions. Then, the overall arrangement of the thumbnail images in the index view after the division method switch is determined based on the calculated location of the target thumbnail image.
US08397170B2
A medical image display apparatus stores examination information of a plurality of examinations and image data resulting from the plurality of examinations, displays a plurality of selectable icons corresponding to the plurality of examinations along one of a vertical direction and a horizontal direction in a screen, displays one or more selectable thumbnail images along the other one of the vertical direction and the horizontal direction, and displays an original image based on the image data. Each of the one or more selectable thumbnail images is displayed in a smaller size than the original image. An input unit is configured to select a first of the plurality of selectable icons and a first of the one or more selectable thumbnail images associated with the selected icon, so that an original image corresponding to the selected thumbnail image is displayed.
US08397165B2
In general, the present disclosure is directed to techniques for displaying, e.g., events of multiple calendars or annotations in a word processor in a single view. In one example, a method includes, providing a first calendar and a second calendar, wherein the first calendar includes a first group of calendar events at least some of which have corresponding textual event details, and wherein the second calendar includes a second group of calendar events at least some of which have corresponding textual event details; receiving a user input to select one of the first calendar or the second calendar; displaying the one or more corresponding textual event details of the first group of calendar events for the first calendar; and displaying visual representations of the second group of calendar events for the second calendar without displaying the corresponding textual event details.
US08397163B1
A device, method, and system for providing an electronic reading environment are described herein. The device, method, and system convert standard electronic text into a hyper-text document. The hyper-text document transforms standard electronic text into access points that allow a reader to further explore each word, group of words, or image in the hyper-text document. Navigational aids and features assist in combining the advantages of paper-based and electronic-based text into one electronic reading environment for reading any electronic text.
US08397160B2
A device information displaying system for displaying device internal information of one or more information devices includes: information browser means which acquires and analyzes document data described in a markup language, converts the acquired document data into layout data having a prescribed structure based on result of the analysis, and makes a display based on the layout data; and device information providing means which acquires the device internal information of the one or more information devices, generates display data containing the device internal information and having a structure equivalent to the prescribed structure of the layout data generated by the information browser means, and displays the generated display data through the information browser means.
US08397159B2
A method and apparatus for solving UI style conflicts in web application composition. The method includes the steps of: detecting, in the runtime environment of a web browser, a page element referring to duplicate UI style definitions in a web composite page; determining the UI style definition referred to by the page element in an imported widget or a local page from which it originates; and relating the page element and the determined corresponding UI style definition in the web composite page, so as to solve the UI style conflict.
US08397153B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for rendering a presentation document on a plurality of client computing devices by a server. A method includes creating a base layer for a page in the presentation document, wherein the base layer comprises a plurality of placeholder elements wherein each placeholder element has an absolute position and size. The method further includes creating an interactive layer for the page in the presentation document, wherein the interactive layer comprises a plurality of interactive element overlays representing a plurality of interactive elements and each interactive element overlay has an absolute position and size that corresponds to the absolute position and size of a placeholder element in the base layer. The method further includes sending the base layer and interactive layer of the page to each client computing device for rendering, wherein each interactive element overlay is rendered on top of its corresponding placeholder element.
US08397148B2
A method for decoding tail-biting convolutional codes. The method includes initializing a correction depth, selecting a first starting state from a set of encoding states, and initializing a metric value for the selected starting state as zero and the other states as infinity. The input bit stream is read and a Search Depth Viterbi algorithm (SDVA) is performed to determine path metrics and identify a minimum-metric path. The ending state for the minimum-metric path is determined and the output for this ending state is identified as “previous output.” A second starting state is set to the ending state of the minimum-metric path, and symbols equal to the correction depth from the previous output are read. The SDVA is performed on the second set of read symbols to generate a corrected output. A decoded output is generated by replacing symbols at the beginning of the previous output with the corrected output.
US08397147B2
Method and apparatus for generating a set of generator polynomials for use as a tail biting convolutional code to operate on data transmitted over a channel comprises: (0) specifying a constraint and a low code rate for a tail biting convolutional code, where the low rate code is lower than 1/n (n being an integer greater than 4); (1) selecting valid combinations of generator polynomials to include in a pool of potential codes, each valid combination being a potential code of the low rate code; (2) determining first lines of a weight spectrum for each potential code in the pool and including potential codes of the pool having best first lines in a candidate set; (3) determining best codes of the candidate set based on the first L number of lines in the weight spectrum; (4) selecting an optimum code(s) from the best codes; and (5) configuring a circuit(s) of a data transceiver to implement the optimum code(s).
US08397138B2
A cache device is disposed on a connection path between a user computer executing a software application and a network. The application exchanges data with a further computer via the network. The cache device includes a cache memory and a processor. The cache device is configured to measure, by the processor, a first latency between the user computer and the further computer. The cache device is further configured to determine an acceptable latency range based on the latency and a requirement of the software application. The cache device is further configured to measure a second latency between the user computer and the further computer. The cache device is further configured to store, in the cache memory, a set of data transmitted from the user computer to the further computer, if the second latency is not within the acceptable latency range.
US08397136B2
An information recording apparatus and method. The method includes sequentially writing datasets to a recording medium so that each of the datasets can be identified from a certain number indicating an order that the dataset was written, and from the number of writing operations (WP) carried out for the dataset of the certain number to identify a newest dataset among datasets having the same certain number; appending a new dataset onto the old dataset; and controlling execution, in the case where an error occurs at the time of the appending, of the appending step on the old dataset, in a position shifted forward on the recording medium such that the new dataset overwrites a part of the old dataset.
US08397131B1
A method for data readout includes sending to a memory device, which includes a plurality of analog memory cells, a request to read a requested memory page that is stored in a first group of the memory cells. A programming status of a second group of the memory cells is reported to the memory device, so as to cause the memory device to select a reading configuration responsively to the reported programming status and to read the requested memory page from the first group of the memory cells using the selected reading configuration. The requested memory page is received from the memory device.
US08397130B2
Embodiments of circuits and methods for circuits for the detection of soft errors in cache memories are described herein. Other embodiments and related methods and examples are also described herein.
US08397127B2
A semiconductor recording device includes: flash memories including a plurality of physical blocks each including a plurality of pages; an external interface unit which receives data to be recorded on the flash memories; a first ECC generation unit which generates a first ECC code by adding parity data to the data; a data writing unit which records the data based on the first ECC code into the pages in the flash memories; and a page shuffling unit which controls assignment of a symbol of the first ECC code to the pages, and the page shuffling unit controls the assignment of the symbol of the first ECC code such that the symbol of the first ECC code is assigned to pages having at least two page numbers in the physical blocks included in a group.
US08397121B2
A decoding method and apparatus of a retransmission communication system are provided. In the decoding method and apparatus, weights are applied to error data and retransmitted data, and the resulting error data and the resulting retransmitted data are chase-combined. Therefore, it is possible to reduce the coding rate of combined data and enhance the reliability of decoding.
US08397116B2
A decoding method includes performing a first decoding method and performing a second decoding method when decoding of the first decoding method fails. The first decoding method includes updating multiple variable nodes and multiple check nodes using probability values of received data. The second decoding method includes selecting at least one variable node from among the multiple variable nodes; correcting probability values of data received in the selected at least one variable node; updating the variable nodes and the check nodes using the corrected probability values; and determining whether decoding of the second decoding method is successful.
US08397114B2
An automated regression testing intermediary configured to accept a first set of automated test instructions from an application testing tool. A data structure comprising predefined fields is configured so when a test instruction is received from the application testing tool, a command will be used to identify at least one field of the data structure that will be populated with a parameter test instruction. A library of generic target automated test instructions is provided. Each generic test instruction has a form and format different from the received test instruction. The intermediary is configured to select generic target automated test instructions from the library and populate selected generic target automated test instructions with parameters obtained from the data structure such that the resulting created target-specific automated test instructions can be used to regression test the application under test.
US08397095B2
Provided is a method and apparatus for synchronizing a time of day (TOD) in a convergent network, wherein the TOD is received from a time server connected in the convergent network and is provided to a terminal connected in a wired or wireless network, specifically a terminal connected in a heterogeneous network, that requires TOD information. The apparatus includes a time server that provides standard TOD information, a gateway or a host personal computer (PC) that provides the standard TOD information of the time server to the terminal in a 3rd layer or lower instead of an upper layer of the open system interconnection (OSI) 7 layer model, and the terminal that adjusts a local clock according to the provided standard TOD information. According to the method and apparatus, the terminal not only maintains a very precise TOD by obtaining TOD information of the time server periodically or when required, but also obtains the TOD information without using application software for processing the TOD information. Accordingly, power consumption of the terminal is decreased.
US08397093B2
A Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) communication system dynamically provides power and data communications over a communications link. In an enterprise environment, a table top network switch uses a power supply to provide power for PoE and data communications to one or more powered devices (e.g., personal or laptop computers). To reduce the amount of heat generated in the table top network switch, the power supply is located external to the table network switch. The table top network switch may also include enterprise equipment, such as a video projector, a monitor for a personal computing device, another personal computing device to provide some examples. The power supply for the enterprise equipment may be included within the table top network switch to provide additional integration. The power for PoE and data communications to a limited number of powered devices (e.g., personal or laptop computers) may be included within the table top network switch to provide even further integration.
US08397092B2
A method for managing power consumption by a network device is disclosed. The network device includes first and second ports, each of the first and second ports identified by a unique identifier and adapted to handle separate network traffic. The method includes verifying that the first and the second ports are connected to a common network end node; shutting off a link between the first port and the network end node; obtaining the unique identifier of the first port; creating, on the second port, a virtual port in response to the unique identifier of the first port; discovering the virtual port on the network device; and redirecting traffic formerly routed through the link through the virtual port.
US08397085B2
A power supply includes multiple power cells and a master control system in communication with each of the power cells. The master controller includes a control processor configured to receive power cell control information and a host in communication with the control processor wherein the host is configured to receive command and status information.
US08397078B2
Unlike the technology for a program downloaded through conventional broadcast waves, in the case of downloading a program via a network, there is a possibility that such program will be activated without noticing that the program is tampered with. For this reason, when a program is downloaded via a network, a file hierarchy for the program located on a server is constructed in a local area of a terminal. Subsequently, the authentication of the program is performed with respect to the file hierarchy constructed in the local area, and the credibility of the program is guaranteed.
US08397075B2
Method and apparatus for access control to installation control systems of wind energy installations
A method for access control to installation control systems of wind energy installations. The method includes receiving a requested user name and a requested password, wherein authorizations and checking information are coded in the requested password. The method further includes decoding the authorizations and the checking information from the requested password, checking the requested user name on the basis of the decoded checking information, checking the decoded authorizations if the check of the requested user name on the basis of the decoded checking information has a positive result, and allowing access to an installation control system of a wind energy installation when the decoded authorizations are sufficient. A wind energy installation for implementing the method includes an installation control system and a decoding unit.
US08397067B1
Methods and apparatus for providing protection of pre-designed electronic components or modules (“intellectual property”) provided on target hardware devices are described herein. According to various embodiments, the component and the target hardware device include mechanisms for providing a first sequence and a second sequence respectively. While the component is running on the target hardware device, a comparator accesses and compares the first sequence with the second sequence. The comparator may either be included with the component or the target hardware device. If the first and second sequences match, a function of the component is allowed to operate with the target hardware device; otherwise, the function is prevented from operating with the target hardware device. As such, unauthorized use of intellectual property can be controlled.
US08397064B2
A method and system is provided for securing communication on an EPON. Particularly different types of encrypted messages, each with a respective short MAC SegTAG, may be sent from the OLT to an ONU and from an ONU to the OLT without need for a full SecTAG with an explicit SCI. Discovery and control messages may be encrypted and a security offset may be less than 30 bytes. A packet header including its MAC address may be encrypted.
US08397056B1
A computer system includes a mashup section that provides a mashup that performs an action on a resource. An attribute identification section identifies an attribute of a user running the mashup. An access control section provides access control. The mashup is associated to a permission artifact. The permission artifact specifies a principal and whether to permit the principal to take the action on the resource. The access control is triggered only when the mashup attempts to perform the action on the resource, and checks whether the attribute of the user running the mashup is predefined as belonging to the principal specified in the permission artifact associated to the mashup, and then permits the action on the resource only when the attribute belongs to the principal. Plural users with the same attribute belong to the principal when the same attribute is defined as belonging to the principal.
US08397049B2
In an embodiment, a memory management unit (MMU) is configured to retain a block of data that includes multiple page table entries. The MMU is configured to check the block in response to TLB misses, and to supply a translation from the block if the translation is found in the block without generating a memory read for the translation. In some embodiments, the MMU may also maintain a history of the TLB misses that have used translations from the block, and may generate a prefetch of a second block based on the history. For example, the history may be a list of the most recently used Q page table entries, and the history may show a pattern of access that are nearing an end of the block. In another embodiment, the history may comprise a count of the number of page table entries in the block that have been used.
US08397046B2
Exemplary embodiments of the invention provide a solution to deploy a virtual hard disk (VHD) to virtual device with maximizing capacity efficiency and data access performance by making the allocation unit size of virtual device the same as that of the VHD. In one embodiment, a method of deploying a VHD file to a storage apparatus comprises checking a block size of the VHD file received by the storage apparatus based on a header of the VHD file; creating a virtual volume to provide a page size which is same size as the block size of the VHD file; and performing one of (A) copying contents of the VHD file to the created virtual volume by allocating one page of the created virtual volume for each block of the VHD file; or (B) formatting the created virtual volume with a virtual volume file system, and copying the VHD file to the formatted virtual volume.
US08397042B2
A secure memory interface includes a reader block, a writer block, and a mode selector for detecting fault injection into a memory device when a secure mode is activated. The mode selector activates or deactivates the secure mode using memory access information from a data processing unit. Thus, the data processing unit flexibly specifies the amount and location of the secure data stored into the memory device.
US08397023B2
A system and method for handling IO to drives in a RAID system is described. In one embodiment, the method includes providing a multiple disk system with a predefined strip size. IO request with a logical block address is received for execution on the multiple disk system. A cache line size from a plurality of cache line sizes is allocated, based on the available memory for allocation to cache line. A plurality of sub-IO requests with a sub-strip size is generated, where the sub-strip size is smaller than the strip size, based on the allocated cache line size. The generated sub-IO commands are executed on the multiple disk system.
US08397021B2
A device for recording information on a storage medium (11) is arranged for formatting the storage medium. The device has receives a format command according to a protocol (ATA/ATAPI). The device has formatting means for formatting a multilayer storage medium according to the format command. The formatting includes recording, on each layer (L0, L1) of the multilayer storage medium, a first control zone (71, 72) at a first radial position on the layer and a second control zone (73, 74) at a second radial position on the layer for forming an annular data zone of a selected size between the control zones. If the format size is smaller than a maximum available size on the storage medium, the control zones are positioned on substantially equal radial positions for forming radially corresponding annular data zones (75, 76). The required format size equals the sum of the selected sizes of each annular data zone.
US08397019B2
A memory storage system of an embodiment includes a non-volatile memory unit and memory control circuitry coupled to the memory unit. The memory control circuitry is configured to access multiple sectors of information substantially concurrently.
US08397008B2
A docking station includes a multiplexer. The multiplexer includes a first input end, a second input end, and an encode system. The encode system is connected to the second input end, and configured to generate an encoding according to a connection status of the second input end. The encode system is configured to generate a first encoding, when a first peripheral device is connected to the second input end, to switch the multiplexer to a first state, in which the second input end is on and the first input end is off. The encode system is further configured to generate a second encoding, when the first peripheral device is not connected to the second input end, to switch the multiplexer to a second state, in which the second input end is off and the first input end is on.
US08396999B2
A system having input/output hot spot tracking is disclosed. The storage system includes a storage device, a host controller coupled to the storage device, and a tracking engine coupled to the host controller and the storage device. The host controller is configured to managed input/output of the storage device. The tracking engine includes a storage map cycling between active status and passive status. Input/output commands are stored in the storage map during the active status. Like input/output commands in the storage map during active status are counted and compared to a number. Counts greater than the number are reported as input/output hot spots.
US08396998B2
A diagnostic extender card is plugged into a memory module socket on a personal computer (PC) motherboard. The extender card has a test socket that receives a memory module and an intercepting decoder chip that receives the chip-select (CS) from the motherboard that selects the memory module for access. When CS is activated, the intercepting decoder chip illuminates a visual indicator on the extender card, allowing a user to locate a memory module being accessed. The exact translation or mapping from logical addresses of test programs to physical addresses of the memory modules is not needed, since the visual indicator shows which memory module is really being accessed, regardless of proprietary address mapping by north bridge chips. Operating system memory accesses are filtered out by a counter that counts accesses during a period set by a timer. When the number of accesses exceeds a threshold, the visual indicator is lit.
US08396997B2
A plug-and-play surveillance system that can be set up by even computer-illiterates is disclosed herein. The system comprises an external storage device connected to a computing device and a monitoring device. A registration and matching service receives at least one unique identification code from the external storage device and the monitoring device and uses it to establish a unique pairing between the external storage device and the monitoring device. Subsequent communication between them can be directly established without the need of re-registration. The present invention provides a convenient surveillance system without complex setting and configuration. The present invention also provides higher privacy level and flexibility that additional features can be added to the system based on the user's need.
US08396990B2
A transcoding system comprises a mobile communication device that retrieves a web resource using a mobile communication network and the internet via a transcoder. The web resource may comprise a web page intended for use by personal computers (PCs) stored at a web server. The mobile communication device sends a request to the transcoder for the web page, the request including a first URL. In one embodiment, the transcoder recognizes the first URL as relating to a web page on a transcode list. Accordingly, the transcoder retrieves a web page using a second URL based on the first URL according to a mapping record. The transcoder then transcodes the retrieved web page and sends the transcoded web page to the mobile communication device. In another embodiment, the transcoder does not recognize the first URL and instead removes the top level domain of the first URL to generate a truncated URL. The transcoder then retrieves web resources using the truncated URL and variations thereof and, based on an analysis of the web resources retrieved, sends the web resource most likely to be appropriate for the mobile communication device to the device.
US08396989B2
The present invention provides technology neutral process integration (Cloud Resource Planning), and optimization methodology leveraging a business meta-schema format Cloud Data Interchange (CDI) to integrate, enable, and invoke Cloud services. One example is that the present invention provides a management layer at the process level. There can be multiple Cloud implementations/types within a govern enterprise—perhaps utilizing different infrastructure (e.g., hardware of one supplier versus that of another) or different areas of functionality (computing services, storage services, etc). This disclosure provides an abstraction or ‘resource planning’ layer above these core services such that a customer does not have to have knowledge or choose different Cloud types and/or understand or choose each underlying service. As such, it provides a ‘one stop’ portal.
US08396973B2
The present invention relates to establishing a media channel and a signaling channel between a client and a server. The media channel uses a chosen codec and protocol for communication. Through the media channel and signaling channel, an application on the client can utilize speech services on the server.
US08396972B2
A network system includes a session control server and a presence server. The session control server includes a presence information update unit that is started when the status changes and notifies the presence server of the changed status. The presence server includes a presence information control unit that controls the consistency of the notified update information.
US08396971B2
A method reduces signaling overhead of a mobile node that maintains at least one active Next Steps in Signaling session. The mobile node has a MOBIKE connection to a virtual private network gateway, and changes its link to the Internet. At least the IP address of the VPN gateway and/or an address space corresponding to the subnetwork of the VPN gateway is/are inserted into the message routing information object contained in the NSIS message. A value is defined for a security parameter index. The SPI value is inserted into the MRI object. The S flag is set in the MRI object. An address space that refers to the IP address of the mobile node is inserted into the MRI object.
US08396965B2
A method and system is provided to enhance user presence management to enable the federation of rich media sessions. The method is implemented on a system and includes a presence manager server receiving a notification of user activity of one or more users taking place on one or more participating ecosystem sites in a participant ecosystem. The method further includes processing the user activity of the one or more users based on preferences of the one or more participating ecosystem sites established during a registration process and stored in a preference repository. The method further includes sending a notification of the user activity of the one or more users to the one or more participating ecosystem sites in the participant ecosystem to enable the participating ecosystem sites to at least one of communicate the user activity of the one or more users to one or more users and maintain a session of the one or more users.
US08396959B2
A method for performing a monitoring function for an application that passes messages between two or more endpoints, comprising: receiving a message including transaction data, the transaction data including data relating to transport of the transaction data; storing the message and transaction data in respective message data and transaction data buffers in a data store; storing status and semantic information associated with the message in the data store; receiving a signal selecting one or more module instances to define the monitoring function, each module instance for independently performing a respective aspect of the monitoring function, each module instance having related module instance data stored in a respective module instance data buffer in the data store, each module instance having a respective service access point for accessing the data store, each service access point having related service access point data stored in a respective service access point data buffer in the data store, each module instance independently accessing one or more of the message, transaction, module instance, and service access point data buffers to process data contained therein to perform its aspect of the monitoring function; and, initiating operation of the one or more module instances in accordance with a schedule defined by one or more routing rules, the one or more routing rules for routing a pointer to the message, as stored in the message data buffer, between the one or more module instances to thereby perform the monitoring function.
US08396949B2
Automatic and reliable deployment of system topology to computing devices within an enhanced communication system is provided. Specific roles and features associated with individual devices such as servers are defined in a centrally managed topology document, which is replicated to devices to be configured along with one or more modules for performing local configuration. Upon deployment, the module(s) determine a local device configuration, a desired configuration for the device, and update the device's configuration installing and activating roles and features assigned to the device by the topology document. Feedback regarding the results of the configuration is provided to a central management store such that administration can monitor status of devices within the system. Modifications to the assigned roles and prerequisites for supporting those roles are made dynamically through the same mechanism as system topology changes.
US08396945B2
An operation is performed for executing a plurality of first-level queries. Execution of each first level query determines if a respective type of operational condition exists within a network. If needed due to the quantity of first-level queries, the first-level queries are executed in a sampled manner such that less than all of the first-level queries are applied to a specified collection of network elements of the network during each one of a plurality of instances of executing the first-level queries being performed and such that all of the first-level queries are applied to the specified collection of network elements in accordance with a prescribed query execution timeframe. An operation is performed for executing a second-level query in response to one of the first-level queries determining that the respective type of operational condition exists within the network. Executing the second-level query results in determination of diagnostic information specific to the determined type of operational condition.
US08396937B1
A method and system for increasing programmability and scalability of a multi-processor network. A system includes two or more nodes coupled via a network with each node comprising a processor unit and memory. The processor unit includes one or more processors and a wiretap unit. The wiretap unit is configured to monitor memory accesses of the processors. A transaction may execute a number of read and/or write operations to memory. The nodes are configured to replicate one or more portions of memory; detect data conflicts to memory; and restore memory to pre-transaction state if needed.
US08396935B1
Discovering spam merchants using product feed comparison comprises a merchant signature computed by a comparison system using the offer data submitted by a merchant. The merchant submits a file to the comparison system for use on a product comparison website. The comparison system processes the file and calculates a merchant signature by parsing a specific feature common to all offers. The comparison system assigns a data value to each of the specific features included in each of the offers and generates a string of assigned data values. The comparison system executes a hash algorithm for the string of data values to obtain the merchant signature. The merchant signature is compared with the signatures of known spam merchants and if the merchant signature is within a predefined threshold of known spam merchant signatures, the merchant is rejected and the signature is marked as a spam merchant.
US08396931B2
An interactive, multi-user media delivery system having a number of media storage mediums, each of containing a particular media selection, and a number of media players structured to selectively deliver the media selection to users. Each of the media players includes a control assembly structured to selectively control and regulate delivery of the media selection to the user, and at least one of the media players is selectively designatable as a slave unit. A master control assembly is further provided and is operatively associated with the media players, a connectivity assembly being included to establish a communicative link at least between the slave unit(s) and the master control assembly. The master control assembly is further structured to receive synchronization data from each of the media players, and to simultaneously and uniformly control the delivery of the media selection by the media players.
US08396929B2
A method and apparatus for applying a uniform processing policy within a distributed computer network. A message is received at a termination point from an application used by a user. At the termination point tagging information is attached to the message, the tagging information indicating which processes the message should undergo, and with which parameters or configurations. The message is then processed in the distributed network according to the tagging information so that uniform processing is assured. If required, a response message is generated, and is assigned substantially the same tagging information as the original message.
US08396918B2
A service framework which can control devices to be controlled according to a device/service profile by creating the device/service profile to control a plurality of the controlled devices. Accordingly without using a middleware with a complicated structure, it is possible to control home devices.
US08396915B2
A method and apparatus for including in a processor instructions for performing multiply-add operations on packed data. In one embodiment, a processor is coupled to a memory. The memory has stored therein a first packed data and a second packed data. The processor performs operations on data elements in said first packed data and said second packed data to generate a third packed data in response to receiving an instruction. At least two of the data elements in this third packed data storing the result of performing multiply-add operations on data elements in the first and second packed data.
US08396912B1
The IIR resonator digital filter which is the subject of this patent invention comprises a first register having a plurality of inputs and outputs, a multiplexer/demultiplexer having a plurality of inputs and outputs, a first multiplier having a plurality of inputs and an output, a second multiplier having a plurality of inputs and an output, a third multiplier having a plurality of inputs and an output, an adder having a plurality of inputs and an output, a subtractor having a plurality of inputs and an output, and a second register having an input and a plurality of outputs. The IIR resonator digital filter features a multiplexer/demultiplexer that has five logical states.
US08396907B2
A method of operating multiple files includes creating a group of computer files using a single container, and opening multiple files of the group and associated application software by opening a single file corresponding to the group of computer files.
US08396897B2
A method, system, and computer program product for threading documents using body text analysis. The method comprises: computing a fingerprint for each of a plurality of documents by analyzing text in a body of each document; comparing the computed fingerprints to determine a set of documents from the plurality of documents whose fingerprints are sufficiently similar; and ordering the set of documents to create at least one parent-child relationship.
US08396883B2
A data warehouse that operates to receive a spatial query and return a spatial result for the spatial query, the data warehouse comprises a regular database operating to receive and process a regular query and return a query result in response to the regular query. The data warehouse also comprises an interface layer implemented external to the regular database and operating to intercept the spatial query and translate the spatial query into the regular query for processing by the regular database. The regular database includes at least one spatial index that is accessed by the interface layer to translate the spatial query into the regular query for processing by the regular database.
US08396879B1
One or more server devices may simultaneously calculate first ranking scores for a group of users and second ranking scores for a group of comments authored by the group of users. The calculating may occur during a same process. The one or more server devices may further provide one of a first ranked list that includes information identifying the group of users, the information identifying the group of users being ordered based on the first ranking scores, or a second group of comments of the group of comments, the comments in the second group of comments being ordered based on the second ranking scores.
US08396873B2
A system for index searching includes a first index, a second index, a processor, and a memory. The processor is configured to determine, using a Bloom filter for the second index of fingerprints, whether the Bloom filter indicates that an entry corresponding to a segment has been previously stored in the second index. The processor is further configured to, in the event that the Bloom filter indicates that an entry corresponding to the segment has been previously stored in the second index, retrieve a second index entry associated with the segment that has been previously stored. The memory is coupled to the processor and configured to provide the processor with instructions.
US08396871B2
Data is received that characterizes each of a plurality of documents within a document set. Based on this data, the plurality of documents are grouped into a plurality of stacks using one or more grouping algorithms. A prime document is identified for each stack that includes attributes representative of the entire stack. Subsequently, provision of data is provided that characterizes documents for each stack including at least the identified prime document to at least one human reviewer. User-generated input from the human reviewer is later received that categorized each provided document and data characterizing the user-generated input can then be provided. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US08396866B2
Techniques are described for incorporating different types of input available to administrators responsible for assigning reviewers (persons) to objects to be reviewed. A plurality of types of assignment ranking algorithms is provided. Each ranking algorithm can output a different set of candidate assignments (reviewer-review object pairs) with corresponding ranks/weights (measures of how well object fit reviewers). Some ranking algorithms may automatically generate assignments by using information about review objects and reviewers to find matches therebetween. Other algorithms might simply rank or weigh suggested matches (e.g., from manual input). The ranked/weighted assignments from the various algorithms are combined to produce a final result set of suggested assignments of reviewers. In one embodiment, a bidding algorithm, referral algorithm, and a relevance algorithm may be used, and intermediate results therefrom are combined for a final result.
US08396860B1
A computer receives a query for optimization. The query includes a SEQUENCED join between a temporal parent table and a temporal child table. The parent table has one or more rows. The child table has one or more rows. The parent table has a Primary Key (“PK”) column having a value for each row. The parent table has a temporal dimension having a value for each row. The child table has a Foreign Key (“FK”) column having a value for each row. The child table has a temporal dimension. The child table's temporal dimension has a value for each row. The computer determines that the query, the parent table, the child table, and the join satisfy a set of CURRENT temporal join elimination criteria. The computer determines that the query, the parent table, the child table, and the join satisfy a set of SEQUENCED temporal join elimination criteria. In response, the computer eliminates the join from the query to produce an optimized form of the query. In further response, the computer executes the optimized form of the query to produce a result. The result has one or more rows. The result has one or more projected columns. The projected columns have values. The result has a temporal dimension. The result's temporal dimension has a value. In further response, the computer stores the result in a memory.
US08396857B2
A system is configured to modify a website to optimize the website for an organic search of a topic. The system includes a data management module configured to receive search terms for the topic, receive related terms to the search terms for the topic, and receive website input data. The system also includes a scanning module configured to scan and index web pages and web objects in the website and identify a subset of web pages and web objects associated with the search terms and the related terms. The system also includes an optimizing module configured to process the subset of web pages and web objects from the website by prioritizing the subset of web pages and web objects or measuring a metric with respect to the subset of web pages and web objects. The search terms and related terms are deployed into the subset of web pages and web objects on the website based on the processing.
US08396855B2
Techniques for identifying one or more communities in an information network are provided. The techniques include collecting one or more nodes and one or more edges from an information network, performing a random walk on the one or more nodes to produce a sequence of one or more nodes, creating a sequence database from one or more sequences produced via random walk, and mining the sequence database to determine one or more patterns in the network, wherein the one or more patterns identify one or more communities in the information network.
US08396846B2
A method, apparatus and program product modify the behavior of a database trigger. An attribute desired by a user for a database trigger may be received. The attribute may relate to a change in the functionality of the trigger, such as a restriction on trigger behavior. An object that includes the attribute may be generated. The attribute may be associated with and applied to the trigger. In this manner, the attribute may be selectively applied to multiple triggers.
US08396844B1
A hierarchical data-compression method is described, with a compact form for sequences of consecutive tuples (and other techniques) to save space. A method for efficiently processing a subset of record fields is described. A flexible method for designing the data hierarchy (tree) is described.
US08396841B1
A system, method, and medium for performing multi-level and multi-mode deduplication in a cloud based backup storage system. Fingerprints are generated for data segments from individual clients at a first level, with a separate fingerprint index for each individual client. The fingerprints are compared to their respective fingerprint indexes, and if the fingerprints are unique, then their associated data segments may be deduplicated across data segments from a plurality of clients at a second level. The fingerprints are compared to a common fingerprint index and deduplicated at a second level. The common fingerprint index contains fingerprints generated from data segments from a plurality of clients connected to the backup storage system.
US08396834B2
A system that improves the real time presentation of web analytics data to clients. Real time data is improved in one embodiment by using a messaging system that directs the data stream to RAM memory, before it is sent to the database. A separate path is provided for presenting the real time data, which does not require going through the main database. The data is serialized and streamed in batches at an interval which can be set from the order of seconds to minutes. Additionally, the data is aggregated in RAM according to the desired groupings of data, so that the aggregation is pre-computed.
US08396827B2
Systems and processes may access data in various graph structures, often including data models that do not partially or fully utilize relations such as hierarchical graphs. For example, software for processing this non-relational data identifies a data model that includes a plurality of nodes independent of relations, each non-root node storing an identifier of the particular node's parent. The software then processes the data model using a generic graph service that utilizes nodes and relations. In some cases, such data models may include hierarchical graph structures and one or more of the nodes may be a recursive node.
US08396823B2
An automatic designing system includes: a rule storage unit storing sets of rewrite rules for rewriting variable nodes of a hierarchically structured graph in a design architecture for the system; a search unit sequentially determining variable nodes as application targets for the rewrite rules by searching the graph, including components in the design architecture for the system to be designed, using a search tree; a judgment unit judging whether the rewrite rule is applicable to the determined variable node; and a rule application unit replacing the determined variable node with a partial graph, including at least one of fixed and variable nodes, according to the rewrite rule, in response to a judgment that the rewrite rule is applicable. The search unit performs the searching until an undefined variable node no longer exists in the graph to be designed, and performs backtracking on condition that no variable node is found.
US08396820B1
Methods, systems, and techniques for generating sentiment data are provided. Example embodiments provide a Sentiment Thesaurus Framework (STF), which provides a sentiment vocabulary meeting a set of criteria and a sentiment thesaurus according to certain connectedness rules. In one embodiment, the STF provides the sentiment thesaurus by relating connected adjective word-senses to valid sentiment adjective word-senses. The degree of connectedness is limited to one shift in meaning from one adjective to another, which implies at most two non-satellite or axle adjectives between a valid sentiment and a related adjective word-sense.
US08396819B2
A service architected logistics solution generates a user interface to a computing system unique for a given user among a multiplicity of users. The interface includes a plurality of services and access to data sources automatically determined from the user's identity. In various aspects, the technique includes not only the interface, but also a computer-implemented method, a program storage medium encoded with instruction that perform such a method when executed, and a computing apparatus programmed to perform such a method.
US08396810B1
A system and method for authorizing certain aspects of network based transactions between a customer and a merchant is disclosed.
US08396809B1
For delayed purchases, a purchase token is used to store purchase details on a user device until a user is ready to make a purchase. The purchase token has an expiration date. The purchase token sets a maximum price for a selected item and reserves the selected item until the expiration date. For routine purchases, the user device is preauthorized to complete the purchase. For obvious purchases, a tracking system is used to track the user device and bill the user.
US08396799B2
A server is operable to receive a media device identifying number (ID) and to create an established association between the media device with a payment account and to support at least one of payment authorization and payment clearing based at least in part on the media device ID and the payment account. The server is further operable to produce the payment account information to a smart card personalization service server to facilitate creation of a smart card with the payment account information that is associated with the media device. The server is also operable to produce the media device ID to the smart card personalization service server to facilitate creation of a smart card with the payment account information based in part on the media device ID.
US08396785B2
A method and system to create personalized investor information packages, based on investor information, to be delivered to the investor to satisfy both compliance regulations and investor preferences. The method and system may deliver information in a paper or electronic format.
US08396782B2
A client-oriented, on-demand automated trading system that facilitates client-oriented automated trading with suppliers. A client transaction agent is adapted to provide trading requirements for notification to one or more supplier transaction agents, and to discover automated services provided by or on behalf of one or more suppliers that conform to the trading requirements. A broker is adapted to notify the one or more supplier transaction agents of trading requirements specified by the client transaction agent, and to advise the client transaction agent of automated services that conform to the trading requirements. The supplier transaction agents are adapted to process the trading requirements and register automated services that conform to the trading requirements with the broker.
US08396780B1
A method of creating a financial product. A virtual community is established. Members of the community submit preferences to a server. The preferences are aggregated and manipulated to identify characteristics of the preferences. From the population of preferences submitted, a small subset is identified to be part of the financial product.
US08396779B2
A machine and method including a computer configured to generate and display multiple computer screens. A first computer receives data representing a first component of property and a second component of the property from at least one other computer, the property being a fixed-income asset, and is programmed to manipulate the data to generate one yield/discount rate for the first component and another yield/discount rate for the second component and to display the one yield/discount rate on a monitor in a first computer screen generated by the first computer and the other yield/discount rate on a monitor in one of the first computer screen and another computer screen generated by the first computer, and to compute purchase prices for the components in consummating a sale and corresponding purchase of the first component to one buyer and a sale and corresponding purchase of the second component to another buyer.
US08396774B2
One embodiment of the invention is a method for providing a financial instrument including determining a current account balance for a financial account and on a first periodic basis: determining a specified percentage of the value of the financial account, determine the greater of a particular limit and the highest value of the financial account multiplied by the specified percentage on a second periodic basis, and in response to a determination that the highest value of the financial account multiplied by the specified percentage on the second periodic basis is greater than the particular limit, stepping-up the particular limit to equal the highest value of the financial account multiplied by the specified percentage on the second periodic basis.
US08396764B1
Methods and apparatus, including computer systems and program products, for transmitting mobile device data are described. A method includes querying a first mobile device for data residing on the first mobile device; wirelessly transmitting, to a computer system, a specification of the data residing on the first mobile device; determining suitability of data for a second mobile device; and receiving, at the second mobile device, a specification of data for the second mobile device that is based on the specification of the data residing on the first mobile device. Another method includes wirelessly receiving, at a computer system, a specification of data residing on the first mobile device; and wirelessly transmitting, to the second mobile device, a specification of data for the second mobile device that is based on the specification of the data residing on the first mobile device.
US08396759B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for recommending content based on context such as location. In one aspect, a method includes receiving data that references a location of a mobile device, selecting, from among multiple, different applications that are available in an online application marketplace, one or more of the applications that are relevant to the location, and providing, by a recommendation server, a recommendation to the mobile device, where the recommendation identifies the one or more applications as applications that the user is likely to be interested in purchasing or downloading.
US08396752B2
A computer-implemented method for managing listing prices in an ecommerce environment. The method includes receiving from a user information, including price information, pertaining to a user's listing on an ecommerce web site, receiving from the user at least one search term that is not a valid UPC, ISBN, EAN, eBay Product ID, or ASIN, searching the ecommerce web site using the search term(s) received from the user and retrieving from the ecommerce web site at least one item listing relevant to the search term(s), and using an algorithm that utilizes the price of the at least one item retrieved from the ecommerce web site to determine a new price for the user's listing.
US08396746B1
A user is associated with profile information indicating a level of interest in a plurality of topic categories. To obtain an advertisement for a preferred category, the client requests advertisements data from two servers. A request to one of the ad servers includes a user preferred category and a number of other categories. A request to the other ad server includes only the other categories. After the servers send advertisements corresponding to the categories in the requests, a difference is determined between the received advertisements, which produces the advertisement for the preferred category. In some embodiments, a single request is made to a server for a number of advertisements, those advertisements corresponding to the user's profile information are provided a higher likelihood of display in accordance with the advertisement's similarity to the user's profile.
US08396742B1
The invention is a computer-implementable methodology for quantitatively assessing the impact of paid search advertising on the total visits (paid and organic search-based visits) from search engines and utilizing this assessment to improve search engine marketing performance. The methodology relies on the computation of a synergy score for each search engine keyword of interest or coefficients in a synergy equation. Once computed, the score can be used to repeatedly compute the total return on advertising spend (ROAS) and other performance metrics on a go-forward basis without the time lag inherent in computing the synergy score itself. The invention includes specific computer-implementable methods for improving search engine marketing performance based on the total (paid plus organic) performance metrics.
US08396735B2
This invention provides for a method of (or apparatus for) facilitating the delivery of advice to consumers using a server unit which can store and display the names and characteristics of experts and then rapidly assist in connecting the expert and consumer for real-time communication. The server can also have the ability to receive keywords from the consumer, match those keywords to one or more experts, and tell the consumer how to contact an expert.
US08396731B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for implementing a software architecture design for a software application implementing service procurement. The application is structured as multiple process components interacting with each other through service interfaces, and multiple service interface operations, each being implemented for a respective process component. The process components include a Project Processing process component; a Purchase Request Processing process component; a Purchase Order Processing process component; a Purchasing Contract process component; a Goods and Service Acknowledgement process component; a Supplier Invoice Processing process component; an RFQ Processing process component that; and a Time and Labor Management process component.
US08396722B2
A medicine inspection support system, which provides a reliable inspection of medicine preparation, includes a person authentication unit, a preliminary inspection unit, an inspection unit, and an inspector check unit. The person authentication unit identifies a preliminary inspector who performs a preliminary inspection of medicine preparation, and an inspector who performs an inspection of the medicine preparation. The preliminary inspection unit certifies that the preliminary inspector has performed the preliminary inspection of the medicine preparation. The inspection unit certifies that the inspector has performed the inspection of the medicine preparation. The inspector check unit permits the inspection unit to certify completion of the inspection when determined that the inspector is a different person from the preliminary inspector.
US08396716B2
A signal compression method includes: multiplying an input signal by a window function, calculating original autocorrelation coefficients of a windowed input signal. The method also includes calculating a white-noise correction factor or a lag-window according to the original autocorrelation coefficients, and calculating modified autocorrelation coefficients according to the original autocorrelation coefficients, the white-noise correction factor and the lag-window. The method further includes calculating linear prediction coefficients according to the modified autocorrelation coefficients, and outputting a coded bit stream according to the linear prediction coefficients.
US08396695B2
Systems and methods that include selecting a physical model and a procedural model associated with an industrial plant, projecting a cross-product of the physical model and the procedural model into a unit-operation association set using a projection matrix, the unit-operation association set associating units representing equipment in the industrial plant and operations representing processes performed in the industrial plant, and establishing internal and external adjacency sets within structures, the internal adjacency set identifying connections between inputs and outputs of individual units and operations, the external adjacency set identifying connections between outputs of some units and operation and inputs of other units and operations. These systems and methods may also include generating a hyperstructure representing the industrial plant using the association and adjacency sets.
US08396690B2
A method for manufacturing a liquid crystal device including the steps of: disposing a mixture including a liquid crystal material and a curable resin containing a reaction initiating agent between a pair of substrates wherein at least one of the pair of substrates has an orientation film in contact with the mixture; orienting the liquid crystal material; and curing the resin in the mixture so that the resin is formed on a surface of the orientation film. The resin may be in the form of a film or grains. Also, the resin may be cured by ultraviolet light.
US08396687B2
An airtime sensor for board sports includes a detector for generating signals representative of vibration associated with motion of a board sports vehicle along a surface. State machine logic filters the signals through a first low pass filter, filters the signals through a second low pass filter, and combines filtered signals from the first and second low pass filters to determine airtime.
US08396682B2
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device applies data applied through a bump pad on which a bump is mounted through a test pad to a test apparatus such that the reliability of the test can be improved. The amount of test pads is significantly reduced by allowing data output through bump pads to be selectively applied to a test pad. Data and signals applied from test pads are synchronized with each other and applied to bump pads during a test operation such that the reliability of the test can be improved without the need of an additional test chip.
US08396669B2
A system and apparatus for automation of microscope slide sample staining is disclosed. The slides are labelled with a unique identification, preferably a machine readable code printed onto a label, where the label is affixed to the slide. The label is a pointer to information in a database containing patient data on the sample, including staining protocol and reagents to be applied. Also disclosed is a reagent identification system where reagent containers used in the above staining system having a unique package identifier, preferably in the form of a label having a machine readable code. Data relating to the contents of the reagent containers, such as volume, batch number, reagent type and expiry date, is stored in a database in association with the unique package identifier. Using the reagent container unique package identifier it is possible to associate the type of protocol, and precise reagent used in the test with the patient data, allowing tracking of the test applied to the sample.
US08396664B2
The present invention provides three-dimensional, topographic data (x,y,z) for a golf course navigation device. In an embodiment of the invention, three data sets are acquired for each golf hole: (1) geospatial digital image data, (2) geospatial terrain data including elevation and topographic measurements, and (3) object data pertaining to trees, bushes, water hazards, buildings, and any other objects present. Each hole is mapped using high resolution airborne photogrammetry and in some cases, light detection and ranging acquisition sensors. Geospatial, three-dimensional terrain data is acquired using a photogrammetry and/or stereo photogrammetry compilation. Object data is acquired from measurements taken from ground level. From all of this acquired data, a three-dimensional (x,y,z) geospatial model is built and then integrated into 3-D gaming, visualization and web mapping environments such as Microsoft Bing Maps, Google Earth, and various mobile and golf cart mounted, golf course navigation systems.
US08396663B2
A speed profile dictionary and associated lookup tables are disclosed. A set of distinct speed profiles is defined using a statistical analysis routine. Preferably, the statistical analysis routine uses clustering. The speed profiles are then matched to location codes identifying physical locations on a road network and days of the week. Applications using historic traffic data may use the speed profile dictionary and one or more lookup tables instead of a complete historic traffic database, thereby reducing the amount of memory needed to store historic traffic data.
US08396662B1
Unauthorized use of fleet vehicles is detected by matching drivers' logged out times with vehicle movements for which there is no logged in driver. Allowance is made for vehicles that may be moved within permitted areas without a logged in driver. A likelihood value is assigned to each candidate driver whose logged out time corresponds to the duration of unauthorized movement of the vehicle. The likelihood value is increased if the candidate driver is the next driver to log into the vehicle after its unauthorized usage.
US08396656B1
A device, system and method for latent tracking of vessels via a mesh network is disclosed herein. The device includes a microcontroller, a mesh radio, a memory, a GPS receiver and a power supply. The microcontroller is configured to determine when the device is within range and out of range of a mesh network. The memory is configured for storing latent information about the vessel. The GPS receiver receives GPS signals and provides the GPS signals to determine GPS data for the vessel which is transmitted over the mesh radio when the device is within range of the mesh network and stored as latent GPS data in the memory when the device is out of range of the mesh network.
US08396648B2
A method for the closed-loop control of the combustion position in an internal combustion engine with several cylinders, especially in a diesel engine, with at least one engine operating parameter being detected, wherein a cylinder-selective combustion position model which is arithmetic or based on characteristic values is provided which produces a relationship between at least one determined engine operating parameter and the combustion position, and the combustion position is determined on the basis of the determined engine operating parameter by the combustion position model for each cylinder.
US08396639B2
Warning braking is carried out in a situation where the warning braking is needed and a crew can recognize the warning braking. If an obstacle is present ahead of the vehicle, and the driver does not carry out brake operation, and the vehicle may collide with the obstacle, the maximum target deceleration Gbt2max for the warning braking is computed. If automatic travel control is not carried out or if automatic travel control is being carried out and its target deceleration Gbt4 is less than a reference value Gbt4s smaller than the maximum target deceleration Gbt2max, the warning braking is carried out. When the target deceleration Gbt4 for the automatic travel control is larger than the allowable reference value Gbt4s for warning braking, the warning braking is not carried out.
US08396638B2
A vehicle drive control device includes a wheel speed detecting means for detecting a rotational speed of a plurality of wheels of a vehicle, a vehicle speed calculating means for calculating a vehicle speed on the basis of the rotational speed of the plurality of wheels detected by the wheel speed detecting means, and an automatic drive controlling means for performing an automatic drive control for controlling the vehicle speed to be a predetermined target speed by controlling a driving force generating means and a vehicle speed reducing means for the vehicle. The automatic drive controlling means further performs a driving force reducing control for reducing a driving force of the vehicle to be generated by the driving force generating means when the rotational speed of at least one of the plurality of wheels detected by the wheel speed detecting means exceeds a predetermined value.
US08396617B2
An assistance method and device for lateral control of an aircraft upon an approach phase is disclosed. The device (1) comprises means (25) to predict in flight a risk of runway lateral excursion and means (20) to advise the pilot of the aircraft about the existence of such a risk.
US08396615B2
The present invention relates to a method for changing the path followed by an aircraft, the aircraft initially following a predefined path on the basis of a sequence of waypoints, the method allowing a subsequent return of the aircraft to the predefined path in the same direction or in the reverse direction. The method allows a possible return of the aircraft to the predefined path in the same direction such that the waypoints of the predefined path are projected onto a new path according to a projection function ensuring that the order of the sequence of the projected image points complies with the order of the sequence of the original waypoints. The projection of a waypoint already reached by the aircraft also is considered as having been reached. The projections of the waypoints on the new path are considered reached by the aircraft progressively as the latter progresses along the new path. The aircraft eventually rejoins the predefined path at the first waypoint in the order of the sequence of points whose projection is not yet considered as reached on the new path.
US08396607B2
A control device for controlling an energy consumption of a load on an electricity grid includes a sensor for sensing over a period of time values of a physical variable of the grid, where the physical variable varies in dependence on a relationship between electricity generation and load on the grid. The control device also includes apparatus for varying the energy consumption of said load.
US08396602B2
According to an aspect of the disclosure, an energy management system and method includes managing energy use of a site comprising the steps of: acquiring a network device data from a network device joined to a wireless energy network; translating the network data into device report data comprised of at least one Java based object; detecting an interval to generate a site report of the wireless energy network; translating the device report data into site report data comprised of XML formatted data; and generating the site report including the site report data at the interval. A wireless energy network communication device is configured to communicate with a wireless energy network and a processor is operably coupled to the wireless energy communication device and configured to perform the steps of managing energy use of the site.
US08396601B2
A customer-dedicated energy management apparatus includes an air-conditioner partial-road characteristics identification unit for creating air-conditioning partial-road characteristics by using air-conditioning operation achievement data in the past, an intra-room heat-capacity characteristics identification unit for creating intra-room heat-capacity characteristics by using the air-conditioning operation achievement data in the past, and intra-room state value data, an air-conditioning setting temperature calculation unit for determining an air-conditioning setting temperature by using the air-conditioning partial-road characteristics and the intra-room heat-capacity characteristics, the setting temperature being appropriate for implementing an air-conditioning power-consumption-amount suppression target value determined, and an air-conditioner control unit for controlling an air conditioner so that the setting temperature determined will be implemented.
US08396592B2
A control system for a mobile robot (10) is provided to effectively cover a given area by operating in a plurality of modes, including an obstacle following mode (51) and a random bounce mode (49). In other embodiments, spot coverage, such as spiraling (45), or other modes are also used to increase effectiveness. In addition, a behavior based architecture is used to implement the control system, and various escape behaviors are used to ensure full coverage.
US08396586B2
A method of processing documents by receiving at least a batch of documents and a separator card in an input receptacle of a document processing device. The separator card includes a conductive material disposed on one side, and a barcode indicative of the source of the batch of documents. The documents and separator card are transported via a transport mechanism past an evaluation unit and a field-effect sensor, respectively. The document processing device evaluates each document, determines whether the document meets or fails predetermined criteria, and detects the presence of the conductive material when a separator card is transported past the sensor. The source identification information from each separator card is entered into a memory of the document processing device after all the documents from the corresponding batch of documents have met the predetermined criteria. Feeder operation is paused between each batch long enough to verify that the previous batch closed successfully. Pausing feeder operation to address document anomalies before subsequent batches are processed promotes batch integrity and reduces operator confusion.
US08396582B2
System(s) and method(s) for optimizing performance of a manufacturing tool are provided. Optimization relies on recipe drifting and generation of knowledge that capture relationships among product output metrics and input material measurement(s) and recipe parameters. Optimized recipe parameters are extracted from a basis of learned functions that predict output metrics for a current state of the manufacturing tool and measurements of input material(s). Drifting and learning are related and lead to dynamic optimization of tool performance, which enables optimized output from the manufacturing tool as the operation conditions of the tool changes. Features of recipe drifting and associated learning can be autonomously or externally configured through suitable user interfaces, which also can be drifted to optimize end-user interaction.
US08396578B2
User is allowed to designate a desired mode defining the respective numbers of channels and mixing buses, and processing for mixing input signals of the number of channels corresponding to the designated mode is performed repetitively to generate signals for the individual buses. The time of arrival of the last step in the mixing processing for the number of channels, corresponding to the designated mode, is detected to output an accumulation result obtained at the last step, and new accumulation is started with a digital audio signal inputted at a step following the last step. Digital audio signals processed by a first signal processing circuit are stored into a memory and transmitted to a second signal processing circuit via a cascade-connection. The second signal processing circuit adds the audio signal, processed for each of the steps, to audio signals input via the cascade-connection and writes added signal into the memory.
US08396574B2
A method for controlling the loudness of auditory events in an audio signal. In an embodiment, the method includes weighting the auditory events (an auditory event having a spectrum and a loudness), using skewness in the spectra and controlling loudness of the auditory events, using the weights. Various embodiments of the invention are as follows: The weighting being proportionate to the measure of skewness in the spectra; the measure of skewness is a measure of smoothed skewness; the weighting is insensitive to amplitude of the audio signal; the weighting is insensitive to power; the weighting is insensitive to loudness; and any relationship between signal measure and absolute reproduction level is not known at the time of weighting; the weighting includes weighting auditory-event-boundary importance, using skewness in the spectra.
US08396572B2
A method for optimizing operational settings for a plurality of energy devices includes representing each of the plurality of energy devices in terms of a set of decision variables and operational parameters. The decision variables and operational parameters are constrained based on operational conditions and interrelationship within the plurality of energy devices. A two-tiered model of the plurality of energy devices is generated wherein a top tier of the model represents interaction of various sub-models and a bottom tier of the model includes a set of the sub-models that form the top tier, each sub-model representing detailed operation of the plurality of energy devices. The two-tiered model is optimized to provide either a schedule of operation for the plurality of energy devices or real-time control for the plurality of energy devices.
US08396563B2
This disclosure is directed to the synchronization of clocks of a secondary implantable medical device (IMD) to a clock of a primary IMD. The secondary IMD includes a communications clock. The communications clock may be synchronized based on at least one received communications pulse. The secondary IMD further includes a general purpose clock different than the communications clock. The general purpose clock may be synchronized based on at least one received power pulse. The communications clock may also be synchronized based on the at least one received power pulse.
US08396562B2
A wide-filed retinal prosthesis enables an increased field of vision with a relatively small scleral incision. The retinal prosthesis includes a flexible substrate comprising a central member and at least one wing, with an array of electrodes disposed therein that are configured to stimulate the central and peripheral nerves of the retina.
US08396553B2
A medical device having a plurality of electrodes sensing cardiac signals, and a microprocessor operably coupled to the plurality of electrodes and configured to determine a cumulative atrioventricular interval (AVI) burden in response to the sensed cardiac signals, and to switch operation of the device between a minimal biventricular pacing (MBVP) mode and a conditional triple chamber pacing (CTCP) mode in response to the determined AVI burden.
US08396549B2
A method for pacing a left ventricle of a heart includes delivering a pacing pulse via a first electrode to activate a first papillary muscle and another pacing pulse via a second electrode to activate a second papillary muscle.
US08396541B2
A system and method provide detecting and monitoring cardiac electrophysiological changes by determining differences between a reference signal representing a heartbeat signal and an analysis signal representing another heartbeat signal. A set of signal data consisting of a number of heartbeat signals is acquired as a function of time. Individual heartbeat signals within the set of acquired signals are identified, an individual signal comprising data values representing a plurality of sample points during a single heartbeat. One of the identified individual signals or a derived signal representing an average of a subset of the identified individual signals is selected as an analysis signal. A reference signal is identified. The sample points of the reference signal are aligned with the sample points of the analysis signal. A single value representative of mutual correspondence between the sample points of the reference signal and the corresponding sample points of the analysis signal is calculated. Data indicating a calculated value is communicated to a destination for viewing by a user.
US08396540B2
Electronic fetal monitoring assessment tools and methods of use thereof. The electronic fetal monitoring assessment tools are useable in connection with Electronic Fetal Monitoring (“EFM”) systems, such as those EFM systems currently used by and available to medical professionals. Electronic fetal monitoring assessment tools may include an electronic measurement tool for one or more of assessing the baseline FHR, assessing variability of the baseline FHR, assessing decelerations in the FHR and/or assessing acceleration in the FHR. Electronic measurement tools may be used as electronically generated visual tools to assess one or more fetal heart rate patterns.
US08396539B2
An implantable medical device for optically sensing action potential signals in excitable body tissue. The device includes an elongated tubular lead body carrying an optical fiber extending from a proximal lead end to a distal lead end to position the optical fiber at a target site. The lead body additionally carries a conduit for dispensing a voltage-sensitive fluorescent dye into tissue surrounding the target site. The optical fiber transmits excitation light to the fluorescent dye to cause the dye to fluoresce with varying intensity as the transmembrane potentials of local tissue cells vary due to passing depolarization wavefronts. The optical fiber transmits the fluorescence signal to the device to generate an action potential signal or fiducial points of an action potential signal for use in accurately measuring and characterizing electrical activity of excitable tissue.
US08396536B2
Light is collected from a sample that is to be imaged, such as tissue or the like, and made to undergo self-interference, e.g., on a detector. An imaging system may include a low coherence light source arranged for illuminating the sample, and an interferometer arranged to receive the light collected from the sample and to pass it to a detector. The interferometer includes a beam divider that directs the radiation collected from the sample along two paths, phase-delaying one beam relative to another and then recombining the beams on a detector. A processor may be coordinated with the phase delay and in some embodiments with spatial scanning or detector array addresses, and operates on the signal from the detector to form a tomographic image of the sample illuminated tissue. By constructing an image based upon interference the interferometric signal from of the split and then recombined radiation collected from the sample signal, rather than interference of a source reference and a return signal, the invention is able to image with light naturally emitted by the sample, or with wavelength-shifted, delayed or induced light signals of different types, allowing new modalities of diagnostic and other imaging of the sample and its structure. A processor generates one or more images of the structure being viewed, and may create images in registry from different (for example, close but separable) wavelengths. Some systems may operate without an illumination source or may apply other stimuli to evoke emission from the sample.
US08396534B2
An intravital-information imaging apparatus includes light sources for irradiating a living body with light, and acoustic-wave detectors that detect acoustic waves generated from a light absorber having absorbed part of energy of the light from the light sources, the light absorber existing in the living body. Furthermore, the intravital-information imaging apparatus includes signal processors that calculate information representing a distribution of optical characteristic values of the living body using sound pressures of the acoustic waves generated from the light absorber.
US08396533B2
A method and system for detecting and tracking an ablation catheter tip in a fluoroscopic image sequence is disclosed. Catheter tip candidates are detected in each frame of the fluoroscopic image sequence using marginal space learning. The detected catheter tip candidates are then tracked over all the frames of the fluoroscopic image sequence in order to determine an ablation catheter tip location in each frame.
US08396531B2
A method for measuring ventricular dimensions from M-mode echocardiograms, includes providing a digitized M-mode echocardiogram image, running a plurality of local classifiers, where each local classifier trained to detect a landmark on either an end-diastole (ED) line or an end-systole (ES) line in the image, recording all possible landmarks detected by the classifiers, where a search range in an N-dimensional parameter space defined by the landmarks for each dimension is reduced to a union of subsets, where each dimension of the parameter space corresponds a landmark, for each combination of possible landmarks, checking if an order of the landmarks is consistent with a known ordering of the landmarks, and if the order is consistent, running a global detector on each consistent combination of landmarks to find a landmark combination with a highest detection probability as a confirmed landmark detection, where the landmarks are used for measuring ventricular dimensions.
US08396529B2
An electrode set is disclosed that has two separable parts including an assembled base with printed circuit board basement, biasing member and top cover and an electrode. The basement and top cover may be made by metal or conductive material.
US08396528B2
Systems and methods of use for continuous analyte measurement of a host's vascular system are provided. In some embodiments, a continuous glucose measurement system includes a vascular access device, a sensor and sensor electronics, the system being configured for insertion into communication with a host's circulatory system.
US08396526B2
According to the present invention, a method and apparatus for non-invasively determining the blood oxygen saturation level within a subject's tissue is provided. The method comprises the steps of: 1) providing a near infrared spectrophotometric sensor operable to transmit light along a plurality of wavelengths into the subject's tissue; 2) sensing the light transmitted into the subject's tissue using the sensor, and producing signal data representative of the light sensed from the subject's tissue; 3) processing the signal data to account for physical characteristics of the subject; and 4) determining the blood oxygen saturation level within the subject's tissue using a difference in attenuation between the wavelengths. The apparatus includes a sensor having a light source and at least one light detector, which sensor is operably connected to a processor. The sensor is operable to transmit light along a plurality of wavelengths into the subject's tissue, and produce signal data representative of the light sensed from the subject's tissue. The algorithm is operable to process the signal data to account for the physical characteristics of the subject being sensed.
US08396504B2
A mobile terminal device communicates with a base station in one of a power-saving state in which consumption of power supplied from a built-in power supply is suppressed and a normal state in which the consumption of power supplied from the built-in power supply is not suppressed. The mobile terminal device includes a base station detecting unit that detects a maximum-power received-wave base station of which a received-wave power is maximum, a base-station-change detecting unit that detects whether the maximum-power received-wave base station detected by the base station detecting unit is changed, and a power-saving-state transition control unit that controls transition to the power-saving state when the change of the maximum-power received-wave base station is not detected by the base-station-change detecting unit in a predetermined time in the normal state.
US08396502B2
A power controlling method and corresponding base station for controlling the transmission power of each user terminal are disclosed, in which, each user terminal is paired into virtual MIMO transmission. In the solution, first, determining the transmission power of each user terminal that makes the sum of the transmission power of each user terminal minimum under the case that the specific index for each user terminal meets a required threshold value; then, feed backing the determined transmission power of each user terminal to each user terminal. Compared with the prior art, the solution can achieve a preferable power efficiency.
US08396500B2
A connection destination base station determination device is disclosed that includes: a storage part configured to store information indicating a radio base station that has transmitted a signal received with intensity at or above a certain level in a mobile terminal, and information indicating the amount of available resources in the radio base station; a selection part configured to select, of radio base stations having the amount of available resources greater than or equal to the amount of resources requested by the mobile terminal, a radio base station different from a radio base station having the largest amount of available resources as a connection destination radio base station; and a notification part configured to notify the selected radio base station that the mobile terminal is to be connected thereto.
US08396498B2
The invention has a step where a transmitting station in a second radio communication system determines whether transmission of a second radio communication system signal using a shared frequency band is possible or not based on load information of a first radio communication system broadcast from a base station in the first radio communication system, a step where the transmitting station in the second radio communication system calculates predicted interference power caused in a receiving station in the first radio communication system by the second radio communication system signal transmitted using the shared frequency band, and a step where the base station in the first radio communication system increases an allowable interference level of a first radio communication system signal transmitted using the shared frequency band based on the predicted interference power broadcast from the transmitting station in the second radio communication system.
US08396492B2
A method for a User Equipment (UE) performing frequency-layer operations in Multimedia Broadcast and Multicast Services (MBMSs) is disclosed, with priorities preset for various frequency-layer operations, the procedure of performing frequency-layer operations includes the steps of: receiving control information of the MBMSs sent from the network; and performing the frequency-layer operations of the activated MBMSs included in the control information of the MBMSs according to the priorities of frequency-layer operations. By using the method in accordance with embodiments of the present invention, it is possible to avoid wrong frequency-layer operations under the circumstances of a UE joining multiple MBMSs, thus achieving the highest procedural efficiency with the least consumption and improving the efficiency of the UE.
US08396489B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus are provided to enable real-time communication with people, groups and devices in accordance with certain embodiments. Typically, a phone number, address, or login information (“traditional identification information”) is needed to initiate a communication with a specific person. However, there are many situations where this traditional identification information is not known, but individuals still wish to communicate with others whose traditional identification information they do not know. By selecting criteria such as geographical location information that is proximate to the device, a person can identify and communicate with others while not knowing their contact information. The criteria can also include attributes, visual information, or other characteristics of the target device.
US08396486B2
A method of initial access in a wireless communication system is disclosed. A method of initial access of a mobile station in a wireless communication system with femtocells comprises selecting a base station to which the mobile station requests information of femto cell base stations which can serve the mobile station and exist around the mobile station through scanning downlink channel; and requesting the selected base station the information of the femto cell base stations.
US08396479B2
A handover processing method includes obtaining, by a relay station, information, where the information is used for determining whether a mobility management entity (MME) of a user equipment is in a mobility management entity pool (MME pool) to which a neighboring eNB belongs; and determining, by the relay station, that an X2 interface between a serving eNB of the relay station and the neighboring eNB cannot be used for handover if the MME of the user equipment is not in the MME pool to which the neighboring eNB belongs. The foregoing technical solutions may enable the relay station to initiate a correct handover procedure.
US08396470B2
A system and method for determining the availability of a mobile communications device on a network based on a prediction that the device will cross a peer-defined service boundary. The service boundary may be the periphery of a region in which the received signal strength is stronger than a minimum value, or the periphery of a region in which a particular service provider's signal is dominant. When the device is about to cross the service boundary, or has crossed the boundary, a notification of a change in service is issued to at least one of the user of the device, a presence service, or another network operator. The notification may comprise a change in the presence status of the mobile communications device. The service boundary is defined using aggregated data from a plurality of mobile communications devices reporting the received signal strength at various geographic locations.
US08396461B2
A mobile device, system, and method are directed towards enabling a user, virtually on the fly, to invite another user to participate in an on-line conferencing session, by providing a link that automatically enables the other user to participate in the conferencing session. In one embodiment, the conferencing session is a text messaging conference session, such as one that might employ instant messaging, or the like. In one embodiment, a user may request a conferencing session to be established, by sending a request to a server device. The request may, include an identifier of an invitee with whom the first user wishes to communicate. The server determines a unique link for the invitee and session, and sends the invitee an invite message with their unique link. Selecting the unique link enables the invitee to automatically access and to participate in the conferencing session with the first user.
US08396460B2
A system and phone for providing called party awareness information to a calling party. As disclosed, a communication service provider can receive identification information associated with a called device from the keypad of the phone. The communication service provider can determine whether the called device is associated with the communication service provider or not. The communication service provider can use the identification information to determine the local time when the called device is not associated with the phone system. Alternatively, the communication service provider can use offsets to determine the local time generated by the called device when the called device is associated with the communication service provider. The offsets can be provided by fixed phone locations or non-fixed phone locations. Thereafter, the communication service provider can return the local time to the phone where it can be displayed.
US08396453B2
A method for locating a wireless communications device WCD (102). The method includes the step of receiving at the WCD (102) a wireless transmission comprising a first auto-location trigger signal. The WCD (102), responsive to the first auto-location trigger signal, operates in an auto-location mode. The auto-location mode includes the automatic collection and communication of predetermined first data, such as audio, video, and GPS location data. After the automatic collection and communication step of the first data is complete, the WCD (102) enters into a standby mode. The standby mode continues until a state detection device (206) of the WCD (102) detects a change in the state of the WCD (102). These changes in state are exclusive of the wireless transmission comprising the first auto-location trigger signal. The change(s) in state produce a second auto-location trigger signal, which causes the automatic collection and communication of a second data that is the same or similar to the first data.
US08396451B1
A method, system, and medium are provided for detecting fraud, the method comprising obtaining a plurality of communication records associated with a communications device associated with a user over a fixed period of time, calculating a fraud metric for said records, comparing said metric to a threshold, if said metric exceeds said threshold, generating a fraud alert for said user.
US08396447B2
A system and method for automatically notifying others when a 9-1-1 emergency call has been placed from a cellular phone. The user selects the people who she would like to be contacted in the case of an emergency. The contact information (e.g., phone numbers and email address) for these notification contacts are entered into an application resident on the phone. In the event of an emergency, the application connects the user to the 9-1-1 system and automatically notifies the user's predetermined list of contacts via email and/or text notification. These notifications preferably contain the user's name, telephone number, current location, and the date/time of the 9-1-1 call.
US08396444B2
A method and system for re-establishing a connection from a PSAP or 911 call center to a terminal of a 911 caller who has subscribed to IN services, for example, after a terminal of a 911 caller has been disconnected from the PSAP or 911 call center. If the call is dropped, the PSAP or 911 call center can, manually, or automatically via the system of the present invention, dial or cause to be dialed, a pre-determined prefix prior to dialing the number of the terminal of the 911 caller. In a separate embodiment of the method and system of the present invention, a separate parameter is used in CAMEL IDP and ISUP IAM to indicate the calling party category to identify that the call is originating from a PSAP or 911 call center.
US08396443B2
A power supply circuit includes: a DC-to-DC converter outputting a first voltage dropped from an input supply voltage; and a series regulator outputting a second voltage dropped from an output of the DC-to-DC converter, the series regulator including: an output transistor supplied with the output of the DC-to-DC converter and outputting the second voltage, and a first control circuit operated by the input supply voltage and controlling the output transistor.
US08396441B1
A mixer circuit suitable for broadband RF applications is disclosed. A unique biasing scheme for a conventional Gilbert-cell type 4-quadrant multiplier is used, resulting in relatively good linearity, relatively low noise, and relatively low power consumption. Disclosed techniques provide programmability in gain for the mixer and a broadband frequency of operation. A non-linear feedback loop is wrapped around the circuit to stabilize the common-mode voltage shifts due to programming. In one embodiment, a non-linear switch as load-resistance is used to improve the linearity of the circuit.
US08396440B2
A signal reception method includes receiving a signal over a channel, producing a first equalized signal, a first interference suppression filter and a first estimate of the channel using a portion of a the received signal, dividing the received signal into a plurality of signal blocks, and for each one of the plurality of signal blocks, producing a second equalized signal using a portion of the first equalized signal by selecting from one of a linear estimator or a non-linear estimator and estimating symbols received in the one of the plurality of signal blocks based on the second equalized signal.
US08396438B2
Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate combining received signals from multiple receive antennas in a wireless communication environment. The received signals from the multiple receive antennas can be weighted utilizing an adaptive combination of maximal ratio combining (MRC) and interference nulling. The combination of MRC and interference nulling can be controlled based upon one or more configurable parameters. For instance, a covariance matrix can be modified to include the one or more configurable parameters, and the modified covariance matrix can be utilized in connection with interference nulling. Further, respective values for the one or more configurable parameters can be selected as a function of at least one input (e.g., measured interference-over-thermal (IoT) value, received loading level indicator, eigenvalue distribution of a covariance matrix, . . . ) related to noise correlation.
US08396435B2
To provide an adder capable of obtaining an addition signal of a plurality of high frequency signals, and also a power combiner, a quadrature modulator, a quadrature demodulator, a power amplifier, a transmitter, and a wireless communicator, each of which uses the adder. Impedances (Zg, Zh) seen from a common output point (P3) of a plurality of first impedance circuits (110a, 110b) toward respective input terminals (102a, 102b) are set so that high frequency currents (Ig, Ih) are approximately zero. An impedance (Zs) seen from a first connection point (P1) toward the input terminals (102a, 102b) is set so that a high frequency current (Is) is approximately zero. An impedance (Zc) seen from the first connection point (P1) toward a circuit (150) is set so that a high frequency current (Ic) is approximately zero. An impedance (Zm) seen from a second connection point (P2) toward a power supply is set so that a high frequency current (Im) is approximately zero.
US08396429B2
A communication test device can assist in identifying a cause of a change in throughput of a mobile communication terminal. The communication test device accumulates (a) trace data on a specific unit of data complying with a designated communication standard, and (b) throughput data on throughput of the specific unit of data transmitted to and received from a mobile communication terminal. Trace data and throughput data are extracted from the accumulation, and trace data is displayed. A graph of the variation of throughput with time is displayed on the display unit. Trace data corresponding to a time designated by an operating unit can also be displayed.
US08396415B2
The invention relates to a single-port signal repeater. The repeater is connected in parallel to the communication means (3), on which only one access point (5) is needed. The repeater (4) comprises an amplifier, a hybrid circuit and a feedback and increases the range and transmission capacity for communications made on a conducted medium without the drawbacks of traditional repeaters, which have to interrupt the line and need two access points to the channel.
US08396411B2
The present invention relates to a communication method in a mobile communication system. An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a mobile satellite communication system having a complementary terrestrial component among various mobile communication systems. The mobile satellite communication system can simultaneously provide a communication service and a broadcasting service to a terminal according to integration between communication and broadcasting. Different signal transmission methods are used between the complementary terrestrial component and a satellite. Specifically, a time division duplex method and a frequency division duplex method are used together and resources are allocated. As a result, system throughput can be increased, and local broadcasting contents can be effectively transmitted to the terminal.
US08396403B2
In a toner roller for use in a developer station for a printer or copier, a roller-shaped base body has an electrically conductive surface on which is arranged an insulation layer. The insulation layer comprises plastic and has a layer thickness and arranged between 150 μm and 1000 μm. The insulation layer also comprises a filler where the filler comprises electrically conductive additives.
US08396394B2
Image forming apparatus employing an electrical charge removal device with an improved configuration
An image forming apparatus, including: a main body; an image carrying body disposed in the main body, a transfer unit and an electrical charge removal unit. The image forming apparatus forms a visible image on the image carrying body by carrying out charging, exposing and developing processes. The transfer unit transfers the visible image from the image carrying body to a printing medium. The electrical charge removal unit is configured to remove residual electrical charge from the printing medium, and is movable, in cooperation with at least one replaceable component part of the transfer unit, between an operable position at which the electrical charge removal unit is capable of removing the electrical charge from the printing medium and a non-interfering position at which the electrical charge removal unit does not interfere with the movement of the at least one replaceable component part of the transfer unit being received into or being removed from the main body for replacement.
US08396393B2
A developing cartridge that maintains a pressing condition to press a developer carrier against the image carrier is described. The developing cartridge may include a coil spring that presses the developer carrier against the image carrier. The coil spring may include a handle that transmits a pressing force to the coil spring via the contacting member. By doing so, every time the developing cartridge is replaced, a new coil spring and handle can be provided for the color laser printer with the developing cartridge attached. Therefore, a constant pressure by the coil spring can be continuously maintained. Thus, a preferable pressure condition of the developer carrier against the image carrier can be continuously maintained.
US08396389B2
An image forming apparatus includes a belt including an abutting surface and a cleaning member disposed to abut against the abutting surface for removing a foreign substance on the abutting surface. The abutting surface has a mirror surface smoothness of 40 to 200, and a pensile hardness of 2H to 7H.
US08396388B2
Provided is printer operation control system and method for a printer having diverse print functions by using an external memory. The external memory is used to store information on the availability of each print function. A reader is provided for reading the information on the availability of each print function stored in the external memory. Further, a function setting unit is provided for setting up the operability of software for each print function based on the information read in the reader. Even further, a controller is provided for controlling the operation of the printer based on the operability of each software set up in the function setting unit.
US08396386B2
An image forming apparatus including a latent image bearing member, a charger to evenly charge a surface of the latent image bearing member, an electrostatic latent image forming device to form an electrostatic latent image on the surface of the latent image bearing member, a developing device to develop the electrostatic latent image into a toner image using toner, a transfer bias application device to apply a transfer bias to an image transfer area where the latent image bearing member faces a recording medium, a pre-transfer neutralizing device to reduce an electric potential at a portion on the surface of the latent image bearing member, a surface electric potential detector to detect an electric potential at the surface of the latent image bearing member, and a radiation amount control device to control an amount of radiation from the pre-transfer neutralizing device.
US08396383B2
An image forming apparatus including an image carrier; a charger to charge a surface of the image carrier; an irradiating device to form a latent image; a developing device to form a toner image; a transfer device to transfer the toner image onto a recording medium; a cleaning device to remove residual toner from the surface of the image carrier; a temperature and humidity detector to measure temperature and humidity within the image forming apparatus; a stop time clock to measure a period of time for which the image carrier is not driven; a removal unit to remove discharge products adhering to the surface of the image carrier; and a control unit to drive the removal unit to remove the discharge products for a period of time determined by the control unit based on measurements obtained by the temperature and humidity detector and the stop time clock.
US08396382B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a heating device that heats images that have been formed on a sheet-like recording medium to thereby fix the images to the recording medium; an ejection member that rotates in a forward direction and ejects to the outside the recording medium that has been conveyed from the heating device; a blower member that blows air onto the recording medium conveyed between the heating device and the ejection member; and a controller that controls the blower member such that the blower member operates when a recording page count where images are continuously formed on the recording medium is equal to or greater than a predetermined recording page count.
US08396378B2
A method of initializing information about a consumable unit of an image forming apparatus, the method includes transmitting authentication information of the consumable unit to the outside, receiving initialization data of usage information about the consumable unit stored in the image forming apparatus, from the outside, and initializing the usage information about the consumable unit based on the received initialization data.
US08396377B2
Methods and printing devices herein establish a current physical position of a printing device and then receive current physical position readings from different portable computing devices (when the portable computing devices or its users are physically interacting with the printing device). The portable computing devices each have a physical position locator. The method then processes the current physical position readings to refine the current physical position of the printing device.
US08396368B2
A distributed antenna system (DAS) includes a multiple-input and multiple-output (“MIMO”) base station configured to output at least a first and second signal, and a hybrid coupler coupled thereto, the coupler configured to receive the first and second signal from the MIMO base station on respective first and second ports and provide an output signal on at least one output port, the output signal including at least a portion of the first signal and at least a portion of the second signal. The DAS further includes a master unit communicating with the coupler and configured to receive at least the output signal, and at least one remote unit communicating with the master unit and configured to communicate the output signal to a device.
US08396364B2
An apparatus comprising a path computation element (PCE) configured for at least partial impairment aware routing and wavelength assignment (RWA) and to communicate with a path computation client (PCC) based on a PCE protocol (PCEP) that supports path routing, wavelength assignment (WA), and impairment validation (IV). Also disclosed is a network component comprising at least one processor configured to implement a method comprising establishing a PCEP session with a PCC, receiving path computation information comprising RWA information and constraints from the PCC, establishing impairment aware RWA (IA-RWA) based on the path computation information and a private impairment information for a vendor's equipment, and sending a path and an assigned wavelength based on the IA-RWA to the PCC. Disclosed is a method comprising establishing impairment aware routing and wavelength assignment for a plurality of network elements (NEs) in an optical network using routing and combined WA and IV.
US08396356B2
An exemplary embodiment of a heater assembly includes a heater housing structure defining an elongated heater chamber having a first port and a second port and defining a wetted side on the interior of the heater chamber and a non-wetted side on the exterior of the heater chamber. A resistive heater element is has an active region disposed within the heater chamber, free of any brazed or welded bulkhead members. The housing structure includes a first heater terminal opening and a second heater terminal opening, a first terminal end of the heater element passed through the first terminal opening from the wetted side to the non-wetted side, and a second terminal end of the heater element passed through the second terminal opening from the wetted side to the non-wetted side. First and second seal members are disposed on the non-wetted side respectively onto the first terminal end and the second terminal end and in contact with respective first and second seal surfaces defined on the housing structure. First and second fastener members respectively engage the first terminal end and the second terminal end and the first and second seal members. The housing structure may be fabricated of plastic, with respective current collectors in the form of unitary wire forms disposed at opposite ends of the housing structure.
US08396354B2
A display apparatus and method of displaying an image, and a video signal processor and method of converting an input video signal into a displayable format compatible with the display, including an reproducing apparatus reading out data stored on a medium, a playback part converting the data read by the optical disk drive into a video signal compatible with the video signal processor, an interface transmitting and receiving data to and from an external device, e.g., a computer, and a switching part selectively enabling the reproducing apparatus to communicate with either the drive playback part or the external device. With this configuration, embodiments of the present invention provide a display apparatus, computer system, and methods, using a display apparatus to play back a medium, e.g., a DVD having multimedia functionality, without having to boot the computer system.
US08396353B2
To relatively simplify the apparatus arrangement while supporting many variations of streams to be processed, management information of a disc includes option support information that designates a combination of a base format and one or more options. An apparatus using this disc can specify predetermined types of decode formats on the basis of the contents of this option support information.
US08396352B2
Automated personal video recording comprising scheduling a show for a user having allocated storage space on a personal video recorder (“PVR”), wherein the show has a storage space requirement that exceeds the user's free space, and the PVR is coupled for data communications to a storage space provider; and transmitting to the storage space provider an order to record the show through the storage space provider in storage space on a remote PVR that is coupled for data communications to the storage space provider. Receiving in a storage space provider from a personal video recorder (“PVR”) an order to record a show on a remote PVR, the order comprising an identification of a show and a schedule for recording the show; selecting a remote PVR; and recording the show, in dependence upon the show identification and the schedule for recording the show, in storage space on the selected remote PVR.
US08396349B2
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an information storage medium. This realizes a data structure that causes the recording and deleting places on the information storage medium to correspond spuriously to places on a single tape, such as a VTR tape. Use of the data structure provides users with an easy-to-use interface.
US08396346B2
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an information storage medium. This realizes a data structure that causes the recording and deleting places on the information storage medium to correspond spuriously to places on a single tape, such as a VTR tape. Use of the data structure provides users with an easy-to-use interface.
US08396343B2
A data conversion method for an information processing device to execute format conversion processing from AVCHD (Advanced Video Codec high Definition) format to BDAV (Blu-ray Disc Audio Visual) format includes the steps of: performing data input for a data input unit to input AVCHD format data; and performing format conversion for a format converter to select a playback control information file included in the input AVCHD format data, perform format conversion, and generate playback control information according to BDAV format; wherein conversion processing is not performed for a stream file included in the input AVCHD format data, and BDAV format data made up of a converted playback control information file and non-converted stream file is generated.
US08396335B2
A solid memory may include a recording layer including Ge, Sb and Te as major components. The recording layer may include a superlattice. The recording layer may include multi-layers each having a parent phase showing a phase transformation in solid-states, the phase transformation causing change in electrical property of the recording layer. The recording layer may include an Sb2Te3 layer that includes at least one period of a first lamination of a first Te-atomic layer, a first Sb-atomic layer, a second Te-atomic layer, a second Sb-atomic layer, and a third Te-atomic layer in these order, a GeTe layer that includes at least one period of a second lamination of a fourth Te-atomic layer and a Ge-atomic layer, and an Sb layer that includes a plurality of Sb-atomic layers.
US08396327B2
A device, system and method for automatic detection of contractile activity of a body lumen in an image frame is provided, wherein image frames during contractile activity are captured and/or image frames including contractile activity are automatically detected, such as through pattern recognition and/or feature extraction to trace image frames including contractions, e.g., with wrinkle patterns. A manual procedure of annotation of contractions, e.g. tonic contractions in capsule endoscopy, may consist of the visualization of the whole video by a specialist, and the labeling of the contraction frames. Embodiments of the present invention may be suitable for implementation in an in vivo imaging system.
US08396326B2
A method for producing a photo album includes providing a library of page layouts, selecting a first group of one or more images to be placed in the first page of the photo album, selecting a second group of one or more images to be placed in the second page of the photo album, graphically displaying the first group of one or more images within a first border that represents a first page, graphically displaying the second group of one or more images within a second border that represents a second page, automatically selecting a first page layout from the library of page layouts, and automatically placing the first group of one or more images into the one or more image receiving areas in the first page layout to produce the first page in the photo album.
US08396325B1
An image processing system enhances the resolution of an original image using higher-resolution image data from other images. The image processing system defines a plurality of overlapping partitions for the original image, each partition defining a set of non-overlapping site patches. During an optimization phase, the system identifies, for site patches of the original images, label patches within related images that are of most relevance. During a rendering phase independent of the optimization phase, an output image with enhanced resolution is synthesized by substituting, for site patches of the original image, the identified relevant label patches from the related images.
US08396322B1
Methods for reducing optical distortion such as keystone distortion can include receiving an input image and modifying the input image by applying two separate 1D operations to the input image and applying a polyphase filter to the input image, where the first 1D operation is performed after application of the second 1D operation has begun. The modified image can then be projected.
US08396320B2
A method of determining the point-spread function (PSF) of an imaging system includes the steps of capturing image data, establishing an idealized source spot, establishing a functional form model, subtracting the captured image from the estimated image equation and determining a metric that measures the fit of the estimated image to the captured image. The functional form model may include both diffraction and aberration and stray light. The functional form model may be optimized to reduce the metric to an acceptable level.
US08396316B2
A method, apparatus, and computer readable recording medium for processing an image. The method includes detecting a face area and a blur area from an image; checking a degree of overlap between the face area and the blur area by comparing a location of the face area with a location of the blur area; and determining whether the image is an abnormal image according to the degree of overlap between the face area and the blur area.
US08396309B2
A pixel block is compressed by determining a reference set of multiple reference property values. A value index associated with a reference property value of the reference set is assigned to each pixel in the pixel block based on the original property value of the pixel. A prediction of the value index is provided based on the value index assigned to at least one neighboring pixel in the pixel block. A prediction error is calculated based on the value index assigned to a pixel and its value index prediction. The compressed pixel block includes encoded representations of the prediction errors and an encoded representation of the reference set.
US08396303B2
An apparatus for providing pattern detection may include a processor. The processor may be configured to iteratively test different models and corresponding scales for each of the models. The models may be employed for modeling parameters corresponding to a visually detected data. The processor may be further configured to evaluate each of the models over a plurality of iterations based on a function evaluation of each of the models, select one of the models based on the function evaluation of the selected one of the models, and utilize the selected one of the models for fitting the data.
US08396297B2
Methods and systems to identify image pixels as edge pixels using fractal signatures associated with the image pixels. Fractal signatures may include one or more of a variety of fractal dimensions. A fractal dimension of a pixel may be generated from an array of pixels that include the pixel, from x and y coordinates and one or more of luminosity values and color values associated with pixels in the array of pixels. Pixels may be identified as edge pixels when their corresponding fractal signatures are equal to or greater than a fractal signature threshold. The fractal signature threshold may be generated in a supervised fashion.
US08396293B1
A method of recognizing geometrically salient objects from sensed data points collected in a 3D environment includes using a sensor that collects a plurality of sensed data points each having spatial coordinate information in three dimensions x, y and z, populating a strip histogram grid having a plurality of strips, each strip having a z, dx and dy dimensions, wherein dx is a portion of an x dimension and dy is a portion of a y dimension of the strip histogram grid, by assigning each sensed data point to a strip that has x, y and z dimensions that encompass the spatial coordinate information of the respective assigned sensed data point, and segmenting the strip histogram grid into a plurality of segmented regions, each segmented region comprising one strip or a group of neighboring strips having similar attributes.
US08396289B2
A discrimination apparatus includes a separating unit configured to separate kinds (N being a natural number of 2 or greater) of color signals forming an image signal obtained by image acquisition of a subject with a color imaging system into kinds (M being a natural number of 1 or greater, M≦N) of wavelength ranges, based on known spectral characteristics of a subject to be discriminated, at least one of the separated wavelength ranges including a plurality of color signals. The discrimination apparatus further includes a noise estimating unit configured to estimate a noise amount in each predetermined unit area in each of the wavelength ranges separated by the separating unit, and a noise reducing unit configured to perform a noise reducing processing on each of the wavelength ranges separated by the separating unit, based on the noise amount estimated by the noise estimating unit. The discrimination apparatus further includes a discriminating unit configured to perform a discriminating processing on the subject to be discriminated, based on the color signals in the wavelength ranges noise-reduced by the noise reducing unit.
US08396276B2
A method for imaging a patient using an intravascular ultrasound imaging system includes inserting a catheter into a target imaging region within patient vasculature. The catheter includes at least one transducer coupled to a control module. A plurality of image frames is generated as the at least one transducer is moved within patient vasculature. The image frames are based on data obtained from a plurality of echo signals reflected from patient tissue in response to a plurality of acoustic signals output from the at least one transducer. Each image frame includes a motion-blur component. A motion-blur-intensity estimate is quantified for each image frame to form a motion-blur-estimation signal that varies over time and that includes periodic local motion blur minima. Temporal variations of the motion-blur components are filtered to reduce variation in the motion-blur-intensity estimate arising from vessel structure variation. Image frames are selected that contain local motion blur minima.
US08396266B2
In a method for assessing an acquired functional medical scan, a virtual functional medical scan is generated from a structural medical scan (e.g., MRI) using known techniques. The acquired functional medical image scan is then assessed by comparing it with the virtual functional medical scan. Since both scans are derived from the same source, there is no need for e.g., registration of the patient anatomy and the reference data.
US08396265B1
An example method includes capturing, by an image capture device of a computing device, an image of a face of a user. The method further includes detecting, by the computing device, whether a distance between the computing device and an object represented by at least a portion of the image is less than a threshold distance, and, when the detected distance is less than a threshold distance, denying authentication to the user with respect to accessing one or more functionalities controlled by the computing device, where the authentication is denied independent of performing facial recognition based at least in part on the captured image.
US08396259B2
An electronic device having a biometric authentication function is provided which includes a biometric authentication sensor for detecting a feature quantity of a living body, a user identification unit for identifying a user based on the feature quantity detected by the biometric authentication sensor at a time a specific operation is performed by the user, and a data storage unit for storing data acquired according to the specific operation in a specific folder corresponding to the user identified by the user identification unit.
US08396258B2
The present invention is adapted to form a finger table for supporting and locating a finger to be authenticated by touching the front part of the finger in a case, make the case closed at parts corresponding to the tip and the base of the finger to be authenticated and parts corresponding to left and right sides of the finger, make the case opened at parts corresponding to the front part and the backside of the finger, and form an imaging range of imaging means such as an imaging element in the parts corresponding to the left and right sides of the finger. With the configuration, a finger vein pattern inputting device with high operability and authentication accuracy reserved is provided.
US08396257B2
Systems, devices, applications, and methods for generating an open area map are disclosed. For example, a software application is configured to run on a computing platform of an end user. The end user generates an image of a layout of a walkable area. The software application performs a method of generating an open area map based on the image. The method includes applying an array of uniformly spaced objects on the image. A routable map is generated as a function of the array. The routable map is configured to provide point-to-point routing within the layout.
US08396237B2
A user programmable hearing aid allows a user to select acoustical configuration programs that provide optimum performance for the user. The user may cycle through and evaluate various available programs by rotating a scroll wheel on the hearing aid housing to switch from one program to the next. When a preferred program is active, the user can press a push button on the housing for an extended time to select the currently active program. The user can then use the scroll wheel to adjust the audio gain for the selected program. The hearing aid may also operate in a Configuration Mode wherein configuration settings may be changed using the scroll wheel and the push button. In the Configuration Mode, a clinician or patient may easily change configuration settings manually, with no need to connect the apparatus to a computer or other programming interface.
US08396235B2
For reducing the influence of interference fields on hearing aids, a hearing aid is provided with an electronic component into which a first and a second electromagnetic disturbance component can be injected by providing a predetermined electromagnetic interference field. The electrical component is formed asymmetric and/or a compensation component is arranged on the electrical component such that the first and the second interference components largely compensate for one another. A compensation plate or an element which is provided in any case, such as a microphone, may be used as the compensation component. If the electrical component is a coil, then its core may, for example, be conical or configured such that its winding density varies.
US08396234B2
A method for reducing noise in an input signal (110) of a hearing device comprising a transfer function (H) as well as a hearing device is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: capturing first and second acoustic signals by first and second acoustic-electric converters (1, 2), providing first and second input signals (110, 311) by the first and the second acoustic-electric converters (1, 2), deriving an information signal (410) by using the first and the second input signals (110, 311), deriving an information signal estimate (S) from the information signal (410), deriving a noise signal (411) by using the first and the second input signals (110, 311), deriving a noise signal estimate (N) from the noise signal (411), generating instantaneous coefficients (412, 312) for the transfer function (H) by using the information signal estimate (S) and the noise signal estimate (N), applying the transfer function (H) to the first input signal (110) or to a processed first input signal (410) generating an output signal (111), and feeding the output signal (111) to an electro-acoustic converter (5) of the hearing device.
US08396226B2
In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for determining a multi-dimensional sound signature for a location within a hypothetical space, comparing the multi-dimensional sound signature to a known multi-dimensional sound signature, and modifying the hypothetical space such that the similarity between the multi-dimensional sound signature for the location within the modified hypothetical space and the known multi-dimensional sound signature is increased.
US08396221B2
Techniques are presented for secure broadcasting and multicasting. Communications for multicasting and broadcasting are encrypted and decrypted using a secure communication key. The secure communication key is represented in a broadcast value that is sent to selected parties. The broadcast value represents the product of unique prime numbers and an additional number plus the secure communication key. Each party is represented by one of the unique prime numbers. Each party can acquire the secure communication key by dividing the broadcast value by its particular prime number to obtain a remainder, which is the secure communication key.
US08396218B2
In a cryptographic module distribution system, a cryptographic management server apparatus encrypts a cryptographic module using a key shared by a cryptographic apparatus, and transmits the encrypted cryptographic module to a client apparatus. The client apparatus transmits the encrypted cryptographic module to a cryptographic apparatus. The cryptographic apparatus decrypts the encrypted cryptographic module using the key shared by the cryptographic management server apparatus, and transmits the decrypted cryptographic module to the client apparatus. The client apparatus stores the received cryptographic module.
US08396216B2
Systems and method for partial encryption are disclosed. One example method comprises: creating a program association table to include a first program number which identifies a program encrypted in accordance with a first encryption scheme, and a second program number which identifies the same program encrypted in accordance with a second encryption scheme; and creating a program map table for the same program to include first audio and video identifiers associated with the first encryption scheme and second audio and video identifiers associated with the second encryption scheme.
US08396213B2
An elliptic curve random number generator avoids escrow keys by choosing a point Q on the elliptic curve as verifiably random. An arbitrary string is chosen and a hash of that string computed. The hash is then converted to a field element of the desired field, the field element regarded as the x-coordinate of a point Q on the elliptic curve and the x-coordinate is tested for validity on the desired elliptic curve. If valid, the x-coordinate is decompressed to the point Q, wherein the choice of which is the two points is also derived from the hash value. Intentional use of escrow keys can provide for back up functionality. The relationship between P and Q is used as an escrow key and stored by for a security domain. The administrator logs the output of the generator to reconstruct the random number with the escrow key.
US08396210B2
A configuration that efficiently executes cryptographic processing to which a plurality of different F-functions are applied is provided. In a configuration that executes cryptographic processing by performing round operations to which different F-functions are selectively applied, a plurality of F-function correspondence tables, each corresponding to one of the F-functions, in which input values and output values or intermediate values are associated with each other are stored in a memory; in accordance with a prescribed cryptographic processing sequence, addresses corresponding to F-functions for the respective rounds are applied to read F-function correspondence tables from the memory; and output values or intermediate values for input values are acquired on the basis of reference to the tables to obtain data transformation results in accordance with the respective F-functions.
US08396207B2
The present invention discloses a sliding mechanism including a first board, a second board, a first fixed piece, a frame, a first elastic element and a first sliding element. The second board includes a first slot. The first fixed piece passes through the first slot to be disposed on the first board. The first elastic element is disposed in the frame. When the second board slides a first distance relative to the first board, the first sliding element slides along a first direction to press the first elastic element, so as to make the first elastic element generate a first elastic force. When the second board slides a second distance relative to the first board, the first sliding element slides along a second direction and makes the first elastic element release the first elastic force. It makes the second board slide automatically relative to the first board.
US08396194B2
Methods and apparatus for a telephone customer to configure telephone service for multiple users at a single location associated with the customer. The location has at least two telephones, at least two phone numbers and a voice mail box. The telephone customer is visually provided an option to assign one of the phone numbers to one of the telephones. The telephone customer is visually provided an option to assign each of the multiple users exclusive access to at least one of the telephone numbers via their account identifier. The telephone customer is visually provided the option to, for each of the multiple users, allow access or deny access via their account identifier to the voicemail box.
US08396192B2
Systems and methods for recording call sessions over a telephony network using a desktop recording architecture are disclosed. An illustrative system for recording call sessions over a telephony network includes one or more user telephone stations equipped with a telephone and computer desktop, and one or more additional record services or record servers. A desktop recording service associated with the computer desktop is configured to operate as either a primary or secondary recording service for recording inbound or outbound calls conducted over the user telephone station.
US08396185B2
An X-ray tube includes a target and a cathode assembly. The cathode assembly includes a first filament configured to emit a first beam of electrons toward the target, a first gridding electrode coupled to the first filament, a second filament configured to emit a second beam of electrons toward the target, and a second gridding electrode coupled to the second filament.
US08396173B2
A receiver includes a static I/Q calibration block and a correlation/integration block. The static I/Q calibration block is configured to substantially eliminate mismatches between in-phase and quadrature components of a portion of the spectrum having associated I/Q mismatches that are relatively frequency-independent. The correlation/integration block is configured to substantially eliminate mismatches between the in-phase and quadrature components of portions of the spectrum having associated I/Q mismatches that are relatively frequency-dependent in accordance with a pair of signals generated by the static I/C calibration block.
US08396171B2
A data receiver circuit includes: a clock/data recovery circuit to recover a clock and data from a received signal; a fixed pattern generation circuit to generate fixed pattern data; a first selection circuit to select and output one of the fixed pattern data generated by the fixed pattern generation circuit and recovered data recovered by the clock/data recovery circuit; a second selection circuit to select and output one of a reference clock and recovered clock recovered by the clock/data recovery circuit; and a switching circuit to make the first selection circuit output the fixed pattern data and to make the second selection circuit output the reference clock, when an input signal is lost or the clock/data recovery circuit is in a loss-of-lock state.
US08396161B2
A channel equalizer includes a channel estimator, a coefficient calculator, a multiplier, and an error remover. The channel estimator estimates a channel impulse response (CIR) of input data in which a known data sequence is periodically inserted. The coefficient calculator calculates equalization coefficients using estimated CIR, and the multiplier multiplies the input data with the equalization coefficients for channel equalization. The error removes estimates a residual carrier phase error of the channel-equalized input data and removes the estimated phase error from the input data.
US08396150B2
A tone selection module selects tones suitable for use in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) data transmission device based on several constraints. These constraints include number of available tones, modulation type, and code rate. The OFDM device may use either wired or wireless transmission.
US08396142B2
A system, method and computer-readable medium for encoding and decoding digital information over a channel is provided. Type Mapping is employed and is based on the partitioning of vectors over an alphabet into “types” and using enumeration for the encoding and decoding process. Type mapping allows for signal alphabets of arbitrary size and date rate flexible coding. Tradeoffs between optimal rate versus Signal to Noise Ratio are provided and works as a compliment to the Forward Error Control that may be employed in communications products.
US08396141B2
Systems and methods of cell selection are based on measures of frequency selectivity, time selectivity, and/or antenna selectivity. For example, the delay spread and coherence bandwidth of a channel are two measures of frequency selectivity that can be taken into account in the cell selection process. In addition to or instead of either delay spread or coherence bandwidth, Doppler frequency shift or coherence time (which are two measures of time selectivity) and/or antenna correlation or mean signal strength per antenna (which are two measures of antenna selectivity), among other parameters, can be determined and taken into account.
US08396137B1
Technologies for implementing and utilizing a redundant data bus for the reliable transmission of data between communication endpoints are provided. A redundant data bus includes two or more transmitters configured to transmit the same data signal in separate frequency bands over twisted-pair wiring to corresponding receivers. A data signal containing input data received at an input communication endpoint is generated and the data signal is simultaneously transmitted through the two or more transmitters over the twisted-pair wiring to the corresponding receivers. The data contained in the data signals received at the receivers is validated, and output data is extracted from a valid data signal and made available at an output communication endpoint, while any invalid data signals are ignored.
US08396136B1
A system includes a first device having a first transceiver and a first device electrode pair connected to the first transceiver, and a second device having a second transceiver and a second device electrode pair connected to the second transceiver. The second device electrode pair is located relative to the first device electrode pair such that the first device electrode pair and the second device electrode pair form a capacitive network. The first transceiver and second transceiver are each configured to receive a plurality of bits, encode each bit of the plurality of bits, and DC balance and transmit each of the plurality of encoded bits over the capacitive network. Methods for use with the system are provided for encoding and transmitting data, as well as receiving and decoding the encoded data.
US08396133B2
A system and method for decoding multimedia video is described. Particularly, a system and method for determining the time of arrival of packets, without a hardware interface, is disclosed. As described herein, the time of arrival for each packet may be derived by extrapolating information from the arrival of a frame boundary and the specifications of the transmission standard. This permits the calculation of drift between the encoder and decoder clocks and consequently the more accurate decoding of the transmission.
US08396125B2
A picture coding apparatus includes a picture feature amount extracting unit which extracts respective feature amounts of the current picture and a picture having a specific relationship with the current picture; a correlation degree calculating unit which calculates, based on the feature amount extracted by the feature amount extracting unit, a correlation degree indicating a degree of image similarity between the current picture and the picture having a specific relationship with the current picture; a picture type determining unit which determines, depending on the calculated correlation degree, a picture type for the current picture, from two picture types on which different inter-picture prediction is performed; and a coding unit which codes the current picture according to the determined picture type.
US08396106B2
A method and accompanying system are disclosed for tuning each channel of a high-speed SerDes link interface arranged in a configuration linking a local side to a remote side. The method includes transmitting a flow control packets from the local side to the remote side to change remote side transmission characteristics in a link channel; monitoring the bit error rate (BER) in the link channel; transferring additional flow control packets to adjust the remote side transmission characteristics; and processing the BER data at the local side to generate the remote side transmission characteristics for the link channel.
US08396105B2
An adaptive equalizer comprises an adjustable equalizer circuit that allows to enhance the frequency dependence of contents of the transmitted signals which suffer from losses in the connected transmission channel. A blind equalization tuning procedure is proposed that operates without knowledge about the characteristic of transmission channel. Phase positions of transitions in the equalized signal are detected. A digital post-processing circuit evaluates a measure for spread of the detected phase positions of transitions, accumulated over a plurality of the symbol periods. The digital post-processing circuit controls the adjustable equalizer, setting the adjustable equalizer to a setting wherein the detected spread is minimized.
US08396100B2
A method and system for the transmission of digital data (210) over existing analog radio frequencies (230) is presented, wherein the digital data may include audio data, visual data or audio-visual data for presentation either with analog broadcast data or at a selectable time. The digital data may be transmitted over a plurality of sub-channels that have varying degrees or reliability (250). A “quality-of-service” process manages the transmission of digital data over various sub-channels based on the reliability of the sub-channel, the amount of digital data and the type of digital data to be transmitted. The digital data may further be encrypted and authenticated.
US08396079B2
A communication unit and wireless network operating at various bandwidths is disclosed. A signal having a first signal portion at a first bandwidth containing an indication of an operating bandwidth selected from a plurality of bandwidths used for a further signal portion is provided.
US08396073B2
A voice relaying apparatus includes a receiving section for receiving a cell from an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) network, a plurality of cell assembling/disassembling units for assembling and disassembling the cells, and a transmitting section for transmitting the cells assembled by each of the plurality of cell assembling/disassembling units. Each of the plurality of cell assembling/disassembling units is composed of a cell disassembling section for disassembling the cell received by the receiving section, a detecting section for detecting whether or not the voice relaying apparatus is carrying out a relay switch operation, and a cell assembling section for assembling the cell disassembled by the cell disassembling section and then sending to the transmitting section, if the fact that the voice relaying apparatus is carrying out the relay switch operation is detected by the detecting section.
US08396072B2
An apparatus, comprising at least one processor configured to receive and read a series of blocks on a first channel and determine whether there is congestion and if not transmitting a channel request on a second channel.
US08396071B2
A base station carrying out communications with a mobile station with an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) method by using a predetermined frequency band out of a transmission band is disclosed. The base station includes an allocation portion that allocates, for a mobile station performing peripheral cell search, a band that includes a center frequency on a raster of a first band and has a bandwidth equal to or greater than a bandwidth of a second band with which a synchronization channel is transmitted.
US08396069B1
Communication to a target device using IP is provided. An IPv6 address is registered. An AAAA-record DNS lookup is performed and an A-record DNS lookup is performed, both using the IPv6 network. A response related to the AAAA-record DNS lookup is received and a response to the A-record DNS lookup is received. If a valid IPv6 address is contained in the AAAA-record response, communication uses IPv6. If no valid IPv6 address is contained in the AAAA-record response, an IPv4 address is registered and communication uses IPv4.
US08396063B1
A wireless signal processor for handling a plurality of wireless sessions comprises a plurality of baseband receivers, one for each session, each receiver producing a digital output, a multiplexer for multiplexing the plurality of digital outputs into a single data stream, a digital signal processor for converting the stream of multiplexed data into a media access controller format, and a media access controller for demultiplexing and framing the stream of data into a plurality of data buffers, one data buffer for each wireless session.
US08396056B2
The present invention describes how a trusted network routing authority, such as a VoIP inter-exchange carrier or clearinghouse can provide routing and secure access control across multiple network domains with a single routing and admission request. This technology can improve network efficiency and quality of service when an Internet Protocol (IP) communication transaction, such as a Voice over IP (VoIP), must be routed across multiple devices or administrative domains. This technology defines the technique of performing multiple route look-ups at the source of the call path to determine all possible routes across intermediate domains to the final destination. The VoIP inter-exchange carrier or clearinghouse then provides routing and access permission tokens for the entire call path to the call source.
US08396052B1
A hybrid telecommunications switch includes circuit and packet switch fabrics, and a controller. The controller is configured to map IP traffic into ATM service categories, to separate incoming IP from circuit switched traffic and to provide access, through a connection admission control (CAC) protocol to a circuit switched fabric for IP traffic. Real-time traffic, such as voice traffic, may be separated from non-real-time traffic, such as Internet email traffic. Once separated, the real time traffic may be switched through a circuit switch fabric and the non-real-time traffic maybe switched through a packet switch fabric. IP traffic, such as that mapped into CBR and rt-VBR ATM service categories may aggregated “on-the-fly”, that is, without pre-provisioning, and switched through the hybrid switch's circuit switch fabric. IP traffic mapped into other ATM service categories is routed through a packet switch fabric.
US08396051B2
A digital broadcasting system and method of processing data are disclosed. The digital broadcasting system includes a transmitting system and a receiving system. The transmitting system comprises a distributed transmission adapter and a plurality of transmitters each being operated as a slave of the distributed transmission adapter, and each sharing the same frequency and transmitting the same signals.
US08396045B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for configuring and managing access points AP and an access controller AC. The method includes: creating at least one virtual radio interface, each of which is assigned a standard Management Information Base (MIB) interface index, wherein each of the at least one virtual radio interface corresponds to at least one physical radio interface of at least one AP; determining a physical radio interface to which a virtual radio interface corresponds and sending configuration information on the virtual radio interface to the determined physical radio interface when there is a need to send the configuration information to the physical radio interface. By using embodiments of the present invention, a standard MIB can be re-used for operating APs, thereby costs for managing the APs are reduced.
US08396039B2
Systems and methods of operating multimode 3G/4G communications devices in an overlapping 3G/4G coverage area (e.g., WiMAX or LTE/CDMA EvDO) include determining if a number associated with temporarily-disabled sectors of an available sector set of the multimode device while the device is operational with a 3G base station is at least equal to a threshold number. If the number is at least equal to the threshold number, a scan for a sector in the 4G network to handover the operation of the multimode device from the 3G base station associated with the 3G coverage to a 4G base station associated with the 4G coverage is initiated. A scan for a fixed period of time for a new available sector in the 3G network to be added in the available sector set may be initiated; and, if a new available sector is added to the sector set, it may be redetermined if the number associated with the temporarily-disabled sectors is at least equal to the threshold number, before initiating the scan for a sector in the 4G network.
US08396037B2
A method used in an E-UTRAN for synchronizing PDCP operations after a RRC connection re-establishment procedure with a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method includes: initiating an RRC reconfiguration procedure to resume all radio bearers other than a signaling radio bearer 1 (SRB1) when an RRC connection is re-established; re-transmitting a designated group of PDCP Service Data Units (SDUs) to the UE when a data radio bearer (DRB) mapped on Radio Link Control (RLC) Acknowledged Mode (AM) is resumed.
US08396032B2
A base station device which communicates with a mobile station device, comprising an uplink synchronization managing unit which manages uplink synchronization maintenance status of the mobile station device, and a transmitting unit which transmits a synchronization recovery request to the mobile station which is in the uplink synchronization maintenance status.
US08396018B2
A system and method for efficiently communicating messages over a low-rate channel between multiple devices in a system for wireless communication of uncompressed video is disclosed. The method includes various control bits in a beacon control field of a beacon frame to improve the efficiency of the beacon processing, thereby reducing beacon processing time and size of the beacon frame itself. The transmitting device can use one or more of the various control bits to indicate whether there are changes in various MAC payload information fields. The receiving station can use one or more of the control bits to eliminate the need to parse one or more MAC payload information fields whose values have not changed from the previous beacon frame.
US08396015B2
Included are embodiments for utilizing a scanning threshold. More specifically, one embodiment of a method includes entering a standby mode, wherein in the standby mode, at least one component of a communications device is shutdown, and wherein in the standby mode, at least one channel is scanned to determine potential interference and monitoring exchanged traffic with the communications device. Some embodiments include determining a relative volume of the exchanged traffic, compared to a predetermined threshold and based on the determination of the relative volume of the exchanged traffic and the predetermined threshold, entering a power save standby mode, wherein in the power save standby mode, scanning of the at least one channel is terminated.
US08396014B2
An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a network adapter configured for wireless communication using more than one technology, wherein the network adapter is configured to share a plurality of shared hardware (HW) components by generating a notification when a shared HW resource becomes available to a requesting device that needs the HW resource, and registering the requesting device so that it will receive the notifications when generated; and wherein upon receiving the notifications, the requesting device will wake up and perform a pending action.
US08396011B2
A method of configuring a network access device connected to an access network connected to a plurality of service networks, the network device having a first network address allocated to a subscriber of services of a first service provider provided by a first service network, with a new network address allocated to a second subscriber of services of either the first service provider, or a second service provider provided by a second service network. The method comprises the steps of: sending a request from the network access device to the access network with user credentials for the second subscriber requesting access to the first service provider or a change to the second service provider; receiving a response from the access network; and initiating a network address change request using a configuration protocol. In this manner, a second network address allocated to the second subscriber of services of either the first or second service providers is assigned to the network access device to enable the network access device to communicate data packets to the service network providing the selected service.
US08396001B2
Provided is a computer system and/or method according to an embodiment that includes but is not limited to receiving data concerning the location; processing the received data to determine a queue for the location; and transmitting one or more queue-related data objects to the at least two components, the at least two components distributed within the predetermined area.
US08395997B2
Systems and techniques relating to wireless communications are described. A described technique includes monitoring wireless communication channels, including a first channel and a second channel, to produce a monitoring output, determining a first transmission period for the first channel, determining a second transmission period for the second channel, transmitting, based on the first transmission period, a first packet on the first channel to cause one or more wireless communication devices to set a transmission protection period for the first channel and the second channel based on a reception of the first packet, transmitting, based on the second transmission period, a second packet on the second channel, and monitoring, after the end of the first transmission period, for one or more acknowledgements. An end of the second transmission period can be aligned with an end of the first transmission period.
US08395994B2
A system for adaptive call management, comprising a network-connected call manager server and a call switching means coupled to the call manager server and adapted to deliver calls to a selected target via a plurality of media channels, wherein upon receipt of a call quality indicium from a call quality monitoring means associated a media channel, the call manager server selects a specific media channel, is disclosed.
US08395991B2
Systems and methods are for implementing a NSV2SV converter that converts a non-scalable video signal to a scalable video signal. In an implementation, a non-scalable video signal encoded in H.264/AVC standard is decoded and segmented into spatial data and motion data. The spatial data is resized into a desired resolution by down-sampling the spatial data. The motion data is also resized in every layer, except in the top layer, of a scalable video coding (SVC) encoder by using an appropriate measure. Further, the motion data is refined based on the resized spatial data in every layer of the SVC encoder. The refined motion data and the down-sampled spatial data are then transformed and entropy encoded in the SVC standard in every layer. The SVC encoded output from every layer is multiplexed to produce a scalable video signal.
US08395986B2
A description is given of a transmitter including a baseband chip, a radio frequency chip and an interface unit coupling the baseband chip and the radio frequency chip. The radio frequency chip includes a modulation unit configured to modulate multiple data streams, wherein each of the data streams is assigned to a subcarrier having a frequency differing from the frequencies of the other subcarriers.
US08395971B2
A heat-assisted magnetic recording head includes a slider, an edge-emitting laser diode fixed to the slider, and an external mirror provided outside the slider. The slider includes a magnetic pole, a waveguide, a near-field light generating element, and a substrate. The substrate has a top surface facing toward the magnetic pole, the near-field light generating element and the waveguide. The slider has a top surface that lies above the top surface of the substrate, at an end of the slider farther from the top surface of the substrate. The laser diode includes: an active layer; an emitting end face that lies at an end in a direction parallel to the plane of the active layer and includes an emission part for emitting laser light; and a bottom surface that lies at an end in a direction perpendicular to the plane of the active layer. The laser diode is arranged so that the bottom surface faces the top surface of the slider. The external mirror reflects the laser light emitted from the emission part toward the waveguide.
US08395961B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of memory cells, a plurality of bit lines respectively connected to the memory cells, a plurality of first and second word lines respectively connected to the memory cells, a plurality of first drivers for driving the first word lines selected during a read operation, and a plurality of second drivers for driving the second word lines selected during a write operation, the second driver having a different drive capability from the first driver's.
US08395958B2
Semiconductor devices comprising at least one voltage sensor for sensing an operating voltage associated with an operational circuit of the semiconductor device. The at least one voltage sensor is configured to generate a signal indicative of a state of the operating voltage. Methods of monitoring a voltage in a semiconductor device include determining a magnitude of an operating voltage for an operational circuit in a semiconductor device. A signal may be generated indicating a state of the operating voltage.
US08395951B2
A memory component having a first and second interface. The first interface is provided to sample address information in response to a first clock signal. The first interface includes inputs to sample at least two bits of the address information in succession during a clock cycle of the first clock signal. The second interface is provided to sample data in response to a second clock signal, having a frequency that is at least twice the frequency of the first clock signal. The second interface includes inputs to sample at least two bits of data in succession during a clock cycle of the second clock signal.
US08395944B2
A semiconductor memory device is operated by reading data stored in LSB and MSB pages of a first word line in response to a read command and storing the read data in first and second latches of a page buffer, outputting the data stored in the first latch externally and transferring the data, stored in the second latch, to a third latch of the page buffer, resetting the first and second latches, reading data stored in LSB and MSB pages of a second word line, and storing the read data in the first and second latches, and sequentially outputting the data stored in the first latch and the data stored in the third latch, resetting the third latch, and then transferring the data stored in the second latch to the third latch.
US08395938B2
An object is to provide a semiconductor device in which stored data can be retained even when power is not supplied, and there is no limitation on the number of write cycles. The semiconductor device includes a source line, a bit line, a first signal line, a second signal line, a word line, a memory cell connected between the source line and the bit line, a first driver circuit electrically connected to the bit line, a second driver circuit electrically connected to the first signal line, a third driver circuit electrically connected to the second signal line, and a fourth driver circuit electrically connected to the word line and the source line. The first transistor is formed using a semiconductor material other than an oxide semiconductor. The second transistor is formed using an oxide semiconductor material.
US08395937B2
An integrated circuit device (e.g., a logic device or a memory device) having a memory cell array including a plurality of bit lines (e.g., first and second bit lines) and a plurality of bit line segments (e.g., first and second bit line segments) wherein each bit line segment is selectively and responsively coupled to or decoupled from its associated bit line via an associated isolation circuit. The memory cell array further includes a plurality of memory cells, wherein each memory cell includes a transistor having a first region, a second region, a body region, and a gate coupled to an associated word line via an associated word line segment. A first group of memory cells is coupled to the first bit line via the first bit line segment and a second group of memory cells is coupled to the second bit line via the second bit line segment. A plurality of isolation circuits, disposed between each bit line segment and its associated bit line, to responsively couple the associated bit line segment to or disconnect the associated bit line segment from the associated bit line.
US08395935B2
A programmable memory array is disclosed in which the phase change memory cells are self-aligned at the access devices and at the cross-points of the bit lines and the word lines. A method for making the array employs one line mask to define the bit lines and another line mask to define the word lines. The front end of line (FEOL) memory cell elements are in the same layer as the polysilicon gates. The bit lines and the word lines intersect over the devices, and the memory cell elements are formed at the intersections of the bit lines and the word line.
US08395923B2
Techniques and circuitry are disclosed for efficiently implementing programmable memory array circuit architectures, such as PROM, OTPROM, and other such programmable non-volatile memories. The circuitry employs an antifuse scheme that includes an array of memory bitcells, each containing a program device and an antifuse element configured with current path isolation well and for storing the memory cell state. The bitcell configuration, which can be used in conjunction with column/row select circuitry, power selector circuitry, and/or readout circuitry, allows for high-density memory array circuit designs and layouts.
US08395918B2
Controlled by switching is which reactor in a reactor group present between a power source and a three-level converter is to be connected to an intermediate point that outputs a midpoint potential. In the switching, the closer to the command value of the midpoint potential the command values of input potentials of the converter are, the greater the duty at which corresponding reactors are connected to the intermediate point is for pulse width modulation. Additionally, a predetermined range to be compared with the command values has a predetermined potential width with respect to an AC waveform centered around the command value of the midpoint potential.
US08395914B2
The present invention relates to a configurable trench multi-capacitor device comprising a trench in a semiconductor substrate. The trench has a lateral extension exceeding 10 micrometer and a trench filling includes a number of at least four electrically conductive capacitor-electrode layers. A switching unit is provided that comprises a plurality of switching elements electrically interconnected between different capacitor-electrode layers of the trench filling. A control unit is connected with the switching unit and configured to generate and provide to the switching unit respective control signals for forming a respective one of a plurality of multi-capacitor configurations using the capacitor-electrode layers of the trench filling.
US08395909B2
A display module includes a display panel, an external frame, and a pad structure. The external frame is disposed at a side of the display panel. The pad structure is disposed between the display panel and the external frame. A panel-absorbing portion is formed on a surface of the pad structure facing the display panel. The panel-absorbing portion is used for absorbing the display panel so as to fix the pad structure on the display panel.
US08395904B2
A multichip module includes a package substrate, a first semiconductor device, a second semiconductor device and a conductive bump. The first semiconductor device is flip-chip bonded to the package substrate. The first semiconductor device includes a first chip pad on a surface thereof. The second semiconductor device is mounted on the first semiconductor device. The second semiconductor device includes a second chip pad facing the first chip pad. The conductive bump connects the first chip pad to the second chip pad. The conductive bump includes a first metallic body that has a first diffusion rate and a second metallic body that has a second diffusion rate lower than the first diffusion rate.
US08395893B2
An electronic device comprising a first housing, a second housing and a hinge assembly. The first housing element has an inward surface and an outward surface and a side end. The second housing has an inward surface and an outward surface and a side end. The hinge assembly couples the first housing element and the second housing element about the respective side ends of the first and second housing elements, and facilitates rotation between a collapsed orientation and a deployed. The hinge assembly further includes a first hinge member and a second hinge member. The first hinge member is fixed to the first housing element. The second hinge member is slidably coupled to the second housing element. The first and second hinge members are rotatably coupled to each other about an axis of rotation, and, the second housing element rotates relative to the first housing element. Furthermore, the second housing element translates relative to the first housing element and the second hinge member between a compressed position and a fully extended position.
US08395890B2
A computer includes an enclosure, and a mainframe module enclosed in the enclosure. The mainframe module includes a base board defining a motherboard, a plurality of drive devices, a heat sink device and a fan thereon. The heat sink device includes a heat sink having a plurality of fins and a heat pipe. The base board is divided into a first part and a second part. The motherboard is located in the first part, and the drive devices are located in the second part. The fan is located between the first and second parts. The heat pipe transmits heat from a heat source on the motherboard to the plurality of fins. The fan blows air to the plurality of fins to cool the heat source on the motherboard.
US08395889B2
According to one embodiment, a cooling unit includes a heat dissipating mechanism, a fan, and a movable cover. The heat dissipating mechanism is housed in a housing of an electronic device. The fan is housed in the housing, and generates an air flow that collides against the heat dissipating mechanism. The movable cover includes a sheet and a knob. The sheet serves as an openable and closable cover to cover an opening on a chamber formed between the fan and the heat dissipating mechanism from the outside. The knob is located on the sheet and protrudes outward.
US08395878B2
Disclosed herein are methods for communicating wireless signals between components of a blasting apparatus, with the intention of conducting a blasting event. In preferred embodiments, the methods are particularly suited to through -rock transmission of wireless command signals, and optionally wireless calibration or synchronization signals, thereby to achieve timed actuation of explosive charges positioned below ground under the control of one or more blasting machines located at or above a surface of the ground, with a high degree of accuracy. Further disclosed are blasting apparatuses and components thereof suitable for use, for example, in conducting the methods of the invention.
US08395877B2
A micro-electro mechanical device includes a first structure, a second structure offset from the first structure by a gap. The first structure is configured to be electrostatically actuated to deflect relative to second structure. A pulse generator is configured to combine at least two different pulses to electrostatically drive at least one of the first structure and the second structure between an initial position and a final position.
US08395870B2
An output transistor bias generation circuit which applies a bias voltage to one of two NMOS transistors constituting an output circuit having a stack structure, includes diode-connected NMOS transistors provided between an external connection pad connected to an external signal line having a voltage higher than a power supply voltage of an LSI circuit, and the gate of an NMOS transistor, diode-connected NMOS transistors provided between the gate of the NMOS transistor and a ground line, a diode-connected NMOS transistor provided between the power supply line and the gate of the NMOS transistor, and a capacitor-connected NMOS transistor provided between the gate of the NMOS transistor and the ground line.
US08395858B1
Methods and apparatus are provided for performing interpolated timing recovery using a frequency and phase estimate. An analog signal representing a sector is asynchronously sampled and stored in a storage device. A retiming circuit reads the stored samples and, based on first portions of first and second timing portions of the sector, determines phase adjustments. The retiming circuit generates a signal representing the samples at the adjusted phase and determines sample shift adjustments based on the generated signal and second portions of the first and second timing portions. The retiming circuit computes start and end indices of the sector in the buffer based on the sample shift adjustment and phase adjustment. The start and end indices may be used to compute a frequency estimate. The frequency estimate and a phase adjustment is used to interpolate the asynchronous samples at the appropriate frequency and phase.
US08395857B2
Approaches for a testing device for selecting a discrete track media (DTM) format for use with a particular head of a hard-disk drive (HDD). The testing device comprises a continuous magnetic-recording disk, rotatably mounted on a spindle, which stores data using a continuous media format. The testing device also comprises a testing module configured to simulate reading data, stored using a discrete track media (DTM) format, from the continuous magnetic-recording medium. Advantageously, testing time and cost is reduced as both discrete track media (DTM) disks and expensive discrete track media (DTM) recording testing hardware are not required to select the optimal a discrete track media (DTM) format for use with a particular head of a hard-disk drive (HDD). In addition, embodiments may be used to optimize features of the tracks of the DTM disk, such as the land to groove ratio.
US08395853B2
An image pick-up optical system, in order from an object side to an image side, along an optical axis comprising: the first lens element with negative refractive power having a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface, the second lens element with positive refractive power, a bi-convex third lens element with positive refractive power, the fourth lens element with negative refractive power having a concave object-side surface, a plastic fifth lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface and at least one aspherical optical surface. Additionally, the image pick-up optical system satisfies conditions related to shorten the total length and to enhance the ability of wider field of view for use in compact cameras and mobile phones.
US08395848B2
A zoom lens system of the present invention has a plurality of lens units each composed of at least one lens element and, in order from the object side to the image side, comprises: a first lens unit having negative optical power and composed of two lens elements; a second lens unit having positive optical power; and a third lens unit having positive optical power, wherein in zooming, at least the first lens unit and the second lens unit move along an optical axis, on the image side relative to the second lens unit, an aperture diaphragm is arranged that moves along the optical axis integrally with the second lens unit during zooming, the second lens unit is, in order from the object side to the image side, composed of a first cemented lens element by cementing two lens elements and a second cemented lens element by cementing two lens elements, and the condition is satisfied: 2.00
US08395846B2
There is provided a lens system (10) that projects projected light onto a screen (6) and includes, in order from the screen (6) side thereof, a first lens (L11) that is a meniscus-type lens with negative refractive power and is convex on the screen (6) side; a second lens (L12), a third lens (L13) and a fourth lens (L14) that are meniscus-type lenses with positive refractive power and are concave on the screen (6) side. In addition, the effective diameter of a concave surface (S6) of the third lens (L13) is larger than the effective diameter of the concave surface (S3) of the second lens (L12), the effective diameter of the concave surface (S8) of the fourth lens (L14) is larger than the effective diameter of the concave surface (S6) of the third lens (L13), and part of the convex surface (S7) of the third lens (L13) and part of the concave surface (S8) of the fourth lens (L14) are located in a shared space along the optical axis.
US08395818B2
Image forming apparatus analyzing color chrominance data to determine type of document to be printed
An image forming apparatus and a method of controlling the same in which input image data is divided into blocks and color chrominance data of each block is analyzed thereby perform a print job by automatically detecting whether an image should be print in color or pure black.
US08395811B2
There are provided a get unit that gets a document name of print data; a first determination unit that determines whether or not the obtained document name includes a predefined character string; a first deletion unit that deletes the character string from the document name to create a new document name when it is determined that the document name includes the predefined character string; a second determination unit that determines whether or not the number of characters in the document name exceeds a predefined maximum number of displayable characters; and a second deletion unit that deletes the number of exceeding characters from a head of the document name to create a new document name when it is determined that the number of characters in the document name exceeds the predefined maximum number of displayable characters.
US08395803B2
A contents providing system includes a communication unit, a print control unit, an expendable amount deriving unit and an expendable amount storing control unit. The communication unit communicates with a contents server having contents data. The print control unit controls a printer to print the contents data and output a printed material imaging the contents data if the communication unit receives the contents data from the contents server. The expendable amount deriving unit derives an amount of an expendable item required for imaging the contents data in the printer. The expendable amount deriving unit derives the amount of the expendable item in accordance with a size of an image printed by the printer. The expendable amount storing control unit stores information representing the amount of the expendable item derived by the expendable amount deriving unit in a memory unit.
US08395798B2
An electronic architecture for an imaging data path allows for printing on objects that are unevenly spaced. The architecture uses a rolling image buffer into which images are copied. A hardware trigger can optionally be used in conjunction with the rolling image buffer to prevent any printing mismatches that could otherwise be caused by a software delay. The trigger relates the physical location of the object to a virtual location in the image buffer.
US08395791B2
The image forming device capable of executing an authentication print printing includes: a communication interface for receiving job data; a job data property deriving unit for deriving a property of the job by referencing data contained in the job data other than data explicitly indicating to execute/not to execute the authentication print printing and outputting the property as job property data; an authentication print setting deciding unit for deciding whether or not to execute the job as the authentication print printing; an authentication unit; a user authentication unit for outputting the result of the user authentication; and a job executing unit for executing the job related to the job data.
US08395780B2
An optical assembly for use in coherent two- or more-dimensional optical spectroscopy includes a beam splitter that splits a base light pulse into first, second, third and fourth light pulse and a delay element that varies the arrival times of the first to fourth light pulses at a sample location with respect to each other. The beam splitter includes a cross-grating a first reflector arranged to receive the first to fourth light pulses emerging from the cross-grating and to reflect the same in parallel to each other, a second reflector arranged to receive the first to fourth light pulses from the delay element and to focus the same at the sample location, wherein the delay element is arranged between first and second reflectors. Also shown is an apparatus including such optical assembly and a method for carrying out two- or more-dimensional optical spectroscopy using the assembly.
US08395766B2
Selection with alignment marks of an optimal template, its identification and similarity judgment are conducted by a calculation function of a correlation value provided to a foreign matter inspection apparatus. In other words, the foreign matter inspection apparatus includes unit for registering feature points of alignment marks formed on a surface of an inspected object, unit for collecting image data of the alignment marks formed on the surface of the inspected object and a data processor for extracting a feature point from the image data and calculating a correlation value of both feature points, and registers the image data of the alignment mark on the basis of a threshold value of the correlation value.
US08395756B2
Illumination systems for microlithographic projection exposure apparatus, as well as related systems, components and methods are disclosed. In some embodiments, an illumination system includes one or more scattering structures and an optical integrator that produces a plurality of secondary light sources.
US08395744B2
In an active matrix type display device having a drive circuit at one side of an active matrix substrate and feeding a common voltage Vcom to a counter substrate side via a common transfer, the area of a frame region is reduced without degrading the yield. A pixel region of the active matrix substrate includes an actual pixel region containing an effective pixel for performing a display in accordance with a data signal supplied by signal lines, and a dummy pixel region positioned at the panel end side as compared to the actual pixel region. At least a portion of a common wiring is arranged in the dummy pixel region of the pixel region to supply a common signal to common transfers arranged on a side facing the side of the active matrix substrate where a bus line drive circuit is arranged.
US08395741B2
The disclosed subject matter can include an LCD apparatus having a high visual quality. The LCD apparatus can include a first substrate including a plurality of first electrodes connecting to first wiring lines that are located on a first surface thereof, and a second substrate including a plurality of second electrodes connecting to second wiring lines that are located on a second surface thereof. A liquid crystal layer can be disposed between the first and second surfaces, wherein at least one of the first wiring lines partially intersects with at least one of the second wiring lines. Impedance variations among the first and second electrodes can be reduced by adjusting the area of an intersecting region of the wiring lines, and thereby display variations among display patterns between the first and second electrodes can be reduced. Thus, the disclosed subject matter can provide an LCD apparatus having a high visual quality.
US08395739B2
An in-plane-switching mode liquid crystal display device is disclosed. The LCD device includes: first and second substrates opposite to each other; a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and second substrates; a passivation film formed on the first substrate in which a thin film transistor is disposed; pixel and common electrodes arranged alternately with each other; and a first alignment film formed on the pixel and common electrodes. The liquid crystal layer and the passivation film are formed to have lower non-resistances than that of the first alignment film.
US08395734B2
An LCD device includes first and second substrates, an alignment layer formed over at least one of the substrates, and a liquid crystal layer formed between the substrates. The alignment layer is formed of a mixture of rubbing alignment and UV alignment materials. A method of fabricating the LCD device includes preparing first and second substrates; coating an alignment layer over at least one of the substrates; performing a rubbing process on the substrate coated with the alignment layer; and irradiating polarized UV rays onto the substrate coated with the alignment layer, wherein the alignment layer is formed of a mixture of rubbing alignment a UV alignment materials. The rubbing process obtains high anchoring energy is obtained, thereby preventing afterimages. Also, the process of irradiating the polarized UV rays eliminates the problem of light leakage.
US08395731B2
To provide a liquid crystal panel capable of realizing excellent display performance using a circular polarizing plate therein, and a liquid crystal display device and a terminal device using the same, with respect to a semi-transmission type liquid crystal display device in a horizontal electric field mode (In-Plane Switching: IPS).A viewer-side circular polarizing plate and a backside circular polarizing plate are disposed outside of a viewer-side substrate and a backside substrate respectively, and a viewer-side compensation plate and a backside compensation plate are disposed between the respective polarizing plates and substrates to reduce a refractive index anisotropy of a liquid crystal layer.
US08395728B2
In a liquid crystal display apparatus in which a liquid crystal layer is twist-aligned when no electric field is applied, Δnd value of a liquid crystal layer in a wavelength of 550 nm is 300 to 400 nm, each of directions of polarizing axes of pair of linear polarizers is substantially parallel or vertical to the alignment direction of liquid crystal molecules in each end face of the liquid crystal layer that is closer to each of linear polarizers, and the angle between polarizing axes of the pair of linear polarizers is 85° or larger and smaller than 90°. In a liquid crystal display apparatus in which a liquid crystal layer is aligned to be substantially vertical when no electric field is applied, the angle between polarizing axes of the pair of linear polarizers is 85° or larger and smaller than 90°. In a liquid crystal display apparatus of a lateral electric field drive system, a uniaxial alignment angle of a liquid crystal layer when no electric field is applied is larger than −45° and −40° or smaller, or +40° or larger and smaller than +45°.
US08395726B2
Provided is an optical element manufacturing method that is capable of forming various kinds of shapes and capable of achieving sophisticated functions, improved yields, and cost reductions. The method includes: a step that applies a transparent photosensitive resin on a transparent substrate with light-shielding patterns provided thereon; a step that forms transparent layers by performing patterning through irradiating exposure light of an arbitrary amount on the transparent photosensitive resin via the transparent substrate with the light-shielding patterns provided thereon; a step that forms light absorption layers by filling a black curable resin between the transparent layers; and an irradiation step that irradiates the exposure light in an oblique direction to the surface of the transparent substrate where the light-shielding patterns are formed in a state where the transparent substrate is being bent.
US08395722B2
An electronic device housing may have upper and lower portions that are attached with a hinge. At least one portion of the housing may have a rear planar surface and peripheral sidewalls having edges. A display module may be mounted in the housing. The display module may have glass layers such as a color filter glass layer and a thin-film transistor substrate. The color filter glass layer may serve as the outermost glass layer in the display module. The edges of the display module may be aligned with the edges of the peripheral housing sidewalls to create the appearance of a borderless display for the electronic device. The display module may be provided with an opening that allows a camera or other electronic components to receive light. Traces may be provided on the underside of the thin-film transistor substrate to serve as signal paths for the electrical components.
US08395720B2
A Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) module for a portable terminal having a display unit is provided. The LCD module includes a reinforcement plate having a bottom surface and a side surface bent to extend from the bottom surface, a backlight unit coupled to an upper part of the reinforcement plate, a frame insert molded to the reinforcement plate and coupled to an edge of the backlight unit, and an LCD panel coupled to an upper part of the backlight unit, wherein the side surface of the reinforcement plate extends from the bottom surface to have a height greater than the combined height of the coupled LCD panel and the backlight unit, and further wherein the frame is formed to have a height not extending up to the LCD panel.
US08395718B2
It is an object to provide a liquid crystal display device which has excellent viewing angle characteristics and higher quality. The present invention has a pixel including a first switch, a second switch, a third switch, a first resistor, a second resistor, a first liquid crystal element, and a second liquid crystal element. A pixel electrode of the first liquid crystal element is electrically connected to a signal line through the first switch. The pixel electrode of the first liquid crystal element is electrically connected to a pixel electrode of the second liquid crystal element through the second switch and the first resistor. The pixel electrode of the second liquid crystal element is electrically connected to a Cs line through the third switch and the second resistor. A common electrode of the first liquid crystal element is electrically connected to a common electrode of the second liquid crystal element.
US08395717B2
A liquid crystal display element includes a thin-film transistor in which one of source and drain electrodes is connected to a pixel electrode, and an auxiliary capacitance electrode that forms an auxiliary capacitance together with the pixel electrode and at least partially overlaps with the thin-film transistor. The thin-film transistor includes a semiconductor layer, an anti-etching layer that is arranged in contact with the semiconductor layer and made of an insulative material, and a gate electrode that is arranged to interpose the semiconductor layer between the gate electrode itself and the anti-etching layer. A region in the auxiliary capacitance electrode that overlaps with the gate electrode has a length in a direction parallel to a channel length direction of the thin-film transistor that is shorter than a length of the gate electrode in this direction and longer than a length of the anti-etching layer in this direction.
US08395716B2
A liquid crystal display device is provided, which includes a thin film transistor including an oxide semiconductor layer, a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer having an opening, a light-transmitting chromatic-color resin layer between the thin film transistor and the second electrode layer, and a liquid crystal layer. One of the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer is a pixel electrode layer which is electrically connected to the thin film transistor, and the other of the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer is a common electrode layer. The light-transmitting chromatic-color resin layer is overlapped with the pixel electrode layer and the oxide semiconductor layer of the thin film transistor.
US08395712B2
A television (10) includes: a WiHD-RX (11) which receives signals transmitted from a camcorder (20) and a BD system (30); an orientation detection unit (102) which detects information indicating a relative position between a WiHD-TX (21) and a WiHD-RXTX (31); a communication status obtainment unit (104a) which obtains communication status information indicating whether or not it is possible to transmit a video signal or an audio signal from one of the camcorder (20) and the BD system (30) to the other; and a change information generation unit (104b) which generates, based on a detection result of by the orientation detection unit (102), and outputs change information when the communication status information indicates that the transmission is not possible. The change information indicates a direction for moving a communication range of the video signal or the audio signal from the WiHD-TX (21) closer to the WiHD-RXTX (31).
US08395708B2
A method and a system for adaptive image enhancement are provided for measuring the image quality of a pixel region in a frame, performing an image classification based on the image quality measurement, and enhancing image quality by applying operations according to image classification of the region. Also provided is a method as above including the steps of dividing a frame into P pixel regions; and for each one of the pixel regions measuring the image quality; assigning an image quality class; and enhancing the image. Also provided is a system for adaptive image enhancement including a circuit to measure the image quality of a pixel region in a frame in a source video image; a circuit to perform an image classification of the region based on the image quality measurement; and a circuit to enhance the image quality of the region in the source video image a by applying operations based on the image classification of the frame.
US08395704B2
A visual display panel (1) comprising: a front face (3); an array of optical display elements, a plurality of fluid flow conduits, each conduit extending through the panel from an aperture on the front face; and a manifold (32) in fluid communication with one or more of the plurality of fluid flow conduits, the manifold having one or more manifold inlets (38) fluidly coupled to a fluid pump (33) for displacing fluid through the conduits.
US08395703B2
A display controller 102 sequentially outputs at least two image signals, thereby allowing an image to be displayed on a liquid crystal display section 105 in accordance with the image signals, wherein among the image signals to be outputted, an image signal of a first output image and an image signal of a second output image have a relationship that provides an image having no correlation to the first output image when image brightness values of the respective signals are added for each pixel, and wherein a frame frequency when the image signal is outputted is an integral multiple of a frame frequency for an image signal of an input image, the integral multiple being two or more.
US08395699B2
A method for manufacturing a solid-state imaging device, in which a photoelectric conversion portion to receive light with a light-receiving surface and generate a signal charge is disposed in a substrate, includes the steps of forming a metal light-shield layer above the substrate and in a region other than a region corresponding to the light-receiving surface, forming a light-reflection layer above the metal light-shield layer, and forming a photoresist pattern layer from a negative type photoresist film formed above the light-reflection layer, by conducting an exposing treatment and a developing treatment, wherein in the forming of the light-reflection layer, the light-reflection layer includes a shape corresponding to a pattern shape of the photoresist pattern layer, and the light-reflection layer is formed in such a way as to reflect exposure light to the photoresist film in conduction of the exposing treatment in the forming of the photoresist pattern layer.
US08395697B2
An imaging apparatus includes a control unit configured to control a focus position of a lens by causing a communication unit to acquire a plurality of lens position information stored in a first storage unit without any synchronization with acquisition of an evaluation value by a contrast detection unit and associating the acquired plurality of lens position information with evaluation values stored in a second storage unit.
US08395695B2
The invention includes steps of setting a main area set within the frame of a photographed image signal, and a plurality of auxiliary areas each of which is smaller than the main area, selecting one or a plurality of focus detection areas from the main area and the auxiliary areas in accordance with the in-focus position of a focus lens based on the focus signals of the main area and the auxiliary areas, and controlling the focus lens to move to the in-focus position of the focus lens in the focus detection area selected in the selecting step.
US08395691B2
This invention provides an optical image-capturing lens assembly comprising, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element with positive refractive power; a second lens element with negative refractive power; a third lens element, the object-side and image-side surfaces thereof being aspheric; and a fourth lens element having a concave image-side surface, the object-side and image-side surfaces thereof being aspheric and at least one inflection point being formed on at least one of the object-side and image-side surfaces thereof. The present lens assembly is further provided with a stop and an electronic sensor for image formation of an object. The stop is disposed between the object and the second lens element, and the electronic sensor is disposed at an image plane.
US08395689B2
An image sensor includes a horizontal shift register electrically connected to a pixel array for receiving charge packets from the pixel array. A non-destructive sense node is connected to an output of the horizontal shift register. A charge directing switch is electrically connected to the non-destructive sense node. The charge directing switch includes two outputs. A charge multiplying horizontal shift register is electrically connected to one output of the charge directing switch. A discharging element is connected to the other output of the charge directing switch.
US08395686B2
A solid-state imaging device is provided. The solid-state imaging device includes a plurality of arrayed pixels, an optical inner filter layer, and an inner-layer lens. Each of the plurality of arrayed pixels includes a photoelectric conversion portion and a pixel transistor. The optical inner filter layer is configured to block infrared light and faces a light-receiving surface of the photoelectric conversion portion of a desired pixel among the arrayed pixels. The inner-layer lens is formed below the optical inner filter layer.
US08395685B2
A system and method for sensing an optical input having a wide dynamic range includes providing a semiconductor material extending along a reference axis away from an optical input surface and having more than one substantially planar photodetecting regions disposed therein at different respective depths. The substantially planar photodetecting regions are configured to be overlapping and at least partially transverse to the reference axis, such that more than one of the regions absorb the optical input received through the optical input surface. Each of the photodetecting regions has an associated responsivity representative of the absorption of the incident optical signal. Preferably, the responsivity of each of the photodetecting regions is different for each of the photodetecting regions. A wide dynamic range sensor signal is produced by combining electrical output signals obtained from each of the more than one photodetecting regions.
US08395681B2
A recording apparatus including a mounting portion configured to allow a rewritable recording medium and an unrewritable recording medium to be mounted thereon includes a determination unit configured to determine a file name with a number for recording a file on a recording medium mounted on the mounting portion, and a recording control unit configured to record, on the recording medium mounted on the mounting portion, the file using the file name determined by the determination unit, wherein the determination unit changes a file name determination method when the recording medium mounted on the mounting portion is replaced such that the rewritable recording medium and the unrewritable recording medium are replaced with each other.
US08395673B2
An image shot by a shooting unit is stored in a shot image storing unit. An expected shooting state storing unit stores expected shooting state information which represents an expected shooting state of an object to be shot. A guide direction determining unit references the image stored in the shot image storing unit and the expected shooting state information, and determines in which direction the object to be shot, which is shot by the shooting unit, is to be guided. A guide direction instruction outputting unit notifies a user of a result of the determination made by the guide direction determining unit.
US08395672B2
An imaging device capable of detecting and correcting, with high accuracy, the motion (image rotation) in the rolling direction of the image caused by the camera shake during imaging without being influenced by the individual variation, temperature characteristic, and variation with time of the sensor. To correct the motion (image rotation) in the rolling direction of the image caused by the camera shake during imaging, the result of detection of the angle of inclination of the device by an angle sensor (8a) is corrected with the result of detection of the angle of inclination of the image on the basis of the feature of the captured image by an image inclination detecting section (7), and the imaging device (3) is rotated around the optical axis or an axis parallel to the optical axis according to the corrected angle of inclination of the device.
US08395671B2
A wearable camera that is an imaging device includes a sensing unit that senses motion of a camera, and a prediction unit that calculates a pixel shift distance (d) between frames based on the results of the sensing. The prediction unit obtains a position (p1′) by moving a feature point (p1) extracted from the previous frame image by the pixel shift distance (d), and the setting unit sets a window (w4) having a position (p1′) as the center in the current frame image (Ft+1). A search unit searches the window (w4) and detects a feature point (q1) corresponding to the feature point (p1).
US08395669B2
In a case where a display screen of a transmission originator, including image data such as photographs, is displayed remotely on a device of a transmission destination, compressed image data of the image portion such as photographs on the display screen which is stored in a storage unit of the transmission originator is transmitted to the transmission destination device so that the image of the photograph portion can be displayed remotely on the screen of the transmission destination device with high image quality.
US08395668B2
A multi-functional digital imaging system is described that disaggregates camera functions into network computing interactions with at least one image capture device. The camera captures the image and sends the image file to at least one external computer for filtration and modification of the image file.
US08395667B2
A method and device for monitoring video signal transmission includes a signal encoding and transmitting module and the signal receiving module. The signal encoding and transmitting module receives a composite video signal from a video signal source to cut off a horizontal video data series following a predetermined horizontal synchronization signal following a predetermined vertical synchronization signal and add an identification code. The signal receiving module receives the composite video signal carrying the identification code and compares the identification code to transmit the composite video signal out when the identification code is correct.
US08395664B2
Systems and methods having a 3D model of a space provides a 3D context for the inputs from the ICDs; inputs from the ICDs, including direct cross-communication information, location, settings, environment conditions, and inputs (video, audio, temperature, other sensors), being visually represented on a GUI independently and in the 3D context for simultaneous display of all the info, and analytics based on the info, including activity density within the 3D context based on the inputs, for surveillance and analysis of target environment(s).
US08395654B2
An apparatus in one example, the apparatus comprising a server configured to host a videoconference call comprising a plurality of voice and video streams, the server being communicatively associable with a plurality of clients in the videoconference call. The server being configured to determine a computing capacity of each of the plurality of clients and to hand over hosting the videoconference call to a selected one of the plurality of clients based on a computing capacity, wherein hosting the videoconference call comprises mixing the plurality of the voice and video streams into a consolidated stream, where the consolidated stream is communicated to all of the clients other than the selected client.
US08395647B2
A printer is disclosed including a print frame, a print head fixed relative to the print frame, a platen drive gear rotatably mounted to the print frame, and a platen assembly pivotally mounted to the print frame. The platen assembly includes a platen rotatably driven by a platen gear that is coaxial with the platen. The platen gear meshes with the platen drive gear. The platen assembly is pivotable about an axis offset from, but parallel to, an axis of rotation of the platen drive gear.
US08395645B2
Crosstalk between adjacent discharge cells is reduced for a stable sustain discharge. A plasma display panel has scan electrodes and sustain electrodes arranged so that the positions of the corresponding scan electrode and sustain electrode are alternately interchanged in each display electrode pair, and image signal processing circuit converts an image signal into image data indicating light emission and no light emission in each discharge cell in each subfield. The image signal processing circuit generates the image data so that a combination of image data is avoided. One of two adjacent discharge cells having side-by-side scan electrodes is lit and the other of the discharge cells is unlit in one subfield of a plurality of subfields forming one field, and the one of the discharge cells is unlit and the other of the discharge cells is lit in a subfield after the one subfield in the same field.
US08395641B1
Disclosed herein are methods and systems for injecting an existing graphic element into a target application. A sizing configuration of an existing graphic element displayed in a target application may be intercepted from a target application. A sizing configuration of the graphic elements which are to be injected may then be determined. Using the sizing configuration of the graphic elements to be injected and the intercepted sizing configuration of the existing graphic elements displayed in the target application, a resultant sizing configuration may be determined so that both the displayed existing graphic elements and the graphic elements to be injected may be displayed in the target application. The graphic elements which are to be injected may then be injected into the application so that both the graphic elements to be injected and the existing graphic elements are displayed in the target application.
US08395638B2
One embodiment of a method for calibrating a test color measurement device in conjunction with an emissive display includes measuring initial spectral sensitivities of at least four channels of the test color measurement device, linearly regressing the spectral sensitivities to a least-square best fit to CIE color matching functions, measuring CIE tristimulus values of test colors on the display using a reference color measurement device, measuring the CIE tristimulus values on the display using the test color measurement device, transforming the CIE tristimulus values measured by the test color measurement device to CIE tristimulus values that would have been measured by the reference color measurement device, using a nonlinear function with variable fitting coefficients, and storing initial fitting coefficient values that provide a least-square best fit of the CIE tristimulus values measured by the test color measurement device and the CIE tristimulus values measured by the reference color measurement device.
US08395637B2
An image display device includes: a storing section configured to store associating information that associates information indicating one or more providing sources of image data with each of one or more display areas set within a display screen; an obtaining section configured to obtain image data from a providing source corresponding to each of one or more display areas on the basis of the associating information stored in the storing section; a forming section configured to form display image data of a display image to be displayed on the display screen on the basis of the image data being obtained by said obtaining section for each of one or more display areas; and a display processing section configured to display the display image corresponding to the display image data formed by the forming section on the display screen.
US08395624B2
Approaches for generating a digital image that facilitates data analysis. An application may arrange values of one or more data sets into a table based on a selected set of columns. The application may apply one or more formulas to each cell to generate a second table that has a single value in each cell. The application maps, for each cell of the second table, the value stored therein to an attribute (such as a color). The application may generate a digital image by determining a color for each pixel of the digital image based on how the cells are mapped to colors. The digital image enables data analysis, such as the identification of trends, patterns, and/or anomalies, on any number of data sets in an expeditious and intuitive manner. The digital image may be dynamically updated to reflect further analysis or incremental updates to the data sets.
US08395622B2
Techniques for enumerating at least one maximal clique are provided. The techniques include obtaining data, wherein the data comprises a graph, obtaining a user-specified minimum size restriction on at least one maximal clique of interest, filtering the data using the user-specified minimum size restriction to reduce graph size, and enumerating at least one maximal clique from the graph provided that at least one maximal clique exists above the user-specified minimum size restriction.
US08395619B1
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a method for pre-computing Z-values using an IGPU and, subsequently, conveying these Z-values to a DGPU. The graphics driver partitions the display into rectangular M-by-N tiles of pixels. For each tile, the graphics driver generates a quad geometry that encompasses the corresponding pixels. For each image frame, the graphics driver configures the IGPU to generate and down-sample a Z-buffer, creating a coarse Z-texture that contains a Z-value for each tile. The graphics driver transfers the coarse Z-texture to the system memory and configures the DGPU to apply the coarse Z-texture to the quad geometries, thereby generating a coarse Z-buffer in which the M-by-N pixels included in each tile are assigned the Z-value for the particular tile. Among other things, this technique enables the IGPU to pre-compute Z-values for the DGPU without straining the system memory bandwidth or defeating the Z-buffer compression techniques used by the DGPU.
US08395614B2
Systems, methods and apparatus for generating an asset for a simulated environment using digital image capture are disclosed. An outline of an object in a digital image is automatically traced to generate data representing a two-dimensional polygon that encompasses the object. The outline is traced without relying on further input from a user once the digital image of the object has been captured. A portion of the digital image bounded by the two-dimensional polygon is separated from a remaining portion of the digital image. The portion of the image bounded by the two-dimensional polygon is associated with an asset in the simulated environment.
US08395605B2
A circuit that supports multiple monitors, docking functions, and protected content via one cable. The circuit includes a receiver that receives multiple video streams, each including respective video data, a mux/demux, coupled to the receiver, that determines which video stream to display on a monitor, a low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS) converter, coupled to the mux/demux, that generates an LVDS signal based on the video data of the determined video stream, an LVDS serializer/deserializer, coupled to the LVDS converter, that generates a signal based on the LVDS signal and sends the signal to a display panel of the monitor for display, a transmitter coupled to the mux/demux, and a transmit physical interface (TPI) coupled to the transmitter. The mux/demux sends at least a remainder of the video streams to the transmitter, which sends them to the TPI, which transmits them as output, useable as input to further instances of the circuit.
US08395595B2
A display device with a touch sensor according to the present invention includes an active matrix substrate and a transparent counter electrode. On a first surface of the active matrix substrate, multiple pixel electrodes are arranged in matrix. The transparent counter electrode is opposed to the first surface of the active matrix substrate. The display device further includes a first circuit, a second circuit and a switching circuit. The first circuit supplies a voltage or a current to the transparent counter electrode for display purposes. The second circuit detects currents flowing from a number of points on the transparent counter electrode. And the switching circuit selectively connects electrically one of the first and second circuits to the transparent counter electrode.
US08395589B2
A method and apparatus to determine during a power-up of an electronic system whether a conductive object is present at a sensing device at the power-up.
US08395582B2
When a gravity center position enters a right input area, a motion of a character in a virtual game space pushing down the right pedal of a bicycle is started, and the bicycle is accelerated. Further, a reference position is moved so as to gradually approach the gravity center position, and the boundary between a non-input area and a left input area is also moved so as to gradually approach the gravity center position in conjunction with the reference position. When the gravity center position enters the left input area, a motion of the character in the virtual game space pushing down the left pedal of the bicycle is started, and the bicycle is accelerated. Further, the reference position is moved so as to gradually approach the gravity center position, and the boundary between the non-input area and the right input area is also moved so as to gradually approach the gravity center position in conjunction with the reference position.
US08395579B2
A display device includes a light source and a light source driver configured to drive the light source. In at least one embodiment, the light source driver is configured to drive the light source with brightness control. It is capable of generating pulse width modulation signals using different dimming. A dimming frequency is selected from the different dimming frequencies according to an installation mode of the display device.
US08395578B2
A backlight unit shortens the necessary time from the time immediately after the turn on to the time the emitted light is converged to a predetermined chromaticity while the quality of time-varying images is improved. Under the control of the backlight controller section, the Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs), which are assigned to the respective light-emitting regions of the light-emitting surface, are driven to emit lights sequentially in the predetermined scanning light-emitting periods for the scan type lighting and the additional light-emitting periods in a single frame, responsive to the write scanning of an image signal to the LCD panel. The additional light-emitting periods are outside a corresponding one of the scanning light-emitting periods. In each additional light-emitting period, the LEDs emit light in synchronization with the supply of the optical leakage preventing signal (e.g., the black inserting signal) to the LCD panel.
US08395574B2
A liquid crystal display device includes first and second substrates, a liquid crystal layer disposed therebetween, first and second gate lines on the first substrate, first, second and third data lines crossing the first and second gate lines to define first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth pixel regions, a first pixel electrode and a first common electrode in each of the first, second and third pixel regions, the first pixel electrode connected to a thin film transistor and the first common electrode spaced apart from the first pixel electrode, a second pixel electrode in each of the fourth, fifth and sixth pixel regions, the second pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor and having a plate shape, a color filter layer including a red color filter corresponding to each of the first and fourth pixel regions, a green color filter corresponding to each of the second and fifth pixel regions, a blue color filter corresponding to each of the third and sixth pixel regions, a second common electrode on the color filter layer in each of the fourth, fifth and sixth pixel regions.
US08395573B2
This present invention provides a liquid crystal display (LCD) device in which the sub-pixel is provided with three different voltage levels, so that image quality is improved without the configuration of additional gate lines. The present invention overcomes the reduction of aperture ratio in conventional LCD devices due to the configuration of additional gate lines. By the present invention, the white washout problem relating to the off-axis viewing angle can be overcome while the aperture ratio is not reduced.
US08395572B2
An electronic display device includes a display unit that displays images and a barrier unit between the display unit and a user, and provides images to the user as two-dimensional images or stereoscopic images. The barrier unit includes first electrodes on a first surface, the first electrodes being spaced apart from each other, second electrodes on the first surface, at a first gap from the first electrodes and between the first electrodes, auxiliary electrodes on a second surface, corresponding to the first gap, the auxiliary electrodes configured to be driven in synchronization with any one of the two-dimensional images and the stereoscopic images, a common electrode on a third surface, and a liquid crystal layer between the common electrode and first, second, and auxiliary electrode. A barrier driver controls the barrier unit in accordance with whether two-dimensional images or stereoscopic images are to be displayed.
US08395566B2
A method of driving an electro-optic display includes the following steps. First, a first frame is displayed on pixels at a first time. Next, data of a second frame predetermined to be displayed on the pixels at a second time later than the first time is determined. Next, an eliminating frame showing a first extreme gray level or a second extreme gray level is displayed on the pixels at a third time. Afterwards, a medium frame is displayed on the pixels at a fourth time later than the third time. The third and fourth times are between the first and second times. The gray level shown by each pixel at the fourth time is close to the gray level predetermined to be shown by the same pixel at the second time. Thereafter, the second frame is displayed on the pixels at the second time.
US08395562B2
An antenna module for a portable electronic device includes a loop portion, a dipole portion, a feeding end portion and a grounding end portion. The dipole portion is positioned in the loop portion and connected to the loop portion. The feeding end portion and the grounding end portion are connected to the loop portion.
US08395561B2
The present invention relates to a dual polarization broadband antenna having a single pattern, which is provide with a radiation device having a square structure, in which a plurality of folded dipole elements are formed in a single continuously-connected pattern, and a feeding portion for feeding signals to the plurality of folded dipole elements is formed on the radiation device. Accordingly, the plurality of folded dipole elements formed on the radiation device are connected in a single square and rectangular pattern, so that the structure thereof is simplified, with the result that the cost can be reduced. Furthermore, the feeding portion, that dually feeds signals, and the plurality of folded dipole elements, connected in a single pattern, are coupled, so that the dual polarization characteristic can be easily acquired. Furthermore, currents input to the feeding points of the feeding portion are induced only to the folded dipole elements without having to flow into other feeding points, so that excellent isolation can be achieved.
US08395558B2
Millimeter-wave reflector antenna system and methods for communicating using millimeter-wave signals
Embodiments of millimeter-wave chip-array reflector antenna system are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In some embodiments, the millimeter-wave chip-array reflector antenna system includes a millimeter-wave reflector to shape and reflect an incident antenna beam and a chip-array antenna comprising an array of antenna elements to direct the incident antenna beam at the surface of the reflector to provide a reflected antenna beam.
US08395548B2
A mobile apparatus is provided. The mobile apparatus comprises a transceiver and a processor. The transceiver receives a nearby signal from a nearby mobile apparatus, wherein the nearby signal carries a nearby positioning information. The processor electrically connected to the transceiver estimates a nearby received signal strength of the nearby signal according to the nearby signal, and generates a host positioning information according to the nearby received signal strength and the nearby positioning information.
US08395543B2
A method and apparatus for mitigating multipath effects in a satellite signal receiver is described. In one example, measured pseudoranges are obtained from the satellite signal receiver to a plurality of satellites. For each measured pseudorange: an expected pseudorange is derived from a sequential estimation filter in the satellite signal receiver. The measured pseudorange and the expected pseudorange are differenced to compute a pseudorange residual. The measured pseudorange is applied to the sequential estimation filter only if the pseudorange residual is within a window.
US08395542B2
Control systems and methods that provide a high degree of vertical measurement accuracy for a body in motion are disclosed. The systems employ an inertial sensor system for vertical measurement and a Global Navigation Satellite System that includes multipath reduction or attenuation to provide corrected vertical information for a moving body to the inertial sensor system. The combination of these systems enables the maintenance of an accurate vertical position for said body.
US08395525B2
An embodiment of the present invention improves the efficiency of radio frequency identification (RFID) systems and helps to extend the effective read range for certain configurations of closely spaced RFID tags. Specifically, an embodiment helps to minimize energy losses that result when there is excess energy from the excitation source. This excess energy has the potential to damage the circuitry in RFID tags. A shunt regulator is often used to protect the RFID circuitry by clamping the voltage, but has the undesirable effect of converting this excess excitation energy into heat. Various embodiments are directed toward using only as much of the excitation energy as necessary to power the RFID circuitry. These embodiments include circuitry for a constant current power supply that can be implemented either with discrete components or built into a new ASIC design; a network that minimizes the amount of energy that is converted to heat by the shunt regulator built into many RFID circuits; and/or a sleep mode for reducing the energy consumed by an RFID tag after it has been read. An embodiment may have the benefit of making more of the excitation energy available to power other RFID tags nearby—thereby improving system performance and read range.
US08395512B2
A signature analysis system can include a mobile signature analysis unit and a home unit. The mobile signature analysis unit can include a sensor module to monitor and capture an entity's activity information and a processing unit to analyze the activity information to detect a signature and determine an event corresponding to the signature. If the mobile signature analysis unit determines that a user has experienced a fall, for example, a notification can be sent to the user's caregiver by one or both of the mobile signature analysis unit and the home unit.
US08395510B1
A system and kit for monitoring infants and people. The systems and kits can include one or more sensors in communication with one or more contact devices. The system and kit can ensure that infants are breathing and that at least one caregiver receives an alert when an infant stops breathing. The system and kit can also provide alerts and alarms when other sensed data is not within predetermined value ranges.
US08395479B2
A commodity management apparatus includes, a weighing dish on which a container having a wireless tag attached thereto is mounted, an antenna which forms a region to communicate with the wireless tag from the side part of the weighing dish to the upper part of the weighing dish, a tag reader which contactlessly reads, via the antenna, data in the wireless tag attached to the container, a weight detection unit which detects the weight of the container mounted on the weighing dish, and an output control unit which outputs the weight of the container detected by the weight detection unit and the data in the wireless tag read by the tag reader.
US08395477B2
An intermediary between a remote control device and a remotely controllable device implements identification and/or authentication. The intermediary is, e.g., a node or set of nodes within a head end of a cable network service provider. A remote control device at a customer premise sends a command intended to control a remotely controllably device which is also located at the same customer premise. The customer premise includes a network interface, e.g., a cable modem, which has associated identification information. The command and the associated network interface identification information are communicated to the intermediary, e.g., via a cable modem. The intermediary accesses a subscriber record corresponding to the location based on the network interface identification information. The intermediary identifies the device to be controlled, e.g., a particular set top box and/or authenticates the remote control device. A command is sent via the network to the device to be controlled.
US08395474B2
A position sensor cord includes a hollow insulator formed of a restorable rubber or a restorable plastic, and two linear resistive members. Each of the two linear resistive members includes a linear insulator and a conductive layer provided around a circumference of the linear insulator. The conductive layer is formed of a conductive rubber or a conductive plastic. The two linear resistive members are arranged in no electrical contact with each other and along an inner surface of the hollow insulator. One of the two linear resistive members may be replaced with one linear conductive member.
US08395463B2
A sealed receptacle includes a case, a cylindrical member, and a closure plate. The sealed receptacle is configured to house a fixed contact, a movable contact, and an arc protection member. The arc protection member includes a peripheral wall, and a bottom. The peripheral wall is configured to conceal a junction between the case and the cylindrical member from the fixed contact and the movable contact. The bottom is interposed between the movable contact and the closure plate. The sealed receptacle houses a contact pressure provision member configured to bias the movable contact to come into contact with the fixed contact. The contact pressure provision member is interposed between the movable contact and the bottom so as to come into resilient contact with both the movable contact and the bottom irrespective of a position of the movable contact.
US08395460B2
A Radio Frequency (RF) splitter/combiner technique for splitting and combining RF signals using a combination of microstrip traces and coaxial cable for an N-port network is disclosed.
US08395456B2
A variable phase amplifier circuit is disclosed and its method of use in tuning devices having resonators. The variable phase amplifier receives an input differential signal pair. The input differential signal pair can be generated by a resonator device. The variable phase amplifier generates a modified differential signal pair in response to receiving the input differential signal pair. The variable phase amplifier provides a means to vary the phase of the modified differential signal pair with respect to the input differential signal pair, in an accurate and stable manner. If the modified differential signal pair with a phase shift introduced in it is fed back to the resonator device, the resonator will change its frequency of oscillation, where the new frequency of oscillation is a function of the phase of the modified differential signal pair.
US08395448B2
An amplifier circuit includes a first amplifier stage having a first output node; a second amplifier stage having a second output node; and a compensation block electrically coupled between the first and second output nodes. The compensation block has a compensation capacitor electrically coupled to the first node and electrically connectable to the second node, and has an impedance electrically connectable to the compensation capacitor. The compensation capacitor is electrically coupled via a switch to the impedance such that the compensation capacitor can contribute a zero to shunt branch formed by the compensation capacitor and impedance when the compensation capacitor is disconnected from the second node.
US08395447B2
A low-noise amplifier comprises an input terminal to which a signal is input; a transistor configured to amplify the signal input to the input terminal; an output terminal through which the amplified signal from the transistor is output; a feedback amount regulator circuit configured to regulate an amplitude of the signal output from the transistor as a feedback amount and output a voltage; a bias circuit configured to generate a bias current fed to the transistor; a differential voltage comparator configured to compare the voltage output from the feedback amount regulator circuit to a reference voltage, determine whether or not a level of the signal input to the input terminal is a level at which a gain of the transistor is suppressed, and increase the bias current fed to the transistor when the differential voltage comparator determines that the level of the signal input to the input terminal is the level at which the gain of the transistor is suppressed; a first input bias circuit configured to generate the reference voltage and apply the reference voltage to one input end of the differential voltage comparator; and a second input bias circuit configured to add a bias voltage to the voltage output from the feedback amount regulator circuit and apply the voltage added with the bias voltage to the other input end of the differential voltage comparator.
US08395442B2
A filter circuit includes two parallel digital filters, a DAC, and an LPF. The DAC includes two parallel decoders, a parallel-to-serial converter, a switch driver, and a switch. A PLL circuit supplies a reference clock to the DAC. A frequency divider provided in the DAC divides the frequency of the reference clock by two, and supplies the half frequency clock to a parallel processing section (the two decoders and the parallel-to-serial converter) of the DAC and the two digital filters. This makes it easy to secure a timing margin, permitting use in high-speed communication on the order of several GHz.
US08395438B2
An on-chip voltage conversion apparatus for integrated circuits includes a first capacitor; a first NFET device configured to selectively couple a first electrode of the first capacitor to a low side voltage rail of a first voltage domain; a first PFET device configured to selectively couple the first electrode of the first capacitor to a high side voltage rail of the first voltage domain; a second NFET device configured to selectively couple a second electrode of the first capacitor to a low side voltage rail of a second voltage domain, wherein the low side voltage rail of the second voltage domain corresponds to the high side voltage rail of the first voltage domain; and a second PFET device configured to selectively couple the second electrode of the first capacitor to a high side voltage rail of the second voltage domain.
US08395435B2
Switches with connected bulk for improved switching performance and bias resistors for even voltage distribution to improve reliability are described. In an exemplary design, a switch may include a plurality of transistors coupled in a stack and at least one resistor coupled to at least one intermediate node in the stack. The transistors may have (i) a first voltage applied to a first transistor in the stack and (ii) a second voltage that is lower than the first voltage applied to bulk nodes of the transistors. The resistor(s) may maintain matching bias conditions for the transistors when they are turned off. In one exemplary design, one resistor may be coupled between the source and drain of each transistor. In another exemplary design, one resistor may be coupled between each intermediate node and the first voltage. The resistor(s) may maintain the source of each transistor at the first voltage.
US08395434B1
A level shifter circuit is presented that can apply a negative voltage level to non-selected blocks while still being able to drive a high positive level when selected. An exemplary embodiment presents a negative level shifter that is not susceptible to low voltage pfet breakdown. This allows for a high voltage level shifter (transfer gate) that can drive a negative level for unselected blocks and, when enabled for a selected block, can still drive a positive high voltage level. By using a pair of low voltage PMOS device whose n-wells share the same level as other PMOS transistors in the design, layout area can be minimized. The gates of this pair of PMOSs are connected to VSS, thereby preventing these low voltage PMOS devices from thin oxide breakdown.
US08395429B2
A frequency synthesizer using a PLL has a simple structure and excellent spurious characteristics. A reference frequency signal inputted into a phase comparison unit is generated based on a clock when a zero cross point of a sawtooth wave composed of a digital signal is detected. However, in this case, since the digital values are skipped values, the digital value does not always become zero when its positive/negative sign is inverted. Hence, where the clock signals reading the digital value immediately before and the digital value immediately after the zero cross time when the positive/negative sign is inverted in a region where the digital value gradually changes are P1 and P2 respectively and the clock signal at a timing next to the clock signal P2 is P3, P1 and P3 are used at a ratio corresponding to the ratio between the digital values read by P1 and P2.
US08395424B2
A semiconductor device including an internal terminal, a first transistor of a first conductivity type that is coupled between a first reference potential and the internal terminal, and that includes a first control terminal, a second transistor of a second conductivity type that is coupled between a second reference potential and the internal terminal, and that includes a second control terminal, an oscillator that includes an output terminal to output a clock signal, and a comparator that is coupled to the internal terminal, and that compares a potential of the internal terminal when the internal terminal is coupled to the first reference potential with a potential of the internal terminal when the internal terminal is coupled to the second reference potential. Each control terminals is coupled to the output terminal to commonly receive the clock signal, and the first and second transistors exclusively operate in response to the clock signal.
US08395420B2
There are provided a differential input circuit, a PMOS transistor 20 that connects between a power supply VDD and one of power supplies of the differential input circuit and that enables switching between an operation state and a non-operating state of the differential input circuit, and a PMOS transistor 14 that is connected in parallel with the PMOS transistor 20 and that receives an output signal of the differential input circuit at its gate. The size of the PMOS transistor 20 is smaller than the size of the PMOS transistor 14. There are further provided an NMOS transistor 19 that connects between a ground and the other power supply of the differential input circuit and that enables switching between an operation state and a non-operating state of the differential input circuit, and an NMOS transistor 13 that is connected in parallel with the NMOS transistor 19 and that receives the output signal of the differential input circuit at its gate. The size of the NMOS transistor 19 is smaller than the size of the NMOS transistor 13.
US08395417B2
A digital noise filter circuit includes a gating clock generating circuit and a noise filter circuit. The gating clock generating circuit compares logic levels of an input signal and an output signal of the noise filter circuit. The gating clock generating circuit supplies a gating clock as an operating clock to the noise filter circuit when the logic levels of both signals do not coincide, and halts supply of the gating clock when the logic levels of both signals do coincide. The noise filter circuit removes noise from the input signal and outputting the resultant signal as the output signal.
US08395416B2
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a logic having a first link interface to enable communication with an intellectual property (IP) logic adapted on a single semiconductor die with the logic, where the IP logic includes a second link interface coupled to the first link interface via an on-die interconnect. In this way, the IP logic can be unmodified with respect to a standalone device having the IP logic incorporated therein. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US08395412B2
A method includes issuing a calibration command and performing a calibration operation in response to the calibration command. The calibration operation includes adjusting an impedance of a first replica buffer with updating a first code, the first replica buffer being substantially identical in circuit configuration to one of pull-up and pull-down circuits included in an output buffer, adjusting impedance of a second replica buffer with updating a second code, the second replica buffer being substantially identical in circuit configuration to the other of the pull-up and pull-down circuits included in the output buffer, controlling a first latch circuit to hold the first code when the impedance of the first replica buffer reaches a first level, and controlling a second latch circuit to hold the second code when the impedance of the second replica buffer reaches a second level.
US08395407B2
An electronic device, and associated method, provided with a circuit board (10) with a set of input contacts (IN/COM), a set of output contacts (OUT/COM) and an electrical circuit (18) connected between the input contacts (IN/COM) and the output contacts (OUT/COM), and a controller. The controller carries out a real-time test of the circuit board using a test signal introduced into the electrical circuit, the electrical circuit (18) being designed as a passive network having a characteristic transfer function and provided with at least one inductive element, which is formed by a conductor wire (201) wound into a coil around a break (202) in the circuit board (10), which in the assembled condition, is penetrated by a ferromagnetic bar or fixing pin (203), such that the inductance of the inductive element in the assembled state differs from the inductance thereof in the disassembled state.
US08395402B2
An electronic measuring system for extending the effective measurement input frequency range of an electronic measuring instrument includes an electronic measuring instrument and a frequency downconverting subsystem, separate from the electronic measuring instrument, having one or more cascaded (i.e., series-connected) downconverting frequency extending units (FEU-Ds). Each FEU-D of the frequency downconverting subsystem includes a downconverting circuit (e.g., a block downconverter) enclosed within a housing. The frequency downconverting subsystem operates to downconvert a test signal from a device under test (DUT) to a downconverted test signal having a frequency within the permissible input frequency range of the measuring instrument, thereby extending the effective measurement input frequency range of the electronic measuring instrument.
US08395400B2
A testing device of semiconductor devices includes a temperature detector detecting temperatures of semiconductor devices, and a temperature control unit controlling the temperatures of the semiconductor devices based on a detected temperature, in which the temperature control unit includes thermal heads cooling or heating the semiconductor devices, solution pipes through which solutions set to different temperatures flow, and a channel switching part switching whether or not to make the solution flow through the thermal head, and when a test is conducted, the solution flown through the thermal head is switched according to heating amount of the semiconductor device.
US08395398B2
Mixtures containing homogeneously-sized particles with a minimum concentration of agglomerates or larger particles are desired in various manufacturing processes such as, for example, in the manufacture and use of chemical mechanical polishing slurries, food emulsions, pharmaceutical products, paints, and print toner. The method disclosed herein provides these industries with an accurate and efficient method of screening such mixtures for such agglomerates and large particles. The method generally includes preparing a suspension of the mixture in an electrolyte, wherein the suspension includes a specified concentration of small particles per unit of electrolyte. The method further includes passing the prepared suspension, and a plurality of the particles therein, through an aperture of a device capable of characterizing particles according to the Coulter principle to obtain data on the particles. Still further, the method includes deriving a particle size distribution of the large particles from the obtained data. The suspension includes at least one small particle per aperture volume. The large particles have an average diameter that is at least five times greater than the average diameter of the small particles. The aperture has a diameter that is (i) at least 50 times greater than the average diameter of the small particles, and (ii) about 1.2 times greater than the average diameter of the large particles to less than about 50 times greater than the average diameter of the large particles.
US08395395B2
A capacitive sensing circuit including a microchip and a sense plate, wherein the microchip comprises a hardware Q RF noise detector module that provides a logical indication of when noise impacts on the integrated circuit.
US08395392B2
A set of parameters of an evaluation structure are extracted by applying a radio frequency (RF) signal through a first capacitive contact and a second capacitive contact to the evaluation structure. Measurement data corresponding to an impedance of the evaluation structure is acquired while the RF signal is applied, and the set of parameters are extracted from the measurement data. In an embodiment, multiple pairs of capacitive contacts can be utilized to acquire measurement data. Each pair of capacitive contacts can be separated by a channel having a unique spacing.
US08395385B2
A method for RARE magnetic resonance imaging comprising slice selective excitation of two or more slices and of one or more nuclei, followed by refocusing of these slices and application of gradient pulses which cause a division of the signal into spin echoes and stimulated echoes, is characterized by application of refocusing slice selective RF pulses, which are placed to fulfill the echo-spacing CPMG condition for each slice and by arrangement of gradient pulses which cause the phase accumulated by spins in each slice between two consecutive refocusing RF pulses corresponding to that slice to be equal, thus fulfilling the CPMG phase accumulation condition. Thereby, the obtainable signal can be increased and stabilized.
US08395371B2
Various methods are described to characterize interferometric modulators or similar devices. Measured voltages across interferometric modulators may be used to characterize transition voltages of the interferometric modulators. Measured currents may be analyzed by integration of measured current to provide an indication of a dynamic response of the interferometric modulator. Frequency analysis may be used to provide an indication of a hysteresis window of the interferometric modulator or mechanical properties of the interferometric modulator. Capacitance may be determined through signal correlation, and spread-spectrum analysis may be used to minimize the effect of noise or interference on measurements of various interferometric modulator parameters.
US08395367B2
A DC-DC converter including a Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) controller for converting an input voltage into an output voltage is provided. The PWM controller includes an error amplifier, a comparator, a PWM generator and a ramp generator. The error amplifier generates an error signal according to a difference between a reference voltage and the output voltage. The comparator compares the error signal with a ramp signal to generate a trigger signal. The PWM generator generates a PWM signal with a fixed turn-on time, wherein a frequency of the PWM signal is adjusted according to the trigger signal, the input and output voltages. The ramp generator generates the ramp signal according to the PWM signal, the input voltage and the output voltage.
US08395362B2
Embodiments for at least one method and apparatus of controlling a dead time of a switching voltage regulator are disclosed. One method includes generating a regulated output voltage based upon a switching voltage. The method included generating the switching voltage through controlled closing and opening of a series switch element and a shunt switch element, wherein the dead time comprises time that both the series switch element and the shunt switch element are open. The duration of the dead time is adjusted based on a rate of change of the switching voltage.
US08395346B2
A synchronous electrical machine having a plurality of phases, a detecting unit arranged to detect a fault in at least one of the phases of the synchronous electrical machine, an isolating unit arranged to isolate the at least one phase of the synchronous electrical machine with the fault, a phase shift unit arranged to produce a controlled phase shift between the voltage and the current within the remaining phases of the synchronous electrical machine to adjust the phase angle and magnitude of the second harmonic powers produced by the remaining phases of the synchronous electrical machine such that the vector sum of the second harmonic power vectors of the remaining phases of the synchronous electrical machine is zero.
US08395344B2
A control device includes a drive controller that controls the driving of an electromagnetic coil, and a regeneration controller that controls the regeneration of power from the electromagnetic coil. The drive controller includes an excitation interval setting unit that sets excitation and non-excitation intervals such that voltage is applied to the electromagnetic coil during the excitation interval but is not applied during the non-excitation interval. The excitation and non-excitation intervals are symmetrical with centers that respectively correspond to the π/2 and π phase points of the induced voltage waveform. The regeneration controller includes a regeneration interval setting unit that sets regeneration and non-regeneration intervals such that power is regenerated from the electromagnetic coil during the regeneration interval but is not regenerated during the non-regeneration interval. The regeneration and non-regeneration intervals are symmetrical with centers that respectively correspond to the π/2 and π phase points of the induced voltage waveform.
US08395333B2
An electro magnetic ballast (110) for a gas discharge lamp (2) comprises: input terminals (3), for receiving a mains voltage; lamp connector terminals (4), for receiving a lamp; a controllable semiconductor switch (26) coupled in parallel to the lamp connector terminals; a current sensor (127) connected in series with the controllable switch (26); and a control circuit (28) for controlling the controllable switch (26) and responsive to the current sensor (127). When operating in a normal mode, the control circuit (28) is responsive to a current sense signal received from the current sensor to switch the controllable switch (26) ON if said current sense signal indicates a current flowing in the controllable switch (26) and to switch the controllable switch (26) OFF if said current sense signal indicates that no current is flowing in the controllable switch (26).
US08395329B2
A power supply for an LED lamp has a set of coupled coils, primary-side power circuitry including a converter power switch for conducting input power, and secondary-side power circuitry including a dimming power switch. Power control circuitry includes converter control circuitry which generates a converter control signal for the converter power switch to maintain a desired undimmed level of lamp current at a normal operating value of a lamp voltage. Dimming control circuitry generates a dimming control signal for the dimming power switch to pulse-width modulate the lamp current at a duty cycle corresponding to a desired dimming. Operation of the converter control circuitry is modified during dimming to prevent an automatic increase of the lamp voltage in response to a decrease in lamp current, avoiding undesirable overshooting of the lamp current and providing more accurate and effective control over dimming operation.
US08395320B2
A plasma display panel (PDP) includes a front panel including (i) a substrate, (ii) a display electrode formed on the substrate, (iii) a dielectric layer formed to cover the display electrode, and (iv) a protective layer formed on the dielectric layer. Further, the PDP includes a rear panel disposed facing the front panel forming a discharge space, and including an address electrode formed in a direction intersecting the display electrode and a barrier rib partitioning the discharge space. The protective layer is formed by forming a base film of MgO on the dielectric layer and attaching a plurality of aggregated particles of metal oxide crystal particles to the base film so that the aggregated particles are distributed over the entire surface, the base film includes Si as a material impurity, and a Si concentration in the base film is more than 0 ppm and not more than 10 ppm.
US08395316B2
The present invention provides a stack type organic electroluminescence display apparatus which can be structured to be an active matrix type. The organic electroluminescence display apparatus of the active-matrix driving system includes: a display region having a plurality of pixels each of which includes at least two subpixels, wherein the subpixels have three or more light-emitting devices stacked thereon each of which is configured by sandwiching between electrodes an organic layer including an emission layer, and any of the emission layers emits a light of different colors from each other and is commonly formed in all pixels; and a circuit for applying voltage to between the electrodes of the light-emitting device, wherein at least one light-emitting device among the stacked light-emitting devices is nonemission-treated.
US08395307B2
A spark plug which provides reliable prevention of adhesion and accumulation of carbon on an insulator, includes a center electrode extending in the direction of an axis CL1, a ceramic insulator having an axial hole which extends in the direction of the axis CL1 and in which the center electrode is provided, a cylindrical metallic shell provided externally of the outer circumference of the insulator and having a support portion formed on the inner circumferential surface thereof, and a ground electrode extending from a front end portion of the metallic shell. The insulator has a stepped portion supported by the support portion of the metallic shell, and a leg portion formed forward of the stepped portion. A space SP formed between the leg portion of the insulator and the inner circumferential surface of the metallic shell has a volume of 100 mm3 to 300 mm3 inclusive.
US08395302B2
A piezoelectric element includes a first electrode, a piezoelectric film disposed on the first electrode, and a second electrode disposed on the piezoelectric film. The piezoelectric film is composed of piezoelectric material that is lead free and formed by mixing 100(1−x) % of material A having a spontaneous polarization of 0.5 C/m2 or greater at 25° C. and 100 x % of material B having piezoelectric characteristics and a dielectric constant of 1000 or greater at 25° C., wherein (1−x)Tc(A)+x Tc(B)≧300° C., where Tc(A) is the Curie temperature of the material A and Tc(B) is the Curie temperature of the material B.
US08395298B2
The invention provides an actuator apparatus and method where a source provides electrons to a target material wherein electrical work is performed. A beta emission process comprises a source material emitting electrons which are then captured by a target material. The actuator's source vanes rotate within an electric field between the target chutes' walls, generating torque. The principal providing torque and power is the change in energy as a vane gets closer to the outer walls. During the release and capture process, electrical work is performed which, in turn, is transferred into mechanical work in the form of rotation of the rotor. Specific applications include a radioisotope fueled rotary actuator for micro and nano air vehicles employed as the main form of propulsion.
US08395293B2
A permanent magnet rotor for an brushless electric motor of the kind having an internal stator, has a supporting structure made of molded plastic that includes an essentially disc-shaped portion to which a shaft is centrally connected. The periphery of the disc is joined to an essentially cylindrical cage portion which extends coaxially around the shaft. A plurality of magnetically conductive yokes are disposed in the cage portion. The yokes are shaped as ring segments which as a whole form an essentially cylindrical wall. A plurality of ring segment permanent magnets are each disposed astride the junction of a pair of adjacent yokes. Each yoke has a dimension which increases from the circumferential ends thereof towards its circumferentially intermediate portion, such that the cross-sectional area of the yoke in a radial plane correspondingly increases from the ends thereof towards its intermediate portion.
US08395290B2
A connecting device for electrically connecting a three-phase motor having three windings (U, V, W) to a three-phase network. The connecting device comprises a mains connection unit (18; 68) for connecting the phase lines (L1, L2, L3) of the three-phase network, and a motor connection unit (14; 110) for connecting the six winding ends (U1, U2, V1, V2, W1, W2) of the three-phase motor. An exchangeable coupling module (16; 70, 72; 70, 72′) is furthermore provided, which is arranged between the mains connection unit and the motor connection unit and contains contacts and wiring elements electrically connecting the six winding ends (U1, U2, V1, V2, W1, W2) in a predefined manner to the three phase lines (L1, L2, L3) of the three-phase network.
US08395281B2
A device, a module being insertible into a housing-forming recess of the device, energy and/or data being transmittable in a contactless manner.
US08395277B2
A vehicle includes a converter for stepping up power provided from a power storage device, and an inverter for converting the power output from converter and outputting it to an alternating-current motor for driving the vehicle. In the vehicle, a rectangular voltage control unit controls the inverter by means of rectangular wave voltage control that is based on a torque command value and the like, so as to control an output torque of the alternating-current motor. A system voltage control unit controls a system voltage, which is an output voltage of the converter. The system voltage control unit lifts a restriction on a system voltage command value based on an accelerator pedal position and the like, and then increases it. When increasing the system voltage command value during the rectangular wave voltage control for the inverter, a cooperative control unit increases the system voltage command value and the torque command value in a cooperative manner.
US08395262B2
Hardness of bonding end portions of an external connection terminal to be bonded to circuit patterns of an insulating substrate which is not lower than 90 in Vickers hardness is disclosed. An ultrasonic welding tool is used. In the external connection terminal in which the bonding end portions are provided integrally with a bar, one of the bonding end portion located substantially in the lengthwise center of the bar is first bonded, and the other bonding end portions are bonded alternately in order toward either end. The hardness of the bonding end portions is increased so that strength of the ultrasonic welding portions is increased. Since the external connection terminal including the bonding end portions is bonded in such a manner that the bonding end portion located substantially in the center is first bonded and the other bonding end portions are then bonded in order of increasing distance substantially from the central bonding end portion, displacement of the bonding end portion in either end from its regular position can be suppressed to keep bonding strength high. In this manner, the bonding strength of the ultrasonic welding portions between the external connection terminal and the circuit patterns of the insulating substrate can be increased so that long-term reliability can be secured in a semiconductor device.
US08395246B2
A method of fabricating a leadframe-based semiconductor package, and a semiconductor package formed thereby, are disclosed. In embodiments, a semiconductor die having die bond pads along two adjacent edges may be electrically coupled to four sides of a four-sided leadframe. Embodiments relate to lead and no-lead type leadframe.
US08395241B2
The present disclosure relates to forming a plurality of through silicon vias guard rings proximate the scribes streets of a microelectronic device wafer. The microelectronic device wafer includes a substrate wherein the through silicon via guard ring is fabricated by forming vias extending completely through the substrate. The through silicon via guard rings act as crack arresters, such that defects caused by cracks resulting from the dicing of the microelectronic wafer are substantially reduced or eliminated.
US08395235B2
A semiconductor device may include, but is not limited to a first electrode upwardly extending, and a second electrode upwardly extending along the first electrode. The first electrode includes a lower portion and an upper portion. The second electrode covers a bottom surface and an outer side surface of the lower portion of the first electrode. The upper portion of the first electrode is positioned higher than the second electrode.
US08395230B2
A semiconductor device includes: a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type disposed on the side of a first electrode; and a second semiconductor region having first pillar regions of the first conductivity type and second pillar regions of a second conductivity type, the first pillar regions and the second pillar regions being provided in paired state and alternately, in a device portion and a terminal portion surrounding the device portion, along a surface on the side of a second electrode disposed on the opposite side of the first semiconductor region from the first electrode. The semiconductor device further includes a lateral RESURF (reduced surface field) region of the second conductivity type disposed at a surface portion, on the opposite side from the first semiconductor region, of the second semiconductor region in the terminal portion.
US08395224B2
A semiconductor device includes a cross-coupled transistor configuration formed by first and second PMOS transistors defined over first and second p-type diffusion regions, and by first and second NMOS transistors defined over first and second n-type diffusion regions, with each diffusion region electrically connected to a common node. Gate electrodes of the PMOS and NMOS transistors are formed by conductive features which extend in only a first parallel direction. The first and second p-type diffusion regions are formed in a spaced apart manner, such that no single line of extent that extends perpendicular to the first parallel direction intersects both the first and second p-type diffusion regions. The first and second n-type diffusion regions are formed in a spaced apart manner, such that no single line of extent that extends perpendicular to the first parallel direction intersects both the first and second n-type diffusion regions.
US08395219B2
The semiconductor device includes a first transistor and a second transistor formed in a semiconductor substrate. The first transistor includes: a first gate insulating film formed on the semiconductor substrate; and a first gate electrode formed on the first gate insulating film. The second transistor includes: a second gate insulating film formed on the semiconductor substrate; and a second gate electrode formed on the second gate insulating film. The first gate insulating film includes a first insulating material with a first element diffused therein, the second gate insulating film includes the first insulating material, and the amount of the first element contained in the first gate insulating film is greater than the amount of the first element contained in the second gate insulating film.
US08395218B2
The gate-all-around (GAA) type semiconductor device may include source/drain layers, a nanowire channel, a gate electrode and an insulation layer pattern. The source/drain layers may be disposed at a distance in a first direction on a semiconductor substrate. The nanowire channel may connect the source/drain layers. The gate electrode may extend in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction. The gate electrode may have a height in a third direction substantially perpendicular to the first and second directions and may partially surround the nanowire channel. The insulation layer pattern may be formed between and around the source/drain layers on the semiconductor substrate and may cover the nanowire channel and a portion of the gate electrode. Thus, a size of the gate electrode may be reduced, and/or a gate induced drain leakage (GIDL) and/or a gate leakage current may be reduced.
US08395205B2
A semiconductor memory includes a memory cell array area provided with first and second memory cells and having a first active area and a first element isolation area constituting a line & space structure, and having a floating gate electrode and a control gate electrode in the first active area, a word line contact area adjacent to the memory cell array area and having a second active area, first and second word lines with a metal silicide structure, functioning respectively as the control gate electrodes of the first and second memory cells and arranged to straddle the memory cell array area and the word line contact area. A dummy gate electrode is arranged just below the first and second word lines in the second active area.
US08395202B2
A memory cell is provided including a tunnel dielectric layer overlying a semiconductor substrate. The memory cell also includes a floating gate having a first portion overlying the tunnel dielectric layer and a second portion in the form of a nanorod extending from the first portion. In addition, a control gate layer is separated from the floating gate by an intergate dielectric layer.
US08395194B2
A solid-state imaging device according to the present invention is of a MOS type and includes a plurality of pixels arranged in rows and columns, and includes: a semiconductor substrate; a photodiode which is formed in the semiconductor substrate and converts, into a signal charge, light that is incident from a first main surface of the semiconductor substrate; a transfer transistor which is formed in a second main surface of the semiconductor substrate and transfers the signal charge converted by the photodiode; a light shielding film which is conductive and formed on a boundary between the pixels, above the first main surface of the semiconductor substrate; an overflow drain region electrically connected to the light shielding film and formed in the first main surface of the semiconductor substrate; and an overflow barrier region formed between the overflow drain region and the photodiode.
US08395189B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a group of wirings routed at first to Nth (N being an integer not less than two) wiring positions sequentially arranged in parallel, each of the wirings being divided into two portions comprising a starting end side and a terminating end side; and an Mth buffer circuit that connects the starting end side of the wiring at the Mth wiring position (M being an integer that satisfies 1≦M≦K, wherein K is an integer that satisfies K≦N/2) as an input and the terminating end side of the wiring at the (M+N−K)th wiring position as an output. The group of the wirings has a structure in which connection is switched so that the starting end side of the wiring at a Jth (J being an integer that satisfies K
US08395188B2
A SiGe HBT is disclosed. A collector region consists of a first ion implantation region in an active area as well as second and third ion implantation regions respectively at bottom of field oxide regions. Each third ion implantation region has a width smaller than that of the field oxide region, has one side connected to first ion implantation region and has second side connected to a pseudo buried layer; each second ion implantation region located at bottom of the third ion implantation region and pseudo buried layer is connected to them and has a width equal to that of the field oxide region. Third ion implantation region has a higher doping concentration and a smaller junction depth than those of first and second ion implantation regions. Deep hole contacts are formed on top of pseudo buried layers in field oxide regions to pick up collector region.
US08395187B2
A compound semiconductor epitaxial substrate having a pseudomorphic high electron mobility field effect transistor structure including an InGaAs layer as a strained channel layer and an AlGaAs layer containing n type impurities as a front side electron-donating layer, wherein said substrate contains an InGaP layer in an orderly state on the front side of the above described InGaAs layer as the strained channel layer.
US08395185B2
A switching element comprising: an insulative substrate; a first electrode and a second electrode provided on one surface of the insulative substrate; and an interelectrode gap which is provided between the first electrode and the second electrode, and which has a gap on the order of nanometers in which switching phenomenon of resistance occurs by applying predetermined voltage between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the one surface of the insulative substrate contains nitrogen.
US08395166B2
Disclosed herein is a light emitting diode. The light emitting diode includes a support substrate, semiconductor layers formed on the support substrate, and a metal pattern located between the support substrate and the lower semiconductor layer. The semiconductor layers include an upper semiconductor layer of a first conductive type, an active layer, and a lower semiconductor layer of a second conductive type. The semiconductor layers are grown on a sacrificial substrate and the support substrate is homogeneous with the sacrificial substrate.
US08395163B2
A MOSFET capable of achieving decrease in the number of steps in a manufacturing process and improvement in integration includes an SiC wafer composed of silicon carbide and a source contact electrode arranged in contact with the SiC wafer and containing titanium, aluminum, silicon, and carbon as well as a remaining inevitable impurity. The SiC wafer includes an n+ source region having an n conductivity type and a p+ region having a p conductivity type. Both of the n+ source region and the p+ region are in contact with the source contact electrode. The source contact electrode contains aluminum and titanium in a region including an interface with the SiC wafer.
US08395160B2
An organic light emitting display apparatus and a method of manufacturing the organic light emitting display apparatus, whereby the manufacturing process is simplified and the electric characteristics of the organic light emitting display apparatus are improved. The organic light emitting display apparatus includes: a gate electrode that includes a first conductive layer including ITO, a second conductive layer on the first conductive layer, a third conductive layer on the second conductive layer and including ITO, and a fourth conductive layer on the third conductive layer and including IZO or AZO; and a pixel electrode formed in the same layer level as the gate electrode and including a first electrode layer that includes ITO, a second electrode layer on the first electrode layer, a third electrode layer on the second electrode layer and including ITO, and a fourth electrode layer on the third electrode layer and including IZO or AZO.
US08395157B2
A double gate thin-film transistor (TFT), and an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display apparatus including the double gate TFT, includes a double gate thin-film transistor (TFT) including: a first gate electrode on a substrate; an active layer on the first gate electrode; source and drain electrodes on the active layer; a planarization layer on the substrate and the source and drain electrodes, and having an opening corresponding to the active layer; and a second gate electrode in the opening.
US08395156B2
An object is to provide a display device whose frame can be narrowed and whose display characteristics are excellent. The display device includes a driver circuit and a pixel portion. The driver circuit and the pixel portion are formed using a dual-gate thin film transistor and a single-gate thin film transistor, respectively. In the dual-gate thin film transistor in the display device, a semiconductor layer is formed using a microcrystalline semiconductor region and a pair of amorphous semiconductor regions, and a gate insulating layer and an insulating layer are in contact with the microcrystalline semiconductor region of the semiconductor layer.
US08395155B2
Thin film transistors (TFTs) and methods of manufacturing the same. A TFT may include a floating channel on a surface of a channel and spaced apart from a source and a drain, and an insulating layer formed on the floating channel and designed to determine a distance between the floating channel and the source or the drain.
US08395153B2
An object is to manufacture and provide a highly reliable semiconductor device including a thin film transistor with stable electric characteristics. In a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device including a thin film transistor in which a semiconductor layer including a channel formation region serves as an oxide semiconductor film, heat treatment for reducing impurities such as moisture (heat treatment for dehydration or dehydrogenation) is performed after an oxide insulating film serving as a protective film is formed in contact with an oxide semiconductor layer. Then, the impurities such as moisture, which exist not only in a source electrode layer, in a drain electrode layer, in a gate insulating layer, and in the oxide semiconductor layer but also at interfaces between the oxide semiconductor film and upper and lower films which are in contact with the oxide semiconductor layer, are reduced.
US08395148B2
It is an object to provide a highly reliable semiconductor device including a thin film transistor whose electric characteristics are stable. In addition, it is another object to manufacture a highly reliable semiconductor device at low cost with high productivity. In a semiconductor device including a thin film transistor, a semiconductor layer of the thin film transistor is formed with an oxide semiconductor layer to which a metal element is added. As the metal element, at least one of metal elements of iron, nickel, cobalt, copper, gold, manganese, molybdenum, tungsten, niobium, and tantalum is used. In addition, the oxide semiconductor layer contains indium, gallium, and zinc.
US08395147B2
The present invention provides a method of manufacturing a thin film transistor of a top-contact structure with suppressed deterioration by a process which is easy and suitable for increase in area without damaging an organic semiconductor pattern. The organic semiconductor pattern is formed on a substrate. An electrode material film is formed on the substrate so as to cover the organic semiconductor pattern. A resist pattern is formed on the electrode material film. By wet etching using the resist pattern as a mask, the electrode material film is patterned. By the process, a source electrode and a drain electrode are formed.
US08395144B2
Provided are a novel anthracene derivative and an organic light-emitting device using the same, and more particularly, an anthracene derivative having a core (e.g., an indenoanthracene core) where an anthracene moiety with excellent device characteristics is fused with a fluorene moiety or the like with excellent fluorescent properties, wherein an aryl group is introduced at the core, and an organic light-emitting device using the anthracene derivative, which is enhanced in efficiency, operating voltage, lifetime, etc.
US08395138B2
A nonvolatile semiconductor memory using carbon related films as variable resistance films includes bottom electrodes formed above a substrate, buffer layers formed on the bottom electrodes and each formed of a film containing nitrogen and containing carbon as a main component, variable resistance films formed on the buffer layers and each formed of a film containing carbon as a main component and the electrical resistivity thereof being changed according to application of voltage or supply of current, and top electrodes formed on the variable resistance films.
US08395136B2
In a positional deviation detection apparatus provided with a transfer mechanism where plural arm portions are connected pivotably and in series with each other, the transfer mechanism being adapted to hold and transfer an object to be processed with a distal end arm portion, there are provided an edge detection unit that detects at least an edge of the object to be detected held by the distal end arm portion, the edge detection unit being provided in an arm portion among the plural arm portions, except for the distal end arm portion; and a positional deviation detection portion that obtains positional deviation of the object to be processed, in accordance with a detected value of the edge detection unit.
US08395127B1
A radiation detector includes an array of detector pixels each including an array of detector cells. Each detector cell includes a photodiode biased in a breakdown region and digital circuitry coupled with the photodiode and configured to output a first digital value in a quiescent state and a second digital value responsive to photon detection by the photodiode. Digital triggering circuitry is configured to output a trigger signal indicative of a start of an integration time period responsive to a selected number of one or more of the detector cells transitioning from the first digital value to the second digital value. Readout digital circuitry accumulates a count of a number of transitions of detector cells of the array of detector cells from the first digital state to the second digital state over the integration time period.
US08395117B2
Provided is a spectrophotometer using medium energy ion. The spectrophotometer using medium energy ion is configured to include: an ion source 10 generating ions; a collimator 20 collimating the ions as a parallel beam; an accelerator 30 accelerating the parallel beam; an ion beam pulse generator 40 pulsing the accelerated ion beam; a focusing objective 50 focusing the pulsed ion beam on a specimen 1; a detector 60 detecting a spectroscopic signal of scattered ion from a specimen 1; and a data analyzer 70 analyzing and processing the spectroscopic signal detected by the detector 60.
US08395116B2
A mass spectrometer capable of obtaining a clear microscopic observation image with high spatial resolution in real time, even during a mass analysis, without affecting the analysis is provided. An aperture 1a is formed in a stage 1 on which a sample plate 2 to be placed. The sample plate 2 is transparent or translucent. A microscopic observation unit, including an observation optical system 20 and a CCD camera 21, is provided below the stage 1 to observe the reverse side of the sample 3 through the aperture 1a of the stage 1 as well as the transparent sample plate 2. The observed image is displayed on the screen of a display unit 27. If the sample 3 is a slice of biological tissue, the sample image taken from the reverse side will be substantially the same as an image taken from the obverse side.
US08395108B2
A photoelectric encoder includes: a scale; a detection head; fibers through which light that is to be irradiated on the scale and light reflected by the scale propagates; first and second cables each having a space in which the fibers are partially disposed; and a case that encloses a light source that supplies light to one of the fibers and a light-sensitive element that receives the reflected light propagating through the others of the fibers and converts the received light into an electric signal. The first cable, the second cable, and the case are disposed in this order in the direction of propagation of the reflected light. The positions of the fibers are fixed relative to one another inside the first cable in the direction orthogonal to the direction of length of the fibers and variable relative to one another inside the second cable in the orthogonal direction.
US08395107B2
The present invention provides a main body unit of an optical fiber photoelectric sensor and the optical fiber photoelectric sensor, which improves optical coupling efficiency of a light emitting element and a light projecting side optical fiber and is capable of making uniform light incident on the light projecting side optical fiber without highly accurately positioning the light emitting element and a condenser lens. The main body unit of the optical fiber photoelectric sensor makes light emitted from an LED chip converge by the condenser lens and incident on the light projecting side optical fiber; and also makes light not incident on the condenser lens and emitted around the condenser lens reflect by a reflecting surface provided around the condenser lens, then refract the reflected light by a refractive surface, and incident on the light projecting side optical fiber.
US08395105B2
A method of recognizing proximity using a proximity sensor and a mobile terminal using the same are provided. The method includes detecting a key input by a user, projecting light in a state where an object does not approach a proximity sensor and measuring a light receiving amount of the projected light, extracting a compensation amount corresponding to the measured light receiving amount, setting a critical light receiving amount for determining proximity recognition by compensating the measured light receiving amount with the extracted compensation amount, and recognizing proximity of an object to the proximity sensor based on a preset critical light receiving amount. Thereby, even if the surrounding environment of a mobile terminal is changed, noise characteristic of the proximity sensor is influenced, and the mobile terminal is used for a long time, a proximity recognition distance of the mobile terminal is uniformly sustained.
US08395099B2
A method for controlling resonant power converters using power transistors, particularly for induction heating systems, comprises a step of assessing the occurrence of non-zero voltage switching or non-zero current switching and a step of adjusting the control accordingly, the assessment of the above occurrence being performed by monitoring at least one electrical parameter correlated to the resonant circuit.
US08395085B2
A pulsed waveform welding operation is implemented by reference to a commanded wire feed speed set by an operator. The wire feed speed is set on a wire feeder, and a signal representative of the commanded wire feed speed is applied to a power supply. The power supply control circuitry references a look-up table in which pulsed waveform parameters are provided based upon wire feed speed. The parameters may include multiple parameters such as pulse frequency, peak current, background current, and current ramp rates. The control circuitry commands power conversion circuitry to generate the commanded waveform as a function of the commanded wire feed speed.
US08395082B2
A solid-state laser lift-off apparatus comprises: a solid-state laser (1), a light beam shaping lens (3), motors of oscillating mirrors (5,7), oscillating mirrors (4,6), a field lens (9), a movable platform (10), an industrial control computer and control software (8). The light beam shaping lens (3) is behind the solid-state laser (1), shaping the laser beam from the solid-state laser (1) into required shape. The motors of oscillating mirrors (5,7) are in front of the field lens (9), controlling the movement of the oscillating mirrors (4,6) according to the instruction of the control software (8) to implement different light beam scanning paths. A lift-off method for applying the solid-state laser lift-off apparatus uses a small laser spot to perform scanning, and enables damage-free separation of GaN from a sapphire substrate.
US08395076B2
An apparatus and method of manufacturing a plasma torch consumable is disclosed. The invention includes at least two of a tip, a shielding cup, an electrode, and a swirl ring being integral to form a unitary one-piece assembly prior to being attached to the torch. Such a construction minimizes the number of parts that must be handled and orientated when connecting the consumable assembly to a plasma torch.
US08395074B2
A plasma arc system includes a single-gas, gas-cooled plasma arc torch and a torch control unit. The torch control unit includes a housing and a user input device on the housing for receiving an indication of a desired cutting or marking function and for providing a responsive signal. A single gas supply both to the housing, and from the housing to the torch, is provided for cutting or marking. A current control device is located within the housing for controlling current output to the torch for either cutting or marking. A gas control device is located within the housing for controlling gas output to the torch for either cutting or marking. A controller is located within the housing for receiving the signal from the user input device indicating the desired cutting or marking function, and for sending a responsive signal to the current control and gas control devices depending on the desired cutting or marking function so that the torch operates accordingly. A related control until is disclosed.
US08395072B2
A resistance welding quality determination method comprises: a step of detecting a voltage value applied to a welding electrode of a resistance welding machine; a step of detecting a current value supplied to the welding electrode; a step of calculating a welding resistance value based on the voltage value and the current value; a step of correcting the welding resistance value based on a change amount of a contact resistance value between the work and the welding electrode during welding of a work; and a step of determining welding quality of the work based on a corrected welding resistance value obtained by correcting the welding resistance value.
US08395057B2
A wafer assembly (30) includes a substrate (71), in turn including a wafer (70) or a stack of wafers. The wafer assembly (30) further includes an electrical connection (32) arranged through at least a part of the substrate (71). The electrical connection (32) is made by low-resistance silicon. The electrical connection (32) is positioned in a hole (84) penetrating at least a part of the substrate (71). A surface (78) of the substrate (71) confining the hole (84) is electrically insulating. The electrical connection (32) has at least one protrusion (75), which protrudes transversally to a main extension (83) of the hole (84) and the protrusion (75) protrudes outside a minimum hole diameter (85), as projected in the main extension (83) of the hole (84). Preferably, the protrusion (75) is supported by a support surface (81) of the substrate (71). A manufacturing method is also disclosed.
US08395045B2
A tape can comprise a dielectric film that has a pattern of electrically conductive areas adhering thereto. The conductive areas can be electrically isolated from one another. The tape can utilize means to obscure the metallic finish and can contain indicators to deter installers from grounding the tape at either end. The tape can be wrapped around one or more conductors, such as wires that transmit data, to provide electrical or electromagnetic shielding for the conductors. The resulting cable can have a shield that is electrically discontinuous between opposite ends of the cable.
US08395031B1
A novel maize variety designated X00B156 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof, produced by crossing Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. proprietary inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprises crossing hybrid maize variety X00B156 with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X00B156 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety X00B156, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X00B156. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X00B156.
US08395021B2
Soybean ubiquitin promoters is from the soybean SUBI-3 polyubiquitin gene and processes for expressing nucleic acids of interest in transgenic plants under the control of the soybean ubiquitin promoter pare described. Higher expression levels of the nucleic acids are achieved when the promoter is included.
US08395020B2
The present invention provides methods for transforming monocot plants via a simple and rapid protocol, to obtain regenerated plants capable of being planted to soil in as little as 4-8 weeks. Associated cell culture media and growth conditions are also provided, as well as plants and plant parts obtained by the method. Further, a method for screening recalcitrant plant genotypes for transformability by the methods of the present invention is also provided. Further, a system for expanding priority development window for producing transgenic plants by the methods of the present invention is also provided.
US08395013B2
A method for correctly placing an absorbent article in the crotch portion of an undergarment having a crotch portion bounded on opposite sides by portions of curved leg openings. In one embodiment the method comprises the steps of providing an absorbent article having at least one indicator marker visible from the body-facing surface, the indicator marker disposed to indicate proper alignment of the absorbent article with respect to the curved leg openings; positioning the absorbent article in the crotch portion such that the indicator marker is aligned with at least one leg elastic of the curved leg openings; and, affixing the article to the crotch portion of the undergarment.
US08395012B2
Stable odor controlling compositions, methods for incorporating the compositions, and disposable absorbent articles, which release perfume and subsequently are able to minimize odor caused from bodily fluids via the presence of an oil-in-water emulsion that serves as a carrier and preservation system for the perfume. The stable odor controlling emulsion compositions include an oil-in-water emulsion comprising: a) an aqueous phase comprising a modified starch and water; b) an oil phase comprising a perfume; c) an effective amount of a rheology modifier; d) an effective amount of a co-surfactant; and e) an effective amount of an antimicrobial agent; wherein said emulsion composition is applied to said article in the form of stable emulsion droplets having an median size of less than about 1 μm and dries to form a discontinuous film.
US08395009B2
The invention relates to a catalytic composition and to a process for selective methanization of carbon monoxide in hydrogen- and carbon dioxide-containing streams, wherein the active component used is ruthenium and the support material is a lanthanum-cerium-zirconium oxide, and to the use thereof in fuel cell systems.
US08395007B2
A renewable biofuel based on a highly efficient batch catalysis methodology for conversion of 1-butene to a new class of potential jet fuel blends. By tuning the catalyst and then using the dimer produced, the carbon use is about 95% or greater.
US08395004B2
The present invention relates to a process for producing light olefins from a synthesis gas with significantly improved conversion and selectivity for C2-C4 light olefins in general and propylene in particular, as compared to a conventional process, through a sequential two-step process comprising preparing olefin compounds from a synthesis gas in the presence of an iron catalyst by the Fischer-Tropsch reaction followed by cracking the olefin compounds in the presence of a zeolite catalyst.
US08395001B2
To provide processes for efficiently and economically producing 2-chloro-1,1,1,2-tetrafluoropropane (R244bb) and 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene (R1234yf) in an industrially practical manner.A process for producing 2-chloro-1,1,1,2-tetrafluoropropane, which comprises a chlorination step of reacting 1,2-dichloro-2-fluoropropane and chlorine in the presence of a solvent under irradiation with light to obtain 1,1,1,2-tetrachloro-2-fluoropropane, and a fluorination step of reacting the 1,1,1,2-tetrachloro-2-fluoropropane obtained in the chlorination step and hydrogen fluoride in the presence of a catalyst to obtain 2-chloro-1,1,1,2-tetrafluoropropane, and a process for producing 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, which comprises dehydrochlorinating it in the presence of a catalyst.
US08394993B2
The invention relates to a process for the preparation of cyclopropyl benzyl ketone compounds of formula (II) wherein R1 represents fluorine or chlorine atom or C1-4 alkoxy group, by the reaction of a Grignard reagent, obtained from the reaction of compound of formula (V), wherein X represents chlorine or fluorine atom, with the compound of formula (IV), wherein R2 represents C1-4 alkyl group, having a straight or branched chain. The process can be applied preferably on industrial scale. Compound of formula (II), wherein R represents a fluorine atom in position 2 is an intermediate of the preparation process of prasugrel, which is a platelet inhibitor used in the therapy.
US08394990B2
Phenylurea compounds of formula (I): are inhibitors of the enzyme SOAT-1. Cosmetic and pharmaceutical compositions containing them are useful for treating various disorders, such as acne, or have cosmetic applications. An exemplary species is 1-[1-(biphenyl-2-ylamino)cyclopentylmethyl]-3-(2,6-diisopropylpheny)urea.
US08394975B2
The invention relates to a method for producing an adsorbent, in particular a bleaching earth, wherein a clay material having: a surface area of 180 to 300 m2/g; a total pore volume of 0.5 to 0.7 ml/l; wherein at least 60% of the total pore volume are provided by pores having a pore diameter of at least 140 A, at least 40% of the total pore volume is provided by pores having a pore diameter of less than 250 A and at least 15% of the total pore volume are provided by pores having a pore diameter of 140 to 250 A; and said clay material having an amorphous structure according to XRD data; is activated by an activation procedure. Further, the invention relates to an adsorbent as obtained by the method and a method for purification of oils, fats and biofuels.
US08394973B2
The present application relates to a process for manufacturing maleic anhydride that comprising the following steps: a) fermentation of renewable raw materials and optionally purification to produce a mixture comprising at least butanol; b) oxidation of the butanol to maleic anhydride at a temperature generally between 300° C. to 600° C., using a catalyst based on oxides of vanadium and/or molybdenum; c) isolation of the maleic anhydride obtained at the end of step b). It also relates to the maleic anhydride obtained from renewable raw materials, to the copolymers and compositions comprising said maleic anhydride and also uses of use of this maleic anhydride.
US08394971B2
The present invention is directed to novel indole derivatives, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use in the treatment of disorders and conditions modulated by the androgen receptor.
US08394969B2
Novel compounds of the structural formula (I) are activators of AMP-protein kinase and are useful in the treatment, prevention and suppression of diseases mediated by the AMPK-activated protein kinase. The compounds of the present invention are useful in the treatment of Type 2 diabetes, hyperglycemia, metabolic syndrome, obesity, hypercholesterolemia, and hypertension.
US08394963B2
A process for preparing Form A of (S)-5-methoxy-2-[[(4-methoxy-3,5-dimethyl-2-pyridinyl) -methyl]sulfinyl]-1H-benzimidazole magnesium dihydrate, processes for preparing various intermediates useful in the preparation of Form A of (S)-5-methoxy-2-[[(4-methoxy-3,5-dimethyl-2-pyridinyl)-methyl]sulfinyl]-1H-benzimidazole magnesium dihydrate and a novel polymorphic Form II of 5-methoxy-2-[[(4-methoxy-3,5-dimethyl-2-pyridinyl)-methyl]thio]-1H-benzimidazole.
US08394955B2
The present invention is drawn to intermediates relating to 2,4 (4,6) pyrimidine derived macrocycles, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods of making said compounds. The compounds disclosed herein are inhibitors of EGF receptor tyrosine kinases and are useful for treating cell proliferative disorders, including atherosclerosis, restenosis, and cancer.
US08394948B2
Novel CE-phosphoramidites and CPG reagents have been synthesized from a serinol backbone. These reagents are useful to introduce functional groups or directly label oligonucleotides. The versatile serinol scaffold allows for labeling at any position (5′ or 3′ termini, or any internal position) during automated DNA synthesis. Multiple labels or functional groups can be achieved by repetitive coupling cycles. Optimal spacer arms and protected label moieties have been specially designed. Further, the natural 3-carbon atom internucleotide phosphate distance is retained when inserted internally.
US08394947B2
The present invention provides oligomeric compounds having sufficient complementarity to hybridize to a nucleic acid target and methods for their use in modulating gene expression. In one embodiment the oligomeric compounds comprise double stranded constructs wherein one of the strands capable of hybridizing to a nucleic acid target, and has a plurality of modified ribofuranosyl nucleosides at defined locations. The presence of modifications at such defined positions greatly enhances the properties of the corresponding compositions.
US08394937B2
A protein expression system is provided. The system comprises: a) a T7 RNA polymerase-dependent promoter operably linked to an expression cassette for a protein of interest; and b) an expression cassette for T7 RNA polymerase operably linked to a λpL promoter and at least two perfect palindrome operator sequences.
US08394928B2
The present invention relates to humanized antibodies against human CDCP1 (anti-CDCP1 antibody), methods for their production, pharmaceutical compositions containing said antibodies, and uses thereof.
US08394920B2
According to a preferable embodiment of the present invention, a composition for a resin comprising an inorganic compound having a sulfur atom and/or a selenium atom, an episulfide compound, and a mercaptodisulfide compound can be provided. According to another preferable embodiment of the present invention, a composition for a resin having the viscosity thereof decreased to facilitate a cast polymerization operation and thus to improve the tonality of the obtained optical material can be provided. According to still another preferable embodiment of the present invention, an optical material obtained by curing the above-described composition for a resin and having a high refractive index can be provided.
US08394918B2
Compounds having a core comprised of an aromatic ring and at least two annulated beta-substituted fused thiophene ring systems of the general formula: -(β-R2—FT2ArFT2-β-R2)—, and polymers or copolymers thereof, of the general formulas: -{-β-R2—FT2ArFT2-β-R2)-G1-}n-, or -{-G1-(β-R2—FT2ArFT2-β-R2)-G1-G2-}n-, where β-R2—FT2ArFT2-β-R2, -G1-, -G2-, and n are as defined herein. Also disclosed are compositions, articles, or devices comprising the polymers, and methods for making and using the polymers. The compositions, articles, or devices can be used, for example, for electronic applications, such as light emitting devices and semiconductor devices.
US08394915B2
A polyesterification method comprises steps of mixing, by combining N,N-dialkylformamide dialkyl acetal with a tin catalyst, so as to transfer an alkoxy group from the N,N-dialkylformamide dialkyl acetal to the tin catalyst to obtain a Sn coordination complex; and polymerization, by conducting a ring-opening polymerization of a ester under the catalysis of the Sn coordination complex, and finally to obtain a polyester compound; wherein, the chemical formula of the N,N-dialkylformamide dialkyl acetal is (RO)2CHNR2, with the R being an alkyl group.
US08394908B2
The invention is a novel family of polyolefins characterized by chain-walking defects of the type that add extra backbone carbons per monomer. These polyolefins display a large decrease in crystallinity relative to polyolefins known in the art. Specifically, the reduction in crystallinity is much greater than for earlier polypropylenes with a matched content of stereo or 1-alkene type defects. The claimed polyolefins can be an alkene-based homopolymer. The defects in the polyolefin backbone are generated by a chain walking mechanism in which three or more carbons per monomer are added to the polymer backbone instead of two, as in conventional polymerization or copolymerization methods of alpha olefins. The novel polyolefins can be used in applications such as plastic wrapping, thin films, co-extrusion layers or molded parts in the absence of polymer blending or copolymerization. The cost of materials production can be reduced.
US08394901B2
An isoprene or butadiene cis 1,4-selective polymerization catalyst system together with its polymerization method is provided. This catalyst system is composed of NCN-imine pincer type rare earth metal complex of formula [2,6-(CH═N—R1)2-4-R2-1-C6H2]LnX2(THF)n and alkylating reagent. In an hydrocarbon solvent or under bulk conditions, at a polymerization temperature in a range of −20-120° C., the conjugated diene is polymerized by using the catalyst system, to produce polyisoprene and polybutadiene having controllable number-average molecular weight, molecular weight distribution of 3.0 or less than, and cis 1,4-content of 95% or more, even 99% or more. The crude rubber and vulcanized rubber of the polyisoprene have high strength, stretching crystallization capability and transparency.
US08394896B2
The present invention relates to a liquid α-olefin vinyl acetate compound containing a liquid α-olefin vinyl acetate copolymer. Compositions according to the present invention have improved resistance to premature vulcanization as well as good physical properties and aging resistance. The present invention is also directed to a vulcanized compound containing a liquid ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer.
US08394894B2
A conjugated diene polymer is provided that comprises a conjugated diene-based constituent unit and a constituent unit of formula (I) below, at least one terminus of the polymer being modified by a compound having a linkage of formula (II) below. wherein X1, X2, and X3 independently denote a group as defined in the specification.
US08394887B2
A fluoropolymer comprising: (A) repeating unit derived from an S-sulfate monomer having an —S—SO3— group and carbon to carbon double bond; and (B) repeating unit derived from a fluoromonomer having a fluorine atom and carbon to carbon double bond. This fluoropolymer can be a constituent of water/oil repellent agent having excellent water/oil repelling capability, and is stable in air and permits an arbitrary control of crosslinking.
US08394880B2
A flame retardant polymer composite is disclosed. The composite includes a polymer base material and a flame retardant filler provided in the polymer base material, the flame retardant filler containing seeded boehmite particulate material having an aspect ratio of not less than 3:1.
US08394876B2
The invention provides a golf ball in which an intermediate layer formed of a highly neutralized resin mixture obtained by using two nonionic resins of differing weight-average molecular weights and breadths of molecular weight distribution (weight-average molecular weight/number-average molecular weight) as the base resin and adding thereto an organic acid or a metal salt thereof and a basic inorganic metal compound capable of being neutralized is combined with a cover formed of an ionic resin having a weight-average molecular weight in a specific range and a breadth of molecular weight distribution (weight-average molecular weight/number-average molecular weight) in a specific range. The golf ball material of the invention has an excellent rebound and durability.
US08394870B2
Disclosed herein is a crosslinked fluoropolymer network formed by the free radical initiated crosslinking of a diacrylate fluoropolymer The diacrylate copolymer is of formula CH2═CR′COO—(CH2)n—R—(CH2)n—OOCR′═CH2, wherein R is selected from the group consisting of i) an oligomer comprising copolymerized units of vinylidene fluoride and perfluoro(methyl vinyl ether), ii) an oligomer comprising copolymerized units of vinylidene fluoride and hexafluoropropylene, iii) an oligomer comprising copolymerized units of tetrafluoroethylene and perfluoro(methyl vinyl ether), and iv) an oligomer comprising copolymerized units of tetrafluoroethylene and a hydrocarbon olefin, R′ is H or —CH3, n is 1-4 and wherein said oligomer has a number average molecular weight of 1000 to 25,000 daltons. The source of the free radicals may be a photoinitiator or an organic peroxide.
US08394869B2
Disclosed are photopolymerizable compositions suitable for uses such as dental composite resins, and that comprise (A) a radical-polymerizable monomer, (B) a photopolymerization initiator that comprises (B1) an α-diketone compound, (B2) a photoacid generating agent, (B3) an aromatic amine compound, and (C) an organic filler containing a phthalate ester fluorescent agent.
US08394865B2
To provide an ion exchange membrane for alkaline chloride electrolysis having a low electric resistance and further having a sufficient mechanical strength.To employ an ion exchange membrane containing a polymer having units (U1). Q1, Q2=a perfluoroalkylene group or the like; Rf1, Rf2=a perfluoroalkyl group or the like; X1=an oxygen atom or the like; a=0 or the like; Y1=a fluorine atom or the like; r=0 or 1; and M=a hydrogen atom or an alkali metal atom.
US08394864B2
A process for preparing a cobalt based Fischer-Tropsch synthesis catalyst precursor includes introducing a multi-functional carboxylic acid having the general formula (1) HOOC—C*R1C*R2—COOH (1) or a precursor thereof, where C* in each of C*Ri and C*R2 is a sp2 carbon, and R1 and R2 are the same or different, and are each selected from the group consisting of hydrogen and an organic group, into and/or onto a particulate catalyst support. The ratio of the quantity of multifunctional carboxylic acid used relative to the support surface area is at least 0.3 μmol carboxylic acid/m2 of support surface area. Simultaneously with the introduction of the carboxylic acid into and/or onto the catalyst support, or subsequent thereto, a cobalt compound is introduced into and/or onto the catalyst support. The impregnated support is calcined to obtain the cobalt based Fischer-Tropsch synthesis catalyst precursor.
US08394859B2
Analogs of combretastatin have been discovered which demonstrate impressive cytotoxicity as well as a remarkable ability to inhibit tubulin polymerization. Such compounds are excellent clinical candidates for the treatment of cancer in humans. In addition, certain of these ligands, as pro-drugs, may well prove to be tumor selective vascular targeting chemotherapeutic agents or to have vascular targeting activity resulting in the selective prevention and/or destruction of nonmalignant proliferating vasculature.
US08394853B2
The present invention provides a compound of formula I′; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein R1, R2, R3, R5, B1, X and n are defined herein. The invention also relates a method for manufacturing the compounds of the invention, and its therapeutic uses. The present invention further provides a combination of pharmacologically active agents and a pharmaceutical composition.
US08394835B2
Pharmaceutical compositions comprising at least one compound of the formulas (Ia) or (Ib) and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier wherein the symbols have the following meaning —X— is e.g. and Y being e.g. or the pharmaceutically acceptable salts can be applied to modulate the in-vitro and in-vivo binding processes mediated by E-, P- or L-selectin binding.
US08394828B2
This invention is directed to vanilloid receptor VR1 ligands. More particularly, this invention relates to quinoline-derived amides that are potent antagonists or agonists of VR1 which are useful for the treatment and prevention of inflammatory and other pain conditions in mammals.
US08394812B2
Sustained release formulations of nalbuphine or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof; methods for making the sustained release formulations of nalbuphine or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof; and methods for using the sustained release formulations of nalbuphine or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof to treat patients suffering from pain are provided.
US08394810B2
The present invention relates to novel “reverse amide” compounds comprising a zinc chelator group, and the use of such compounds in the inhibition of HDAC6 and in the treatment of various diseases, disorders or conditions related to HDAC6.
US08394807B2
There is provided a dihydroquinazoline compound of the formula or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein the values of the radicals are defined herein, as well as a pharmaceutical composition containing the compound, and a method of using the compound for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease.
US08394792B2
Disclosed are heterocyclic derivatives, and more particularly heterocyclic derivatives having the following Formula I which are useful for the preparation of medicaments for treating diseases related to uric acid: wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, X1, X2, X3, L and Y are the same as defined in the detailed description.
US08394791B2
This invention concerns a crystalline, enantiopure hydrochloride salt of N-(5-{2-[3-(4,4-diethyl-2-oxo-4H-benzo[d][1,3]oxazin-1-yl)-1,1-dimethyl-propylamino-1-hydroxy-ethyl}-2-hydroxy-phenyl)-methanesulfonamide, preferably of N-(5-{(R)-2-[3-(4,4-diethyl-2-oxo-4H-benzo[d][1,3]oxazin-1-yl)-1,1-dimethyl-propylamino-1-hydroxy-ethyl}-2-hydroxy-phenyl)-methanesulfonamide and its action as a long acting beta-agonist, alone or in combination with one or multiple other active ingredients for the treatment of respiratory diseases.
US08394789B2
The invention relates to 5,6-dihydropyrrolo[2,1-α]isoquinoline and pyrrolo[2,1-α]isoquinoline derivatives according to general formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The compounds can be used for the treatment of infertility.
US08394786B2
The present invention concerns the compounds of formula wherein Z represents NH; Y represents —C3-9alkyl-, —C2-9alkenyl-, —C3-7alkyl-CO—NH optionally substituted with amino, mono- or di(C1-4alkyl)amino or C1-4alkyloxycarbonylamino-, —C3-7alkenyl-CO—NH— optionally substituted with amino, mono- or di(C1-4alkyl)amino- or C1-4alkyloxycarbonylamino-, C1-5alkyl-NR13—C1-5alkyl-, —C1-5alkyl-NR14—CO—C1-5alkyl-, —C1-6alkyl-CO—NH—, —C1-5alkyl-CONR15—C1-5alkyl-, —C1-3alkyl-NH—CO-Het20-, —C1-2alkyl-CO-Het21-CO—, —C1-2alkyl-NH—CO—CR16R17—NH—, —C1-2alkyl-CO—NH—CR18R19—CO—, —C1-2alkyl-CO—NR20—C1-3alkyl-CO—, or —NR22—CO—C1-3alkyl-NH—; X1 represents a direct bond, O or —O—C1-2alkyl-; X2 represents a direct bond, —CO—C1-2alkyl-, NR12, —NR12—C1-2alkyl-, —O—N═CH— or —C1-2alkyl-; R1 and R2 are hydrogen or halo; R3 are hydrogen; R4 represents hydrogen or C1-4alkyloxy; R12 and R13 are hydrogen or C1-4alkyl; R14 and R15 are hydrogen; R16 and R17 each independently represent hydrogen or C1-4alkyl; R18 and R19 are hydrogen or C1-4alkyl optionally substituted with phenyl or hydroxy; R20 and R21 are hydrogen or C1-4alkyl optionally substituted with C1-4alkyloxy; Het20, Het21 and Het22 are a heterocycle selected from the group consisting pyrrolidinyl, 2-pyrrolidinonyl or piperidinyl optionally substituted with hydroxy.
US08394785B2
The present invention relates to a method for the treatment and/or amelioration of urticaria, the method comprising the administration of a pharmaceutically active dose of a compound of formula I to a subject in need of such a treatment and/or amelioration.
US08394771B1
The invention provides multimerization polypeptides capable of conferring formation of multimers when the multimerization polypeptide is linked to a molecule, such as a heterologous polypeptide sequence.
US08394768B2
The field of the invention is the treatment of acquired bleeding, a clinical condition associated with severe traumatic, peri- or post-operative bleeding. A novel treatment is proposed in which synergistic procoagulatory properties of Prothrombin Complex Concentrates (PCC) together with medicaments comprising FVIII and/or vWF are exploited.
US08394762B2
Disclosed herein is a composition having: a polymeric material and an antimicrobial peptide derived from Chrysophrys major. Also disclosed herein is a method of: combining the polymeric material and antimicrobial peptide to form a coating material, and applying the coating material to a surface.
US08394757B2
Methods to sensitize tumor cells to radiation therapy through the administration of an endothelin agonist such as the ETB agonist IRL1620.
US08394753B2
Methods of assessing three dimensional fabric feel are useful for identifying fabric care actives.
US08394751B2
Organic residue remover composition useful to remove from very oily type soils to very watery contaminants from various surfaces, obtained by mixing: component (a): at least one water insoluble hydrophobic compound, component (b): at least one water soluble glycol ether, component (c): at least one water insoluble glycol ether, component (d): at least one aromatic alcohol, component (e): at least one surfactant, optionally component (f): at least one hydrotrope, and component (g): water, wherein each component or an ingredient thereof is different from the other components or ingredients thereof in the organic residue remover composition.
US08394750B1
A water soluble membrane comprising of liquid soap or bath oils encapsulating a figurine or toy. The figurine or toy floats freely in the liquid soap or bath oils that have been fully encapsulated by a water soluble membrane. The figurine or toy will be visible or concealed from the outer water soluble membrane that contains a clear or tinted in color, transparent liquid soap or bath oils. The water soluble membrane dissolves leaving a toy or figurine and bath bubbles or a bath soak once it has been placed in the bath water.
US08394739B2
A method and adsorbent composition for removing heavy metals from contaminated water, including mixing a water having a concentration of one or more heavy metals with an adsorbent including granules of a mixture of 3.33 wt % bentonite clay and a siwak stick powder; and collecting water having a reduced concentration of the heavy metal(s).
US08394737B2
The present invention discloses a method for preparing an activating support and its use to activate metallocene or post-metallocene catalyst component for use in the oligomerization and polymerization of ethylene and alpha-olefins.
US08394736B2
A method includes contacting a catalyst including a metal having an average particle size of approximately one nanometer or greater with SO2; and reducing the average particle size of the metal.
US08394731B2
Disclosed is a printed wiring board which attains aims of printed wiring boards required for realizing high-speed, high-frequency semiconductor devices, namely a printed wiring board having low dielectric constant, low dielectric loss tangent and low linear expansion coefficient. Also disclosed is a composite woven fabric suitably used as a base material for such a printed wiring board. Specifically disclosed is a composite woven fabric containing quartz glass fibers and polyolefin fibers, in which the ratio of the quartz glass fibers to the composite woven fabric is set at 10 vol % or more and 90 vol % or less. It is preferred that the quartz glass fibers each have a filament diameter of 3 μm or more and 16 μm or less, and the composite woven fabric has a thickness of 200 μm or less.
US08394724B2
A method for forming device features with reduced line end shortening (LES) includes trimming the device feature to achieve the desired sub-ground rule critical dimension during the etch to form the device feature.
US08394721B2
A method for obtaining a layout design for an existing integrated circuit, in which, an integrated circuit die is polished with a tilt angle to form an inclined polished surface and one or more images of the inclined polished surface are obtained. The images may be overlapped directly, or the image or the images may be utilized to provide information to obtain a layout design comprising at least one repeating unit structure of the layout structure.
US08394720B2
A plasma processing method includes modifying a resist pattern of the substrate; and trimming the modified resist pattern through a plasma etching. The modifying includes: supplying the processing gas for modification from the processing gas supply unit to the inside of the processing chamber while the substrate having a surface on which the resist pattern is formed is mounted on the lower electrode; supplying the high frequency power from the high frequency power supply to generate a plasma of the processing gas for modification; and supplying the negative DC voltage from the DC power supply to the upper electrode.
US08394719B2
System and method for implementing multi-resolution advanced process control (“APC”) are described. One embodiment is a method including obtaining low resolution metrology data and high resolution metrology data related to a process module for performing a process on the wafer. A process variable of the process is modeled as a function of the low resolution metrology data to generate a low-resolution process model and the process variable is modeled as a function of the high resolution metrology data to generate a high-resolution process model. The method further includes calibrating the low resolution process model; combining the calibrated low resolution process model with the high resolution process model to generate a multi-resolution process model that models the process variable as a function of both the low resolution metrology data and the high resolution metrology data; and analyzing a response of the multi-resolution process model and the low and high resolution metrology data to control performance of a process module.
US08394713B2
A semiconductor device structure has a semiconductor die that has a bond pad with a passivation layer surrounding a portion of the bond pad. A nickel layer, which is deposited, is on the inner portion. A space is between a sidewall of the nickel layer and the passivation layer and extends to the bond pad. A palladium layer is over the nickel layer and fills the space. The space is initially quite small but is widened by an isotropic etch so that when the palladium layer is deposited, the space is sufficiently large so that the deposition of palladium is able to fill the space. Filling the space results in a structure in which the palladium contacts the nickel layer, the passivation layer and the bond pad.
US08394703B2
When the single crystal semiconductor layer is melted, the outward diffusion of oxygen is promoted. Specifically, an SOI substrate is formed in such a manner that an SOI structure having a bonding layer including oxygen provided over a base substrate and a single crystal semiconductor layer provided over the bonding layer including oxygen is formed, and part of the single crystal semiconductor layer is melted by irradiation with a laser beam in a state that the base substrate is heated at a temperature of higher than or equal to 500° C. and lower than a melting point of the base substrate.
US08394694B2
A method for improving the reliability of a high-k gate dielectric layer comprises incorporating a noble metal into a transistor gate stack that contains the high-k gate dielectric layer and annealing the transistor gate stack in a molecular hydrogen or deuterium containing atmosphere. The annealing process drives at least a portion of the molecular hydrogen or deuterium toward the high-k gate dielectric layer. When the molecular hydrogen or deuterium contacts the noble metal, it is converted into atomic hydrogen or deuterium that is able to treat the high-k gate dielectric layer and improve its reliability.
US08394679B2
A structure and method for cold weld compression bonding using a metallic nano-structured gasket is provided. This structure and method allows a hermetic package to be formed at lower pressures and temperatures than are possible using bulk or conventional thin-film gasket materials.
US08394673B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device is disclosed. One embodiment includes placing multiple semiconductor chips onto a carrier, each of the semiconductor chips having a first face and a second face opposite to the first face. An encapsulation material is applied over the multiple semiconductor chips and the carrier to form an encapsulating body having a first face facing the carrier and a second face opposite to the first face. A redistribution layer is applied over the multiple semiconductor chips and the first face of the encapsulating body. An array of external contact elements are applied to the second face of the encapsulating body.
US08394663B2
Embodiments of the present invention involve photovoltaic (PV) cells comprising a semiconducting nanorod-nanocrystal-polymer hybrid layer, as well as methods for fabricating the same. In PV cells according to this invention, the nanocrystals may serve both as the light-absorbing material and as the heterojunctions at which excited electron-hole pairs split.
US08394657B2
A biosensor using a nanodot and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. A silicon nanowire can be formed by a CMOS process to reduce manufacturing costs. In addition, an electrically charged nanodot is coupled to a target molecule to be detected, in order to readily change conductivity of the silicon nanowire, thereby making it possible to implement a biosensor capable of providing good sensitivity and being manufactured at a low cost.
US08394654B2
A method of forming a phosphor coating layer on a light emitting diode (LED) chip using electrophoresis includes separating phosphor particles in a suspension according to a particle size, and coating the phosphor particles on a surface of the LED chip by sequentially depositing the separated phosphor particles on the surface of the LED chip according to the particle size. An apparatus to form a phosphor coating layer on an LED chip includes an electrophoresis bath to accommodate a suspension containing phosphor particles separated into layers according to a particle size, and electrodes disposed inside the electrophoresis bath. The electrodes may include a cathode electrode on which the LED chip may be arranged, and an anode electrode.
US08394652B2
A light emitting element having a recess-protrusion structure on a substrate is provided. A semiconductor light emitting element 100 has a light emitting structure of a semiconductor 20 on a first main surface of a substrate 10. The first main surface of the substrate 10 has substrate protrusion portion 11, the bottom surface 14 of each protrusion is wider than the top surface 13 thereof in a cross-section, or the top surface 13 is included in the bottom surface 14 in a top view of the substrate. The bottom surface 14 has an approximately polygonal shape, and the top surface 13 has an approximately circular or polygonal shape with more sides than that of the bottom surface 14.
US08394649B2
A magnetoresistance effect device including a multilayer structure having a pair of ferromagnetic layers and a barrier layer positioned between them, wherein at least one ferromagnetic layer has at least the part contacting the barrier layer made amorphous and the barrier layer is an MgO layer having a highly oriented texture structure.
US08394644B2
A micro-fluidic osmotic pump capable of delivering a desired fluid at a predetermined destination comprising an inside fluid reservoir housing a compressible sac, a surrounding compartment having an external surface made up of a semi-permeable membrane and a fluid duct. The inside fluid reservoir houses a compressible sac containing a predetermined amount of a fluid that is desired to be pumped to a predetermined destination. The surrounding compartment holds a desired osmotic agent and its saturated solution in the remaining volume thereof. The surrounding compartment has an outer surface made up of a semi-permeable membrane that allows a predetermined second external fluid to permeate into the surrounding compartment. The fluid duct is substantially housed within the inside fluid reservoir and runs through openings and respectively provided through the inside fluid reservoir and the surrounding compartment.
US08394634B2
Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides and recombinant DNA constructs particularly useful for altering agronomic characteristics of plants under nitrogen limiting conditions, compositions (such as plants or seeds) comprising these recombinant DNA constructs, and methods utilizing these recombinant DNA constructs. The recombinant DNA construct comprises a polynucleotide operably linked to a promoter functional in a plant, wherein said polynucleotide encodes an LNT2 polypeptide.
