US08424109B2
An information processing apparatus, includes: a registering unit for referring to a first storing unit for storing usage limitation information indicating a policy of usage limitation of a document which corresponds to a pair of a stamp image corresponding to an image representing that the document is limited in use, and the number of the stamp images, extracting the stamp image from document image information obtained by reading a paper document containing at least one of the stamp images, obtaining the usage limitation information corresponding to a pair of the extracted stamp image and the number of the extracted stamp images from the first storing unit, and registering the obtained usage limitation information and the document containing the document image information in correlation with each other into a second storing unit.
US08424108B2
Server SV of a contents supplying system according to this invention stores, together with numerous contents, contents purchase information including contents ID information and copy control data of already supplied contents as user information for each user US (a; b) of information processing terminal PC (a1, a2; b1) registered in advance. Upon request for supplying the contents from information processing terminal PC, server SV supplies the relevant contents and renews the contents purchase information of the relevant user by amendment. When information processing terminal PC sends to server SV a request for copying the downloaded contents, server SV sends the copy control data of the relevant contents as a reply. In accordance with the contents of the copy control data, information processing terminal PC determines whether or not to copy the relevant contents into external apparatus KD or recording medium RMb. Thus, the number of times for copying can be restricted, contents by contents, in accordance with a will of the contents supplier without imposing a burden on the user.
US08424106B2
A method, system, and computer usable program product for securing a data communication against attacks are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A segment in the data communication is received at a first application executing in a first data processing system. The segment is formed according to a data communication protocol and includes an option. The option includes a current clue and a next clue. The current clue is compared with a saved next clue, the saved next clue being a next clue in a previous segment. The segment is accepted as being a valid segment in the data communication if the current clue matches the saved next clue. A part of the segment is sent to a consumer application.
US08424105B2
Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to providing and restricting access to content. In aspects, information (e.g., a URL) that identifies content and a user is provided to a user. In conjunction with providing the information to a user, a data structure (e.g., an access control list) is updated to indicate that the user has access to the content. The user may use the information to access the content and/or may send this information to other users. The other users may use the information (e.g., by pasting it into a browser) to access the content and may be added to the data structure so that they may subsequently access the content without the use of the information. Access to the content via using the information may be subsequently revoked.
US08424104B2
A computer implemented method provides a specific traveler with mobile access to a digital media library. A plurality of registration stations, which are utilized in a travel and lodging industry to acknowledge arrivals and departures of travelers, are monitored. In response to detecting a specific traveler checking in at a pre-determined registration station from the plurality of registration stations, contents of a pre-defined digital media library are transmitted to a digital media player for use by the specific traveler.
US08424102B1
The present disclosure includes systems and techniques relating to document access auditing. According to an aspect, the invention involves receiving a request relating to an electronic document associated with a document tracking system; retrieving actions-taken information associated with the electronic document and maintained by the document tracking system; combining and signing the electronic document and the actions-taken information to form a signed document that includes the actions-taken information; and providing the signed document to enable access to the actions-taken information independent of the document tracking system. According to another aspect, the invention involves presenting a consent query that requests consent to an audit event to be recorded by a document control system for an electronic document tethered to the document control system; receiving a consent indication with respect to a consent statement relating to the audit event; and sending information corresponding to the consent indication to the document control system.
US08424099B2
A system and method are disclosed for creating a secure video content path, or a protected media content bus, within an unsecure personal computer. A portable security module, or electronic key safe, may be inserted into a personal computer that has different internal components for processing secure and unsecured content. The security module may establish a secure encrypted link with a secure video processor of the personal computer, and may use the personal computer's network interface to request authority to receive secured content. The security module may provide content keys to the secure video processor to access secured content received over an external network.
US08424091B1
A system for locally detecting computer security threats in a computer network includes a processing engine, a fingerprint engine, and a detection engine. Data samples are received in the computer network and grouped by the processing engine into clusters. Clusters that do not have high false alarm rates are passed to the fingerprint engine, which generates fingerprints for the clusters. The detection engine scans incoming data for computer security threats using the fingerprints.
US08424081B2
Embodiments in accordance with the present invention provide a disk unit capable of restricting access to data stored in the recording medium depending on users. In one embodiment, the user enters a password into a host computer. This password is transferred to a password verification section. Then, the password verification section checks whether the password coincides with any one of authentication passwords stored in an authentication password storage section. If the password coincides with any one of the passwords, the password verification section supplies an authentication signal to an operation mode control section. The operation mode control section supplies an operation mode signal to a controller by receiving the authentication signal. The controller controls execution of the operation mode according to the operation mode signal.
US08424077B2
Systems and methods for unattended authentication of software applications to provide these applications with access to shared resources. A server password manager (SPM) module resident on a node also occupied by a requester software application requesting access to resources receives the requestor's request. The SPM module creates a request package containing the requestor's information as well as the node's identifying information. The request package is then transmitted to a credentials manager (CM) module in a CM node. The request package, encrypted by the SPM module with encryption keys previously generated by the CM module, is decrypted by the CM module. The contents are checked against data stored by the CM module regarding the SPM module and the requestor application when these were registered with the CM. If the data matches, then the CM provides credentials which are used to give the requestor application access to the requested resources.
US08424068B2
Methods and apparatus for providing an application credential for an application running on a device. In one embodiment, a method provides an application credential to an application running on a device, wherein the application credential is used by the application to authenticate to a data server. The method comprises receiving a request to generate the application credential, wherein the request includes an application identifier. The method also comprises generating the application credential using the application identifier and a master credential associated with the device.
US08424062B2
A secure wireless network (2) includes a network (22, 24, 26) that includes one or more wireless nodes (7, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20). A list (5) includes security metadata, which describes access rights or groups of access rights granted to an entity within the wireless network (2) or groups of entities within the wireless network (2).
US08424060B2
A trusted network access controlling method based upon tri-element peer authentication comprises: Firstly initializing creditability collectors and a creditability verifier; then carrying out a tri-element peer authentication protocol among a network access requester, a network access controller and an authentication strategy server in a network access control layer to realize bi-directional user authentication between the access requester and the access controller; When authentication is successful or the locale strategy requires to carry out a when a platform creditability evaluation process, the TNC terminal, TNC server and evaluation strategy server in a trusted platform evaluation layer performing the tri-element peer authentication protocol to realize bi-directional platform creditability authentication between the access requester and the access controller; Finally the access requester and the access controller controlling ports according to the recommendation generated by the TNAC client terminal and the TNAC service terminal. The invention solves the technical problem about poor expandability in background, and further solves the problem about complex key negotiation and relatively low safety.
US08424058B2
Methods and apparatuses enable a service mediator to provide security proxying services to an end-user application requesting a backend service of an enterprise network. The end-user application generates a request for a service of the backend system. The request does not have sufficient security information to enable access to the backend system. The service mediator can detect that one or more items of required security information are not present in the request and injects the necessary security information into the request. The end-user application need not even have access to the security information or even be aware that security information is needed to access the service. The request having the required security information is sent to the backend to enable access to the backend service.
US08424056B2
A workflow system which restricts improper operations on an object circulated in a workflow by dynamically modifying access rights for the object according to the working status of the workflow. For example, the workflow system is a system which processes an object according to a workflow having a plurality of working statuses. When the working status for the object is changed, a modifying unit modifies access rights applied to the object. A control unit then controls operations on the object based on the modified access rights.
US08424055B2
A user authentication service for a communication network authenticates local users before granting them access to personalized sets of network resources. Authentication agents on intelligent edge devices present users of associated end systems with log-in challenges. Information supplied by the users is forwarded to an authentication server for verification. If successfully verified, the authentication server returns to the agents authorized connectivity information and time restrictions for the particular authenticated users. The agents use the information to establish rules for filtering and forwarding network traffic originating from or destined for particular authenticated users during authorized time periods. An enhanced authentication server may be engaged if additional security is desired. The authorized connectivity information preferably includes identifiers of one or more virtual local area networks active in the network. Log-in attempts are recorded so that the identity and whereabouts of network users may be monitored from a network management station.
US08424054B2
Secret key backup is safely implemented even if a role base access structure in which the access structure is specified using roles is used. An all combination generating unit 107 obtains a backup participating user list 201 which is a list of backup participating users and a list of validated roles validated by the users, and a role base access structure 202 which is a combination of specified roles by which a secret key 205 can be restored, and generates an all combination extracted result which is all combinations of restoration enabling users of the secret key by applying users described in the backup participating user list 201 to the specified role. A same user/role deleting unit 108, etc. deletes a combination showing the same user redundantly, etc. from the all combination extracted result, a general access structure secret distributing unit 114 generates fragments of secret key from the secret key, and distributes the fragments of secret key to the combinations of users from which the redundancy is removed.
US08424051B2
A signal formatting apparatus for use in a television transmission system, the apparatus comprising: an enhanced content input for receiving enhanced content streams in a predefined input format; a plurality of enhanced content outputs for outputting enhanced content data in a plurality of formats for transmission to receivers of respective types; and a signal formatter for forming the enhanced content data by processing the enhanced content streams to put each of the enhanced content streams in the respective format.
US08424043B1
A method of triggering the recording of a programming stream includes: receiving a request to monitor for an unscheduled event; determining search strings associated with the unscheduled event; monitoring a programming stream; analyzing closed captioning information contained in the programming stream to determine the occurrence of the search strings; and recording the programming stream upon the occurrence of the search strings.
US08424040B2
The present invention provides a tuning scheme for coordinating schedule information and programs received from multiple sources (26, 28, 30 and 34). In the preferred embodiment, an identifier associated with the program's channel (52) is used to identify a source device (26, 28, 30 or 34). When a user selects a program (60 or 62) listed in displayed schedule information (50), the system (10) reads the source identifier attached to the program's channel (52). The system (10) then carries out an automatic switching/tuning such that the required source device (26, 28, 30 or 34) is input to the destination device (22), and a tuner is then tuned to the selected program's channel (52).
US08424037B2
Media rich content systems and methods are operable to provide access to supplemental media rich content in response to user selection of a presented object of interest. An exemplary embodiment receives at a media device a video stream comprising at least a plurality of video frames, wherein at least one of the video frames is configured to present an object of interest; processes a supplemental media rich content trigger associated with the at least one video frame, wherein the supplemental media rich content trigger comprises information that identifies a region where the object of interest is presented in the video frame, and comprises information configured to access supplemental media rich content associated with the object of interest; receives a user selection of the object of interest presented in the at least one video frame; and presents the supplemental media rich content on a presentation device.
US08424033B2
A turntable device and a disk driving device having the same are disclosed. The turntable device, for detachably securing a disk, may include: a centering part, in an inner perimeter of which slots are formed along a circumferential direction that provide an elastic force; and a base, on which a conical extension part is formed that is configured to slidably support an inner perimeter of the centering part. The turntable device can improve alignment between the centers of rotation of the motor and the disk, even for high-speed rotations.
US08424029B2
A housing included in an optical disc device 1 includes a top case 2 and a bottom case 3. The top case 2 includes a ceiling plate 2a and side plates 2b. The bottom case 3 includes a bottom plate 3a and side plates 3b. The top case 2 and the bottom case 3 are assembled and fixed to each other so that the side plates 2b of the top case are located on the outer sides of the side plates 3b of the bottom case. The top case is formed with a groove 2d and flat portions 2e on an inner-side end portion of the ceiling plate 2a of the top case, the groove 2d and flat portions 2e extending along bent portions 2c of the side plates 2b of the top case. The flat portions shield the groove 2d.
US08424012B1
A method for context switching on a video processor having a scalar execution unit and a vector execution unit. The method includes executing a first task and a second task on a vector execution unit. The first task in the second task can be from different respective contexts. The first task and the second task are each allocated to the vector execution unit from a scalar execution unit. The first task and the second task each comprise a plurality of work packages. In response to a switch notification, a work package boundary of the first task is designated. A context switch from the first task to the second task is then executed on the work package boundary.
US08424006B2
A method of enhancing performance of a three-dimensional microarchitecture includes determining a computational demand for performing a task, selecting an optimization criteria for the task, identifying at least one computational resource of the microarchitecture configured to meet the computational demand for performing the task, and calculating an evaluation criteria for the at least one computational resource based on the computational demand for performing the task. The evaluation criteria defines an ability of the computational resource to meet the optimization criteria. The method also includes assigning the task to the computational resource based on the evaluation criteria of the computational resource in order to proactively avoid creating a hot spot on the three-dimensional microarchitecture.
US08423993B2
Embodiments relate to systems and methods for managing software patches. Embodiments incorporate a patch server that collects aggregate patch history information from a community of software application users. The set of available patches for a given software application can be registered to a data store, and the number of uses electing to install a patch, as well as usage information such as the frequency of bug reports or rollbacks associated with individual patches can be tracked. When a user desires to update a software application, the various available patches and their combined usage history can be displayed in a patch selection dialog. The user can view and select the patch version best suited to their needs, for example to best match their particular hardware configuration, or to install a patch having the fewest bug reports.
US08423991B2
An embedded network device includes a memory, a NOR flash, a first part and a second part of old firmware. The NOR flash includes a first image sector which stores the first part of the old firmware, a second image sector which stores the second part of the old firmware, and a third image sector for backup the old firmware. The embedded network device obtains a first part and a second part of new firmware and store the new firmware in the memory, reads the first part of the old firmware from the first image sector and writes to the third image sector, reads the first part of the new firmware form the memory and writes to the first image sector, reads the second part of the new firmware from the memory and writes to the third image sector.
US08423987B2
An apparatus, program product and method optimize the operation of a massively parallel computer system by, in part, receiving actual performance data concerning an application executed by the plurality of interconnected nodes, and analyzing the actual performance data to identify an actual performance pattern. A desired performance pattern may be determined for the application, and an algorithm may be selected from among a plurality of algorithms stored within a memory, the algorithm being configured to achieve the desired performance pattern based on the actual performance data.
US08423986B1
Random utility generation technology, in which configuration data that is descriptive of benchmark program complexity and scale is accessed and configuration parameters used in generating random benchmark programs are set based on the accessed configuration data. Predefined code elements that are used in generating random benchmark programs are accessed and a random benchmark program that has the benchmark program complexity and scale is constructed based on the accessed code elements and the set configuration parameters.
US08423977B2
System and method for converting a class oriented data flow program to a structure oriented data flow program. A first data flow program is received, where the first data flow program is an object oriented program comprising instances of one or more classes, and wherein the first data flow program is executable to perform a first function. The first data flow program is automatically converted to a second data flow program, where the second data flow program does not include the instances of the one or more classes, and where the second data flow program is executable to perform the first function. The second data flow program is stored on a computer memory, where the second data flow program is configured to be deployed to a device, e.g., a programmable hardware element, and where the second data flow program is executable on the device to perform the first function.
US08423975B1
Generally and not exclusively, there is disclosed a method and a routine that may be operated upon by a processor and is contained in a media, to execute a simulation of a system. The routine operates upon a database whose contents are a standardized formulation of the system to be simulated. Generally and not exclusively the standardized database is disclosed. Generally and not exclusively a language is disclosed that describes the characteristics of the system to be described in the database, and that can be converted by a compilation process to yield the data in the database.
US08423946B1
Circuits, architectures, a system and methods for providing multiple power rails to a plurality of standard cells in a region of an integrated circuit. The circuitry generally includes a plurality of cells configured for connection to a first or second power rail, the first power rail providing a first voltage to at least one of the plurality of cells, and the second power rail providing a second voltage (which may be independent from the first voltage) to remaining cells in the plurality of cells. The method generally includes routing, in an IC layout, a first power rail providing a first voltage and a second power rail providing a second voltage, placing the plurality of cells, and selectively connecting first and second subsets of the plurality of cells to the first and second power rails, respectively. The present invention further advantageously minimizes regional layout design considerations and time delays.
US08423942B2
A fill-placement method, according to which symmetrical fill patterns are used to insert fill tiles into one or more interconnect levels corresponding to symmetrical circuitry. The fill-placement method can be used, for example, in the fabrication of an integrated circuit having at least two complementary portions for which relatively tight circuit-matching requirements need to be met.
US08423940B2
A computerized method, data processing system and computer program product reduce noise for a buffered design of an electronic circuit which was already placed and routed. For all areas between a power stripe and a ground stripe (half bay) in the design, the shapes are divided in different criticality levels. The shapes are rearranged based on their criticality level such that shapes with higher criticality level are placed closer to the stripes than those with lower criticality level.
US08423939B1
Methods, systems, and machine-readable storage medium for logic synthesis that adjust a timing model of a circuit are provided. A first memory element from multiple memory elements of the circuit may be determined, where the first memory element is connected with a first portion of the circuit and is controlled by at least one first control signal. A combinational element within the first portion of the circuit may be determined. The combinational element may include at least one input or output coupled with a second memory element. The second memory element may be controlled by at least one second control signal. The second control signal may be incompatible with the first control signal. A first timing element may be inserted into the circuit at a location connecting the first timing element with the combinational element. A synthesis optimization may be performed utilizing the at least one first timing element.
US08423937B2
A design support program stored in a recording medium readable by a computer includes acquiring a first analysis result including information about an area included in circuit information of a design target circuit and a second analysis result relating to a path of the circuit information, the temperature of the area being equal to or higher than a certain temperature; determining an arbitrary cell on a non-critical path from among cells arranged in the area as a target cell for decreasing the area temperature; and outputting a result of the determination.
US08423933B2
A method of verifying integrated circuit designs, by constructing a series of atomic generators in a staged, hierarchical order, applying a lowest of the hierarchical generator stages to device level test cases of the verification process, applying a highest of the hierarchical generator stages to system level test cases of the verification process, reusing code written for and used in the lowest hierarchical generator stage in a next higher generator stage, creating a constraint scenario in the highest hierarchical generator stage, and injecting the constraint scenario into a next lower generator stage.
US08423931B2
A computer-readable recording medium stores a design support program causing a computer to perform: detecting a data path and a clock path corresponding to the data path making up a partial circuit in a circuit-under-design; selecting an object cell from cells on the data path and the clock path detected in the detecting; replacing the object cell selected in the selecting with a cell having a function substantially identical to and characteristics different from the object cell; acquiring a plurality of types of characteristic information related to the partial circuit based on the data path and the clock path after the object cell is replaced in the replacing; determining whether the types of the characteristic information acquired in the acquiring is in violation of restrictions; and outputting a determination result determined in the determining.
US08423914B2
Selection of visualization objects, such as icons, is represented by a flowing selection boundary. The region enclosed by the selection boundary can include a display properly, e.g., color and/or texture. The display property may be adjusted in response to an identified event, e.g., the presence of a cursor or a pending and/or active operation.
US08423912B2
Selectable objects in a computer display are arranged in a cascading menu including parent menu and submenu objects in which an activation area is provided in association with each submenu displayed which spans between the submenu and the associated parent menu object. The activation area provides the function of maintaining display of a submenu associated with a selected parent menu object while the cursor remains in contact with the activation area. An override function is provided to minimize trapping of the cursor within the activation area. The shape of the activation area is generally triangular with opposing side edges extending from an apex and the parent object being curved inwardly towards one another to also minimize trapping. The characteristics of the activation area can also be varied according to user motion patterns.
US08423909B2
A system applies an interactive filter. The system includes a data storage device, a display device, a user interface input device, and a processor. The data storage device stores data. The display device displays an initial representation of the data. The user interface input device facilitates a localized selection of a portion of the initial representation displayed on the display device. The localized selection is determined by hovering a navigation icon in alignment with a selection area corresponding to the portion of the initial representation. The processor dynamically applies a filter parameter to the portion of the initial representation based on the localized selection from the user interface input device.
US08423905B2
A system and a method for automatically populating chat recipients in an instant messaging system in which chat recipients are automatically populated from external data sources, e.g. clipboard, spreadsheet, document, database, directory, etc., and a chat session started with the click of a single user interface button or the like. A pop-up window is generated that allows the user to select a data source from which the chat recipients are to be obtained. The data source may be scanned to identify candidate names matching a predetermined name format, or the user is prompted to provide at least a portion of a search string. The user can then select which of the returned names are to be used in initiating the chat session. The disclosed system then generates a user interface object allowing the initiating user to perform an action with the selected recipients, including initiating a chat session.
US08423902B2
Various embodiments present a combined visual entity that represents overlapping visual entities. The combined visual entity can include a primary visualization that represents one of the overlapping visual entities and annotations that represent others of the overlapping visual entities. For example, a map view can include multiple geographical entities that overlap. A primary visualization can be rendered that represents one of the multiple geographical entities. The primary visualization can be visually annotated (e.g., with symbols, letters, or other visual indicators) to indicate others of the multiple geographical entities. In some embodiments, a zoom operation can cause visual entities to be added and/or removed from the combined visual entity.
US08423894B2
A network security monitor system groups a plurality of security events into network sessions, correlates the network sessions according to a set of predefined network security event correlation rules and generates a security incident for the network sessions that satisfy one of the network security event correlation rules. The system then presents the information of the network sessions and security incidents to a user of the system in an intuitive form. The user is able to not only learn the details of a possible network attack, but also creates new security event correlation rules intuitively, including drop rules for dropping a particular type of events.
US08423883B1
Systems and methods for creating and editing content having graphics of different types. For example, bitmap-based image editing can be integrated within a vector-editing application allowing bitmap images to be edited within the context of the content in which they are used. Bitmap specific editing features can be made available concurrently with outer editing environment editing features. For example, a bitmap container used in an outer application may be cropped or resized while the outer editing application is in a specific bitmap editing mode that also allows editing of the actual pixels of the bitmap (e.g., to set the colors of the pixels and the pixel resolution). An editing application may also provide an integrated scale pixels to screen option to allow editors to selectively keep or discard image details (e.g., resolution information that is not needed for an images current size, etc.).
US08423881B2
Systems and methods provide for determining a location and size of a visual link to digital media on physical media such as a paper document. An authoring tool for creating a link on a paper document, such as an Embedded Media Marker (EMM), identifies and scores other EMMs and related keypoints on the document to determine similarities between a newly-created EMM and other EMMs and keypoints on the paper document. The scores are visualized for a user on a display in order to position and size the newly-created EMM in a location on the paper document that will avoid confusion with other EMMs and related content. The location and size of the newly-created EMM may be automatically adjusted based on the scoring of the keypoints and related EMMs.
US08423878B2
A memory controller includes first and second interface controllers configured to exchange data with external devices, and an internal block connected between the first and second interface controllers. The first and second interface controllers exchange data received from the external devices and at least one parity bit corresponding to the received data through the internal block.
US08423875B2
Methods and apparatus for error correction code (ECC) debugging may comprise detecting whether a bit error has occurred; determining which bit or bits were in error; and using the bit error information for debug. The method may further comprise comparing ECC syndromes against one or more ECC syndrome patterns. The method may allow for accumulating bit error information, comparing error bit failures against a pattern, trapping data, counting errors, determining pick/drop information, or stopping the machine for debug.
US08423866B2
Data errors in non-volatile memory inevitably increase with usage and with higher density of bits stored per cell. The memory is configured to have a first portion operating with less error but of lower density storage, and a second portion operating with a higher density but less robust storage. Input data is written and staged in the first portion before being copied to the second portion. An error management provides checking the quality of the copied data for excessive error bits. The copying and checking are repeated on a different location in the second portion until either a predetermined quality is satisfied or the number or repeats exceeds a predetermined limit. The error management is not started when a memory is new with little or no errors, but started after the memory has aged to a predetermined amount as determined by the number of erase/program cycling its has experienced.
US08423861B2
In a communications system that demultiplexes user data words into multiple sub-words for encoding and decoding within different subword-processing paths, the minimum distance between bit errors in an extrinsic codeword can be increased by having corresponding interleavers/deinterleavers in the different subword-processing paths use different interleaving/deinterleaving algorithms.
US08423860B2
A method and apparatus are provided for generating a parity check matrix used to generate a linear block code in a communication system. The method includes determining a basic parameter of a second parity check matrix satisfying a rule predetermined with respect to a given first parity check matrix, generating a submatrix corresponding to a parity part of the second parity check matrix, using the basic parameter; and generating a submatrix corresponding to an information word part of the second parity check matrix, using the first parity check matrix and the basic parameter.
US08423854B2
A method of communication retransmission based on performance relative to an expected quality of service is presented. In the method, data packets associated with the expected quality of service are transmitted. The transmission performance associated with the transmission of the data packets is determined in relation to the expected quality of service. A maximum number of retransmissions for one of the data packets to be transmitted is selected based on the transmission performance. The one of the data packets is transmitted using the communication retransmission scheme limited by the selected maximum number of retransmissions.
US08423852B2
Low latency and computationally efficient techniques may be employed to account for errors in data such as low bit-width, oversampled data. In some aspects these techniques may be employed to mitigate audio artifacts associated with sigma-delta modulated audio data. In some aspects an error may be detected in a set of encoded data based on an outcome of a channel decoding process. Upon determining that a set of data may contain at least one error, the set of data may be replaced with another set of data that is based on one or more neighboring data sets. For example, in some aspects a set of data including at least one bit in error may be replaced with data that is generated by applying a cross-fading operation to neighboring data sets. In some aspects a given data bit may be flipped as a result of a linear prediction operation that is applied to PCM equivalent data that is associated with the given data bit and its neighboring data bits. In some aspects a set of data including at least one bit in error may be replaced with data that is generated by performing linear interpolation operations on PCM equivalent data that is associated with neighboring data sets.
US08423847B2
Built-in self-test (BIST) microcontroller integrated circuit adapted for logic verification. Microcontroller includes a plurality of hardware description language files representing a hierarchical description of the microcontroller, the plurality of hardware description language files including a library of circuit design elements, a plurality of library design circuit elements adapted to store a uniquely defined set of input and output signals to enable a logic BIST, and a plurality of latches adapted to store a plurality of values corresponding to a behavioral profile of a test clock.
US08423846B2
Integrated circuits with memory built-in self test (MBIST) circuitry and methods are disclosed that employ enhanced features. In one aspect of the invention, an integrated circuit is provided having MIBST circuitry configured to serially test multiple arrays of memory elements within a component of the integrated circuit and to also conduct parallel initialization of the serially tested arrays. In another aspect of the invention, the MBST circuitry is used set the memory elements of the arrays to a first state and then to an inverse state during a burn-in operation to maintain each of the two opposing states for a desired time in order to either force a failure of the integrated circuit component or produce a pre-stressed component beyond an infancy stage.
US08423845B2
On-chip logic includes a shadow register cross-coupled with a multiple input shift/signature register (MISR). The shadow register facilitates debugging by shifting out a test signature while resetting the MISR with a fault-free signature. The on-chip logic may further include comparator circuitry to produce an output signal by comparing the test signature with the fault-free signature or by first compressing the test signature and then comparing the compressed test signature with the compressed fault-free signature.
US08423841B1
The present invention provides a method and system for improving memory testing efficiency, raising the speed of memory testing, detecting memory failures occurring at the memory operating frequency, and reducing data reported for redundancy repair analysis. The memory testing system includes a first memory tester extracting failed memory location information from the memory at a higher memory operating frequency, an external memory tester receiving failed memory location information at a lower memory tester frequency, and an interface between the first memory tester and the external memory tester. The memory testing method uses data strobes at the memory tester frequency to clock out failed memory location information obtained at the higher memory operating frequency. In addition, the inventive method reports only enough information to the external memory tester for it to determine row, column and single bit failures repairable with the available redundant resources. The present invention further provides a redundant resource allocation system, which uses a bad location list and an associated bad location list to classify failed memory locations according to a predetermined priority sequence, and allocates redundant resources to repair the failed memory locations according to the priority sequence.
US08423839B2
A memory system includes an array of memory cells. The array of memory cells includes redundant memory cells. The redundant memory cells include at least two of a redundant row and a redundant column of memory cells. The repair module is configured to (i) identify at least two of a row and a column of the array of memory cells having non-operational memory cells and (ii) substitute the at least two of the row and the column of the array of memory cells with selected rows or columns of the redundant memory cells based on X predetermined sequences of substitutions. The repair module is configured to detect a failure in the array of memory cells that cannot be repaired using the X predetermined sequences of substitutions, and use an alternative repair sequence to repair the non-operational memory cells based on the detection of the failure.
US08423829B2
A debugger is operated in a host PC, and in response to operation of the debugger, first and second microprocessors execute an identical debug operation in parallel via first and second debug I/F devices. The host PC obtains internal information (dump results) from the first and second microprocessors via the first and second debug I/F devices and compares internal information (dump results) from the first and second microprocessors to perform failure analysis.
US08423826B2
A management system comprises at the least a first analysis rule information and a second analysis rule information, acquires a first analysis result and a second analysis result based on a detected status of an information processing apparatus, and aggregates and displays a first analysis result and a second analysis result based on (A) a cause denoted by an analysis result, (B) a status condition of analysis rule information that forms the basis for the analysis result, or (C) a detected status.
US08423822B2
A storage system, method and program product, the system comprising: storage devices; and a controller configured to: provide virtual volumes to a host computer; manage logical units on the storage device and storage pools; allocate, in response to receiving a write request to a virtual volume, a storage region of the storage pools; and store data related to the write request in the storage region allocated, wherein the controller is further configured to: allocate first storage region in first storage pool to first virtual volume based on first size of the first storage region or the first virtual volume; allocate a second storage region in a second storage pool to a second virtual volume of the plurality of virtual volumes based on a second size of the second storage region or the second virtual volume.
US08423815B2
An information processing device, such as cellular phone, includes a first timer set for executing count processing applied to a preassigned first processing, a second timer set for executing count processing applied to the preassigned first processing, a display state determination unit configured to determine a display state of a display unit, and a timer switching unit configured to select and set the first timer for the preassigned first processing at a time when the display state determination unit determines that the display unit is in an “ON” state and to select and set the second timer for the preassigned first processing at a time when the display state determination unit determines that the display unit is in an “OFF” state.
US08423813B2
A memory controller comprises a DQ path, a DQS path, a delay element, a flip flop, and an adjustment unit. The DQ path receives and passes a data signal, and outputs a delayed data signal. The DQS path receives and passes a data strobe signal. The delay element is coupled to the DQS path, receiving the data strobe signal to generate a compensated data strobe signal having a calibrated latency. The calibrated latency is determined by an adjustment signal. The flip flop is coupled to the data signal path and the delay element, sampling the delayed data signal by the compensated data strobe signal to generate an output data. The adjustment unit generates the adjustment signal according to the output data. The adjustment unit performs a calibration to adjust the adjustment signal, thus the calibrated latency is adjusted.
US08423800B2
In some embodiments, a voltage regulator device may include a switched capacitor voltage regulator to receive an input voltage and to provide an output voltage to a load, and a control unit to receive information related to a desired output voltage for the switched capacitor voltage regulator and to determine a desired input voltage for the switched capacitor voltage regulator based on the desired output voltage and selected operation mode or modes of switched capacitor voltage regulator. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
US08423795B2
Proposed are a storage controller equipped with an encryption function, a data encryption method, and a storage system enabling a user to apply one's desired encryption policy to data received from a computer or the like. This storage controller includes a storage apparatus for storing data from a computer, and a controller for controlling the input and output of data stored in the storage apparatus. The controller has a configuration information management unit for managing configuration information of attributes concerning an encryption function as information for encrypting data, and an encryption execution unit for performing encryption of data from the computer and data stored in the storage apparatus based on the configuration information of attributes concerning the encryption function.
US08423790B2
A module validation system and methods are disclosed for use with graphical user interfaces provided by a workstation that, among other things, remotely monitor and/or control game and/or gaming devices and/or systems. Validation of modules used in shells that provide graphical user interfaces enables the module validation system to provide users with varying levels of access to a gaming system.
US08423788B2
A secure memory card with encryption capabilities comprises various life cycle states that allow for testing of the hardware and software of the card in certain of the states. The testing mechanisms are disabled in certain other of the states thus closing potential back doors to secure data and cryptographic keys. Controlled availability and generation of the keys required for encryption and decryption of data is such that even if back doors are accessed that previously encrypted data is impossible to decrypt and thus worthless even if a back door is found and maliciously pried open.
US08423786B2
A biometrics authentication device which detects body characteristics, performs verification against registered biometrics data, and performs individual authentication, by which confidentiality is improved even when biometrics data is separated, distributed and stored. A biometrics information key is created from biometrics data detected by a detection device, the biometrics data is divided into a plurality of portions, and the portions are stored on different media. The biometrics information key is stored on one media, and at the time of authentication, the separated biometrics data portions are combined and a biometrics information key is created and is compared with the biometrics information key, to judge the linked relationship. Hence confidentiality of the association of the individual separated data portions can be improved even when the biometrics data is separated, distributed and stored, contributing to prevent illicit use resulting from leakage or theft of biometrics data.
US08423782B2
The invention relates to a method for authenticating a user accessing a remote server from a computer. The method comprises connecting to the remote server from the computer; logging into the remote server using a user-specific identifier; authenticating the remote server in the computer; sending an unpredictable message from the remote server to the computer; establishing communication between the remote server and a terminal belonging to the user; authenticating the remote server in the terminal; authenticating the terminal in the remote server; inviting the user to enter the unpredictable message in the terminal; using the terminal to send the message entered by the user in the terminal to the remote server; and if the message entered by the user in the terminal matches the unpredictable message, authenticating the user in the remote server.
US08423770B2
A method and system for creating a group of marking codes for marking items in a code generation and validation system and validating the marking codes. The code generation and validation system includes a first subsystem and a second subsystem, where first and second keys in each of the subsystems are respectively used to encode a first input message in the first subsystem with an output message being the second input message in the second subsystem to solve the problem of data integrity of the validated data.
US08423759B2
An inventive method is disclosed for bootstrapping a trusted client public key at the server side in a client-server model of e-commerce or distributed computer applications. Generally, the invention integrates security technique elements and user procedural elements in such a way that no vulnerability arises due to the decoupling of elements. It is thus aimed at high security application areas. The readily available support of X.509 client security certificates in web browsers is advantageous for easy deployment at the client side. However, serious usability flaws deter the use of client certificates despite their potential for high security client authentication. The invention circumvents this contradiction at the client registration phase, and extends the benefits of simplified reliance on client public-private key pair to production use of the circumvention. Many variations of the inventive idea are disclosed, including the use of a dummy client security certificate that addresses the interoperability pitfalls of the X.509 technology while the trust in the client public key rests on other elements of the inventive method.
US08423755B2
A multi-processor system includes a first processor, a second processor communicable with the first processor, a first non-volatile memory for storing first codes and second codes to respectively boot the first and second processors, the first memory communicable with the first processor, a second volatile memory designated for the first processor, a third volatile memory designated for the second processor, and a fourth volatile memory shared by the first and second processors.
US08423746B2
A storage system having at least two storage apparatuses capable of partitioning an internal resource into logical partitions and managing the logical partitions, and which replicates data written into a primary volume of a primary storage apparatus as the replication source storage apparatus to a secondary volume of a secondary storage apparatus as the replication destination storage apparatus, including: a configuration information sending unit for sending configuration information of the logical partition, to which the primary volume belongs, to the secondary storage apparatus; and a logical partition setting unit for setting the configuration of the logical partition to which the secondary volume belongs based on the configuration information of the logical partition to which the primary volume belongs sent from the configuration information sending unit.
US08423744B2
A system and method of squeezing slabs of memory empty are provided. A slab is a block of allocated memory space that is dedicated to holding one type of data. When it is determined that a slab of memory is to be squeezed empty, no object may be allocated from the slab. That is, new data is precluded from being placed in any unused space of the slab. Further, data is also precluded from being placed in any space in the slab that becomes unused anytime thereafter. When the slab becomes empty, the slab is de-allocated.
US08423743B2
A method to divide a file or merge files using a file allocation table (FAT) in which the method to divide a file includes storing data of a first cluster, among data intended to be separated from the file, into a second cluster, and generating a first cluster chain and a second cluster chain using a file allocation table (FAT), the first cluster chain containing data remaining in the first cluster, and the second cluster containing data existing in the second cluster. As a result, time delay due to a file copy process and shortening of a lifespan of NAND flash are prevented, and a reserve capacity for editing purposes is minimized.
US08423742B2
A data transfer control apparatus includes a memory, a write control part controlling data writing to the memory, a read control part controlling data reading from the memory, a read-start calculation part calculating an output timing of a notification which indicates a read-start operation to the read control part based on each transfer condition of the data writing to the memory and the data reading from the memory, and an asynchronous transfer part asynchronously transferring a clock of the notification, and notifying the read control part of the notification.
US08423729B2
A part information restoration method is adapted to an electronic apparatus having first and second parts which are replaceable and are provided with a nonvolatile memory for storing part information unique to the part. The method includes storing, in a first nonvolatile memory of the first part, part information of the first part, and saving part information of the second part as a first reference information at least when replacing the second part, storing, in a second nonvolatile memory of the second part, the part information of the second part, and saving the part information of the first part as second reference information at least when replacing the first part. The method restores the first reference information in the second nonvolatile memory or restores the second reference information in the first nonvolatile memory, after replacing the first or second part.
US08423728B1
Scheduling jobs for a plurality of logical devices associated with physical devices includes assigning a physical run count value and a physical skip count value to each of the physical devices, at each iteration, examining the physical skip count value and the physical run count value for each of the physical devices, and scheduling a number of jobs up to the physical run count value for logical devices associated with a particular one of the physical devices at each iteration corresponding to the physical skip count value for the particular one of the physical devices. The physical skip count value and the physical run count value for a particular one of the physical devices may vary according to a total load of the particular physical device. The total load of the particular physical device may vary according to a number of jobs for all logical devices associated with the particular physical device and a total number of all jobs for all physical devices associated with a particular physical device controller.
US08423724B2
A method for operating a dynamic back-up storage system includes: providing a high speed memory including a first rank memory device and subsequent ranks of memory devices; providing a non-volatile memory for saving data from the high speed memory; and providing a control logic unit for controlling access, of a central processing unit that executes a program, from the high speed memory including restoring the subsequent ranks of memory devices while the central processing unit is executing the program from the first rank memory device.
US08423723B2
A method of declaring and using variables includes; determining whether variables are independent variables or common variables, declaring and storing the independent variables in a plurality of data structures respectively corresponding to the plurality of processors, declaring and storing the common variables in a shared memory area, allowing each one of the plurality of processors to simultaneously use the independent variables in a corresponding one of the plurality of data structures, and allowing only one of the plurality of processors at a time to use the common variables in the shared memory area.
US08423716B2
A multithreaded clustered microarchitecture with dynamic back-end assignment is presented. A processing system may include a plurality of instruction caches and front-end units each to process an individual thread from a corresponding one of the instruction caches, a plurality of back-end units, and an interconnect network to couple the front-end and back-end units. A method may include measuring a performance metric of a back-end unit, comparing the measurement to a first value, and reassigning, or not, the back-end unit according to the comparison. Computer systems according to embodiments of the invention may include: a random access memory; a system bus; and a processor having a plurality of instruction caches, a plurality of front-end units each to process an individual thread from a corresponding one of the instruction caches; a plurality of back-end units; and an interconnect network coupled to the plurality of front-end units and the plurality of back-end units.
US08423711B1
An embedded device is hibernated by storing state data of the embedded device to a non-volatile data storage medium, and powering off the embedded device. The embedded device is later woken up in response to the detection of a wakeup event. The state data stored in the RAM of the embedded device comprises one or more registers of a Central Processing Unit (CPU) of the embedded device, one or more registers of a system-on-chip (SOC) of the embedded device, and the system and applications code and data. Waking the embedded device comprises loading, from the non-volatile data storage medium, initial memory sections that are used to run a kernel of the embedded device. State data that is stored in the RAM of a system is compressed by dividing the RAM into a plurality of sections and independently choosing, for each section in the plurality of sections, a compression arithmetic.
US08423709B2
A controller stores therein a sector address set indicating logical storage positions within a nonvolatile-memory storage area; page addresses indicating, in units of pages, physical storage positions within the nonvolatile-memory storage area; and pieces of management information each indicating whether one or more special sectors each being either a bad sector or a trimmed sector trimmed by a TRIM command are present in the corresponding page, while associating them with each other. When an access to a specified sector address is requested, the device refers to the piece of management information and judges whether any special sector is present in the page identified by the page address corresponding to the sector address. The device generates predetermined response data if the page contains one or more special sectors and accesses the nonvolatile-memory storage position corresponding to the sector address if the page contains no special sector.
US08423702B2
A method, system, and computer-usable medium for operating a mobile computer system. In response to receiving a write request, a control system attempts to write data associated with said write request to a non-volatile memory cache coupled to said hard disk drive. In response to determining the non-volatile memory cache cannot accommodate the data, the control system starts the hard disk drive. The control system writes contents of the non-volatile memory cache to the hard disk drive, after starting the hard disk drive. In response to determining the non-volatile memory cache can accommodate said data, the control system writes the data to the non-volatile memory cache.
US08423693B2
Provided is an arbitration circuit included in a host controller that can be connected to a plurality of external devices via a plurality of pipe control circuits. The arbitration circuit includes an available state information storage unit that stores available state information. The available state information indicates an available state of the plurality of pipe control circuits and is updated by the pipe control circuit by a unit of data transfer of a predetermined communication size. The arbitration circuit further includes an arbitration unit that refers to the available state information storage unit, selects the arbitrary pipe control circuit from the available pipe control circuit, and allocates the selected pipe control circuit to the external device, while updating the available state information storage unit.
US08423689B2
A communication control device includes a plurality of receive buffers each storing therein received information that corresponds to all or a part of a received message or an argument of a receive function, a hash-value generating unit that generates a hash value from a receive key contained in the received message in accordance with a hash-value generation rule, a storing unit that stores the received information in a selected one of the receive buffers corresponding to the hash value, and an output unit that outputs the received information from one of the receive buffers corresponding to the hash value in response to a transmission request from a receiving unit that performs a receiving operation by determining a matching based on a receive key specified by the receive function.
US08423687B2
Location based profiles are used to modify the configuration of a computing device based on a detected location. The location based profiles allow features such as cameras to be enabled and disabled. Physical and logical data storage partitions can also be mounted and unmounted, and the home screen displayed by a device can be modified. Location bookmarks can be used to further customize the appearance and function of a computing device.
US08423682B2
Apparatus and systems, as well as methods and articles, may operate to detect an input/output access operation associated with a configuration memory address and a first memory address bit size. The configuration memory address and associated configuration data may be combined into a packet having a second memory address bit size (e.g., 64 bits) greater than the first memory address bit size (e.g., 32 bits). The packet may be used to establish compatibility for legacy operating systems that attempt to communicate with peripheral component interconnect (PCI) interface-based peripherals, and similar platform devices, that have been integrated into the same package as the processor.
US08423677B2
In order to efficiently utilize processor resources, a storage system according to this invention includes: a protocol processor; a processor; a local router; a first memory; and a disk drive. In the storage system, the protocol processor transmits, upon transmitting a frame to the host computer, information on a transmission state of the frame to the local router, and the local router determines, upon the protocol processor receiving a frame, which of the processors processes the received frame, based on which a subject the received frame requests for an access to, transfers the received frame to the determined processor, determines, upon the protocol processor transmitting a frame, which of the processors processes information on a transmission state of the frame, based on an exchange of the transmitted frame, and transfers the information on the transmission state of the frame to the determined processor.
US08423676B2
The inventive system includes a host, a network including a security gateway, and a public application. Established are an access session between the network and the host and an application session between the public application and the network. An application session record is created for the application session, and includes the user's public user identity used to access the public application, the user's private user identity used to access the network, a host identity, and an application session time. To determine the private user identity for the application session, the security gateway sends a query with the host identity and the application session time. These are compared with the host identity and access session time in an access session record. If they match, then the private user identity in the access session record is returned, and it is stored as the private user identity in the application session record.
US08423670B2
A set of multiple servers in which each server (a) provides a service having a name or other identifier, and for which each server (b) has a network address that differs from the network addresses of the other servers in the set, and (c) is co-located with a resolution mechanism that maps a name or other identifier of the service that is received from a client to a network address that is local to the resolution mechanism. The resolution mechanisms are operated to enable a client to choose one of the servers as being currently operational and/or accessible to provide the service to the client, and to so choose the server without the client needing to first access the chosen server.
US08423666B2
A communication protocol includes one or more messages passed between Web routers over a reliable transmission protocol used for inter-Web router communication. These messages include information that allows the Web routers to dynamically update mappings of client addresses or address ranges to information object repository addresses based on client-to-server distance and server load. The mappings are preferably optimal mappings of the client addresses or address ranges to the information object repository addresses and the messages report updated distances from these information object repository addresses to the client addresses or address ranges. For example, the messages may report, for each updated distance, an associated client address or address range and/or an associated anchor address of a Web router co-located with an information object repository that is the subject of the message.
US08423659B2
In a system for distributing data, distribution device is configured to distribute timestamp, offset and source location information for a digital data stream to an execution device, and the execution device is configured to seek digital data corresponding to the received information. The execution device is further configured to execute the digital data relative to a clock rate maintained by the distribution device. Related methods include receiving timestamp, offset and source location information for the digital data stream and seeking digital data corresponding to the received offset and source location information.
US08423637B2
A utility network communication device is provided to detect whether anomalous events occur with respect to at least one node in a utility network. The communication device has recorded therein threshold operating information and situational operating information. The threshold operating information includes data indicative of configured acceptable operating parameters of the nodes in the utility network based on respective locational information of the nodes. The situational information includes data indicative of configured operation data expected to be received from nodes in the utility network during a predetermined time period, based on a condition and/or event occurring during the predetermined time period. The communication device receives operation data from nodes in the network, and determines whether the received operation data from a node in the network constitutes an anomalous event based on a comparison of the received operation data with (i) the threshold operating information defined for the node and (ii) the situational information. The communication device outputs notification of any determined anomalous event.
US08423630B2
A method for providing broadband communications over a multi-layer network having a plurality of Open System Interconnection layers. The method stores information in a memory, the information indicating for each of a plurality of communication resources within the multi-layer network, one or more layers of the network with which that communication resource is associated. The method monitors the multi-layer network to detect a quality of service event that has occurred at a first of a plurality of communication resources, and in response to the monitoring, uses the information to determine a layer of the multi-layer network that is associated with the first of the plurality of communication resources. The method responds to the quality of the service event by changing provisioning of the multi-layer network at a layer that is different from the layer of the multi-layer network that is associated with the first of the plurality of communication resources.
US08423629B2
Methods, devices, and systems are provided for identifying unique points in communication processing for substituting and restoring identities associated with the communication. These specific replacements facilitate communication requests to-and-from external identities to be treated similar to communication requests to-and-from enterprise users, thereby allowing enterprise users to access enterprise-based communication preferences and services via non-enterprise devices.
US08423625B2
A system is configured to receive an indication that a user device is registered with a network; and generate, as a result of receiving the indication, one or more packets associated with one or more flows between the user device and one or more network devices, based on one or more prior flows between the user device and the network devices, where each of the packets identifies a respective period time during which each of the flows is to be valid. The system may also be configured to transmit the packets to the network devices, where transmitting the packets allows the network devices to establish the flows between the user device and the network devices, or discard or over-write information, stored in a memory, associated with the prior flows.
US08423616B2
Technologies are described herein for identifying and correlating e-mail messages. The contents of the subject and recipients fields of e-mail messages received at and sent from a computing system are hashed and stored in a database. When an incoming e-mail message is received at the computing system, the contents of its subject and recipients fields are also hashed. A search is then made of the database to locate e-mail messages identified in the database that have a sufficient number of subject and address hash values that match the subject and address hash values generated for the incoming e-mail message so that the messages may be correlated. A correlation is made between the incoming e-mail message and the best matching e-mail message located during the search of the database.
US08423612B2
In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses request an application; detect a user requesting the application; detect a profile associated with the user; and grant permission to access the application based on an access parameter.
US08423598B2
In order to attain an optimally compressed, narrow pulse peak at the filter output of a correlation filter for the purpose of reception, the interfering secondary maxima of the autocorrelation function of binary codes must be as small as possible. The invention uses specially designed signal codes which are used to generate the associated complementary signal code from the received sequence by means of evaluation in the reception filter. The subsequent parallel formation of the autocorrelation functions of the received signal code and the complementary signal code exhibits secondary maxima having an opposite mathematical sign, thus resulting in the desired prefect pulse peak having secondary maxima which are equal to zero during summation at the filter output.
US08423592B2
In order to write data to a storage system accessible with a first and second file system, a manager receives a data write request associated with a file. The manager determines if a function supported by the second file system is needed to complete the write request. If so, the file is opened and extended with the first file system. The file is then opened and written to by the second file system. The file is truncated by the first file system, and closed by both file systems. If the second file system function is not needed, the file is opened, written, and closed by the first file system. In order to read data from a storage system using a function supported by the second file system, the second file system's cached storage system index is updated, and then the file is opened, read, and closed by the second file system.
US08423583B2
A user-interface method of selecting and presenting a collection of content items based on user navigation and selection actions associated with the content is provided. The method includes associating a relevance weight on a per user basis with content items to indicate a relative measure of likelihood that the user desires the content item. The method includes receiving a user's navigation and selections actions for identifying desired content items, and in response, adjusting the associated relevance weight of the selected content item and group of content items containing the selected item. The method includes, in response to subsequent user input, selecting and presenting a subset of content items and content groups to the user ordered by the adjusted associated relevance weights assigned to the content items and content groups.
US08423581B2
A mechanism for providing proxy support for special subtree entries in a directory information tree by defining filters at the proxy level to indicate relationships between main subtree entries and associated special subtree entries. A proxy server receives a request from a client for a special subtree entry and determines whether the distinguished name of the main subtree entry can be built using information in the request and pre-defined relationships between the main subtree entry and the requested subtree entry. If so, the proxy server builds the distinguished name of the main subtree entry associated with the special subtree entry and applies a partitioning filter to the distinguished name of the main subtree entry to determine a target directory server in the plurality of backend directory servers that comprise the special subtree. The proxy server then sends the request to the target directory server.
US08423570B2
A method and apparatus for searching message data in a portable electronic device are provided. A threaded message inbox is provided at a display of the device, the message data grouped as threads. Search criteria are received and a search of an index of the threaded message inbox is initiated using the search criteria, the index comprising key words extracted from the message data. Additional message data is received while the search is being performed, the additional message data belonging to a given thread. Additional message data is searched in addition to the index. Search results are generated based on whether at least one of data from additional message data and data from the index meets the search criteria. Search results are provided in threads at the display. Search results are automatically updated in response to receiving additional message data when the additional message data meets the search criteria.
US08423566B2
A facility retrieval device includes: an input device 4 for inputting instructions; a map information storage device 5 that stores map information and facility information including facility names and facility types; a facility name extraction unit 11 that extracts a facility name in response to an instruction from the input device; a facility retrieval unit 12 that uses the facility name extracted by the extraction unit as a retrieval key to retrieve facilities having names that include the retrieval key from the facility information stored in the storage device; a list generation unit 13 that generates a list listing names of a plurality of facilities having identical names and identical types to the facility extracted by the extraction unit, from among the facilities retrieved by the retrieval unit, on respective single lines as shared facility names; and a display device 8 that displays the list generated by the generation unit.
US08423555B2
Content items may be segmented and labeled by topic to provide for the capture, analysis, indexing, retrieval and/or distribution of information within information rich media, such as audio or video, with greater functionality, accuracy and speed. The segments and other related information may be stored in a database and made accessible to users through, for example, a search service and/or an on-demand service. Automatic segmentation may include receiving a text representation, calculating relevance intervals based on the text representation, determining a nodal representation based on the relevance intervals, and determining segments of the content item based on the nodal representation.
US08423545B2
One embodiment includes: receiving profile data including first and second data changes corresponding to first and second client devices of a user, wherein the first and second data changes are conflicting; determining, via the first client device, a first rank for the first data change and a second rank for the second data change; and providing, via the first client device, a plurality of suggestions in response to a partial entry provided by the user, wherein the first plurality of suggestions is provided in a ranked order based on the first and second ranks.
US08423543B2
A computer implemented method classifies a user interaction on a network. User interaction data relating to a user interaction on a network is accessed. The user interaction data comprises an aggregate measure data or a unique feature data. The user interaction data is processed to generate a score for the user interaction and determines a classification of the user interaction based on the score.
US08423537B2
The invention relates to a method and an arrangement for handling of information search results. The method includes at least: entering a search query; sending the query to a search engine; and receiving a search result having a list of data files matching to the search query. And the method comprises at least: paginating the content of the data files retrieved; rendering page previews of the data files; selecting the pages to be previewed; and previewing the matching pages associated with the data files retrieved.
US08423527B2
Enabling network-accessible applications to be integrated into content aggregation frameworks (such as portals) and to become dynamically interactive through proxying components (such as proxying portlets), thereby providing run-time cooperation and data sharing.
US08423502B1
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for permitting an upgrade of extract, transform, and load (ETL) processes, independent of a customization performed by a user. In operation, one or more ETL processes are identified. Additionally, a user is permitted to customize the one or more ETL processes. Further, an upgrade of the one or more ETL processes is permitted and enabled.
US08423501B2
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with data sources adapted for parallel inference on triples associated with a semantic model are described. One example method includes creating a source table that stores triples for entailment in a manner that is adapted for parallel inference. The source table may be partitioned by triple predicate or may store compact triple identifiers that have been mapped to triple identifiers from the semantic model.
US08423500B1
An analytic network process (ANP) storage memory stores an ANP weighted supermatrix representing an ANP model. A processor is in communication with the ANP storage memory. The processor is configured to change priorities of a node in the ANP weighted supermatrix to be more important, to change priorities of the node in the ANP weighted supermatrix to be less important, and to assess a sensitivity of the node which was changed relative to the ANP model. The processor further is configured to maintain a same proportionality in the ANP weighted supermatrix for the changing of the priorities and the assessing of the relative sensitivity.
US08423499B2
A search device includes an accelerator and a CPU. The accelerator includes a plurality of search cores and a scheduler. The scheduler is configured to distribute target text to the search cores in units of records ordered by record sequence number, and the search cores are configured to perform automaton matching on the distributed records in a parallel fashion. The CPU is configured to construct an automaton in accordance with a search expression input thereto, and to perform logical expression evaluations in order of the record sequence number on matching results obtained on a record-by-record basis.
US08423488B2
A system and method for building a predictive score without model training are disclosed. A set of predictive variables is defined based on raw data fields generated from raw data from one or more sources and domain knowledge. The raw data includes a historical set of transactions previously generated by one or more raw data sources. An scaled relative risk table to describe each predictive variable of the set of predictive variables is generated. The set of predictive variables is combined based on their associated relative risk tables to generate a predictive score for a future set of transactions.
US08423483B2
Various embodiments are directed to a computer implemented method for updating a policy that is enforced by a computer program. In one embodiment, a computer communicates, to a user, data regarding one or more decisions made by the program over a period of time according to a policy. Each decision is made on the particular policy in force at the time the decision is made. Policy data for the policy is stored in a machine readable format. The user feedback data indicative of feedback by the user regarding the one or more decisions is stored. The computer identifies and ranks one or more potential variations to the policy based on a score of an objective function for each potential variation. The computer communicates, to the user, one or more suggested modifications based on the ranking of the one or more potential variations to the policy. The computer modifies the policy data based on one or more selections by the user in response to the transmission of the one or more suggested modifications.
US08423478B2
The present invention is directed to presenting customer service representatives to a virtual universe client. A method for presenting a customer service representative (CSR) to a virtual universe client includes obtaining a preference(s) of the virtual universe client, and then presenting a virtual universe customer service representative (CSR) to the virtual universe client, based on the preference that was obtained. The invention allows virtual universe clients (“clients”), or customers, to experience consistent interaction quality with virtual universe CSR's, based on the client's stated preferences and/or interaction history in immersive support centers. This provides for consistency in the CSR experience for the client in that a virtual universe CSR may be staffed by varying human presences “behind” the avatar.
US08423472B2
A method of calculating broadband access server DHCP user's on-line time, includes these steps: (a) setting the inner time, outer time and traffic threshold for said access server calculating user's data traffic, and the inner time is shorter than the outer time; (b) user accesses the said access server, after authenticated successfully, the access server notifies starting to charge the user's online time; (c) according to each user, said access server establishes a ring list to record data traffic; (d) said access server sets the number of ring list elements as multiple of said outer time to said inner time; (e) said access server inspects the said user's data traffic according to inner time, fills it in content indicated by top element index of ring list, until current data traffic inspected and value recorded by top index are not more than said traffic threshold. The advantage of the invention is that timing is precise and error is small.
US08423459B1
A user installs a Peer-to-Peer Payment Application (“PPA”) on their mobile device. The PPA transmits the location of the user device to a server located in a Peer-to-Peer Payment System (“PPS”). The PPS may search for other devices within a certain proximity to the user that may be active. The PPS may search the social network content of the user to determine if any of the proximate devices users are likely counter-parties. If more than one likely counter-party is identified, the PPS may rank the counter-parties according to a preconfigured set of factors that define the strength of the connection to the user. These factors may include their status in the user's social networks, frequency of contact, prior transactions, or other factors that further establish a relationship. The PPS may transmit the ranked list of likely counter-parties to the PPA for display to the user on the device.
US08423451B1
A computer-implemented data processing system for managing processing of mortgage loan applications comprises task manager logic configured to generate a first list representing a first plurality of tasks to be performed in connection with a mortgage loan application. The task manager logic is also configured to generate a second list representing a second plurality of tasks to be performed in connection with the mortgage loan application. The second list is generated after work has been performed in connection with processing the first list. The task manager logic comprises reconciliation logic configured to reconcile the first and second lists so that the work performed during processing of the first list is reflected in the second list.
US08423448B2
A system, method, and corresponding computer program product facilitates trading of a standardized contract. The terms of the contract may be such that it provides a payout from one party to the other based on the price, yield, level or other measure of an asset, basket, index, financial contract, other financial instrument or some economically significant variable observed at or around two specified times, both such times being after the time that the standardized contract is first available for trading. Alternatively, the terms of the contract may be such that it provides that one party has the right but not the obligation either to purchase or to sell some asset at a price which is determined at a first specified time, such right to be exercised at some time not later than the second specified time, both such times being after the time that the standardized contract is first available for trading. These and other related contracts are described.
US08423447B2
A system and method for allocating stock and cash amounts to individual trades in a netted trade. The system and method include bundling individual securities trades into a netted trade, transmitting the netted trade to a clearing house, receiving a settlement message from the clearing house, and allocating stock and cash amounts to individual trades in the netted trade in a manner consistent with the settlement message.
US08423442B2
A system and method are provided to visually represent and configure trading strategies used in electronic trading. The system and method may be used to visually represent, among other things, an acceptable range of prices for a trading strategy in relation to a graphical user interface. The acceptable range of prices may be input by a trader to limit when one or more orders are moved from one price to another. The acceptable range of prices can be displayed on a graphical user interface using visual indicators. Using the visual indicators, the acceptable range of prices can also be configured and modified by a trader based on the trader's preferences. Other features and advantages are described herein.
US08423440B1
A computer assisted method for facilitating transfers between financial accounts. The method includes accepting a funds transfer request via the selection of an icon, by a user, wherein the icon represents a designated transfer of a predetermined amount of funds between a funding account and at least one receiving account. The method further includes transferring the amount of funds from the funding account to the at least one receiving account.
US08423436B2
Various techniques can be used to customize payroll element templates. One method involves accessing a predefined payroll element template; receiving a template modification value, which is input by a payroll user in response to a question in a predefined payroll questionnaire; customizing the predefined payroll element template, based upon the template modification value, to create a customized payroll element template; and storing the customized payroll element template.
US08423428B2
A method of processing a purchase order is disclosed. The method includes receiving an electronic purchase order in a current one of a plurality of order periods for a designated delivery period, accessing a budget allocation corresponding to said delivery period, and providing an acceptance or a rejection of the electronic purchase order based at least partially on a budget portion of the current order period. The budget allocation includes a budget portion corresponding to each of the plurality of order periods.
US08423417B2
A method for delivering advertising data, comprising receiving end user data at a server, the data indicating available advertising spots in content data stored at an end user device; and updating from the server advertising data in the available advertising spots for presentation of the advertising data during replay of the content data at the end user device. A system is disclosed for performing the method. A data structure embedded in a computer readable medium is disclosed for containing data for performing the method.
US08423413B2
An advertisement for use with an online ad serving system may be automatically checked for compliance with one or more policies of the online ad serving system. If the advertisement is approved, then it is allowed by be served by the ad serving system. Follow up checks of the advertisement may be scheduled. One follow up check may be to test a landing page of the advertisement for compliance with policies. If the advertisement is not approved, hints for making the ad comply with one or more violated policies may be provided to an advertiser associated with the ad, and/or an ad serving system customer service representative. Determining whether or not to approve the advertisement may include determining violations of one or more policies by the advertisement, and, for each of the violations, determining whether or not to exempt the violation.
US08423412B2
A method includes receiving message data at a mobile communication device from a user via a user input device of the mobile communication device. The message data is associated with a text message to be sent to at least one intended recipient device. The method includes receiving at least one address associated with the least one intended recipient device. The method further includes instructing a transmitter to send the text message to the at least one intended recipient device via a wireless network. The method also includes receiving advertisement data associated with at least one advertisement in response to a determination that a threshold number of messages have been sent by the transmitter.
US08423408B1
A method of dynamic content distribution and placement of advertising between a mobile device and an advertisement fulfillment system comprising providing a rotation of advertisements stored in the mobile device. Each advertisement comprises substantive content and a value in an impression field. The method further comprises selecting an advertisement from the rotation of advertisements based at least in part on which advertisement in the rotation was last displayed, and displaying the selected advertisement.
US08423398B2
With respect to a current quarter of unreported revenue for certain Internet companies, by processes performed by a computer revenue to date is analytically determined and future revenue for the remaining quarter is statistically projected by modeling revenue based on “Internet metrics”. Actual revenue performance is obtained and one or more “Internet metrics” are measured for a given Internet company. Using the revenue and measured Internet metric data from prior quarters, a regression analysis is performed in order to generate multiple models that reflect the relationship between the Internet metrics and revenue. From these models, one is selected that will most likely yield the best revenue estimates. This resultant model and current Internet metric data are subsequently used to estimate the company's revenue for the current day, week, month, or quarter. These estimates are also used to project the company's revenue for future days, weeks, months, and quarters.
US08423396B1
Embodiments of the present invention relate to a system and method for process discovery. Specifically, embodiments of the present invention relate to defining a trace using process data, the trace comprising a collection of events, analyzing the trace to detect nodes and arcs between the nodes using relationships between the collection of events, and detecting interleaving in the arcs by analyzing relationships between the collection of events and the detected nodes and arcs.
US08423391B2
Systems and methods are provided for creating a transport load for one or more stock transfers. In one exemplary embodiment, the systems and methods may include providing a parallel processing profile to be associated with the distribution plan. The method may also include building one or more packages of one or more transportation lanes, wherein building one or more packages comprises providing a lanes table of the one or more transportation lanes. The lanes table may comprise information associated with each of the one or more transportation lanes. The method may further include selecting the one or more transportation lanes for each package based on the information and the parallel processing profile, and generating the transport load for each package.
US08423385B2
A patient registration record and payment system creates, maintains and transfers all relevant data electronically. The system captures patient registration and payment data, such as personal, demographic and insurance coverage information, medical history, frequently accessed healthcare providers, and data specifying one or more funding sources to pay for the amount of a medical visit for which the patient is responsible at the time of entry using graphical user interfaces through the Internet or a local area network. Moreover, the system includes the capability to access reference databases regarding verification of data for accuracy, completeness and validity on a continuous, automated basis and, where such reference databases are not available, to initiate manual verification of data for accuracy, completeness and validity by system personnel prior to making patient registration data available to customers or transferring such data to customer databases. Additionally, the system provides for an automated process to transfer payment from one or more funding sources specified by the patient at the time of entry to a deposit account specified by the healthcare provider.
US08423382B2
Method, apparatus and article of manufacture for providing individuals with notifications pertaining to use of health records. In one embodiment, a network-accessible storage repository is configured to store a plurality of electronic health records regarding a plurality of individuals. Requests to access selective records of the plurality of individuals are received over a data communications network. For each individual whose respective records are accessed, a report is generated describing the access. The reports may then be provided to the respective individuals.
US08423377B2
Methods and systems enable the electronic scheduling of medical procedures. Schedulers log into a scheduling system to electronically submit medical procedure requests. Requests include entry of patient data together with at least one of: procedure date, procedure place, procedure time, required equipment, requested medical personnel, as part of the first medical procedure request. Once request is accepted by the scheduling system, electronic notifications about the request are automatically sent over a data network to parties associated with the medical procedure (e.g., medical facility, medical personnel, equipment distributors). System enables rescheduling or resolution where scheduling conflicts are indicated.
US08423375B2
Methods and apparatus for manifesting mailpieces, processing mailpieces from a mail system, and certifying a mail system are provided. A mailpiece is received at a manifest mailing system and mailing information from the mailpiece is obtained. A manifest of the mailpiece is created and the mailpiece is then delivered using the manifest. Based on a certification of the mail system, an accuracy of a portion of the manifest may be selectively determined. Based on the accuracy of the portion of the manifest, the mailpieces are then conditionally delivered using the manifest. To determine a certification, test information may be provided to a mail system. A manifest generated by the mail system is then received. The accuracy of the manifest based on the test information is determine and a certification level is then assigned to the mail system.
US08423366B1
A method includes receiving, by a system, a voice recording associated with a user, transcribing, the voice recording into text that includes a group of words, and storing an association between a portion of each respective word and a corresponding portion of the voice recording. The corresponding portion of the voice recording is the portion of the voice recording from which the portion of the respective word was transcribed. The method may also include determining a modification to a speech synthesis voice associated with the user based at least in part on the association.
US08423363B2
Occurrences of one or more keywords in audio data are identified using a speech recognizer employing a language model to derive a transcript of the keywords. The transcript is converted into a phoneme sequence. The phonemes of the phoneme sequence are mapped to the audio data to derive a time-aligned phoneme sequence that is searched for occurrences of keyword phoneme sequences corresponding to the phonemes of the keywords. Searching includes computing a confusion matrix. The language model used by the speech recognizer is adapted to keywords by increasing the likelihoods of the keywords in the language model. For each potential occurrences keywords detected, a corresponding subset of the audio data may be played back to an operator to confirm whether the potential occurrences correspond to actual occurrences of the keywords.
US08423360B2
A speech recognition apparatus, method and computer program product whereby noise is subtracted from an input speech signal by a plurality of spectral subtractions having differing rates of noise subtraction to produce plural noise-subtracted signals, at least one speech features is extracted from the noise-subtracted signals, and the extracted feature is compared with a standard speech pattern obtained beforehand to recognize the speech signal based on a result of the comparison. In addition, features can be extracted from at least one of the noise-subtracted signals and also the input speech signal for comparison with the standard speech pattern. Plural features can be combined into a single feature for the comparison.
US08423359B2
A method for generating a speech recognition model includes accessing a baseline speech recognition model, obtaining information related to recent language usage from search queries, and modifying the speech recognition model to revise probabilities of a portion of a sound occurrence based on the information. The portion of a sound may include a word. Also, a method for generating a speech recognition model, includes receiving at a search engine from a remote device an audio recording and a transcript that substantially represents at least a portion of the audio recording, synchronizing the transcript with the audio recording, extracting one or more letters from the transcript and extracting the associated pronunciation of the one or more letters from the audio recording, and generating a dictionary entry in a pronunciation dictionary.
US08423357B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a communication device and methods for generating enhanced audio signals. An audio signal comprising a speech signal and a noise signals is acquired at the communication device. A noise processor of the communication device detects a pitch estimation of the audio signal. Thereafter, the audio signal is processed based on the pitch estimation and processing parameters of the audio signals to remove noise signals and generate an enhanced audio signal.
US08423356B2
The invention describes a method of deriving a set of features (S) of an audio input signal (M), which method comprises identifying a number of first-order features (f1, f2, . . . , ff) of the audio input signal (M), generating a number of correlation values (ρ1, ρ2, . . . , ρI) from at least part of the first-order features (f1, f2, . . . , ff), and compiling the set of features (S) for the audio input signal (M) using the correlation values (ρ1, ρ2, . . . , ρI). The invention further describes a method of classifying an audio input signal (M) into a group, and a method of comparing audio input signals (M, M′) to determine a degree of similarity between the audio input signals (M, M′). The invention also describes a system (1) for deriving a set of features (S) of an audio input signal (M), a classifying system (4) for classifying an audio input signal (M) into a group, and a comparison system (5) for comparing audio input signals (M, M′) to determine a degree of similarity between the audio input signals (M, M′).
US08423355B2
A method for encoding audio frames by producing a first frame of coded audio samples by coding a first audio frame in a sequence of frames, producing at least a portion of a second frame of coded audio samples by coding at least a portion of a second audio frame in the sequence of frames, and producing parameters for generating audio gap filler samples, wherein the parameters are representative of either a weighted segment of the first frame of coded audio samples or a weighted segment of the portion of the second frame of coded audio samples.
US08423351B2
A method, computer program product, and system are provided for correcting one or more typed words on an electronic device. The method can include receiving one or more typed words from a text input device and generating one or more candidate words for the one or more typed words. The method can also include receiving an audio stream at the electronic device that corresponds to the one or more typed words. The audio stream can then be translated into text using the one or more candidate words, where the translation includes assigning a confidence score to each of the one or more candidate words. Based on the confidence score associated with each of the one or more candidate words, a candidate word can be selected among the one or more candidate words to represent each portion of the text. A word from the one or more typed words can be replaced with the selected candidate word based on the value of the confidence score associated with the selected candidate word.
US08423349B1
Techniques for generating and providing phrases are described herein. These techniques may include analyzing one or more sources to generate a first corpus of phrases, each of the phrases for use as an identifier and/or for association with a user. The first corpus of phrases may be generated based on characteristics associated with phrases. Once a first corpus of phrases has been generated, these phrases may be filtered to define a second corpus of phrases. Phrases of this second corpus may then be suggested to one or more users. In some instances, the phrases suggested to a particular user are personalized to the user based on information previously known about the user or based on information provided by the user.
US08423348B2
A method and system is disclosed herein for generating a plurality of equivalent sentence patterns from a declared sentence pattern for a specific language. The declared pattern is fed into a pattern selector. The pattern selector reads a predetermined library of equivalent pattern sets and selects an equivalent pattern set for the declared pattern. The selected equivalent pattern set corresponds to the declared pattern and represents a set of equivalent declared patterns. The set of equivalent declared patterns and the declared pattern are fed to a rules generator. The rules generator outputs executable semantic pattern recognition rules. The reader module, using the generated executable semantic pattern recognition rules, reads the given information source to determine the information of interest.
US08423340B2
A system and method for determining the performance of a channel emulator includes an input signal, at least one transmitter configured to receive the input signal, the at least one transmitter coupled to at least one receiver through the channel emulator, the at least one transmitter configured to transmit the input signal through the channel emulator, the at least one receiver configured to receive a faded receive signal. The system also comprises a signal processor configured to receive a processor signal and the faded receive signal, the signal processor configured to correlate the processor signal and the faded receive signal to develop a correlated signal that represents a channel impulse of the channel emulator. The channel impulse of the channel emulator is used to extract at least one channel coefficient that reflects the performance of the channel emulator.
US08423337B2
A method of predicting earth stresses in response to changes in a hydrocarbon-bearing reservoir within a geomechanical system includes establishing physical boundaries for the geomechanical system, acquiring logging data from wells drilled, and acquiring seismic data for one or more rock layers. The well and seismic data are automatically converted into a three-dimensional digital representation of one or more rock layers within the geomechanical system, thereby creating data points defining a three-dimensional geological structure. The method also includes (a) applying the data points from the geological structure to derive a finite element-based geomechanical model, and (b) initializing a geostatic condition in the geomechanical model, and then running a geomechanics simulation in order to determine changes in earth stresses associated with changes in pore pressure or other reservoir characteristics within the one or more rock layers.
US08423329B2
Systems and methods of resistance-based memory circuit parameter adjustment are disclosed. In a particular embodiment, a method of determining a set of parameters of a resistance-based memory circuit includes determining a range of sizes for a clamp transistor and selecting a set of clamp transistors having sizes within the determined range of sizes. For each clamp transistor in the set of clamp transistors, a simulation may be executed to generate a first contour graph representing current values over a range of statistical values. The first contour graph may be used to identify a read disturbance area and a design range of the gate voltage of the clamp transistor and a load of the clamp transistor. The method may execute a simulation to generate a second contour graph representing sense margin over a range of statistical values of the gate voltage of the clamp transistor and the load of the clamp transistor. A sense margin may be selected based on the second contour graph that also satisfies the design range of the first contour graph. A sense margin may be determined for a selected clamp transistor in the set of transistors and the corresponding gate voltage and the load of the selected clamp transistor is determined based on the determined sense margin.
US08423320B2
By using powerful data analysis techniques, such as PCR, PLS, CLS and the like, in combination with measurement techniques providing structural information, gradually varying material characteristics may be determined during semiconductor fabrication, thereby also enabling the monitoring of complex manufacturing sequences. For instance, the material characteristics of sensitive dielectric materials, such as ULK material, may be detected, for instance with respect to an extension of a damage zone, in order to monitor the quality of metallization systems of sophisticated semiconductor devices. The inline measurement data may be obtained on the basis of infrared spectroscopy, for instance using FTIR and the like, which may even allow directly obtaining the measurement data at process chambers, substantially without affecting the overall process throughput.
US08423319B2
A process of mapping piping systems associated with a refinery and petrochemical facilities is disclosed, which maps piping systems, which interconnect facility operating units with other operating units, utilities, distribution facilities and storage units. A system for aiding in the isolation of piping systems, operating units and other facility components is also disclosed. The system includes a search database having representations of the piping systems and its related components. A method of isolating an event within a facility is also disclosed. The method includes identifying the location of an event in the facility, performing a search to identify the impacted piping systems and related components, and identifying measures to isolate the event.
US08423314B2
Configuring at least one radio frequency (RF) instrument according to a plurality of RF measurement configurations for performing a plurality of tests on a device under test (DUT). A list of RF measurement configurations may be stored in a computer memory. The list of RF measurement configurations comprises a plurality of parameters for configuring operation of the at least one instrument. Information regarding the list of RF measurement configurations (e.g., a data stream) may be provided to the at least one RF instrument. The at least one RF instrument may perform the plurality of tests on the DUT, including the at least one RF instrument configuring itself according to the RF measurement configurations based on processing of the information. Configuring enables the at least one RF instrument to perform the plurality of tests on the DUT in a deterministic manner.
US08423312B2
A method is provided for preventing islanding of a power source connected to an electric AC grid via an interface. The method senses an output voltage waveform of the interface, controls an output current waveform of the interface to track a reference current waveform having a mathematical relationship with the sensed output voltage waveform, and discontinues the output current waveform when the output voltage waveform is sensed to be outside a predetermined waveform range.
US08423309B2
A method is provided for performing quality control on an organic light emitting diode (OLED) pixel comprising three sub-pixels formed in parallel. A method is provided for determining an weighted average current leakage for three sub-pixels of an OLED pixel. The method includes selecting a total luminance level, determining a first current flowing when a first sub-pixel is energized causing the OLED pixel to emit light having 1/3 total luminance. The method includes determining a second current flowing when the first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel are energized causing the OLED pixel to emit light having a 213 total luminance. The method includes calculating weighted average current leakage by multiplying the first current times two forming a first product, subtracting the second current from the first product forming a result, multiplying the result by two forming a second product, and dividing the second product by nine. A computer-readable medium is provided.
US08423304B2
Thermal, flow measuring device and method for operating a thermal, flow measuring device, wherein the thermal, flow measuring device has a first sensor with a first heatable resistance thermometer and at least an additional, second sensor with a second heatable resistance thermometer. A decision coefficient is calculated according to the formula DC=(PC1−PC2)/PC1, with PC1(t=t1)=P1,1(t1)/(T1,heated;actual(t=t1)−Tmedium;actual(t=t1)) and PC2(t=t2)=P2,2(t2)/(T2,heated;actual(t=t2)−Tmedium;actual(t=t2)), with P being the heating powers consumed by the corresponding resistance thermometers at the points in time t, and T being the temperature values; wherein the value of the decision coefficient indicates the flow direction of a measured medium in the measuring tube.
US08423301B2
An initial concentration of the residual concentration of a causative substance contained in an insulating oil is compared with a reference value. The causative substance reacts with a conductor forming a winding of an oil-filled electrical device to generate an electrically conductive compound. The reference value is defined as a value for determining whether a main determinant that determines the lifetime of the oil-filled electrical device is generation of the electrically conductive compound or degradation of insulating paper. Based on the initial concentration of the causative substance and the reference value, the lifetime of the oil-filled electrical device is assessed.
US08423299B2
The present invention accepts attribute information of evaluation subject parts, and judgment standards of parts category by a data acquiring unit; acquires attribute information and chemical substance information relating to a part already inspected; categorizes the relevant attribute information and the relevant chemical substance information to a part group having attribute information of the evaluation subject parts, and a part group not having it; carries out calculation of statistic values of the content rate of a specified chemical substance in each of the parts groups, comparison between difference of said statistic values in each of the parts groups and the relevant judgment standards, and extraction of said attribute information; extracts attribute information and chemical substance information of said parts already inspected, coincident with all of attribute information extracted; and calculates the statistic value such as an average value relating to the content rate of the chemical substance of these parts.
US08423298B2
BioMEMS/NEMS appliance biologically monitors an individual, using biosensors to detect cellular components. Data is simulated or analyzed using systems-biology software, which provides diagnostic or therapeutic guidance.
US08423294B2
The invention provides methods and systems for improved spatial resolution of signal detection, particularly as applied to the analysis of polymers such as biological polymers. Some of the methods and systems comprise differentially tagging polymers in order to increase resolution. Some of the methods and systems comprise techniques for improving the precision of separation distance measurements, without necessarily requiring improvements in the known detection resolution of prior art systems.
US08423292B2
The present application relates to a navigation device carried by a vehicle. The navigation device is arranged to display navigation directions on a display, the navigation directions taking the form of a path representative of a planned route to be followed by the vehicle. The navigation device is further arranged to receive a feed from a camera. The navigation device is further arranged to display a combination of a camera image from the feed from the camera and the navigation directions on the display.
US08423281B2
An apparatus and method provide a travel route in a navigation system. The apparatus includes: a GPS (Global Positioning System) receiver for receiving position data from a plurality of GPS satellites; a storage unit for storing map data and the travel route therein; a display unit for displaying the stored map data and travel route on a screen; a key input unit for receiving a variety of input key signals, and an origin and a destination therebetween; a velocity and direction detection unit for detecting a travel velocity and direction of travel of a moving object; a wireless communication unit for communicating to receive traffic information on an on-road; and a control unit for controlling each unit to store the travel route in the storage unit and to provide the stored travel route for a user.
US08423273B2
Minimum energy routes for a motor vehicle are determined. The minimum energy routes can be calculated using an energy map. Energy management information is determined and provided along the minimum energy route.
US08423270B2
A method for adjusting an air-fuel ratio of an engine is disclosed. In one example, the engine air-fuel ratio is adjusted in response to a duty cycle and frequency of a post catalyst oxygen sensor. The method may improve catalyst efficiency.
US08423265B2
A control system of an internal combustion engine in which a first fuel of ammonia and a second fuel which is easier to burn than ammonia are used as fuels. An ammonia ratio is usually set to a reference ammonia ratio which is determined in advance in accordance with an operating state of an engine. At the time when feed of the fuel is restarted after suspension of feed of the fuel at the time of deceleration, the ammonia ratio is temporarily made lower than the reference ammonia ratio in accordance with the operating state of the engine.
US08423264B2
The vibration damping control device which performs damping of vibration of a vehicle body through a driving output control of a diesel vehicle in accordance with the present invention comprises a compensation component computing portion which computes a compensation component which compensates a wheel torque to suppress an amplitude of vehicle body vibration; and a control gain determining portion which determines a control gain for the compensation component, wherein, at a time point of reversion of the sign of the value of the compensation component, the control gain determining portion decreases the control gain when, before that time point, the value of the compensation component has deviated from a restriction range for variation of a fuel injection quantity determined based on engine operational condition, and increases the control gain when the value of the compensation component has not deviated from a restriction range for variation of a fuel injection quantity. Thereby, in the execution of the restriction of the fuel injection quantity variation, the wave form of the compensation component of the vibration damping control is maintained, and also, the effect of the vibration damping control becomes as large as possible.
US08423261B2
In a method and a system for controlling the Variable Turbine Geometry (VTG) of a combustion engine during up-gear shift, the VTG is opened based on a prediction when exhaust gas pressure is stabilized. During up-gear shift the VTG is closed to a closed position (301) to build an exhaust gas pressure and reduce engine speed, and a parameter from which the engine acceleration can be deduced is recorded. The VTG is determined to be opened to an open positioning response to the recorded parameter and a target engine speed of the up-gear shift (303), and the VTG is opened at a time corresponding to said determination to reduce the exhaust gas pressure (305). Hereby the up-gear shift can be made in a short time and at smooth operational conditions.
US08423257B2
A system and method of maintaining a vehicle on a driver intended path is disclosed. The method includes steps of detecting a failure in a power steering system and controlling a braking system to maintain the motor vehicle approximately on a driver intended path. The driver intended path can be a straight path or a curved path.
US08423253B2
A torque applying device is provided for applying a driving torque to at least a pair of wheels, and a torque restraining device is provided for restraining the torque created on the wheels to be applied with the torque by the torque applying device. A friction braking device is provided for applying a braking torque to each wheel in response to operation of a brake pedal. An automatic braking control device automatically actuates the friction braking device independently of operation of the brake pedal, to apply the braking torque to each wheel. And, a torque restraining cancellation device is provided for cancelling the torque restraining operation for a time period determined in response to a vehicle speed decreasing state, after a condition for initiating the automatic braking control was fulfilled.
US08423243B2
In a vibration-damping controlling apparatus for performing vibration-damping control which is control to suppress sprung vibration occurring in a vehicle by controlling torque generated in a wheel of the vehicle, the vibration-damping control is inhibited by making magnitude of vibration-damping torque as a torque for vibration damping capable of suppressing the sprung vibration different from the magnitude of the vibration-damping torque when learning of an air-fuel ratio is not performed, during the learning of the air-fuel ratio at the time of operation of an engine as a power source of the vehicle. According to this, it becomes possible to inhibit the vibration-damping control and control of learning correction of the air-fuel ratio from interfering with each other.
US08423237B2
The user configures to process at least two data sources without depending on preprogrammed functions or resorting to reprogramming the basic software of the device.
US08423233B2
A vehicle identifying unit obtains an identification number of a vehicle from the vehicle. A first evaluation unit evaluates a degradation state of a power storage device based on the use history of the power storage device obtained from the vehicle, using data analyzed beforehand concerning the relation between the use history and the degradation state of the power storage device. A second evaluation unit evaluates a degradation state of the power storage device using data collected when the power storage device of the vehicle is charged from a power station or when power is fed from the vehicle to the power station. A degradation determining unit determines the degradation state of the power storage device based on the degradation states evaluated by the first and second evaluation units.
US08423231B2
A driver assistance system includes a speed detector, a preceding vehicle detector having at least one video camera and at least one distance sensor for detecting the distance from a preceding vehicle, a device for determining the speed of the preceding vehicle, and an electronic control unit equipped to trigger an autonomous deceleration of the vehicle with the presence of predetermined brake trigger driving data and to terminate the autonomous deceleration with the presence of predetermined brake abortion driving data. The control unit effects: redundant detection of preceding vehicle driving data, and non-redundant detection of preceding vehicle driving data if a redundant detection is not possible. The non-redundantly detected preceding vehicle driving data is compared to preceding vehicle driving data redundantly detected within a predetermined time, and the non-redundantly detected data is used to control the autonomous deceleration if it corresponds to the redundantly detected data.
US08423230B2
An method for controlling a parallel hybrid drive-train of a vehicle comprising an automatic transmission and a combustion engine which is connected, via a first shifting device, to an electrical machine, which is connected, via a drive shaft, a starting clutch positioned in the transmission. To guarantee safety and high drive comfort of the vehicle during failure of the starting clutch, shifting failures of the starting clutch are monitored. If a shifting failure is recognized, predetermined contingency procedures are initiated and executed in which either continued drive of the vehicle or slowing down of the vehicle to a stop is possible. A device comprises a monitor with a sensor and parts for analyzing and recognizing shifting failures of the starting clutch. Control parts initiate and execute contingency procedures such that a continued drive operation or slowing down of the vehicle to a stop is possible.
US08423229B2
A self-diagnostic device for an acceleration or angular-velocity sensor includes a diagnosis control unit, an integration unit, and a determination unit. The diagnosis control unit provides pseudo acceleration or angular velocity to a sensor main body for detecting acceleration or angular velocity, by applying a test signal having prescribed magnitude to the sensor main body. The integration unit integrates a sensor signal outputted from the sensor main body in response to the test signal. The determination unit determines whether or not an integration value obtained at an elapse of prescribed integration time from a time point when the integration unit starts integrating the sensor signal falls within a prescribed normal range.
US08423223B2
A vehicle parking assist system includes: a camera; a first vehicle guiding section that recognizes the position of a power transmitter external to a vehicle based on the image obtained via the camera to guide the vehicle to the power transmitter; a power receiver that receives electric power from the power transmitter in a non-contact manner; and a second vehicle guiding section that guides the vehicle based on the electric power received by the power receiver. The control section executes a process of stopping the vehicle when the electric power received by the power receiver from the power transmitter does not satisfy a first condition, even after the control section has caused the vehicle driving section to move the vehicle beyond a predetermined distance after the first vehicle guiding section becomes unable to detect the position of the power transmitter based on the image.
US08423222B2
A vehicle drive device includes a first rotating electrical machine, an input member, and an output member drivingly coupled to different rotating elements of a differential gear unit. A second rotating electrical machine is coupled to a different rotating element of the differential gear unit than the first rotating electrical machine. A control device detects an output rotation abrupt change where an absolute value of rotational acceleration of the output member is equal to or larger than a predetermined value, and, if the output rotation abrupt change state is detected where a rotational speed of the input rotating element is lower than a threshold value, the control device executes restriction avoidance where a rotational speed of the first rotating electrical machine is controlled so that the rotational speed of a input rotating element becomes equal to or higher than the threshold value.
US08423220B2
There are provided a hybrid control unit, an engine control unit that controls an engine based on command information received from the hybrid control unit and an operation status of the engine, and a communication abnormality detection means that detects an abnormality in communication between the hybrid control unit and the engine control unit. In the case where due to an abnormality in the communication between the hybrid control unit and the engine control unit, the engine control unit cannot receive command information from the hybrid control unit, each of the hybrid control unit and the engine control unit performs control in preliminarily set sequence.
US08423219B2
An electric drive vehicle includes a vehicle main body 10, a battery 12, a power generating unit 11 that charges to the battery 12, an operating condition setting switch 40 capable of setting an operating condition of the power generating unit 11, a power-generating-unit side ECU 113 that operates the power generating unit 11 on the basis of the operating condition, a navigation system 30 that acquires a vehicle traveling condition, and a vehicle-side ECU 50 that estimates the amount of charge consumed in the battery 12 during traveling under the vehicle traveling condition. The vehicle-side ECU 50 turns on an alarm lump 46 when an estimated time necessary for charging the battery to make up the amount of charge estimated is longer than a desired time it takes to charge the battery to make up the amount of charge estimated.
US08423216B2
To provide an engine controller of a hybrid vehicle that can perform a forced driving operation of an engine by performing the same inspection procedure as that of a vehicle using only an engine as a drive source even in the hybrid vehicle.The engine controller includes an operation control unit (ECM) that performs forced driving control of the engine to maintain an operation in a predetermined state suitable for an inspection if a determination that the inspection of the engine by a forced driving operation is requested is made, and an operation state determination unit (EVCM) that determines whether the cold start condition is satisfied or unsatisfied based on information containing at least with or without change from the disconnected state to the connected state of the battery. If the cold start condition is satisfied, the forced driving control of the engine is performed by the operation control unit.
US08423208B2
A rail communication system includes: a communication management device capable of being communicatively coupled with a conductive pathway that extends along a track; and an on-board communication device capable of being coupled with a rail vehicle that travels along the track and with the conductive pathway, the communication management device and the on-board communication device configured to communicate a data signal between each other through the conductive pathway, where the data signal includes network data. A method for communicating with rail vehicles includes: coupling a vehicle management device with a conductive pathway that extends alongside a track; and coupling an on-board communication device disposed on a rail vehicle that travels along the track with the conductive pathway; where the communication management device and the on-board communication device communicate a data signal that includes network data through the conductive pathway.
US08423205B2
A safety system comprising an implant, a control device, and a machine. The machine has a control unit which is designed to allow operation of the machine only when a unique identifier has been received, and to set an operating mode of the machine as a function of the received suitability index. The implant is designed to detect physiological data of an implant wearer, and to either generate a suitability index based on detected physiological data and transmit the suitability index to the control device, or to transmit the physiological data itself to the control device.
US08423204B2
A method for controlling an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) using an electronic device obtains movement data of an object on a display screen of the electronic device, and converts the movement data of the object into control signals. The method further sends the control signals to the UAV, and changes a flight status of the UAV according to the control signals.
US08423203B2
A smart key system according to the present invention controls operations of devices mounted in a vehicle based on wireless communication between a control device mounted in the vehicle and a portable electronic key, and the control device includes a transmission circuit configured to output a request signal a predetermined number of times at predetermined times within a predetermined period in order to confirm authentication communication between the control device and a communication unit of the portable electronic key, and a communication mode switching unit configured to switch an authentication communication interval or an authentication communication time within the predetermined period of the request signal output from the transmission circuit of the control device if the authentication communication is not performed for a predetermined amount of time.
US08423202B2
A vehicle behavior control apparatus that generates a gyro moment based on the behavior of the vehicle includes i) a gyro which has a rotating body that is rotatably supported on a rotating shaft and a rotating body rotating portion that rotates the rotating body, ii) a vehicle speed detecting portion that detects the vehicle speed of the vehicle, and iii) a controller that changes the centrifugal force generated in the rotating body based on the detected vehicle speed.
US08423199B2
A method for controlling a power supply system (10) supplying power to a power consuming device (17). The system comprising a climate-dependent source (5, 6) of electrical energy, an auxiliary source (7) of electrical energy, and an energy storage device (14) for storing electrical energy. The climate-dependent source and the energy storage device being connectable to the power consuming device (17). The method comprising acquiring (101) power consumption data indicative of expected future power consumption of the power consuming device (17), energy storage data indicative of a current energy storage level of the energy storage device (14), and power supply data indicative of a current supply of electrical power from the climate-dependent source (5, 6). Determining (102), based on the power consumption data, energy storage data and power supply data, an energy storage threshold level at which electrical energy should be supplied to the energy storage device (14).
US08423191B2
A cast iron brake caliper with improved fatigue life, and a process and process equipment for pre-stressing a cast iron brake caliper to provide improved fatigue life, is provided. In the process, a load is applied to a cast iron caliper, where the load is high enough to locally yield and plastically deform the cast iron material, but not high enough to cause material failure, such as cracking. Upon load removal, residual compressive stresses in the cast iron caliper lower the mid-point of the stress range the plastically-deformed region of the caliper sees during in-service use, and thereby lowers the peak stress seen in this region, increasing fatigue life. The process permits a cast iron brake caliper to be designed to use less material and thus fit within constrained wheel rim envelopes, without the need to resort to high cost materials or other alternative design strategies.
US08423189B2
A robot system includes a robot arm driven by a motor, a collision detector that detects a collision between the robot arm and an obstacle, which is provided on the robot arm, and a stopping method selector that controls the robot arm by selecting any one of all stopping methods on the basis of the information obtained by the collision detector, thereby selecting a stopping method in accordance with the status of the collision.
US08423184B2
The invention relates to a method and a device for detecting and safely neutralizing hazardous goods to be selected from a quantity of non-hazardous goods, having the following characteristics: a) the consecutively delivered quantity of goods to be analyzed is examined for abnormalities in a sequence of control stations (9, 10, 11, 12), b) the respectively selected goods are delivered from one control station to the next by way of a gripper device controlled by at least one multiaxle robot (7, 8), c) the gripper device controlled by the at least one multiaxle robot (7, 8) is used to shift the goods in a control station (9, 10, 11, 12), d) the gripper device attached to the multiaxle robot (7, 8) has an activatable emission protection (13) for hazard potential emitting from the respective good, and a computer program and machine-readable carrier with the program code thereof.
US08423180B1
The system for monitoring and dispensing medical items which are dispensed for administration to patients includes a data terminal (76, 338) which is connected through a network (82, 328) to at least one remote computer (84, 324) having a processor and a data store. The system also includes a reading device (348) which is connected to the network. A user of the data terminal or the reading device is enabled to select a patient for whom medical items will be used, and responsive to a request to dispense items the requested items are dispensed from dispensing devices (96, 100, 344, 346, 450, 527) connected to the data terminal. A report generating device (384) generates reports (388) which include machine readable indicia corresponding to patients and/or medical items. Users may select patients and dispense medications by reading the indicia from the reports using the reading device. Certain storage locations are also labeled with machine readable indicia which may be read to indicate the taking of items therefrom as well as to indicate inventory status information. One such dispensing device in the system is a refrigerator (450) which is retrofit with a refrigerator lock module (452) which selectively enable access to medical items stored in an interior area thereof.
US08423163B2
A mobile terminal and device control method for the same are disclosed. The device control method for a mobile terminal having a touch screen, includes: downloading, during registration of a device capable of short-range wireless communication operating in a short-range communication mode, a user interface (UI) of the device; finding a list of registered devices, displaying the found list, selecting a device from the displayed list, calling the selected device, and connecting to the selected device; and displaying a device UI of the connected device on the touch screen, and controlling the connected device through the displayed device UI according to a touch operation. Electronic devices within a range can be easily and accurately controlled using a mobile terminal having a touch screen. In particular, the use of a user interface downloaded from an electronic device enables easy control of full functions of the device, enhancing user convenience.
US08423160B2
Embodiments provide systems and methods for controlling electronic circuitry. A system can include at least a first controller and a second controller and at least one power electronic circuitry module. The first controller can be in electrical communication with the power electronic circuitry module via a first high-speed serial link (HSSL). The second controller can be in electrical communication with the power electronic circuitry module via a second HSSL.
US08423154B2
Exemplary lead assemblies include a lead body having a plurality of conductor wires embedded therein, a plurality of electrode contacts at least partially disposed on an outer surface of the lead body, and a plurality of switching networks each configured to control an operation of one or more of the plurality of electrode contacts.
US08423151B2
In electrically stimulating neural tissue it is important to prevent over stimulation and unbalanced stimulation which would cause damage to the neural tissue, the electrode, or both. It is critical that neural tissue in not subjected to any direct current or alternating current above a safe threshold. Further, it is important to identify defective electrodes as continued use may result in neural and further electrode damage. Systems and stimulator control mechanisms to prevent damage to neural tissue.
US08423131B2
Embodiments of the invention provide electrode assemblies and associated methods for the iontophoretic transdermal delivery of therapeutic agents. Many embodiments provide a corrosion resistant electrode for the iontophoretic transdermal delivery of various therapeutic agents. Such embodiments allow for the iontophoretic transdermal delivery of therapeutic agents such as iron compounds for prolonged periods without any substantial corrosion of the electrode, impedance increases or discoloration or irritation of the skin. Embodiments of the invention are particularly useful for the long term treatment of various chronic medical conditions such as iron deficient anemia.
US08423130B2
A method is provided that includes providing a fundic impedance signal of a subject sensed during an initial calibration period using at least one implantable fundic sensor of an eating detection device. An indication is received of actual ingestion events of the subject during the initial calibration period. Using a cost function, an analysis is performed of the fundic impedance signal and the actual ingestion events. Responsively to the analysis, a threshold is set, the crossing of which by the fundic impedance signal is indicative of ingestion. The threshold is stored in a memory of the eating detection device. Other embodiments are also described.
US08423128B2
The embodiments herein relate to devices, implementations, and techniques for health monitoring, specifically cardiac arrest monitoring systems. A paramedical equipment locator may receive a periodically sent message configured to identify a location information corresponding to a paramedical equipment and determine whether to select the paramedical equipment based at least in part on the location information.
US08423127B2
An imaging system divides image pixels intensities by exposure time to generate image data in units of intensity per time. The imaging system divides a fluorescent light image in intensity per time units by an excitation light image in intensity per time units to provide a quantitative corrected fluorescent light image that is generally invariant to position of an imaging instrument relative to a biological tissue being imaged.
US08423123B2
An in-vivo imaging system and method to screen for colorectal polyps in the GI tract may include an in-vivo imaging device for capturing a stream of image frames in a GI tract, a polyp detector for detecting and/or identifying one or more image frames from the stream of image streams that may show colorectal polyps, and a graphical user interface (GUI) to display image frames detected.
US08423120B2
The subject invention pertains to a method and apparatus for positioning a biopsy needle relative to lesion tissue. A desired imaging modality can be used to image the human or animal tissue to locate lesion tissue. Such an image can be referred to as a diagnostic image. In a specific embodiment, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be utilized to locate one or more lesions in a human breast. An interventional instrument, such as a means for effecting a biopsy of the lesion tissue can then be positioned proximate the lesion tissue based of the location information about the location of the lesion tissue obtained from the diagnostic image. The desired imaging modality can then be used to confirm the accuracy of the position of the means for effecting a biopsy with respect to the lesion. In a specific embodiment, MRI can be utilized to confirm the accuracy of the position of a biopsy needle. In alternative embodiments, other imaging modalities, such as computer tomography (CT), can be used and/or tissue in other parts of the human or animal body can be imaged.
US08423109B2
A method for determining a physiological parameter in the presence of correlated artifact, including obtaining two digital waveforms, x and y, the waveforms being representative of the absorption of two wavelengths of electromagnetic energy received from a blood-perfused tissue, and where each of the waveforms has a component corresponding to a plethysmographic waveform and a component corresponding to the correlated artifact; calculating several weighted difference waveforms of the form x−R*y, where R is a multiplier, by varying R over a range; evaluating the several weighted difference waveforms using a shape characteristic of the weighted difference waveform; identifying a weighted difference waveform most closely representative of and one most different from the plethysmographic waveform; determining a pleth-based physiological parameter using the waveform most closely representative of the plethysmographic waveform; determining at least one artifact-based physiological parameter using the waveform most different from the plethysmographic waveform; and rejecting other possible candidate values for the pleth-based physiological parameter using the artifact-based physiological parameter.
US08423105B2
In the present invention a novel method and device for measuring characteristics from a relatively weak signal comprising desired and undesired components is presented. Undesired signals may arise from the nature of the characteristic, from the detector or from the circuitry. The signal is extracted from a first measurement element (1) comprising these desired and undesired components. Using another signal from this first measurement element or from another second measurement element (2) the undesired components can be eliminated. The measurement method is extremely useful when using organic materials for the detectors, electronic circuitry, and measurement elements. These devices can be produced relatively cheap, but less reliable. They can also be combined in a one- or two-dimensional array for measuring characteristics over a larger area.
US08423102B2
Aspects relate to provision of enterprise call capabilities to mobile devices. For example, a mobile device can indicate, over a data channel, that a PBX is to make a call on its behalf to a called party. The PBX can call back the mobile device, call the called party, and bridge those call legs to establish the call. The mobile device can employ mechanisms that a particular incoming call is made by the PBX. These mechanisms can include using ANI information, sending, and receiving audible verification codes over the voice channel established after answering the incoming call. The verification codes can be selected based different behaviors of the mobile devices.
US08423090B2
Disclosed is a wireless communication device for a user. The wireless communication device includes a first body portion and a second body portion pivotally coupled to the first body portion. The first body portion includes a keypad on a first side of the wireless communication device. Further, the first body portion includes a display screen positioned above the keypad on the first side of the wireless communication device. The second body portion of the wireless communication device is capable of vibrating in response to an occurrence of an event for alerting the user. Further disclosed is a vibration assembly configured to operate in the wireless communication device for alerting the user about the occurrence of an event. Also disclosed is a method for alerting the user about the occurrence of an event using the wireless communication device.
US08423084B2
Method for radio communication in a wireless local area network and transceiving device refers to wireless local area networks (WLAN) consisting of a multitude of transceiving devices of users (14, 15, 16 . . . N). Simultaneous scanning by their antenna beams in different directions by the transceiving devices (with the transceiving devices being in reception mode) and transmission of an omnidirectional signal in the form of calibration signal and data package by one of the transceiving devices of the network (with the transceiving device being in transmission mode), reception of the signal by the transceiving devices operating in reception mode and subsequent orientation of their antenna beams in the direction of signal source. The recognition and orientation is performed during the period of reception of the calibration signal. The Method increases the range of a WLAN, reduces the transmission time and improves quality and reliability of communication. Each transceiving device (1) includes at least one directional antenna (3) featuring a controllable directional pattern, switched-over by unit (4), reception/transmission mode switch (5), receiver (8), transmitter (10) and controller (11). Additionally a unit for signal detection (13) is incorporated in the device.
US08423080B2
A system and method includes a detecting at least one color on a substrate using a mobile communication device, identifying the detected color and outputting a result of the identification with the mobile communication device.
US08423078B2
A dual mode communication terminal in accordance with one embodiment comprises a first communication module configured to communicate with a first base station; a second communication module configured to communicate with a second base station; a first antenna connected to the first communication module to communicate a first base station signal with a first base station; and a second antenna configured to communicate either the first base station signal with the first base station or to communicate a second base station signal with a second base station, the second antenna having a switching module to connect the second antenna to either the first communication module or the second communication module, wherein in response to receiving a command from the first base station, the first communication module measures quality of the second base station signal received from the second base station.
US08423077B2
A multi-mode wireless communication device and multi-mode communication method are disclosed. The multi-mode device includes a first baseband co-processor configured to execute low-level stack operations of a first wireless communications protocol employed within a first wireless communications network. The device also includes a host baseband processor configured to execute a set of protocol stack operations of a second wireless communications protocol employed within a first wireless communications network and higher-level stack operations of the first wireless communications protocol. A data communication channel capable of carrying data received by the multi-mode wireless communication device from the first wireless communications network or sent by the multi-mode wireless communication device through the first wireless communications network is provided between at least the host baseband processor and the first baseband co-processor.
US08423075B2
A method, apparatus, and electronic device for creating a connection between a base station and user equipment are disclosed. A transceiver 202 may receive a physical downlink control channel signal containing a control message subjected to an encoding. A processor 204 may decode the control message. The processor 204 may determine a control channel element of the physical downlink control channel signal for the control message based in part upon the encoding.
US08423068B2
A method of operating a communication system is disclosed. A first wireless device associated with a first profile is communicated with using a first multi-antenna mode. A second wireless device associated with a second profile is communicated with using the first multi-antenna mode. A network resource utilization is determined. It is determined that the network resource utilization satisfies a criteria. Based on the network resource utilization satisfying the criteria, at least one control message is sent that instructs the second wireless device to use a second multi-antenna mode.
US08423067B2
The invention relates to a method for connecting a mobile communications connection in a mobile communications network, particularly in a cellular mobile communications network, in the case of temporarily limited accessibility or availability of the mobile communications network due to an overload, between a prioritized first mobile communications terminal device and a non-prioritized second mobile communications terminal device, wherein the non-prioritized mobile communications terminal device is at least partially and at least temporarily blocked due to the overload situation, wherein the first prioritized mobile communications terminal device transmits a call connection attempt, the mobile communications network recognizes the call connection attempt as a prioritized call connection attempt and prioritizes said attempt over other, non-prioritized mobile communications terminal devices and transmits said attempt to the second non-prioritized mobile communications terminal device, wherein the blockage of the second mobile communications terminal device is at least temporarily lifted such that the incoming call may be accepted by the second mobile communications terminal device and the mobile communications connection may be made, the blockage of the second mobile communications terminal device being particularly lifted on the network side or the second mobile communications terminal device particularly having means for recognizing that the call connection attempt is originating from a prioritized mobile communications terminal device and at least temporarily ignoring the blockage thereof.
US08423065B2
A method and computer-readable medium for dynamic rate capping of data transmissions of a subscriber are provided. According to the method, configuration parameters for dynamic rate capping are defined. A plurality of subscriber parameters are obtained, and a plurality of network parameters are measured. A rate boost factor is calculated based on a backhaul rate boost factor and a sector rate boost factor. A transmission rate cap for subscriber data transmissions is calculated based on backhaul and sector parameters, such as backhaul and sector rate boost factors. The rate of subscriber data transmissions is dynamically controlled based on the transmission rate cap.
US08423063B2
A guided remote storage (GRS) is described for a portable computing device (PCD) capable of holding any type of digital information. The information required by the PCD does not need to be stored on the device but can be stored on a remote tower that holds information required for these devices. To the extent a user would like to use some of the information, the PCD can download it from the tower, effectively giving the device much more memory. The system ideally requires constant communication between the PCD and the tower. In the event the PCD can not maintain constant communication with the tower, the system will provide for intelligent exchange of information between the device and the tower. To solve the problem with intermittent service, the PCD can be provided with a GPS and the service provider will have a map of the areas that have service and the areas that don't have service. Information can then be downloaded on to the device based on this mapping information and the projected movement of the PCD. The GPS will help by notifying the system that the PCD is heading towards an area that does not have service and sending the user an alert and request if it would like to download the information being utilized by the PCD from the tower prior to service being completely interrupted. Such system is helpful for expediting downloads of items such as streaming movies, music downloads, on line gaming and electronic books.
US08423062B2
A method according to the present invention comprises determining an available information rate for communication, via a first base station, between a plurality of terminals and a second base station based on link capacity information for wireless communication between the first base station and the second base station, and controlling each of information rates for the communication between the plurality of terminals and the second base station based on the available information rate. Here, the plurality of terminals and the first base station being in a mobile object, the second base station being outside the mobile object.
US08423057B1
A system, method, and computer readable media are provided for allowing a user to block messages by sending a text message containing the source address that is to be blocked to a provisioning component that updates a block list. Messages addressed to the requesting user that originate from the source address are then dropped by the network before they are communicated to the requesting user. Source addresses may also be removed from the block list by sending a second text message to the provisioning component with the source address.
US08423052B2
It is possible to present identification information of a sender in such a manner that the identification information is easily understood by a user. Included are: a wireless communication section (20) for carrying out data communication with the navigation device (50); and a line communication section (30) for carrying out data communication with the communication device (80), and an address sending section (22) for sending, to the navigation device (50) via the wireless communication section (20), first identification information for identifying the communication device (80); a position receiving section (26) for receiving position information from the communication device (80) via the line communication section (30); a position sending section (24) for sending the position information to the navigation device (50) via the wireless communication section (20); a message receiving section (32) for receiving a message from the navigation device (50) via the wireless communication section (20); an address adding section (34) for adding, to the message, second identification information for identifying the communication device (10); and a message sending section (36) for sending, to the communication device (80) via the line communication section (30), the message to which the second identification information is added.
US08423042B2
A system for determining location of an object, the system including a Master Unit having an RF transceiver and adapted to measure distance to the Tag. The Master Unit has a first input from which it can derive its current position. The Master Unit transmits instructions to the Tag for movement in a predetermined direction. The Master Unit measures distance to the Tag after the movement in the predetermined direction. The Master Unit determines position of the Tag after the movement in the predetermined direction. The Tag can include a compass, a pedometer, and optionally an accelerometer, a solid-state gyroscope, an altimeter inputs for determining its current position by the Master Unit. The Master can optionally include a compass as well as a pedometer, an altimeter, an accelerometer, a solid-state gyroscope, an altimeter and a GPS receiver. Also, the Tag movement does not have to follow the Master's direction. However, the Master Unit still will be able to determine the Tag location(s). Also, the roles of the Master Unit and Tag can be reversed.
US08423037B2
In accordance with the exemplary embodiments of the invention there is at least a method, apparatus, and a computer program to perform operations including receiving information descriptive of a type of radio access which a user equipment is acting on, and in response to receiving the information descriptive of a particular type of radio access, transmitting from a multiple transmit antenna user equipment so that the transmission appears, at a receiver, to have been made by a single antenna user equipment, or by a user equipment that supports antenna switching/selection.
US08423034B2
Systems and methods are described for controlling transmission in a wireless network. In these systems and methods a sequence of time zones may be provided whereby each time zone can be allocated to one of a plurality of base stations. For each base stations dead times in the sequence are identified in which the e base station is prohibited from transmitting and receiving. The dead times for the base station may correspond to transmit or receive zones of at least one other base station. The dead times can be interleaved with transmit zones and receive zones assigned to the base station. Configuration and duration of the dead times may be selected to reduce interference between base stations. Base stations can support different wireless transmission systems including OFDM and OFDMA systems and others.
US08423025B2
A method for managing the context of the mobile station (MS) is applied in an MS handover process of a wireless access network. The function entity identification information of acting on the MS is carried in the context of the MS, and the MS addresses based on the function entity identification information and handovers to the target base station. By adding the identifications of various logic entities acting on the MS to the context information of the MS, the correct addressing of these logic entities is ensured during the handover. The different local policies of the source and destination ends are considered during conveying the context of the MS, in which the destination end may update certain context of the MS according to its own local policy during conveying; and the hierarchy of the context conveying of the MS during the handover is also considered.
US08423020B2
In a communication method, a wireless base station apparatus periodically sends a reference signal to a mobile station apparatus; the mobile station apparatus selects resources to be used for sending communication data to the wireless base station apparatus based on a receive time when receiving the reference signal first; the mobile station apparatus sends information on selected resources to the wireless base station apparatus, and sends communication data to the wireless base station apparatus using the selected resources; the wireless base station apparatus receives and demodulates the communication data based on the information on the resources sent from the mobile station apparatus.
US08423006B2
The present invention relates to method and system for releasing terminal switching between a mobile terminal and a telematics terminal, and the method according to the present invention comprises receiving from the mobile terminal a terminal switching release request including an identification code representing terminal switching release; restoring information of the mobile terminal by inactivating information of the telematics terminal set as information of the mobile terminal in a home location register and activating information of the mobile terminal based on the identification code; and transmitting a mobile terminal activation command to a first switching center, where the mobile terminal is located, to allow a mobile communication service of the mobile terminal.
US08423001B2
A method is disclosed with which a telecommunication user can access a telecommunications service by means of a telecommunications terminal and an electronic address. The telecommunications user reads an electronic code (100) stored in an RFID element (1) by means of an RFID reader device (2), said electronic code (100) is transmitted to a name service server (6) over a telecommunications network (4), said name service server (6) replies with the electronic page address of a page corresponding to the code and that can be used to determine the electronic address, the electronic address is made available to the telecommunications terminal and said telecommunications service is accessed.
US08422998B2
A technique is provided for use by a user terminal or mobile services switching center (MSC) for responding to a request to switch an on-going call from speech mode to multimedia mode within a wireless communication network conFig.d to automatically disconnect a call if a requested mode switch is not confirmed within a predetermined period of time specified by a call drop timer. In one example, the terminal or MSC activities an automatic response timer upon receipt of a request from a user to switch an on-going call from speech to multimedia, with the timer set shorter than the call drop timer. The user receiving the request is then prompted to accept or decline the request. If no response is received before expiration of the automatic response timer, the terminal or MSC automatically declines the request on behalf of the user so that the call drop timer does not expire.
US08422997B1
A system and computer-readable media are provided for facilitating playback of voicemails using a mobile device having a display. Furthermore, embodiments of the present invention allow users to customize the grouping of voicemails, and view and play back voicemails according to these groupings. Additionally, users are able to automatically play back subsets of groups of voicemails in an order that is most meaningful to them without having to intervene during playback.
US08422986B1
A variety of methods, systems, devices and arrangements are implemented for emergency call centers. According to one such method, a location database is populated from a plurality of endpoint devices. The location database determines locations for nodes in a data transmission route from information received from the endpoint devices. Emergency calls using these nodes are located using the populated database.
US08422982B2
A method and apparatus for energizing a multi-channel LNBF containing multiple LNB(s) the LNBF connected to multiple IRDs. The number of IRDs present is detected. If more than one IRD is present, all LNBs are energized. If only one IRD is detected, power sufficient to supply the LNB the IRD has selected is supplied. Identification of which LNB the single IRD has selected may be determined by monitoring the presence of a desired voltage, frequency tone, and or series of frequency tones.
US08422977B2
The invention relates to a programmable filter for a radiofrequency receiver, embodiments disclosed including a filter (600) comprising an input (601) for receiving a radiofrequency signal, an output (602) for providing a filtered version of the input radiofrequency signal and a plurality of filter paths (603a-c) connected in parallel between the input (601) and output (602), each filter path comprising a buffer (604a-c) connected between the input (601) and one or more polyphase filters (605a-f), wherein each of the plurality of filter paths (603a-c) is configured to be individually selectable by providing an enable signal to a corresponding one of the buffers (604a-c).
US08422970B1
A circuit is configured to receive an input signal and to produce an output signal measuring a power of the input signal. The circuit includes a multiplier cell configured to multiply first and second signals, where each of the first and second signals includes a component related to the input signal and a component related to the output signal. The circuit also includes a controlled amplifier configured to amplify an intermediate signal produced by the multiplier cell, where an amplification provided by the controlled amplifier is a function of the output signal. The circuit could further include at least one first converting amplifier configured to generate the component related to the input signal and at least one second converting amplifier configured to generate the component related to the output signal. Transconductances of the converting amplifiers could be selected to configure the circuit as a linear or logarithmic RMS power detector.
US08422967B2
Methods and systems for amplitude modulation using a leaky wave antenna are disclosed and may include amplitude modulating an output of one or more power amplifiers in a wireless device by modulating a bias current in the power amplifiers that are coupled to one or more leaky wave antennas. The leaky wave antennas may include a balun that may be integrated on the chip, on a package to which the chip may be affixed, and/or integrated on a printed circuit board to which the chip may be affixed. An output power of the power amplifiers may be adjusted by configuring a bias voltage on the leaky wave antennas. The bias voltage may be configured utilizing a DC to DC voltage controller. The bias current may be modulated via one or more switched current sources. The switched current sources may be binary weighted and/or may be current mirrors.
US08422962B2
Methods and arrangements for generating adjustment commands in a node. The adjustment commands adjust the transmission power of radio signals. The radio signals are sent over at least a first channel and a second channel. The adjustment is performed by adjusting a gain factor. The gain factor is associated with the relation between a first transmission power level of a first channel and a second transmission power level of a second channel.
US08422961B2
A system for configuring antenna systems for selecting directional communication signals corresponding to other apparatuses. A directional communication signal may be selected as the result of a beamforming training operation coordinated between an initiating apparatus and a responder apparatus. Particular modes and/or features may be requested by initiating apparatuses that, for example, may be functionally-limited. The responder may take these requested modes and/or features into account when formulating a beamforming training set for transmission to the initiator.
US08422946B2
A near field RF communicator has an inductive coupler (102) to couple inductively to an H field of an RF signal from another near field RF communicator in near field range to provide a received signal, a demodulator (300) coupled to extract any modulation from a source signal representing a received RF signal to provide an extracted modulation signal; and a controller (107) coupled to receive an extracted modulation signal from the demodulator. The demodulator (300) has a sampler (400) to sample the source signal in sampling periods and to compare signal samples with at least one of other signal samples and a clock or reference signal to remove or reject the carrier of the received RF signal and to extract the modulation.
US08422945B2
A compact communication apparatus comprises: a processor module (104); a memory module (106); a wireless communication interface (108) and a mobile power source (114); wherein: the wireless communication interface (108) comprises short-range wireless communication module (110) and a physical alignment device (112), said physical alignment device (112) usable for aligning the compact communication apparatus with another compact communication apparatus containing a similar wireless communication interface (108) such that data communication can happen between the wireless communication modules (110); wherein the processor module (104) is adapted to act on the data received from the wireless communication module (110) and to store some related data, especially variables, to the memory module (106); wherein the mobile power source (114) is contained within the compact communication apparatus and provides the power to run at least said apparatus wireless communication interface (108) and processor module (104); wherein said compact communication apparatus optionally also comprises a connection module (102) for interfacing the compact apparatus with an Internet-capable appliance.
US08422942B2
A disclosed radio relay apparatus receives signals from a transmitter via multiple receive antennas and transmits relay signals derived from the received signals to a receiver via multiple transmit antennas. The apparatus includes a channel estimation unit configured to estimate a forward channel matrix H1 representing radio channel characteristics between the transmitter and the radio relay apparatus and a loop channel matrix G representing interference occurring in the relay signals due to concurrently transmitting and receiving signals at the radio relay apparatus, a weight optimization unit configured to derive a canceling matrix C through iterative operations using the forward channel matrix H1, the loop channel matrix G and a backward channel matrix H2 representing radio channel characteristics between the radio relay apparatus and the receiver, and a feedback compensation unit configured to subtract a signal weighted in accordance with the canceling matrix C in a feedback path from a relay signal in a main signal path to adjust the relay signal.
US08422935B2
In an image forming system equipped with a small-sized post-processing apparatus capable of producing pamphlets without being limited in terms of the number of sets, a folding device, an interposing device and an ejecting device for ejecting a pamphlet formed by interposing a sheet into a sheet to be folded are provided in the post-processing apparatus.
US08422928B2
A fixing unit is provided with a fixing member to heat a recoding medium and to fix a toner image on the recording medium; a pressure member to press the fixing member to form a nip portion in which a recording medium carrying a toner image is nipped; an auxiliary heating member to heat the surface of the fixing member; and a surface recovery member, arranged at a downstream side of the first auxiliary heating member in a rotational direction of the fixing member, for recovering damage to a surface of the fixing member by making contact with and sliding on the fixing member.
US08422927B2
A fixing device includes: a fixing member that fixes a developer image on a recording medium while rotating; an external heating member that heats the fixing member, the external heating member being driven-rotated by rotation of the fixing member while contacting with an outer peripheral face of the fixing member; an oil supply member that supplies oil to a surface of the external heating member; a switching unit that switches between contact and non-contact of the external heating member to the outer peripheral face of the fixing member, the switching unit causing the external heating member to contact with the outer peripheral face of the fixing member after a fixing operation by the fixing member is started; and a rotation mechanism that rotates the fixing member and rotates the external heating member in a state where the external heating member is separated from the fixing member by the switching unit.
US08422926B2
Fixing devices for fixing marking material to a substrate, printing apparatuses and methods of fixing marking material to a substrate are provided. An exemplary embodiment of the fixing devices includes a first roll including an outer surface; a second roll forming a fixing nip with the outer surface of the first roll at which is received a pre-heated substrate on which marking material is disposed; a release agent applicator system including a supply of a release agent having a viscosity of from about 10 cST to about 300 cST, and a release agent applicator for applying the release agent to the outer surface of the first roll; and a thermal energy source for heating the outer surface of the first roll to a temperature of less than a boiling point of the release agent. The first roll and second roll are operable to apply heat and a pressure of at least about 500 psi to the pre-heated substrate and marking material at the fixing nip to fix the marking material to the substrate.
US08422922B2
Tubular body, tubular body supporting apparatus, image fixing apparatus, and image forming apparatus
A tubular body includes: a substrate including concave portions on a surface thereof; a surface layer formed on the surface of the concave portion-including side of the substrate; and a particle positioned at an interface between the substrate and the surface layer in each of the concave portions.
US08422917B2
A light projecting device includes a base board, a light guiding member, a holding member, a cover, and a positioning member. A plurality of light-emitting elements are arranged in a line on the base board in a main scan direction. The light guiding member faces a radiation surface of the light-emitting elements and guides light projected from the light-emitting elements to an irradiation region of an illuminated object. The holding member holds the base board. The cover covers the base board and the light guiding member. The positioning member positions the light guiding member on the holding member. The holding member and the cover sandwich the light guiding member positioned by the positioning member. The light projecting device includes the holding member, the light guiding member, the base board, and the cover as a single unit which is detachably mountable relative to a chassis of the light projecting device.
US08422911B2
In one embodiment there is provided a toner cartridge retaining clip. The retaining clip has a first end configured to engage a portion of a contact end cap of a toner cartridge, a second end configured to engage a portion of a toner hopper of the toner cartridge, and a body portion connecting the first end to the second end. The body portion has an abutting surface configured to abut a toner sensor contact on the toner cartridge. When the first end is securely engaged to the portion of the contact end cap, and the second end is securely engaged to the portion of the toner hopper, the first end and the second end exert opposing pressures on the toner cartridge to secure the contact end cap to the toner hopper.
US08422906B2
An image formation device includes an image carrier that holds developed images, a transfer body that transfers the developed images held by the image carrier to a recording medium, a cleaning unit that cleans developer on the transfer body, a developer container in which the developer removed by the cleaning unit is deposited, and a sucking unit that sucks the developer leaking from the developer container, the transfer body having at least a rotating member of which both ends are rotatably supported, and the sucking unit having a suction hole opening at least at one end of the rotating member.
US08422904B2
An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming apparatus main body, a driven member removably disposed in the image forming apparatus main body, a rotary driver that rotates by current flowing, and after the blockage of the current flowing, continuously rotates due to an inertial force, a coupling part that has a driving-side member and a driven-side member, wherein when the driven-side member is mounted to the image forming apparatus main body, the driving-side member and a driven-side member are facing each other, and when the driving-side member and the driven-side member engage each other in the rotating direction, the rotary driver and the driven-side member are coupled to transmit the rotation of the rotary driver to the driven-side member, and a controller that controls so that, when the driven-side member is mounted to the image forming apparatus main body, the current flows to the rotary driver, and after the elapse of a certain period of time the current flow to the rotary driver is blocked.
US08422899B2
A method for compensation of banding in a marking platform includes: initiating a calibration stage; marking a test pattern over multiple intervals of a lowest fundamental frequency among marking modules; obtaining image data for the test pattern from a sensor; obtaining 1x signals from sensors associated with the marking modules; and processing the image data in relation to the 1x signals to form banding profiles for multiple marking modules. Alternatively, the method may include: processing image data in relation to 1x signals to form banding profiles for multiple marking modules; determining amplitudes in multiple banding profiles exceeds a threshold to identify dominant banding profiles; and processing dominant banding profiles to form dominant banding signatures. Alternatively, the method may include: initiating a correction stage; obtaining 1x signals from sensors associated with dominant marking modules; and periodically processing dominant banding signatures and 1x signals to determine a banding compensation value.
US08422890B2
A fiber output stabilizer according to an aspect of the invention stabilizes output light from a rare-earth doped optical fiber in which at least one kind of a rare-earth element is added to a core. The fiber output stabilizer includes: a monitoring light source that emits monitoring light having a wavelength shorter than that of excitation light exciting the rare-earth element; an optical multiplexer that multiplexes the monitoring light into the excitation light; an optical demultiplexer that demultiplexes the monitoring light passing through the rare-earth doped optical fiber; and a passing light detector that detects light intensity of the monitoring light from the optical demultiplexer.
US08422888B2
An optical transmission system is provided with an optical transmission apparatus, an optical reception apparatus, an optical transmission line redundantly configured with an active system optical transmission line and an standby system optical transmission line, an optical switch that switches an optical transmission line between the active system optical transmission line and the standby system optical transmission line, a variable dispersion compensator placed between the optical switch and the optical reception apparatus, a dispersion amount measuring unit that measures the dispersion amount of the standby system optical transmission line when the active system optical transmission line is being selected by the optical switch, a dispersion compensation amount setting unit that sets the amount of dispersion compensation to be applied to the standby system optical transmission line based on the measured dispersion amount of the standby system optical transmission line, and a control unit that controls, when the optical transmission line is switched from the active system optical transmission line to the standby system optical transmission line by the optical switch, the variable dispersion compensator so that the amount of dispersion compensation becomes the set amount of dispersion compensation.
US08422881B2
Provided is an optical access network capable of realizing protection control without affecting an E-PON for providing an Ethernet service. In the optical access network comprising the E-PON having a transmission line which is duplexed between an OLT and a plurality of ONTs, the OLT includes a layer-2 (L2) control section in which a protocol, in which protection control information is provided, as a protocol structure, above an Ethernet media access control (MAC), is mounted. Further, the OLT has a protocol structure in which the protection control information is provided independently from the Ethernet MAC to transfer user data and the protection control information.
US08422875B2
A device operable with a camera is disclosed which includes a display screen, remote from the camera, and a processor for receiving an image signal of the field of view of the camera and for displaying an image of the field of view of the camera on the display screen. The device communicates with and controls certain camera functions to allow a photographic or video image to be framed and taken from a location remote from the camera.
US08422870B2
A heat pump water heater and systems and methods for its control are disclosed. The systems are configured to heat water within a water storage tank of a heat pump water heater wherein a controller within the system is operatively connected to a plurality of heat sources including at least one electric heating element and a heat pump and sensors in order to selectively energize one of the plurality of heat sources. The controller is configure to process data representative of the temperature of water within the tank near the top of the water storage tank, and rate of water flowing out of the water storage tank, in order to automatically selectively energize the heat sources. The selection of heat sources by the controller is determined by a mode of operation selected by the user and the data processed by the controller in view of the selected mode of operation.
US08422866B2
A signal output device, has an output signal generating unit 23 generating the output signals based on the input data, an output control unit 21 outputting the output signals to a reproducing device, a detecting unit 27 which detects missing of the input data, and a substitute data generating unit 28 generating, when the detecting unit 27 detects the missing of the input data, with the exception of a portion with the missing detected, substitute data by averaging at least any one of input data posterior to the missing portion and input data anterior to the missing portion, as data for a period of reproducing time obtained by adding a period of reproducing time related to the input data to a period of reproducing time related to the missing portion, and the output signal generating unit 23 generates the output signals based on the substitute data.
US08422862B2
In a data recording method, a data recording apparatus and a data recoding medium, for downloading plural numbers of contents, thereby to record them, additionally, onto a same recording medium, while maintaining the compatibility of reproduction with using an existing player, a maximum file number, which is already recoded on the recording medium, is noticed to a server, and thereby additional contents is downloaded after changing management information in such that the file numbers do not duplicate with each other.
US08422861B2
The present invention provides a content management device manages not to reproduce a part of contents in output source/destination concurrently, and manages to reproduce the whole contents in the original sequence continuously.A content management device is a device for managing reproduction of content from the first medium for which data corresponding to a part of the content output to the second medium. This device includes an outputting circuitry configured to output data corresponding to the part of the content, and a reproduction controller configured to disable reproduction of the part of the content recorded in the first medium when the outputting circuitry outputs the data corresponding to the part.
US08422855B2
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.
US08422849B2
An image playback apparatus includes an image acquisition unit configured to acquire image content including still images and movies and photographing information involved in photographing a subject to create the image content, an image classifying unit configured to classify the image content into a plurality of image groups on the basis of the photographing information, and an image playback unit configured to organize all still images belonging to one of the image groups into a still-image slideshow and successively playing back one or a plurality of movies belonging to the one image group and the still-image slideshow.
US08422848B2
Provided are a structure color of photonic crystals in which a new structure of a structure color of photonic crystals is provided so that a nanoimprint process can be performed and mass productivity is improved, a method of manufacturing thereof, and a manufacturing apparatus thereof. The method of manufacturing a structure color of photonic crystals includes: forming a plurality of basic element layers by using nanoimprinting, the plurality of basic element layers comprising a plurality of basic unit bodies each having a symmetrical cross-section and thin film connecting portions connecting the basic unit bodies! sequentially stacking the basic element layers! removing the thin film connecting portions by using etching; and determining whether the structure color of photonic crystals is completed, wherein, when it is determined that the structure color of photonic crystals is not completed, the forming, the stacking, and the removing are repeatedly performed.
US08422845B2
A photo-electric integrated circuit device comprises an on-die optical input/output device. The on-die optical input/output device comprises a substrate having a trench, a lower cladding layer disposed in the trench and having an upper surface lower than an upper surface of the substrate, and a core disposed on the lower cladding layer at a distance from sidewalls of the trench and having an upper surface at substantially the same level as the upper surface of the substrate.
US08422843B2
A multi-fiber cable assembly includes a plurality of optical fibers and at least two fiber grouping members disposed in a reverse double helical configuration about the plurality of optical fibers. An outer jacket surrounds the fiber grouping members and the plurality of optical fibers.
US08422834B2
Provided is a semiconductor integrated circuit. The semiconductor integrated circuit includes a semiconductor pattern disposed on a substrate and including an optical waveguide part and a pair of recessed portions. The optical waveguide part has a thickness ranging from about 0.05 μm to about 0.5 μm. The recessed portions are disposed on both sides of the optical waveguide part and have a thinner thickness than the optical waveguide part. A first doped region and a second doped region are disposed in the recessed portions, respectively. The first and second doped regions are doped with a first conductive type dopant and a second conductive type dopant, respectively. An intrinsic region is formed in at least the optical waveguide part to contact the first and second doped regions.
US08422829B2
An interpolation method and an interpolation circuit are provided. The interpolation method calculates a difference between values of a first point and a second point and calculates an absolute value of the difference. Then, the absolute value of the difference is used to mix a first function and a second function to obtain a transformation function, which is then used to calculate an interpolation value of an interpolation point between the first point and the second point. Accordingly, the present invention may obtain a result close to high order interpolation without increasing hardware expense.
US08422825B1
Embodiments of the invention relate to the visualization of geographical information and the combination of image information to generate geographical information. Specifically, embodiments of the invention relate to a process and system for correlating oblique images data and terrain data without extrinsic information about the oblique imagery. Embodiments include a visualization tool to allow simultaneous and coordinated viewing of the correlated imagery. The visualization tool may also provide distance and measuring, three-dimensional lens, structure identification, path finding, visibility and similar tools to allow a user to determine distance between imaged objects.
US08422819B2
An image processing apparatus includes a first noise removal unit which removes noise from a pixel signal when a level of the signal falls outside a range defined by first and second threshold levels, a cyclic calculation unit which makes a cyclic calculation based on weighted averaging between signals on an identical column with respect to the signal in which the noise is removed by the first noise removal unit, a column offset detection unit which detects a column offset component for each column based on the calculation result, and a second noise removal unit which performs a noise removal operation with respect to a signal on the identical column using the previously calculated cyclic calculation result when a difference between the previously calculated cyclic calculation value and the current pixel signal value falls outside a range defined by third and fourth threshold levels.
US08422810B2
Provided are a method for redundant slice coding by polyphase down-sampling (PD) and a codec using the method. An encoder for redundant slice coding by PD includes a PD coding unit rearranging a residual block that is a difference between a current block and a prediction block into four sections by performing PD on the residual block, a quantization transform unit transforming and quantizing at least one of the sections of the residual block, and a reference block generation unit generating a reference block based on a value obtained by performing inverse transform and inverse quantization, and then inverse PD on the at least one transformed and quantized section by the quantization transform unit.
US08422806B2
Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus including: a partial decoding block configured to generate picture data by partially decoding a reversibly encoded picture code stream; an irreversible encoding block configured to encode irreversibly the picture data generated by the partial decoding block; and a control section configured to control the partial decoding block to determine the picture code stream part to be decoded in such a manner that a target compression rate of the picture data generated by the partial decoding block constitutes the compression rate corresponding to a target code quantity for the irreversible encoding block.
US08422800B2
A deblock method for processing at least one image including a plurality of pixels. The method comprises the step of determining a shift amount of block boundary by pixel data differences between adjacent pixels and thereby determining block boundaries between macroblocks in the image, and the step of optionally performing a deblock process on the block boundaries.
US08422799B1
Complex image data is transformed to a holographic representation of the image. A subset of the holographic representation is modeled. Model parameters constitute a compressed image representation. A two-dimensional Fourier transform can be applied to obtain the holographic image. Modeling includes applying an analysis portion of an adaptive analysis/synthesis linear prediction methodology to a subset of the holographic representation to obtain an autoregressive model. Prior to modeling, one-dimensional Fourier transform can be performed on the holographic representation and the linear prediction is one-dimensional. Model parameters are preferably quantized. Embodiments include determining error between the model and the model's input data. There the compressed image representation the error, which also can be quantized. The subset of the holographic representation can be less than all the representation. The subset can be a plurality of complete rows; preferably substantially symmetric about 0 Hz.
US08422797B2
An “active learning” method trains a compact classifier for view-based object recognition. The method actively generates its own training data. Specifically, the generation of synthetic training images is controlled within an iterative training process. Valuable and/or informative object views are found in a low-dimensional rendering space and then added iteratively to the training set. In each iteration, new views are generated. A sparse training set is iteratively generated by searching for local minima of a classifier's output in a low-dimensional space of rendering parameters. An initial training set is generated. The classifier is trained using the training set. Local minima are found of the classifier's output in the low-dimensional rendering space. Images are rendered at the local minima. The newly-rendered images are added to the training set. The procedure is repeated so that the classifier is retrained using the modified training set.
US08422793B2
A pattern recognition apparatus including: an extracting section for extracting, from a query image that is composed of at least one piece of pattern component and previously undergoes a geometric transformation, the pattern component; a feature acquiring section for acquiring a geometric invariant feature of the pattern component as a query feature, the query feature being represented by at least three feature points including first, second and third feature points, each feature point locating on the pattern component and being retrieved from the pattern component based on a predetermined rule; a comparing section for comparing the query feature with a plurality of reference features, each reference feature representing different reference patterns prepared as candidates for pattern recognition; and a pattern determination section for determining, as a recognition result, a specific reference pattern out of the candidates based on a similarity of features therebetween and, wherein: each reference feature is represented using feature points retrieved from each reference pattern based on the same rule as that of the query feature, and based on the predetermined rule, a position of the first feature point is specified out of points which locate on the pattern component and are invariant to the geometric transformation, a position of the second feature point is specified using a characteristic regarding a shape of the pattern component, the characteristic being invariant to the geometric transformation, and a position of the third feature point is specified from a predetermined value being invariant to the geometric transformation and from the specified positions of the first and second feature points.
US08422788B2
Tilt is reduced or eliminated in captured digital images. Edges in a first image are detected. Angles corresponding to the detected edges are determined. A dominant angle is selected from the determined angles. The first image is rotated according to the selected dominant angle to generate a second image. The second image is a de-tilted version of the first image.
US08422785B2
An image processing apparatus obtains an image of an original area on the basis of a platen image obtained by reading an entire surface of a platen including an original placed on the platen. The image processing apparatus extracts a plurality of image areas included in the platen image, and determines whether each of the extracted image areas has a specific characteristic. The image processing apparatus judges that a rectangular area including all of the plurality of image areas is an original image in a case where at least one of the plurality of image areas has the specific characteristic, and judges that each of the plurality of image areas is an original image in a case where none of the plurality of image areas has the specific characteristic.
US08422783B2
Aspects of the present invention are related to systems and methods for region-based up-scaling, and in particular, for up-scaling still images and video frames that contain graphical elements.
US08422779B2
The present disclosure is directed to methods, systems, and apparatus for improved data compression. In one embodiment, a method is provided that separates image data by color channels and ordered bit planes. The method includes arranging bytes representing pixel values from a source image into corresponding color channels. Bits in each color channel are separated into a plurality of bit planes that are ordered based on significance. Then, the method may combine bits associated with adjacent pixel locations from common bit planes into new bytes. Once the image data is separated in this way, different compression processes are applied to data sets represented in the ordered bit planes.
US08422777B2
We disclose a photogrammetry target that includes a background having a first color and a plurality of ovoid regions located on the background and having a second color contrasting the first color. We further disclose a method and system for detecting the target and processing image data captured from the target to discern therefrom at least one of a distance to the target, identification of the target, or pose of the target.
US08422771B2
Aspects of the present invention are related to systems and methods for image demosaicing.
US08422768B2
A method for processing images consisting of pixels generated by an image sensor with a view to supplying input data to a simulated or wired neural process. The method includes reading pixels pixel-by-pixel in real time and constructing prototype vectors during the pixel-by-pixel reading process on the basis of the values read, the prototype vectors constituting the input data of the neural process.
US08422760B2
A system for monitoring haze of a photomask includes an installation unit in which a photomask is mounted, a light emission unit emitting a light beam to the photomask installed on the installation unit, a detection unit detecting a diffraction pattern of the light beam emitted by the light emission unit and passed through the photomask, and an analysis unit analyzing the diffraction pattern detected by the detection unit.
US08422758B1
A user or a device may separate a check into two or more portions prior to generating a digital image of the check for remote deposit of the check. The user or a device may separate the check by cutting or tearing the check. After separating the check into the portions, the user may generate a digital image of the portions of the check using a scanner for example. The digital image may be transmitted to an institution for deposit of the check. The institution may retrieve the images of the portions of the check and generate an image of the check based on the portions, by combining the images of the portions for example. The image of the check that may be generated based on the images of the portions may be processed for deposit.
US08422757B2
A method is provided that comprises receiving a first digital radiography (DR) image of at least a portion of a body of a patient, receiving a second DR image of the at least a portion of a body of a patient, the first DR image being captured at a different energy level than the second DR image, and determining common control point locations for both the first and second DR images. The method further comprises generating an optimized DR image by moving portions of a selected one of the first and second DR images with its associated control points to locations that correspond to similar portions of the other of the first and second DR images, applying deformable transformation to one of the first and second DR images and performing a log subtraction on the first and second DR image to generate a dual-energy digital radiography (DEDR) image.
US08422750B2
A method and apparatus of producing a three-dimensional image of at least a part of the retina of an eye is provided. The method including obtaining a two-dimensional wide-field image of said part of said retina, determining a three-dimensional shape for said part of said retina and using the three-dimensional shape for said part of said retina to modify said two-dimensional image to produce a three-dimensional image of said part of said retina. The apparatus including an imaging system adapted to provide a two-dimensional wide-field image of said part of said retina, a three-dimensional shape determination module adapted to determine a three-dimensional shape for said part of said retina, and a two-dimensional image modification module adapted to modify said two-dimensional wide-field image of said part of said retina using said three-dimensional shape to produce a three-dimensional image of said part of said retina.
US08422743B2
The present invention provides a surface-reading apparatus that includes a subject-flexing mechanism and a surface-reading component. The subject-flexing mechanism causes a subject to flex in one of a convex form and a concave form. The surface-reading component reads a characteristic of a surface condition of the subject that has been flexed by the subject-flexing mechanism. The surface-reading component can includes an optical reading component that optically reads the characteristic of the surface condition of the subject. The optical reading component may be a reflected light-reading component that reads the characteristic of the surface condition of the subject with reflected light or may be a transmitted light-reading component that reads the characteristic of the surface condition of the subject with transmitted light.
US08422737B2
A device for measuring a parking space as a vehicle drives past the parking space includes a depth-measuring line scan camera movable together with the vehicle for acquiring individual images of the environment surrounding the vehicle transverse to a longitudinal direction of the vehicle, an arrangement for acquiring the movement of the vehicle, and an evaluation device. The individual images of the environment surrounding the vehicle contain depth information that is resolvable in a vertical direction.
US08422732B2
An apparatus and method specify the presence/absence of an alteration and an alteration position of an image. A block-division unit divides image data into image data of a first unit including a predetermined number of pixels. A block calculation unit calculates an image data coefficient of the first unit. A cell-division unit divides one image data of the first unit into image data of a second unit. A cell calculation unit calculates an image data coefficient of the second unit. First verification data is generated by selecting two image data coefficients of the first unit and generating, for one pair, data representing the magnitude relation of the image data coefficients of the first unit. Second verification data is generated by selecting two image data coefficients of the second unit and generating, for one pair, data representing the magnitude relation of the image data coefficients of the second unit.
US08422722B2
An audio speaker assembly is provided with a grill which twist locks with the speaker housing for assembly and disassembly. The housing includes a perimeter edge with a plurality of slots and tab retainers. The grill includes a perimeter edge with a plurality of tabs. The tabs of the grill align with the slots of the housing, and the grill is then rotated so that the tabs under lay the tab retainers so as to lock the grill into securement with the speaker housing. The grill is rotated in the opposite direction to unlock the grill for disassembly.
US08422719B2
An in-ear device comprises inter alia a miniaturized receiver assembly of a sealed sandwich construction with a front plate and a back plate and an electro-dynamic receiver therebetween, the assembly providing a bass-reflex design with a front resonator.
US08422716B2
A telescoping boom pole for an electrical conductor is disclosed. The boom pole includes at least a top cylindrical conduit slidably assembled within a second cylindrical conduit. A top clamping means is included for selectively clamping the top conduit to the second conduit. The top clamping means includes an annular cylindrical collar having a threaded portion proximate a bottom edge on an inside surface thereof, and a collet restraining means proximate a top edge thereof. An annular, compressible collet is resiliently captured by the collet restraining means of the collar at a cooperative restraining means of an outside surface of the collet. The collet further includes an inclined lower portion on an outside surface thereof. The top clamping means further includes an annular sleeve fixed to a top end of the second conduit, and has an outside surface that includes a threaded portion that cooperates with the threaded portion of the collar. A top edge of the sleeve is formed into an upwardly-projecting wedge for pushing the collet inwardly at its inclined lower portion as the collar is threaded onto the sleeve. As such, the collet, the sleeve, and the collar force the top and second conduits to become mutually and immovably fixed together. Additional cylindrical conduits may be included and successively slidably assembled over the second conduit, additional clamping means being included between each conduit. As such, the conductor and electrical connectors thereof may be positioned through each conduit and each clamping means and be supported thereby.
US08422714B2
A speaker with acoustic chamber is provided. The speaker includes a main body and an acoustic chamber fixed to the main body. The acoustic chamber can be converted between a collapsed state and an expanded state. The acoustic chamber is drawn to the expanded state to increase the volume of the acoustic chamber and is collapsed to the collapsed state to decrease the volume of the acoustic chamber. When the acoustic chamber is drawn to the expanded state, the quality of the sound output by the speaker is improved.
US08422699B2
Improving loudness consistency of an audio stream may include delaying an encoded audio stream and adjusting the delayed encoded audio stream based at least in part on the loudness of the audio stream before a transition and the loudness of the audio stream after the transition. Improving loudness consistency of an audio stream may further include determining the loudness of the audio stream before the transition, detecting the transition, storing the loudness of the audio stream before the transition, and determining the loudness of the audio stream after the transition.
US08422697B2
In a system for estimating the power spectral density of acoustical background noise when the level of a smoothed power spectral density signal increases, an increment value is increased, starting from a minimum increment value, by a predetermined amount until a maximum increment value is reached if at the same time the value of the power spectral density currently determined in a new calculation cycle is larger than the estimate value of the power spectral density of the background noise determined in the previous calculation cycle. For cases in which the level of the smoothed power spectral density decreases, the amplitude of the decrement value is increased, starting from a minimum decrement value, by a predetermined amount until a maximum decrement value is reached if at the same time the value of the power spectral density currently determined in a new calculation cycle is smaller than the estimate value of the power spectral density of the background noise determined in the previous calculation cycle.
US08422692B1
Speaker control systems are implemented using a variety of systems and methods. In one such system, an audio signal is distributed to at least one speaker selected from a set of speakers. The system includes a set of audio-distribution circuits for distributing the audio signal to the set of speakers. Logic circuitry is used to automatically determine an impedance-based parameter for use in distributing the audio signal to the at least one selected speaker based at least partly on a load-tolerance parameter for an audio source and on an impedance of the at least one selected speaker. The logic circuitry controls distribution of the audio signal to the selected speakers based at least partly on the impedance-based parameter. One or more of the set of audio-distribution circuits are used by the logic circuitry to distribute the audio signal to the at least one selected speaker.
US08422690B2
There is provided an audio reproduction apparatus. The audio reproduction apparatus comprises a first acquisition unit, a determination unit, a calculation unit, a second acquisition unit, and a generation unit. The configuration of the audio reproduction apparatus enables changing a head-related transfer function for signal processing in audio signal reproduction in accordance with the state of the audio recording apparatus at the time of audio signal acquisition.
US08422685B2
The method for elliptic curve scalar multiplication may provide several countermeasures to protect scalar multiplication of a private key k by a point P to produce the product kP from power analysis attacks. First, the private key, k, is partitioned into a plurality of key partitions, which are processed in a random order, the resulting points being accumulated to produce the scalar product kP. Second, in each partition, the encoding is randomly selected to occur in binary form or in Non-Adjacent Form (NAF), with the direction of bit inspection being randomly assigned between most-to-least and least-to-most. Third, in each partition, each zero in the key may randomly perform a dummy point addition operation in addition to the doubling operation. The method may be implemented in software, smart cards, circuits, processors, or application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) designed to carry out the method.
US08422682B2
A method to generate Immutable Audit logs (IAL) using related computer means and/or computer programs. This method and system processes audit information by cryptographic means generating one immutable digital chains that will contain at least the audit information split among the links and optionally encrypted, and this immutable digital chain is stored in a massive storage media. Each immutable digital chain is generated by including at every link at least the data resulting to apply a MAC function using a secret session key K over the result of information at current link concatenated with a previous link MAC value. The method proposes adding specific links to said immutable digital chain at regular defined intervals (‘Metronome Entry’) that contain at least a timestamp and the data resulting to apply a digital signature using a private key that is always kept secret over the metronome timestamp concatenated with previous link results.
US08422680B2
A first communication unit receives an encrypted transmission from a second communication unit. The encrypted transmission was encrypted by the second communication unit using a first encryption key. The first communication unit compares the first encryption key to an encryption key associated with the first communication unit. If the first encryption key matches the encryption key associated with the first communication unit, the first communication unit processes the encrypted transmission further. If the first encryption key does not match the encryption key associated with the first communication unit, the first communication unit compares the first encryption key to an encryption key associated with the second communication unit. If the first encryption key matches the encryption key associated with the second communication unit, the first communication unit processes the encrypted transmission further; otherwise, the first communication unit does not process the encrypted transmission further.
US08422676B2
A new media device including a decryption device that is operable to create a decryption key to read media. The decryption device is itself a read/write device that allows reducing or decrementing each time the decryption key is used.
US08422674B2
A method, computer program product, and data processing system for protecting sensitive program code and data (including persistently stored data) from unauthorized access. Dedicated hardware decrypts an encrypted kernel into memory for execution. When an application is to be executed, the kernel computes one or more secrets by cryptographically combining information contained in the application with secret information contained in the kernel itself. The kernel then deletes its secret information and passes the computed secrets to the application. To store data persistently in memory, the application uses one of the computed secrets to encrypt the data prior to storage. If the kernel starts another instance of the same application, the kernel (which will have been re-decrypted to restore the kernel's secrets) will compute the same one or more secrets, thus allowing the second application instance to access the data encrypted by the first application instance.
US08422670B2
There is provided an authentication method which is secure against various attacks such as a KCI attack on a public network, and can reduce a required calculation amount compared to a conventional method. In this authentication method, a mutual authentication processing technique using Diffie-Hellman type key exchange is modified to compute a master secret Ks in a server by Ks=gy, where y is a random number (yε(Z/qZ)*) generated by the server. In this method, let (G,·) be a group of order q, g be a generator of that set G, and U, WεG. “·” is a binary operator on G.
US08422665B2
A telephone device includes a base, a light transmitter, a light penetrating element for penetrating light transmitter from the light transmitter, and a handset. When an end of the handset is on-hook with the base, the end of the handset reflects the light emitted from the light transmitter and penetrating through the light penetrating element back to the light penetrating element. The telephone device further includes a light receiver for receiving the light reflected from the handset when the end of the handset is on-hook with the base, a light concentrating element for concentrating the light emitted from the light transmitter to the light penetrating element, and a control unit for determining whether the end of the handset is on-hook with the base according to whether the light receiver receives the light reflected from the handset.
US08422664B2
An integrated access device (IAD) protects overcurrent of a DAA chipset. The IAD periodically detects an on-hook/off-hook state of the DAA chipset, and periodically monitors an OPD state of the DAA chipset upon the condition that the on-hook/off-hook state of the DAA chipset is detected in off-hook state at least twice. The IAD further sets the on-hook/off-hook state of the DAA chipset as on-hook to avoid damage to the DAA chipset caused by overcurrent upon the condition that the OPD state of the DAA chipset indicates the DAA chipset is overcurrent.
US08422658B1
The automatic selection of interfaces can result in the optimization of interaction between entities. Such selection of interfaces can be applied specifically in the context of interactive voice response systems, and can allow the interface presented to a caller to be optimized based on factors including the caller's usage of the system.
US08422645B1
A method of managing a voicemail network is described herein. Voicemail system data for the voicemail network is received. The voicemail system data includes communication node data, source voicemail node data, and destination voicemail node data. A destination voicemail node is determined based on the destination voicemail node data and a destination voicemail node criteria. When the source voicemail node data meets a source voicemail node criteria, a communication node is associated with the destination voicemail node.
US08422632B2
An integrated fluidic circuit includes a substrate layer and a first structure coupled to the substrate layer and including a plurality of channels. The first structure is configured to provide for flow of one or more materials through the plurality of channels. The integrated fluidic circuit also includes a second structure coupled to the substrate layer. The second structure includes a plurality of control channels configured to receive an actuation pressure. The integrated fluidic circuit is characterized by a thickness of less than 1.5 mm.
US08422622B2
To provide a shift register and a display device each capable of satisfactorily preventing noises of individual stage outputs without increasing circuit complexity, each stage of the shift register includes: a first output transistor; a first capacitor; an input gate; a first switching element; a second switching element; a third switching element; a fourth switching element; and a fifth switching element.
US08422616B2
A wireless access terminal, system and method for the wireless access terminal to synchronize to system times in a wireless communication system. A first timing hierarchy in a first wireless communication network is used to operate the wireless access terminal. The first wireless communication network has a first radio access technology. Operating with the first timing hierarchy includes determining a frame cycle for the first wireless communication network. The frame cycle has a frame cycle boundary. Broadcast parameters for a second wireless communication network having a second radio access technology different from the first radio access technology are received. The broadcast parameters include the system time of the second wireless communication network. The system time of second wireless communication network is aligned, from the perspective of the wireless access terminal, with the frame cycle boundary. The wireless access terminal engages in a communication session using the second wireless communication network.
US08422615B2
A data communication system has a transmitter with a first clock-generation circuit, and a receiver with a second clock generation circuit. At least a specific one of the clock-generation circuits is powered-down between consecutive data bursts. The system expedites the starting up of operational use of the system upon a power-down of the specific clock-generation circuit. The system presets at a predetermined value an operational quantity of the specific clock-generation circuit at the starting up.
US08422608B2
A wireless receiver including receiving antennas, frequency-space transformers, noise wave removers, a back-end signal processor, a pattern detector, a broadcast interruption detector, and a back-end controller. The frequency-space transformers convert signals received by the antennas into frequency-space signals. The noise wave removers each at least perform the calculation of a transmission line coefficient matrix and the calculation of an inter-antenna covariance matrix on the frequency-space signals. A controller controls the back-end signal processor to operate when the multicarrier transmission waves have been detected to be interrupted. The noise wave removers each perform the calculation of the inter-antenna covariance matrix when a broadcast interruption detector has detected the interruption of the multicarrier airwaves. Thus, the wireless receiver removes noise generated within it, thereby having high reception sensitivity.
US08422602B2
A pattern detection circuit for performing pattern detection on input signals from a communication terminal, includes a frequency domain transformer that transforms input signals into frequency domain signals; a frequency extractor that extracts frequency components of the frequency domain signals; and a pattern detector that performs the pattern detection on the input signals based on cross-correlation values in frequency domain between the extracted frequency components and predetermined patterns.
US08422601B2
The present invention relates to processing of spread spectrum signals, where a continuous signal of a comparatively high frequency is received. This signal is sampled at a basic sampling rate whereby a resulting sequence of time discrete signal samples is produced, which are in turn quantized into a corresponding level-discrete sample value. A plurality of data words are formed, which each includes one or more consecutive sample values. Information obtained from these data words is correlated with at least one representation of a signal source specific code sequence, which has been pre-generated in the form of a code vector. The correlation step specifically involves correlating at least each vector in a sub-group of the code vectors with at least one vector that has been derived from the data word. Thereby resulting data is produced.
US08422584B2
A transmission method including the steps of: dividing an input video signal into a plurality of packets which comply with a predetermined transmission standard and preferentially selecting, as a transmission path for each of the plurality of packets, a transmission channel, to which a lower frequency band is allocated, from among the plurality of transmission channels which are allocated along a frequency axis; and modulating, by using a multicarrier modulation method, the plurality of packets and transmitting the modulated packets to a receiving device along a cable through the selected transmission channel, the cable having a transmission characteristic such that attenuation of a signal to be transmitted increases with the frequency of the signal.
US08422583B2
Methods and apparatuses for providing CQI feedback to a transmitter station are described herein. In one implementation, an apparatus may include a transceiver to transmit and receive signals to and from a transmitter station, and a controller coupled to the transceiver to control the transceiver to transmit to the transmitter station a first channel quality indicator (CQI) that corresponds to a first modulation level to be used by the transmitter station to transmit first signals, and to control the transceiver to transmit to the transmitter station a differential indicator that comprises two bits or less to differentially indicate a second CQI relative to the first CQI, wherein the second CQI corresponds to a second modulation level to be used by the transmitter station to transmit second signals. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US08422580B2
A space-time-frequency encoding scheme, for use in wireless communication systems, transforms a plurality of input element pairs into a plurality orthogonal element pairs, each of the plurality of input element pairs and corresponding orthogonal element pairs forming an orthogonal matrix. A first element, second element and a duplicate of the second element in each of the plurality of input element pairs and corresponding orthogonal element pairs are mapped as channel elements to three predetermined time-frequency cells in respective first and second two-dimension time-frequency matrixes for transmission via different antennas. As the input element pairs and corresponding orthogonal element pairs, transmitted via different antennas, are orthogonal in both the space-time domain and the space-frequency domain at the same time, two-dimension space-time transmit diversity gain and space-frequency transmit diversity gain can be achieved at the same time.
US08422574B2
A disclosed base station apparatus is capable of communicating with a user equipment terminal in a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) mobile communication system using Pre-coding. The base station apparatus includes a receiving unit receiving a Pre-coding Matrix Indicator (PMI) indicating a specific Pre-coding matrix, a determination unit determining a value of a flag indicator indicating whether the Pre-coding matrix specified in the PMI is to be used for downlink communications, a control signal generation unit generating a downlink control signal including at least the flag indicator, and a transmission unit transmitting a signal including the downlink control signal in downlink.
US08422570B2
A discrete cosine transform (DCT)-based orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) system is provided with a zero-padding guard interval and MMSE reception. The performance of the DCT-OFDM system with the zero-padding guard interval scheme and the minimum mean-square error (MMSE) receiver over time-varying multipath Rayleigh fading channels is investigated. The results show that employing the proposed DCT-OFDM system rather than the conventional DFT-OFDM system can provide better bit error rate performance in practical systems, by as much as 6 dB in signal-to-noise ratio.
US08422564B2
A method and apparatus for processing enhanced media data in a Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) system is provided. The apparatus for processing enhanced media data includes: a base layer processing unit configured to multiplex an elementary stream of a base layer and perform channel encoding for the multiplexed elementary stream of the base layer; an enhancement layer processing unit configured to synchronize an elementary stream of an enhancement layer with the elementary stream of the base layer and thereby multiplex the elementary stream of the enhancement layer and process the elementary stream of the enhancement layer to be transmittable via at least one of a plurality of transmission channels; and a synchronizer configured to provide the enhancement layer processing unit with synchronization information that is used for synchronizing the elementary stream of the enhancement layer with the elementary stream of the base layer.
US08422562B2
To perform, with a single circuit, decoding in association with various image encoding systems and improve universality, a coefficient selection processing section selects a DC coefficient and an AC coefficient of an adjacent block adjacent to a decoding target block, a coefficient arithmetic processing section applies arithmetic processing to the selected DC coefficient and AC coefficient, a coefficient comparison processing section calculates, based on the DC coefficient subjected to the arithmetic processing, inter-block correlations in horizontal and vertical directions, and a direction determination processing section determines a predicting method using the inter-block correlations. Further, a prediction processing section adds, using the determined predicting method, the DC coefficient and the AC coefficient subjected to the arithmetic processing to encoded data, and a controlling section controls, according to the encoded data, a selecting method, an arithmetic processing method, a determining method, and/or a prediction processing method.
US08422560B2
A method and apparatus for encoding/decoding a media signal. The method of decoding a media signal includes extracting first table index information from a header. The first table index information indicates M (M
US08422556B2
In one embodiment, the method includes selecting a list 1 motion vector of the co-located block in a first reference picture if the co-located block only has the list 1 motion vector. The first reference picture is a type of reference picture permitted to be located temporally before or after a current picture. The current picture includes the bi-predictive block. The method further includes deriving at least one motion vector of the bi-predictive block by applying a bit operation to the selected motion vector. The bit operation includes 8 bits right shift.
US08422548B2
Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems and methods for managing and combining layers in a multi-layer bitstream.
US08422534B2
In a subscriber of a communication system for transmitting data of a data stream in time slots of recurring communication cycles, the communication system includes a communication medium, the subscriber, and at least one additional subscriber. The subscribers are connected to the communication medium for data transmission purposes. To allow better utilization of the available frequency range for data transmission, the subscribers have device(s) for spectral spreading of the data of the data stream before transmission via a certain code sequence and have device(s) for transmitting the spread data in the time slots of the recurring communication cycles. The communication system is preferably designed as a FlexRay communication system, the spread data being transmittable in chronological synchronization in a time slot of the communication cycle by various subscribers of the system. The communication medium is preferably designed as a powerline structure via which the subscribers are supplied with electrical power.
US08422533B2
Provided is a radio communication device which can make Acknowledgement (ACK) reception quality and Negative Acknowledgement (NACK) reception quality to be equal to each other. The device includes: a scrambling unit (214) which multiplies a response signal after modulated, by a scrambling code “1” or “e−j(π/2)” so as to rotate a constellation for each of response signals on a cyclic shift axis; a spread unit (215) which performs a primary spread of the response signal by using a Zero Auto Correlation (ZAC) sequence set by a control unit (209); and a spread unit (218) which performs a secondary spread of the response signal after subjected to the primary spread, by using a block-wise spread code sequence set by the control unit (209).
US08422531B2
A surface emitting semiconductor laser includes a substrate, an n-type lower DBR, an n-type cavity extending region formed on the lower DBR, an active region formed on the cavity extending region, and an upper DBR formed on the active region. A difference in refractive index between a relatively high refractive index layer and a relatively low refractive in the upper DBR is smaller than that in the lower DBR.
US08422527B2
A nitride based semiconductor device includes: an n-type cladding layer; an n-type GaN based guide layer placed on the n-type cladding layer; an active layer placed on the n-type GaN based guide layer; a p-type GaN based guide layer placed on the active layer; an electron block layer placed on the p-type GaN based guide layer; a stress relaxation layer placed on the electron block layer; and a p-type cladding layer placed on the stress relaxation layer, and the nitride based semiconductor device alleviates the stress occurred under the influence of the electron block layer, does not affect light distribution by the electron block layer, reduces threshold current, can suppress the degradation of reliability, can suppress degradation of the emitting end surface of the laser beam, can improve the far field pattern, and is long lasting, and fabrication method of the device is also provided.
US08422526B2
A semiconductor laser device includes a semiconductor multilayer structure selectively grown on a substrate other than on a predetermined region of the substrate. The semiconductor multilayer structure includes an active layer, and has a stripe-shaped optical waveguide extending in a direction intersecting a front facet through which light is emitted. The active layer has an abnormal growth portion formed at a peripheral edge of the predetermined region, and a larger forbidden band width portion formed around the abnormal growth portion and having a larger width of a forbidden band than that of a portion other than the abnormal growth portion of the active layer. The optical waveguide is spaced apart from the abnormal growth portion and includes the larger forbidden band width portion at the front facet.
US08422525B1
An optical device capable of emitting light having a wavelength ranging from about 490 to about 580 nanometers has a gallium nitride substrate with a semipolar crystalline surface region characterized by an orientation of greater than 3 degrees from (11-22) towards (0001) but less than about 50 degrees. A laser stripe formed on the substrate has a cavity orientation substantially parallel to the m-direction.
US08422517B2
Wired and wireless communication networks can be subject to burst interference resulting in loss of throughput and data corruption. In a communication system comprising a transmitting network device and a receiving network device, the transmitting network device can be configured to implement balanced bit loading for retransmitting packets of a failed packet transmission. On receiving a request for retransmission from the receiving network device, the transmitting network device can identify and eliminate sub-carriers that are associated with a bit load that is less than a predefined bit load threshold. The transmitting network device can attempt to reallocate bit loads of the eliminated sub-carriers to remaining sub-carriers across two or more constituent symbols per original symbol.
US08422516B2
An embodiment of the invention provides a communication device (500, 800) which comprises a communication entity (502, 802) and a further communication entity (504, 804) communicatively coupled to the communication entity (502, 802) in accordance with a Digital Radio Frequency protocol. The communication entity (502, 802) comprises a protocol layer (516), the further communication entity (504, 804) comprises a protocol layer (514), and the protocol layers (516, 514) of the communication entity (502, 802) and of the further communication entity (504, 804) are connected via a protocol-physical interface (512, 513) which provides for a parallel bidirectional signal interfacing. The protocol-physical interface (512, 513) is adapted for selectively connecting the protocol layers (516, 514) directly or via physical layers (503, 508).
US08422514B1
In general, techniques are described for dynamically configuring cross-domain pseudowires (PWs). A network device positioned between a first domain and a second domain of a computer network may implement the techniques. The intermediate network device comprises at least one interface and an LDP module, a transformation module and a routing protocol module. The interface receives a label distribution protocol (LDP) message that includes data for configuring a cross-domain PW from a first provider edge (PE) device of the first domain. The LDP module parses the received LDP message to extract the cross-domain PW configuration data. The translation module transforms the extracted data to conform to routing protocol extensions for advertising the cross-domain PW configuration data. The routing protocol module forms a routing protocol message that includes the transformed data. The interface outputs the routing protocol message to the second intermediate device of the second domain to establish the cross-domain PW.
US08422512B2
Aspects of a method and system for an extended range Ethernet line code are provided. One or more ternary encoded bitstreams may be generated and transmitted. The generating may comprise mapping 3-bit binary IDLE patterns having a least significant bit of zero to a non-zero ternary value, and mapping 3-bit binary IDLE patterns having a non-zero least significant bit to a ternary zero. The generating may comprise receiving binary data via a media independent interface, mapping each 4-bit portion of said received binary data to a ternary symbol comprising two ternary bits, and transmitting said ternary symbol over said one or more physical channels. Data portions of the one or more ternary encoded bitstreams may be generated by mapping 3-bit binary patterns to 2-bit ternary symbols. One of the nine possible 2-bit ternary symbols may be reserved for control portions of said one or more ternary encoded bitstreams.
US08422504B2
A network switch configures a static forwarding to a packet processor by suppressing packet switching and forwards all traffic received on a group of ports a trunk port for aggregation. A trunk header is overloaded with message classification information for use at the downstream packet processor. Routing logic retrieves the packet classification information and stores the information in control fields that are ignored due to the static forwarding and local switching disablement. The static forwarding forwards the packet, with the appended classification information, to a packet processor via the aggregation port. Packet classification information is indicative of the type of the message traffic and is performed upon packet arrival at the switching device. The packet processor reads the classification information from the overloaded control fields, rather then expending processing resources to determine the classification, and sends the message packet on an ingress port to a switching fabric for further transport.
US08422502B1
A system and method collects information for VPN traffic from non edge routers that are coupled to edge routers and identifies the path the traffic took and the customer corresponding to the VPN. The system and method also identifies the ingress router coupled to the non edge router from which the traffic was collected. The system and method may assign identifiers to route targets.
US08422501B2
A method, computer program product, and data processing system for efficiently discovering and storing path MTU information in a sending host are disclosed. In a preferred embodiment, two path MTU tables are maintained. One path MTU table contains MTU values corresponding to the first-hop routers associated with the sending host. The other path MTU table contains MTU values corresponding to individual destination hosts. When the sending host needs to send information to a destination, it first consults the MTU table associated with individual destination hosts. If an entry for that destination host is found in the table, the sending host uses that MTU value. If not, the sending host consults the MTU table for the first-hop router on the path to the destination host and uses that MTU value. If that MTU value is too high, a new entry is made in the host-specific MTU table for the destination host.
US08422494B2
A digital broadcasting system and a method of processing data are disclosed. Herein, additional encoding is performed on mobile service data, which are then transmitted, thereby providing robustness in the processed mobile service data, so that the mobile service data can respond more strongly against fast and frequent channel changes. The method of processing data in a transmitting system includes receiving mobile service data, encapsulating the received mobile service data to a transport stream (TS) packet, and outputting the encapsulated mobile service data as a mobile service data packet, and multiplexing a main service data packet including main service data and the encapsulated mobile service data packet, thereby transmitting the multiplexed data packets to at least one transmitter located in a remote site.
US08422479B2
A method, system, base station and User Equipment for processing reference symbols is provided to support the transmission of both common reference symbols and user-specific reference symbols. In the present invention, a transmitting end configures the reference symbol structure for a downlink subframe according to the number of the used antenna; the transmitting end inserts the common reference symbols and the user-specific reference symbols to be transmitted into the downlink subframe according to the reference symbol structure and transmits them. With the user of the present invention, both the common reference symbols and the user-specific reference symbols can be transmitted.
US08422475B2
Methods are provided for setting up a network for IP communication between mobile terminals. A first mobile terminal determines a second mobile terminal that will communicate with the first mobile terminal. The first mobile terminal generates network setup information of the first mobile terminal for the IP communication, and performs network setup using the network setup information. The first mobile terminal generates a network setup message including network setup information of the second mobile terminal. The network setup message is sent from the first mobile terminal to the second mobile terminal.
US08422462B2
Disclosed are a mobile communication device and mobile communication method which make it possible to reduce the amount of the data transfer during heterogeneous network handover processing in the hard handover processing in a mobile network. The mobile communication device which is equipped with a plurality of kinds of radio communication interfaces, receives a request to perform the handover between heterogeneous networks, which requests switching from a radio communication interface in use to another radio communication interface from the mobile communication network, and performs the handover between the heterogeneous networks comprises a measurement processing section (106) for measuring the connection quality of the plurality of kinds of radio communication interfaces, a handover execution predicting section (107); for predicting whether or not the handover between the heterogeneous networks is performed on the basis of the connection quality, and a TCP window control unit (113) for setting a window size to a smaller window size than the window size in use if the handover execution predicting section (107) predicts that the handover between the heterogeneous networks is performed.
US08422453B2
A spectrum-assignment method for use in a wireless communication system, the system comprising at least first and second communication apparatuses each having a portion of communication spectrum pre-assigned to it for communication, the method comprising: on a dynamic basis, controlling re-assignments of said spectrum between the first and second communication apparatuses in dependence upon spectrum requirements of those apparatuses and at least one indicator indicative of interference expected to result from such re-assignments, so as to tend to improve spectrum utilization between the first and second communication apparatuses.
US08422443B2
Reception quality measurement results of respective channels which have been outputted from a reception quality measuring section 308 are inputted to a selected channel determining section 341 and a channel quality information generating section 342. The number of selected channels M which has been previously defined or the number of selected channels M which has been outputted from a control information obtaining section 314 is inputted to the selected channel determining section 341 and a channel identification information generating section 343. The channel identification information generating section 343 selects one of a first representation format for representation with M channel numbers indicating the respective selected channels, and a second representation format for representation representing whether or not each of all the channels is included in the selected channels, based on the number of selected channels M, and uses the selected representation format to generate and output channel identification information.
US08422436B2
A method for forwarding data in forwarding networks includes: acquiring a signal transmitted from a source node to a target node in the forwarding network; selecting an antenna which is closest to the target node or a subordinate forwarding node, according to a corresponding relationship between antennas and nodes in coverage areas of the antennas; sending the signal to the antenna selected through wire transmission media; and transmitting the signal by the antenna selected. An apparatus for forwarding data and a forwarding network are disclosed as well.
US08422428B1
A method of operating a communication system comprises, in a user identifier database system, identifying a failed registration attempt by a wireless communication device to register with a communication network based on a device identifier, identifying a routing system associated with the failed registration attempt, and transferring a data service message for delivery to the routing system, wherein the data service message comprises the device identifier, a service identifier, and instructions for a data session. The method further comprises, in the routing system, creating a temporary profile for the wireless communication device based on the service identifier and transferring the instructions for the data session for delivery to the wireless communication device. The method further comprises, in the wireless communication device, processing the instructions for the data session and transferring a session request for delivery to the routing system to establish the data session with a device management system identified in the instructions, and in the device management system, performing a device management task on the wireless communication device.
US08422427B2
A segmented access based signal transmitting/receiving method and a sequence allocating method for the same are disclosed. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method of transmitting a signal of a user equipment in a communication system includes selecting a channel in accordance with at least one selected from the group consisting of a signal attenuation extent of a downlink signal to the user equipment and a speed of the user equipment from channels differently provided based on at least one selected from the group consisting of the signal attenuation extent of the downlink signal and the speed of the user equipment and transmitting the signal using the selected channel.
US08422424B1
A wireless communication network is served by a plurality of network paths between network control nodes and base stations, wherein the network paths each include a plurality of backhaul links. A backhaul link termination system comprises a communication interface and a processing system. The communication interface is configured to receive architecture information that individually associates the backhaul links with the network paths, and to receive communication loading data and cost data for each of the backhaul links. The processing system is configured to process the architecture information, the loading data, and the cost data to identify a set of the backhaul links for termination.
US08422418B2
The present disclosure provides an earthquake and tsunami warning system and a transmission method for a primary notification message thereof. The transmission method includes: a base station pages all terminals via a paging message containing indication information of an earthquake and tsunami warning system (ETWS) message, and transmits security information of an ETWS primary notification message via the resource prearranged with the terminals, and basic information of the ETWS primary notification message is transmitted within the paging message or via the prearranged resource; the terminals receive the security information of the ETWS primary notification message via the prearranged resource after receiving the paging message containing indication information of the ETWS message, and obtains the basic information of the ETWS primary notification message from the paging message or receives the basic information of the ETWS primary notification message via the prearranged resource. The technical solution provided by the present disclosure can achieve the transmission of the ETWS primary notification message as well as meet the time delay requirement, and modify the base station and terminals slightly with little or no overhead increasing.
US08422407B2
A method for managing data transmissions in a subscriber pool involves receiving a telematics unit call at a call center on a channel other than a packet data channel, and from the call and at the call center, recognizing that the packet data channel is unavailable in a predetermined coverage region. A notification is transmitted to the telematics unit and/or to a plurality of telematics units in the predetermined coverage region indicating that the packet data channel is unavailable for a predetermined time. In response to the notification, a vehicle data upload setting is reset in the telematics unit and/or each of the plurality of telematics units to an alternate channel such that primary connection attempts made by the telematics unit and/or each of the plurality of telematics units are via the alternate channel during the predetermined time. A system for managing such data transmissions is also disclosed.
US08422396B2
A rate monitoring apparatus using a token bucket algorithm for controlling a packet flow, the apparatus includes a packet information storage unit having two storage media for storing packet information extracted from a packet data, a token identifying information storage unit having two storage media for storing identification information used for supplying a created token, and an operation unit for performing a policing operation by using a packet length, an allowable burst size, a token supply capacity and a currently transmittable data capacity, based on an identifying information included in the packet information and a comparison result between identification information included in the packet information and the identification information used for supplying the created token, these compared identification information being read out from the other storage medium different from the storage medium under writing in the packet information storage unit and the token identifying information storage unit.
US08422395B2
Exemplary methods, systems, and computer program products describe selecting a gateway based on health and performance information of a plurality of gateways. The techniques describe gateways advertising health and performance information, computing devices creating a table of this health and performance information, and selecting a gateway using the table. In response to changes in the health and performance information, the computing device may select a different gateway. The process allows network traffic load to be distributed across a plurality of gateways. This process further provides resilience by allowing a plurality of active gateways to substitute for a non-functioning gateway.
US08422387B2
A method of handling uplink information under carrier aggregation for a MAC layer of a UE in a wireless communication system includes receiving uplink data from a higher layer of the UE, triggering a request for requesting UL-SCH resource on at least one of a plurality of component carriers according to whether a PUCCH resource is configured on the at least one of the plurality of component carriers in a current TTI when no UL-SCH resource is available for transmitting the uplink data in the current TTI, and instructing a lower layer of the UE to transmit the request on the at least one of the plurality of component carriers.
US08422385B2
A method for controlling an uplink connection of an idle UE in a wireless communication system is disclosed. In a method for performing a random access procedure by an idle-mode user equipment (UE) which desires to receive a specific broadcast/multicast service in a wireless communication system, the method includes, receiving a first message transmitted from a network, so as to count the number of UEs which desire to receive the broadcast/multicast service, transmitting a preamble for a random access to the network, receiving a second message including uplink (UL) radio resource allocation information from the network in response to the preamble, transmitting a third message selected according to a connection indication information contained in the first or second message to the network using the uplink (UL) radio resource allocation information, wherein the connection indication information indicates whether a connection to the network is required or not, and receiving a contention resolution message from the network.
US08422383B2
A base station apparatus for communicating to a mobile station over an uplink shared channel includes a transmit instruction unit configured to assign an uplink shared channel to the mobile station and instruct the mobile station to conduct transmissions over the assigned uplink shared channel; a measurement unit configured to measure a radio quality of the assigned uplink shared channel; and a determination unit configured to determine based on the radio quality whether the mobile station has transmitted data over the assigned uplink shared channel. In addition, a communication control method at a base station apparatus for communicating to a mobile station over an uplink shared channel includes assigning an uplink shared channel to the mobile station and instructing the mobile station to conduct transmissions over the assigned uplink shared channel; measuring a radio quality of the uplink shared channel assigned to the mobile station; and determining based on the radio quality whether the mobile station has transmitted data over the assigned uplink shared channel.
US08422380B2
The invention is directed to a dynamically reconfigurable network comprising a plurality of nodes having respective transmitters and receivers for transmitting and receiving respective signals to and from one another. In one embodiment, the network is adapted to determine whether a first maximum power can be found at which a first node can transmit a first signal that provides a minimum signal-to-noise ratio at a second node without exceeding a maximum signal-to-noise ratio that a third node requires to simultaneously receive a second signal from a fourth node. If the first maximum power cannot be found, the network is further adapted to cause the first, second, third, and fourth nodes to share a single sub-network. Alternatively, if the first maximum power can be found, the network is adapted to cause the first and second nodes to share a single sub-network that the third node is not permitted to share.
US08422377B2
A technique is disclosed for servicing complex systems. Upon detection of a serviceable condition, a system snapshot is made and stored. The snapshot may include a range of data then available on the system, particularly hardware configuration data, such as components then installed, peripherals installed, their states, and so forth. The snapshot may include data available prior to the detection of an indicator, at the time of detection and following detection, facilitating evaluation of the condition and potential responses to it.
US08422374B2
A method of providing QoS to a session from a client to a first network includes providing data packets from the client to be conveyed in a session from the client to a first network, inserting each of the data packets into an encapsulating packet, and transmitting the encapsulating packets through the second network to the first network, forming a tunnel through the second network. The method includes receiving the encapsulating packets at a terminating device in the first network. The terminating device removes the encapsulating headers to recover the data packets. The method includes determining an association between the packet headers of the data packets and the encapsulating headers, identifying data packets requiring QoS, and using the association to identify encapsulating packets corresponding data packets requiring Quality of Service. The method includes applying QoS to the encapsulating packets, corresponding to the session of data packets requiring the QoS, being conveyed through the tunnel.
US08422369B2
A transmission and reception system is provided. Based on sequence numbers stored in a normal packet information storage unit, a sequence control unit provides normal packets stored in a transmission buffer with sequence numbers so as to be consecutive to a sequence number of the most recently transmitted normal packet. The transmission unit uses a transmission rate to select a normal packet or a retransmission packet. The transmission unit assigns a sequence number to the selected packet and transmits it. The normal packet information storage unit stores numbers assigned to the normal packets transmitted by the transmission unit. The invention can be applied to a transmission system that transmits data.
US08422355B2
A base station apparatus for use in a mobile communication system includes: a unit configured to generate a reference signal; a unit configured to generate a transmission symbol including the reference signal; a unit configured to transmit the transmission symbol for each sector; and a unit configured to monitor a radio propagation state. The reference signal is generated by multiplying a first sequence formed by a non-orthogonal code sequence which is different at least between an adjacent cell and an own cell, by a second sequence. Whether to form the second sequence by using an orthogonal code sequence which is different among sectors or by using a non-orthogonal code sequence is determined according to the radio propagation state.
US08422353B2
An optical recording medium including a plurality of recording layers to record/reproduce information using light with a predetermined wavelength, the information being recorded on one of the recording layers using a mark and a space, wherein a channel clock period T is provided for recording the mark on one of the recording layers. A plurality of pulses, including a last pulse arranged at an end of the pulses, are used to record the mark with length 3T, the mark being recorded with a condition that a width of the last pulse is minimum 0T and maximum 1.10T, in which a first subsequent level lower than a peak power level of the last pulse is arranged next to the last pulse, and a second subsequent level lower than the peak power level but higher than the first subsequent level is arranged next to the first subsequent level.
US08422346B2
The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for determining the number of data layers in an optical disc. Firstly, the objective lens of the optical pickup head is controlled so that it moves toward the optical disc. At the same time, a generated SBAD signal is recorded. The number of wave peaks in the SBAD signal is then detected and the number of the data layers in an optical disc is determined according to the detected number of wave peaks in the SBAD signal.
US08422345B2
In an optical information storage medium reproduction apparatus (10) for reproducing an optical information storage medium including a plurality of information recording layers each including a recording mark having a length shorter than an optical system resolution limit, reproduction laser power for reading an information recording layer closest to a reproduction-laser-incident surface of the optical information storage medium is set to be lower than reproduction laser power for reading an information recording layer farthest from the reproduction-laser-incident surface but not lower than minimum reproduction laser power that satisfies a reproduction signal characteristic that the optical information storage medium reproduction apparatus (10) requires. With the arrangement, it is possible to prevent that the information recording layer closest to the reproduction-laser-incident surface is irradiated wrongly with reproduction laser having high reproduction laser power, thereby making it possible to obtain successful reproduction quality. That is, it is possible to realize the optical information storage medium reproduction apparatus (10) that can set optimum reproduction laser power and perform stable super resolution reproduction.
US08422343B2
In an optical pickup for use in an optical disc device, wire rods are wound directly around a lens-coil holder to make tracking coils and focus coils. The lens-coil holder is divided into three holders, one of which holds an optical lens thereon and has on its sides wire-winding protrusions for wiring wire rods therearound to make tracking coils. The remaining holders have focus coils that are wound therearound. Alternatively, the lens-coil holder is divided into two holders, one of which has on its sides wire-winding protrusions for wiring wire rods therearound to make tracking coils. The remaining holder holds an optical lens thereon and has focus coils that are wound therearound. The lens-coil holder has a cavity for letting pass through a laser beam emitted in parallel to an optical disc surface.
US08422329B2
A semiconductor device compares potential AF_G at an end of an anti-fuse element with potential VPPR. If potential AF_G is equal to or higher than potential VPPR, then the semiconductor device boosts potential VPPSVT of a power supply line that is connected to the end of the anti-fuse element. If the of the anti-fuse element and the other end thereof are connected to each other by the boosted potential, thereby making potential AF_G lower than potential VPPR, then the semiconductor device stops boosting potential VPPSVT.
US08422328B2
A semiconductor device, a semiconductor system including the same, and a voltage supply method of the semiconductor device are provided. The semiconductor device includes at least two semiconductor memory devices and a voltage supply controller configured to selectively supply a voltage to each of the at least two semiconductor memory devices.
US08422327B2
To provide a semiconductor device including a pair of antifuse elements at either a high level or a low level, an OR circuit that outputs different logic information for a case that at least one of the antifuse elements is at a high level and a case that both of the antifuse elements are at a low level, and an exclusive OR circuit that outputs different logic information for a case that the logic states are different from each other and a case that they are same as each other.
US08422320B2
A data strobe signal generation circuit includes: an enable signal generation unit configured to decode a test signal and generate an enable signal; an internal clock generation unit configured to generate a rising clock signal and a falling clock signal in response to the test signal; and a data strobe signal output unit configured to selectively buffer first and second powers in response to the rising clock signal and the falling clock signal, and output a data strobe signal.
US08422317B2
The self-powered detection device comprises a Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) unit formed by at least a NVM cell and a sensor activated by a physical or chemical action or phenomenon, the NVM unit arranged for storing in the NVM cell, by using electrical power of the electrical stimulus pulse, a bit of information relative to detection by the sensor, during a detection mode of the self-powered detection device, of at least one physical or chemical action or phenomenon applied to it with at least a given strength or intensity and resulting in a voltage stimulus signal provided between a set control terminal and a base terminal of the NVM unit with at least a given set voltage.
US08422289B2
A method of producing nanoparticles by using chemical curing. The method includes depositing a metal thin film on a substrate, applying an insulator precursor on a metal thin film, and adding a curing agent and a catalyst to the insulator precursor to perform the chemical curing. The method also includes mixing metal powder and an insulator precursor, applying a mixture on a substrate, and adding a curing agent and a catalyst to the mixture to perform the chemical curing. Since the chemical curing process is used in the method, it is possible to form nanoparticles by using a simple process at low cost while a high temperature process such as thermal curing is not used.
US08422286B2
Low-crystallization temperature MTJ for spin-transfer torque magnetic random access memory (STTMRAM)
A spin-torque transfer memory random access memory (STTMRAM) element is disclosed and has a fixed layer, a barrier layer formed upon the fixed layer, and a free layer comprised of a low-crystallization temperature alloy of CoFeB—Z where Z is below 25 atomic percent of one or more of titanium, (Ti), yittrium (Y), zirconium (Zr), and vanadium (V), wherein during a write operation, a bidirectional electric current is applied across the STTMRAM element to switch the magnetization of the free layer between parallel and anti-parallel states relative to the magnetization of the fixed layer.
US08422283B2
A phase change memory device for preventing thermal cross-talk includes lower electrodes respectively formed in a plurality of phase change cell regions of a semiconductor substrate. A first insulation layer is formed on the semiconductor substrate including to the lower electrodes having holes for exposing the respective lower electrodes. Heaters are formed on the surfaces of the respective holes to contact the lower electrodes. A second insulation layer is formed to fill the holes in which the heaters are formed. A mask pattern is then formed on the first and second insulation layers, including the heaters, to have openings that expose portions of the respective heaters having a constant pitch. A phase change layer is formed on the mask pattern including the exposed portions of the heaters and the first and second insulation layers and subsequently, upper electrodes are formed on the phase change layer.
US08422275B2
An exemplary embodiment of a magnetic random access memory (MRAM) device includes a magnetic tunnel junction having a free layer, a first electrode (first magnetic field generating means) having a first portion that covers a surface of the free layer, and an electric power source connected to the first electrode via a connection that covers less than half of the first portion of the first electrode. Another exemplary embodiment of an MRAM device includes a magnetic tunnel junction, first and second electrodes (first and second magnetic field generating means) directly connected to the magnetic tunnel junction on opposite sides of the magnetic tunnel junction, and an electric power source having one pole connected to the first electrode via a first connection and having a second pole connected to the second electrode via a second connection, wherein the first and second connections are laterally offset from the connections between the first and second electrodes and the magnetic tunnel junction. Methods of operating and manufacturing these magnetic random access memories are also disclosed.
US08422271B2
Method and apparatus for transferring data in a memory. A semiconductor memory includes a plurality of memory cells each having a resistive sense element (RSE) in series with a switching device. A conductive word line extends in a first direction adjacent the memory cells and is connected to a gate structure of each of the switching devices. A plurality of conductive bit lines extend in a second direction adjacent the memory cells, each bit line providing a connection node that interconnects a respective pair of the memory cells. A control circuit senses a programmed state of a selected memory cell by setting each of the bit lines on a first side of the selected memory cell to a first voltage level, setting each of the remaining bit lines on an opposing second side of the selected memory cell to a second voltage level, and setting the word line to a third voltage level.
US08422265B2
According to one exemplary embodiment, a one-time programmable memory cell includes an access transistor coupled to a shiftable threshold voltage transistor between a bitline and a ground, where the access transistor has a gate coupled to a wordline. The shiftable threshold voltage transistor has a drain and a gate shorted together. A programming operation causes a permanent shift in a threshold voltage of the shiftable threshold voltage transistor to occur in response to a programming voltage on the bitline and the wordline. In one embodiment, the access transistor is an NFET while the shiftable threshold voltage transistor is a PFET. In another embodiment, the access transistor is an NFET and the shiftable threshold voltage transistor is also an NFET. The programming voltage can cause an absolute value of the threshold voltage to permanently increase by at least 50.0 millivolts.
US08422260B2
An arrangement for converting direct voltage into alternating voltage and conversely has a Voltage Source Converter with at least one phase leg connected to opposite poles (5, 6) of a direct voltage side of the converter and a series connection of switching cells arranged between said poles. Each half (8, 9) of this series connection is connected to a mid point forming a phase output by a phase reactor. The phase reactors of a said phase leg are built in a transformer (30) configured to connect said phase output to an alternating voltage phase line (28) by forming a primary winding each of the transformer arranged to interact with a secondary winding thereof connected to the alternating voltage phase line.
US08422248B2
An electromagnetic bandgap structure, including: a first metal layer; a first dielectric layer, stacked in the first metal layer; a metal plate, stacked in the first dielectric layer; a via, having one end part which is connected to the first metal layer; a second dielectric layer, stacked in the metal plate and the first dielectric layer; and a second metal layer, stacked in the second dielectric layer, whereas the other end part of the via is connected to a via land which is placed in a hole formed in the metal plate, and the via land is connected to the metal plate through a metal line.
US08422246B2
An electronic apparatus includes a front case, a rear case whose peripheral portion is brought into engagement with a peripheral portion of the front case and an electrostatic capacity type sensor portion which is encompassed by the front case and the rear case. A primary conductive portion, which is brought into engagement with the sensor portion for electrical connection, is formed on part of an inner surface of the peripheral portion of one of the cases which extends to the engagement portion. By adopting this configuration, the electronic apparatus can be fabricated easily and the operation of a touch switch provided in the electronic apparatus can be stabilized.
US08422238B2
The present invention provides a signal conversion device comprising: a substrate having a first surface and a second surface, the first surface being provided with a first contact region comprising at least a first contact and a second contact while the second surface being provided with a second contact region comprising at least a third contact and a fourth contact; wherein there is an electrical connection between the first and third contacts, and the second and fourth contacts are electrically connected to an IC fabricated using Wafer Level Chip Scale Package (WLCSP) or Chip On Film (COF) technology, and wherein the IC is disposed at the first surface or the second surface.
US08422235B2
The present invention provides a vehicle power module and a power converter including a power semiconductor element (328), a plurality of connecting conductors (371U, 372U, 373U) for transmitting current to the power semiconductor element (328), and a metallic base (304) upon which the power semiconductor element (328) and the plurality of connecting conductors (371U, 372U, and 373U) are mounted; and the power semiconductor element (328) and the plurality of connecting conductors (371U, 372U, and 373U) are mounted upon the metallic base (304) so as to form a looped current path. Desirably, the power semiconductor element (328) and the plurality of connecting conductors (371U, 372U, 373U) are arranged so as to form two or more looped current paths.
US08422234B2
A device is provided for electromagnetic shielding an electronic component and for dissipating heat generated by the component. The component includes a package designed to be fastened to a first face of a printed circuit, called a rear face, by a heat sink, the heat sink passing through the rear face of the printed circuit and emerging on a second face of the printed circuit, called a front face. The device includes a metal structure mounted on the front face of the printed circuit and defining an electromagnetic shielding enclosure. The metal structure having a first heat discharge opening lying approximately opposite the heat sink. The device further includes at least one thermal connector, a first end of which is fastened to the metal structure and a second end of which is fastened to the heat sink and/or to the front face of the printed circuit near the heat sink.
US08422231B2
A water-cooled communication chassis includes a chassis body and a water cooling unit. The chassis body includes at least one heat receiving portion, at least one heat dissipation portion, and at least one first water pipe system. The first water pipe system has a front part extended through the heat receiving portion and a rear part arranged on the heat dissipation portion, so that heat absorbed by the heat receiving portion is transferred via the first water pipe system to the heat dissipation portion and dissipated therefrom into ambient air. The water cooling unit communicates with the first water pipe system and drives a cooling fluid stored therein to circulate in between the first water pipe system and the water cooling unit, so that the heat absorbed by the heat receiving portion can be quickly and continuously carried away from the communication chassis by the circulating cooling fluid.
US08422224B2
According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a housing including an outlet, a cooling fan in the housing, a component in the housing configured to serve as a wall guiding air from the cooling fan to the outlet, and a wind shielding portion between the component and an inner surface of the housing.
US08422209B2
An electronic device includes a base, a locking mechanism, and a battery. The base includes a receiving bay and a battery bay. The receiving bay includes a through slot defined thereon. The battery is selectively restrained in the battery bay by the locking mechanism. The locking mechanism includes a locking member and an elastic element received in the receiving bay. The locking member is movable and includes a clutching end extending into the battery bay. The elastic element is joined to the receiving bay and the locking member. The locking member further includes an operation portion defined thereon for a user to operate the locking mechanism. The operation portion is located within the receiving bay and is exposed to outside of the receiving bay through slot. The battery includes a connecting end defined thereon for engaging with the clutching end so as to be restrained in the battery bay.
US08422206B2
A consumer electronic product assembly includes a consumer electronic product and a bracket holding the consumer electronic product. The bracket includes a supporting seat, a holding member and a connecting bar. The holding member holds the consumer electronic product. Opposite ends of the connecting bar hinge on the holding member and the supporting seat, respectively. The connecting bar is rotatable with respect to the supporting seat, and the holding member is rotatable with respect to the connecting bar, whereby the consumer electronic product held by the holding member can be adjusted to various positions with respect to the supporting seat.
US08422200B2
A solid capacitor having an embedded electrode includes a substrate unit, a first conductive unit, a second conductive unit, a first insulative unit, a third conductive unit, a second insulative unit, and an end electrode unit. The substrate unit includes a substrate body and a conductive body embedded into the substrate body. The substrate body has a lateral opening and a plurality of top openings, and the conductive body has a lateral conductive area exposed from the lateral opening and a plurality of top conductive areas respectively exposed from the top openings. The first conductive unit includes a plurality of first conductive layers respectively covering the top conductive areas. The second conductive unit includes a second conductive layer covering the first conductive layers. The porosity rate of the second conductive layer is larger than that of each first conductive layer.
US08422183B2
A voltage (V1−V2) between a predetermined point P2 on a copper foil pattern 4 connected to a source of a switching FET (T1) and a drain P1 of the FET (T1) is input into an input terminal of a comparator CMP1 as an overcurrent determination voltage for comparison with a reference voltage V3. As this occurs, since there exists a voltage that is to be dropped by a resistor Rp possessed by the copper foil 4, the voltage (V1−V2) becomes larger than an inter-terminal voltage VDS of the FET (T1), and as a result, the effect imposed by an offset voltage Voff possessed by the comparator CMP1 can be reduced.
US08422179B2
An inrush current control circuit selectively short-circuit bypasses an inrush current limiting resistor (R1) of a power supply that includes a switching transistor (Q1) having a control terminal (gate or base) driven in dependence on a pulse width modulated (PWM) drive signal. The inrush current control circuit includes a bypass transistor (Q3), a first resistor (R3), a capacitor (C2), a second resistor (R2) and a diode (D3), wherein an anode terminal of the diode (D3) is connected to one of the terminals of the switching transistor (Q1) of the power supply.
US08422172B1
A disk drive is disclosed. The disk drive comprises a disk, a head configured to write data to and read data from the disk, and an actuator configured to position the head relative to the disk. The disk drive also comprises a die including internal circuitry electrically coupled to the head and a bypass trace electrically coupled to the actuator, wherein the internal circuitry comprises one or more preamplifiers and the bypass trace is electrically isolated from the internal circuitry.
US08422168B2
A method for forming a magnetic write head having a trailing shield with a tapered and stepped, self aligned trailing magnetic shield. The shield has a tapered portion that tapers away from the write pole as it extends away from the ABS. This tapered portion helps to channel flux to the pole tip portion of the shield, while preventing the loss of write field to the shield. The stepped portion of the shield further helps to prevent the loss of write field and also defines a secondary throat height of the shield that can be accurately located relative to the air bearing surface.
US08422159B2
Methods and devices are provided for microwave-assisted magnetic recording with collocated microwave and write fields. An illustrative device includes a magnetic write pole and one or more alternating-field components. The magnetic write pole is configured for providing a magnetic write field. The one or more alternating-field components are disposed to at least partially coincide with the magnetic write pole. The one or more alternating-field components are configured to provide an alternating magnetic field having a microwave frequency and an orientation that is at least partially transverse to the magnetic write field.
US08422141B2
In a gradient-index optical element, there is a difference in an abnormal partial dispersion characteristic of a medium between a position on an optical axis of the radial gradient-index optical element and a position on an effective beam diameter.
US08422140B2
A fixed focal length lens including a first lens group, a second lens group, and a third lens group arranged in sequence from a magnified side towards a reduced side is provided. The first lens group has a positive refractive power, and includes a first lens and a second lens arranged in sequence from the magnified side towards the reduced side. Refractive powers of the first lens and the second lens are respectively negative and positive. The second lens group has a positive refractive power, and includes a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens arranged in sequence from the magnified side towards the reduced side. Refractive powers of the third lens, the fourth lens, and the fifth lens are respectively positive, negative, and positive. The third lens group has a positive refractive power, and includes a sixth lens. A refractive power of the sixth lens is positive.
US08422134B2
A dual pulsed light generation apparatus including a polarization beam splitter (PBS), a first polarization reflector, and a second polarization reflector is provided. The PBS has a first plane, a second plane, and a dividing interface located between the first plane and the second plane. The PBS is located in the transmission path of an incident pulsed light and used for dividing the incident pulsed light into a first polarization pulsed light reflected by the dividing interface and a second polarization pulsed light passing through the dividing interface. The first polarization reflector is disposed opposite to the first plane and transforms the first polarization pulsed light into a third polarization pulsed light passing through the dividing interface. The first polarization reflector is disposed opposite to the second plane.
US08422133B2
An optical layered body wherein the additive amount of the antistatic agent can be reduced leading to a cost reduction while achieving high antistatic property simply and at a low cost. An optical layered body including an optical layered body comprising a light-transmitting substrate and at least a hard coat layer and a low refractive index layer, firmed on the light-transmitting substrate, wherein 1) the low refractive index layer is formed on the outermost surface, and 2) the low refractive index layer contains an antistatic agent.
US08422129B2
An observation apparatus includes a first member 9 supporting first optical elements L1L and L1R, a second member 7 supporting second optical elements L4L and L4R and the first member via balls so as to be movable in an optical axis direction, and a biasing device 11 generating a biasing force for clamping the balls. The first and second members include guide portions 7a, 7b, 9a, and 9b engaging with first balls so as to permit a rolling motion of the two first balls 10a and 10b in the optical axis direction and prevent the first member from displacing with respect to the second member in a direction orthogonal to the optical axis direction, and ball holding portions 7c, 7d, 9c, and 9d holding second balls 10c and 10d so as to permit a rolling motion of the second balls in the optical axis direction.
US08422128B2
A modular laser objective for use with a microscope is provided. A mounting modular body permits the modular objective to be releasably mounted to the turret of a microscope. The objective has an optical axis that permits an image beam to be emitted through the objective toward the eyepiece of a microscope. The modular body supports a mirror positioned at an angle to the optical axis of the objective. A modular laser assembly is mounted on the modular body on a first side of the mirror for directing a laser beam toward the mirror so that the energy is reflected off the mirror and through the objective in a direction that is substantially aligned with the optical axis of the objective. A modular indicator assembly is received in the modular body and includes a source of light positioned with the light incident on the other side of the mirror to reflect a beam of light in a direction opposite to the direction of the laser beam to provide an optical representation at the eyepiece of a microscope or on a camera of the position on the target of the laser beam being emitted by the objective.
US08422127B2
The present invention relates to a microscopic image capturing apparatus having a structure that, in scanning an imageable area of an imaging unit in a predetermined direction in an imaging object area, in which a sample is present, can reliably set a focal point of the imaging unit on each imaging position set inside the imaging object area regardless of the type of focusing actuator. The microscopic image capturing apparatus has a sample setting stage having a sample setting surface that is inclined with respect to a scan plane orthogonal to an optical axis of an objective lens. By moving the sample setting stage along the scan plane such that the distance in the optical axis direction between the imaging unit and the sample setting surface varies monotonously, the focal point position of the imaging unit is adjusted in only one direction along the optical axis of the objective lens.
US08422120B2
A wavelength conversion element is provided as one including a monocrystalline nonlinear optical crystal. The nonlinear optical crystal has: a plurality of first regions having a polarity direction along a predetermined direction; a plurality of second regions having a polarity direction opposite to the predetermined direction; an entrance face into which a fundamental incident wave having a wavelength λ and a frequency ω is incident in a direction substantially perpendicular to the predetermined direction; and an exit face from which a second harmonic with a frequency 2ω generated in the crystal emerges. The plurality of first and second regions are formed as alternately arranged in a period substantially equal to d expressed by a predetermined expression, between the entrance face and the exit face.
US08422104B2
An image processing apparatus is disclosed. In the image processing apparatus, when preview images and/or thumbnail images of image data of plural documents read by a scanner section are formed, a preview image and/or a thumbnail image of the image data of a document is formed before the scanner section starts to read image data of a next document, and the formed preview image and/or the formed thumbnail image is stored in a storage unit. When the preview image and/or thumbnail image is displayed, the stored preview image and/or the stored thumbnail image is displayed so that the image processing apparatus can immediately and easily display the preview image and/or the thumbnail image while maintaining the productivity of the image processing apparatus.
US08422103B2
Methods and systems herein provide for color conversion. Such color conversion includes a method of optimizing gray component replacement in a color image that includes receiving a color image from an input imaging device (e.g., a digital camera, scanner, etc), determining a color gamut of an output imaging device, such as a printer, and generating a CIELab to CMY numerical model to convert the color image to a color space within the color gamut of the output imaging device. The method also includes generating a CMYK to CIELab numerical conversion model, removing a portion of CMY color values generated from the CIELab to CMY numerical conversion model, and replacing the removed portion of the CMY color values with black color values. The method also includes optimizing CMYK color values via a multidimensional optimization using the CMYK to CIELab numerical model.
US08422102B2
A method implemented in a color image reproduction system that includes a data processing apparatus having a non-transitory memory for storing a computer software program and a processor for executing the software program, wherein the program includes a program code configured to cause the data processing apparatus to execute a process for optimizing color image reproduction, which process includes the steps of finding preferred hue angles for a memory color, for each preferred hue angle determining a maximum chroma value of its hue slice, selecting two chroma points at a pre-determined percentage of the maximum chroma value, integrating a lightness function of chroma over a range between the two chroma points to calculate an area under a curve of the function, and selecting a preferred hue angle to be used as a gamut mapping target for the memory color based on the result of the area calculation.
US08422094B2
An illumination device comprising: an optical guide for receiving light emitted from a light source and guiding the light by repetitive transmission and reflection; a reflective member for reflecting light transmitting in the optical guide to an outside of the optical guide within the optical guide; a supplemental reflective member for reflecting light transmitting the reflective member and light leaked from the optical guide while evading the optical guide to an inside of the optical guide, transmitting the reflective member and light leak.
US08422080B2
An image processing apparatus 101 that generates output image data based on multi-level image data is provided with an error diffusion processing unit 104 that generates tone pixel data from the pixel-of-interest data according to an error diffusion method, a dither processing unit 103 that generates tone pixel data from the pixel-of-interest data according to a dither processing method, an allotment ratio determination unit 105 that increases the allotment ratio with respect to the error diffusion method as the difference between the maximum density and the minimum density increases, and a composition unit 109 that composites the tone pixel data for a pixel of interest that has been generated by the error diffusion processing unit 104 and the dither processing unit 103 according to the allotment ratios determined by the allotment ratio determination unit 105, and outputs the composited data as pixel data of the output image data.
US08422066B2
A document management section 77 updates and manages stored information in an additional information storage section 74 in such a manner that when details of operation information having been acquired in an operation information acquisition section 71 regard an operation of reading all the pages that is an operation targeting all the pages of an unread document, the current status of processing of the document is changed from unread to read, whereas when the details of operation information regard an operation of reading a part of the pages that is an operation targeting a part of the pages of an unread document, the current status of processing of the document is changed from unread to hold. By this means, a current status of a management target document that changes every moment can be updated and managed in detail in real time.
US08422064B2
An image-reading apparatus and method for controlling the image-reading apparatus including a document plate where an original document is placed, a line image sensor that reads an image on the document plate by scanning to obtain image data, a reference-setting image that is placed outside a region of the document plate at a position where the line image sensor is able to read the reference-setting image, and a control unit configured to set a reference position when the image sensor reads the image, wherein the control unit detects the reference-setting image from the image data and, depending on a power-on state of the image-reading apparatus, selects the manner in which the reference position is set based on the reference-setting image.
US08422058B2
A printing device has a printing engine that is at least partially made up of a customer replaceable unit or units. An engine controller is operatively connected to the printing engine. The engine controller uses software to control the operations of the printing engine. A non-volatile memory is operatively connected to the engine controller. The non-volatile memory stores values used by the engine controller to control operations of the printing engine. An adapter card is operatively connected to the non-volatile memory and to the customer replaceable units. The customer replaceable unit has a memory unit and the adapter card reads data from the memory unit. The adapter card uses the data to directly alter values within the non-volatile memory by bypassing the engine controller when communicating with the non-volatile memory. Further, the adapter card alters the non-volatile memory without altering the software used by the engine controller.
US08422033B2
A reflective optical sensor includes at least three light-emitting elements; a lighting optical system that guides light emitted from the light-emitting elements to a toner pattern; and at least three light-receiving elements that receive the beams of light reflected by the toner pattern. The lighting optical system has a lateral magnification m that satisfies m≦P/S, where S is the size of the light-emitting elements and P is the arrangement pitch of the light-emitting elements.
US08422032B2
Chronologically correlated position pairs are generated in a position determination method using a unit, particularly a working machine (4), that changes its own position, having a GNSS receiver (2) and an optically measurable reference point (A) disposed in a spatially stationary manner, particularly an all-around prism (3), and having a geodetic device with a distance- and angle-measuring functionality, particularly a tacheometer (1). To this end, relative positions of the reference point (A) are determined in an interior reference system by optically measuring distance and at least one angle of the geodetic device to the reference point (A) and GNSS positions of the GNSS receiver in an exterior reference system. Equal times, or relative and GNSS positions allocated to a time frame are associated with each other, particularly in pairs, thus forming position pairs. In addition, the position pairs perform a derivation from a balanced relationship between the exterior and interior reference system, particularly from balanced transformation parameters, and determine the position of the unit, of the geodetic device, and/or of the measurable new point from said balanced relationship.
US08422022B2
A ring laser gyroscope that includes a cavity containing a gain medium, a first plurality of reflective surfaces coupled to the cavity, a medium exciter operable to excite the gain medium, and a saturation beam source operable to emit a saturation beam. The first plurality of reflective surfaces includes a first reflective surface, a second reflective surface, and a third reflective surface. The first, second, and third reflective surfaces are positioned to reflect light along a path defined in the cavity between the plurality of reflective surfaces. The excited gain medium induces first and second laser fields within the cavity. The emitted saturation beam intersects with the first and second laser fields at a first interaction region of the cavity. The saturation beam interacts with the gain medium to reduce the gain of the first and second laser fields at a first range of frequencies.
US08422021B2
A method for inhibiting zero drift of an all-fiber interferometric fiber optic gyroscope and a corresponding all-fiber interferometric fiber optic gyroscope are disclosed. The method comprises: reversing the polarity of an AC voltage applied to a PZT piezoelectric ceramic phase modulator according to a predetermined half-cycle time period, and making half of the difference between output rotation rates of the gyroscope in two adjacent half-cycle time periods as the output rotation rate of the gyroscope in a cycle. A phase reversal switch and a DSP chip are added to the all-fiber interferometric fiber optic gyroscope. The phase reversal switch is used for controlling the polarity of the AC voltage, and the DSP chip is used for outputting a square wave signal to control the phase reversal switch and for calculating the output rotation rate of the gyroscope according to the output signal of a demodulation/amplifier circuit.
US08422017B2
A color analysis system includes a light source and a sensor configured to provide an output signal in response to reflected light received from the first light source. A controller receives the output signal and is configured to determine an adjustment factor based on the output signal, and determine a color based on the output signal and the adjustment factor.
US08422014B2
A method of inspecting defects in an inspection target includes (1) a step of supplying a particle-containing gas to one end face of the inspection target under pressure, applying in parallel a first laser beam to the vicinity of the other end face of the inspection target, and photographing such end face from a position vertical to such end face, (2) a step of supplying a particle-containing gas to the one end face of the inspection target under pressure, applying in parallel a second laser beam to the vicinity of the other end face of the inspection target, and photographing such end face from a position vertical to such end face, and (3) a step of specifying defects in the inspection target from photographic results obtained by the steps (1) and (2).
US08422012B2
There is provided is a spectrometer having a concave reflection type diffraction element, wherein, among surfaces other than a diffraction surface of the diffraction element, non-diffraction surfaces which are located outside the diffraction surface at the same side as the diffraction surface are a glossy surface, the spectrometer includes a light detection unit which is located at an imaging position of a first-order diffracted light diffracted by the diffraction element to receive the first-order diffracted light, and the light detection unit is disposed inside optical paths of light beams regularly reflected on the non-diffraction surfaces outside the diffraction surface. Accordingly, it is possible to effectively suppress a stray light reflected on the surfaces other the diffraction surface from being incident into the light detection unit and to detect the light spectrally diffracted by the diffraction surface at high accuracy.
US08422002B2
Differences between a control profile of light scattered by a control sample from a sample of whole blood and a detection profile of light scattered from a detection sample from the sample of whole blood with a detection agent added indicate malaria infection of the whole blood, where the light scattering is Mie scattering by an ensemble of scatterers in samples which are detection optimized to a concentration just low enough so that each scatterer which does scatter light scatters light only once, where the profiles are for light scattered between zero and five degrees.
US08421997B2
An active spot array projection system particularly for microlithographic projection includes a spatial light modulator, such as a digital micromirror device, having individually addressable elements. A focusing array, such as a microlens array, focuses elements transverse segments of the light beam into spots. Within an imaging optic between the spatial light modulator and the focusing array, an spatial frequency filter attenuates certain spatial frequencies of light arising from the irregularities of the individually addressable elements while avoiding attenuating higher spatial frequencies of light arising from the peripheral boundaries of the individually addressable elements for regulating light distributions of the spots while limiting crosstalk between adjacent spots.
US08421993B2
A fluid handling structure is disclosed in which the size and arrangement of the fluid extraction openings is specified in order to reduce the vibrations which are transmitted to the fluid handling structure as a result of two-phase extraction. The area of each fluid extraction opening and/or the total area of all of the fluid extraction openings and/or the space in between neighboring fluid extraction openings may be controlled. The reduction in vibrations increases the accuracy of the exposure.
US08421992B2
An exposure method forms an immersion area in at least a part of a substrate including a projection area of a projection optical system and projects an image of a mask pattern onto the substrate through liquid between the projection optical system and the substrate. Distribution of the mask pattern is measured and adjustment is made so that a desired image of the pattern is projected onto the substrate according to distribution of the exposure light incident into the liquid between the projection optical system and the substrate when exposing the substrate. It is possible to expose the substrate with the pattern accurately regardless of the distribution of the mask pattern.
US08421987B2
A discrimination medium, which can have much information, can be produced on a small scale at low cost, and enables change of a sticker design at low cost, is provided. A cholesteric liquid crystal layer, having a fine asperity for forming a hologram, is formed on a transparent first substrate. A print layer composed of a black ink is formed on a transparent second substrate. The substrates are affixed to each other via a bond layer, so that a discrimination medium is obtained. In the discrimination medium, the display content obtained by the print layer is changed, so that the display content for discrimination can be changed at low cost.
US08421985B2
An electro-optical device typified by an active matrix type liquid crystal display device, is manufactured by cutting a rubbing process, and in addition, a reduction in the manufacturing cost and an improvement in the yield are realized by reducing the number of process steps to manufacture a TFT. By forming a pixel TFT portion having a reverse stagger type n-channel TFT, and a storage capacitor, by performing three photolithography steps using three photomasks, and in addition, by having a uniform cell gap by forming wall-like spacers by performing one photolithography step, without performing a rubbing process, a multi-domain perpendicular orientation type liquid crystal display device having a wide viewing angle display, and in which a switching direction of the liquid crystal molecules is controlled, can be realized.
US08421982B2
A display substrate includes a pixel, an organic layer and a shorting pad structure. The pixel electrode is arranged at a display area of a base substrate, and the pixel electrode is electrically connected to a transistor connected to a gate line and data line. The organic layer is arranged at the base substrate, and the organic layer is arranged between the transistor and the pixel electrode. The shorting pad structure is disposed at a peripheral area of the display area, and the shorting pad structure includes a first pad electrode at a lower height, a second pad electrode at a higher height, and a first height compensation pattern interposed between the first and second pad electrodes. A contact hole is defined through the organic layer so that second pad electrode can be electrically connected there through to the first pad electrode.
US08421980B2
A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel including a display unit in which pixels are provided in the form of a matrix and a plurality of pad units provided at a peripheral portion in at least one side of the display unit and including a plurality of connection pads having widths different from each other, and a tape carrier package including a plurality of output pads corresponding to the plurality of pad units, in which driving integrated circuits are mounted on the output pads to drive the liquid crystal panel, and the output pads have widths different from each other corresponding to the plurality of connection pads.
US08421976B2
According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a main pixel electrode having a first width in a first direction and a first edge extending in a second direction, and a sub-pixel electrode. The sub-pixel electrode has a second width, which is greater than the first width in the first direction, has a third width, which is a maximum width in the first direction at a central portion of the sub-pixel electrode, has a fourth width in the second direction at a position with a first distance from the first edge in the first direction, and has a fifth width, which is less than the fourth width at a position with a second distance, which is greater than the first distance, from the first edge in the first direction.
US08421972B2
There is provided a liquid crystal display device of high picture quality with high brightness and small display unevenness.A vertical alignment type liquid crystal display device which has a plurality of pixels includes: a first electrode which includes, in each of the plurality of pixels, a plurality of first branch portions extending in a first direction and a plurality of second branch portions extending in a second direction that is different from the first direction; a second electrode disposed so as to oppose the first electrode; and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein a width of each of the plurality of first branch portions and the plurality of second branch portions is in a range not less than 1.4 μm and not more than 8.0 μm.
US08421971B2
The present invention provides a liquid crystal display (LCD) module and a one-piece back plate thereof. The one-piece back plate of the LCD module comprises a plurality of first stepped portions, a plurality of second stepped portions and a plurality of engaging portions extending and being bent from the bottom thereof in sequence. An optical film assembly is supported and mounted by the first stepped portions, and a liquid crystal panel is supported and mounted by the second stepped portions. With the design of the one-piece back plate of the LCD module of the present invention, it is possible to omit the housing and the front frame, and the liquid crystal panel can be directly arranged on the one-piece back plate, so as to simplify and speed up the assembly process, and to further reduce the research cost, development cycle and production cost thereof.
US08421962B2
There is provided a color filter which can be manufactured by a simplified process and which will not short-circuit an electrode of a TFT substrate. The color filter includes a substrate, and a red layer, a green layer and a blue layer, formed on the substrate. When forming the green layer and the blue layer, these layers are not only formed on the substrate, but also laminated on the red layer to form a spacer comprised of the green layer and the blue layer, laminated on the red layer. The color filter further includes a transparent electrode layer which covers the substrate, the red layer, the green layer, the blue layer and the spacer, and an insulating black matrix layer formed on predetermined areas of the transparent electrode layer.
US08421948B2
A device and a backlight unit includes a bottom cover; a module substrate on the bottom cover; at least one light emitting diode on the module substrate; and a fastening unit fastening the module substrate to the bottom cover.
US08421946B2
A backlight unit is provided. The backlight unit includes: a bottom cover having a height difference region; a flexible printed circuit board side-contacting an inner side, the inner side corresponding to the height difference region of the bottom cover; a plurality of light emitting diodes mounted on the flexible printed circuit board; a light guide plate disposed on the same plane as the light emitting diode; and a reflective sheet attached to a bottom of the light guide plate to correspond to the height difference region of the bottom cover.
US08421945B2
A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel having a plurality of pixels; a detector included in an interior of the liquid crystal display panel for detecting a variance of a kickback voltage; and a compensation common voltage generator reflects the variance of the kickback voltage detected by the detector and controls a common voltage to be supplied to the liquid crystal display panel. The detector includes at least one or more detection pixels, and the detection pixels are electrically connected to a gate line arranged in the liquid crystal display panel and to a detection line which is arranged neighboring to the data line disposed close to the edge of the liquid crystal display panel.
US08421942B2
Provided are an active matrix substrate including plural pixel electrodes in a pixel region and a liquid crystal display device (pixel division mode) using the same. Proposed is a configuration of the liquid crystal display device of the capacitor-coupled pixel division mode which hardly causes reduction in display quality due to image-sticking of sub-pixels. The active matrix substrate includes: a data signal line (15x); scanning signal lines (16a and 16b); a transistor (12a) connected to the data signal line (15x) and scanning signal line (16a); a transistor (12b) connected to the data signal line (15x) and scanning signal line (16b); and pixel electrodes (17a and 17b) provided in a pixel region (101), the pixel electrode (17a) being connected to the data signal line (15x) via the transistor (12a), the pixel electrode (17b) being connected to the pixel electrode (17a) via a capacitor and the data signal line (15x) via the transistor (12b), and the transistors (12a and (12b) have identical W/L ratios of channels (each ratio of width W to length L of channel). The present invention can be configured with identical channel sizes without adjusting W/L ratios of channels of the transistors unlike a conventional configuration. Accordingly, deterioration of display quality due to variation in characteristics of transistors can be suppressed.
US08421940B2
A display device includes a TFT substrate in which a plurality of first TFT elements each having an active layer of an amorphous semiconductor and a plurality of second TFT elements each having an active layer of a polycrystalline semiconductor are disposed on a surface of an insulating substrate, wherein the first TFT element and the second TFT element each have a structure with a gate electrode, a gate insulating film, and the active layer stacked in this order on the surface of the insulating substrate and a source electrode and a drain electrode both connected to the active layer via a contact layer above the active layer, and the active layer of the second TFT element has a thickness of more than 60 nm in a position where the contact layer is stacked.
US08421937B2
An active matrix substrate includes: storage capacitor line extended sections 118ax, 118qx, etc. each extending from a position on a storage capacitor line between (i) an intersection with one of two adjacent data signal lines 15 and 15q and (ii) an intersection with the other one of the two data signal lines 15 and 15q; and data signal line extended sections 15e and 15qe each extending from a position on a data signal line 15 or 15q between (i) an intersection with one of two adjacent scanning signal lines 16 and 16q and (ii) an intersection with the other one of the two adjacent scanning signal lines 16 and 16q, wherein a storage capacitor line extended section 118ax or 118ay extending from one of two adjacent storage capacitor lines 18a and 18q sandwiching no scanning signal line is connected with a storage capacitor line extended section 118qx or 118qy extending from the other one of the two adjacent storage capacitor lines 18a and 18q, wherein each of the storage capacitor line extended sections 118ax, 118ay, 118qz, and 118qy includes a section that does not overlap a pixel electrode, wherein each of the data signal line extended sections 118ax, 118ay, 118qz, and 118qy has a section overlapping a scanning signal line. This configuration makes it possible to correct a disconnection of a scanning signal line in an active matrix substrate.
US08421926B1
A device for outputting a luminance signal is disclosed. The device includes a chrominance judgment unit, a field observation unit, and an output unit. The chrominance judgment unit and the field observation unit are used to determine whether a 3D luminance signal is affected. The output unit outputs a resultant luminance signal according to the determination results of the chrominance judgment unit and the field observation unit. According to the present invention, the resultant luminance signal can be accurately obtained by judging characteristics of the 3D luminance signal and a 3D chrominance signal even if a 3D comb filter is wrongly used in a motion condition.
US08421922B2
A display device includes: a frame rate conversion section performing frame rate conversion through performing a frame interpolation process on a composite picture frame with use of a motion vector, in which the composite picture frame is generated through superimposing an OSD picture, i.e., on-screen display picture, on a picture frame; and a display section performing picture display based on a frame-rate-converted composite picture frame provided from the frame rate conversion section. The frame rate conversion section selectively performs the frame interpolation process to each pixel or to every plural pixels in the composite picture frame based on OSD region information indicating an OSD picture region.
US08421920B2
The method adjusts the phase of a quantization clock signal for a video signal automatically based on a received analogue video signal. The method includes a step of determining a horizontal start position and a horizontal end position of a pixel-level transition within the analogue video signal, a step of determining a stable-period start position and a stable-period end position at each transition by sequentially changing an adjustable phase of the quantization clock signal, a step of calculating an appropriate phase of the quantization clock signal based on the determined timings of the beginning and end of the stable periods within the analogue signal, and a step of setting the phase of the quantization clock signal to the calculated appropriate phase.
US08421914B2
A down-sampling operation is performed on moving image data to reduce a sample count of the data to 1/M times the original sample count. In the down-sampling operation, a band-limitation operation is performed on the moving image data using a low-pass filter. The low-pass filter has a stop band frequency that prevents a harmonic component having a K-th order or higher, of harmonic components generated in the down-sampling operation, from overlapping an original signal component. The down-sampling operation is then performed on the band-limited moving image data, thereby compressing the moving image data. Aliasing distortion caused by a harmonic component of a high order is controlled. The resulting compressed image is free from a substantial loss of a high-frequency component of the original signal.
US08421905B2
An aspect of the present invention provides an image pickup apparatus, comprising: an image pickup optical system which forms an image of a subject; an imaging device which obtains an image by picking up the image of the subject via the image pickup optical system; a target detection device which detects a size of a target in the image; a first control device which controls a focus position of the image pickup optical system according to the size of the target detected by the target detection device; and a second control device which performs continuous AF that detects a focusing position where a contrast in the image reaches a local maximum by moving the focus position of the image pickup optical system, moves the focus position of the image pickup optical system to the focusing position and keeps an in-focus state.
US08421889B2
An apparatus includes a pixel array in which pixels for outputting an analog signal are arranged in a matrix, vertical output lines each of which is connected to pixels in a same column, A/D conversion units, which are individually connected to the vertical output lines, for converting the analog signal into a digital signal, and a constant current supply unit for supplying a constant current to the A/D conversion units. Each of the A/D conversion units includes an integration unit for integrating the constant current, a comparison unit for comparing the integrated constant current with the analog signal and outputting a comparison signal, and a digital signal storage unit for storing a digital signal corresponding to the comparison signal. The integration unit includes an input capacitor for receiving the constant current. The comparison unit is connected to the constant current supply unit via the input capacitor.
US08421888B2
A solid-state image sensor includes a pixel array unit including a plurality of pixels arranged in the form of an array, column signal lines adapted to transmit pixel signals output from pixels in respective columns, a noise adding unit adapted to add temporally constant and two-dimensional spatially random noise to the pixel signals transmitted via the column signal lines, and an analog-to-digital converter adapted to convert a signal level and a reference level of each pixel signal including the noise added thereto by the noise adding unit.
US08421887B2
A clipping processing portion is provided with: a main subject detection portion which detects the location of a main subject from an input image; a clip region setting portion which sets the clip region that is a region including the main subject; and a clipping portion which clips an image of the clip region from the input image to produce a clipped image. There is further provided a zoom control portion which controls the optical zoom magnification of the image sensing portion based on the clip region set by a clip region setting portion, and the optical zoom magnification is controlled such that the input image has an appropriate angle of view.
US08421885B2
Provided is an image processing apparatus including a parameter storage that stores, in association with a plurality of attributes, a plurality of image processing parameters for respectively rendering subject images of different attributes from each other, into high image quality; and an image generating section that generates a high quality image of a subject image included in an input image, using the plurality of image processing parameters stored in the parameter storage. The image generating section may select at least one image from high quality images of the subject image included in the input image using respectively different combinations of the plurality of image processing parameters, based on comparison with the input image, and generate the selected image as the high quality image.
US08421879B2
A natural white balance is achieved in images that are captured while emitting a flash. The white balance of an image is adjusted using a WB adjustment portion and a mixture ratio calculation portion estimating a mixture ratio of an external light component and a flashed light component that are present in an image captured with emitting a flash, from the image obtained that is captured while emitting a flash and an image signal that is obtained without emitting a flash. Further, an external light WB coefficient determination portion determines an WB coefficient for the external light, a flashed light WB coefficient setting portion sets a WB coefficient for the flashed light, and a WB processing portion that continuously performs WB processing on the image captured while emitting a flash by using the mixture ratio as an interpolation ratio.
US08421873B2
A system composed of a housing and an arm coupled to the housing. The arm supports a first lamp, a second lamp, and an optical sensor.
US08421871B2
An image processing apparatus includes: a first image storing unit that stores a first history image including a first picked-up image forming a picked-up moving image; an image transforming unit that transforms, on the basis of transformation information concerning the first picked-up image and a second picked-up image forming the picked-up moving image located after the first picked-up image on a time axis of the picked-up moving image, the second picked-up image; and an image combining unit that causes a second image storing unit different from the first image storing unit to store the transformed second picked-up image, overwrites the first history image stored in the first image storing unit on the second picked-up image stored in the second image storing unit, and combines the first history image and the second picked-up image.
US08421865B2
A method of calibrating a vehicular multi-camera system includes equipping a vehicle with a plurality of cameras wherein each camera of the plurality of cameras captures image data, equipping the vehicle with an image processor, inputting image data from each of the plurality of cameras to the image processor, the image processor processing input image data in order to calibrate the vehicular multi-camera system, and wherein calibration of the vehicular multi-camera system is achieved independently of a model of the real world.
US08421862B2
A drive recorder for recording video information received from an image capturing unit on a recording medium includes an acceleration sensor which outputs acceleration information representing an acceleration applied to a vehicle, and a control unit which, determines that a recording condition holds and records video information captured for a first predetermined period of time before the occurrence of the recording condition and video information captured for a second predetermined period of time after the occurrence of the recording condition on the recording medium when the acceleration information equals or exceeds a threshold, wherein after the recording condition holds, the control unit does not record newly captured video information on the recording medium when the acceleration information again becomes equal to or exceeds the threshold in less than a third predetermined period of time which is shorter than the second predetermined period of time.
US08421860B2
An inspection method of a honeycomb structure comprising the steps of illuminating one end face of a honeycomb structure as an inspection target by a light source; condensing, by a condensing lens as a lens having an angle of view, light which is emitted from the light source to the one end face, passed through cells of the honeycomb structure and radiated from the other end face; receiving the light condensed on the condensing lens by a camera; subjecting the light received by the camera to image processing by an image processor, thereby specifying the radiated position of the light on the other end face; and calculating the tilt of the cells of the honeycomb structure from the radiated position of the light on the other end face, and the direction of the tilt.
US08421857B2
There is disclosed an inspection device of a plugged honeycomb structure in which a plugged honeycomb structure is an inspection target, and the inspection device comprises a light source which illuminates one end face of the plugged honeycomb structure as the inspection target; a camera-side lens which condenses light emitted from the light source to the one end face, transmitted through plugged portions of the plugged honeycomb structure and radiated from the other end face; a camera which receives the light condensed by the camera-side lens; and an image processor which processes an image of the light received by the camera to display the contrast of the light transmitted through the plugged portions of the plugged honeycomb structure.
US08421856B2
An automatic sorting system is for identifying and sorting non-homogenous material. The system includes a conveyor belt and an identification unit cooperable with the conveyor belt and placed above the conveying surface thereof for identifying material traveling therealong. The identification unit includes at least one projector for projecting a beam of light downwardly towards the conveying surface, at a given height above the conveying surface, and onto a given material to be identified, so that a portion of projected light may be reflected back from the given material and upwardly towards the identification unit. The identification unit also includes at least one lens positioned about the identification unit for receiving the portion of reflected light from the given material to be identified. The identification unit also includes a first processing unit operatively linked to the at least one lens for carrying a spectral analysis of the portion of reflected light captured by the at least one lens so as to determine the nature of the given material, and a second processing unit operatively linked to the first processing unit for comparing results of the spectral analysis with corresponding data associated to a variety of different materials stored in a given database of the second processing unit. The present system also includes a sorting unit operatively linked to the second processing unit and operatively cooperating with the second end of the conveyor so as to sort material released from the second end of the conveyor depending on signals received from the second processing unit.
US08421831B2
An image forming apparatus includes a conveyance unit conveying a medium to be recorded in a predetermined direction, a thermal transfer sheet including an ink layer thermally transferred onto the medium to form a printing layer, and a protective material layer thermally transferred onto the medium to form a protection layer, a transfer sheet traveling unit causing the thermal transfer sheet to travel, a reforming sheet including a printing opening for bringing the ink layer and the protective material layer into contact with a surface of the medium, and a surface property reforming unit reforming the surface property of the protection layer, a reforming sheet traveling unit causing the reforming sheet to travel, and a thermal head pressing the surface property reforming unit on the medium through the protective material layer having been thermally transferred to thereby heat the pressed surface property reforming unit.
US08421830B2
Method of forming image using heat-sensitive transfer image-receiving sheet having a lenticular lens
A method of forming an image, having the steps of: superposing a heat-sensitive transfer sheet on a heat-sensitive transfer image-receiving sheet; and applying thermal energy, in which the heat-sensitive transfer sheet has a dye transfer barrier layer between a support and a dye layer, the image-receiving sheet has a lenticular lens on a transparent support and at least one receptor layer at the back side of the transparent support, and the image-receiving sheet contains at least one kind of a latex polymer in said at least one receptor layer and has a subbing layer which contains at least one kind of a resin that is identical with at least one kind of a resin constituting the lenticular lens, at the side of the transparent support, opposite to the side on which the lenticular lens is provided.
US08421829B2
The present invention provides a liquid crystal display controller device and method which provides for a full and/or partial display with good display quality and/or low power consumption based on the scanning period for an active scan line being dependent upon a number of reference clock pulses. Some embodiments of the present invention include one or more of the following features: keeping the frequency substantially constant for different numbers of active scan lines, allowing change of the frequency due to characteristics of the LCD, displaying gradation with near linear effective voltage characteristics, displaying graduation data with lower power, or displaying a partial or full screen in a mobile device, for example, a cell phone.
US08421824B2
An image generation method and system. The method includes receiving by a computing apparatus from a video recording device attached to a backside of a video monitor connected to the computing apparatus, a video data stream comprising a first video image of an input device connected to the computing apparatus and a second video image of a users hands enabling switches on the input device. An input device image associated with the input device is displayed. The computing apparatus super-imposes and displays a hand image associated with the user's hands over the input device image. The computing apparatus adjusts a brightness of the hand image such that the input device image is visible through the hand image.
US08421813B2
A display device includes a light modulating unit configured to modulate light based on a video signal, a light source configured to supply light to the light modulating unit, a detecting unit configured to detect a light amount of the light source, and a control unit configured to perform control for correcting the video signal based on the detected light amount so as to attain a color temperature and brightness that had already been set.
US08421812B2
An image processing apparatus sequentially provides a display device with a plurality of image output including a first image, a second image set to become at least a part of an image that is not correlated with the first image when luminance values of pixels of the first image are added to it, and a third image set to become an image, which is obtained by adding luminance values of pixels of all pluralities of images, higher spatial-frequency components than those of the first image. The image processing apparatus has an optical shutter control unit for controlling an optical shutter provided between the display device and a viewer to make the shutter be in a light transmission state while a part of or all the first image is displayed, and in a light interception state while other images are displayed.
US08421808B2
A display controller which prevents the duplication of functional parts and processes and which displays dynamic content on a plurality of displays is provided. A terminal used as the controller has a shared dynamic image decoder which decodes the dynamic content. A first frame buffer used by the terminal stores the decoded dynamic content. A buffer transfer unit sends the dynamic content stored in the first frame buffer to a second frame buffer used by an external monitor. A terminal display displays the dynamic content stored in the first frame buffer on a display of the terminal. An external monitor interface displays the dynamic content stored in the second frame buffer on an external monitor.
US08421806B2
A method is provided for describing a multimedia scene comprising a set of objects that can be animated. This method provides at least one item of information of optimization, provided for permitting, in a terminal, a selection of a scene rendering algorithm among a set of at least two available algorithms according to at least one criterion of optimization of an allocation of resources used for carrying out the scene rendering algorithm.
US08421804B2
Optimal resilience to errors in packetized streaming 3-D wireframe animation is achieved by partitioning the stream into layers and applying unequal error correction coding to each layer independently to maintain the same overall bitrate. The unequal error protection scheme for each of the layers combined with error concealment at the receiver achieves graceful degradation of streamed animation at higher packet loss rates than approaches that do not account for subjective parameters such as visual smoothness.
US08421798B2
The invention is directed method of computer-aided design of edges connecting faces of a modeled object, the method comprising a step of:—determining (S100-S130) a structure of subsets of faces and edges of specified convex or concave type, by iteratively disconnecting (¦S120¦) faces connected by edges of one type from a parent subset, whereby said parent subset is decomposed into child subsets comprising either:—a non-connected face; or—faces connected by edges of the other type, in which case edges of said one type are maintained in said child subset, wherein said one type of edges is further alternated at each iteration of disconnecting; and the method further comprising a step of:—processing (S140) the structure from a given parent subset for rounding or filleting the one or more edges connecting child subsets thereof, according to the type of edge as specified in said given parent subset. More generally, the present invention may further be directed to the design of implementation of two distinct technologies for processing features connecting elements a model, in place of design of edges connecting faces of a modelled object.
US08421796B2
The present invention provides a visualization method and apparatus for multidimensional data. According to an embodiment, there is provided a visualization method for multidimensional data including a plurality of parameters to be viewed which are related to a given object, including: displaying the plurality of parameters to be viewed which are related to a given object in different layers along a Z axis of a 3-D coordinate system, wherein each of the plurality of parameters is displayed in a 2-D plane; determining one of the 2-D planes as an interested plane; and in response to focusing on an object instance of the object by a user, linking and displaying locations of the object instance on other planes.
US08421793B2
This present invention discloses a pixel array substrate including a substrate, a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of data lines, a plurality of active elements, a plurality of pixel electrodes, a plurality of first patterned floating lines, and a plurality of first patterned connecting wires. A plurality of pixel fields are formed by the cross scan lines and data lines, and each active element is electrically connected with the corresponding scan line, data line and pixel electrode. Each first patterned floating line is overlapped with some data lines. Each first patterned connecting wire is disposed across some scan lines, and disposed overlapped the first patterned floating lines disposed on the two sides of the scan line.
US08421789B2
A mother substrate of an organic light emitting display device capable of effectively aging a plurality of organic light emitting display panels by sheet unit without scribing the panels is provided. In one embodiment, the invention relates to a substrate of an organic light emitting display device, including a plurality of organic light emitting display panels, a plurality of first wires configured to supply a pixel power source to the panels in a first direction, and a plurality of second wires configured to supply a reference power voltage to the panels in a second direction crossing the first direction, wherein voltage levels of the reference power voltage are set to different voltage levels relative to a position of panels on the substrate.
US08421788B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide an image display apparatus which enables cost reduction while being free from electromagnetic interference problems.A power supply circuit comprises, on a single circuit board, an AC inlet to which a power cord is connected from an external AC power supply, a filter circuit to which an inductance element is connected to suppress leakage of electromagnetic waves to the outside of the image display apparatus, and a switch which switches on/off an AC output supplied from the filter circuit. The circuit board of the power supply circuit is entirely covered by electromagnetic shielding means to shield electromagnetic waves. The electromagnetic shielding means is composed of, for example, a first shielding section which surrounds the lateral side of the circuit board and a second shielding section which covers the upper side of the circuit board. The second shielding section is formed of a part of the flat section of a rear cover of the image display apparatus.
US08421780B2
In a counter circuit of a control signal generating circuit, a selector circuit selects under control which is in accordance with a selector circuit control signal (CTR) a predetermined one in a signal VSYNC and a signal HSYNC, which are pulse signals, so as to input a pulse signal thus selected to a counter. The counter outputs a counted result of pulses of the inputted pulse signal. By use of the counted result, a VSYNC synchronization signal generating circuit or an HSYNC synchronization signal generating circuit generates a control signal to control the driving of image display.
US08421774B2
A sensing circuit of a capacitive touch panel includes a first switch, a second switch, a third switch, a feedback capacitor, a fourth switch and an operation amplifier. The first switch and the second switch have respective first ends connected with a receiving electrode. The third switch has a first end connected with a second end of the first switch. The feedback capacitor has a first end connected with the second end of the first switch. The fourth switch has a first end connected with a second end of the feedback capacitor. The operation amplifier has a positive input terminal connected with a ground terminal, a negative input terminal connected with the fourth switch, and an output terminal connected with the second, third and fourth switches. These switches are controlled during a driving cycle of the driving signal, so that an output voltage is outputted from the operation amplifier.
US08421773B2
A resistive touch panel includes a first substrate, a second substratem and a driving circuit. A first conductive layer is disposed on the first substrate and includes a first, a second, a third, and a fourth corners which are different from each other. A first, a second, a third, and a fourth conducting wires are electrically connected to the first, second, third, and fourth corners, respectively. The second substrate is disposed parallel to the first substrate. A second conductive layer is disposed on the second substrate and faces the first conductive layer. A fifth conducting wire is electrically connected to a first side of the second conductive layer while a sixth conducting wire is electrically connected to a second side of the second conductive layer. The driving circuit is electrically connected to the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth conducting wires.
US08421768B2
Disclosed herein is a touch screen device, including: a first transparent electrode formed on one surface of a first transparent substrate to sense a touched input; a second transparent electrode formed on one surface of a second transparent substrate formed to be opposite to the first transparent electrode to sense a touched input; a display formed on the other surface of the second transparent substrate; a first adhesive layer bonding the first transparent substrate to the second transparent substrate; and a second adhesive layer bonding a first connection part formed on an outer side of first transparent substrate to a second connection part formed on an outer side of the display. The touch screen device directly bonds the first transparent substrate to the display, thereby making it possible to provide a high definition image to a user and to reduce infiltration of moisture or the like.
US08421767B2
It is made possible to cancel the effect of the already executed command without performing burdensome operation if an unobjective command is executed for input operation of the user.An input signal analysis section 200 gives a command of execution of a first command corresponding to detection of input operation to a first operation button based on an input position of a touch panel 10 detected by an input signal control section 300 and if input operation to a second operation button is detected, gives a command of a second command corresponding to detection. If continuous input operation to the second operation button is detected after the first command corresponding to the first operation button is executed, and command change notification from the input signal analysis section 200 is received, an application 100 cancels the effect of the immediately preceding executed first command and executes the second command.
US08421766B2
A handheld communication device having a logic to transfer information from a first application to a second application by using a user interface which displays a screen shot of the information gathered at the first application, and the interface also displays a list of icons indicative of other applications that is capable of receiving such information and using such information. The logic is configured to transfer the information to the second application by a drag-and-drop motion on the interface page.
US08421762B2
A computing device with a display simultaneously displays a plurality of user-repositionable user interface objects with one or more activation regions. The device receives a first input from the user. Based at least in part on the first input, the device determines a first plurality of candidate actions for manipulating a user interface object. The device performs a first candidate action of the first plurality of candidate actions as determined in accordance with the first ordering. After performing the first candidate action, the device undoes the first candidate action, receives a third input that is a repetition of the first input, and determines a second plurality of candidate. The second plurality of candidate actions is ordered such that second candidate action in the second plurality of candidate actions has a higher position than the first candidate action in the second ordering. The device performs the second candidate action.
US08421761B2
Certain examples provide systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods for medical device interface overlay. In an example, an article of manufacture includes an overlay for a clinical device touchscreen interface. The overlay includes a background surface formed to contact a touchscreen interface. The overlay also includes a plurality of touch areas formed in the background surface of the overlay device. Each of the plurality of touch areas is to provide a tactile boundary for a corresponding touchscreen interface function. The plurality of touch areas includes at least one of a plurality of openings and a plurality of recessed areas including a material thickness less than the material thickness of the background surface. The plurality of openings and the plurality of recessed areas allow user contact and interaction with the user interface underneath the overlay.
US08421760B2
A touch panel display including a first substrate, a second substrate, a display medium and a touch device is provided. The first substrate has a display area and a peripheral area. The first substrate has a pixel array in the display area and at least one integrated driving circuit in the peripheral area. The integrated driving circuit is electrically connected to the pixel array. The second substrate is disposed above the first substrate to cover the integrated driving circuit and the pixel array. The display medium is disposed on the pixel array and located between the first substrate and the second substrate. The touch device is disposed on the second substrate, and has a sensor element and a wiring element connected to the sensor element. The sensor element is located above the pixel array and the wiring element is located above at least a portion of the integrated driving circuit.
US08421757B2
A touch sensor includes: a first touch sensor section; a second touch sensor section disposed close to the first touch sensor; and a sensor detection section detecting whether a valid touch has been given to the first touch sensor section on the basis of an output of the second touch sensor section.
US08421755B2
A personal electronic device includes a programmable display and a programmable keypad, wherein at least one of the programmable display and the programmable keypad includes a capacitive touch sensor and an EL panel in a unitary structure. A conductive layer shields the capacitive touch sensor from the EL panel and can be a separate layer or be incorporated into either the capacitive sensor or the EL panel. The conductive layer includes antimony tin oxide (ATO), other conductive oxide, or a conductive polymer, such as Orgacon™ 3010.
US08421751B2
A free direction input area, a lateral direction input area, and a longitudinal direction input area are provided on an input surface of a touch panel. When a user performs a slide operation whose starting point is within the free direction input area, movement of a virtual camera is controlled based on a change amount of a touch position with respect to X- and Y-axis directions. When the user performs a slide operation whose starting point is within the lateral direction input area, movement of the virtual camera is controlled based on a change amount of a touch position only with respect to the X-axis direction. When the user performs a slide operation whose starting point is within the longitudinal direction input area, movement of the virtual camera is controlled based on a change amount of a touch position only with respect to the Y-axis direction.
US08421750B2
A data processing device includes a cursor position decision unit, a display control unit, a switch operation signal detection unit, a storage unit, an event generation unit and an event execution unit. The storage unit is configured to store, for a predetermined period, at least one of cursor position information outputted from the cursor position decision unit and event information according to one of a plurality of selection options located in a displayed image at a position corresponding to the cursor position decided by the cursor position decision unit. The event generation unit is configured to generate an execution event when a first switch operation signal is detected at a first timing by the switch operation signal detection unit based on the at least one of the cursor position information and the event information stored in the storage unit at a second timing prior to the first timing.
US08421746B2
A method of detecting missing devices in a home entertainment system using a wireless home entertainment hub includes obtaining a registration of at least one device that includes a source device. An instruction is received from a user to present program content from the source device. A set of one or more sink devices missing from the home entertainment system for a presentation of the program content based on an assessment by the wireless home entertainment hub of presentation capabilities of the home entertainment system using the at least one device registered with the wireless home entertainment hub is determined. The set of one or more sink devices is presented to the user.
US08421745B2
A method of driving an electro-optical device including a plurality of pixels, one of which having a first electrode, a second electrode, and an electro-optical material layer, includes: when an image is rewritten, selecting a first display state of the one pixel by applying a first voltage to the first electrode and applying a second voltage to the second electrode, or selecting a second display state of the one pixel by applying a third voltage to the second electrode; and when a part of the image is rewritten, selecting any of the first display state and the second display state of the one pixel by applying a fourth voltage which is different from the first voltage to the first electrode and applying a fifth voltage which has a different polarity from that of the fourth voltage with respect to the first voltage to the second electrode.
US08421744B2
An information display has an information carrier including a storable display panel separate from a processing unit including a battery, and where there is a need to perform a process such as updating or manipulating information displayed on the display panel, it is possible to perform a desired process by connecting the processing unit to the information carrier.
US08421741B2
A method and system for displaying an image on a liquid crystal display (LCD) that may reduce power consumption. The method and system can include calculating a luminance for pixels in an image in a LCD based upon a light spread function and brightness values of light emitting diodes (LEDs). The method and system can also include changing a brightness of an LED based upon a consideration of the gray value of the pixels and the distance of the pixels from a dominant LED. The method and system can further set the brightness of the LED units to a brightness substantially greater than or equal to a gray value of each pixel of the image.
US08421736B2
A bi-directional driving circuit of a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel is disclosed, in which forward scanning and backward scanning are available. In a bi-directional driving circuit of an LCD panel having a plurality of blocks, each block includes a first start pulse input terminal to which a start pulse or an output signal of a previous block is input and a second start pulse input terminal to which the start pulse or an output signal of a next block is input. Also, each block includes a first switching portion switching a start pulse signal applied to an input terminal of a first block among the blocks and switching an output signal of a previous block, which is applied to input terminals of the other blocks and a second switching portion switching a start pulse signal applied to an input terminal of the last block and switching an output signal of a previous block, which is applied to input terminals of the other blocks.
US08421733B2
A liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal panel, a timing controller which receives previous image data and current image data, the timing controller may correct the current image data according to a reference bit of conversion image data generated using the previous image data, and outputs a display image signal to the liquid crystal panel. The liquid crystal panel further includes a data driver which receives the display image signal and applies a data voltage corresponding to the display image signal to the liquid crystal panel.
US08421714B2
A stable address discharge in a plasma display device is generated without increased voltage to cope with increase in the cumulative current-carrying time of a panel with high luminance. A cumulative time calculating circuit for calculating cumulative current-carrying time of the panel and a driving circuit for driving the panel. The driving circuit delivers collected power to the display electrode pairs and clamps each voltage of the display electrode pairs to power-supply voltage and base potential. A sustain period has a period, during which the voltage of the display electrode pairs is clamped to base potential, between the sustain pulse for generating the last sustain discharge in the sustain period and the immediately preceding sustain pulse. The length of the period is changed according to the cumulative current-carrying time calculated by the cumulative time calculating circuit.
US08421703B2
An apparatus including a first antenna element operable at least one frequency within a first frequency range; a second antenna element operable at at least one frequency within a second frequency range; radio frequency circuitry electrically connected to the first antenna element via a first electrical path and electrically connected to the second antenna element via a second electrical path, wherein the first and second electrical paths are common where they connect to the radio frequency circuitry; a first frequency-dependent filter arrangement, within the first electrical path, arranged to accept frequencies within the first frequency range and reject frequencies within the second frequency range; a first impedance level transformation arrangement, having a first tapped inductor, within the first electrical path; and a second frequency-dependent filter arrangement, within the second electrical path, arranged to accept frequencies within the second frequency range and reject frequencies within the first frequency range.
US08421696B2
A dual polarization antenna radome includes a plurality of dielectric substrates. Each dielectric substrate provides a plurality of metal totems, and the pattern of the metal totems is unchanged after the metal totems rotate by 90 degrees around the axis perpendicular to the dielectric substrate.
US08421695B2
A multi-frequency, noise optimized active antenna consisting of one or several actively tuned antennas optimized over incremental bandwidths and capable of tuning over a large total bandwidth. One or multiple impedance transformers are connected to the antennas at an optimal location, with the transformers acting to reduce the impedance for optimal coupling to a transceiver/receiver. Active components can be incorporated into the antenna structures to provide yet additional extension of the bandwidth along with increased optimization of antenna performance over the frequency range of the antenna. The radiating elements can be co-located with a ferrite material and/or active components coupled to the element to tune across a wide frequency range.
US08421694B2
There is provided a composite antenna device for responding to waves in a plurality of radio frequency bands, including: a sheet of conductor plate; a first antenna provided on the sheet of conductor plate for responding to a linearly-polarized wave in at least one radio frequency band; and a second antenna provided on the sheet of conductor plate for responding to a circularly-polarized wave in a radio frequency band that is different from the at least one radio frequency band, wherein the first antenna has a ground portion, the second antenna is formed in an area in the ground portion, and each of the first antenna and the second antenna has a feeding point.
US08421687B2
A wireless mouse includes a mouse housing, a printed circuit board assembly assembled in the mouse housing, and an antenna mounted on a front end of the printed circuit board assembly. The front end of the printed circuit board assembly defines two fastening holes spaced from each other along a direction perpendicular to a front-to-rear direction. The antenna has a substantial long-strip radiating portion. Two opposite ends of the radiating portion are bent rearward and then downward to form a hook portion and a feed portion which are respectively hooked in the corresponding fastening holes to make the radiating portion transversely mounted over the front end of the printed circuit board assembly. The feed portion is electrically connected with a feed circuit of the printed circuit board assembly.
US08421680B2
A digital broadcasting antenna structure includes a substrate having at least a first and a second face; a main antenna arranged on the first face; an amplifier arranged on the first face and electrically connected to the main antenna; a compensating unit arranged on the second face and electrically connected to the main antenna; a bandwidth modulating unit arranged on the second face and electrically connected to the compensating unit; and a grounding section arranged on the second face and electrically connected to the bandwidth modulating unit. The digital broadcasting antenna structure can receive digital broadcasting signals without being restricted to any specific receiving direction, and is applicable to low, intermediate and high frequency bands to therefore achieve the effects of miniaturization, high bandwidth and low return loss.
US08421679B2
An antenna device includes an antenna element and a printed circuit board on which the antenna element is mounted. The antenna element includes a base, a radiation conductor formed on an upper surface of the substrate and one end of the radiation conductor being an open end, a plurality of terminal electrodes formed on a bottom surface of the substrate, and a loop conductor of a substantially U-shape. The loop conductor is arranged to face one of the terminal electrodes via a gap having a predetermined width. An antenna mounting region is provided on a upper surface of the printed circuit board to be adjacent to an edge of a long side of the printed circuit board. A feed line is led in the antenna mounting region along the edge. One and the other end of the loop conductor are connected to the feed line and a ground pattern, respectively.
US08421675B2
A system for determining location and timing information in a cellular network includes a space-time calibration unit (SCU) and a plurality of nodes in communication with the SCU. Each node includes a node ping driver that receives frame synchronization information from a respective subset of cell sites, and associates the frame synchronization information with respective receive count stamps generated using a local node clock. The system also includes a user handset that includes a handset ping driver that receives the frame synchronization information from a serving cell site and one or more neighbor cell sites, and associates the frame synchronization information with respective receive count stamps generated using a local handset clock. The SCU uses the information from the node and handset ping drivers to determine a handset location.
US08421671B2
An alternate radio transmitter includes a processor, a modulator, a PLL unit and a radio transmission unit. The processor provides a digital signal. The modulator modulates the digital signal, thus providing at least two modulated signals. The PLL unit mixes the modulated signals, thus providing an output signal. The radio transmission unit transmits the output signal.
US08421666B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a first capacitor system and a second capacitor system. Each capacitor system comprises one or more engaged capacitors from respective pluralities of selectively engagable capacitors. The first capacitor system and second capacitor system are respectively selectively coupled to a first reference voltage and a second reference voltage. The apparatus further includes a switch configured to transfer charge between the first capacitor system and the second capacitor system when the switch is closed such that the first capacitor system and the second capacitor system each store the same first voltage. The apparatus further includes a node coupled to the first capacitor system, the second capacitor system, and a first input of a differential amplifier of an analog to digital converter. The node is configured to bias the differential amplifier to the first voltage.
US08421657B2
In a microcomputer 10 which converts an analog signal Vin into digital data and corrects an error of the digital data, a voltage variation ΔVcc is calculated on the basis of a first conversion value obtained by AD-converting a reference voltage Vref by an AD converter 15 in a state that a standard power source voltage including no voltage variation is supplied to the AD converter 15 and a second conversion value obtained by AD-converting the reference voltage Vref by the AD converting section in a state that a power source voltage for the ordinary operation is supplied to the AD converter 15. The digital data produced by the AD converter 15 by AD-converting the analog signal Vin is corrected using the calculated voltage variation ΔVcc.
US08421656B2
Time-interleaved analog-to-digital (AD) conversion circuit, which includes first and second AD converters that generate first and second digital signal sequences by converting an analog input signal into first and second digital signals with a first frequency at first and second timings mutually different with each other is disclosed. The AD conversion circuit further includes a FIFO that receives the first and second digital signal sequences, and a correction filter including first and second portions that are supplied with a common clock signal. The correction filter generates a first corrected digital signal sequence by adding the first synchronized digital signal sequence and the second synchronized digital signal sequence passed through the first portion of the correction filter, and a second corrected digital signal sequence by passing the second synchronized digital signal sequence through the second portion of the correction filter.
US08421652B2
A decoding circuit is adapted for decoding an input signal. The input signal includes at least a break and the time length of the break is a preset time. The decoding circuit includes a decoding unit and a detecting unit. The detecting unit detects whether the voltage level of the input signal is kept at a specific logic level for more than the preset time. If the input signal is kept at the specific logic level for more than the preset time, the detecting circuit, according to the voltage level of the specific logic level, outputs the input signal or the inverted input signal to the decoding unit so as to perform a decoding process.
US08421651B2
Apparatus and method to detect one or more keys of a mobile wireless electronic device that have received an activating input, e.g., have been pressed, interrogates simultaneously several keys of a group of keys to reduce time required to detect which of the keys is pushed to provide inputs to the electronic device. The keys are arranged in a two dimensional matrix that facilitates organized interrogation of the keys. Resistors are used in providing a decoupling effect with respect to the antenna function of the wireless electronic device.
US08421646B2
A method and apparatus for providing a strobe alarm unit employing at least one light emitting diode.
US08421633B2
An anti-theft device monitors objects having a shaft, strap, or similar element. The anti-theft device is comprised of a two components hingably connected together. The two components can move from an open position to a closed position to enclose the shaft or similar element. One component has a first latch element and contains electronics including an arming switch. When the two components are moved to the closed position, the other component changes the status of the arming switch. The other component has a second latch element which combines with the first latch element to hold the two components in the closed position. The anti-theft device may be armed or disarmed by a remote device. The latching elements may be releasably lockable and may be released by a magnet. The anti-theft device may have passcode protection capabilities.
US08421632B2
A plastic cap with IC tag storing product information provided on the upper surface of a top plate. The top plate is formed by an annular flange and a recessed portion 37, the recessed portion, including a side wall continuous to the inner circumferential edge of the annular flange and a bottom continuous to the lower end of the side wall. The tag 10 is attached to the annular flange to cover the recessed portion. A gap between the tag and the bottom is maintained to such a degree that the transmission and reception of signals to and from the tag are not interrupted when the back surface of the bottom comes in contact with water.
US08421629B2
A system for monitoring parameters associated with a device, such as current, voltage, power, temperature, energy consumed, moisture, fluid levels and flow, wind speed, identification parameters, and repair history. The system includes the use of hybrid RFID sensor tags including a combination of active, semi-passive, and passive RFID circuits. Hybrid tags are attached to electrical system components. Standalone electrical components and generators and those connected to the electrical grid may be monitored. Data collected and stored in the hybrid tags may be accessed via a wireless communication link between hybrid tags and either active scanners or a passive interrogators. The data collected and processed from the hybrid tags may be provided to a user via the Internet or another wired or wireless communication network.
US08421602B2
A remote control unit is provided that includes an annular touch sensor for manipulating an annular menuing system displayed on a display device. In response to a user gesturing by scrolling clockwise or counter-clockwise about the annular touch sensor, pressing firmly on the annular touch sensor, or tapping at a particular location on the annular touch sensor, the annular menuing system is manipulated to select particular items. The remote control unit is further configured to implement location-awareness features. Control is adapted to the location of the remote control unit and to the devices located nearby to this location. Similarly the remote control unit is further configured to implement user-awareness features, such that the control is adapted for the individual preferences of different users.
US08421601B2
Devices, systems, processes, and articles of manufacture are provided herein. These may include an RFID transponder having a microprocessor, nonvolatile memory, a battery, and an antenna, wherein the microprocessor is configured to operate in a passive mode and a battery operated mode, and wherein, when in the passive mode only a portion of the microprocessor may be powered by energy received from an RFID reader interrogating the RFID transponder. The RFID transponder may further include MEMS sensors coupled to the microprocessor and the microprocessor may be further configured to add physical data, instructions, or a unique identifier of the RFID transponder to the nonvolatile memory.
US08421592B1
A recharging station for recharging an electric vehicle has a fixed transceiver operable with a local interface and a wide-area wireless interface, wherein the wide-area wireless interface corresponds to a cellular network provider. A user transceiver is activated by a user to send an authentication request to the recharging station via the local interface. A front-end server in a core network of the cellular network provider communicates with the recharging station and the user transceiver. The recharging station forwards the authentication request with an identification of the recharging station to the front-end server, and the front-end server creates a PIN code in response to the authentication request if the identification of the user transceiver is verified. A back-end server associated with the utility provider receives the PIN code and verifies the identification of the recharging station. The front-end server sends the PIN code to both the user transceiver and the recharging station via the wide-area wireless interface, and the PIN code is used to initiate charging.
US08421576B2
An electronic component and manufacturing method are provided that allow an increase in a size of a circuit element included therein and suppression of a short-circuit-preventing insulator film from easily peeling off from a laminated body. The laminated body includes a plurality of insulator layers laminated on one another. The laminated body has an upper face and a lower face opposing each other in a z-axis direction and lateral faces connecting the upper face to the lower face. The insulator film is provided on the lateral faces. A circuit element such as a coil is included in the laminated body and has a part protruding from the lateral faces of the laminated body toward the insulator film.
US08421575B1
A multi-layered structure is disclosed for implementing an inductor. A first spiral inductor is situated on a first substrate layer, and one or more additional spiral inductors are situated on one or more additional substrate layers. The substrate layers are positioned such that they are substantially in parallel with each other and the spiral inductors on the various layers are aligned with each other. The spiral inductors are electrically coupled to each other by coupling structures to enable them to act as a single overall inductor. Such an overall inductor exhibits improved characteristics, such as a higher Q factor. Other components may be incorporated with and coupled to the overall inductor; thus, this multi-layered structure may be used to construct almost any circuit in which an inductor is implemented.
US08421566B2
A linear solenoid includes a coil assembly having a coil, and a cup-shaped yoke arranged at an outer peripheral side of the coil. The yoke is provided with a recess portion that is opened at least at a position in a circumferential direction of the yoke and extends in an axial direction of the yoke. The coil assembly includes a connector portion that has a terminal connected to an exterior and is exposed from the recess portion to an exterior of the yoke, and a secondary molding portion made of a secondary molding resin in which the coil is insert-molded. Furthermore, the secondary molding portion includes a cover portion that is arranged to cover the recess portion of the yoke from an outer peripheral side of the recess portion. Thus, the cover portion can restrict foreign-material mixed oil from being introduced into the yoke.
US08421564B2
The electromagnetic actuator is a linear electromagnetic actuator in which the relative position between a slide table that supports permanent magnets thereon and a guide rail that supports a coil, which is arranged in confronting relation to the permanent magnets, is displaced by means of a thrust force generated by a current flowing through the coil. The coil is disposed on the guide rail through a low coercive force magnetizable material body, the coercive force of which is lower than a predetermined value. Consequently, generation of residual magnetization can be suppressed, and an influence on the thrust force caused by such residual magnetization can also be suppressed.
