US08438655B2
A substrate processing system capable of making it easy to set an operation authority in a plurality of substrate processing apparatuses and a management device is provided. In a substrate processing system including a plurality of substrate processing apparatuses for executing a process on a wafer, a management device connected to the plurality of substrate processing apparatuses via a communication line, the management device has a display screen for setting an operation authority to each of the management device and the plurality of substrate processing apparatuses capable of communicating with the management device for each user.
US08438650B2
The present disclosure is directed to systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for anonymizing data over multiple temporal releases. Data is received, and nodes and connections in the data are identified. The data also is analyzed to identify predicted connections. The nodes, the connections, and the predicted connections are analyzed to determine how to group the nodes in the data. The data is published, and the grouping of the nodes is extended to subsequent temporal releases of the data, the nodes of which are grouped in accordance with the grouping used with the data.
US08438633B1
Systems and methods for authenticating access to multiple data stores substantially in real-time are disclosed. The system may include a server coupled to a network, a client device in communication with the server via the network and a plurality of data stores. The server may authenticate access to the data stores and forward information from those stores to the client device. An exemplary authentication method may include receipt of a request for access to data. Information concerning access to that data is stored and associated with an identifier assigned to a client device. If the identifier is found to correspond to the stored information during a future request for access to the store, access to that store is granted.
US08438628B2
A method and apparatus are provided for split-terminating a secure client-server communication connection, with client authentication. During handshaking between the client and the server, cooperating network intermediaries relay the handshaking messages, without altering the messages. At least one of the intermediaries possesses a private key of the server, and extracts a set of data fields from the handshaking messages, including a Client-Key-Exchange message that can be decrypted with the private key. The intermediary uses the extracted data to compute the client-server session key separate from the client's and the server's similar computation, and may transmit the key to the other intermediary via a secure communication channel. The client and the server thus establish the end-to-end client-server connection, and may authenticate each other, after which the network intermediaries may intercept and optimize the client-server communications transparently to the client and the server.
US08438625B2
A management apparatus connectable, through a network, to a managed device located in a network environment utilizing a firewall to disallow spontaneous access through the network from an outside, the management apparatus includes an input unit configured to enter an instruction addressed to the managed device, and an instruction reply unit configured to receive a query from the managed device through the firewall as to the presence/absence of the instruction and, when the instruction entered through the input unit is present, reply with the entered instruction in response to the query in the course of a session established when the query is received, wherein the instruction reply unit, along with replying with one instruction entered in response to the query, maintains the session and, executes another entered instruction according to the response of the managed device to the reply.
US08438624B2
A method for modifying one or more system resources is provided. One or more licenses for modifying one or more system resources on a client device can be acquired. An authenticator can be generated and stored on a remote server. The authenticator can be transferred to the client device. The client device can be connected to the remote server and the remote server can authenticate the client device via the authenticator. The remote server can confirm the availability of one or more licenses, and based on the availability of one or more licenses, modify one or more system resources disposed in, on, or about the client device. After modifying the one or more system resources the remote server can decrement the remaining license count.
US08438621B2
A method, device and system for securely managing debugging processes within a communication device, such as a set top box or other multimedia processing device. For example, a security processor (SP) within the communication device manages the lifetime (LT) of any access token issued for use in activating debugging privileges within the communication device. The security processor authenticates an issued access token and securely delivers appropriate debug authorization information to the device controller. The security processor uses its secure, internal timer to count down the lifetime and update the remaining lifetime of the issued access token during the processing of each command by the security processor. In addition to securely managing the issuance of the access token and it's remaining lifetime, the updating process reduces any impact on the normal communications within the device. The method overcomes the issue of the communication device not having a secure internal clock.
US08438608B2
A video segment can be shared over a computer network by first receiving the video segment at a receiving computer on the network. The receiving computer assures that the video segment is in a streaming video format, and creates at least one identification tag for the video segment. The receiving computer also stores the video segment, and communicates the identification tag to another computer on the network. Upon subsequent receipt of that identification tag, the receiving computer streams the video segment to a destination computer on the network.
US08438598B2
There is provided an information processing apparatus communicable with a plurality of content viewing devices via a network, including a viewing information receiving unit for receiving viewing information of a user in the past, present, and future from each of the content viewing devices, a user viewing content management unit for managing a user viewing content DB based on the viewing information received from each of the content viewing devices and a program guide, the user viewing content DB associating, in a form of program guide, past, present, and future contents represented in the program guide and identification information of users who have viewed the past content, those who are viewing the present content, and those who will view the future content, and a viewing information transmitting unit for transmitting the extracted viewing information of another user to the requesting content viewing device.
US08438592B2
Methods and devices for alerting users to live programming on digital television broadcast receiver devices provide an on-screen object revealing a content item broadcast in an overhead flow portion of a broadcast signal. Information regarding programs available on other channels or content flows may be presented in a portion of the display screen. A variety of user touch gestures may be recognized on a touchscreen-equipped digital television receiver to enable users to respond to promotion messages. Users may use touch gestures to request a next promotion message, request further details regarding a promotion, discontinue promotion displays, and select a promoted program. Digital broadcast television systems may be configured to transmit promotion messages within the overhead flow in response to developments in broadcast content, special messages received from content providers, and the programs currently being broadcast.
US08438577B2
A method for extending a script language in a runtime environment of a data processing system to support an application, the runtime environment having a script language interpreter, the method comprising: subclassing a predetermined object defined by the script language to create a subclassed object, the predetermined object having an original method, the subclassed object having a respective replacement method for supporting the application; dynamically registering a symbol corresponding to the subclassed object; detecting the subclassed object in the application with the script language interpreter; and, executing the replacement method with the script language interpreter.
US08438574B1
Selecting a resource to fulfill a resource requirement is disclosed. For each resource requirement, a resource-specific affinity value is computed with respect to each of a plurality of resources. A bias is applied to each of at least a subset of the resource-specific affinity values. The biased, as applicable, resource-specific affinity values are sorted into a resource preference list. The sorted preference list is used to select a resource to fulfill the resource requirement.
US08438571B2
In an embodiment, asynchronous conflict events are received during a previous rollback period. Each of the asynchronous conflict events represent conflicts encountered by speculative execution of a first plurality of work units and may be received out-of-order. During a current rollback period, a first work unit is determined whose speculative execution raised one of the asynchronous conflict events, and the first work unit is older than all other of the first plurality of work units. A second plurality of work units are determined, whose ages are equal to or older than the first work unit, wherein each of the second plurality of work units are assigned to respective executing threads. Rollbacks of the second plurality of work units are performed. After the rollbacks of the second plurality of work units are performed, speculative executions of the second plurality of work units are initiated in age order, from oldest to youngest.
US08438567B2
An information processing device includes an input unit configured to input data, a processing unit configured to process the data, an output unit configured to output the data, and an execution unit configured to execute a first process, a second process, and a third process. A function of an application is provided by operating the input unit, the processing unit, and the output unit in conjunction with each other. The first process executes application management software that manages activation and termination of the application. The second process executes basic application software that provides a basic function of the information processing device. The third process executes extended application software that provides an extended function added to the information processing device.
US08438565B2
In a system including a plurality of physical machines to execute virtual machines (VM1, VM2), migration virtual machine information and definition information are saved in a physical machine executing a virtual machine (VM1) to be migrated and a storage of a physical machine as a migration destination. During the migration of the virtual machine, machine identification information of a migration partner, unique information assigned to the virtual machine, and information indicating whether the physical machine executing the processing is a migration-source or migration-destination physical machine are saved in a migration information storage area. A migration recovery section examines information stored in a definition information storage area and a migration information storage area to determine a recovery procedure to restore the virtual machine.
US08438557B2
The present invention provides methods, apparatus and systems for reusing an application object for use with an application program, in which the object can be reused without causing nonconformity in the consistency or security, even if the object to be reused is updated. An example of a method includes detecting that the application program ends referring to the application object, detecting that the application object is updated by the application program, deciding to reuse the application object in response to detecting no update of the application object, making the application object reusable in response to the end of referring to the object, and decision to reuse the application object.
US08438552B2
In some embodiments, a method and apparatus for automatically parallelizing a sequential network application through pipeline transformation are described. In one embodiment, the method includes the configuration of a network processor into a D-stage processor pipeline. Once configured, a sequential network application program is transformed into D-pipeline stages. Once transformed, the D-pipeline stages are executed in parallel within the D-stage processor pipeline. In one embodiment, transformation of a sequential application program is performed by modeling the sequential network program as a flow network model and selecting from the flow network model into a plurality of preliminary pipeline stages. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US08438537B2
A system arrangement is disclosed for automated application development with user guidance, including at least one view component (front-end) with a plurality of presentation forms, from which, at a particular time, a respective one is intended for data viewing and for input by a user, at least one model component (back-end) for storing and retrieving data, and a controller component for forwarding user inputs and/or requests for data to the model component and for forwarding requested data to a view component. The controller component is also intended for changeover between the presentation forms. Finally, a process flow component is provided for stipulating a sequence for the changeover between the presentation forms.
US08438535B2
A method and an apparatus that execute executable codes to install a persistent object from a storage into an application server to access remote services in an EIS are described. The executable codes are based on relational properties for mapping an API (Application Programming Interface) function of an EIS to an object of a cross-platform connection framework coupling the EIS with the application server. The application server is enabled to access the API function of the EIS via the persistent object as part of the cross-platform connection framework.
US08438530B2
Some embodiments provide a system that facilitates the creation of a design in an electronic design automation (EDA) application. During operation, the system obtains a set of parameters associated with parameterized connections in a hierarchy of the design and a set of net assignments to the parameters. Next, the system displays the parameters and the net assignments to a user of the EDA application through a graphical user interface (GUI) associated with the EDA application. Finally, the system enables modifications to the net assignments by the user through the GUI.
US08438526B2
Various embodiments provide an integrated circuit (IC) design method and design kit for reducing context variations through design rule restrictions. The design method can be applied to components (e.g., analog blocks) with a context variation in an IC design. By drawing a cover layer over such components, context-variation-reduction design rule restrictions can be applied to reduce the context variations.
US08438524B1
An interface object library tool for manipulating interface objects for a printed circuit board (PCB) tool is disclosed. The interface object library tool includes a hierarchical interface display module, an input module, and a store. The hierarchical interface display module is configured to display an interrelation between a plurality of interface objects and a plurality of groups each including a plurality of signal, power and ground lines. The plurality of interface objects are configured to be associated with a plurality of block objects to define a plurality of component objects. The input module is configured to: accept association of the plurality of groups and the plurality of signal, power and ground lines without defining pin or pad assignments; and accept association between the plurality of interface objects and a plurality of groups. The store is configured to retain the plurality of interface objects; the plurality of groups; the plurality of signal, power and ground lines; and associations between these three.
US08438522B1
A reconfigurable device includes an arrangement of a plurality of cells and routing resources for transmitting signals between the cells. The plurality of cells comprises carry-select reuse cells, each of the carry-select reuse cells configured to provide for performing non-arithmetic operations using a reuse arithmetic carry chain interconnecting adjacent cells.
US08438518B2
A device comprises a analysis section for detecting hold errors according to data including the values of the input and output nodes of the FF circuit, and identifying the node in which a hold error has occurred, a determining section for determining insertion of the trailing edge FF or the buffer into hold error sections on the basis of the results of the analysis by the analysis section, a FF insertion section for inserting the FF into a hold error section subjected to position determination so as to insert the trailing edge FF, and connecting a clock line to the FF based on the results of the determining section, and a buffer insertion section for inserting the buffer into the hold error section subjected to the position determination so as to insert the FF based on the results of data of the determining section.
US08438517B2
Systems and methods for identifying and managing the relationships between clock domains in an integrated circuit design are disclosed. A computer-implemented method analyzes the behavioral structure of the clock-to-clock logical relationships in a proposed integrated circuit design. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving as inputs a description of the design (in a synthesizable format or a synthesized gate-level netlist and definitions of the clock waveforms and timing constraints used in the design, and automatically identifying the relationships between the clocks specified in the description and categorizing the relationships into a plurality of behavioral categories. A list of timing exceptions may optionally also be provided as an input. The identified relationships between clocks and the behavioral categories may be used to verify any existing timing exceptions between clock pairs, and/or to create any missing exceptions between the clock pairs.
US08438512B2
Method and system for implementing efficient locking to facilitate parallel processing of IC designs
Disclosed is an improved method and system for implementing parallelism for execution of electronic design automation (EDA) tools, such as layout processing tools. Examples of EDA layout processing tools are placement and routing tools. Efficient locking mechanism are described for facilitating parallel processing and to minimize blocking.
US08438511B1
Methods, systems, and devices for logic synthesis that preserve a reset behavior of a circuit are provided. A method for logic synthesis may include providing the circuit. A memory element may be identified at a first location within the circuit, where the memory element is reset with a first reset value. The memory element may be relocated across a first portion of the circuit resulting in a one relocated memory element. The relocated memory element may be duplicated. The relocated memory element and the duplicated memory element may be connected with the circuit. Multiple reset values for the relocated memory element and the duplicated memory element may be determined, where the first reset value is produced at the first location when the multiple reset values are propagated through the circuit from the relocated memory element and the duplicated memory element to the first location.
US08438508B2
The present invention relates to lithographic apparatuses and processes, and more particularly to tools for optimizing illumination sources and masks for use in lithographic apparatuses and processes. According to certain aspects, the present invention enables full chip pattern coverage while lowering the computation cost by intelligently selecting a small set of critical design patterns from the full set of clips to be used in source and mask optimization. Optimization is performed only on these selected patterns to obtain an optimized source. The optimized source is then used to optimize the mask (e.g. using OPC and manufacturability verification) for the full chip, and the process window performance results are compared. If the results are comparable to conventional full-chip SMO, the process ends, otherwise various methods are provided for iteratively converging on the successful result.
US08438498B2
A computer-implemented method includes displaying a user interface on a display device, the user interface displaying a content item, in response to receiving input, displaying a user interface control panel including a user interface control, the user interface control configured to enable modifying one or more attributes of the content item, and in response to detecting a first selection of the user interface control, displaying a portion of the user interface control panel and hiding a portion of the user interface control panel, the displayed portion of the user interface control panel including the user interface control.
US08438494B2
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for formulating a computerized presentation of a sequence of scripts comprising audio files. The apparatus includes a content module for providing scripts comprising fixed content, an interaction module for allowing agents to present the scripts to a contact and to freely interject agent content into the script presentation, a recording module for recording the presentation of scripts and agent interjections, and an output module for outputting a script structure comprising a script sequence and script content.
US08438479B2
The operation support apparatus includes: an operation load calculation unit (106) which calculates an operation load on a user in performing a selecting operation included in one of operation records, using the selecting operation and a previous selecting operation included in another one of the records, the calculation being performed for each of selecting operations included in the records; a non-thinking operation determination unit (107) which determines, for each selecting operation included in the records, whether or not it is a non-thinking operation that is a randomly-performed operation, by determining that the selecting operation is more likely to be the non-thinking operation when the operation load is smaller; and a target function inference unit (108) and a target function candidate storage unit (109) which provide the user with operation support based on the records of the selecting operations excluding the selecting operation determined as the non-thinking operation.
US08438478B2
An analyzing unit analyzes components of input information. An area generating unit generates information on an area-representing image. A preview generating unit generates information on a preview in which the area-representing images are overlapped for each page. An operation display unit displays the information on the preview and information on a function to be performed, and accepts an instruction for setting the function. Upon accepting the instruction for the function, the preview generating unit further generates information on a preview with a processing according to the instruction performed.
US08438467B2
An initialized graphical user interface program can produce a plurality of parameter input fields in a graphical user interface. The plurality of parameter input fields can be logically grouped with similar parameter input fields in close approximation to each other in the graphical user interface. The graphical user interface program can then receive a plurality of parameter data from a user can input into the parameter input fields of the graphical user interface program. Based on the received user input parameter data, the graphical user interface program can deactivate one or more parameter input fields. The graphical user interface program can error-check the received input data and provide warnings for any incorrect data. Finally, the graphical user interface program can generate a fort.15 input file based on the parameter input data.
US08438465B2
A privileged e-mail system is provided whereby a privilege attribute for a privileged e-mail is created containing a list of privileged recipients that may access the e-mail. The profile further includes particular access rights for each of the recipients defining what each recipient may do with respect to the privileged e-mail. Access to the contents of the privileged e-mail, including attachments to the e-mail, is managed by software that enforces the access rights granted in the privilege profile.
US08438462B2
A method for recovery of lost and/or corrupted data, whereby this data is encoded by means of an encoder connected to the transmitter device and transmitted via a transmission channel to the receiver device. The transmitted data is decoded by means of a decoder connected to the receiver device wherein lost and/or corrupted data is restored during decoding. Encoding and decoding are performed by using a convolutional code. According to the disclosure the window size, on which the decoder connected to the receiver device operates, is variable so that the window size can be adapted to the erasure rate of the transmission channel and/or to the delay service requirement.
US08438461B2
This disclosure relates generally to low power data decoding, and more particularly to low power iterative decoders for data encoded with a low-density parity check (LDPC) encoder. Systems and methods are disclosed in which a low-power syndrome check may be performed in the first iteration or part of the first iteration during the process of decoding a LDPC code in an LDPC decoder. Systems and methods are also disclosed in which a control over the precision of messages sent or received and/or a change in the scaling of these messages may be implemented in the LDPC decoder. The low-power techniques described herein may reduce power consumption without a substantial decrease in performance of the applications that make use of LDPC codes or the devices that make use of low-power LDPC decoders.
US08438457B2
Disclosed herein is a nonvolatile memory apparatus including, a nonvolatile memory section, a standard error correction code processing section, an extended error correction code processing section, and a control section.
US08438443B2
A pattern-dependent error correction method and system for a code group alignment finite state machine (FSM) are disclosed. A state corrector generates a start-of-stream delimiter (SSD) detected signal to the FSM when the FSM is in an idle state and at least one condition due to a lost SSD signal is met; and the state corrector generates an idle detected signal to the FSM when at least one condition due to a lost idle signal is met. A pattern corrector generates a corrected code pattern {J,K} to FSM when the FSM is in an idle state and at least one condition due to a false idle state is met; and the pattern corrector generates a corrected code pattern {T,R} to the FSM when the FSM is in a data state, a start of stream state or a data error state, and at least one condition due to a false packet end is met.
US08438431B2
A support element for verifying an array repair code solution includes a memory subsystem element including product data read from multichip modules utilized in a mainframe computing device, a wafer test repair algorithm, and a system test repair algorithm. The support element also includes a CPU emulator that causes the support element to perform an initial microcode load that includes a memory test, the memory test applying the wafer test repair algorithm to the product data to generate a wafer test repair solution and the system test repair algorithm to the product data to generate a system test repair solution and one or more repair rings for storing the wafer test repair solution and the system test repair solution.
US08438430B2
A computer implemented method for efficiently allocating resources for an enterprise server system through a proportional integral derivative scheme is provided. The method includes defining a set point parameter for a resource being allocated and defining a proportional gain parameter, a proportional integral (PI) gain parameter and a proportional integral derivative (PID) gain parameter in terms of the proportional gain parameter. The method further includes calculating an initial maximum allocation for the resource based on a product of the proportional gain parameter with a difference of an initial operating parameter and the set point parameter and adjusting the initial operating parameter to the initial maximum allocation. A next allocation of the resource is calculated based on a product of the proportional gain parameter with the difference of an initial operating parameter and the set point parameter and a difference of the set point with a current operating parameter. The initial maximum allocation is adjusted with a next allocation.
US08438423B1
Technologies are described herein for allowing a computer system to recover from an invalid configuration, without requiring any modifications to the hardware of the computer system by the user. The computer determines whether a boot-fail counter exceeds a threshold value. If the boot-fail counter exceeds the threshold value, the computer executes an exception processing routine. In one aspect, the exception processing routine causes the computer to reset configuration settings stored in a memory area of the computer to default configuration settings. If the boot-fail counter does not exceed the threshold value, the computer increments the boot-fail counter and executes system initialization routines for booting the computer. Upon successfully completing the system initialization routines, the computer resets the boot-fail counter.
US08438422B2
A recording medium stores a program which causes a computer to execute a process for responding to failure of a management subject apparatus, based on incident information. The program causes the computer to execute a management procedure. The procedure manages steps of the response to the failure with the incident information. A response knowledge acquisition procedure referring to failure response information in which is described response knowledge corresponding to each step of the response to the failure, and acquires response knowledge for the failure in accordance with the step of the response to the failure managed by the failure response step management procedure with the incident information. A response knowledge process execution procedure executes a process in accordance with the response knowledge for the failure acquired by the response knowledge acquisition procedure.
US08438421B2
A computing system is configured to deploy a JAVA application for execution in a distributed manner. The computing system includes a plurality of computing nodes including a domain manager node, the plurality of computing nodes forming a computing domain configured as an administrative grouping of the nodes administered by the domain manager node. The domain manager node is configured to provide, to each of the computing nodes, a main portion of the JAVA application. The main portion defines, for each computing node, a portion of the behavior of the JAVA application to be accomplished by that computing node. Furthermore, each computing node is configured to receive at least one class file having classes appropriate for the portion of the behavior of the JAVA application defined, by the main portion, to be accomplished by that computing node.
US08438398B2
An information processing apparatus according to the present application includes a first application allowed to access the IC chip, including an IC chip in which predetermined data is recorded, an IC chip reading unit that reads the data recorded in the IC chip, and a signature data generation unit that generates signature data by performing encryption processing on the recorded data read by the IC chip reading unit and a second application not allowed to access the IC chip, including a server access unit that requests acquisition of content from an information providing server by receiving the signature data and the recorded data from the first application and transmitting the signature data and the recorded data to the information providing server that provides predetermined content.
US08438391B2
Systems and methods are described for establishing credentials at a device and at a device management server for the purpose of exchanging secure credentials in order to mutually authenticate the device and the server. A credential generation algorithm is described which uses a plurality of seeds, including the hardware identity of the device, the server identity, and a shared private key, to generate two sets of credentials, one to be used by the device and the other to be used by the device management server. The credentials are exchanged between the device and the server during any session, thereby assuring mutual authentication.
US08438390B2
Method and system for using neighbor discovery unspecified solicitation to obtain link local address
A system that facilitates enhancing security for a computer device by obtaining a link layer address of an IPv6 IPsec address. The system including a computer device having a software module, which performs the following steps: capturing multicast addresses and solicited multicast addresses for one or more IPv6 IPsec addresses; calculating the computer device identifier from the one or more multicast addresses and solicited multicast addresses; storing the computer device identifier for the one or more multicast addresses and solicited multicast addresses; sending a neighbor solicitation to one or more of the IPv6 IPsec addresses as a tentative target address simulating double address detection; capturing the neighbor advertisement response from the one or more IPv6 IPsec addresses and calculating a link-layer identifier; generating a neighbor cache with the link-layer identifier; and enabling IPv6 IPsec communication with the one or more IPv6 IPsec addresses using the link-layer identifier.
US08438380B2
A method for controlling a remote wireless device with a user device includes the user device sending a request message packet to the remote wireless device, where the remote wireless device verifies the request message packet and sends a reply message packet to the user device if the request message packet passes verification. The user device verifies the reply message packet and sends a control message packet to the remote wireless device if the reply message packet passes verification. The remote wireless device verifies the control message packet and sends an acknowledgment message packet to the user device if the control message packet passes verification.
US08438378B2
A method, system, apparatus, and media are directed to tuning a device. Values are stored for each of a plurality of device parameters based on device metrics. The device parameters are constraint-matched over changes to settings of the device parameters to identify at least one point within each range of the device parameters that optimizes a performance measure for the device. Tuning values are selected for each device parameter based on the identified point. The tuning values are provided for tuning the device. The device is tuned with roll-back based on the running values.
US08438376B1
A method and system for providing a modular server-on-a-USB-flash-storage is disclosed. The server-on-a-USB-flash-storage is installed on a computing device. The method and system include providing USB interface logic, USB Local Control Program, a flash memory and a set of control button connectors, light emitting diodes (LED) connectors and a liquid crystal display (LCD) connector. The USB Local Control Program is coupled with the USB interface logic and the flash memory. The USB interface logic interacts with the computing device and allows computing device to detect the server board. The USB Local Control Program boots up the server and prepares the computing device for use as the server. The flash memory stores a server image for the server, which is provided to the computing device using the USB Local Control Program. The control button connectors allow the server to be turned on, shut down gracefully, or restored to its initial state, by a single press of buttons connected to these connectors. The LED and LCD connectors allow the system status to be displayed or shown.
US08438368B2
Optimizing processing of a document sequentially processed by a plurality of image processing apparatuses that refer to an instruction document indicating the processing to be performed by each of the plurality of image processing apparatuses and respective security measures performed by each of the plurality of image processing apparatuses.
US08438366B2
Multiple data processing instructions instruct a computing device to process multiple data including first data and second data. When a multiple data processing instruction is decoded, two allocatable registers are selected. One is used to store the result of a processing operation performed on first data by one processing unit, and the other is used to store the result of a processing operation performed on second data by another processing unit. Those stored processing results are then transferred to result registers. Normal data processing instructions, on the other hand, instruct a processing operation on third data. When a normal data processing instruction is decoded, one allocatable register is selected and used to store the result of processing that a processing unit performs on the third data. The stored processing result is then transferred to a result register.
US08438363B1
A system, method and computer program product for virtualizing a processor include a virtualization system running on a computer system and controlling memory paging through hardware support for maintaining real paging structures. A Virtual Machine (VM) is running guest code and has at least one set of guest paging structures that correspond to guest physical pages in guest virtualized linear address space. At least some of the guest paging structures are mapped to the real paging structures. A cache of connection structures represents cached paths to the real paging structures. The mapped paging tables are protected using RW-bit. A paging cache is validated according to TLB resets. Non-active paging tree tables can be also protected at the time when they are activated. Tracking of access (A) bits and of dirty (D) bits is implemented along with synchronization of A and D bits in guest physical pages.
US08438350B2
A storage apparatus includes a copy control unit for managing a copy session for copying an copy source data area in at least one of the first to the Mth copy source disk groups to an copy destination data area in a corresponding copy destination disk group, setting a first to an Mth copy session groups, each of the copy session groups including one or more copy sessions from the ith copy source disk group to the ith copy destination disk group as the copy session, and performing repeatedly a selection operation for cyclically selecting a copy session from each of the first to the Mth copy session groups in a predetermined sequence and a control operation for cyclically executing copy processing on a predetermined copy processing unit basis for the M copy sessions selected by the selection operation in a predetermined sequence for a prescribed number of times.
US08438344B2
An electronic circuit (200) for use with an accessing circuit (110) that supplies a given address and a partial write data portion and also has dummy cycles. The electronic circuit (200) includes a memory circuit (230) accessible at addresses, an address buffer (410), a data buffer (440) coupled to the memory circuit (230), and a control circuit (246) operable in the dummy cycles to read data from the memory circuit (230) to the data buffer (440) from a next address location in the memory circuit (230) and to store that next address in the address buffer (410). The electronic circuit further includes a multiplexer (430), a comparing circuit (420) responsive to the given address and a stored address in the address buffer (410), to operate the multiplexer (430) to pass data from the data buffer (440) or to pass data from the memory circuit (230) instead; and a mixer circuit (450) operable to put the partial write data portion into the data taken from the selected one of the data buffer (440) or memory circuit (230). Other circuits, devices, systems, processes of operation and processes of manufacture are also disclosed.
US08438343B2
A memory system includes a volatile first storing unit, a nonvolatile second storing unit, and a controller. The controller performs data transfer, stores management information including a storage position of the data stored in the second storing unit into the first storing unit, and performs data management while updating the management information. The second storing unit has a management information storage area for storing management information storage information including management information in a latest state and a storage position of the management information. The storage position information is read by the controller during a startup operation of the memory system and includes a second pointer indicating a storage position of management information in a latest state in the management information storage area and a first pointer indicating a storage position of the second pointer. The first pointer is stored in a fixed area in the second storing unit and the second pointer is stored in an area excluding the fixed area in the second storing unit.
US08438340B2
A disjoint instruction for accessing operands in memory while executing in a processor of a plurality of processes interrogates a state indicator settable by other processors to determine if the disjoint instruction accessed the operands without an intervening store operation from another processor to the operand. A condition code is set based on the state indicator.
US08438336B2
Embodiments disclosed herein utilize statistical approximations to manage large filesystem-based caches based on imperfect information. When removing entries from a large cache, which may have a million or more entries, the cache manager does not need to find the absolutely oldest entry that has been accessed the least recently. Instead, it suffices to find an entry that is older than most. In embodiments disclosed herein, statistical sampling of the cache is performed to produce models of different properties of the cache, including the number of entries, distribution of access times, distribution of entry sizes, etc. The models are then used to guide decisions that involve those properties. The size of the samples can be adjusted to balance the cost of acquiring the samples against the confidence level of the models produced by the samples. To achieve randomness, entries are stored using prefixes of addresses generated via a message-digest function.
US08438331B2
A recording system includes a recording device, an information processing apparatus, a recording control unit, and an information processing control unit. The recording control unit manages data files recoded on first recording media and a second recording medium using a directory structure having directories of first recording media and a directory, serving as an entry folder, of the second recording medium under a root directory, selects, in response to a data file and an information file detailing category information being written in the entry folder, a first recording medium based on the category information, and controls the recording device to record the selected data file on the selected medium. The information processing control unit controls, in response to a data file and category information being specified, a writing operation so that the specified data file and the information file are written in the entry folder.
US08438327B2
A system includes an emulation memory having a first sector of non-volatile memory for storing information, in which the non-volatile memory includes a plurality of records. It is determined if a last record written of the plurality of records is a compromised record, if the last record written is not a compromised record, a next write is performed to a record of the plurality of records that is next to the last record written. If the last record written is a comprised record, an address of the compromised record is determined, valid data for the address of the compromised record is written into the record of the plurality of records that is next to the compromised record, and data is written into a record that is next to the record of the plurality of records that is next to the compromised record.
US08438321B2
Certain aspects of a method and system for supporting hardware acceleration for iSCSI read and write operations via a TCP offload engine may comprise pre-registering at least one buffer with hardware. An iSCSI command may be received from an initiator. An initiator test tag value, a data sequence value and/or a buffer offset value of an iSCSI buffer may be compared with the pre-registered buffer. Data may be fetched from the pre-registered buffer based on comparing the initiator test tag value, the data sequence value and/or the buffer offset value of the iSCSI buffer with the pre-registered buffer. The fetched data may be zero copied from the pre-registered buffer to the initiator.
US08438314B2
This invention (The Customer Contact Channel Changer) enables the integration of different Customer Contact Channels such as live call center ACD (Automatic Call Distribution) agents, ADSI (Analog Display Services Interface) enhanced IVR (Interactive Voice Response) systems and WWW (World Wide Web) servers. The world wide web servers are used to allow customers with computer equipment to access information from an organizations databases in a self service mode. Frequently these customers have questions best answered by human ACD agents. With this invention the connection between the customer with the question and the agent with the answer is done quickly and efficiently with both parties sharing screens of common information. Also control is retained by the customer to make the call happen when they want it.
US08438304B2
Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for automatically generating software and configuring software application installation. Some embodiments may include a method of configuring one or more hardware resources within an enterprise, the method comprising the acts of installing at least one software application on the one or more hardware resources, orienting one or more logical areas within the one or more hardware resources, implementing one or more communication protocols between the one or more logical areas, and generating infrastructure for the at least one software application during the act of installing, wherein the infrastructure is based on predetermined choices.
US08438298B2
An intelligent network streaming and execution system for conventionally coded applications provides a system that partitions an application program into page segments by observing the manner in which the application program is conventionally installed. A minimal portion of the application program is installed on a client system and the user launches the application in the same ways that applications on other client file systems are started. An application program server streams the page segments to the client as the application program executes on the client and the client stores the page segments in a cache. Page segments are requested by the client from the application server whenever a page fault occurs from the cache for the application program. The client prefetches page segments from the application server or the application server pushes additional page segments to the client based on the pattern of page segment requests for that particular application. The user subscribes and unsubscribes to application programs, whenever the user accesses an application program a securely encrypted access token is obtained from a license server if the user has a valid subscription to the application program. The application server begins streaming the requested page segments to the client when it receives a valid access token from the client. The client performs server load balancing across a plurality of application servers. If the client observes a non-response or slow response condition from an application server or license server, it switches to another application or license server.
US08438297B1
Methods and systems for supplying media over communication networks are described. In one embodiment, a media supplier determines whether a media object hosted on a web server will be supplied to a client by streaming or not by streaming. Preferably, if the determination is to stream, the media supplier streams the media object to the client. Otherwise, the media supplier preferably allows the host web server to supply the media object to the client. In some cases, the same media supplier may be capable of supplying clients with media objects hosted on any of at least two web servers.
US08438290B2
A method for selecting a policy and charging rules function entity in the non-roaming scenario includes the following steps: when a diameter routing agent DRA receives an indication message of the IP connectivity access network IP-CAN session establishment, the indication message is forwarded to a PCRF according to the related relationship which is set up and saved for allocating the policy and charging rules function PCRF entity to the IP-CAN session; and the corresponding policy and charging control PCC policy, which is made for the IP-CAN session by the PCRF, is forwarded to the provider's IP application function AF and the network element, which has policy and charging enforcement function, corresponding to the IP-CAN session.
US08438283B2
An apparatus and method for dynamically allocating resources across multiple virtual machines. The method monitors the activities of the applications in each virtual machine running on a hosting server, determines the activities of the applications in each virtual machine based on the activities of the monitored applications, prioritizes each virtual machine based on the determined priorities of the applications in each virtual machine, and dynamically adjusts the resource allocation of each virtual machine on the hosting server based on the priority of each virtual machine. The resources of the hosting server can be dynamically allocated to each virtual machine according to the real-time resource requirement of the active applications, and the applications of different virtual machines can negotiate the resource allocation on the hosting server.
US08438282B2
In an information processing system in which processing to be performed on a plurality of processed devices is shared and executed by a plurality of processing devices, load sharing is performed in units smaller than a processing request unit created. A request storing section of a main device stores a processing request including description of a plurality of devices to be processed which are processing objects and description of a processing content to be performed thereon. If the work load of an unexecuted processing request read out from the request storing section is heavy, a request dividing unit of each sub device divides the unexecuted processing request into a processing request including description of processed devices of the number commensurate with the processing by a processing unit and description of a processing content to be performed thereon, and a processing request including description of the remaining processed devices and description of a processing content to be performed thereon, and causes the processing unit to process the former processing request.
US08438280B1
A method, system and computer readable storage medium for reporting on a measured change in a consumption rate. Media consumption histories for a plurality of entities are received. A monitored audience is selected from the plurality of entities by selecting entities which have completed an online purchase. A category value for each of two or more categories of media content is determined. One category of media content includes one or more items of media content. One category value represents the measured change in consumption rate for one category of media content for the monitored audience between at least two time intervals. One consumption rate is determined based on the number of times each item of media content in the one category has been delivered over a network during one time interval. A report including a reference to two or more categories and their associated category values is generated.
US08438278B2
MTC event monitoring methods and the network servers thereof. The MTC event monitoring method comprises configuring, by the network server, a detection sensitivity threshold, determining, by the network server, an MTC event at an MTC device and an associated detection sensitivity parameter, and reporting, by the network server, the MTC event to an MTC server only when the associated detection sensitivity parameter equals to or exceeds the detection sensitivity threshold.
US08438274B2
A system and methods for creating a logical profile for physical devices in a system to interface with a monitoring system is disclosed. A profile identity is selected. A plurality of physical devices from the system is selected. The physical devices such as a meter or a circuit breaker include an output or an input. An input or output is classified for at least one of the plurality of selected physical devices as a tag. The plurality of selected physical devices are represented to the monitoring system by the profile identity and the at least one tag of the selected physical devices.
US08438273B2
A method and apparatus for extracting information from a network device. The method includes retrieving first device information from the network device using a first communication protocol, and attempting to determine a parameter value of interest based on the first device information. When the step of attempting to determine the parameter value of interest based on the first device information is unsuccessful, second device information is retrieved from the network device using a second communication protocol, and an attempt is made to determine the parameter value of interest based on the first device information and the second device information.
US08438270B2
The system and method for correlating network identities and addresses described herein may include a log correlation engine distributed on a network that identifies relationships between certain network identities and Internet Protocol (IP) and Ethernet addresses in the network. In particular, the log correlation engine may analyze various event logs that describe activity in a network to learn relationships between network identities and network addresses and generate alerts in response to discovering changes in the learned relationships. For example, the log correlation engine may identify authentication events described in the logs to map network identities to IP addresses, and may further analyze the logs to map the IP addresses to Ethernet addresses. Thus, the log correlation engine may discover new and changed relationships between the network identities, the IP addresses, and the Ethernet addresses.
US08438267B2
A method and system for distributing content on a network through network-wide transactions is disclosed. The method and system monitors the network using triggered measurement of the performance of an element of the network, dynamically computing, based on the monitoring, the regions of the network with available performance capacity for the transaction to proceed at a given time, determining, based on the computing, a scheduled time for the transaction to proceed, and distributing the content according to a schedule related to the scheduled time.
US08438266B2
A file sharing service facilitates file sharing between a client and a host over a network. An extensible architecture provides an interface by which the file sharing service can be expanded to include additional functionality. This additional functionality may include resource management, security management, management of user experience, and the like. For example, users or administrators of the host or another computing device on the network may wish to oversee the file sharing service as a whole and/or individual file sharing transactions. The extensible file sharing described herein allows users, administrators, or other third party developers to expand or enhance a file sharing service or application to provide virtually any desired functionality.
US08438261B2
A system provides a set of services. The system includes nodes that are in communication with each other. The system segregates the services into at least first and second groups of services, assigns the first group of services to a first set of the nodes, and assigns the second group of services to a second set of nodes. The first set of nodes provides the first group of services, and the second set of nodes provides the second group of services.
US08438260B2
A port listening service operating in at system level is assigned to listen on a static port. The static port can index a plurality of unique IDs associated with a plurality of applications operating in a session level. The server application can then provide to a client the unique connection ID, the IP address of the server, and the static port number for a connection. If the client connects by referencing the unique connection ID, the port listening service can forward a corresponding socket for the connection to the appropriate application instance, such that the application still operates in a session level. As such, the port listening service can dispatch connection services for a single static port to multiple different application instances running in a session level.
US08438259B2
An accessory device is directly connected in a non-networked manner to an electronic device. The accessory device is to be used by a web application running on a computing device connected to the electronic device over a network. The accessory device has a shared context or an owned context. The shared context specifies that usage of the accessory device is shared among the web application and one or more other web applications. The owned context specifies that the usage of the accessory device is exclusive to the web application and not to any other web application.
US08438242B2
The object of the invention is to provide the user with improved operatability of an information-processing apparatus and usability of application programs as well as to implement rendering of services to download the application programs from a server to the information-processing apparatus. If storage means employed in the information-processing apparatus does not contain a free area with a storage size large enough for accommodating a desired application program and a data file relevant thereto to be downloaded from the server, an information communication system comprising the information-processing apparatus and the server automatically transfers application programs and data files from the storage means to an external recording medium such as the server itself to be saved therein in order to secure a free storage area in the storage means. The free storage area is used for storing a desired application program and a relevant data file which are to be downloaded from the server.
US08438237B2
A method and system for sharing access to a storage device. Two processing devices are connected to a storage device interface. The processing devices are interconnected to allow communication with regard to access to the storage device interface. Access to the storage device interface is controlled by the first and second processing devices exchanging signals. Embodiments of the invention may be a mobile device configured to play audio files from a memory card connected to the mobile device. A communications link may be established to a remote device for the transfer of data between devices.
US08438235B2
Disclosed are apparatus and techniques for escalating an instant messaging (IM) session between two or more users to an audio session so that a communication device (by one or more users) that will optimize the audio session is selectively and intelligently utilized. In one embodiment, if an IP (Internet Protocol) phone is connected to the computer on which an IM session is being escalated, the IP telephone may be used instead of the computer device's own soft telephone so as to maximize audio clarity and quality. In another embodiment, a user's cell phone may be utilized for a mobile user who is using a laptop that is not coupled to an IP telephone or who is communicating from a hotel room in which a telephone call is typically more expensive than a cell phone call. Numerous embodiments for optimizing such audio sessions are described herein.
US08438234B2
Techniques are described to provide content channels for electronic messaging. In an implementation, a content channel may be configured to contain multiple content portions having various types of content for delivery to one or more clients. The content channel may be associated with an electronic message such as an email or instant message. The content channel and updates to the content channel may be pushed to the clients as electronic messages in an electronic messaging environment. The clients may expose a user interface having one or more portions that are arranged to present and provide interaction with the content channel. The content channel may be pinned within a designated portion of the user interface to enable repeated access to the content channel via the designated portion.
US08438231B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for displaying telecommunication messages through a social networking service. One embodiment includes a telecommunication messaging system that is implemented with a social networking service. The telecom messaging system receives telecommunication messages from a telecommunication network that are associated with a directory number assigned to a phone. The phone is operated by a member of a web-based social networking service. The telecom messaging system provides a telecommunication messaging page to display the telecommunication messages to the member as part of a website for the social networking service. Thus, the member is able to view telecom messages, such as voicemail messages, text messages, call logs, etc., through the social networking service.
US08438230B2
A method and system for contextual messaging as utilized for decision support is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method, comprises receiving and storing information from an administrative client that establishes memberships of a plurality of clients to a common contextual messaging system. Nomenclature information is received from the administrative client that establishes a nomenclature for the common contextual messaging system. A first client of the plurality of clients is permitted to accessing a contextual messaging host server via a web browser associated with the first client. A message is received from the first client. A message context is determined for the message using the nomenclature information. Messages are clustered based on the message context in a message database.
US08438229B2
A system and method to allow a user to engage in a collaborative discourse embedded in messaging platforms such as email or instant messaging, and to visualize the structure of that discourse. The system provides the ability to create and modify tree-like structures, which can represent outlines or tables of contents employed in documents. These structures take the place of traditional documents in representing the work product of a knowledge worker. These structures are related to the discourse in that messages may refer to nodes of these structures, and hence be understood to be related. It is the interplay between the creation of a structured message-based discourse and the persistent outline-form knowledge structures that allows message-based correspondence, including the reading and writing of documents, to be performed with increased efficiency and at a higher level of integration.
US08438224B1
Certain embodiments provide systems and methods for managing elements and users of a community-based content aggregation system. An element is received that includes content associated with a community topic. The element is provided to a moderator and an approval of the element is received. The element is stored with elements attributes that can include a comment, a rating, and a label identifying a sub-topic of the community topic. A search request is received and the element is outputted in response to the request. A rating and a comment on the element is received and stored in the element attributes. Approval of the comment is received. In some embodiments, points may be awarded to a user for participating in the community and the user's user level may be modified based on the points of the user.
US08438219B2
A system generating a web page portal customized for a particular requesting mobile device is disclosed. The system includes an information store having multiple groups, each associated with device qualifications, web-design characteristics, and device identifications. The system also includes a custom web page development database (CWDD) including a plurality of web page component modules storing forms of web page components, and a custom web page development server (CWDS). The CWDS (i) receives an incoming request for a web page from the particular requesting mobile device, (ii) identifies a device type, and (iv) determines an applicable group. The CWDS also (v) obtains web-design characteristics from the applicable group, (vi) accesses the CWDD and obtains applicable web page components based on the web-design characteristics obtained from the applicable group of the information store, and (vii) generates the custom web page portal using the applicable web page components obtained from the CWDD.
US08438215B2
In a cache control assuming plural user terminals accessing identical content, cache delete priority assignment is performed from a position where a user finished playback based on whether the user intends to view the content later. A cache control server is provided, and a cache delete inhibit span is determined based on a playback stop position or a normal speed playback time. A cache server deletes the cache based on the delete inhibit span received from the cache control server. Traffic of the core network due to re-cache can thus be reduced.
US08438214B2
Method, electronic device, computer program product, system and apparatus for sharing a media object
A method, electronic device, computer program product, system and apparatus are provided for sharing a media object and, in particular for sharing the discussions and comments surrounding the media object. A user's device may automatically keep track of one or more comments and discussions surrounding a particular media object by, for example, storing information associated with those comments and discussions in a data source either internal to or external from the electronic device, such that the stored information is somehow linked to the corresponding media object. When the user attempts to transmit the media object (e.g., upload the media object to an online sharing server, transmit the media object to a friend, or the like), the user's device may automatically gather the stored information associated with that media object and then transmit that information along with the media object.
US08438211B2
In general, this disclosure describes techniques of managing resources in a service-oriented distributed computing system. As described in this disclosure, a control node automatically manages the system such that the system has sufficient capacity to satisfy an agreement to provide a given level of a service. In order to automatically manage the system, the control node evaluates the current capacity levels of resources in the system. The current capacity levels are indicative the capacity of resources to perform certain acts. The capacity of the resources to perform these acts may be indicative of whether the system is able to provide the given level of the service. Because capacities provided by the resources change as the resources start, the control node uses a predicted pending capacity function to evaluate whether resources that are currently starting will be sufficient to satisfy the level of the service when completely started.
US08438196B1
A file system includes first, second, third, and fourth directories where the first and second directories are sub-directories of the third directory, the third directory is a sub-directory of the fourth directory, the first directory stores only files identified by a first file extension, the second directory stores only files identified by a second file extension, and the first and second file extensions are distinct. A method involves receiving first and second requests to open first and second files, respectively, that are contained in the file system. The first and second requests include first and second file system paths, respectively. The first file system path is modified by adding identities of the first, third, and fourth directories to the first file system path. The second file system path is modified by adding identities of the second, third, and fourth directories to the second file system path.
US08438189B2
The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can identify, store, and/or output local contributions to a rank of a vertex in a directed graph. The architecture can receive a directed graph and a parameter, and examine a local subset of vertices (e.g., local to a given vertex) in order to determine a local supporting set. The local supporting set can include a local set of vertices that each contributes a minimum fraction of the parameter to a rank of the vertex. The local supporting set can be the basis for an estimate of the supporting set and/or rank of the vertex for the entire graph and can be employed as a means for detecting link or web spam as well as other influence-based social network applications.
US08438188B2
A method of displaying and navigating information using a hierarchical, spring loaded DHTML menu system that adjusts to fit the boundaries of a resizable, container. A set of standard HTML table row elements, having a hierarchical dependency, is consistently displayed as a web-page, under reasonable resizing. This is done using a strut row that produces the largest width requirement when the table structure is resizing to occupy a small width. Only the current row elements and the strut element are required in calculating table resizing to ensure that whichever data elements are displayed when a web-page resizing occurs, the browser auto-layout algorithm calculations will result in a resize attributes that enables all other row elements of that menu to be accommodated by the newly determined table width. As the row elements may themselves be table structures, nested menus of information may be displayed and navigated.
US08438186B2
A technique used in a relational database management system that provides a topology data model in which topological elements are stored in topology element tables. The technique allows topological elements to be added to the topology element tables while a feature specifier that represents a feature composed of the topological elements is being defined in the topology data model. The feature specifiers are inserted into fields of a feature column in a feature table. The features belonging to a given feature table define a feature layer. A feature layer may have a child feature layer, and in addition to representing a set of topological elements, a feature specifier may represent a set of features belonging to a child feature layer.
US08438174B2
Methods and systems are provided for a proactive approach for computer forensic investigations. The invention allows organizations anticipating the need for forensic analysis to prepare in advance. Forensic signatures are created including a digital fingerprint and other information associated with a file. In one aspect, informational signatures are created, which may assist in determining what information is included in a file. In another aspect, the digital fingerprint may represent contents of the file and is resistant to minor modification of the file. In another aspect, fingerprints can be compared in parallel on different computers.
US08438171B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for receiving a plurality of metadata associated with a plurality of media items. Each metadata includes a ranking score and a resource locator of the media item. Queuing media item identifiers based on the plurality of metadata and ordering the queue based on the ranking scores. Retrieving a portion of a highest-ranking unplayed media item and providing the portion to a content playback device. Receiving vote indications for an unplayed media item. The ranking score of the unplayed media is updated item based on the received vote indications. The unplayed media items are reordered in the queue based upon the updated ranking score of the unplayed media item. Retrieving a portion of a highest-ranking unplayed media item in the reordered queue and providing the portion to a content playback device.
US08438170B2
A behavioral targeting system determines user profiles from online activity. The system includes a plurality of models that define parameters for determining a user profile score. Event information, which comprises on-line activity of the user, is received at an entity. To generate a user profile score, a model is selected. The model comprises recency, intensity and frequency dimension parameters. The behavioral targeting system generates a user profile score for a target objective, such as brand advertising or direct response advertising. The parameters from the model are applied to generate the user profile score in a category. The behavioral targeting system has application for use in ad serving to on-line users.
US08438163B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for automatically extracting logos from images. Methods include generating a query list including a plurality of logo search queries, for each logo search query of the plurality of logo search queries: generating a plurality of image search results, each image search result including image data, and clustering the plurality of image search results into a plurality of clusters, each cluster including a plurality of images of the plurality of image search results, extracting, for each cluster of the plurality of clusters, a representative image to provide a plurality of representative images, and a name corresponding to the representative image to provide a plurality of names, and providing the plurality of representative images and the plurality of names to a logo index, the logo index being accessible to identify one or more logo images in a query image.
US08438160B2
A method of selecting and presenting content based on learned user preferences is provided. The method includes providing a content system including a set of content items organized by genre characterizing the content items, and wherein the set of content items contains microgenre metadata further characterizing the content items. The method also includes receiving search input from the user for identifying desired content items and, in response, presenting a subset of content items to the user. The method further includes receiving content item selection actions from the user and analyzing the microgenre metadata within the selected content items to learn the preferred microgenres of the user. The method includes, in response to receiving subsequent user search input, selecting and presenting content items in an order that portrays as relatively more relevant those content items containing microgenre metadata that more closely match the learned microgenre preferences of the user.
US08438159B1
A rules evaluation engine operable to select optimal content for presentation to the viewer at each presentation opportunity. The engine evaluates segmentation rules associated with each particular content item in parallel, and then selects the best content to be presented. Priorities determined during evaluation sort out which content items will be presented. Real time dynamic enrichment of the decision making context occurs by retrieving additional information required to evaluate the rules. Logging and administrative processes for managing the segmentation rules are also realized.
US08438153B2
A method of performing a database join includes receiving a query. The query may specify a join of a first table and a second table. The method further includes determining a new predicate based on a mapping between a first column of the first table and a second column of the second table for a plurality of tuples of the join. Further, the method includes modifying the query such that the query comprises the new predicate.
US08438141B2
Methods, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for providing secure access to data. Public UDTFs, private UDTFs and a metadata processor are utilized to facilitate secure access to data residing in a variety of data repositories.
US08438139B2
A dynamic layer above a sequential deduplication file system (denoted as DFS) implements the rewrite functionality. A user file is composed of one or more DFS files. As incoming data is written into a user file, the data is written by the dynamic layer sequentially into DFS files, created one by one. For each user file this dynamic layer creates and maintains a dynamic metadata file, in a regular, non deduplicated file system. This metadata file contains entries pointing to sections of DFS files.
US08438138B2
The invention relates to a multiple QoS file system and methods of processing files at different QoS. The file system allocates VLUNs and using rules chooses an initial QoS for a file when created and moves files to different QoS using rules. Users see a single unified space of files, while administrators place files on storage according to file attributes. A file system enhances the descriptive information for each file to contain the chosen QoS for the file. The invention classifies volumes (e.g., file systems or LUNs) according to application requirements and allocates space for volumes. An IT administrator configures volumes specifying size, type and priority. The host schedules I/O requests in priority queues using the volume definition to match applications and reduce seek time between volumes of different priorities. The data storage system therefore places data on the performance band of a storage device that best supports needs.
US08438135B1
In one aspect, a method includes providing data protection to data in a first volume at a first data protection appliance by storing a copy of the data in a second volume using a second data protection appliance, tracking changes between data locations in the first volume and the second volume using a delta marking stream (DMS) and receiving, at the first data protection appliance, metadata. The metadata is intended to be committed to the DMS. The method further includes mirroring the metadata at a third data protection appliance.
US08438132B1
A method and system for integrating data across different systems is disclosed. Data in a plurality of databases are integrated by identifying the common data elements with equivalent semantics and selecting a preferred syntax for the data. A new record including the common data elements and data with preferred syntax is made available to users.
US08438131B2
A media archive comprising a plurality of media resources associated with events that occurred during a time interval are processed to synchronize the media resources. Sequences of patterns are identified in each media resource of the media archive. Elements of the sequences associated with different media resources are correlated such that a set of correlated elements is associated with the same event that occurred in the given time interval. The synchronization information of the processed media resources is represented in a flexible and extensible data format. The synchronization information is used for optimized synchronous search capability, for enhanced synchronous playback of the archive resources, and for unified access to, and modification of, the archive resources.
US08438125B2
A system is described for assembling a behavior model of a technology component. The system may include a memory, and a processor. The memory may store a behavior model of a technology component. The processor may to monitor the technology component over a period of time to determine a plurality of parameter values associated with each state of a plurality of states of the technology component. The processor may process the plurality of parameter values associated with each state to determine a baseline parameter value for each state. The processor may assemble the behavior model for the technology component. The behavior model may include each state, the baseline parameter value for each state, and an association between each state and the baseline parameter value for each state. The processor may store the behavior model of the technology component in the memory.
US08438122B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on one or more computer storage devices, for training a predictive model. In one aspect, a method includes receiving over a network predictive modeling training data from a client computing system. The training data and multiple training functions obtained from a repository of training functions are used to train multiple predictive models. A score is generated for each of the trained predictive models, where each score represents an estimation of the effectiveness of the respective trained predictive model. A first trained predictive model is selected from among the trained predictive models based on the generated scores. Access to the first trained predictive model is provided to the client computing system.
US08438115B2
In a system including a postage printing device and a data center, wherein the postage printing device and the data center have a first set of keys for use in requesting and downloading a plurality of postage data records from the data center for use in printing postal indicia, a method of securely transferring the postage printing device and any postage value stored therein from a first user to a second user. According to the method, a new set of keys for requesting and downloading postage data records is generated, any current postage value stored in the printer device is securely transferred to the second user using the new keys and some of the first set of keys, and the first set of keys is zeroed, thereby protecting the first user from any potential theft or fraud of postage funds on the part of the second user.
US08438112B2
A host device, a portable storage device, and a method of updating an RO stored in the portable storage device are provided. The method includes receiving a predetermined bitmap from a host device, performing a bitwise operation on the received bitmap and meta information indicating a state of the RO, and updating the meta information using a result of the bitwise operation.
US08438106B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for managing a medical savings account that invests funds in investment accounts. A request is received for payment of a healthcare expense incurred by a party authorized for recovery under the medical savings account. A balance is drawn against a line of credit secured by one or more of the investment accounts. At least a portion of the healthcare expense is paid with funds obtained from the drawn balance. At least a portion of some of the investment accounts are liquidated in accordance with instructions provided by the party or by an owner of the medical savings account to satisfy the drawn balance of the line of credit.
US08438093B1
A system and method to: Protect the process used to hedge Class II handler milk price exposure and to allow the Class II handler to control the use of the process for its customers, producers, or others who are deemed suitable to the Class II handler and are willing to compensate the Class II handler to utilize the process for their hedging requirements. In one aspect of the invention, the Class II handler will be able to offer to its customers a way to transparently hedge (or set) its milk price as a component of its finished goods cost in a fashion that is correlated in accordance to all FASB and Sarbanes-Oxley financial reporting requirements, and provide a competitive advantage over others. The system and method can be applied in analogous ways to buyers and suppliers of different components used for different finished goods.
US08438091B1
A method for generating a spending reduction plan, includes obtaining a savings target that has a target amount and a target schedule, analyzing, using a processor of a computer system, a spending history for a plurality of spending categories to generate a historical spending pattern comprising a plurality of spending variances corresponding to the plurality of spending categories, identifying a first spending category of the plurality of spending categories by comparing the plurality of spending variances based on a pre-determined criterion, analyzing, using a processor of a computer system, a first historical savings pattern for the first spending category to determine a first reduction percentage, and generating the spending reduction plan based on the savings target, the first spending category, a first spending variance corresponding to the first spending category, and the first reduction percentage.
US08438085B2
Method for communication between a central server and a computerized juke-box which operates in a conference mode, including: sending a header before any transaction, which includes the identity of the destination together, the identity of the emitter, and the size of the packets; responding from the server in the form of a data packet, each packet sent by the server being encoded using the identification code of the juke-box software; and receiving a data packet by the juke-box, which decodes the packet, simultaneously performs a check on the data received by the CRC method and sends an acknowledgement of receipt to the server indicating the accuracy of the information received, to allow it to prepare and send another packet to the juke-box.
US08438083B2
A system and method is described for controlling user access to a carrier's shipping services for delivery of a package. The system controls the user's access to the carrier's services by either limiting the selection of locations from which a package can be shipped to fewer than those described by the carrier's service area, or by limiting the user's ability to select shipping service levels to fewer than those provided by the carrier. Such limitation may be by way of displaying only a limited collection of ship from locations and service levels, or by pre-populating and locking ship from information submission fields on a web page. The distributed-user shipping system may reside on a client server or mobile computer that is connected to the carrier's server and transmits various shipping location information and service level selections to the carrier to facilitate shipping of packages while controlling the scope of shipping services provided.
US08438062B2
A computer-implemented method for displaying advertisements to members of a network comprises identifying one or more communities of members, identifying one or more influencers in the one or more communities, and placing one or more advertisements at the profiles of one or more members in the identified one or more communities.
US08438061B2
A system and methods for displaying a selected advertisement on a web page merged (injected) into a list of transactions provided by an online (Internet) banking portal of a financial institution, independently of a computer system that provides the list. A consumer's browser receives an account history page comprising a list of transactions from the portal. The list is processed locally at the consumer's machine to generate a list of currently-displayed transactions, which are then transmitted to an offer placement system. The offer placement system accesses a database of potential advertisements to identify a selected advertisement corresponding to an advertisement selection criterion. The selected advertisement is then transmitted to the consumer's machine. The consumer's machine merges (injects) the selected advertisement in the web browser with the transactions list in accordance with predetermined advertisement placement information. The injection is effected by a script such as Javascript loaded from an associated script server.
US08438056B2
Methods and apparatus to provide incentives to deflect callers to websites are disclosed. An example method disclosed herein to deflect a caller to a webpage comprises receiving a call from the caller, offering an incentive to the caller to terminate the call and access the webpage, and providing an address of the webpage to the caller after the caller consents to terminate the call.
US08438041B2
A system and method for gathering quality data for a plurality of healthcare providers over an extended computer network is disclosed. The system and method comprise an enhanced services server in electronic data communication with a plurality of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems via a network connection, the plurality of EHR systems being configured to capture patient data for a plurality of patients at the plurality of healthcare providers' sites during a plurality of encounters with each of the plurality of patients, and the enhanced services server being built on the same architecture as the plurality of EHR systems. Electronic quality of care forms are retrieved from one or more form managers via the network connection and a plurality of fields in each of the electronic quality of care forms are automatically populated using the patient data captured by the plurality of EHR systems. The completed electronic quality of care forms are then automatically transmitted to one or more form receivers via the network connection, the one or more form receivers being one or more organizations that process quality of care data to qualify healthcare providers for at least one of certifications, accreditations, and monetary incentives.
US08438037B2
One embodiment of the present invention is directed to a computer-implemented system that analyzes free-form text comments provided by a user (such as a customer of a company) and draws conclusions about the tone of the user's feedback, such as whether the user's feedback is positive, negative, angry, critical, or congratulatory. Such conclusions may be reflected in a single numerical value referred to herein as “emotivity.” A customer's emotivity score may be used for various purposes, such as determining whether the customer is likely to provide a positive testimonial for the company, or whether a follow-up phone call should be made to the customer to improve the company's relationship with the customer. Furthermore, a measurement of the customer's loyalty to the company may be modified based on the user's measured emotivity.
US08438035B2
When there are missing voice-transmission-signals, a repetition-section calculating unit sets a plurality of repetition sections of different lengths that are determined to be similar to the voice-transmission-signals preceding the missing voice-transmission-signal, the repetition sections being determined with respect to stationary voice-transmission-signals stored in a normal signal storage unit, the stationary voice-transmission-signals being selected from the previously input voice-transmission-signals. A controller generates a concealment signal using the repetition sections.
US08438029B1
Disclosed are apparatus and methods for generating synthesized utterances. A computing device can receive speech data corresponding to spoken utterances of a particular speaker. Textual elements of an input text corresponding to the speech data can be recognized. Confidence levels associated with the recognized textual elements can be determined. Speech-synthesis parameters of decision trees can be adapted based on the speech data, recognized textual elements, and associated confidence levels. Each adapted decision tree can map individual elements of a text to individual of the speech-synthesis parameters. A second input text can be received. The second input text can be mapped to speech-synthesis parameters using the adapted decision trees. A synthesized spoken utterance can be generated corresponding to the second input text using the speech-synthesis parameters. At least some of the speech-synthesis parameters are configured to simulate the particular speaker.
US08438028B2
A method of and system for managing nametags including receiving a command from a user to store a nametag, prompting the user to input a number to be stored in association with the nametag, receiving an input for the number from the user, prompting the user to input the nametag to be stored in association with the number, receiving an input for the nametag from the user, processing the nametag input, and calculating confusability of the nametag input in multiple individual domains including a nametag domain, a number domain, and a command domain.
US08438025B2
A system includes at least one wireless client device, a service manager, and a plurality of voice transcription servers. The service manager includes a resource management service and a profile management service. The client device communicates the presence of a voice transcription task to the resource management service. The resource management service surveys the plurality of voice transcription servers and selects one voice transcription server based on a set of predefined criteria. The resource management service then communicated an address of the selected server to the profile management service, which then transmits a trained voice profile or default profile to the selected server. The address of the selected server is then sent to the client device, which then transmits an audio stream to the server. Finally, the selected server transcribes the audio stream to a textual format.
US08438024B2
A method, system and computer program product for receiving a spoken request to obtain indexed results from a database. Like result types are assigned to categories, and within each category is a plurality of result entries. The result indices are hexadecimal encoded, and each hexadecimal encoding is preceded by an initial character representing the result category. A speech recognition system is engaged, which processes the spoken request. When a item is requested, the respective category is implicitly known by the index returned, and the index provides direct access within a database to the corresponding result based on the phonetics of the request.
US08438020B2
A vector quantizer which improves the accuracy of vector quantization in switching over a vector quantization codebook on a first stage depending on the type of feature having the correlation with a quantization target vector. In the vector quantizer, a classifier generates classification information representing a type of narrowband LSP vector having the correlation with wideband LSP (Line Spectral Pairs) of the plural types. A first codebook selects one sub-codebook corresponding to the classification information as a codebook used for the quantization of the first stage from plural sub-codebooks corresponding to each of the types of narrowband LSP vectors. A multiplier multiplies the quantization residual vector of the first stage inputted from an adder by a scaling factor corresponding to the classification information of plural scaling factors stored in a scaling factor determiner and outputs it to an adder as the quantization target of a second stage.
US08438019B2
An encoder comprising an input for inputting frames of an audio signal in a frequency band, at least a first excitation block for performing a first excitation for a speech like audio signal, and a second excitation block for performing a second excitation for a non-speech like audio signal. The encoder further comprises a filter for dividing the frequency band into a plurality of sub bands each having a narrower bandwidth than the frequency band. The encoder also comprises an excitation selection block for selecting one excitation block among the at least first excitation block and the second excitation block for performing the excitation for a frame of the audio signal on the basis of the properties of the audio signal at least at one of the sub bands. The invention also relates to a device, a system, a method and a storage medium for a computer program.
US08438017B2
Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding audio signal using adaptive LPC coefficient interpolation
Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding or decoding an audio signal by adaptively interpolating a linear predictive coding (LPC) coefficient. In the method and apparatus of encoding or decoding an audio signal, LPC coefficient interpolation is selectively performed depending on whether a transient section is present in a current frame, thereby preventing noise from occurring when interpolating LPC coefficients in the transient section.
US08437999B2
A computer-based system performs iterative linear solution of giant systems of linear equations with the computational acceleration capabilities of GPU's (Graphical Processing Units). Processing is performed in a heterogeneous (hybrid) computer environment composed of both computer data processing units (CPU's) and GPU's. The computational acceleration in processing provides an order of magnitude speed improvement over other methodology which utilizes only CPU's. The present invention enables reservoir studies to be carried out within time constraints, and real-time reservoir simulations to be made while keeping pace with online data acquisition.
US08437998B2
Method for simultaneous full-wavefield inversion of gathers of source (or receiver) encoded geophysical data to determine a physical properties model for a subsurface region, especially suitable for surveys where fixed receiver geometry conditions were not satisfied in the data acquisition. First, a shallow time window of the data (202) where the fixed receiver condition is satisfied is inverted by simultaneous encoded (203) source inversion (205). Then, the deeper time window of the data (208) is inverted by sparse sequential source inversion (209), using the physical properties model from the shallow time window (206) as a starting model (207). Alternatively, the shallow time window model is used to simulate missing far offset data (211) producing a data set satisfying the stationary receiver assumption, after which this data set is source encoded (212) and inverted by simultaneous source inversion (214).
US08437989B2
A exemplary aspect of the present invention is a simulation method for a semiconductor circuit that includes: a well resistor comprising a terminal region and a main body; and a plurality of contacts formed above the terminal region, the simulation method comprising: modeling a parasitic resistance Rt0 of the terminal region between the plurality of contacts and the main body by the following formula, where ρ0, L′0, W′0 are fitting parameters; L′ is a length of the terminal region in the longitudinal direction of the well resistor; and W′ is a width of the terminal region in the width direction of the well resistor. Rt 0 = ρ 0 × ( L ′ + L 0 ′ ) L ′ × ( W ′ + W 0 ′ )
US08437986B2
A random noise signal detecting and filtering method includes: (a) calculating a difference value of data currently being input from a sensor in comparison with previous data stored in a register; (b) comparing the calculated difference value with a critical value; (c) determining whether the calculated difference value is greater than a maximum critical value or less than a minimum critical value; and (d) if the calculated difference value is greater than the maximum critical value or less than the minimum critical value, determining the current data be constitute a random signal and substituting the previous data for the current data.
US08437983B2
A clock determination method executed by a first one of apparatuses included in a system includes receiving a list including first definite clock values of respective apparatuses, the list being circulated among the apparatuses; determining the first clock value of the first apparatus at a point in time based on a smallest of logical clock values regarding corresponding commands on which processing is not completed, the commands being included in commands received by the first apparatus and the logical clock values being obtained at a time of receiving the corresponding commands and being stored, and updating the first clock value, the updated first clock value being included in the list, by using the determined first clock value; specifying, as a second clock value for the system, a smallest of the first clock values included in the updated list; and transmitting the updated list to a second one of the apparatuses.
US08437980B2
The present inventions, in one aspect, are directed to a portable activity monitoring device to calculate a number of stairs or flights of stairs traversed by a user, the monitoring device comprising (i) a housing having a physical size and shape that is adapted to couple to the body of the user, (ii) an altitude sensor, disposed in the housing, to detect a change in altitude of the user and, in response thereto, to generate data which is representative of the change in altitude of the user, and (iii) processing circuitry, disposed in the housing and coupled to the motion sensor and the altitude sensor, to calculate a number of stairs or flights of stairs traversed by the user using the data which is representative of a change in altitude of the user.
US08437979B2
A position sensing system including a flexible tether and at least one sensor at least partially embedded within a portion of the flexible tether is disclosed. The sensor may be adapted to detect a sensor position factor. The system also includes a communication device adapted to transmit the sensor position factor from the sensor, and a signal processor adapted to receive the sensor position factor. The signal processor is also adapted to calculate at least one of the shape or orientation of the flexible tether from the sensor position factor. The sensor position factor may be relative orientation, relative depth, relative pressure, presence of a magnetic field, presence of an electric field, acceleration, or relative rate of rotation. The system may also include a probe connected to the flexible tether, and the signal processor may calculate the orientation of the probe from the sensor position factor.
US08437965B2
Techniques for sensing chemicals in aqueous environments, and systems configured for sensing chemicals in aqueous environments are provided. More particularly, techniques and systems for detecting a presence or absence of aromatic chemicals in aqueous environments are provided. An example may include receiving emitted light from a first port of an optical circulator, reflecting at least a portion of the received emitted light to produce reflected light, and transmitting the reflected light from the second port of the optical circulator. The reflected light may be produced, at least in part, by an interaction of chemicals and an array of photonic silica of the second port.
US08437964B2
The present invention is generally related to the separation, fractionation, and/or characterization of molecules and/or biomolecules in one or more mixtures. After fractionation, different phases of a partitioning system can be analyzed via an analytical technique such as spectral analysis, chromatography, or the like, to produce a spectrum or other symbolic representation of the species after fractionation, and the spectra of the various fractions/phases compared to define a comparative spectrum as a marker or otherwise providing information about the sample, including such information that is independent of the original level of abundance of the molecules in the mixture. Comparative spectra of various samples can be compared to each other and/or to controls or reference spectra and/or comparative spectra to determine a variety of information. In some embodiments, the methods can be used for discovering and/or identifying patterns in a mixture of species and/or corresponding patterns of species in a second mixture, where each mixture of species originates from biological systems with different physiological conditions as markers associated with specific diagnostics, and can be used for screening for such markers once discovered and identified during diagnostics screening.
US08437963B2
A method enables clinical decision support based on test results for a plurality of tested biomarkers. The method is executed by a data reduction module (15) and comprises the steps of receiving the test results from a testing facility (11); accessing a predefined structure in which available biomarkers are associated with hosts, at least one host being associated with a plurality of biomarkers; identifying a set of hosts by mapping the tested biomarkers to the structure; assigning a host value to each host in said set of hosts based on the test results of the tested biomarker(s) mapped to the host; and providing input data indicative of the set of hosts and the assigned host values for input to a computer-based decision engine (13) for generating the clinical decision support (12). The data reduction module (15) may be included in a system and implemented by computer-executable instructions running on a data processing device, such as a PC or a web server.
US08437958B2
A method for providing wireless connection conditions to a mobile vehicle, including receiving navigation route information at a call center; determining wireless connection conditions associated with the received route; and transmitting a message including wireless connection conditions associated with the navigation route to the mobile vehicle. Another example provides a computer usable medium and program code, including program code for receiving navigation route information at a call center; program code for determining wireless connection conditions associated with the received route; and program code for transmitting a message including wireless connection conditions. Another example provides a system including means for receiving navigation route information at a call center, means for determining wireless connection conditions associated with the received navigation route, and means for transmitting a message including wireless connection conditions.
US08437953B2
A navigation apparatus associates a tentative searching condition for searching for a tentative route with each of a plurality of server searching conditions which are used by a route distribution server to search for a server route from a departure point to a destination. The navigation apparatus includes a tentative route searcher which searches for the tentative route under the tentative searching condition that is associated with one of the server searching conditions which is sent to the route distribution server.
US08437949B2
A method of characterizing an airborne spacing operation is provided. The method includes determining, using a computer, a spacing tolerance based on a performance objective for the spacing operation, determining, using a computer, a minimum state data level and a minimum speed performance level based on the spacing tolerance, determining, using a computer, an airborne functionality required to meet the performance objective, and providing, using a computer, a required interval management performance (RIMP) category for the airborne spacing operation, the RIMP category specifying the spacing tolerance, the minimum state data level, the minimum speed performance level, and the airborne functionality.
US08437947B2
An apparatus is for guiding a vehicle traveling of a vehicle by using information technology infrastructures. The apparatus includes: a control terminal for controlling the vehicle traveling; sensing devices that collect circumstance information of guidance areas desirous of guiding the vehicle by using the information technology infrastructures provided on the guidance areas; and a server device that recognizes a circumstance of the guidance areas to create a guidance route based on the collected circumstance information by the sensing device so that the control terminal controls the vehicle to travel along the guidance route.
US08437931B2
A method for performing gear shifting by engaging a coupling element with a gear wheel includes moving the coupling element relative to the gear wheel from a disengaged position to an engaged position, in which a particular gear is selected. A speed of the coupling element relative to a speed of the gear wheel is controlled during movement of the coupling element so that a speed difference is maintained until the coupling element reaches the engaged position.
US08437928B2
A method for operating a multi-step automatic transmission arranged in a drive train of a vehicle with a combustion engine. When downshifting from the third gear ratio to a second gear ratio, higher inertia must be shifted than when shifting from the third gear ratio to the first gear ratio. Upon a demand for a coasting downshift from the third gear ratio to the second gear ratio or to the first gear ratio with no performance demand on the combustion engine, the coasting downshift to the second gear ratio is not executed and the first gear ratio is engaged when the requirements for downshifting to the first gear ratio are met.
US08437925B2
A leveling control system and method for heavy equipment, in which a lower frame having a traveling unit and an upper frame are combined together by a tilting unit, includes a sensor unit, provided in the equipment, for measuring twist angles of the lower frame and the upper frame against a reference horizontal surface and a traveling speed of the equipment, and detecting working state information of working devices; a control unit for receiving the twist angles, the traveling speed, and the working state information, calculating a correction angle for the leveling control of the upper frame, and generating a control signal for instructing an operation of an actuator in accordance with the correction angle; and a driving unit for performing the leveling through the actuator in accordance with the control signal received therein.
US08437923B2
A rotation drive control unit configured to control the driving of the rotation mechanism of a construction machine driven to rotate by an electric motor includes a speed command output part configured to output a speed command controlling the rotation speed of the electric motor based on the amount of operation input via the operation part of the construction machine; a torque direction detection part configured to detect the direction of torque applied on the rotation shaft of the rotation mechanism; and a drive control part configured to generate a drive command driving the electric motor based on the speed command output from the speed command output part and to control the driving of the electric motor, wherein in starting rotation of the rotation mechanism, the drive control part starts driving the electric motor using the drive command if the direction of the rotation represented by the speed command output from the speed command output part and the direction of the torque detected by the torque direction detection part are opposite directions.
US08437922B2
A method and system for monitoring and predicting failure in pumps on operating vehicles is disclosed. The method may comprise measuring a plurality of a pressure drops across an orifice in a case drain line of a vehicle operating in drive gear, determining an actual case drain flow rate for each measured pressure drop, selecting a plurality of the actual case drain flow rates, estimating for each selected actual case drain flow rate an estimated flow rate for the case drain line and displaying the difference between the actual case drain flow rate and the estimated flow rate for each selected actual case drain flow rate.
US08437912B2
A high efficiency vehicle propulsion system to propel a vehicle using a hydraulic motor pump functioning as motor connected to the vehicle wheels. Vehicle braking and deceleration energy is recaptured using the same hydraulic motor pump functioning as a pump and stored in an inertia wheel configured as a gyroscope. Energy is stored in and retrieved from the inertia wheel by the use of a hydraulic motor pump functioning as a motor to store energy in the inertia wheel of the gyroscope or as a pump or to retrieve energy from the inertial wheel of the gyroscope. Energy to serve the system is derived from the use of a small engine running infrequently and intermittently. Additional energy is retrieved by the use of an active shock absorption system. Energy management and vehicle propulsion are controlled by a central computer processing signals derived from action of an on-board operator, an on-board program of from a remote source. Vehicle roll over accidents are inhibited by the use of the inertial stability of the gyroscope to prevent excessive vehicle roll attitude.
US08437910B2
A first DC/DC converter is connected to a higher-voltage output terminal of a rectifier by alternator wiring, a battery that supplies electric power to an on-board load is connected to the first DC/DC converter, a second DC/DC converter is connected to the higher-voltage output terminal of the rectifier by alternator wiring, and an electrical double-layer capacitor is connected to the second DC/DC converter.
US08437907B2
In a method for determining a roadway state (STATE) of a roadway on which a vehicle (10) is travelling which has at least one wheel (14) and an acceleration sensor (24) which is assigned to the wheel (14), in order to determine a vertical component of an acceleration of the wheel (14), a characteristic value which is representative of the roadway state (STATE) is determined as a function of a measured signal (AC_VERT) of the acceleration sensor (18).
US08437906B2
A method for creating a maintenance release (MR) record containing operational status information for a mobile platform. The method may involve electronically accessing a database to acquire operational items relating to operational worthiness of the mobile platform, displaying the selected operational items to the user; and performing a synchronization check of the database system. The synchronization check verifies that the selected operational items represent the most recently stored information in the database system.
US08437902B2
A technical information management device includes an information manager, a data manager, a user interface builder, and a vehicle technical information database. The information manager accesses the database in order to provide a segment of the vehicle technical information to the user interface builder. The data manager receives conditioned input data from a vehicle diagnostic tool and sends it to the user interface builder. The user interface builder includes a graphics generator and a display screen formatter. The graphics generator converts the vehicle diagnostic data into graphical coordinate data and the display screen formatter formats the graphical coordinate data for real time display in a digital multimeter mode or in a scope mode. The user interface builder further can display a dual-display screen wherein half of the screen is a vehicle diagnostic data display and the other half of the screen displays vehicle technical information.
US08437899B2
A method of programming parameters of a power driven wheelchair for a plurality of drive modes comprises: displaying a menu image on an interactive display screen, the menu image including settings of a plurality of wheelchair parameters for a plurality of drive modes of the wheelchair; selecting a wheelchair parameter for a drive mode from the displayed menu image; and programming the setting of the selected wheelchair parameter to a desired setting.
US08437898B2
In a vehicle control for a vehicle that includes: an internal combustion engine; a vehicle-driving rotary electric machine that generates drive force on a drive wheel; and an electricity storage device that supplies electric power to the vehicle-driving rotary electric machine, the internal combustion engine includes an exhaust passageway, a catalyst provided in the exhaust passageway, and a heater device that heats the catalyst by using electric power from the electricity storage device. The vehicle control includes determining whether an execution condition that a state of the drive wheel is changing between a slipping state and a gripped state is satisfied; and executing a control for causing the electric power generated by the vehicle-driving rotary electric machine to be consumed by the heater device if the execution condition is satisfied.
US08437897B2
A method for controlling an electrical machine of a hybrid drive includes: ascertaining at least one operating parameter value of the electrical machine; identifying an error, if the at least one operating parameter value does not correspond to the standard state of an operating parameter; and at least partially restricting the operation of the electrical machine as a propulsion unit if an identified error exists. The electrical machine is operated at least temporarily as a starter when an identified error exists, independently of the operation of the electrical machine as a propulsion unit.
US08437896B2
An HV_ECU executes a program including the steps of: determining whether or not an EV switch is turned on until a monitoring timer expires when a system startup switch is turned on, latching the ON state of the EV switch if the EV switch is turned on and confirming an EV mode request on system startup, detecting various state quantities of a vehicle, and starting up a system in an EV mode without starting an engine if an EV mode prohibiting condition is unsatisfied.
US08437895B2
A marine vessel control apparatus is arranged and programmed to control a propulsion device including an engine and a propulsion device control unit. The marine vessel control apparatus includes a starter switch arranged to be operated by an operator to start the engine, and a main control unit arranged and programmed to receive a start command from the starter switch and to communicate with the propulsion device control unit. The main control unit includes a stand-by unit arranged to, when receiving the start command from the starter switch, stand by until information for determination of a predetermined start permission condition is acquired from the propulsion device control unit, a determining unit arranged to, after the information is acquired, determine if the start permission condition is met, and an engine start command unit arranged to, if the start permission condition is met, provide an engine start command to the propulsion device control unit.
US08437891B2
A method is described that involves determining a higher altitude wind. The method further includes determining a wind model with the higher altitude wind. The wind model includes a linear or logarithmic increase in wind magnitude with increasing altitude beneath the higher altitude. The method further includes determining locations of a flight path for a parafoil based on calculations that use the wind model. The calculations are performed by an electronic control unit that is transported by the parafoil. The method also includes controlling the parafoil's flight path consistently with the determined locations. The controlling is performed by the control unit.
US08437884B2
A control system for a vehicle includes a period determination module and a motion detection module. The period determination module determines a period for the vehicle to travel a predetermined distance based on a desired transmission output shaft speed (TOSS), a target transmission output shaft position, a final drive ratio of the vehicle, and a tire size of the vehicle. The motion detection module detects whether the vehicle is moving based on the TOSS during the determined period.
US08437879B2
Therefore, the illustrative embodiments provide a computer implemented method and system for providing an application of a resource to plants. A plurality of per plant prescriptions for a plurality of plants are received and a source is selected to fulfill the plurality of per plant prescriptions to form a selected source. Movement of a mobile utility vehicle is controlled to the selected source, the resource is obtained, and movement of the mobile utility vehicle is controlled to each plant in the plurality of plants. The resource is applied from the mobile utility vehicle to each plant according to the per plant prescription.
US08437872B2
An apparatus (4) for the distribution of cards on paper carriers allows easier control and reading steps on the cards, without slowing down the coupling process, and includes a card conveying line, on which are provided: a first section (44) wherein the cards (100) translate in a substantially vertical arrangement, the apparatus (4) including at least one card control and/or reading station (41) thereat; and a second section wherein the cards translate in a substantially horizontal arrangement and wherein an element for coupling (49) cards to a paper carrier is operated.
US08437869B1
A system trains a first model to identify portions of electronic media streams based on first attributes of the electronic media streams and/or trains a second model to identify labels for identified portions of the electronic media streams based on at least one of second attributes of the electronic media streams, feature information associated with the electronic media streams, or information regarding other portions within the electronic media streams. The system inputs an electronic media stream into the first model, identifies, by the first model, portions of the electronic media stream, inputs the electronic media stream and information regarding the identified portions into the second model, and/or determines, by the second model, human recognizable labels for the identified portions.
US08437868B2
A parametric description describing the wideness of a non-point sound source is generated and linked with the audio signal of said sound source. A presentation of said non-point sound source by multiple decorrelated point sound sources at different positions is defined. Different diffuseness algorithms are applied for ensuring a decorrelation of the respective outputs. According to a further embodiment primitive shapes of several distributed uncorellated sound sources are defined, e.g. a box, a sphere and a cylinder. The width of a sound source can also be defined by an opening-angle relative to the listener. Furthermore, the primitive shapes can be combined to do more complex shapes.
US08437864B2
A medical electrical lead that includes a lead body and at least one tubular electrode sub-assembly positioned over and attached to the lead body. The lead body includes at least one elongated conductive element, such as a cable, that is electrically connected to a coiled electrode of the tubular electrode sub-assembly. The tubular electrode sub-assembly includes a tubular liner and an electrode embedded in the outer surface of the liner. In some embodiments, only a portion of the inner surface of the tubular liner is attached to the lead body in order to improve flexibility of the medical electrode lead in the area occupied by the tubular electrode sub-assembly.
US08437855B2
Connector assemblies for use with implantable medical devices having easy to assemble contacts are disclosed. The connector assemblies are generally formed by coupling a plurality of ring contacts, sealing rings, and spring contact elements together with at least one holding ring to form a connector having a common bore fore receiving a medical lead cable. Contact grooves or spring chambers for positioning the spring contact elements are formed in part by assembling multiple components together.
US08437853B2
An implantable medical device (IMD) may include a lead circuit including a first node configured to be coupled to a first lead that may be coupled to a first target tissue and including a second node configured to be coupled to a second lead that may be coupled to a second target tissue. The IMD may include an impedance unit that may determine at least one characteristic of coupled energy associated with the lead circuit, where the coupled energy may be produced by a source external to the IMD. The impedance unit may provide an impedance between the first node and the second node, where the impedance is selected based at least in part on a characteristic of the coupled energy. The impedance is selected to reduce the coupled energy or a negative effect associated with functionality of the IMD induced by the coupled energy.
US08437849B2
An implantable cardioverter/defibrillator (ICD) delivers atrial pacing under several scenarios during a tachyarrhythmia episode that is detected using a ventricular rate. In various embodiments, the atrial pacing terminates the detected tachyarrhythmia and/or enhances the classification of the detected tachyarrhythmia, thus avoiding ineffective and/or unnecessary delivery of a ventricular anti-tachyarrhythmia therapy when the detected tachyarrhythmia has a supraventricular origin.
US08437842B2
A medical device and associated method obtaining cardiac event intervals corresponding to a tachycardia interval. Evidence of a rhythm breaking point is obtained in response to sensing a cardiac event having a morphology corresponding to a supraventricular beat. A non-treatable rhythm is detected in response to the plurality of cardiac event intervals and the evidence of the rhythm breaking point.
US08437838B2
Methods, systems, and devices for signal analysis in an implanted cardiac monitoring and treatment device such as an implantable cardioverter defibrillator. In illustrative examples, sensed data including detected events is analyzed to identify likely overdetection of cardiac events. In some illustrative examples, when overdetection is identified, data may be modified to correct for overdetection, to reduce the impact of overdetection, or to ignore overdetected data.
US08437837B2
An implantable medical device and associated method assesses T-wave alternans. The method includes sensing a cardiac signal from implanted electrodes subsequent to a premature contraction; measuring a T-wave parameter from the sensed cardiac signal for a plurality of cardiac cycles; and determining a T-wave alternans metric corresponding to the measured T-wave parameter.
US08437836B2
A diagnostic imaging device includes detector elements (16) for detecting y-rays indicative of nuclear decay events. Pairs of concurrently detected γ-rays define lines of response (LORs) which are collected, time stamped, and compiled in list-mode. In tissue perfusion studies, it is beneficial to use the data that concurrently maximizes contrast and signal-to-noise ratio in the reconstructed images. Using the list-mode data, events in an adjustable temporal window (33) are reconstructed and the reconstructed images are analyzed to determine a figure of merit based on contrast and signal-to-noise properties of the image. By iteratively adjusting the temporal window, extending its start point (36) backwards in time, and repeating the reconstructing, analyzing, and adjusting steps, an image with an optimal figure of merit is obtained.
US08437833B2
A system and method places a percutaneous gastrostomy device into a body cavity of a patient using a magnetic gastrostomy tube and a medical detection sensing device. The magnetic gastrostomy tube has a ferromagnetic element attached to its distal end. Various embodiments allow a needle to be passed from the magnetic detection sensing device outside the patient toward a magnetic gastrostomy tube inside the patient or, alternatively, from the magnetic gastrostomy tube inside the patient toward the magnetic detection sensing device outside the patient. After a needle makes a hole between the outside of the patient and the body cavity, a medical wire may be passed through the hole, and the medical wire can then be used to place the percutaneous gastrostomy device.
US08437832B2
A medical probe includes a flexible insertion tube, having a distal end for insertion into a body cavity of a patient, and a distal tip, which is disposed at the distal end of the insertion tube and is configured to be brought into contact with tissue in the body cavity. A coupling member couples the distal tip to the distal end of the insertion tube and includes a tubular piece of an elastic material having a helical cut therethrough along a portion of a length of the piece.
US08437822B2
There is provided a system and method for estimating blood analyte concentration using a non-invasive medical device. The method includes detecting light from a plurality of light sources and generating signals representative of observed absorption of the light from the plurality of light sources. Blood analyte concentrations are then estimated using support vector regression analysis.
US08437813B2
A wireless communication device has a docking cavity, a short-range transceiver, and a long-range transceiver for long-range wireless communication with a wireless network. A wireless communication module includes a speaker and a microphone, and a short-range transceiver for short-range wireless communication with the device's short-range transceiver. The module is configured to operate in first and second modes. In the first mode, the module is separated from the communication device. In the second mode, the module is mounted in the cavity. In both modes, communication between a user and the network is conducted through the module's microphone and speaker, both short-range transceivers and the long-range transceiver.
US08437808B2
Various embodiments for providing enhanced power savings in mobile computing devices are described. In one or more embodiments, a mobile computing device may monitor the battery power level remaining. The mobile computing device may select a wireless connection type for an application based on Quality of Service (QoS) requirements of the application and the amount of battery power remaining. The mobile computing device may switch the application from a higher QoS wireless connection type to a lower QoS wireless connection type when the battery power falls below a threshold. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US08437801B2
The present invention provides for a UICC interface and related interfacing method, for use in a mobile radio communications device and including an element enabling the UICC to provide an indication that at least one service requiring location data is present in the UICC, an element for UICC to receive notification that a source of location data is available, an element for allowing the UICC to initiate transfer of location data thereto, an element for the actual transfer of the location data to the UICC, and an element enabling the UICC to terminate the transfer of the location data, and wherein the location data can be provided from a GPS module or remotely in a contact-less manner.
US08437799B2
System and method for temporarily reconfiguring a communications system to provide selected services
A system and method for temporarily reconfiguring a communications system to provide selected services are provided. A method for temporarily providing selected services by a cell of a communications system includes receiving a first command, changing an operating mode of the cell responsive to the first command, and indicating the operating mode to a first selected device and a first non-selected device. The cell operating in the operating mode serves the first selected device based on the first command, and the first non-selected device is a selected device prior to the change in the operating mode and is capable of accessing the cell before the cell changes the operating mode responsive to the first command and is not capable of accessing the cell after the cell changes the operating mode responsive to the first command.
US08437797B2
A system and method for distributing at least one digital photographic image is presented, the system and method comprising at least one capturing device and at least one receiving device disposed in a communicative relation with one another via at least one wireless network. In particular, the capturing device is structured to capture the at least one digital photographic image via, for example, a capture assembly, whereas the receiving device is cooperatively structured to receive the digital photographic image via, for example, the at least one wireless network. In addition, the capturing device(s) and receiving device(s) may be disposed in a selectively paired relationship via one or more common pre-defined pairing criteria. Further, the at least one digital photographic image may be filtered via at least one pre-defined transfer criteria disposed on the capturing device and/or receiving device.
US08437796B2
A transmission level control method in a wireless local loop system capable of suppressing occurrence of an unnecessarily high transmission level, comprises a step of generating a required reception level corresponding to a classification of data, a step of detecting the reception level of data at a receiver side transceiver apparatus, a step of finding a level difference between the detected reception level and the required reception level corresponding to the classification of the related received data, and a step of controlling a change of the transmission level at a transmitter side transceiver apparatus according to this level difference.
US08437795B2
System and methods for intercell coordination are provided. The system includes a macro terminal and a macro base station that allocate a radio resource for a sounding signal and determine a pattern of a sounding signal, in advance. The macro base station provides a femto base station included in the system with information about the pattern of the sounding signal, and the information about the radio resource of the sounding signal. The femto base station may receive the sounding signal from the macro terminal based on the information, and thus, the femto base station may determine whether the macro terminal exists and may determine a channel between the macro terminal and the femto base station.
US08437794B2
Example embodiments are directed to a method of determining an uplink target signal-to-interference-and-noise ratio (SINR). In one embodiment, the method includes determining the uplink target SINR for a user equipment (UE) based on a downlink signal-to-interference ratio (SIR). The downlink SIR is determined based on a channel quality indication (CQI) index received from the user equipment.
US08437785B2
A communication apparatus includes: an e-mail creating unit configured to create the e-mail with specifying an e-mail address of a destination; an e-mail transmitting/receiving unit configured to transmit/receive the e-mail; a display unit provided with a received mail display area for displaying a received e-mail set if necessary and a created mail display area for displaying an e-mail being created; and a control unit configured to set the received mail display area and display the received e-mail if the e-mail is received during creating the e-mail and the e-mail address of a sender of the received e-mail matches with the e-mail address of the destination of the e-mail being created.
US08437784B2
A system and method to enable a user to initiate a communication with an organization using a mobile communication device by means of a trigger system. A system and method to enable an organization to acquire a user mobile device address by means of a trigger system. A system and method to enable an organization to respond to a user by means of a trigger system and a message application server. A system and method to enable organizations to deliver mobile messages, coupons, offers and promotions to users mobile device by means of a combination of a trigger system, a message application server and an offer application.
US08437771B1
A user of a wireless device logs onto the computer system via the wireless device, a land based telephone, a computer, or other communication means via the Internet, land based telephone lines, or other communication devices. The user identifies himself or herself by the logging on process and then communicates with the computer system by inputting certain information into computer screens. Parents will have certain controls available to them to either preselect what their children will have access to at a subsequent log on or will be able to prevent their children from having access to certain material. After the user logs on to the system, the user will be able to determine what communications he or she will receive.
US08437768B2
A method for balancing the distribution of interference between radio cells in a wireless communication system including cells in which subcarrier blocks are used for communication, a number of adjacent cells building a cell cluster. A corresponding method is for use in a system using multi beam antennas or multiple antennas. Base stations perform the above method and a communication system includes the base stations. To reduce the large average SIR variations without causing additional SIR estimation, measurement and calculation problem as introduced with power control, subcarrier blocks are grouped into a plurality of subcarrier block sets in each cell of a cell cluster, to determine transmission power levels for each of the cells of the cell cluster, and to assign transmission power levels to the subcarrier block sets.
US08437761B2
The present invention provides a method and system for facilitating efficient handoff and data throughput in mobile broadband communication systems. Methods implemented by a system constructed in accordance with the principles of the present invention include selectively enabled soft handoff, performing Layer 2 bearer functions at the base station and using the mobile device to coordinate soft handoff and interference avoidance without the need for a centralized coordination function.
US08437755B2
The present invention relates to a transmission rate control method for controlling a transmission rate of user data transmitted from a mobile station to a radio base station, including: notifying, from a radio network controller to the radio base station, a transmission rate difference or a transmission rate ratio between a transmission rate of a mobile station performing a soft handover and a transmission rate of a mobile station not performing the soft handover, the soft handover performed between the mobile station and the radio base station under the radio network controller; and controlling, at the radio base station, the transmission rate of each mobile station according to the notified transmission rate difference or the notified transmission rate ratio.
US08437751B2
An apparatus for providing confirmed OTA terminal configuration includes a processing element configured to communicate configuration data to a mobile terminal. The processing element is also configured to initiate a confirmation sequence to confirm proper receipt of the configuration data at the mobile terminal, and to receive information indicating whether the configuration data was properly received at the mobile terminal.
US08437745B2
A system for registering a mobile device located in a network outside a device's home network is described. In some examples, the system receives a message including contents associated with a location of the mobile device, and extracts the contents of the received message. The system matches the extracted contents to one or more rules associated with an adjustment of subscriber data within a registration database for the home network, adjusts the data, and registers the mobile device having the adjusted data.
US08437743B2
The invention relates to a method in an Access Network Discovery and Selection Function, ANDSF, node for distributing Closed Subscriber Group information. The CSG information comprises an Allowed CSG List of a first UE and cell information indicating position of a cell with controlled access associated to the Allowed CSG List. The method comprises retrieving an Allowed CSG List of the radio cell from a CSG Database over a first network 10 interface (CSGi) between the ANDSF node and the CSG Database. Furthermore, the ANDSF node triggers the first UE to establish a connection to the ANDSF node over a second network interface (ANDSFi) between the ANDSF node (90) and the first UE. In addition, the ANDSF node receives cell information indicating the position of the cell with controlled access and the Allowed CSG List is sent to the first UE.
US08437742B2
Systems and methods for implementing a location token service (LTS) to enhance the security of mobile device identity tokens by using the location of the mobile device to augment the tokens. The LTS enforces re-authentication (login) of the mobile device to one or more applications if the mobile device moves beyond a threshold distance from the location of the last use of the token within a time period defined in a temporal threshold. The LTS increases authentication strength and drastically reduces the potential for spoofing or otherwise permitting unauthorized access to one or more applications on the mobile device.
US08437739B2
A method and apparatus for generating a cryptosync is disclosed that generates a cryptosync with the desired variability without the overhead in complexity and size of prior cryptosyncs. The cryptosync is generated from a combination of fields including fields relating to the segmentation and reassembly of the data packets at a transmitting terminal and a receiving terminal. The resultant cryptosync does not repeat during the use of a particular security key.
US08437726B2
The present disclosure is directed to a unit phase mixer in combination with an input buffer. The unit phase mixer has a pull-up path for pulling an output terminal up to a first voltage. The pull-up path has a first transistor responsive to a first enable signal and a series connected second transistor responsive to a first clock signal. The unit phase mixer has a pull-down path for pulling the output terminal down to a second voltage. The pull-down path has a third transistor responsive to a second clock signal and a series connected fourth transistor responsive to a second enable signal. The input buffer skews the first and second clock signals by different amounts to enable a break-before-make method of operation so that the first voltage is not connected to the second voltage. The unit phase mixer can be used as a building block in more complex mixers which may include the ability to weight the input clocks as well as providing feed-forward paths for certain of the signals. Because of the rules governing abstract, this abstract should not be used to construe the claims.
US08437725B2
Process for controlling the switching of the data rate at a digital interface exchanging data and control messages between a Radio Frequency (RF) circuit and a digital circuit, comprising the steps of: setting by default the data rate to a low speed (LS) rate having a density presenting a first lobe being inferior to the frequency band considered in said RF circuit so as to prevent desensitization of the LNAs by the noise produced by said digital interface; storing the data and control messages message into a FIFO and monitoring the level of said FIFO; whenever the level of said FIFO reaches a predetermined threshold value, then controlling said interface to switch to a second high speed (HS) rate in order to flush said FIFO. In one embodiment, the LS frequency is set to a value of 832 MHz, thus preventing simultaneously desensitization of the GSM band and also the GPS band.
US08437722B2
A transceiver includes a receiver section and a transmitter section. The receiver section converts an inbound Multiple Frequency Bands Multiple Standards (MFBMS) signal into a down converted signal, wherein the inbound MFBMS signal includes a desired signal component and an undesired signal component. In addition, the receiver section determines spectral positioning of the undesired signal component with respect to the desired signal component and adjusts at least one of the MFBMS signal and the down converted signal based on the spectral positioning to substantially reduce adverse affects of the undesired signal component on the desired signal component to produce an adjusted signal. The transmitter section converts an outbound symbol stream into an outbound MFBMS signal.
US08437718B2
A wireless device includes an antenna, Radio Frequency (RF) circuitry, and baseband processing circuitry. The baseband processing circuitry couples to the RF circuitry and is operable to determine operational calibrations settings that may include pre-distortion characteristics and RF signal path settings, both of which are determined via calibration operations. The calibration operations are initiated when an operational value of the wireless device compares unfavorably to at least one operational threshold. Monitoring circuitry coupled to the RF circuitry and to the baseband processing circuitry monitors operational characteristics of the RF circuitry. Calibration operations may be initiated based upon RF circuitry temperature, supply voltage, PA current, PA gain input level/average, among other triggers.
US08437716B2
A broadcast receiver includes a tuner circuit and a demodulator circuit. The tuner circuit tunes a radio frequency (RF) signal to output an intermediate frequency (IF) signal. The demodulator circuit demodulates the IF signal from the tuner circuit and outputs a command signal based on the quality of the IF signal, for changing a take over point (TOP) value, preset in the tuner circuit, at which one amplitude gain control (AGC) stopping and another taking over. A method for regulating a broadcast receiver is also disclosed herein.
US08437703B2
A radio communication apparatus includes a characteristic data extraction unit receiving a radio signal from one or more radio stations and calculating characteristic data representing a waveform characteristic indicating statistical properties of the received signal; a characteristic data determination unit determining at least one characteristic data based on one or more calculated characteristic data; a signal generation unit converting a signal for a radio transmission into a signal having a format corresponding to the determined characteristic data, and generating a transmission signal having a characteristic waveform based on the characteristic data; and a transmission unit transmitting the transmission signal.
US08437697B2
Embodiments for methods and apparatuses for processing a multi-carrier signal are disclosed. One method includes shaping a frequency spectrum of a multi-carrier transmit signal wherein an amplitude of a plurality of subcarriers of the multi-carrier transmit signal is increased relative to at least one other subcarrier of the multi-carrier transmit signal. The shaped frequency spectrum multi-carrier transmit signal is amplified with a power amplifier, wherein a power level of an output of the power amplifier is greater than a rated power level of the power amplifier.
US08437695B2
An inductive signal interface comprises a coil assembly including one or more inductive coils, a bridge circuit including a plurality of switches, and control circuitry. The control circuitry is configured to individually operate the plurality of switches to enable the inductive signal interface to dynamically switch between a power-transmit mode and a power receive mode.
US08437693B2
A wireless communications device comprises a communication receiver and a positioning system receiver in the wireless mobile communication device. An absolute time signal is received at the positioning system. A network time signal is received at the communication receiver of the wireless mobile communication device. A controller is in signal communication with the position system receiver and the communication receiver. The controller is configured to determine an offset of the absolute time signal from the network time signal and generates a timing mark. The timing mark is tagged by the positioning system receiver with an internal clock value wherein the timing mark has a known relationship with the absolute time signal. A memory stores the offset of the absolute time signal from the network time signal. A transmitter in the wireless mobile communication device transmits the offset for receipt by another wireless mobile communication device.
US08437692B2
A radio coverage extender is provided for extending the radio range of a wireless network node embedded in a user terminal, for example a ZigBee node integrated on the SIM card of a mobile phone. The radio coverage extender may include: a radio signal repeater operable to receive radio signals from the wireless network node and to retransmit the received signals externally to the user terminal, and a power supply module operable to scavenge electrical energy from electromagnetic fields in which it happens to be immersed and to store the scavenged electrical energy for supplying the stored power to the radio signal repeater. The radio coverage extender is adapted to be included in a user terminal, for example it can be a flexible, pliable film attachable to a user terminal battery.
US08437689B2
Systems and methods provide for the selective prevention of data transfer from a medical device to allow the patient to have privacy when desired. These systems and methods provide medical devices that can be instructed to stop recording data and/or transmitting data to external devices and systems. These systems and methods also provide external repeater devices that can be instructed to stop recording data being received, stop forwarding data that is being or has already been received, and/or to stop soliciting data from the medical device. These systems and methods also provide for a blocking device that may be separate from the medical device and repeater to prevent data transfer such as by stopping the recording or transmission of data. The blocking device may be configured to provide a jamming signal to prevent data transmissions from being successfully communicated between the medical device and the repeater.
US08437684B2
In case of both sides printing, the sheet S having an image formed on the obverse surface is conveyed to the first reversal section of the reversal device 50 disposed in a reversal path R3. In the first reversal section, the sheet S is conveyed to a U-turn reversal path by the reversal roller 56 with the first side section of the sheet S as the leading edge section. In the U-turn reversal path, a position of the first side surface section and a position of the second side surface section of the sheet S are exchanged and the sheet S is conveyed to the second reversal section. In the second reversal section, the sheet having been turned over is fed again to the register rollers 16 with a leading edge section at image forming on the obverse surface as the leading edge side. Whereby the same edge of the sheet S contacts with the register rollers 16 when the image is formed on the obverse side and when the image is formed on the reverse side.
US08437681B2
In a method or system for controlling a printer or copier, a separation of a position mark printed on a web-shaped carrier material in a longitudinal direction of the carrier material relative to a transverse fold present in the carrier material is preset as a parameter. Arrival of the position mark is monitored with a sensor arrangement arranged before a transfer printing area while the carrier material is moved past the sensor arrangement. A real position of the transverse fold is determined for a position of arrival of the position mark at the sensor arrangement. The transverse fold is conveyed to a desired position by consideration of the real position of the transverse fold.
US08437675B2
A fixing device includes a pressing member pressed against a fixing member to form a nip between the pressing member and the fixing member through which a recording medium bearing a toner image passes. A heater support provided inside the fixing member supports a laminated heater. The laminated heater is provided between the fixing member and the heater support and includes a flexible, first heat generation sheet that includes an insulating base layer, at least one resistant heat generation layer provided on the base layer to generate heat, and at least one electrode layer provided on the base layer to supply power to the at least one resistant heat generation layer.
US08437664B2
A development apparatus and a printer that includes the development apparatus employ a flow director to regulate fluid flow in the apparatus. The apparatus includes a first roller, a chamber, and a pair of electrodes between the first roller and the chamber. The apparatus further includes a second roller adjacent to the first roller, wherein the flow director is between the second roller and a first electrode of the pair. The flow director includes an overflow flow path to divert some fluid from a recirculation flow path that extends to and from the chamber. The printer includes an imager in contact with an image developer and an image transferer in contact with the imager. The image developer includes a plurality of development apparati.
US08437653B2
A system for cooling a developer roll inside an image forming device. In one embodiment of the invention, the system for cooling the developer roll includes an air duct for carrying an airflow, the air duct having at least one opening to allow airflow to pass therethrough, and at least one toner cartridge in fluid communication with the air duct. The at least one toner cartridge includes the developer roll and at least one input port. The at least one input port is coupled to the at least one opening of the air duct to receive the airflow and to direct the received airflow towards end portions of the developer roll via a conduit and nozzles located within the toner cartridge. The system provides an effective way for introducing the airflow into the toner cartridge for cooling the developer roll.
US08437651B2
Disclosed is an image forming apparatus, which makes it possible to visually recognize a suitable time when an operator should stay at the machine side, even if a reserved job includes a job continuous implementation impeding factor. The image forming apparatus includes: an image forming section to implement the reserved job; an operating section to accept operations for inputting a plurality of reserved jobs; a controlling section to extract a specific reserved job, which includes the job continuous implementation impeding factor, from the plurality of reserved jobs inputted through the operating section, so as to set discrimination information representing the job continuous implementation impeding factor into the specific reserved job; and a displaying section to display the specific reserved job to which the discrimination information is set and other reserved jobs to which the discrimination information is not set, on the same screen in a synopsis manner.
US08437645B2
An optical communication system (100; 2300) comprises at least a transmitter (110) apt to emit a differential phase shift keying (DPSK) optical signal having a bit-rate equal to R, at least a receiving system (1200) for receiving the differential phase shift keying optical signal; and an optical link (130) optically connecting the transmitter and the receiving system for transmitting the DPSK optical signal from the transmitter to the receiving system, wherein the receiving system comprises a coherent optical receiving device (1205) apt to coherently receive the propagated DPSK optical signal and to emit at least one electrical signal (I) related to the received DPSK optical signal, and wherein the receiving system further comprises at least one electrical filter (270) for filtering the at least one electrical signal and having −3 dB double-side bandwidth greater than or equal to 0.44 R and lower than or equal to 0.68 R, and at least one squarer (280) for squaring the at least one filtered electrical signal. A related method for optical communication is also disclosed.
US08437644B2
In general, optical communication systems and methods may implement a vestigial phase shift keying (PSK) modulation format to enable relatively high transmission rates with closer channel spacing and improved signal detection in a WDM optical communication system. A PSK modulated signal may be correlated with a phase shift, for example, using a delay line interferometer (DLI), to generate a vestigial PSK signal, which may be pre-filtered, combined, and transmitted in the WDM system. The correlation with a phase shift compresses and shifts the signal spectrum such that intersymbol interference (ISI) length may be reduced with minimal increase in the bit error rate (BER) when the vestigial PSK signal is detected.
US08437642B2
A method and apparatus are provided for attenuating an optical beam. The method includes selecting a level of attenuation to be applied to the optical beam. A pattern of on-state and off-state pixels in a two dimensional spatial light modulator (SLM) is selected such that the pattern will modulate the optical beam to provide the selected level of attenuation. Finally, the optical beam is directed onto the SLM while tile pixels are arranged in the selected pattern. The pattern is periodic along a first axis and symmetric along a second axis along which an intensity distribution of die optical beam extends.
US08437632B2
Systems and techniques for optical communications based on polarization division multiplexing are described.
US08437628B1
A process for heat treating selected portions of an integrally bladed rotor (IBR) having a plurality of blades, the process using an IBR on a fixture having a rotor engaging portion that moves the IBR into an environmental chamber. An IR heater is placed on one of the IBR blades and heat treated after air has been removed from the chamber and an inert gas is added. The IR heater is lifted from the blade and indexed to position another blade on the IBR. The process is repeated until all the IBR blades are heat treated.
US08437626B2
A type of mixed energy heater with constant temperature control, which belongs to the field of water heater technology. This water heater includes a gas heating portion, an electric heating portion, and a control circuit. The control circuit includes a power output controller. The electric heating portion is composed of water passage and electric heating device installed in the water passage. The water passages of the gas heating portion and the electric heating portion are connected together in series or in parallel, and the terminal of the passage is equipped with a temperature sensor. The output of the temperature sensor is connected to the signal input of the control circuit.
US08437623B2
A recording apparatus produces moving image data and still picture data from the moving image data. The recording apparatus (a) records a moving image file including the moving image data and first information on a recording medium, and (b) records a still picture file including the still picture data and second information on the recording medium. The first information indicates the still picture file and the second information indicates the moving image file. The recording apparatus (a) displays a reduced image of the moving image file and information indicating presence of the still picture file on a display device, if the recording apparatus is in a first mode, and (b) displays a reduced image of the still picture file and information indicating presence of the moving image file on the display device, if the recording apparatus is in a second mode.
US08437621B2
A digital recording and reproducing device (10) converts an MPEG stream output from a plurality of tuners (12) that can receive a plurality of television signals in accordance with a proper bit rate, resolution, and a compressing system. A server provides a time index with an identifier to identify program data and program corner data. The digital recording and reproducing device receives and records the identifier. A signal receiving unit (25) receives a reproduction signal of the program data from a controller and an input unit (28) that transmit an input signal related to reproduction of the program data. A control unit (18) detects an identifier of a time index corresponding to the reproduction signal received by the signal receiving unit (25) and program data related to the identifier are extracted from a recording means (17).
US08437620B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products that filter available content, produce a set of clean, discrete clips, and mix the clips to produce a package of content that matches a user's substantive preferences and conforms to a length and format specified by the user. Clips that do not match the user's preferences may be eliminated from use, as may be clips that have been viewed by the user previously. Moreover, the user can react to the received clips and judge them as to desirability and relevance to his or her preferences. These reactions may then become part of a user's set of preferences for generation of subsequent mixes.
US08437619B2
A method of modifying a digital data stream composed of a sequence of frames, where each frame represents an image and includes a data field specifying a presentation time stamp value for the frame. If there is a discontinuity in presentation time stamp value between a next frame and a first frame, a value representing a stream time stamp of interest is assigned to a variable for representing the value of the stream time stamp of interest at a point of discontinuity in presentation time stamp, and a value of the presentation time stamp is assigned to a variable for representing the first frame's clock time based on presentation time stamp, and the next frame is stored in a database using as an index the value representing a stream time stamp of interest.
US08437617B2
Described herein are methods and apparatus for the identification of locations in a presentation stream based on metadata associated with the presentation stream. Locations within a presentation stream are identified using location information and/or signature data associated with the presentation stream. The identified locations within a presentation stream may be utilized to identify boundaries of segments within the presentation stream, such as segments of a show. The boundaries of the segments may then be utilized to change the volume of segments or playback a segment at a non-real time presentation rate.
US08437614B2
A recording medium and a recording apparatus store manufacturer information to support specific functions for each manufacturer and a method therefore. A reproducing apparatus reproduces the manufacturer information to support specific functions. When the recording apparatus modifies the contents of the recording medium, the manufacturer's identification code is recorded. The recording apparatus and the reproducing apparatus checks the identification code on the recording medium before using its own manufacture information item for some specific function. Also, a time required to determine whether the manufacturer information items are effective is reduced.
US08437611B2
A computer-implemented method for slow-motion reproduction of video data including a plurality of frames stored on a storage device. The method includes receiving a frame from the plurality of frames stored on the storage device. The method further includes extracting at least one feature from the received frame. Additionally, the method includes comparing the at least one extracted feature with a plurality of pre-determined features. The method also includes reproducing the received frame at a slow-motion reproduction rate upon determination that the at least one extracted feature corresponds to at least one pre-determined feature from the plurality of pre-determined features. Further, the slow-motion reproduction rate is lower than a normal reproduction rate used for viewing the plurality of frames during normal playback.
US08437609B2
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.
US08437608B2
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.
US08437606B2
A storage medium is provided for storing metadata for providing an enhanced search function using various search keywords of audio-visual (AV) data. The storage medium stores: AV data; and metadata for conducting an enhanced search of the AV data by scene using information regarding at least one search keyword. The metadata may include information regarding an entry point and/or duration, angles, etc. of each scene. Hence, the enhanced search can be conducted using various search keywords. Further, search results can be reproduced according to diverse scenarios, and the enhanced search function can be provided for movie titles that support multiple angles or multiple paths. Moreover, metadata can be created in multiple languages, thereby enabling the enhanced search function to support multiple languages.
US08437604B2
To improve the convenience of a record medium and allow a record process and reproduction process to be more easily performed than before. When a clip edit list update process 121 that updates video data and audio data recorded on a disc 32 is executed, an index file management section 72 manages and updates an index file held in an index file hold section 51 as the video data and audio data are updated. At this point, a search section 92 searches disc internal IDs assigned to clips or edit lists contained in the index file for the maximum value. A disc internal ID generation section 91 generates a disc internal ID according to the maximum value. An index file management section 72 updates the index file with the disc internal ID generated by the disc internal ID generation section 91.
US08437599B2
A method of reproducing text subtitle streams, the method includes receiving at least one text subtitle stream from an external source, each text subtitle stream including a style segment defining a group of region styles and presentation segment, each presentation segment containing at least one region of text linked to a selected one of the group of region styles, wherein a current presentation segment contains a continuous presentation flag to indicate whether the continuous presentation is required between current presentation and previous presentation; and decoding the text subtitle stream using the presentation segment defining the continuous presentation flag.
US08437598B2
A resin composition is provided, which satisfies both an uncured layer flexibility requirement and a patterning resolution requirement for production of an optical waveguide by a roll-to-roll process. An optical waveguide produced by using the resin composition is also provided. The resin composition comprises: (A) an aromatic multifunctional epoxy polymer having a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of 500 to 5000; (B) an aromatic multifunctional epoxy polymer having a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of 10000 to 50000; (C) at least one of monofunctional, difunctional and trifunctional liquid aromatic epoxy monomers; and (D) a photoacid generator; wherein the components (A), (B) and (C) are present in proportions of 80 to 90 parts by weight, 5 to 15 parts by weight, and 1 to 10 parts by weight, respectively, based on a total of 100 parts by weight of the components (A), (B) and (C).
US08437597B2
Fiber optic shelf assemblies and furcation mounting structures for securing a plurality of furcation bodies of respective fiber optic cable assembles within the fiber optic shelf are disclosed. In one embodiment, the fiber optic shelf has a one-to-one correspondence between a plurality of respective modules and the respective fiber optic cable assemblies. Additionally, the fiber optic shelf assemblies and furcation mounting structures disclosed advantageously allow the mounting of a relatively large number of furcation bodies within the fiber optic shelf assembly for supporting relatively large fiber optic connections per 1 U rack space.
US08437593B2
There is provided a hybrid cable that comprises a coaxial cable with an outer conductor and a hollow inner conductor that encloses an inner space. The hybrid cable according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention may comprise a data line that is arranged in the inner space of the inner conductor.
US08437589B2
In an optical module, an optical element array is an array of optical elements. Further, a lens array is an array of a plurality of lenses. An output point of a light beam of each optical element of the optical element array is caused to coincide with a central line of a corresponding lens of the lens array, and the light beam is made incident on the lens and a parallel beam is output from the lens. When the output point of the light beam of the optical element coincides with an optical axis of the lens, an optical path within the optical element and the optical axis of the lens fail to coincide with each other.
US08437584B2
In fabricating an optical I/O array module, an optical waveguide provided with mirror parts, each having a tapered face, is formed on a substrate, a convex shaped member or a concave shaped member is placed at spots above the respective mirror parts of the optical waveguide, and laser diode arrays and photo diode arrays, provided with either a concave shape, or a convex shape, are mated with, or into the convex shaped member or the concave shaped member before being mounted. Further, there are formed multiple filmy layers, on which an LSI where a driver IC LSI of optical elements, and an amplifier LSI of the optical elements are integrated.
US08437575B2
A method for proactively creating a image-based product includes identifying a group of images and automatically creating a design for a image-based product without receiving a user's request if the number of images in the group is determined to be within a predetermined range. The image-based product incorporates a plurality of images in the group. The method further includes presenting the design of the image-based product to a user for preview and making a physical manifestation of the image-based product based on the design.
US08437572B2
A method for sharpness enhancing digital image data (ID), including: generating an intermediate processed image (IPI), in which uniform sections of the digital image data (ID) are cleaned from noise and in which at least one of a group consisting of contours, edges, wedges, structures and textures are detected, wherein the uniform section each fulfil a predefined uniformity criterion, which is descriptive for at least one of a group consisting of uniformity, flatness, structure, and noise content; deriving a blend value b for each pixel (Pbjkab) from the intermediate processed image (IPI) with b ranging between 0 corresponding to flatness and 1 corresponding to texture; two-dimensional sharpness enhancing the digital image data (ID) to generate processed digital image data (PID); and generating output data (outD) by pixelwise blending the digital image data with the processed digital image data.
US08437571B2
One embodiment of the present invention is directed to an adaptive context-based predictor that predicts a value {circumflex over (x)} from a context, stored in an electronic memory, corresponding to a noisy-dataset symbol zi of a noisy dataset corrupted with noise modeled as being introduced by a noise-introducing channel. The adaptive context-based predictor is adapted according to one or more parameters that specify adaptive context-based-predictor operation, at least one of which functionally depends, or partially functionally depends, on a level of noise represented by the noise-introducing channel. The adaptive context-based predictor computes a number of intermediate values from the context, computes the predicted value {circumflex over (x)} from the intermediate values, and stores the predicted value {circumflex over (x)} in the electronic memory.
US08437561B2
A scalable predictive coder in which the current frame of data is predicted at the enhancement-layer by processing and combining the reconstructed signal at: (i) the current base-layer (or lower layers) frame; and (ii) the previous enhancement-layer frame. The combining rule takes into account the compressed prediction error of the base-layer, and the parameters used for its compression.
US08437560B2
A method and system for reducing the number of mathematical operations required in the JPEG decoding process without substantially impacting the quality of the image displayed is disclosed. Embodiments provide an efficient JPEG decoding process for the purposes of displaying an image on a display smaller than the source image, for example, the screen of a handheld device. According to one aspect of the invention, this is accomplished by reducing the amount of processing required for dequantization and inverse DCT (IDCT) by effectively reducing the size of the image in the quantized, DCT domain prior to dequantization and IDCT. This can be done, for example, by discarding unnecessary DCT index rows and columns prior to dequantization and IDCT. In one embodiment, columns from the right, and rows from the bottom are discarded such that only the top left portion of the block of quantized, and DCT coefficients are processed.
US08437559B2
A method, system and computer product for visualizing affinities between objects. The method includes the steps of: forming a representation of a minimum spanning tree where the minimum spanning tree connects the plurality of objects based on a pairwise distance between the plurality of objects; forming a hierarchical cluster of the plurality of objects where the hierarchical cluster includes a level; agglomerating the plurality of objects based on the pairwise distance; displaying a view of the representation of the minimum spanning tree in a graphical user interface; receiving a user selection of a parameter containing a hierarchical level; and identifying, in the view, a target cluster that corresponds to the hierarchical level; where at least one of the steps is carried out using a computer device so that affinities between the plurality of objects are visualized.
US08437548B2
There is provided a moving image extracting apparatus including a blur value obtaining unit to obtain a blur value which indicates a blur degree of each frame constituting a moving image, a segment determining unit to discriminate the moving image between a stable segment of which variance of the blur values obtained by the blur value obtaining unit is lower than a first value and an unstable segment which is not the stable segment, and an extracting unit to perform segment extraction from the moving image based on the stable segment or the unstable segment obtained by the segment determining unit.
US08437545B1
In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method is provided for processing an image. According to a feature of the present invention, the method comprises the steps of providing an image file depicting an image, in a computer memory, generating an approximate intrinsic estimate representation of the image as an intrinsic image corresponding to the image, and compressing the intrinsic image to provide a compressed intrinsic image.
US08437541B2
A color correction coefficient generating apparatus includes a first color information obtaining unit that obtains pieces of color information to be corrected in a color space made up of plural color components including a specific color component, a second color information obtaining unit that obtains pieces of color information used for correction corresponding to the pieces of color information to be corrected in the color space, a weighting coefficient obtaining unit that obtains weighting coefficients corresponding to the pieces of color information to be corrected, on the basis of a position relationship between colors represented by the pieces of color information to be corrected and a specified color region and weights that are based on densities of the colors represented by the pieces of color information to be corrected, and a generating unit that generates color correction coefficients for correcting specific density values.
US08437540B2
A method involving filters of an extracted plane from a digital image of an area of skin to obtain a first ripple image and a second roughness image, from which appropriate computation devices are used to calculate different types of gray levels to characterize a pigment spot, notably with regard to the uniformity or disparity of the spot. A method measures the effectiveness of a cutaneous pigment spot treatment by an active pigmenting or depigmenting agent.
US08437539B2
An image processing apparatus is configured to reduce a color blur in a color image, and includes a color blur process determination part configured to change at least one of a color blur that serves as a reduction object and an estimation method of an amount of the color blur according to at least one of a characteristic of an image and an imaging condition.
US08437538B2
A method, apparatus, computer readable medium storing computer readable instructions are disclosed for processing volumetric image data. According to the method, 3-dimensional data points are collected. A plurality of 2-dimensional image maps is obtained from the 3-dimensional data points. At least one of the plurality of 2D image maps is extracted to form at least one image frame. A frame gallery is created from the at least one image frame.
US08437532B1
A first prompt is displayed to insert a deposit slip that includes declared information. The deposit slip is received, transported at a first speed, and imaged. A total declared cash-in amount and a total declared check amount are extracted from image data associated with the deposit slip. The total declared cash-in amount is determined to be a non-zero number. A second prompt is displayed to insert currency bills. The currency bills are received, transported at a second speed, and imaged. Deposit information is generated from image data associated with each of the currency bills. The deposit information at least includes a calculated total cash deposit amount. The deposit information is compared with the declared information to determine if the deposit transaction is balanced.
US08437527B2
A position information attaching unit (13) attaches, to each set of tomographic image data acquired from each scanning plane, position data for identifying a position of the tomographic image data within a three-dimensional region. A pre-memory (14) stores a plurality of sets of tomographic image data in a time-series order. A reconfiguration processing unit (20) uses the respective base images as division units to divide the plurality of sets of tomographic image data stored in the pre-memory (14) into a plurality of image groups. Then, data of a plurality of tomographic images which correspond to one another on a periodic basis are sequentially extracted from the respective image groups, and are stored in a post-memory (26) as one data block. A three-dimensional image-forming unit (28) forms a display image based on the plurality of sets of tomographic image data after reconfiguration stored in the post-memory (26) and while correlating each set of tomographic image data to a position within a display region identified by respective position data.
US08437523B2
CPU 12 reads out the bloodstream associated values of target voxel of subject's standardized brain bloodstream images (step S34). CPU 12 sorts the bloodstream associated values in descending order (step S35). CPU 12 rejects bloodstream associated values that are ranked top 10% and bottom 40% (step S36). When the subjects are 20 for example, bloodstream associated values of highest 2 subjects and of lowest 8 subjects are rejected. CPU 12 calculates and stores mean value and standard deviation of remaining bloodstream associated values after the rejection (step S37). CPU 12 calculates mean value and standard deviation of bloodstream associated values for each voxel as target voxel (steps S31, S32, S33 and S38). Then, the alternative normal brain database of brain bloodstream image is obtained.
US08437519B2
An image data subtraction system suitable for use in Angiography or other medical procedure enhances vessel visualization. An imaging system subtracts data representing a first mask image from data representing temporally sequential individual images of patient vessels to provide first digitally subtracted images. The sequential individual images encompass introduction of a contrast agent. An image processor automatically, processes the data representing the first digitally subtracted images to identify a first image indicating presence of the contrast agent and a second image preceding the first image by determining a measure representing a net presence of contrast agent in an individual digitally subtracted image. The second image is substantially exclusive of an indication of presence of the contrast agent. The image processor automatically, selects the second image as a second mask image and subtracts data representing the second mask image from the data representing images of the temporally sequential individual images to provide second digitally subtracted images. A user interface presents the second digitally subtracted images for display while the patient is undergoing a medical procedure.
US08437518B2
A method for identifying a structure in a volume of interest is provided. The method comprises acquiring a plurality of points related to the structure in a continuous mode, and subsequently registering at least one of the points to a previously acquired imaging dataset of the structure. An apparatus, system and a computer-readable medium are also provided. The present invention provides faster acquisition of EAM points by modifying the mapping system so that catheter tip locations are automatically and continuously recorded without requiring explicit navigation to and annotation of fiducial landmarks on the endocardium.
US08437517B2
An automatic fingerprint system includes an optical sensor having a first light source that provides a collimated beam for interrogating a first sample surface, and a camera including a lens and a photodetector array having a camera field of view (FOVCAMERA) large enough to image the first sample surface. The camera is critical angle positioned relative to the first light source to receive specular reflection (glare) from the first sample surface to generate image data from the glare. The first light source and camera have substantially equal and opposite numerical apertures (NAs). A computer or processor that includes reference fingerprint templates receives a digitized form of the image data, and includes data processing software for (i) comparing the image data to reference fingerprint templates to determine whether the image data includes at least one fingerprint and (ii) for generating a fingerprint image if the fingerprint is determined to be present.
US08437516B2
A facial expression recognition apparatus and a facial expression recognition method thereof are provided. The facial expression recognition apparatus comprises a gray image generating unit, a face edge detection unit, a motion skin extraction unit, a face contour generating unit and a facial expression recognition unit. The gray image generating unit generates a gray image according to an original image. The face edge detection unit outputs a face edge detection result according to the gray image. The motion skin extraction unit generates a motion skin extraction result according to the original image, and generates a face and background division result according to the motion skin extraction result. The face contour generating unit outputs a face contour according to the gray image, the face edge detection result and the face and background division result. The facial expression recognition unit outputs a facial expression recognition result according to the face contour.
US08437512B2
An identification apparatus keeps the conditions for imaging uniform among successive identifications, and requires a user to perform only a series of simple maneuvers. The apparatus comprises a guide member, a light source, and an imaging unit. The guide member includes a pattern or structure for a user to position his/her finger thereon or to approach his/her specific finger region thereto. A contact member is located in the guide member where a fingertip is positioned. An optical opening is formed at a position coincident with where a finger to be imaged should be placed. The light source radiates near-infrared light through the portion of the finger to be imaged. The imaging means acquires an image of the finger, and the apparatus compares the image to previously registered images. The apparatus may also include dual light sources power saving functionality, and means for limiting the interference of external light sources.
US08437508B2
There is provided an information processing apparatus, comprising: an obtaining unit which obtains video data captured by an image capturing apparatus disposed in a monitored space, location information regarding a location of a moving object in the monitored space, and existence information regarding a capturing period of the moving object in the video data; and a display processing unit which processes a display of a trajectory of the moving object in the monitored space based on the location information, the display processing unit processing a display of the trajectory so that the portion of the trajectory that corresponds to the capturing period is distinguishable from the other portions of the trajectory, based on the existence information.
US08437507B2
An information processing device includes a learning image input unit configured to input a learning image, in which a tracked object is captured on different shooting conditions, together with the shooting conditions, a feature response calculation unit configured to calculate a response of one or more integrated features, with respect to the learning image while changing a parameter in accordance with the shooting conditions, a feature learning unit configured to recognize spatial distribution of the one or more integrated features in the learning image based on a calculation result of the response and evaluate a relationship between the shooting conditions and the parameter and a spatial relationship among the integrated features so as to learn a feature of the tracked object, and a feature storage unit configured to store a learning result of the feature.
US08437505B2
A system and method for detecting local motion between image frames are presented. Each image frame may include a plurality of pixels. A first image frame and a second image frame may be received. Values of a first plurality of pixels at first pixel locations of the first image frame may be read. Values of a second plurality of pixels at second pixel locations of the second image frame may be read. The first pixel locations of the first image frame may correspond to the second pixel locations of the second image frame. A first delta function, based on differences between pixel values between the first and second image frames, may be calculated to produce a first output. The first output may be compared to a first one or more thresholds. It may be determined whether local motion has occurred in the second image frame based on said comparing.
US08437501B1
A system for pose generation consisting of a trajectory system, a pose generation system, an intersection extractor, an object identifier, a constraint generator, and a posegraph solver. The trajectory system identifies a number of trajectories based on input positional data of a bounded area. The pose generation system generates one or more poses based on the trajectories. The intersection extractor identifies one or more possible intersections in the one or more poses. The object identifier identifies an object pair for each possible intersection that represents two positional points at each possible intersection. The constraint generator computes and applies one or more intersection constraints to generate an energy value for each object pair based on their geometric relationship. The posegraph solver then minimizes a total energy value by modifying one or more poses and then generates an improved set of pose trajectories based on the modified one or more poses.
US08437496B2
A membrane 103 for an acoustic device 100 is provided, the membrane 103, wherein the membrane 103 comprises a central portion 212, an annular portion 105, and a corrugation 107, wherein the annular portion 105 is arranged around the central portion 212, wherein the annular portion 105 is adapted to be fixed to a coil 106, and wherein the corrugation 107 is arranged between the central portion 212 and the annular portion 105. Thus, the corrugation 107 may form an inner corrugation compared to an outer corrugation 104 which would be arranged farther away from the central portion 212 than the annular portion 105.
US08437494B2
To provide a mount structure of an electromechanical acoustic transducer which enables making of an attempt to pursuit miniaturization while maintaining an acoustic characteristic.A cylindrical closed-end yoke 13 is attached to a frame 12, which is attached to an interior surface 11b of a housing 11 by way of a wall portion 19, in a direction where a bottom 13b of the yoke approaches the housing 11; hence, a sound channel 14 is defined between the yoke 13 and the wall portion 19 without an increase in the thickness of the electromechanical acoustic transducer. A superior acoustic characteristic can hereby be acquired. Alternatively, the sound channel 14 can be assured even when the electromechanical acoustic transducer is miniaturized, and thus an attempt can be made to pursuit miniaturization while maintaining an acoustic characteristic.
US08437491B2
A microphone shield device includes a microphone shield plate, a shield plate arm connected at a first end thereof to the microphone shield plate, and means for attaching a second end of the shield plate arm to a microphone headset in a manner which at least partially obscures an ability to view a microphone headset user's mouth while the user is speaking into the microphone headset.
US08437487B2
A hearing device (HD) incorporates a method for adaptive cancellation of acoustic feedback (AF). The method comprises generating an estimated feedback signal (EF) and subtracting the estimated feedback signal (EF) from the microphone signal (MS) before feeding it to a signal processor (SP) providing the primary hearing device function. The estimated feedback signal (EF) is generated in an adaptive filter (FE1), which is controlled using a least-mean-square algorithm, which operates on an error signal (E) and a reference signal (R). The algorithm may behave erroneously if the feedback path changes while a signal with low HF content, such as speech, is received. In this case, the hearing device (HD) will not be able to quickly adapt the HF characteristic of the adaptive filter (FE1) to the changed conditions. The adaptive filter (FE1) may thus have an incorrect HF gain when a subsequent signal with high HF content is received. This may lead to whistling or, alternatively, to an unwanted suppression of the subsequent signal. The problem is solved by modifying a filter function (H) applied to the error signal (E) and to the reference signal (R) in dependence on estimated relative amounts of high- and low-frequency signal content in the microphone signal (MS).
US08437485B2
A method and a device for sound field reproduction from a first audio input signal uses a plurality of loudspeakers for synthesizing a sound field within a preferred listening area in which none of the loudspeakers are located and therefore described as emanating from a virtual source. The method further includes the steps of calculating a plurality of positioning filter coefficients using virtual source description data and loudspeaker description data according to a sound field reproduction technique; and modifying the first audio input signal using the positioning filter coefficients to form second audio input signals. A loudspeaker ranking of the importance of each loudspeaker for the synthesis of the sound field within the preferred listening area is therefore defined. Then, second audio input signals are modified according to the loudspeaker ranking to form third audio input signals. Finally, the loudspeakers are alimented with the third audio input signals which synthesize a sound field.
US08437480B2
A time-domain method of adaptively levelling the loudness of a digital audio signal is proposed. It selects a proper frequency weighting curve to relate the volume level to the human auditory system. The audio signal is segmented into frames of a suitable duration for content analysis. Each frame is classified to one of several predefined states and events of perceptual interest is detected. Four quantities are updated each frame according to the classified state and detected event to keep track of the signal. One quantity measures the long-term loudness and is the main criterion for state classification of a frame. The second quantity is the short-term loudness that is mainly used for deriving the target gain. The third quantity measures the low-level loudness when the signal is deemed to not contain important content, giving a reasonable estimate of noise floor. A fourth quantity measures the peak loudness level that is used to simulate the temporal masking effect. The target gain to maintain the audio signal to the desired loudness level is calculated by a volume leveller, regulated by a gain controller that simulates the temporal masking effect to get rid of unnecessary gain fluctuations, ensuring a pleasant sound.
US08437479B2
A digital headset system for use in audiometric testing. The headset system includes a stored calibration reference relating the exact frequency and volume response of each speaker to analog input signals. A microprocessor accesses the calibration reference to determine the required analog signal needed to produce the desired sound. An on-board digital to analog converter generates the required analog signal and transmits it to the speaker. The headset is used with software based audiometric test methods that allow the generation of an electronic user hearing profile. The user hearing profile may be used to re-program an audio emitting device to function in a customized manner. The user hearing profile may be overlaid on a partner hearing profile in order to emulate for the partner how sounds are perceived by the user. The test methods may be self-administered or administered by a healthcare professional.
US08437474B2
A system is comprised of a user and a group, wherein the group is comprised of a group leader and a group of M members where M is equal to or greater than one. The group leader generates a group public key and a group leader “master” private key. The group leader creates a personalized watermarked or decryption key, also referred to as an individual private key, for each group member. The individual private key uniquely identifies each group member. The group leader distributes the individual private keys to each of the group members. Each group member receives from a user a message encrypted using the group public key. Each of the group members uses its individual private key to decrypt the encrypted message sent by the user to the group.
US08437466B2
A method and apparatus for resuming a session between a client device and an IVR system in customer service. The method includes the following steps: reestablishing the session in customer service; determining whether there is status information of an abnormally terminated session corresponding to the reestablished session in customer service; retrieving the status information of the abnormally terminated session in customer service; and resuming the session between the client device and the IVR system in customer service according to the retrieved status information.
US08437464B2
A method is disclosed that enables the proper treatment of a queued call by a call center, or other data-processing system capable of queuing calls, in which the calling terminal of the queued call has been put on hold by its user. The call center is able to detect the terminal being put on hold by monitoring for a SIP re-INVITE request, in which the session description signifies an on-hold condition. When it is determined that the calling terminal is on hold, the call center modifies its treatment of the queued call. For example, the call center might freeze the call's position in the queue until the calling party takes the phone off of hold. As another example, the call center might allow the call to work its way to the top of the queue, with the terminal on hold, and then maintain the call's position at the top of the queue until a service agent is available.
US08437459B2
A “customized” caller ID service platform is utilized within a telecommunications network (which may be the PSTN, an IP network, or any other network for supporting voice communication) to allow for the caller ID information transmitted to a called party to be tailored to the specific called party. A database within the platform is configured to store a listing of registered subscribers and a set of “pre-defined called numbers” associated with each subscriber. For each listed number, the subscriber provides the specific customized information (for example, an account number) that is to be transmitted to that specific called number as the caller ID information. A registered subscriber is able to gain access to the platform and modify the entries as need be.
US08437458B2
In one embodiment, a method includes obtaining information relating to a first telephone number, and determining whether the first telephone number corresponds to a first speed dial button on a device. The first speed dial button is highlighted if the first telephone number corresponds to the first speed dial button. If the first telephone number does not correspond to the first speed dial button, the method also includes determining whether the first telephone number is associated with a second telephone number, determining whether the second telephone number corresponds to the first speed dial button if the first telephone number is associated with the second telephone number, and highlighting the first speed dial button when it is determined that the second telephone number corresponds to the first speed dial button.
US08437456B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a system having a controller to receive from a first communication device (CD) a telephone number of a second CD, submit a verification code to the second CD, submit a request to the first CD for the verification code, receive the verification code from the first CD, provide the first CD access to update in whole or in part a second contact book of the second CD stored in a contact book account, receive from the first CD one or more entries of a first contact book of the first CD, merge the one or more entries of the first contact book with one or more entries of the second contact book, thereby generating an updated second contact book, and store the updated second contact book in the contact book account. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US08437450B2
A method for analysis includes directing a converging beam of X-rays toward a surface of a sample having multiple single-crystal layers, including at least a first layer and a second layer that is formed over and tilted relative to the first layer. The X-rays that are diffracted from each of the first and second layers are sensed simultaneously while resolving the sensed X-rays as a function of angle so as to generate a diffraction spectrum including at least a first diffraction peak due to the first layer and a second diffraction peak due to the second layer. The diffraction spectrum is analyzed so as to identify a characteristic of at least the second layer.
US08437448B2
The present application is directed toward an X-ray scanning system having a plurality of detectors and a controller, where a) the controller is configured to receive and identify a minimum X-ray transmission level detected by at least one detector, b) the controller compares the minimum X-ray transmission level to at least one predetermined threshold transmission level, and c) based on said comparison, the controller generates an adjustment signal. The present application further comprises an X-ray source, where the X-ray source receives an adjustment signal and is configured to adjust an X-ray pulse duration based on the adjustment signal.
US08437442B2
A method and apparatus for generating a carrier frequency signal is disclosed. The method includes generating a first frequency signal; injecting a modulation signal at a first point of the two-point modulation architecture; generating a second frequency signal from the modulation signal; introducing the second frequency signal by mixing the first frequency signal and the second frequency signal to generate a mixed frequency signal and outputting the carrier frequency signal selected from the mixed frequency signal.
US08437430B2
Transmit IQ imbalance is calibrated and compensated for within a receiver. In at least one embodiment, a Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA) Type II probe signal is transmitted from the transmitter to the receiver for use in performing transmit IQ imbalance calibration.
US08437427B2
This invention describes a programmable, digital implementation to shift an arbitrary frequency, or various frequencies in various communication systems of the original signal in the frequency domain. The correspondent phase accumulation to perform the desired frequency shift per sampling instant is perfectly tracked by counting up or down a simple integer. Several arbitrary frequency shifters with different mathematical models are provided. The correspondent implementations with Look-Up-Tables (LUT) are derived for high-speed implementations without further calculations of the values of the sine and cosine functions every sampling instant. Furthermore, a simple shift-and-add phase rotation is described to replace the four required real multiplications. If the original complex signal contains only one-bit each from real part and imaginary part, a surprisingly simple implementation is derived and disclosed for the overall arbitrary frequency shift operation. Further simplifications are also disclosed to make this invention feasible for high sampling frequencies and small frequency drifts.
US08437425B2
A distortion compensation device includes a storage unit storing a plurality of distortion compensation coefficients associated with power values of transmission signals, a distortion compensation processing unit acquiring a distortion compensation coefficient corresponding to a power value of a received transmission signal from among the plurality of distortion compensation coefficients and subjecting the received transmission signal to a distortion compensation process on the basis of the acquired distortion compensation coefficient, a phase calculating unit calculating a phase correction value on the basis of the distortion compensation coefficients, a phase correcting unit generating a reference signal by correcting a phase of the received transmission signal on the basis of the phase correction value, and a correction processing unit performing a correction process for the transmission signal subjected to the distortion compensation process on the basis of the reference signal and a feedback signal from a transmission power amplifier.
US08437421B2
A method is provided for soft-decision sphere decoding for softbit computation which can be applied to all sphere decoding algorithms, in particular sphere decoding algorithms in any MIMO OFDM receiver implementations. Complexity reduction is achieved by using an approximate of linear Euclidean distances during the sphere decoding search. The method can be used in conjunction with MIMO OFDM communication systems like LTE, WiMax and WLAN.
US08437418B2
The embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and an apparatus for detecting signals of a MIMO system, and relate to a MIMO technology. The method includes: performing triangular decomposition on a channel matrix of the MIMO system, and decomposing the MIMO system into multiple MIMO subsystems; detecting the receiving signal vector of the first MIMO subsystem, and obtaining the candidate detection vector list of the first MIMO subsystem; detecting remaining MIMO subsystems consecutively in a SIC mode, and generating candidate detection vector lists of the remaining MIMO subsystems; and combining all the lists, and marking decision or performing calculation to obtain the transmitting signal vector of the MIMO system.
US08437415B2
A method and system of estimating frequency offset at a subscriber station is disclosed. The method includes the subscriber station receiving a composite signal, in which the composite signal includes multi-carrier signals transmitted from a plurality of base stations. The subscriber station selects a subset of the plurality of base stations. The subscriber station selects at least one pair of multi-carrier symbols of the composite signal, wherein each of the at least one pair of multi-carrier symbols include a plurality of pilot sub-carriers. The subscriber station selects a subset of the plurality of pilot sub-carriers of the at least one pair of multi-carrier symbols based on transmit pilot symbols of the pilot sub-carriers of the multi-carrier signals transmitted by the subset of the plurality of base stations. The frequency offset is estimated based on a conjugate product between received symbols across at least one pair of multi-carrier symbols of each of the pilot sub-carriers of the selected subset of the plurality of pilot sub-carriers.
US08437414B2
Common wave and sideband mitigation communication systems and methods are provided that can be used with both wireless and wired communication links. The systems and methods provided can enable faster data rates, greater immunity to noise, increased bandwidth/spectrum efficiency and/or other benefits. Applications include but are not limited to: cell phones, smartphones (e.g., iPhone, BlackBerry, etc.), wireless Internet, local area networks (e.g., WiFi type applications), wide area networks (e.g., WiMAX type applications), personal digital assistants, computers, Internet service providers and communications satellites.
US08437413B2
A method for transmitting a codeword through a subchannel consisting of a plurality of tiles in a wireless communication system in which one tile comprises a plurality of data subcarriers and at least one pilot subcarrier is provided. The method includes generating a codeword by assigning pilot symbols to the at least one pilot subcarrier in each tile, by assigning a first codeword symbol to some of the plurality of data subcarriers, and by assigning a second codeword symbol to the remaining data subcarriers, the codeword corresponding to the plurality of tiles, and transmitting the codeword. Resources on a frequency-time axis can be effectively used for transmitting various data or control information.
US08437408B2
With a decoding method for decoding an encoded stream using a predetermined storage region where input of reproduction information indicating an reproduction state of the encoded stream is received, reference picture information indicating a reference picture necessary for performing decoding processing of a relevant picture in the encoded stream is obtained, based on the reproduction information input by the reproduction information input processing, whether the reference picture is stored in a predetermined storage region is determined, based on the reference picture information obtained by the reference picture information obtaining processing, the reference picture not stored in the storage region is obtained from the encoded stream and decoded, and storage thereof to the storage region is controlled, and the reference picture stored in the storage region is used to perform decoding processing of the relevant picture in the encoded stream, thereby generating image data which is stored in the storage region.
US08437400B2
A video processing device operates in an encoding mode when a mode selection signal has a first value and operates in a decoding mode when the mode selection signal has a second value. The video processing device utilizes an interpolation filter to perform an encoding function in the encoding mode and to perform a decoding function in a decoding mode.
US08437397B2
In general, this disclosure is directed to decoding techniques for interpolating video frames. In particular, this disclosure describes techniques for analyzing block information associated with one or more blocks of pixels and adjusting the block information associated with the block of pixels based on the analysis to reduce artifacts in the interpolated frame. As an example, an interpolation decoder module may analyze and adjust block information associated with one or more blocks of pixels in an interpolated frame. As another example, the interpolation decoder module may adjust block information associated with one or more blocks of pixels in a reference frame that is used for interpolating a skipped video frame. The block information adjustment techniques described in this disclosure may result in a reduction of shaking static background artifacts, blocky artifacts or other types of artifacts in the interpolated frame.
US08437396B2
A motion compensation module, that can be used in a video encoder for encoding a video input signal, includes a motion search module that generates a motion search motion vector for each macroblock of a plurality of macroblocks by contemporaneously evaluating a top frame macroblock and bottom frame macroblock from a frame of the video input signal and a top field macroblock and a bottom field macroblock from corresponding fields of the video input signal. A motion refinement module, when enabled, generates a refined motion vector for each macroblock of the plurality of macroblocks, based on the motion search motion vector.
US08437391B2
In accordance with some embodiments, a differential frame may be constructed, for example, by differencing frames or using an error prediction method. More frequently and less frequently used values of a differential frame are identified. Symbols with lower and higher transmission energy are identified. The more frequently used values of the differential frame are mapped to the symbols with lower transmission energy to reduce overall energy consumption.
US08437387B2
An apparatus is disclosed to compensate for non-linear effects resulting from the transmitter, the receiver, and/or the communication channel in a communication system. A receiver of the communication system contains an image cancellation module that compensates for images generated during the modulation and/or demodulation process. The image cancellation module includes a fine carrier correction loop to correct for frequency offsets between the transmitter and receiver. The image cancellation module includes a coarse acquisition mode and a decision directed mode. The decision directed mode allows for a larger signal-to-noise ratio for the receiver when compared against the coarse acquisition mode.
US08437386B2
A method for reducing ringing in a signal output from a filter comprising inputting a signal into a filter; filtering a first portion of the input signal to generate a filtered portion of the output signal; analyzing the filtered portion of the output signal; detecting if ringing is present in the filtered portion of the output signal based on said analysis; and adjusting the filter characteristics to reduce ringing in a subsequent filtered portion of the output signal if it is determined that ringing is present.
US08437384B2
An improved mobile communications device, of the type having a set of antennas and a narrowband RF transceiver coupled to a first member of the set of antennas, also includes a broadband RF receiver coupled to a second member of the set of antennas; and processing circuitry, coupled to the narrowband RF transceiver and the broadband RF receiver, that uses a received signal from the broadband receiver to determine a communication parameter for the narrowband RF transceiver. Related methods are also provided.
US08437379B2
Frequency hopping is appropriately applied even to a communication format involving a small number of minimum hopping units in one transmission unit according to various conditions, thereby enhancing receiving performance. When frequency hopping is applied to a communication format along which transmission is performed on a per-subframe basis, the subframe including a first slot and a second slot, intra-subframe frequency hopping (Intra-FH) is not applied to first transmission according to the number of retransmission operations, and transmission data of two slots are mapped to the same frequency band. Frequency hopping (Inter/Intra-FH) including inter-subframe frequency hopping and intra-subframe frequency hopping in combination is applied solely to a retransmission symbol used for retransmission (first retransmission and subsequent retransmission), and the transmission data are mapped to different frequency bands on a per-slot basis.
US08437374B1
This description relates to an apparatus, a method of manufacturing, and a method of tuning optical and/or electrical parameters of semiconductor devices and materials, thin film materials, or other devices. In one example, a laser is tuned to produce an adjustable output wavelength by coupling the laser to a tuning material or base such as, for example, a piezoelectric base using a suitable attachment method. The laser includes of a tunable material that is sensitive to stress and/or strain. Stress and/or strain applied to the laser from the tuning material results in an electronically variable output wavelength. As an example, applying a voltage to a piezoelectric base that serves as a tuning material can cause the base to expand or contract, and the expansions and contractions from the base are coupled to the tunable material of the laser, thus varying the wavelength of the output light from the laser. Additionally, other devices that are sensitive to stress and/or strain can be adjoined in a similar manner and can result in an electronically variable output of the devices. Examples of other embodiments are also disclosed herein.
US08437373B2
The invention provides a method and apparatus that addresses and resolves the issues currently affecting the ability to offer Enhanced TV, in particular, those issues concerning timing and synchronization, interaction with other modules in the STB, and distribution.
US08437371B2
Discloses is a gateway, base station, communication network and synchronization method thereof. The method comprises: at time T1, sending from the gateway to the base stations a synchronization request signal; at time T2, receiving by the base stations the synchronization request signal; at time T3, sending from the base stations to the gateway the synchronization response comprising the times T2 and T3; at time T4, receiving by the gateway the synchronization response signals; and calculating for the base stations a mapping relationship between the time system of the gateway and the time system of the base station is calculated based on the times T1, T2, T3 and T4. With the configuration and method proposed in present invention, it can be avoided the problem that accurate synchronization between the gateway and the base stations can not be reached for MBMS data packets in LTE because of path delay and jitter error, so that every base station can specify the same transmitting time for MBMS data packets to guarantee that UE could implement correct RF combining.
US08437364B2
The disclosure is directed to techniques for supporting failover between different network protocol addressing families in a wireless communication network. The techniques may be implemented in a mobile wireless communication device. A logical interface selects a physical interface for access to the network in response to a request from an application module. The network access request issued by the application module need not specify a network protocol type. Instead, upon selection of the physical interface, the logical interface notifies the application of the network protocol type associated with the physical interface. The logical interface may select a physical interface corresponding to a particular network protocol when available, based on connection preferences specified by the application module or a global setting within the device. If a physical interface corresponding to the network protocol is not available, however, the logical interface selects a physical interface corresponding to a different network protocol.
US08437362B2
A method for asymmetrical MIMO wireless communication begins by determining a number of transmission antennas for the asymmetrical MIMO wireless communication. The method continues by determining a number of reception antennas for the asymmetrical MIMO wireless communication. The method continues by, when the number of transmission antennas exceeds the number of reception antennas, using spatial time block coding for the asymmetrical MIMO wireless communication. The method continues by, when the number of transmission antennas does not exceed the number of reception antennas, using spatial multiplexing for the asymmetrical MIMO wireless communication.
US08437351B2
Multicast signals are transmitted from a source to user terminals via multicast paths through a set of nodes in a network. A first node, such as a ‘last-hop’ router, may send toward the source corresponding join and prune messages, the join message to establish a new multicast path from the source to a user terminal, and the prune message to discontinue the old multicast path from the source to the user terminal. The router sends the join message and the prune message over the new multicast path and the old multicast path. A second node located at the bifurcation of the new multicast path and the old multicast path detects the reception of both the join message and the prune message and steers, either directly or via delegated downstream nodes, the switch from the old multicast path over to the new multicast path without loss or undue duplication of packets sent from the source to the user terminal.
US08437347B2
Methods and apparatus are described for broadcasting content. Encoding the content to be multicast/broadcast into multiple streams, wherein at least one stream provides a base portion of the content, and additional streams provide enhancements to the content. A wireless communication device receives the broadcast and decodes streams in accordance with the reception capabilities of the wireless device. The configuration of the wireless device can be determined based on the wireless device's capability to decode multiple streams. In addition, the configuration of the wireless device can be determined based on a subscriber level of the wireless device.
US08437345B2
(Problems) By assigning a fixed home address to an MN, Mobile IPv6 assures the arrival of each content at the MN 1. In order to allow the user to receive a Mobile IPv6 service, it is necessary to provide the MN 1 with a Mobile IPv6 function for making applications conform to IPv6. However, there are only few such MNs 1. In addition, the MN 1 does not have a function for implementing an IPsec process repeatedly on a packet transmitted to and received from another apparatus.(technical solution) A scenario processing port 23 employed in the MN 1 includes a means, which is used for selecting a process according to a communication method and carrying out the selected process when a response to a Mobile IPv6 location registration message is received. By providing the scenario processing port 23 with a means for selecting a communication method, a function can be added to the MN 1 with ease. In addition, by providing the MN 1 with a means for implementing an IPsec process a plurality of times, it is possible to provide a communication apparatus according to a security management configuration.
US08437343B1
In one embodiment, a converged protocol stack can be used to unify communications from a first communication protocol to a second communication protocol to provide for data transfer across a physical interconnect. This stack can be incorporated in an apparatus that includes a protocol stack for a first communication protocol including transaction and link layers, and a physical (PHY) unit coupled to the protocol stack to provide communication between the apparatus and a device coupled to the apparatus via a physical link. This PHY unit may include a physical unit circuit according to the second communication protocol. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US08437342B2
A method and apparatus for providing location information to a CSCF in an IMS network. An S-CSCF registers a first contact associated with an IMPU, and receives location information associated with the first contact. A second contact associated with the same IMPU, and also with a mobile access, is then registered at the S-CSCF. The S-CSCF receives location information associated with the second contact.
US08437334B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for radio link maintenance at a mobile radio in a wireless communication network. The disclosed methods and apparatus help a mobile radio maintain a radio link by regularly monitoring frame synchronization, regularly checking a scrambling sequence of a mobile radio against that of infrastructure equipment, and regularly detecting and/or recovering from fade conditions. In the event the radio link can not be maintained, then the disclosed methods and apparatus will cause the mobile radio to switch to a control channel so that the synchronization, scrambling mismatch and/or fade issues may be corrected. In one implementation, the disclosed methods and apparatus can be implemented at mobile radios in an Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) Project 25 (P25) compliant system.
US08437330B2
A subscriber unit, including an antenna array and an antenna array interface coupled to the antenna array, is described. Wireless transmissions, at least two of which are based on different directional transmissions from a transmitter, are received at the antenna array. Feedback messages are generated using the antenna array interface. The feedback messages are communicated using the antenna array to adjust settings of the transmitter.
US08437323B2
A method and system for a quality of service (QoS) point coordinator (PC) for a basic service set (BSS) in a wireless local area network (WLAN) is disclosed. The PC includes a QoS management entity (QME) and an admission control entity (ACE). The QME receives at least one reservation request message that characterizes one of a QoS session and QoS application (session/application) that can be of a continuous/periodic flow type that is time sensitive, or can be of a discontinuous/bursty flow type that is time tolerant. The reservation request message contains at least one QoS parameter set and requests a resource of a communication channel in the BSS for the QoS session/application. The communication channel is organized into superframes, such that each superframe includes a contention-free period (CFP) and a contention-period (CP). The reservation request message requests a predetermined bandwidth of each CFP of the communication channel in the BSS. The ACE performs macro bandwidth management for QoS traffic transport of the session/application over a medium access control (MAC) sublayer for the communication channel by determining whether to grant the reservation request based on at least one QoS parameter set associated with the session/application.
US08437319B2
Provided are a wireless network system and a method of configuring the same, in which stations that perform directional communication in a high-frequency band can share information regarding their communication capabilities with each other. An apparatus for managing stations that transmit/receive data using millimeter wave (mmWave) includes a communication capability information management module which receives an association request frame and determines the communication capability of an associating station that has transmitted the association request frame based on the association request frame; an information-frame-generation module which generates a wireless video area network (WVAN) information frame specifying the communication capability of the associating station; and a communication module which transmits the WVAN information frame, wherein the apparatus serves as a wireless network coordinator.
US08437312B2
The method and apparatus as described are directed toward techniques and mechanisms to improve efficiency in wireless communication networks through optimization of handover scenarios. Determining whether an intra-base station or inter-node-B handover is to be performed, and determining the protocol layers to reset during the handover based at least in part on the type of handover to be performed increases the overall efficiency of the wireless network.
US08437309B2
A method of facilitating multihoming in the case of a mobile node possessing an Upper Layer Identifier belonging to a home network, where the mobile node is assigned a Global Mobility Management anchor within the home network and a Local Mobility Management anchor within a visited network. The method comprises allocating to the mobile node a primary SHIM6 proxy at said Global Mobility Management anchor, and at least one secondary SHIM6 proxy at said Local Mobility Management anchor. At said primary SHIM6 proxy, a SHIM6 context is established on behalf of the mobile node in respect of a peer node; and the established context is shared with said secondary SHIM6 proxy. Locator switching is then performed in respect of traffic exchanged between the mobile node and said peer node at one of said primary and secondary SHIM6 proxies.
US08437305B2
Methods and systems for providing redundancy in servicing packet data communications within wireless mobile data networks are disclosed. More particularly, the method and system for provide a redundant Home Agent with the ability to assume the role of the primary Home Agent in the event of a primary Home Agent network, software, or other failure. The redundancy allows Home Agent services to remain functional in the case of a failure of one of the Home Agents in the redundant group, which may be composed of one or more Home Agents. The Home Agents can be located in geographically separate areas to ensure that a network outage event in one geographic area does not cause subscriber services to be impacted.
US08437303B2
A base station is configured to communicate employing a plurality of carriers comprising at least one prime carrier and at least one non-prime carrier. The base station may transmit a system frame number in a physical broadcast channel in a frame on a prime carrier. The base station may transmit and receive, employing a communication interface, packets in the frames on a non-prime carrier. The communication interface employs the system frame number transmitted in the frame of the prime carrier. The non-prime carrier is configured to operate without broadcasting the system frame number on the non-prime carrier.
US08437295B2
The present invention relates to fast random access methods and arrangements for the enhanced uplink dedicated channel of E-UTRAN (Evolved Universal terrestrial radio access network). A user equipment (UE) being in a low activity state sends a random access request comprising a preamble on a physical random access channel (PRACH) to a NodeB. The NodeB receives the request and sends in response to the received random access request a response comprising information associated with detection of the preamble on an acquisition indicator channel (AICH). The response comprises further in an extension of the AICH an indication of an action to be taken by the UE. In an embodiment of the present invention the action is to access the E-DCH and the response comprises configuration parameters to the E-DCH.
US08437288B2
Techniques for efficiently performing network selection using information stored at a terminal are described herein. The terminal may store coverage information for previously detected wireless networks, cell information for previously detected cells in wireless networks, usage information for previously accessed wireless networks, availability information for previously detected wireless networks, almanac information for cells in wireless networks (e.g., information on cells available at different locations and information for acquiring the cells), and/or other information that may be useful for network selection. The terminal may select a wireless network to attempt acquisition based on the stored coverage information and its current location, the stored cell information and information for the current location (e.g., an identity of a cell detected at the current location), the stored usage information, the stored availability information, and/or the stored almanac information.
US08437276B2
Design and control systems, commissioning tools, configuration adapters and a method for wireless and wired networks design, installation and automatic formation, including binding of the networks devices are provided. In the design system a scheme that uniquely identifies each network device by its type and its physical location is created and information for logical binding between the devices is prepared. In the design system is also created a device mapping that maps between the devices on the scheme and their network configuration data such as, radio IDs and startup attribute sets and wired communication link address. The data prepared in the design system is transferred to or accessed by a master controller and dedicated commissioning tools in the control system. According to devices' physical locations, appropriate configuration data is loaded from the commissioning tools into the devices through dedicated configuration adapters. The devices and their configuration adapters not necessarily have to be powered-up during configuration data loading. After power-up, the devices automatically update themselves with the loaded configuration data and the control system may initialize itself and identifies all the devices. The master controller in the control system uses the design system defined binding information and transmits binding commands for creating logical links between the devices and so networks may be automatically formed.
US08437275B2
A protocol for operation of wireless devices enables a wireless device to remotely and securely invoke a service on a target wireless device without requiring the user of the target wireless device to take any action and without requiring the target wireless device to use power unnecessarily. Mutual authentication is executed while the target wireless device remains in a low power discoverable mode. The discoverable mode includes discovery windows separated by inactive windows when the radio of the target wireless device is powered down.
US08437274B2
A system, method, and network node for discovering network nodes and management information distributed in different strongly connected components, SCCs, in a traffic network. When a network node in a first SCC receives a request at an application layer for network management information, the node determines whether it can reach other nodes at the application layer. If not, the node utilizes a functional overlay layer known as the Data Discovery and Distribution, D3, layer to identify and select a set of neighboring nodes to receive the request. The selection procedure provides good probabilistic guarantees that the selected neighbors will include at least one neighbor in a different SCC. The node sends the request to the selected neighboring nodes at the D3 layer.
US08437272B2
In one embodiment, a local network device may determine an inability to establish a connectivity verification protocol (e.g., Bidirectional Forwarding Detection, “BFD”) session to a remote network device, such as from unreturned control messages. In response, the local network device may send at least one connectivity verification protocol echo message to the remote network device destined to be returned to the local network device and forwarded using a forwarding protocol. In response to receiving or not receiving the echo message, the local network device may thus determine whether the forwarding protocol is functioning between the local and remote network devices. In this manner, the local network device may determine whether an inability to establish a connectivity verification protocol session is due to an inability to forward packets between the devices, or due to the connectivity verification protocol not working (or not being configured) on the remote network device.
US08437271B2
Various embodiments are disclosed for a services policy communication system and method. In some embodiments, an intermediary networking device provides a service intermediary or intermediate connection between a network and one or more communications devices; implements a service policy set for assisting control of the intermediate networking device use of a service on the network, in which the service policy set includes one or more service policies, each policy being associated with either the intermediate networking device or a communications device; and monitors use of the service based on the service policy set; and in which the one or more of the communication devices include a service usage notification capability, and the implementation of the first service policy set is verified.
US08437268B2
A method for communicating using a wireless communication network is presented. The method may include receiving a channel quality indicator (CQI) from a first UE. The first UE is served by a base station. The CQI characterizes a channel quality between the first UE and the base station when the base station transmits at a high power. A first modulation and coding scheme (MCS) may be determined for when the base station transmits at a low power based on the received CQI. When the spectrum efficiency of the first MCS is equal to or higher than the spectrum efficiency of a pre-determined MCS, first UE may be communicated with using a low power transmission. In some cases, a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) downlink control information (DCI) message is transmitted to the first UE to identify a power spectral density (PSD) level.
US08437266B2
Methods, systems, and devices are provided that propose interlacing an RTP communication with a tag that is used to identify the RTP communication within a continuous group or stream of many other RTP communications and other call control communications. The tags can be used for post processing of the RTP communication, thereby obviating the need for real-time processing of the RTP communication. This helps reduce latency in systems that are trying to control the RTP stream for various reasons. Furthermore, temporal relationships between RTP communications and other associated data streams becomes much easier to manage.
US08437260B2
A victim system detector for detecting whether a second wireless communication system uses frequency bands that are used by a first wireless communication system (detecting whether the second wireless communication system is a victim system) includes a correlator and a decision unit. The correlator calculates a correlation value between a frequency domain baseband signal associated with the first wireless communication system and a correlation sequence of the second wireless communication system. The decision unit determines, based on the correlation value, whether the second wireless communication system is a victim system. Therefore, the victim system is detected accurately and efficiently.
US08437257B2
The present invention relates to wireless communication systems, and more particularly to a method and an apparatus for periodically reporting the buffer status in a wireless communication system. Methods and arrangements for an improved buffer status reporting taking the type of radio bearer configuration into account is provided. This is achieved according to an embodiment of the present invention by taking the type of radio bearer configuration into account when determining the content of the buffer status report sent by the UE to the eNodeB.
US08437253B2
In one embodiment, a node determines an overload ratio for an output as a ratio of a total rate of received traffic at the output to a preemption threshold of the output. The node also determines a ratio of traffic that is to be marked at the output based on the overload ratio and a ratio of previously marked traffic destined for the output from each input to the total traffic from each input to the output, and whether, for a particular input, the ratio of previously marked traffic is less than the ratio of traffic that is to be marked at the output. If so, the node marks unmarked traffic of the particular input corresponding to a difference between the ratio of traffic that is to be marked at the output and the ratio of previously marked traffic destined for the output from the particular input.
US08437251B2
An uplink dedicated control channel reporting structure includes a plurality of different bit size reports, e.g. 1 bit, 3 bit and 4 bit reports, for reporting a wireless terminal's backlog information of uplink traffic request group queues. Smaller bit size reports are transmitted more frequently than larger reports. A 1 bit request report indicates whether or not there are any MAC frames of information to be communicated in a set of two request group queues. A 3 bit request report indicates an amount of backlog information corresponding to a first set of request group queues and a second set of request group queues. A 4 bit request report indicates an amount of backlog information corresponding to a set of request group queues. The 4 bit request report is capable of reporting information on any of a plurality of uplink traffic channel request group queues being maintained by the wireless terminal.
US08437243B2
An optical information recording medium (1) includes on a substrate (50), a ROM layer (20), a RE layer (40), an intermediate layer (30) separating the ROM layer (20) and the RE layer (40), and a light transmitting layer (10) provided farthest from the substrate (50). The RE layer (40) is an information recording layer provided most farthest from the light transmitting layer (10), and is a recording layer of BCA recorded in a format easily determinable as compared to an information recording format used in the ROM layer (20), and antifouling property of a surface of the light transmitting layer (10) is set based on the RE layer (40). This makes it easy for the recording and reproducing apparatus to confirm a disc type, allows for sharing one recording and reproducing apparatus with other types of optical discs, and simplifies the disc production. Furthermore, an optical information recording medium is accomplished, in which outdated data on the ROM layer is replaced by recording, on the RE layer, updated data obtained while Internet connection can be established.
US08437241B2
A method of recording, and an apparatus for recording, data on a write-once disc, and the write-once disc used with the method and the apparatus. The write-once disc includes a plurality of update areas in which to record a predetermined type of updated information, at least one main access information area (AIA) in which to record main access information (AI), the main AI indicating a final update area in which finally updated information is recorded, among the plurality of update areas, and at least one sub AIA in which to record sub AI, the sub AI indicating a location of the finally updated information recorded in the final update area.
US08437239B2
An optical pickup, an optical disk drive device, an optical information recording device, and an optical information reproduction device in which a reproduction signal, a focus error signal, and a gap error signal can be detected with high accuracy when information is recorded/reproduced on/from an optical information medium having a plurality of information recording layers.
US08437233B2
An optical recording/reproduction method and device that can perform control for optimizing the amount of spherical aberration in a multilayered optical disc in a short period of time. When the objective lens is displaced in the focusing direction, the amplitude value of the focusing error signal detected just after leaving the focal position of a given first recording layer and the amplitude value of the focusing error signal detected just before passing through the focal position of a given second recording layer other than the first recording layer are measured with a particular spherical aberration, the amplitude ratio of amplitude values is calculated, the difference between spherical aberration and the optimal spherical aberration for the second recording layer is approximated as a function of the amplitude ratio, the optimal spherical aberration is calculated on the basis of this approximation, and the spherical aberration is set.
US08437228B2
A thermally assisted magnetic recording head with highly efficient optical coupling, while guiding a laser beam from a semiconductor laser element, i.e., a light source, to a leading end thereof, eliminating an influence due to heat generated by the element, and having excellent floating characteristics. The thermally assisted magnetic recording head includes a substrate 2 having a first optical waveguide 1, a semiconductor laser element 100, and a slider 4 having a second optical waveguide 3 formed on an end surface. The semiconductor laser element 100 is fixed on the substrate 2 so that light emitted from the element 100 propagates through the first optical waveguide 1 and a slider 4 is fixed on the substrate 2 so that light emitted from the first optical waveguide 1 propagates through the second optical waveguide 3. High optical coupling efficiency is then achieved, while ensuring both heat-dissipating and floating characteristics.
US08437224B2
An environmental monitoring system including at least one underwater measurement device and a transmitter for transmitting data from the measurement device to an above water station using a magnetically coupled antenna.
US08437218B2
A method for predicting a plurality of surface multiples for a plurality of target traces in a record of seismic data acquired in a survey area. The method includes selecting a target trace and identifying two or more desired traces for multiple prediction based on the target trace. After identifying the desired traces, the method identifies one or more recorded traces for each desired trace. Each identified recorded trace is described as being substantially close to one of the desired traces. The method then includes correcting the identified recorded traces for one or more geometry-related effects associated with the survey area and convolving the corrected recorded traces to generate a plurality of convolutions. After convolving the corrected recorded traces, the method then stacks the convolutions.
US08437208B2
Memories and methods for replacing memory sections of a main memory array by mapping memory addresses for an entire main memory section to at least one memory section of a redundant memory array. One such memory includes a fuse block having programmable elements configured to be programmed to identify main memory sections to be mapped to redundant memory sections of the redundant memory array. The memory further includes a redundant memory logic circuit coupled to the redundant memory array and the fuse block. The redundant memory logic is configured to map the memory for a main memory section identified in the fuse block to at least one of the redundant memory sections of the redundant memory array.
US08437206B2
A latency circuit comprises a latency control block, an internal read command generator, and a latency signal generation unit. The latency control block generates a plurality of first control clocks by delaying a delay sync signal generated based on an external clock, and generates a second control clock having a margin with respect to a read command decoded based on the delay sync signal. The internal read command generator samples the second control clock using the decoded read command and generates an internal read command based on a sampled second control clock. The latency signal generation unit generates a latency signal based on a shifting operation performed on the internal read command using the plurality of first control clocks.
US08437204B2
Some embodiments regard a method comprising: controlling a row of cells of a memory array with a first signal; controlling a column of cells of the memory array with a second signal; transferring data from a cell activated by both the first signal and the second signal to a pair of bit lines associated with the cell; and using the data from the pair of bit lines as read data and as data written back to the cell to ensure the cell stores valid data.
US08437187B2
In one embodiment, a semiconductor integrated circuit has memory cells. Each of the memory cells has non-volatile memories and switching elements. The non-volatile memories and switching elements are connected in series between a first power source and a second power source. Output wirings of at least two of the memory cells are connected to each other. Input wirings are connected with control gates of the switching elements included in each of the at least two memory cells. A plurality of the switching elements included in one of the at least two of the memory cells is turned off, when an input signal or an inverted signal is inputted. Further, another plurality of the switching elements included in another one of the at least two of memory cells other than the one of the memory cells is turned on, when the input signal or the inverted signal is inputted.
US08437185B2
A method for data storage includes predefining an order of programming a plurality of analog memory cells that are arranged in rows. The order specifies that for a given row having neighboring rows on first and second sides, the memory cells in the given row are programmed only while the memory cells in the neighboring rows on at least one of the sides are in an erased state, and that the memory cells in the given row are programmed to assume a highest programming level, which corresponds to a largest analog value among the programming levels of the cells, only after programming all the memory cells in the given row to assume the programming levels other than the highest level. Data is stored in the memory cells by programming the memory cells in accordance with the predefined order.
US08437184B1
A method of controlling a vertical dual-gate DRAM provides a short circuit state, a clearing state and a false broken circuit state. In the short circuit state, a first gate and a second gate at two sides of a first pillar are controlled to respectively have a turn-on voltage to form electric connection between a drain and a source at two ends of the first pillar. In the clearing state, the first gate and second gate are controlled to respectively have a clearing voltage to disconnect electric connection between the drain and source at two ends of the first pillar. The false broken circuit state is entered after the clearing state has been finished. The invention does not separate gates between neighboring pillars, but controls ON/OFF of transistors electrically so that no current leakage is generated in the clearing state and problem of inaccurate data reading can be prevented.
US08437182B2
A phase change memory (PCM) device utilizes low energy pulses to write data to PCM storage elements (cells). Methods, devices and systems are described that use low energy reset pulses to reset cells that have been previously set using a method that keeps a portion of the PCM cells in an amorphous phase. The reset is reversible by utilizing a low energy set pulse.
US08437176B2
Loadless 4 transistor SRAM cell operation can be substantially improved, yielding area saving and more stable operation by use of optical-light load. Parasitic photocurrents in PMOS anodes-substrate junctions act as load currents. Light can be introduced by either ambient light through transparent window on top of the chip or by cheap LED diode attached to chip surface.
US08437173B2
A nonvolatile memory element which can be initialized at low voltage includes a variable resistance layer (116) located between a lower electrode (105) and an upper electrode (107) and having a resistance value that reversibly changes based on electrical signals applied between these electrodes. The variable resistance layer (116) includes at least two layers: a first variable resistance layer (1161) including a first transition metal oxide (116b); and a second variable resistance layer (1162) including a second transition metal oxide (116a) and a third transition metal oxide (116c). The second transition metal oxide (116a) has an oxygen deficiency higher than either oxygen deficiency of the first transition metal oxide (116b) or the third transition metal oxide (116c), and the second transition metal oxide (116a) and the third transition metal oxide (116c) are in contact with the first variable resistance layer (1161).
US08437171B1
A circuit may include an array having a number of programmable impedance elements that may be placed into at least two different impedance states in a write operation; and a write circuit that applies temperature varying write conditions to the array in a write operation.
US08437163B2
Memory die, stacks of memory dies, memory devices and methods, such as those to construct and operate such die, stacks and/or memory devices are provided. One such memory die includes an identification configured to be selectively coupled to an external select connection node depending on how the die is arranged in a stack. The identification circuit can determine an identification of its respective memory die responsive to how, if coupled, the identification circuit is coupled to the external select connection node.
US08437158B2
An active rectification system includes an active rectifier that converts an alternating current (AC) input to a direct current (DC) output. The active rectifier includes a plurality of switching devices and at least a first output capacitor and a second output capacitor connected at the DC output of the active rectifier. A controller includes a DC output regulation portion and an output capacitor balancing portion, wherein the DC output regulation portion monitors the DC output and in response generates control signals for regulating the DC output to a desired value. The output capacitor balancing portion monitors first and second output capacitor voltages associated with the first and second output capacitors, respectively, and generates an accumulated adjustment value that modifies the control signals provided by the DC output regulation portion to balance the first and second output capacitor voltages.
US08437156B2
A voltage supply incorporates two voltage supplies connected in a mirror-image series arrangement to generate a DC voltage between the respective common terminals of the voltage supplies.
US08437154B2
An example power supply controller includes a switch duty cycle controller coupled to receive a feedback signal and a duty cycle adjust signal. The switch duty cycle controller is coupled to generate a drive signal coupled to control switching of a switch, which is coupled to an energy transfer element, to regulate energy delivered from an input of a power supply to an output of the power supply. The power supply controller also includes a gain selector circuit coupled to receive an input voltage signal, which is representative of an input voltage to the power supply, to generate the duty cycle adjust signal received by the switch duty cycle controller. The duty cycle of the drive signal to be varied in response to a plurality of linear functions over a range of values of the input voltage signal.
US08437151B2
There is provided a self-excited switching power supply circuit which shifts to continuous oscillating operation immediately after the self-excited switching power supply circuit is connected to an AC power supply and started and which does not cause start-up failure while using a start-up resistor of a high resistance value to maintain standby power consumption at a low level. A bypass charging circuit connected in series to a start-up resistor is connected between a high-voltage side terminal of a DC input power supply and the gate of an oscillation field effect transistor. A charging current flowing in the start-up resistor, and additionally, a charging current to charge a start-up capacitor through the bypass charging circuit flow in a transitional period during which the voltage of the DC input power supply increases.
US08437141B2
The invention relates to a device comprising a first electric contact (8, 98) and a substrate (1, 91). The first electric contact (8, 98) comprises a first area (10, 110) with a first wettability, and the substrate (1, 91) comprises a second area (3) with a second wettability and a third area (2) with a third wettability and being adjacent to the second area (2). The first electric contact (8, 98) is attached on the substrate (1, 91) so that the first area (10, 110) of the first electric contact (8, 98) is adjacent to the second area (3), and the second area (3) is located between the first area (10, 110) and the third area (2). The first and the second wettability are higher than the third wettability. The invention also relates to a transponder (T1, T2, T3) which comprises the substrate (1, 91), an electric device (50, 80) and an antenna (7, 93).
US08437136B2
An electronic assembly includes a heat source having a maximum operating temperature, a heat dissipating device, a thermal interface material sandwiched between the heat source and the heat dissipating device. The thermal interface material includes a base and a plurality of first thermally conductive particles dispersed in the base. The first thermally conductive particles have a size monotonically changing from a first size less than 100 nanometers and a first melting temperature below the maximum operating temperature, to a second size larger than 100 nanometers and a second melting temperature above the maximum operating temperature when the heat source operates at a temperature above the first melting temperature and at or below the maximum operating temperature.
US08437135B2
A hybrid drive has first and second electrical machines (12, 11) and an energy store (13). A converter (14) is assigned to the energy store (13). First and second converters (16, 15) are assigned to the first and second electrical machines (12, 11) and combine to form a modular unit (17) with a basic module (18) and a supplementary module (19). The basic module (18) has the first converter (16), cooling connections (20, 21), fasteners (24) for attachment to a body, a connection (22) for the converter (14) of the energy store (13) and a connection (23) for the first electrical machine. The supplementary module (19) is coupled to the basic module (18) and has the second converter (15) and a connection (25) the second electrical machine (11). The supplementary module (19) is cooled via the basic module (18) and coupled to the converter (14) of the energy store (13).
US08437132B2
A computer enclosure includes a computer bezel with an opening defined therein, a cover plate for covering the opening, and an actuating module. The cover plate is pivotably attached to a front side of the computer bezel. The actuating module includes a mounting bracket attached to a rear side of the computer bezel and an actuating member pivotably attached to the mounting bracket. The actuating member is capable of rotating between an extended position, where the cover plate is pushed open by the actuating member to expose the opening, and a retracted position, where the cover plate is closed to cover the opening.
US08437131B2
An electronic device housing includes a bottom housing, a support frame, and a plastic side frame. The support frame is fixed on the bottom housing. The support frame defines a positioning groove in an edge. The plastic side frame is partially embedded in the positioning groove of the support frame. A method of manufacturing an electronic device housing is also provided.
US08437128B1
A multipurpose computer accessory having a flat base, an under-cushion, and means for connecting any one or more of a keyboard, mouse, touchpad, scroll ball, camera, loudspeaker, USB port, portable device docking station component, video display, or hard drive to an external device such as a laptop or desktop computer.
US08437113B2
A converter for converting alternating voltage into direct voltage and vice versa in a converter station of a high voltage transmission system. A series connection of converter valves includes power semiconductor devices connected in series and arranged in superimposed layers. The valves are arranged on top of each other in a column. Coolant liquid conducting tubes are in an extension over at least one part of the circumference of the column having no connections to cooling blocks for cooling the devices made of metal. Such metal tubes are arranged in the part for over this part of the column circumference forming an electric field shielding screen. The coolant liquid conducting tubes are when extending over parts of a circumference of the column where connections are made to cooling blocks made of an electrically insulating material. An electric field shield is arranged outside the column over these parts.
US08437106B2
Thin film magnetic head including spin-valve film with free layer magnetically connected with shield
A thin film magnetic head includes; an MR film that includes a pinned layer of which a magnetization direction is pinned, a free layer of which a magnetization direction varies, and a spacer that is disposed therebetween; a pair of shields that are disposed on both sides sandwiching the MR film in a direction orthogonal to a film surface of the MR film; and an anisotropy providing layer that provides anisotropy to a first shield so that the first shield is magnetized in a desired direction, and that is disposed on an opposite side from the MR film with respect to the first shield. The MR film includes a magnetic coupling layer that is disposed between the first shield and the free layer and that magnetically couples the first shield with the free layer.
US08437105B2
A magneto-resistive reader includes a first magnetic shield element, a second magnetic shield element and a magneto-resistive sensor stack separating the first magnetic shield element from the second magnetic shield element. The first shield element includes two ferromagnetic anisotropic layers separated by a grain growth suppression layer.
US08437098B2
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for a magnetic disk drive. The disk drive has at least one disk platter having at least one recordable disk surface having an areal density of at least 200 gigabits per square inch. Either a diameter of the at least one disk platter is greater than 3.5 inches or the at least one disk platter rotates at less than 5400 RPMs. A read/write head reads and writes tracks of data with respect to the at least one disk surface. Modified tracks from write requests to write to the at least one disk surface on the at least one disk platter are cached in a non-volatile storage device for caching modified tracks. Modified tracks are cached in the non-volatile storage device to later destage to the at least one disk surface.
US08437092B2
An optical unit includes a first lens, a diaphragm, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens. The first lens is a positive meniscus lens which is convex toward an object side. The second lens has a positive power. The third lens has a negative power. The fourth lens has a positive power. The fifth lens has a negative power. Those are arranged in the stated order from the object side to an image plane side.
US08437088B2
In a zoom lens having a plurality of lens groups which are disposed in that order from an object, a first lens group that is disposed to closest to the object among the plurality of lens groups has positive refractive power and comprises a light path bending element which bends the path of light and a plurality of lens components which are disposed closer to the object than the light path bending element; and, where the distance on the optical axis from the surface closest to the object in the first lens group to the surface closest to the object in the light path bending element is L1 and the distance on the optical axis of the light path bending element is Lp, the conditional expression L1/Lp<1.0 is satisfied.
US08437079B2
A scope is disclosed and includes a substantially tubular body having an inner surface and an outer surface. The scope includes a reticle, a light-emitting diode, and a circuit board including a processor having a program. The light-emitting diode is connected to the circuit board and the program controls the light-emitting diode to emit one of at least three user-selectable colored lights upon the reticle.
US08437077B2
A measurement apparatus includes a lamp mount including a first mount and a second mount. The first mount has a first cavity to mount an observation module. The second mount has a second cavity to mount an image capture module. The measurement apparatus further includes a plurality of light modules mounted on an undersurface of the lamp mount. The second mount is disposed with an included angle relative to a first axis of the first cavity so that a second axis of the second cavity and the first axis converge on a point. The undersurface of the lamp mount is concave so that light from the light modules tilts toward the first axis, and the light and the first axis also converge on the point.
US08437071B2
An array of display elements, such as interferometric modulators, is integrated with collapsible cavity microelectromechanical system (MEMS) electrical switches. The electrical switches and the display elements may be at least partially formed with the same manufacturing operations. The switches may form row or column select functions for the display elements.
US08437068B2
The optical modulator includes an optical waveguide element in which a first waveguide is formed obliquely to an outgoing end surface, and a second waveguide is formed obliquely to both the first waveguide and the outgoing end surface, a lens which makes parallel optical paths of first and second modulated light beams outgoing from the first and second waveguides, a phase delay element which applies a phase delay to at least one of the first and second modulated light beams, a polarization beam rotating unit which rotates at least one polarized wave of the first and second modulated light beams to make the polarized waves orthogonal to each other between the two modulated light beams, and a polarization beam combining element which combines the first and second modulated light beams whose polarized waves are made orthogonal to each other.
US08437066B2
Method for preparing a purified crystal for use in an optical component, from an impure crystal having impurities or crystal defects capable of causing a specific absorption of incident light, includes heating the impure crystal to a temperature at which ions in the crystal are mobile and provide conductivity. A part of the crystal is illuminated with an electromagnetic purifying beam having a frequency in or near a visible frequency range so as to optically excite and migrate charges in the crystal, the charges being compensated by a counter-migration of the ions so as to be fixed in place thereafter so as to provide a purified crystal zone. The crystal is cooled to a future operating temperature.
US08437063B2
A method of scanning a light beam is disclosed. The method comprises scanning the light beam along a first axis and scanning the light beam along a second axis, such that a functional dependence of the scanning along the first axis is substantially a step-wave, and a functional dependence of the scanning along the second axis is other than a step-wave.
US08437062B1
The present invention provides an improved electrostatic micro actuator array system comprising a plurality of electrostatic micro actuators, each of the micro actuators further comprising at least one hold-down electrode and at least two pull-down electrodes positioned to actuate the micro actuator. A hold-down signal line is then coupled to each of the hold-down electrodes of each of the plurality of micro actuators and a plurality of first pull-down signal lines coupled to one of the at least two pull-down electrodes of each micro actuator and a plurality of second pull-down signal lines coupled to another of the at least two pull-down electrodes of each micro actuator, the first pull-down signal lines and the second pull-down signal lines configured in a cross-point matrix such that a unique pair of first pull-down signal lines and second pull-down signal lines is associated with each of the plurality of micro actuators.
US08437061B2
A first oscillating portion is provided with a first piezoelectric element having a first drive electrode. A second oscillating portion has a central axis different from that of the first oscillating portion and is provided with a second piezoelectric element having a second drive electrode. The first drive electrode and the second drive electrode are connected together.
US08437060B2
An apparatus for reading and writing holograms from and to a holographic storage medium uses an object beam and a reference beam both having a first coherence length and being guided along separate optical branches of an optical setup to be imaged to the holographic storage medium. The apparatus includes one or more elements for reducing the coherence length of the reference beam to a second coherence length for reading out a hologram from the holographic storage medium, wherein the second coherence length is shorter than the first coherence length.
US08437052B2
A clearing section includes a counter for measuring a period up to the reset of contents set by means of an operation panel to initial values. If a position discriminating section discriminates that the operation panel is at a first position, the clearing section starts measuring the period by means of the counter from the first entry made to the operation panel. When a count value reaches a predetermined value, the clearing section executes an automatic clear processing to reset the contents set by means of the operation panel to the initial values. On the other hand, the clearing section cancels the execution of the automatic clear processing if the position discriminating section discriminates that the operation panel is at a second position.
US08437049B2
An image forming apparatus includes a LVBC extraction unit configured to make a determination as to copy restriction based on the LVBC, a copy restricted image pattern analysis unit configured to make a determination as to the copy restriction based on the copy restricting information, a job control unit configured to decide whether the copying of the copy target image is permitted or prohibited by referring to the determination result by the copy restricted image pattern analysis unit based on the determination result of the LVBC extraction unit, and a print unit configured to output the copy target image in a case where the deciding unit decides that the copying of the copy target image is permitted.
US08437046B2
This presents an image processing apparatus and an image processing method which print and output image data subjected to halftone processing with an appropriate density characteristic. The image processing apparatus generates a halftone image from a multi-value image using a threshold value arrangement, and generates a difference image between the generated halftone image and a second halftone image having the density characteristic different from that of the generated halftone image. The image processing apparatus stores the generated halftone image and the generated difference image. The image processing apparatus determines the density characteristic for printing the second halftone image, when determining to carry out printing with the density characteristic different from that of the stored halftone image, generates a halftone image by combining the stored difference image according to the determined density characteristic and the stored halftone image, and outputs the combined halftone image for printing.
US08437034B2
A probabilistic network, in particular a Bayesion network, is used for control of a printing system in order to realize an adaptable printing system. A reprographic system, includes at least one sensor, providing a sensor signal; at least one actuator, responsive to an actuator signal; and a control unit for generating the actuator signal for the at least one actuator in dependence on the sensor signal of the at least one sensor. The control unit includes a signal processing module configured to generate the actuator signal based on at least one sensor signal with involvement of a probabilistic network.
US08437032B2
An image processing apparatus has an area sensor unit that reads image data corresponding to a plurality of frames shifted from each other by a shift of less than one pixel, an inclination angle acquiring unit that acquires an inclination angle with respect to a reference installation position of the area sensor, an angle correcting unit that corrects the inclination of the image data corresponding to a plurality of frames read by the area sensor unit by using the acquired inclination angle, and a high-resolution conversion unit that provides image data the resolution of which is higher than the resolution of the read image data by using the image data corresponding to a plurality of frames the inclination of which has been corrected by the angle correcting unit to perform interpolation processing.
US08437027B2
A device management system and method for tracking bypass of a print governance policy. A print control agent application can be configured with a set of predefined print governance policies in order to manage a rendering job activity. The print control agent application can pass, confirm and/or reject the rendering job based on the print governance policies. The rendering job activity that bypasses the print governance policies based on a policy violation approach can be tracked and measured utilizing a set of tracking algorithms in order to generate a tracked data. A bypass report can be visually generated based on the tracked data in order to analyze the policy violation and its frequency of occurrence thereby improving compliance with the rendering policies.
US08437024B2
A printing apparatus for communication with a print managing apparatus is provided. The printing apparatus receives user input information, and based on the user input information, obtains list information on print data including print data identification information and list information on the user information from the print managing server. The printing apparatus selects print data to be output to another user from the print data indicated by the list information on the print data and further selects, from the list information on the user information, user information on the user which permits the selected print data to be output. The printing apparatus transmits, to the print managing server, the selected print data identification information and the selected user information to register the user identification information.
US08437022B2
The invention discloses an order system for printed matter, where printed matter is defined in an article-based database in the order system and an order for the production of the printed matter is using an interface in the order system, and a method for calculating production of printed matter, where first an interface in such an order system is used to give an order for production and where, when the order has been given, parameters for the printed matter are taken as a basis for using a calculation module in a Management Information System controlling networked graphical production to calculate the production and in order to trigger the automated calculation when an order has been given using an article-based order system, it is proposed that production-specific parameters for the printed matter be able to be defined in the order system's database and that, when the order has been given, the order system provide the parameters for calculating production of the printed matter via an interface.
US08437007B2
An optical detector system comprises a hermetic optoelectronic package, an optical bench installed within the optoelectronic package, a balanced detector system installed on the optical bench. The balanced detector system includes at least two optical detectors that receive interference signals. An electronic amplifier system installed within the optoelectronic package amplifies an output of at least two optical detectors. Also disclosed is an integrated optical coherence tomography system. Embodiments are provided in which the amplifiers, typically transimpedance amplifiers, are closely integrated with the optical detectors that detect the interference signals from the interferometer. Further embodiments are provided in which the interferometer but also preferably its detectors are integrated together on a common optical bench. Systems that have little or no optical fiber can thus be implemented.
US08436990B2
The present invention relates to a microchip 1 having a translucent member 11, a flow channel 10 or a cell formed at a side of the translucent member 11 where light enters, and an aperture 16 formed at a position corresponding to the flow channel 10 or the cell at a side of a translucent member 10 where light goes out. The aperture 16 has a light go-through surface 17 which causes light flux being emitted from the flow channel 10 or the cell to go through and a light reflective surface 18 that totally reflects the incident light flux. A width size W1 of the light go-through surface 17 is smaller than a width size W2 of the flow channel 10 or the cell.
US08436986B2
An apparatus (10) for assessment, evaluation and grading of gemstones has a stage (11) upon which a gemstone may be supported, the stage being enclosed in a housing (15) that is impervious to light. At least one light source (14) located in the housing is adapted to project incident light onto the gemstone. There are means for rotating and tilting the stage so as to vary the orientation of the gemstone to the incident light. A digital camera (16) is located in the housing adjacent the or each light source and is adapted to take images of the gemstone based on reflection and/or refraction of the incident light. There are also information processing means for calibrating and analyzing the images, with the information processing means being programmed with an instruction set for color calibrating the images and then analyzing the color calibrated images by segmentation and histogram measurement.
US08436979B2
An immersion liquid is supplied to a space between a projection system and a substrate, and a patterned beam of radiation is projected through the liquid onto a target portion of the substrate using the projection system. Substrates can be held on first and second tables. The first and second tables are moved together so as to transit from a first state to a second state, the first state in which the liquid immersion is maintained between the projection system and one of the first and second tables, the second state in which the liquid immersion is maintained between the projection system and the other one of the first and second tables. During the transition, the liquid immersion is maintained just below the projection system.
US08436978B2
A liquid immersion exposure apparatus includes an optical element through which an exposure beam passes, a first table which is movable relative to the optical element, while holding a substrate and a second table which is movable relative to the optical element while holding a substrate. The optical element is kept in contact with an exposure liquid while the first table and the second table are moved from a first state in which the first table is opposite to the optical element to a second state in which the second table is opposite to the optical element.
US08436971B2
To prevent occurrence of display roughness in a PSA-type liquid crystal display device, a liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes: a first substrate 10 which includes a signal line 15 for supplying a display signal to thin film transistors, an insulating layer 18 provided on the signal line 15, and pixel electrodes 12 provided in a matrix arrangement; a second substrate 20 which includes a counter electrode 22; a liquid crystal layer 30 interposed between the first substrate 10 and the second substrate 20; a vertical alignment film 33 provided between the first substrate 10 and the liquid crystal layer 30; and an alignment sustaining layer 32 provided between the vertical alignment film 33 and the liquid crystal layer 30 for regulating an orientation of liquid crystal molecules 31 included in the liquid crystal layer 30. In a region extending between two of the pixel electrodes 12 and extending over the signal line 15, the insulating layer 18 has a first elevated portion 18a extending along the signal line 15 and protruding above the pixel electrodes 12 toward the liquid crystal layer 30.
US08436966B2
An LCD (liquid crystal display device) and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The LCD includes a top substrate, a bottom substrate, and an alignment mark for aligning a polarizing plate on the top substrate or the bottom substrate. Also, the method includes: forming a metal layer on a substrate and forming a gate electrode, a gate line, and an alignment mark; forming a thin film transistor and a data line on the substrate with the gate electrode, the gate line, and the alignment mark; and forming a passivation layer and a pixel electrode on the substrate with a source/drain electrode.
US08436963B2
A backlight assembly including direct-type lamps and an edge-type lamp and a liquid crystal display having the backlight assembly. The direct-type lamps are arranged with a predetermined interval to emit light, and the edge-type lamp is provided at a side portion of a light guide plate provided above or below the direct-type lamps. The light guide plate and a light guide pattern output light, which is emitted from the edge-type lamp, through a space between two adjacent direct-type lamps. The backlight assembly supplies light to the light receiving region such that brightness is uniformly distributed throughout the light receiving region regardless of the position of the direct-type lamps.
US08436953B2
A stereoscopic display includes: a display panel configured to display an image in either one of two or more arrangement states including a first arrangement state and a second arrangement state which are switchable with each other; and a lens array device arranged to face a display surface of the display panel. The lens array device produces a lens effect in a direction, the direction of effect being changed between in the first arrangement state and in the second arrangement state. The display panel includes an array of a plurality of sub-pixels, and a combination of sub-pixels used as a unit pixel is changed between in the first arrangement state and in the second arrangement state.
US08436946B2
A method of scanning television channels at initial setup. The method includes at a first power mode, automatically scanning for channels using a first scanning setup procedure during which the television is unusable by a user. The first power mode is when the television is at a full power mode. The detected channels are automatically provided for use by the television upon completion of the first scanning setup procedure. The method further includes automatically scanning for channels using a second scanning setup procedure at a second power mode following the first power mode. The second power mode is at a lower power mode than the first power mode, and the second scanning setup procedure is more time consuming in comparison to the first scanning setup procedure. Additional channels not detected during the initial setup by the first scanning setup procedure are automatically detected at the second power mode.
US08436940B2
An apparatus for converting an image format of data and a method thereof is disclosed. An apparatus for converting an image format of data comprises an image converter (126) for converting parameters of the image format, an encoder (127) for encoding the format changed data and a file system converter (128) for changing the encodes data into a file system supported by an external interface (121). Also, a method for converting an image format of data comprises converting the image format of data into another image format, encoding the format changed data into a compressed data, and converting data into a file system which an external interface supports.
US08436930B2
A digital image processing apparatus configured to display a guide image of a previously captured image in a portion of a screen and a live view image in another portion of the screen, and configured to notify a user when the guide image and the live view image match each other. A method of operating a digital image processing apparatus that includes displaying a guide image on a display and trimming a central portion of the guide image; displaying a live view image in a central area of the display where the guide image is not displayed; and capturing the live view image when the guide image and the live view image are matched with each other.
US08436917B2
The present invention relates to a method for creation of an animated series of photographs. A photograph acquisition device analyzes the images in order to detect an absence of movement. The detection of an absence of movement during a determined period triggers a photograph to be taken and the memorization of image data in the series of photographs. The user introduces a command to end the acquisition of the series of photographs. The data of different photographs taken are assembled to form an animated series. During the reproduction, the series is reproduced by displaying successively each photograph, the time between each photograph reproduction can possibly be introduced by the user. The invention also relates to a photograph acquisition device designed acquire said animated series of photographs.
US08436913B2
The method for efficient target detection from images robust to occlusion disclosed by the present invention detects the presence and spatial location of a number of objects in images. It consists in (i) an off-line method to compile an intermediate representation of detection probability maps that are then used by (ii) an on-line method to construct a detection probability map suitable for detecting and localizing objects in a set of input images efficiently. The method explicitly handles occlusions among the objects to be detected and localized, and objects whose shape and configuration is provided externally, for example from an object tracker. The method according to the present invention can be applied to a variety of objects and applications by customizing the method's input functions, namely the object representation, the geometric object model, its image projection method, and the feature matching function.
US08436905B2
An imaging system comprising a lens, a detector array (e.g., focal plane array), a signal processing module and a shutter, wherein the shutter is positioned in front of the lens (between the lens and the scene being imaged). This front lens shutter mount configuration allows offset correction to compensate for internal radiant flux and other deficiencies associated with conventional systems.
US08436891B2
A viewer may directly interact with a 3D object that is virtually placed in a physical location in a video scene. Initially, the object appears as an integral part of the original video scene and does not interfere with the general viewer's experience of the program. A viewer may initiate interaction with the object using an input device. An interested viewer may navigate through the object's architecture based on the viewer's interest. For example, the viewer may drag the object to a new physical insertion point in the scene. The user may rotate the 3D object into different orientations and zoom in. Each orientation of the object, if selected by the viewer, may invoke a new linked object in the predefined architecture. For example, the viewer may walk through the linked objects in the predefined architecture or observe an object at an increasing level of detail.
US08436890B2
A three-dimensional measuring device includes an irradiation means capable of irradiating a striped light pattern used for a spatial encoding method and a striped light pattern used for a phase shift method on a measurement object part on a board main body, an imaging means capable of imaging a measurement object part irradiated by the light pattern, an image control means for controlling imaging by the imaging means, a first calculation means for calculating a height of the measurement object part according to the phase shift method based on a multiplicity of image data imaged by the imaging means, and a second calculation means capable of using the spatial encoding method to identify a line corresponding to the measurement object part from among the image data at a time of calculation by the first calculation means by the phase shift method based on the image data.
US08436889B2
Systems and methods for videoconferencing are provided. The systems use scalable video coding techniques and a compositing scalable video coding server (CSVCS) to composite input video signals from transmitting conferencing participants into one single output video signal forwarded to a receiving participant. The server is configured to composite the input video signals pictures without decoding, rescaling, and re-encoding of the signals.
US08436876B2
Provided are a backlight unit and a display device having the same. The backlight unit includes a case having an opening, at least one lamp assembly disposed on a side surface of the case and including a light source, an optical transreflective unit on the case, the optical transreflective unit transmitting a portion of first light passing through the opening and reflecting a portion of second light generated from the light source, and an optical sheet including a first diffusion unit on the optical transreflective unit.
US08436874B2
An item editing device, and item editing method, and a program stored on a tangible media enable easily editing items whether the item is rectangle or an arch shape by unifying the item editing operation and reducing the number of steps. The item editing method enables editing an editable item within a layout area via an item changing unit where prescribed areas are set as attributes of the item in the top side, the bottom side, the left side, the right side, the center point, and an internal area other than the center point of the item, and has steps of: specifying one of the prescribed areas of the editable item when editing the item; specifying any point in the layout area as a destination of the specified item; and selecting one of the editing units included in the item changing unit according to the specified point and editing the editable item within the layout area, the editing unit including an arch-shape generating unit, an item curvature changing unit, an item width changing unit, an item height changing unit, and an item position changing unit.
US08436867B1
A degree of detail calculation required for calculations to process computer graphics data is determined based on input parameters that are varying in certain dimensions. During a detail analysis of a shader, a directed graph is built in such a way that each connection between nodes indicates a dependency among inputs and outputs of calculations and/or input parameters. For each input parameter, variability information about the input parameter is obtained. A lattice or a table representing dimensional variability is used to determine a variability value for each calculation for given input parameters and dependency relationships among other calculations. After a variability value has been determined for each calculation, calculations are grouped into several groups and executed once per the variability value.
US08436865B2
According to an aspect of embodiment, a memory controller for controlling a memory having areas of data unit of K bits, includes a data mapping unit dividing N bits of data, where N is not a multiple of K, into K bits and (N−K) bits, and in regard to L pieces of the data, arranging L K-bit data into L data units, and arranging L (N−K)-bit data into M (M=L×(N−K)/K) data units by packing; and an access control unit access-controlling the memory to access the L K-bit data as L data units, and access-controlling the memory to access the packed L (N−K)-bit data as M data units.
US08436863B2
Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for improving switching between graphics processing units (GPUs). Some embodiments may include a display system, including a plurality of GPUs, a multiplexer coupled to the plurality of GPUs, a timing controller coupled to the multiplexer, where the timing controller may provide an indication signal to the multiplexer indicative of a period when a first GPU is experiencing a first blanking interval.
US08436858B2
A method and an apparatus for animating transition among a dynamic graph series including a preceding graph and a succeeding graph which are temporally sequentially displayed. The method includes: selecting an unchanged node which is the nearest to a removed node and merging through animation the removed node with the unchanged node, thereby animating removal of the removed node; and selecting an unchanged node which is the nearest to an added node and splitting through animation the added node from the unchanged node, thereby animating addition of the added node. During the animation, the moving distances of the nodes can be shortened, and the crossing of movement paths and the crossing of graph edges can be prevented during the movement of the nodes, thereby visualizing smoothly and clearly transition among dynamic graph series.
US08436857B2
A method for level of detail in a 3D environment application involves establishing a tiered system for processing a graphical object at a distance from a perspective point. The tiered system comprises a first level and a second level, the first level for processing the graphical object at a first range from the perspective point, and the second level for processing the graphical object at a second range from the perspective point. The method also involves determining the distance of the graphical object from the perspective point, assigning, while rendering the graphical object and based on the distance, the graphical object to a corresponding level of the tiered system, and executing a virtual processor assigned to the graphical object. The virtual processor executes every frame when the graphical object is assigned to the first level, less than every frame when assigned to the second level, and displaying the graphical object.
US08436855B1
Efficient determination of illumination over large 3D environments, including shadowing, is provided. Illumination, including shadows, is generated using a raster elevation map by a lighting solver. The lighting solver fetches the raster elevation map for an illumination area of interest at the paging rate and produces an illumination map that is applied to terrain and features by a 3D renderer. The lighting solver updates subsets of the illumination map as necessary to reflect changing illumination or movement of the visual area of interest.
US08436853B1
Methods and systems for acquiring and ranking image sets are described. In an example, a computing device may be configured to determine a feature-based score that may be based on features of the object including geometry of the object. The computing device also may be configured to receive a plurality of sets of images of the object. A number of respective images of each set of images may be based on the feature-based score. The computing device further may be configured to determine for each set of images a respective image-based score based on a prospective three-dimensional (3D) visualization of the object to be generated by a merged output of that set of images. The computing device also may be configured to determine a respective ranking for each set of images based on the respective image-based score; and select a set of images based on the respective ranking.
US08436850B2
A pixel including a boosting capacitor, wherein the boosting capacitor includes: a semiconductor layer, a first conductive layer overlapping the semiconductor layer at an overlapping portion, and a first insulating film therebetween, and wherein the semiconductor layer includes: a main body portion, a contact portion outside the overlapping portion and coupling the boosting capacitor with another component, and a connecting portion integrally provided with the main body portion and the contact portion to couple the main body portion with the contact portion at an interface of the first conductive layer and having a width smaller than that of the main body portion and the contact portion.
US08436844B2
A control circuit and method for controlling a bi-stable display having bi-stable segments each capable of transitioning between an on state and an off state via application of a voltage are disclosed. The voltage is provided to a display driver from a charge pump, and supplied to individual ones of the bi-stable segments via outputs from the display driver in accordance with display instructions provided by a system controller. Both a bi-stable segment voltage level of at least one of the outputs of the display driver and a charge pump voltage level of the voltage are detected and compared to a valid bi-stable segment voltage level and a valid charge pump voltage level, respectively. A malfunction signal may be provided to the system controller if either of the detected voltage levels is not valid. The control circuit is useful in an electronic device such as, for example, a blood glucose measuring device.
US08436836B2
Method and apparatus (16) for projecting infrared or near infrared or low intensity visible light from a pen, pointer or other guiding object in the form of a coded pattern image, detectable by a camera and recognition system but invisible, or hardly visible to the user and audience, thus controlling and interacting with a computer (19) during a presentation, computer supported work and/or other interactive use of a computer, including pointing, selecting, drawing and writing, both distantly (11) and closely (10) to the front or rear projection screen or possible other type of display screen, without any distracting visual patterns or spots, while the possible visual feedback to the user and audience can be generated by the computer and display system onto the display screen in a controlled and context-sensitive way. The projected complex images from the positioning device when operating remotely (11) and when operating closely to the screen (10), are created by optical alignment of one or several diffractive optical elements, collimating lens and/or mirrors, and one or more light sources. The light sources can preferably be laser diodes or light emitting diodes. In a preferred embodiment, the light sources are emitting visible, infrared or near-infrared light.
US08436835B2
A touch device is disposed on a substrate having a plurality of gate lines. The touch device comprises a power line, a photo sensor and a readout line. The photo sensor is electrically coupled to the power line and two specific gate lines of the gate lines, and generated a different output signal according to irradiation with a different level. The readout line is electrically coupled to the photo sensor for outputting the output signal. The photo sensor comprises a readout switch and a photosensitive switch. The readout switch is electrically coupled to one of the two specific gate lines. The photosensitive switch is electrically coupled to another of the two specific gate lines and the power line. Signals in another of the two specific gate lines and the power line cooperate to determine whether the photosensitive switch is in an off state.
US08436830B2
Provided is a display device with a touch panel, the display device including a display panel and a capacitance coupling type touch panel disposed on a surface of an observer side of the display panel. The capacitance coupling type touch panel includes on a substrate a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes. Each of the plurality of first electrodes includes a first portion formed on a layer different from a layer of the plurality of second electrodes to intersect one of the plurality of second electrodes, and a second portion formed on the same layer as the layer of the plurality of second electrodes separately from the plurality of second electrodes. The first portion is connected to the second portion via a contact hole formed through an insulating film formed between the first portion and the plurality of second electrodes.
US08436806B2
A method of synchronizing force data with touch data and a portable electronic device configured to perform the same are provided. In accordance with one embodiment, there is provided a method of synchronizing data acquisition in a portable electronic device, the method comprising: detecting touch events on a touch-sensitive display and storing touch data for each touch event with a time stamp for the touch event; detecting force events on the touch-sensitive display and storing force data for each force event with a time stamp for the force event; matching touch data for a particular touch event with force data for a force event corresponding to the particular touch event; and outputting the matched touch data and force data for input processing operations.
US08436804B2
A digital photo frame having power saving functions includes a display panel, a power generation unit for switching a system power according to a power control signal, a user detection unit installed on the display panel for detecting whether a user exists within a specific range to generate a user detection signal, a central processing unit for adjusting backlight intensity of the display panel when the system power is provided by the power generation unit according to the user detection signal and for generating a power switch-off signal when the backlight intensity of the display panel is turned off according to the user detection signal, and a power control unit for generating the power control signal to switch off the system power when the backlight intensity of the display panel is adjusted to be switched off according to the power switch-off signal.
US08436802B2
A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel having a gate line sequentially selected by a gate pulse and a plurality of light sources which are sequentially turned on along a scan direction of the gate line. The plurality of light sources are turned on with a first level of brightness during a white turn-on period, and turned on with a second level of brightness during a gray turn-on period. The second level of brightness is lower than the first level of brightness to irradiate the liquid crystal display panel with light. As a result, a life span of the plurality of light sources may be extended.
US08436801B2
A level shift circuit includes a control logic circuit, a plurality of level shift output buffers and a plurality of charge sharing circuits. The control logic circuit receives input clock pulse signals and a charge sharing signal and acquires voltage level information of each received signal. Each output buffer amplifies a corresponding input clock pulse signal and determines whether to output a signal according to the acquired information of the charge sharing signal. Each charge sharing circuit determines whether to be turned on according to the acquired information of a corresponding input clock pulse signal. When a charge sharing circuit is turned on, the output terminal of a corresponding output buffer and a predetermined voltage level are coupled to each other by the charge sharing circuit, so as to perform the charge sharing operation. Furthermore, a corresponding liquid crystal display device and a corresponding charge sharing method are also provided.
US08436791B2
A light-emitting device includes a light-emitting element that emits light of an amount based on the size of a driving current; a driving transistor, the gate thereof being electrically connected to a first node, that outputs a current flowing between the drain-source as the driving current; and a control unit that supplies a first data potential to the first node and supplies a current to the driving transistor so as to set the voltage between the gate and source of the driving transistor to a compensated voltage based on the mobility of the driving transistor, and then supplies a second data potential determined in accordance with the first data potential to the first node.
US08436789B2
An image orientation system is provided wherein images (rays of lights) are projected to a user based on the user's field of view or viewing angle. As the rays of light are projected, streams of air can be produced that bend or focus the rays of light toward the user's field of view. The streams of air can be cold air, hot air, or combinations thereof. Further, an image receiver can be utilized to receive the produced image/rays of light directly in line with the user's field of view. The image receiver can be a wearable device, such as a head mounted display.
US08436784B2
Novel reconfigurable antennas are provided which may be used to accommodate the requirements for wideband multi-standard handheld communication devices. It is shown that using a shape memory alloy spring actuator, the height of a helical antenna and therefore the pitch spacing and angle can be varied. This can in turn tune the far-field radiation pattern and gain of the antenna dynamically to adjust to new operating conditions. The radiation pattern can further be directed using a two-helix array. Finally, a helical antenna embodiment is implemented and measured using a shape memory alloy actuator. Measurement results confirm that while keeping the centre frequency constant, gain tunability can be attained using this structure.
US08436776B2
A near-horizon antenna structure includes an upper radiating element having a straight conductive trace disposed on a planar surface of a non-conductive substrate, a rectangular lower radiating element serving as a ground plane disposed on the planar surface, and a feed point provided between the upper and lower radiating elements. When the planar surface is positioned vertically, the far-field effects of horizontal current flowing in opposite directions on the radiating elements cancel to provide an antenna pattern with increased gain in horizontal directions and reduced gain in vertical directions. A flat panel display and a portable communication device are also provided with one or more near-horizon antenna structures integrated therein.
US08436770B2
A method and a system verifies the precision performance of a satellite navigation system that can certify compliance with a level of precision whatever the observation conditions, notably as regards satellite geometry, and is a performance verification tool for the design, verification and qualification of a satellite navigation system.
US08436762B2
In an embodiment, a coordinate determiner is operable to identify at least first and second surfaces that each approximately intersect an object, and to determine at least two approximate coordinates of the object from the first and second surfaces, where at least one of the surfaces is nonplanar. For example, if the coordinate determiner is disposed on a fighter jet having at least two short-baseline-interferometers (SBIs), then two surfaces may be the surfaces of two cones having two of the SBIs as respective vertices, the object may be a close-in target, and the coordinate determiner may determine the azimuth and elevation of the target from the cone surfaces. Furthermore, the coordinate determiner or another computation unit onboard the jet may determine the slant range of the target from the elevation and the altitude of the jet. The coordinate determiner may at least facilitate ranging of the target quickly enough to allow a pilot sufficient time to evade detection by the target, to destroy the target, or to evade or destroy a projectile fired by the target.
US08436749B2
A display system comprises first and second LED panels for displaying first and second priority aviation data, a power supply, a modulator, a processor and a logic gate. The modulator generates a modulated voltage for the second LED panel, where the second priority data are displayed at a modulated brightness. The processor controls the modulator, and generates a status signal indicating a failure condition of the modulated voltage. The logic gate switches the first LED panel from the modulated voltage to the unmodulated voltage based on the status signal, where the first priority data default from the modulated brightness level to full brightness based on the failure condition.
US08436741B2
The invention is based on a locating device for locating objects in an item being investigated, said device having a basic body, a sensor unit for detecting a movement parameter when the basic body is moved relative to the item being investigated, an output unit and a control unit which, in conjunction with the output unit, is provided for the purpose of outputting an item of information on the basis of the movement parameter. It is proposed that the output unit has a light signal unit which is provided for the purpose of outputting the information using a light signal.
US08436740B2
An adapter and a portable electronic device which may contain the adapter are disclosed. The adapter may be detachably contained in a containing recess of the portable electronic device, and it includes a base, a first connecting end and a second connecting end. The first connecting end is disposed on the base, and the second connecting end and the first connecting end are electrically connected to each other. In addition, a containing recess is formed on a surface of the portable electronic device for containing the adapter. The portable electronic device may remind the user to put away the adapter into the containing recess.
US08436738B2
A method and apparatus for determining whether an appliance is leaking gas is provided. Pressure measurements are taken after closing off the flow of gas to the appliance and within the appliance so as to isolate the gas within the distribution system of the appliance. If unacceptable changes in the pressure of the gas are detected, a warning signal can be provided and the flow of gas into the appliance can be maintained in an off state until further corrective steps are undertaken. Corrections for temperatures changes between pressure measurements can also be provided.
US08436730B2
A system for disabling a fleeing vehicle via disrupting the vehicle's onboard computer or electrical system. The system optionally includes a tracking system for tracking the vehicle's location and/or a remote sensing system for identifying a payload contained in the vehicle or asset. A launcher of the disabling/tracking device may be handheld or vehicle mounted, and may use high pressure gas or another propellant to launch the projectile at a fleeing vehicle. The system may include a tether for connecting the disabling device to a power supply disposed on a pursuit vehicle or a handheld launcher.
US08436717B2
A rotation-activated electronic component, preferably a RFID tag mounted on or incorporated in a support that is rotated when read, e.g. a CD or DVD. The RFID tag comprises an antenna, a rotational switch and a component, advantageously a processor. The antenna is adapted to transform received RFID signals to electric energy that powers the component. In a preferred embodiment, the rotational switch is adapted to cut the circuit unless the support does not rotate at or above a certain rotational speed. Supports equipped with the RFID tag of the invention will thus respond only if they rotate sufficiently. This can avoid collisions in case more than one such RFID tag is within communication range of an antenna of a reader. In a preferred embodiment, the information returned by the component is needed for full use of the content on the support.
US08436708B2
A multilayer inductor comprising a coil embedded in a magnetic portion, and a magnetic gap formed by a non-magnetic portion in part of a magnetic path, the magnetic portion being made of Ni ferrite, whose relative temperature coefficient αμir of initial permeability at a frequency of 1 MHz is more than +10 ppm/° C. and +40 ppm/° C. or less between −40° C. and +80° C., the non-magnetic portion being made of Zn ferrite containing more Zn than in the magnetic portion and having a Curie temperature Tc of −50° C. or lower, and the Zn content changing continuously in boundary regions between the non-magnetic portion and the magnetic portion, whereby the thickness of the magnetic gap changes with the temperature.
US08436705B2
A magnetic encoder magnetizing method, in which magnetization of the plural neighboring tracks of the magnetic encoder can be accurately performed, is provided. While an annular magnetic body having a plurality of annular, unmagnetized magnetic encoder tracks integral therewith and juxtaposed relative to each other is rotated, the tracks of the magnetic encoder are individually magnetized by a magnetizing head, made up of a magnetizing yoke and an exciting coil, to thereby provide the magnetic encoder. In the practice of this magnetizing method, when one of the tracks of the magnetic encoder is magnetized, the other track is covered with a magnetic shielding mask.
US08436699B2
A semiconductor device includes: a transmission line including a capacitor section and an inductor section arranged on a semiconductor substrate, and a junction of the semiconductor substrate and one of the capacitor section and the inductance section, wherein a transmission characteristic of the transmission line is determined by a voltage applied to the junction.
US08436697B2
A small-sized surface acoustic wave filter device having favorable filter characteristics includes a transmission-side surface acoustic wave filter chip including a ladder surface acoustic wave filter unit located on a piezoelectric substrate. The ladder surface acoustic wave filter unit includes a series arm connected between an input pad and an output pad and a plurality of resonators and including at least one first resonator connected to the input pad or the output pad. A die-attach surface is provided with an inductor connected to the first resonator. The inductor is arranged such that at least a portion thereof faces the first resonator and does not face any of the plurality of resonators and other than the first resonator.
US08436686B2
Apparatus for efficient time slicing including a phase lock loop circuit having a voltage controlled oscillator, an auto-frequency calibration circuit coupled with the phase lock loop circuit configured to output a value to select a range of the voltage controlled oscillator, and a burst mode detector connected with the auto-frequency calibration circuit. The burst mode detector having a register adapted to store the output of the auto-frequency calibration circuit.
US08436681B2
A voltage regulating circuit includes a pulse width modulation controller, a current sense circuit, a voltage feedback circuit, and a gain-and-bias circuit. The current sense circuit includes an inductor and a capacitor. The voltage feedback circuit includes first and second resistors. The gain-and-bias circuit includes an operational amplifier. A first terminal of the capacitor is connected to an inverting input terminal of the operational amplifier through a third resistor. A second terminal of the capacitor is connected to a non-inverting input terminal of the operational amplifier through a fourth resistor. The inverting input terminal of the amplifier is connected to an output terminal of the operational amplifier through a fifth resistor. The non-inverting input terminal of the operational amplifier is grounded through a sixth resistor. The output terminal of the operational amplifier is connected to the node between the first and second resistors through a seventh resistor.
US08436677B2
A design structure is provided for a reference voltage generator. The design structure includes a first capacitor and an analog to digital converter having its voltage reference coupled to the first capacitor. The first capacitor supplies the voltage reference to the analog to digital converter. A control loop is configured to resupply charges to the first capacitor that are lost when the first capacitor supplies the voltage reference to the analog to digital converter.
US08436675B2
A body-bias voltage source having an output monitor, charge pump, and shunt. a shunt circuit having on/off control is coupled to the output monitor and to the output of the charge pump. Upon sensing that the output voltage of the charge pump is above a desired value, the output monitor may disable the charge pump circuit and may enable the shunt circuit to reduce the voltage at the output of the charge pump. When the voltage output of the charge pump is below the desired value, the output monitor may disable the shunt circuit and may enable the charge pump circuit. A shunt circuit having proportional control may be substituted for the shunt circuit with on/off control.
US08436674B1
Various technologies described herein pertain to automatically adjusting the strength of a voltage booster of an image sensor. A self-scaled voltage booster includes a regulator, a controller, and two or more charge pumps that can be selectively enabled and disabled by the controller. The controller generates controller signals for the charge pumps based on a duty cycle of a regulator signal generated by the regulator. Moreover, the controller can maintain the controller signals without modification for at least a predetermined minimum period of time after a prior modification of at least one of the controller signals. Further, the controller can include a duty cycle and delay module (or a plurality of duty cycle and delay modules) that detects the duty cycle of the regulator signal and maintains the controller signals without modification for at least the predetermined minimum period of time.
US08436673B2
An ignitor semiconductor apparatus can include an output stage IGBT that controls the ON and OFF of the primary current of ignition coil, a sensing IGBT and a sensing resistance for detecting the current flowing through output stage IGBT, gate resistance and a current control circuit that detects the voltage across sensing resistance and controls the current flowing through output stage IGBT. First and second gate control circuits separately control the gate voltages of IGBT's such that the gate voltage of the output stage IGBT is higher than the gate voltage of the sensing IGBT, when the current flowing through output stage IGBT is larger than a predetermined current value, and such that the gate voltage of output stage IGBT is lower than the gate voltage of sensing IGBT, when the current flowing through output stage IGBT is smaller than the predetermined current value.
US08436665B2
A digital PLL circuit includes: a digital phase comparator to detect a phase difference between a master clock and a slave clock and output a phase difference detection value; a correction circuit to correct the phase difference detection value to a phase value in accordance with a comparison result between the phase difference detection value and a threshold; and a slave clock generation circuit to generate the slave clock in accordance with the phase value.
US08436663B2
A current-limited differential entry stage compares an input signal to a reference voltage generated by a current-limited transistor or diode configuration. Current limiters comprise a D-mode feedback transistor having a gate-source junction. The D-mode transistor is not conducting between the source and the drain if a gate-source voltage is more negative than a negative threshold voltage, and conducting between the source and the drain, otherwise a feedback connection connects the source of the D-mode feedback transistor to its gate via a component that generates a voltage drop.
US08436655B2
A voltage level shift circuit in which a difference in response characteristic depending on the signal level of an input signal is suppressed. The voltage level shift circuit generates an output signal VOUT having a voltage amplitude different from that of the input signal. An inverter INV2 generates a voltage V1 in the range of VSS to VDDI according to the input signal. An inverter INV3 generates a voltage V2 in the range of VSS to VPERI according to the input signal. An inverter INV4 generates the output signal VOUT according to V1 and V2.
US08436646B1
A programmable logic device includes logic blocks such as a logic array blocks (LAB) that can be configured as a random access memory (RAM) or as a lookup table (LUT). A mode flag is provided to indicate the mode of operation of configuration logic such as a configuration RAM (CRAM) used during partial reconfiguration of a logic block. If the mode flag indicates a design state, the configuration logic associated with the logic block is included in data verification and correction processes. If the mode flag indicates a user defined state, the configuration logic associated with the logic block is excluded from data verification and correction processes. Thus, exclusion and inclusion of portions of a region of configuration logic from data verification and correction processes allow a region of configuration logic to store both a design state and a user defined state without causing deleterious effects.
US08436641B2
Various embodiments of an on-die termination (ODT) signal generating circuit are disclosed. In one exemplary embodiment, the ODT signal generating circuit includes a latency unit and an ODT control signal generating unit. The latency unit is configured to receive a clock signal and an ODT signal. The latency unit is configured to delay the ODT signal by a predetermined time to generate a first ODT signal. The latency unit is also configured to delay the ODT signal by less than the predetermined time to generate a second ODT signal. The ODT control signal generating unit is configured to provide either one of the first and second ODT signals as an ODT control signal in response to a control signal.
US08436636B2
Methods and apparatuses for testing circuit boards having side mounted test pads are described here.In one aspect of the invention, a test method includes applying test probes to test pads located on at least one side plane of a circuit board. The test method further includes testing components of the circuit board by applying electrical signals to the test pads that are each coupled to at least one of a plurality of conductive members coupled to the circuit board.
US08436632B2
A method and system for determining the Vcom for a liquid crystal display by using a light diffusing unit.
US08436629B2
The invention concerns a device for the capacitive measurement of the quality and/or deterioration of a fluid, wherein the device includes a sensor encapsulated in a perforated case, wherein the sensor is connected to the encapsulation so as to be mechanically uncoupled therefrom.
US08436628B2
The present invention relates to a capacitive sensor system comprising a sensor circuit connected to a first (15) and a second (11) antenna, the first antenna (15) is arranged on a first object (10) and the second antenna (11) is arranged on a second object (11) movable relative to said first object (10). The first antenna (15) is arranged right next to the second object (11) for the sensor circuit to detect the movement and/or position of the second object (11).
US08436626B2
An embodiment is a method for de-embedding. The method comprises forming a primary structure in a semiconductor chip and forming an auxiliary structure in the semiconductor chip. The auxiliary structure replicates a first portion of the primary structure. The method further comprises determining a transmission matrix for each of the primary structure and the auxiliary structure based on measurements and extracting a transmission matrix of a first component of the primary structure by determining a product of the transmission matrix of the primary structure and an inverse of the transmission matrix of the auxiliary structure.
US08436619B2
A combined sensing and reading apparatus. The apparatus includes a tag reader and an environment sensor integrated with the tag reader. A battery maintenance tool that includes a tag reader and an environment sensor integrated with the tag reader is also provided. Examples of a battery maintenance tool include a battery tester and a battery charger.
US08436617B2
A compensation device to reduce the electromagnetic field load due to the presence of a medical intervention apparatus in magnetic resonance examinations, has: a control device that has a radio-frequency input and a radio-frequency output, an injection device that is connected with the radio-frequency output and that injects the radio-frequency power delivered by the control device into the medical intervention apparatus, a measurement device that measures at least one electrical variable at the intervention apparatus, and a regulator that is connected with the control device and the measurement device. The regulator adjusts the control device to deliver the radio-frequency power so that the electrical variable at the intervention apparatus is reduced.
US08436616B2
A solid-state NMR sample tube and method of using same which can be spun stably and at high speed while suppressing its bending resonance. A solid sample to be investigated by solid-state NMR spectroscopy can be sealed in the sample tube. The sample tube includes a hollow cylinder having opposite ends. At least one of the ends is open. The sample tube has a length L, an outside diameter D, and an inside diameter d which satisfy a given relationship disclosed herein.
US08436615B2
A waveguide antenna assembly for a magnetic resonance tomography apparatus, particularly a waveguide antenna assembly that can be detuned for an operation with local coils, is composed of multiple metal surfaces connected by diodes respectively located between the metal surfaces. Only when the diodes are through-connected between these metal surfaces are the surfaces connected with one another in terms of RF signals via these diodes, so the assembly operates as a waveguide antenna. When the diodes are disabled between these metal surfaces, the surfaces are unconnected with one another for RF signals.
US08436614B2
A local coil arrangement for magnetic resonance applications has a base body in which at least one local coil is arranged. An excitation signal to excite an examination subject to emit a magnetic resonance signal can be emitted by the local coil and/or a magnetic resonance signal emitted by the examination subject can be received by means of said local coil. At least one volume region is present in the base body, in which an amount of a substance is located that can be excited by means of the coil or another coil so as to emit a magnetic resonance signal. A shielding is arranged in the base body. The shielding can be controlled so as to either shield or not shield the volume region depending on the control state, so that the volume region is occluded or visible with regard to magnetic resonance applications.
US08436613B2
In a method for diffusion-weighted acquisition of MR signals with an acquisition sequence that includes a diffusion module with multiple diffusion coding gradients and a readout module with readout gradients to acquire the MR signals, the acquisition sequence is configured to acquire MR signals that correspond to a predetermined signal coherence path. The method includes the acquisition of MR signals with the acquisition sequence, and the diffusion coding gradients are activated with predetermined gradient moments during the acquisition sequence. The gradient moments of the diffusion coding gradients are set such that MR signals that correspond to other coherence paths than the predetermined coherence path are reduced, wherein the adjustment of the gradient moments to achieve a predetermined reduction ensues on the basis of a threshold.
US08436609B2
Methods for detecting a liquid under a surface and characterizing Ice are provided The liquid may be a liquid hydrocarbon such as crude oil or fuel oil or mineral oil The surface may be ice, snow, or water, and the method may be practiced in an arctic region to detect oil spills, leaks, or seepages The methods may be used with a range finder to characterize marine ice The methods may include a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) tool with antenna to send a radio-frequency (RF) excitation pulse or signal into volume of substances being detected, detect an NMR response signal to determine the presence of the liquid of interest The NMR response may include a relaxation time element and an intensity level and may include a free induction signal (T2*), a spin echo signal (T2), a train of spin echo signals (T2), or a thermal equilibrium signal (T 1).
US08436601B2
A DC-DC converter has high-side power and low-side power transistors connected in series between supply terminals, an inductor connected between the power transistors and an output terminal. A comparator compares the output voltage with a reference voltage. A detector detects when inductor current approaches zero. A timer is configured to determine a minimum ON time of the high-side power transistor optimized for a particular value inductor. A current detector detects current flow in the back-gate diode of the low-side power transistor. timer is configured to determine an overriding ON time in response to the back-gate current detector. Logic provides control signals to gate power transistors in response to the comparator and the longer one of the minimum ON time and the overriding ON time. The minimum ON time for the high-side power transistor is adjusted in response to the actual inductance of the inductor.
US08436596B2
A circuit comprises an inductor, a load, and a controllable switching device arranged in either a first configuration: switchable between the load being bypassed and the inductor energised, and current flowing through the load, and the inductor discharging energy into the load; or, a second configuration: switchable between current being permitted to flow through the load, inductor and controllable switching device in series, energising the inductor, and the current flowing through the load, and the inductor discharging energy into the load. The circuit further comprises control means for controlling the switching device, a load current sensing resistor connected in series with the load, and a demand signal input. Monitoring means is arranged to monitor the demand signal and the voltages across the sense resistors, and generate a monitor signal. The control means is arranged to receive the monitor signal and to switch the switching device in response the monitor signal exceeding a predetermined threshold.
US08436589B2
An charging device includes: capacitors connected in series; a charging unit that charges the capacitors; bypass units, each respectively connects in parallel to each capacitors, wherein each bypass unit causes, when a charged voltage of any capacitor has reached a set voltage, a charging current to bypass the capacitor whose charged voltage has reached the set voltage; and a control unit that controls the charging unit to charge the capacitors in such a manner that, when a charging voltage of the any capacitor has reached the set voltage, the control unit causes the charging unit to reduce the charging current, and if a predetermined period has elapsed since the charging voltage has reached the set voltage, and if a charging voltage of any of the other capacitors has not reached the set voltage after the predetermined period, the control unit causes the charging unit to increase the charging current.
US08436588B2
The method of charging a battery array performs constant current, constant voltage charging of a battery array while detecting the voltage of each battery. The battery array is a plurality of series connected batteries. The charge method detects the voltage of each battery cell at a prescribed sampling rate. When the voltage of any battery cell exceeds a preset maximum specified voltage, charging power is reduced for constant current, constant voltage charging of the battery array.
US08436581B2
A system for testing electromagnetic characteristics of an electromagnetic steel sheet includes: a driving unit operable based on a non-sinusoidal wave control signal from a control unit and a floating voltage to output a control output; a power output unit operable based on the control output from the driving unit to output a voltage output at an output side coupled across a first winding wound around the electromagnetic steel sheet such that an exciting current flowing through the first winding is generated in response to the voltage output, thereby resulting in an induced voltage across a second winding wound around the electromagnetic steel sheet; and a measuring unit outputting to the control unit an output corresponding to the exciting current and the induced voltage measured thereby such that the control unit obtains the electromagnetic characteristics of the electromagnetic steel sheet based on the output.
US08436578B2
A battery charger assembly includes an outer casing with a sleeve assembled therein having a cavity profiled to receive a battery alone, or a battery and its associated appliance. A cam-operated assembly includes a cam member which moves a gripper assembly into the cavity to grip the battery. In this manner, a battery and/or its appliance may be inserted into the charger, and used in automotive use without the battery and/or the appliance becoming discharged from the charger assembly.
US08436561B2
A method and a device for monitoring the startup of an electric drive, which has a polyphase machine, a pulse-controlled inverter and a control unit. The control unit is provided to compare rotational speed values that are successive in time to one another during the startup of the drive, and when recognizing a non-increase in the rotational speed of the rotor shaft, to detect a mixup of phase lines or pulse-controlled inverter lines.
US08436553B2
A lighting arrangement includes a light fixture including a plurality of light sources wherein each light source is configured to generate a different color light when energized; and a circuit arrangement included in the light fixture and operatively interposed between the plurality of light sources and a source of electrical power. This circuit arrangement is responsive to brief interruptions in the supply of electrical power of less than a predetermined period to simultaneously de-energize all of the light sources for a full duration of the interruption and to subsequently toggle energization from one light source to the next and thereby produce different color light in response to the cessation of the brief interruption.
US08436543B2
A plasma supply device generates an output power greater than 500 W at an essentially constant basic frequency greater than 3 MHz and powers a plasma process to which is supplied the generated output power, and from which reflected power is returned to the plasma supply device. The plasma supply device includes at least one inverter connected to a DC power supply, which inverter has at least one switching element, and an output network, wherein the at least one output network includes at least one inductance that has at least one magnetic field strengthening element that is a Perminvar ferrite.
US08436542B2
System and method are provided where a plurality of luminaires, control switches, occupancy detectors, and photocells are connected to a central control module including a user interface which is used for setting up, testing, commissioning and maintaining the system; a memory card interface and associated memory card which can be used to load and save configuration data, update firmware, and log system operation. Lighting system can be set up and tested and then the configuration saved in a portable memory, such as on a memory card which can be transferred to another system where it is read to facilitate faster and easier configuring of the other system to parallel, or to be exactly like, the original system. Data stored on a portable memory can be automatically recognized to perform appropriate actions such as, for example: update configuration, or update firmware. Also provided is switching between different mutually exclusive lighting modes where the lighting of each mode is sequenced such that the second lighting mode is initiated before the first mode is terminated, resulting in a continuity of lighting in the controlled area. Other features include daylight harvesting control with multiple zone dimming and switching, programmable attack and decay dimming rates, the ability to return a system to its previous dimming level after the lights have been turned off, and the ability to start the controlled lights at full light level then dim down to the previous level to ensure the lighting ballast have sufficient voltage to start up.
US08436541B2
A lighting control system includes a power pack and an enhanced occupancy sensor configured to implement multi-valued signaling to encode additional information into the occupancy signal it provides on the signal line. The power pack is configured to monitor the signal line to detect and interpret the additional information. In one example, the lighting control system also includes a manual override switch coupled to the signal line and/or to the occupancy sensor.
US08436539B2
A high-pressure gas discharge lamp has a sealed discharge vessel with an inner discharge space. Two electrodes project into the discharge space. The filling in the discharge space includes metal halides and a rare gas. The filling is free of Hg and Th and includes halides in an amount of 7.1-11.4 μg/mm3 of the volume of the discharge space. The halides includes at least NaI and ScI3, provided in such amounts that a ratio of the masses of NaI to ScI3 is 1.2-1.6.
US08436537B2
A substrate structure for a plasma display panel (PDP), a method of manufacturing a PDP substrate structure of the PDP, and a PDP including the PDP substrate are provided. The PDP substrate structure includes a substrate, an electrode on the substrate and including a first layer and a second layer, the second layer including an aluminum (Al) material, the first layer being between the substrate and the second layer and including a conductive material, the first layer having lower specific resistance than that of the second layer; and a light absorbable layer on the substrate. The light absorbable layer is an oxidization product of the conductive material of the first layer.
US08436528B2
An organic electronic device structure, the structure comprising: a substrate; a base layer supported by said substrate and defining the base of a well for solvent-based deposition of organic electronic material; one or more spacer layers formed over said base layer; a bank layer formed over said spacer layer to define a side of said well; and wherein an edge of said well adjacent said base layer is undercut to define a shelf over said base layer, said shelf defining a recess to receive said organic electronic material.
US08436519B2
The present invention provides an improved lamp, and lighting fixture incorporating such a lamp, wherein the lamp's envelope includes a special optical coating system configured to more effectively reflect infrared light back toward the lamp filament, thereby enhancing the lamp's luminous efficacy. Multiple embodiments are disclosed, including coating systems deposited on one or both surfaces of the lamp envelope and including coating systems incorporating either a dielectric coating alone or specific combinations of a dielectric coating and a transparent conductive coating.
US08436499B2
The present application and the resultant patent provide a superconducting electrical machine. The superconducting electrical machine may include an armature coil made of a high temperature superconducting material, a cooling system, and a field coil. The cooling system may include a cryostat surrounding the armature coil and a foam insulation surrounding the cryostat.
US08436494B2
A touch sensor device comprises: a touch sensor 1 for sending out an output voltage signal S1 representing the presence or absence of an operation; an operation presence/absence determination unit 2 which, when the output voltage signal has a value equal to or more than a predetermined threshold value, determines that the operation has occurred; a stability determination unit 5 for detecting whether a differential signal S3 representing a differential value obtained by differentiating the output voltage signal is limited within a predetermined range or not; and a count-up timer 4 which, when a period during which the differential signal is limited within the predetermined range becomes a predetermined time period or longer on the premise that the output voltage signal has the value equal to or more than the predetermined threshold value, sends out an ON determination signal S5 and allows an external device 7 to operate.
US08436485B1
A wind powered Engine wherein incoming air flow rotate at least one fan connected to a generator that converts the mechanical energy to electrical energy to provide electrical current to the existing electrical system or a backup rechargeable battery bank. The motor or generator is swivel mounted up to 45° to allow for the rotation thereof to provide maximum proficiency and incorporating a plurality of sensors in electrical communication with a display having audio and visual properties for indicating the status of the Engine.
US08436482B2
There is provided a semiconductor device including: an insulating layer provided on a substrate and formed with plural cavities; wiring lines provided on the insulating layer; plural branched wiring lines that branch from the wiring lines so as to respectively overlap with the plural cavities when seen in plan view; a conductive portion formed on the wiring lines; an external terminal formed on the conductive portion; and a sealing resin layer that seals the wiring lines and the conductive portion.
US08436480B2
A semiconductor package including a semiconductor chip; a base member on which the semiconductor chip is mounted; a plurality of leads formed on the base member, the leads including inner ends electrically connected to the semiconductor chip and outer ends; and an index for identifying locations of specific leads.
US08436474B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit includes first power supply through-chip vias formed through the semiconductor chip to be in a line in a first direction of the semiconductor chip, second power supply through-chip vias formed through the semiconductor chip to be in, first power lines arranged in a second direction, wherein each of the plurality of first power lines is coupled to each of the first power supply through-chip vias, and second power lines arranged in the second direction, wherein each of the plurality of second power lines is coupled to each of the second power supply through-chip vias.
US08436473B2
An integrated circuit includes an interconnect structure at least partially disposed in at least one opening of a dielectric layer that is disposed over a substrate. At least one air gap is disposed between the dielectric layer and the interconnect structure. At least one first liner material is disposed under the at least one air gap. At least one second liner material is disposed around the interconnect structure. The at least one first liner material is disposed between the dielectric layer and at least one second liner material.
US08436467B2
Disclosed is a semiconductor device suppressed in decrease of reliability. The semiconductor device comprises an electrode pad portion formed on the upper surface of a semiconductor substrate, a passivation layer so formed on the upper surface of the semiconductor substrate as to overlap a part of the electrode pad portion and having a first opening portion where the upper surface of the electrode pad portion is exposed, a barrier metal layer formed on the electrode pad portion, and a solder bump formed on the barrier metal layer. The barrier metal layer is formed such that an outer peripheral end lies within the first opening portion of the passivation layer when viewed in plan.
US08436465B2
At least a part of a heat radiation member (9) connected to a DRAM (11) for radiating heat of the DRAM (11) is exposed from a protection member (4) arranged to surround the DRAM and the heat radiation member (9) so as to protect the DRAM (11). Thus, it is possible to provide a semiconductor device having a preferable heat radiation performance.
US08436445B2
A method for processing a thin-film absorber material with enhanced photovoltaic efficiency includes forming a barrier layer on a soda lime glass substrate followed by formation of a stack structure of precursor layers. The method further includes subjecting the soda-lime glass substrate with the stack structure to a thermal treatment process with at least H2Se gas species at a temperature above 400° C. to cause formation of an absorber material. By positioning the substrates close together, during the process sodium from an adjoining substrate in the furnace also is incorporated into the absorber layer.
US08436437B2
A STT-MTJ MRAM cell that utilizes transfer of spin angular momentum as a mechanism for changing the magnetic moment direction of a free layer includes an IrMn pinning layer, a SyAP pinned layer, a naturally oxidized, crystalline MgO tunneling barrier layer that is formed on an Ar-ion plasma smoothed surface of the pinned layer and a free layer that comprises an amorphous layer of Co60Fe20B20 of approximately 20 angstroms thickness or an amorphous ferromagnetic layer of Co40Fe40B20 of approximately 15 angstroms thickness formed between two crystalline layers of Fe of 3 and 6 angstroms thickness respectively. The free layer is characterized by a low Gilbert damping factor and by very strong polarizing action on conduction electrons. The resulting cell has a low critical current, a high dR/R and a plurality of such cells will exhibit a low variation of both resistance and pinned layer magnetization angular dispersion.
US08436430B2
A circuit structure includes a first isolation region, and a first dummy gate electrode over and vertically overlapping the first isolation region. First pickup regions of a diode are formed on opposite sides of the first isolation region, wherein sidewalls of the first pickup regions contact opposite sidewalls of the first isolation region. Second pickup regions of the diode are formed on opposite sides of a combined region of the first pickup regions and the first isolation region, wherein the first and the second pickup regions are of opposite conductive types. A well region is under the first and the second pickup regions and the first isolation region, wherein the well region is of a same conductivity type as the second pickup regions.
US08436429B2
A stacked power semiconductor device includes vertical metal oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors and dual lead frames packaged with flip-chip technology. In the method of manufacturing the stacked power semiconductor device, a first semiconductor chip is flip chip mounted on the first lead frame. A mounting clips is connected to the electrode at back side of the first semiconductor chip. A second semiconductor chip is mounted on the second lead frame, which is then flipped and stacked on the mounting clip.
US08436424B2
A semiconductor device with first and second groups of transistors, the second group transistors each having a lower operating voltage than that of each of said transistors in said first group, the first group transistors have first gate electrodes formed from a silicon based material layer on a semiconductor substrate through a first gate insulating film, the second group transistors have second gate electrodes formed such that metal based gate materials are respectively filled in gate formation trenches formed in an interlayer insulating film on the semiconductor substrate through a second gate insulating film, and a resistor on the substrate has a resistor main body utilizing the silicon based material layer and is formed on the substrate through an insulating film.
US08436422B2
Horizontal and vertical tunneling field-effect transistors (TFETs) having an abrupt junction between source and drain regions increases probability of direct tunneling of carriers (e.g., electrons and holes). The increased probability allows a higher achievable on current in TFETs having the abrupt junction. The abrupt junction may be formed by placement of a dielectric layer or a dielectric layer and a semiconductor layer in a current path between the source and drain regions. The dielectric layer may be a low permittivity oxide such as silicon oxide, lanthanum oxide, zirconium oxide, or aluminum oxide.
US08436420B2
Disclosed are a semiconductor device and a manufacturing method thereof. The semiconductor device can include a recess formed in an active area of a semiconductor substrate, an insulating layer formed in the recess, a source electrode and a drain electrode spaced apart from the source electrode on the insulating layer, a carbon nanotube layer formed between the source and drain electrodes, an oxide layer pattern covering at least the carbon nanotube layer, and a gate electrode formed on the oxide layer pattern.
US08436419B2
A semiconductor device includes a high-breakdown-voltage transistor having a semiconductor layer. The semiconductor layer has an element portion and a wiring portion. The element portion has a first wiring on a front side of the semiconductor layer and a backside electrode on a back side of the semiconductor layer. The element portion is configured as a vertical transistor that causes an electric current to flow in a thickness direction of the semiconductor layer between the first wiring and the backside electrode. The backside electrode is elongated to the wiring portion. The wiring portion has a second wiring on the front side of the semiconductor layer. The wiring portion and the backside electrode provide a pulling wire that allows the electric current to flow to the second wiring.
US08436416B2
According to one embodiment, a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes a substrate, a stacked body, a plurality of semiconductor pillars and a charge storage film. The stacked body is provided on the substrate, with a plurality of insulating films alternately stacked with a plurality of electrode films, and includes a hydrophobic layer provided between one of the insulating films and one of the electrode films. The hydrophobic layer has higher hydrophobicity than the electrode films. The plurality of semiconductor pillars extend in a stacking direction of the stacked body and pierce the stacked body, and the charge storage film is provided between the electrode films and one of the semiconductor pillars.
US08436412B2
A pattern structure for a semiconductor device includes a plurality of first patterns, each of the first patterns extending in a first direction in the shape of a line, neighboring first patterns being spaced apart from each other by a gap distance, the plurality of first patterns including a plurality of trenches in parallel with the line shapes, respective trenches being between neighboring first patterns, the plurality of trenches including long trenches and short trenches alternately arranged in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction, and at least a second pattern, the second pattern being coplanar with the first pattern, end portions of the first patterns being connected to the second pattern.
US08436406B2
A solid-state image sensing device includes a plurality of pixels. Each pixel has a photodiode, a first transistor, and a second transistor. The photodiode is constituted by a first-conductivity-type semiconductor region and a second-conductivity-type semiconductor region. The first and second conductivity types are opposite to each other. The first transistor has a first-conductivity-type drain region formed in the second-conductivity-type semiconductor region to transfer signal charge to the drain region. The second transistor has a source region and a drain region which are formed in the second-conductivity-type semiconductor region and which have the first conductivity type. At least one second-conductivity-type potential barrier is provided under the drain region of the first transistor and the source region and/or the drain region of the second transistor.
US08436402B2
An exposure mask according to an embodiment of the invention includes a first transmission region where a plurality of dots through which light is shielded or transmitted are arrayed into a matrix form having rows and columns and a second transmission region where a plurality of dots through which the light is shielded or transmitted are arrayed into a matrix form having rows and columns and is disposed adjacent to the first transmission region.The dots arrayed in a row or a column of the first transmission region, which is adjacent to the second transmission region, have an area intermediate between areas of dots arrayed on both sides of the row or the column.
US08436401B2
The effective photosensitive area of a solid-state photosensor is controlled with a multitude of electrodes (E1, . . . , Ei, . . . , En) on top of an insulator layer (O) covering a semiconductor substrate (S). Photogenerated charge carriers move laterally under the influence of the voltage distribution on the various electrodes (E1, . . . , Ei, . . . , En), and they are collected at the two ends of the photosensor in diffusions (D1, D2). The voltage distribution on the electrodes (E1, . . . , Ei, . . . , En) is such that the voltage at the two furthermost electrodes (E1, En) is maximum (if photoelectrons are collected), minimum at an interior electrode (Ei), and monotonously decreasing in between. The lateral position of the electrode (Ei) with minimum voltage defines the effective photosensitive area of the photosensor. This photosensor can be used as pixel device in image sensors, either for dynamic exposure control, for optoelectronic mixing or for demodulation, such as required in optical time-of-flight range cameras.
US08436387B2
An LED package includes a substrate, a blue LED chip, an encapsulant and a fluorescent layer. The blue LED chip is arranged on the substrate. The encapsulant covers the blue LED chip. The fluorescent layer is arranged on a top surface of the encapsulant. The fluorescent layer includes a first fluorescent area above the blue LED chip and a second fluorescent area encircling the first fluorescent area. The first fluorescent area includes red fluorescent substance and green fluorescent substance mixed therein. The second fluorescent area includes yellow fluorescent substance mixed therein.
US08436386B2
Solid state lighting devices having side reflectivity and associated methods of manufacturing are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method of forming a solid state lighting device includes attaching a solid state emitter to a support substrate, mounting the solid state emitter and support substrate to a temporary carrier, and cutting kerfs through the solid state emitter and the substrate to separate individual dies. The solid state emitter can have a first semiconductor material, a second semiconductor material, and an active region between the first and second semiconductor materials. The individual dies can have sidewalls that expose the first semiconductor material, active region and second semiconductor material. The method can further include applying a reflective material into the kerfs and along the sidewalls of the individual dies.
US08436384B2
Disclosed are a semiconductor light emitting device and a method for manufacturing the same. The semiconductor light emitting device comprises a substrate, in which concave-convex patterns are in at least a portion of a backside of the substrate, and a light emitting structure on the substrate and comprising a first conductive semiconductor layer, an active layer and a second conductive semiconductor layer.
US08436379B2
A semiconductor light emitting device includes a light emitting portion, and an electrode formed on the light emitting portion. The electrode includes: a light reflecting layer configured to reflect light emitted from the light emitting portion and including a first metal; a first seed layer formed directly on the light reflecting layer and including a second metal; a second seed layer coating at least side surfaces of the light reflecting layer and the first seed layer, the second seed layer including a third metal; and a plating layer coating at least top and side surfaces of the second seed layer, the plating layer including a fourth metal.
US08436369B2
Exemplary embodiments of the present invention relate to a including a substrate, a first conductive type semiconductor layer arranged on the substrate, a second conductive type semiconductor layer arranged on the first conductive type semiconductor layer, an active layer disposed between the first conductive type semiconductor layer and the second conductive type semiconductor layer, a first electrode pad electrically connected to the first conductive type semiconductor layer, a second electrode pad arranged on the second conductive type semiconductor layer, an insulation layer disposed between the second conductive type semiconductor layer and the second electrode pad, and at least one upper extension electrically connected to the second electrode pad, the at least one upper extension being electrically connected to the second conductive type semiconductor layer.
US08436361B2
A Schottky diode structure and a method for fabricating the same, which are based on the principle of charge compensation, wherein a P-type gallium nitride layer is added to a Schottky diode structure, and wherein the PN junction of the P-type gallium nitride layer and the N-type gallium nitride layer decreases the non-uniformity of the surface electric field distribution, whereby the breakdown voltage of the element is raised.
US08436360B2
A thin film transistor, a method of fabricating the same, and an organic light emitting diode display device including the same. The thin film transistor includes: a substrate; a semiconductor layer disposed on the substrate, including a channel region, source/drain regions, and a body contact region; a gate insulating layer disposed on the semiconductor layer so as to expose the body contact region; a gate electrode disposed on the gate insulating layer, so as to contact the body contact region; an interlayer insulating layer disposed on the gate electrode; and source/drain electrodes disposed on the interlayer insulating layer and electrically connected to the source/drain regions. The body contact region is formed in an edge of the semiconductor layer.
US08436353B2
A semiconductor device 10 according to the present invention includes an active layer 14 supported on a substrate 11 and having two channel regions 14c1, 14c2, a source region 14s, a drain region 14d, and an intermediate region 14m formed between the two channel regions 14c1, 14c2; a contact layer 16 having a source contact region 16s, a drain contact region 16d, and an intermediate contact region 16m; a source electrode 18s; a drain electrode 18d; an intermediate electrode 18m; and a gate electrode 12 facing the two channel regions and the intermediate region through a gate insulating film 13 interposed therebetween. An entire portion of the intermediate electrode 18m that is located between the first channel region 14c1 and the second channel region 14c2 overlaps the gate electrode 12 through the intermediate region 14m and the gate insulating film 13.
US08436350B2
In forming a thin film transistor, an oxide semiconductor layer is used and a cluster containing a titanium compound whose electrical conductance is higher than that of the oxide semiconductor layer is formed between the oxide semiconductor layer and a gate insulating layer.
US08436348B2
An organic EL display panel includes a wiring layer, a planarizing film above the wiring layer, and a plurality of light-emitting cells in a row. A pair of first banks are above the planarizing film to delimit lateral surfaces of the light-emitting cells. The planarizing film includes a plurality of recesses that are each formed between adjacent ones of the light-emitting cells and extend between the first banks. A plurality of organic light-emitting layers are each in one of the light-emitting cells between the pair of first banks. A plurality of second banks are connected to the first banks, and each comprise a same material as the first banks. Each of the second banks is above one of the recesses and has a shape that conforms to a profile of the one of the recesses so that the second banks are lower in height than the first banks.
US08436346B2
An object is to provide a white light-emitting element which emits broad white light which is close to natural light and covers a wide wavelength range; that is, a white light-emitting element which has a broad spectrum waveform. Further, there are various different kinds of white light; however, in particular, an object is to provide a white light-emitting element which emits white light which is close to the standard white color of the NTSC. Over a substrate 100, a second light-emitting element 110 and a first light-emitting element 120 are stacked in series. The first light-emitting element 120 exhibits a light emission spectrum having two peaks (two peaks in the blue to green wavelength range) and is disposed close to a film of light-reflecting material. The second light-emitting element 110 exhibits a light emission spectrum having a peak in the orange to red wavelength range, and is disposed in a position which is not close to the film of light-reflecting material.
US08436343B2
An organic EL device includes: an anode (3); a cathode (4); and an organic thin-film layer (5) provided between the anode (3) and the cathode (4). The organic thin-film layer (5) includes: a fluorescent-emitting layer (51) containing a fluorescent host and a blue fluorescent dopant; a red phosphorescent-emitting layer (52) containing a red phosphorescent host and a red phosphorescent dopant; and a green phosphorescent-emitting layer (53) containing a green phosphorescent host and a green phosphorescent dopant. The red phosphorescent dopant emits light mainly by receiving transfer of triplet energy from the fluorescent host. The green phosphorescent dopant emits light mainly by recombination of charges within the green phosphorescent-emitting layer.
US08436340B2
A cross-point cell nanoarray comprises a mechanical support substrate, first and second orders of uniformly spaced parallel electrodes separated by an electrically active organic film and orthogonally arranged to form an array of cross-point cells, individually addressable by biasing the respective opposite electrodes, by selecting them among those of the respective orders, over a planar area of the substrate. The active organic resin layer includes a block copolymer of a major component resin and of at least one different minor component resin, configured to promote formation of large-scale ordered nanostructures through phase segregation, due to block incompatibility and self-assembly properties of the blocks. Polymeric bocks of the ordered nanostructures configured to sequester conductive nanoparticles and/or conductive nanoparticle clusters originally dispersed in the component organic resins, subtracting them from the surrounding matrix copolymer. Preferential electric current paths across the thickness of the active organic layer at cross-over points are thus created.
US08436333B2
Silicon light emitting diode, silicon optical transistor, silicon laser and its manufacturing method
A light-emitting device according to the present invention includes a first electrode unit for injecting an electron, a second electrode unit for injecting a hole, and light-emitting units and electrically connected to the first electrode unit and the second electrode unit respectively, wherein the light-emitting units and are formed of single-crystal silicon, the light-emitting units and having a first surface (topside surface) and a second surface (underside surface) opposed to the first surface, plane orientation of the first and second surfaces being set to a (100) plane, thicknesses of the light-emitting units and in a direction orthogonal to the first and second surfaces being made extremely thin.
US08436327B2
The invention relates to treatment of solid cancers. More particularly, the invention relates to a combined rotation/raster method, referred to as multi-field charged particle cancer therapy. The system uses a fixed orientation proton source relative to a rotating patient to yield tumor irradiation from multiple directions. The system combines layer-wise tumor irradiation from many directions with controlled energy proton irradiation to deliver peak proton beam energy within a selected tumor volume or irradiated slice. Optionally, the selected tumor volume for irradiation from a given angle is a distal portion of the tumor. In this manner ingress Bragg peak energy is circumferentially spread about the tumor minimizing damage to healthy tissue and peak proton energy is efficiently, accurately, and precisely delivered to the tumor.
US08436323B2
A particle beam irradiation apparatus includes: a beam generation unit that generates a particle beam; a beam emission control unit that controls emission of the particle beam; a beam scanning instruction unit that sequentially two-dimensionally instructs a position of the particle beam so that the particle beam is scanned across the entire slice; a beam scanning unit that two-dimensionally scans the particle beam; a respiration gate generation unit that generates a respiration gate synchronized with a respiration cycle of the patient; and a pulse generation unit that generates a predetermined number of scanning start pulses at substantially equally spaced time intervals in the respiration gate. The beam scanning instruction unit instructs to scan the entire slice by pattern irradiation based on a set dose from each of the scanning start pulses so that a scan of the same slice is repeated the predetermined number of times.
