US08983840B2
Techniques, an apparatus and an article of manufacture identifying one or more utterances that are likely to carry the intent of a speaker, from a conversation between two or more parties. A method includes obtaining an input of a set of utterances in chronological order from a conversation between two or more parties, computing an intent confidence value of each utterance by summing intent confidence scores from each of the constituent words of the utterance, wherein intent confidence scores capture each word's influence on the subsequent utterances in the conversation based on (i) the uniqueness of the word in the conversation and (ii) the number of times the word subsequently occurs in the conversation, and generating a ranked order of the utterances from highest to lowest intent confidence value, wherein the highest intent value corresponds to the utterance which is most likely to carry intent of the speaker.
US08983835B2
An electronic device includes a voice processing unit, a wireless communication unit, and a combining unit. The voice processing unit receives speech signals. The wireless communication unit sends the speech signals to a server. The server converts the speech signals into a text message. The wireless communication unit receives the text message from the server. The combining unit combines the text message and the speech signals into a combined message. The wireless communication unit further sends the combined message to a recipient. A related server is also provided.
US08983832B2
Systems and methods for detecting features in spoken speech and processing speech sounds based on the features are provided. One or more features may be identified in a speech sound. The speech sound may be modified to enhance or reduce the degree to which the feature affects the sound ultimately heard by a listener. Systems and methods according to embodiments of the invention may allow for automatic speech recognition devices that enhance detection and recognition of spoken sounds, such as by a user of a hearing aid or other device.
US08983830B2
An encoding device can achieve both highly effective encoding/decoding and high-quality decoding audio when executing a scalable stereo audio encoding by using MDCT and ICP. In the encoding device, an MDCT converter executes an MDCT conversion on a residual signal of left channel/right channel subjected to window processing. An MDCT converter executes an MDCT conversion on the monaural residual signal which has been subjected to the window processing. An ICP analyzer executes an ICP analysis by using the correlation between a frequency coefficient of a high-band portion of the left channel/right channel and a frequency coefficient of a high-band portion of the monaural residual signal so as to generate an ICP parameter of the left channel/right channel residual signal. An ICP parameter quantizes each of the ICP parameters. A low-band encoding unit encoder executes highly-accurate encoding on the frequency coefficient of the low-band portion of the left channel/right channel residual signal.
US08983827B2
A method for linguistical analytic consolidation is described. The method includes displaying a user interface on a mobile device. The method also includes receiving source text content to display in the user interface. The method also includes scanning the source text content for a specific element. The method also includes flagging the specific element of the source text content to be modified according to a set of linguistic rules. Modifying the specific element according to the set of linguistic rules results in a consolidated form of the source text content.
US08983825B2
A collaborative language translation system, computer readable storage medium, and method is disclosed that allocates as between automated and manual language translation services, wherein a manual language translator creates a unique database including manual translator languages capability, accuracy skill level, scope of translation project desired, and translation turnaround time. Also a client creates a unique information set that includes original language, desired language, scope of translated material, client desired translation formats, client desired translation timing, and client desired translation accuracy. Also included in the system is an automated language translation database and instructions for allocating a flow of the unique information set as between the unique database and the automated language translation database based upon the client unique information set and instructions to perform the selected language translation for the client.
US08983815B2
A computer modeling apparatus includes an input module enabling user specification of a subject facility design based on limited data. The subject facility design includes design alternatives, and a processor routine coupled to the input module and responsive to the user specification by forming an input data set to a rigorous simulation modeler to model the subject facility design. The rigorous simulation modeler requires input beyond the limited data. The processor routine enables execution of the simulation modeler. The computer modeling apparatus further includes an interface member that enables the production of a rigorous simulation model of the subject facility design from the simulation modeler. The subject facility is one of an oil processing facility, a gas processing facility, an oil and gas separation facility, or a chemical processing facility.
US08983808B2
Mesh generation and editing tools are provided. The mesh generation and editing tools can be implemented using MATLAB® and are platform-independent, usable in any number of different operating systems and configurations. The mesh generation tool uses a graphical user interface to receive user inputs of boundary and bathymetry information and automatically generates a mesh based on the input information and user selections of the number of mesh refinements based on the bathymetry that should be run. The mesh generation tool also performs a check of the computing resources needed to construct a mesh with the selected parameters and allows the user to change the parameters before generating the mesh if necessary to avoid excessive resource use. The mesh editing tool includes a fully automated master smoothing script that applies a set of “best practices” mesh operations to a mesh, and further includes a set of mesh editing tools that can be applied individually to edit and refine a mesh to best suit a user's needs. Meshes generated in accordance with the present invention can include properly formatted ADCIRC grid files (fort.14 file) that can be used to represent coastal ocean dynamics in a discrete computational framework.
US08983803B2
Methods for analysis and classification of tolerant intersections, and corresponding systems and computer-readable mediums. A method includes receiving an object model having a plurality of elements, the elements corresponding to a plurality of points. The method includes receiving a selection of a first element and a second element of the plurality of elements and receiving a tolerance. The method includes analyzing an intersection between the first element and the second element based on the tolerance. The method includes classifying the intersection between the first element and the second element based on the analysis and storing the classification.
US08983797B2
In one example of a method for remote identifying a non-Lambertian target material, a spectral signature for a target is determined from each of at least two different sets of imagery acquired at different angles, and compared to a predicted signature for a candidate material for each of the at least two different angles. The predicted signatures take into account the known anisotropy of reflectance, and thus also radiance, of the candidate material.
US08983796B2
A network analyzer for measuring a group delay time, which is caused by a device under test to be measured, generates an excitation signal comprising two signals (xIn1(t),xIn2(t)) spaced by a frequency difference, excites the device with the excitation signal and measures a response signal comprising two signals (xOut1(t),xOut2(t)), which are respectively phase distorted by the device relative to the signals (xIn1(t),xIn2(t)) of the excitation signal. It determines the phase difference (ΔφIn) between the signals (xIn1(t),xIn2(t)) associated with the excitation signal and a phase difference (ΔφOut) between the signals (xOut1(t), xOut2(t)) associated with the response signal. Finally, it calculates the group delay time from the phase difference (ΔφIn) of the signals (xIn1(t),xIn2(t)) associated with the excitation signal, the phase difference (ΔφOut) of the signals (xOut1(t),xOut2(t) associated with the response signal and the frequency difference.
US08983791B2
According to one embodiment, a carbon dioxide separation recovery system includes an absorption tower that allows carbon dioxide to be absorbed to an absorption liquid, a regeneration tower that regenerates the absorption liquid, a reboiler that heats the absorption liquid of the regeneration tower, using a heating medium, and a measuring device that measures an amount of heat supplied to the absorption liquid from the heating medium. The measuring device includes a cooler that cools the heating medium discharged from the reboiler, and obtains the amount of heat that is supplied to the absorption liquid from the heating medium by subtracting an amount of heat that is retained by the heating medium cooled by the cooler and an amount of heat, which is removed from the heating medium in the cooler, from an amount of heat that is retained by the heating medium supplied to the reboiler.
US08983789B1
A bias calibration circuit includes a first current source that can provide a majority biasing current, sufficient to provide most but not all of a desired bias voltage across a sensor. A second current source can provide a remaining amount of biasing current (minority biasing current) to provide a bias voltage across the sensor. In some embodiments, the current sources are programmable and codes are determined for programming the first and second current sources. The codes can be stored in a memory.
US08983787B1
Methodology for determining uncertainty in a data set which characterizes a sample involving elimination of the influence of sample alteration drift caused by data set acquisition, and/or elimination of the influence of system drift during data acquisition.
US08983779B2
A system and method implementing a hierarchical approach to RTM (Reverse Time Migration) seismic imaging at different granularity in space and time. An RTM seismic imaging algorithm utilizes RTM technique to convert a parallel problem into one solved using massive domain partitioning. In the method, a coarse-grain grid for the 3D volume of the geological subsurface structure under investigation is initially processed, permitting the RTM imaging process to be performed faster and produces lower level seismic image for inspection. Criteria are then applied to the first level of seismic image to determine whether to reject the image or whether a finer resolution seismic imaging is needed. In the case of finer resolution is needed, RTM resolution for the target volume is adjusted accordingly and RTM imaging process is applied with the new resolution. The process is repeated until either the image is accepted or rejected.
US08983776B2
A robotic apparatus for traversing a selected area autonomously that senses orientation relative to “environmental” signals. The robotic apparatus is provided in two models, a master that can record directive and “environmental signal” readings, or that can record received location information, to provide at least one command recorded on a machine-readable medium representing an instruction for traversing an area of interest, and a slave that lacks the recording capability. Both master and slave models can replay recorded commands, and compare the expected orientation from the command with an actual orientation sensed during autonomous operation. If an error exceeding a predetermined value is observed, a corrective action is taken. The robotic apparatus is able to utilize a tool to perform a task.
US08983770B2
A navigation apparatus, including a map data acquiring means 11a, 11, 12, and 5 for acquiring map data including car pool lane data, a current position determining means 13, 14, 15, and 10 for determining a current position, and a display unit 2 for generating and displaying a map of an area in a neighborhood of the determined current position on the basis of the acquired map data, is provided with a road information receiving means 16 for receiving road information in real time from outside the apparatus, a control unit 10 for, when the road information received by the road information receiving means shows that a traffic congestion has occurred in a highway in a traveling direction, judging whether a car pool lane is also provided in the highway on the basis of the map data acquired by the map data acquiring means, and an output means 2 and 4 for outputting a message showing whether or not there exists a car pool lane according to the result of the judgment by the control unit.
US08983767B2
A computer-implemented method and system for generating a swath coverage pattern for a given working area to be traversed by a vehicle or equipment attached thereto.
US08983758B2
Conventionally, different traffic information cannot be sent in accordance with an output reason of a request to send. According to the present invention, a request to send traffic information, which is output in response to an instruction given by a user operation or an automatically given instruction, is acquired, an output reason of the request to send is determined, and a communication unit is controlled so that the traffic information on different areas is sent depending on the cases where the output reason is the instruction given by the user operation or the automatically given instruction.
US08983755B2
A control system for controlling a power output of a gas engine of the present invention includes a target value setting section for setting as a target value a restricted power output which is less than a predetermined power output when a source gas pressure of a gas fuel is less than a predetermined value required to inject the gas fuel against an intake-air pressure according to the predetermined power output, a power output setting section for setting a set value of a power output based on the target value set by the target value setting section, and a power output control section for controlling the power output so that the power output reaches the set value set by the power output setting section.
US08983741B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for controlling a hydraulic pump of a wheel loader, and more particularly, to a method for controlling a hydraulic pump in order to improve acceleration performance of the wheel loader in a situation in which an injection amount of fuel is limited during an acceleration process of the wheel loader in accordance with stricter regulations on exhaust gas.
US08983740B2
An apparatus, system, and method for a driven loadable construct, the apparatus, system and method utilizing a construct, at least one rotatable wheel mounted for enabling the construct to roll along a surface, at least one motor and power source coupled to the construct to be used to impart rotational energy to the at least one rotatable wheel, and a controller to control the signals for operation of the at least one rotatable wheel which moves the construct.
US08983739B2
A method of estimating soil conditions of a work surface during operation of a track-type tractor measures current operating conditions and current operating state to develop adjustments to a nominal pull-slip curve. The adjusted pull-slip curve is used to calculate optimum performance in terms of an input variable such as track speed. Two factors are developed to reflect soil conditions, coefficient of traction and a shear modulus adjustment that affect different portions of the nominal pull slip curve.
US08983738B2
A method and system for autonomous operation of an earth moving machine (EMM), configured for shoving matter, the EMM comprising at least one implement. Based on at least the mission objective and the mapping data of the mission area, the mission area is divided into segments, each segment being associated with a disposal point. An implement trajectory is calculated in respect of each of the segments such that matter is accumulated by the at least one implement along the segment as the EMM progresses and the accumulated matter is disposed upon arrival at the disposal point, without exhausting the EMM shoving capabilities.
US08983736B2
A grille shutter control device is provided with a control section configured so as to open and close a shutter adapted to be provided in an air introduction path for introducing air ahead of the vehicle into an engine compartment. The grille shutter control device drives and controls first and second drive units. The grille shutter control device is provided with: an abnormality detecting section configured to detect an abnormality in the operation of the shutter on the basis of the condition of the shutter after the start of operation thereof; and an informing section for informing, on the basis of an abnormality in the operation detected by the abnormality detection section, the user of the abnormality in the operation of the shutter.
US08983733B2
A safety arrangement (1) for a motor vehicle having an electric battery (2) and an occupant safety device (6) such as an airbag (7) or seat-belt pre-tensioner. The arrangement (1) having a crash sensor (10) responsive to acceleration, a battery sensor (13-17) arranged to monitor a battery parameter indicative of the condition of the battery, an actuator (8) for activating the occupant safety device (6), and a control unit (9) operable to receive and process signals (x,b) from both the crash sensor (10) and the battery sensor (13-17). The control unit (9) is operable to issue an actuating command to the actuator (8) to activate the occupant safety device (6) in response to a signal x from the crash sensor. In a preferred embodiment, there is provided a second actuator (23,24,25) for activating a battery safety device (20,21,22); the control unit (9) being operable to issue an actuating command to the second actuator to activate the battery safety device upon receipt of both: i) a signal (x) from the crash sensor exceeding a predetermined threshold value X1 and a ii) a signal b from the battery sensor satisfying a predetermined criterion.
US08983732B2
The invention relates to a vehicle safety system includes a steering wheel, a plurality of pressure sensitive sensors located in the steering wheel, and a control unit. The pressure sensitive sensors can be located in different regions of the steering wheel. The pressure sensitive sensors can determine if a driver's hand is pressing upon a respective region of the steering wheel associated with one or more of the plurality of pressure sensitive sensors. The control unit can be configured or programmed to determine if at least one of the driver's hands is pressing upon a region of the steering wheel for a predetermined amount of time.
US08983722B2
A rollover avoidance method may include determining tire loading for at least two tires of a vehicle. A stability of the vehicle with regard to rolling over may be predicted based at least on the determined tire loading. The vehicle may be controlled at least on the basis of the predicted stability.
US08983719B2
A vehicular device includes a communication unit that performs communication with a portable communication terminal; a display unit that display an execution screen of a terminal application; an operation input unit provided in a corresponding manner with the display unit and receives an input regarding an operation for a manual setting of information used by the terminal application; and a vehicle information acquisition unit that acquires vehicle information regarding a vehicle, which is used by the terminal application. A control unit of the vehicular device sets, to the terminal application, the vehicle information acquired by the vehicle information acquisition unit without using the input from the operation input unit for an execution of the terminal application, and controls a transmission of the vehicle information to the external server through the portable communication terminal by using the communication unit.
US08983718B2
Methods and systems for a complete vehicle ecosystem are provided. Specifically, systems that when taken alone, or together, provide an individual or group of individuals with an intuitive and comfortable vehicular environment. The present disclosure includes a system to recognize the drivers and/or passengers within the automobile. Based on the recognition, the vehicle may change a configuration of the automobile to match predetermined preferences for the driver and/or passenger. The configurations may also include the recognition of a unique set of gestures for the person. Further, the configuration can also include the tracking of health data related to the person.
US08983715B2
A method for recognizing unintended drive train responses of a motor vehicle includes at least one drive unit, in which at least one input variable of the motor vehicle and/or of the drive unit is input into the drive train, and at least one output variable is measured at the motor vehicle and/or the drive unit. In order to recognize an unintended drive train response early, the at least one input variable is supplied to a dynamic model which at least partially simulates the drive train of the motor vehicle, the dynamic model determining, based on the at least one input variable, at least one model output variable which is compared to the at least one measured output variable, and an unintended drive train response being deduced if there is a difference between the measured output variable and the model output variable.
US08983713B2
Disclosed is a remote monitoring terminal device for a mobile work vehicle or vessel, capable of informing the user of maximum, minimum, and average values for each sensor and a turn-on count of a switch. The remote monitoring terminal device includes: connection terminals; a data abridging control section for computing minimum, maximum, and average values of data collected over a period from a startup to the latest data acquisition and of actual operation data on actual operation and an occurrence count and durations of a predetermined event, on the basis of operation-state data acquired via the connection terminals and stored in a data storage section; and a communications section. In response to a manual turn-off of a startup switch of the mobile work vehicle or vessel, the data abridging control section transmits data stored in the data storage section, to the remote monitoring device via the communications section.
US08983703B2
A control system includes a drive source including an engine and a motor. A clutch is provided between the drive source and a driving wheel, wherein the clutch is engaged when a drive range is selected. The system performs, by a speed control of the motor, a control for keeping an input speed of the clutch at a target speed that is equal to the input speed at start of an engagement control of the clutch. The system judges that the clutch has started to be engaged, in response to a condition that a parameter has exceeded a predetermined threshold value when in a start region of the engagement control of the clutch, wherein the parameter changes along with a rotational fluctuation of the drive source. The system starts the judgment after awaiting satisfaction of a predetermined condition after the start of the engagement control of the clutch.
US08983695B2
The present invention relates to an electric vehicle and to a method for controlling same. The method for controlling the electric vehicle according to the present invention comprises the steps of: using first data to calculate a first torque value in a first memory; using second data to calculate a second torque value in a second memory having a memory address separate from the first memory; and comparing the first torque value and the second torque value, determining whether an abnormality exists in the torque calculations, and controlling the motion of the vehicle.
US08983694B2
A control apparatus and method for controlling a hybrid vehicle is arranged to prevent shock and to minimize adverse influence on lag and fuel consumption when one of a start/stop control of an engine and a shift control of an automatic transmission is requested while the other control is occurring. The control apparatus includes an engine, a motor/generator, a first clutch, an automatic transmission, an integrated controller, an AT controller and an engine/transmission coordinate controlling section. When a second control request is generated during the first control, the engine/transmission coordinate controlling section starts the second control at a request timing when a condition does not exist such that a shock does not exceed an acceptable level and starts the second control at a later timing when the condition exists such that the shock would exceed the acceptable level if the second control is started at the request timing.
US08983691B2
An electric lawn tractor roll away prevention system includes a brushless DC electric motor powering a traction drive wheel on the electric lawn tractor. The motor is connected to phase wires and provides a back EMF voltage on the phase wires if the electric lawn tractor rolls and turns the traction drive wheel without electric power from the motor. A three phase inverter rectifies the back EMF voltage, turns on the traction controller if the rectified voltage reaches a pre-specified threshold, and applies a voltage to the phase wires to reduce the speed of the electric lawn tractor by regenerative braking.
US08983689B2
A method for assisting in the navigation of an aircraft comprises steps of calculating and displaying a linear deviation on a first linear section and an angular deviation on a second angular section. The method comprises a step of calculation of an anticipated deviation of the aircraft, expressed linearly or angularly, projected to a time DT, characteristic of a reaction time of the aircraft, and of a statistical error distribution associated with this anticipated deviation; and a step of calculation of a probability of exceeding a predetermined target deviation, by means of the anticipated deviation and of the statistical error distribution. The method also comprises a crew alert when the probability is above a predetermined threshold.
US08983685B2
In a system and method for navigating a moving object according to signals from satellite, a moving object receives satellite navigation signals from a number of satellites. The moving object also receives moving base data from a moving base. The received moving base data includes satellite measurement data of the moving base. At the moving object a relative position vector of the moving object relative to the moving base is determined, based on the received moving base data and the received satellite navigation signals. The moving object sends a signal reporting information corresponding to the relative position vector.
US08983667B2
A system is provided to control fluid flow in a wastewater treatment system through wastewater level manipulation. The wastewater treatment system may include a wastewater treatment plant connected to a plurality of pump stations by a main. Each of the plurality of pump stations may include a wet well with a pump therein. The system may include a central server in communication with a sensor to sense a level of wastewater within the wet well. The pump may be automatically moved to an on position when the level of the wastewater in the wet well is at or above a first level and may be automatically moved to an off position when the level of the wastewater in the respective wet well is at or below a pump cutoff level. The central server may systematically manipulate the first level to selectively set the level of wastewater within the wet well.
US08983666B2
A method for defining one or more ANM zones in an electricity network that has at least one energy producing/consuming device that has an output that has to be regulated. The method comprises determining the maximum power and/or current transmittable to or from a node or branch in the network at which an energy producing/consuming device that has to be regulated is to be added; determining the maximum capacity of power and/or current transmittable through that node or branch; and defining a zone (zone 1, zone 2) including the node or branch and regulated energy producing/consuming device that requires to be actively managed, in the event that the maximum power and/or current transmittable to the node or branch exceeds the maximum capacity of power and/or current transmittable through it.
US08983665B2
The present invention refers to a data and commands communication system between compressor and electronic thermostat, particularly applied to cooling systems having variable capacity compressor (VCC), with the purpose of providing an exchange of data between said equipment which is technically more efficient and less costly compared to the solutions available today. Accordingly, there is described a data communication system between variable capacity compressor and electronic thermostat for a cooling system, the compressor comprising at least a frequency inverter unit (100) electrically associated to an electrical motor of the compressor, the electronic thermostat (200) being electrically associated to the frequency inverter unit (100), the electronic thermostat (200) and the frequency inverter unit (100) being powered by an alternating voltage source (15), the data communication system comprising a data communication single highway (50) between the electronic thermostat (200) and the inverter unit (100), arranged to establish an exchange of data between the thermostat (200) and the inverter unit (100), the exchange of data between the thermostat (200) and the inverter unit (100) being provided by the modulation of an electrical magnitude (Snetwork) of the alternating voltage source (15), the modulation of the electrical magnitude (Snetwork) of the alternating voltage source (15) being capable of configuring a modulated information signal (Sx), the exchange of data between the thermostat (200) and the inverter unit (100) being provided by a demodulation of the modulated information signal (Sx).
US08983654B2
Systems and methods for delivering and packing medicines are described. The systems and methods allows for understanding relations between the medicines and a production-history information piece even if the medicines are having different production-history information pieces while being of the same type. A medicine dispensing apparatus includes a medicine delivery means, a medicine preparation means, a packing means, and a control means capable of controlling operations from delivery of the medicine to packing of the medicine according to prescription data and further specifying a production-history information piece of the medicine delivered from the medicine delivery means. The medicine dispensing apparatus further includes a printing means for printing the production-history information pieces on a packaging sheet. When the medicine to be packed as one dose includes different production-history information pieces, while being of the same type, the medicines are packed separately into different packs based on their respective production-history information pieces.
US08983652B2
A transporting apparatus includes a motor, a transporting mechanism which receives a power from the motor and transports the sheet, and a control section which controls the motor in accordance with a predetermined control sequence to make the transporting mechanism transport the sheet up to a target position, and detects an occurrence of an electric-current saturation phenomenon in the motor. When the control section detects the occurrence of the electric-current saturation phenomenon, the control section performs correction of the predetermined control sequence including correction in which a target transporting velocity of the sheet is lowered from a predetermined value determined in the predetermined control sequence, and controls the motor in accordance with the corrected control sequence to make the transporting mechanism transport the sheet so that the sheet is stopped at the target position.
US08983645B2
The system comprises a conveyor for conveying a plurality of molds along a production path on which is located a plurality of stations, each of which can execute at least one corresponding operation.Each mold carries an electronic identification device including memory devices from and to which information or data can be read and written without contact by means of an antenna.Each station is provided with an electronic unit including a processor, having memory devices and at least one antenna, and designed to read and/or write information or data from or to the memory devices of a mold passing through the station.An initial input station transfers or writes to the memory devices of each mold passing through it information identifying the products to be formed in the mold and relating to corresponding forming operations.The additional stations can be controlled selectively in a plurality of predetermined modes for the forming of a corresponding plurality of different product types, the electronic unit of each station being capable of selectively modifying the mode of execution of at least one of its operations, in accordance with operating information read from the memory devices associated with the mold passing through it.
US08983640B2
A method, system, and computer program product containing instructions for analyzing audio input to a receiver coupled to an audio player to identify an audio event as one of a plurality of pre-determined audio event types. In response to identifying the audio event, the audio player is caused to adjust an audio output. Adjusting the audio output may include causing the audio player to pause playing audio output or to lower the volume of the audio output. The audio input to the receiver may be recorded. In response to identifying the audio event, the audio player may be caused to replay a recorded portion of the audio input. The recorded portion of the audio input may include a portion recorded prior to identifying the audio event.
US08983632B2
A system having a function block execution framework. Function blocks may be for use in a control system design. These blocks may be selected from a library of a function block engine. Selected function blocks may be executed for operational purposes. They may be continuously executed by a processor to maintain operational status. However, since a function block engine and a resulting system of function blocks may be operated with battery power, executions of function blocks may be reduced by scheduling the executions of function blocks to times only when they are needed. That means that the processor would not necessarily have to operate continuously to maintain continual execution of the function blocks and thus could significantly reduce consumption of battery power.
US08983625B2
An implantable lead assembly for providing electrical stimulation to a patient includes a lead body; a terminal disposed along a proximal end of the lead body; and an orthopedic implant coupled to a distal end of the lead body. The orthopedic implant is configured and arranged for anchoring to a bony structure. At least one mounting region is disposed along the orthopedic implant. The at least one mounting region is configured and arranged for anchoring the orthopedic implant to the at least one bony structure. An electrode is disposed along a stimulation region of the orthopedic implant. A conductor electrically couples the terminal to the electrode.
US08983618B2
An antenna for an implantable medical device (IMD) is provided including a monolithic structure derived from a plurality of discrete dielectric layers having an antenna embedded within the plurality of dielectric layers. The antenna includes antenna portions formed within different layers of the monolithic structure with at least one conductive via formed to extend through the dielectric layers in order to provide a conductive pathway between the portions of the antenna formed on different layers, such that an antenna is formed that extends between different vertical layers. The dielectric layers may comprise layers of ceramic material that can be co-fired together with the antenna to form a hermetically sealed monolithic antenna structure. The antenna embedded within the monolithic structure can be arranged to have a substantially spiral, helical, fractal, meandering or planer serpentine spiral shape.
US08983606B2
An implantable medical device (IMD) adjusts a sensing configuration of a sensing module prior to or immediately subsequent to entering an environment having an external source that generates the interfering signal. The IMD may, for example, adjust a sampling frequency, resolution, input range, gain, bandwidth, filtering parameters, or a combination of these or other sensing parameters of the sensing module. These adjustments enable the sensing module to obtain a more detailed representation of the sensed signals, including the noise components of the sensed signals caused by the interfering signal. Without having an adequate representation of the noise components of the sensed signal, it is difficult to separate the noise components of the sensed signal from the cardiac electrical signal.
US08983601B2
Treatment of heart failure in a patient by electrically modulating both the sympathetic and parasympathetic autonomic cardiac nerve fibers that innervate the patient's heart at an extravascular site in the pericardial space of the heart. The extravascular site is any suitable single location inside the chest cavity that carries both sympathetic and parasympathetic cardiac nerves such as the cardiac plexus or the pericardial transverse sinus or any two separate extravascular sites with one site carrying predominantly sympathetic cardiac nerves and the other site carrying predominantly parasympathetic cardiac nerves for electrically modulating the balance of autonomic cardiac nerve control. Physiologic inputs from a neuromodulation system's own sensors or from separate implanted or external cardiovascular hemodynamic sensor systems can be used for closed loop control over the balance of sympathetic and parasympathetic cardiac autonomic effects on the patient's cardiac function in real time response to chronic and transient physiologic needs.
US08983599B2
There is provided an energy delivery device comprising a storage device, a discharge circuit and a disarm circuit. The discharge circuit comprises a switch electrically connected to the storage device, and is selectively operable to deliver energy from the storage device to a load, e.g., a patient needing defibrillation, preferably in a multiphasic waveform. The disarm circuit comprises the switch. Preferably, the discharge circuit comprises an H-bridge circuit. There are also provided delivery devices: which comprise a shoot-through elimination circuit; which include housing elements which, when assembled, cause electrical connection between respective components; which include a housing having a small volume and an energy storage device having a large capacitance; which comprise a shunt circuit which, when activated, prevents switching of a switch. There are also provided methods of assembly and disassembly of an energy delivery unit and methods of delivering energy to a load.
US08983597B2
A non-invasive bodily-attached ambulatory medical monitoring and treatment device with pacing is provided. The noninvasive ambulatory pacing device includes a battery, at least one therapy electrode coupled to the battery, a memory storing information indicative of a patient's cardiac activity, and at least one processor coupled to the memory and the at least one therapy electrode. The at least one processor is configured to identify a cardiac arrhythmia within the information and execute at least one pacing routine to treat the identified cardiac arrhythmia.
US08983594B2
In an exemplary embodiment, a drug delivery device for driving an electrotransport current through a body surface of a user is provided. The device includes a patch with two electrodes and one or more reservoirs storing a therapeutic agent. The one or more reservoirs release the therapeutic agent into the body surface of the user when the reservoirs are positioned over the electrodes to form an electrical path for the electrotransport current. The device includes a controller which controls a controllable power supply to drive the electrotransport current through the body surface of the user in a predetermined profile.
US08983574B2
A catheter device for deploying a local magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) coil is provided. The catheter device includes an outer catheter shaft having a lumen extending from a proximal end to a distal end and an inner catheter shaft having a lumen extending from a proximal end to a distal end. The outer and inner catheter shafts are movably engaged such that one can move relative to the other. A plurality of non-metallic filaments are coupled on one end to the outer catheter shaft and coupled on another end to the inner catheter shaft. The plurality of non-metallic filaments are intertwined to form a braid, to which a local MRI coil is coupled. The local MRI coil is configured to have a circular shape when the braid is in a deployed position. Additionally, motion tracking coils can be coupled to the braid to provide motion tracking information for motion compensation.
US08983573B2
A radiation therapy System comprises a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) apparatus and a linear accelerator capable of generating a beam of radiation. The linear accelerator is immersed in and oriented with respect to the MRI magnetic field to expose the linear accelerator to magnetic force that directs particles therein along a central axis thereof.
US08983572B2
A system and method provides for determining patient eligibility for receiving an implantable upper airway stimulation system. Images and sensed data are obtained regarding an upper airway of a patient. Based on the obtained image and sensed data, an obstruction vector is determined according to a location, a pattern, and a degree of obstruction along the upper airway. A patient candidate filter is applied against a patient health profile. Patient eligibility is determined based on the obstruction vector and application of the patient candidate filter.
US08983571B2
Methods for measuring liver fat mass are provided. One method includes acquiring dual-energy two-dimensional (2D) scan information from a dual-energy X-ray scan of a body and generating a dual-energy X-ray image of the body using the 2D scan information. The method further includes identifying a region of interest using the dual-energy X-ray image and determining a subcutaneous fat mass for each of a plurality of sections of the region of interest. The method also includes determining a liver fat mass for the region of interest based on the determined subcutaneous fat mass for each of the plurality of sections.
US08983569B2
A physiological sensor apparatus comprises a physiological sensor, a headband and an eye mask. In one example, the physiological sensor includes a plurality of electroencephalography (EEG) electrodes that are used to sense a signal indicative of a sleep stage (e.g., REM sleep or non-REM sleep) of a user. Each end of the headband attaches to respective ends of the sensor and eye mask such that when the sensor is disposed on the forehead of the user, the eye mask shields the eyes of the user from visible light. The diameter of the headband is adjustable by the user to secure the sensor to the forehead of the user. The sensor accurately determines the sleep stages of the user over a period of sleep of the user because the adjustable headband and eye mask prevent the electrodes from being displaced from the forehead of the user during the period of sleep.
US08983550B2
An exemplary mobile communication device comprises a processor, a memory coupled to the processor, a display coupled to the processor, a transceiver coupled to the processor, an antenna coupled to the transceiver, a user interface coupled to the processor for receiving inputs from a user, and software executed by the processor for performing a method for managing a plurality of contact entries of an address book stored on the memory. The method comprises displaying a list of contact entries on the display, displaying a toggle value corresponding to each contact entry displayed on the display, receiving an input for selecting or deselecting a particular toggle value for a particular contact entry, receiving a command input for the execution of a function on the address book, and executing the function associated with the command input for each contact entry that has a selected toggle value.
US08983537B2
A locating system and method for locating objects, such as keys, is disclosed. The locating system may include a transmitter for transmitting an encrypted code in the 900 MHz band. The transmitter may be powered by a battery. By transmitting in the 900 MHz band, the battery power consumed by the transmission may be relatively low and the encrypted code may travel a relatively long distance, such as 100 feet or more. The locating system may include a battery-powered locator device that is configured to detect, receive, and/or decode the encrypted code and determine whether the encrypted code is associated with the locator device or an attached object. After which, the locator device may provide an indication of its position. For instance, an audible sound of 85 dB or greater may be generated. The transmitter may be a self-contained device, or affixed onto or incorporated into a communications device.
US08983534B2
A mobile telephone capable of controlling a remote keyless system is provided. The mobile telephone is loaded with an executable program that enables the mobile telephone to control the remote keyless system using frequencies and systems already used by the remote keyless system. The complex functionality a mobile telephone allows the executable program to fully control remote keyless systems.
US08983518B2
A method and system are provided for operating a mobile device, the method comprising: reading a barcode being displayed by another mobile device, to identify a group, by capturing at least one image of the barcode; and joining the group identified by the barcode. Another method and system are provided, the method comprising: storing a barcode on the mobile device, the barcode identifying a group; and displaying the barcode on a display of the mobile device such that the entire barcode is visible on the display to enable another mobile device to scan the barcode to join the group. Another method and system are provided, the method comprising: reading a barcode being displayed by another mobile device, to identify an individual associated with the other mobile device, by capturing at least one image of the barcode; and inviting the individual identified by the barcode to join a group.
US08983513B2
A method and apparatus for automatically switching functions associated with a leading radio to another radio on a channel is disclosed. The method includes receiving, from a leading radio by at least one other radio operating on a channel, an associated timing signal via at least one control timing message. Other radios use the timing signal to synchronize transmissions made on the channel. The method also includes receiving, by the other radios, an indication that the leading radio can no longer provide control timing messages. The method further includes maintaining, by each radio on the channel, values for various elements associated with radios operating on the channel and selecting a new leading radio from the other radios based on priorities of the various elements.
US08983507B1
A private packet network backbone exchange (PPNBE) may include a capability for determining a variable call termination location corresponding to a called party. The PPNBE may directly query one or more data sources administered by a communications service provider other than the provider of the PPNBE to determine a current location to which an originating call is to be terminated, and the PPNBE may provide a “one-hop” call connection between the originating entity and the terminating entity of the call without traversing or communicating with any other exchanges. The PPNBE may re-direct established calls by directly querying the one or more data sources. Multiple data sources administered by one or more other communications service provider may be directly accessed by the PPNBE for call termination and/or re-direction purposes.
US08983499B2
A location server, such as a Serving Mobile Location Center (SMLC) or E-SMLC and mobile terminal selectively implement the reliable transport mechanism used in, e.g., LPP or LPPe protocols, thereby decreasing unnecessary delays. The reliable transport mechanism may be selectively implemented by not requiring an acknowledgement for specific messages, such as an unsolicited assistance data message. When assistance data is solicited, however, the responsive assistance data message includes an acknowledgement request as per the reliable transport mechanism.
US08983497B2
An embodiment is directed to a method for managing a geo-targeted campaign. A user defines a campaign by specifying devices eligible to receive the material associated with the campaign, landmarks defining points of interest and areas associated with the campaign, and triggers that enable the material to be delivered to devices based on a set of conditions. In an embodiment, a console provides controls for defining devices, landmarks, and events. The console includes a wizard for creating events and a visualization layer that allows a user to visualize devices and landmarks on a map.
US08983492B2
Methods, apparatuses and articles of manufacture are provided which may be implemented, at least in part, in a mobile device and used to affect one or more motion models and/or the like based, at least in part, on one or more determined range rates for one or more wireless signals acquired from one or more terrestrial transmitters. Here, for example, a range rate may be determined based, at least in part, on a measured phase value and/or a measured Doppler value.
US08983491B2
This document presents a location tracking system comprising a plurality of location tracking nodes disposed to cover an area where the location tracking is to be carried out, at least one mobile tag configured to communicate with at least one of said plurality of location tracking nodes at a time for location tracking purposes, and a control apparatus configured to control operational parameters of the plurality of location tracking nodes and the at least one mobile tag. The control apparatus and the plurality of location tracking nodes are configured to carry out an automatic calibration phase during operation of the location tracking system the location tracking nodes transmit and receive test signals between the neighboring nodes, and report measurement results to the control apparatus. The control apparatus then optimizes the operation parameters of the location tracking system on the basis of received measurement reports.
US08983485B2
To provide a base station apparatus, mobile terminal apparatus and scheduling method for enabling fairness of user throughput to be improved, a scheduling method is characterized by having the steps of notifying a mobile terminal apparatus of allocation information of radio resources to each cluster pattern with a plurality of cluster patterns comprised of clusters formed of a plurality of adjacent sectors predefined and with different radio resources allocated for each of the cluster patterns, receiving channel information•channel quality information corresponding to each of the cluster patterns for each of the radio resources from the mobile terminal apparatus, and controlling allocation of the radio resources to the mobile terminal apparatus, based on the channel information•channel quality information, where at least one of the cluster patterns is a coordinated cluster pattern to perform coordinated transmission between adjacent sectors in a cluster.
US08983484B2
The present invention relates to the technical field of dynamic spectrum access. Synchronization of quiet periods for spectrum sensing can significantly benefit sharing of available secondary access spectrum between two or more wireless communication systems in the same geographic region. The object of the present invention is to provide a methodology by which quiet periods can be synchronized in time between different secondary access wireless communication systems. Quiet Period Clients (QPC) of secondary access wireless communication systems are adapted to send requests to a Quiet Period Server (QPS) to obtain a quiet period rule set. The QPC receives from the QPS an answer specifying the quiet period rule set, and optional quiet period synchronization information. The systems perform their transmissions in accordance with the received rules.
US08983480B2
A method and apparatus for multiplexing reverse link feedback channels on a single reverse link frequency supporting multiple forward link frequencies for forward link channels is provided. The design includes assigning the reverse link frequency to a mobile station, assigning one or more of the forward link frequencies to the reverse link frequency, and code division multiplexing a plurality of the reverse link feedback channels on the reverse link frequency.
US08983477B2
For enhancing the positioning of a mobile device, a server may generate parameters for each of a plurality of models of a coverage area of a transmission node on the assumption of a different spatial constraint for a location of a receiving device. The parameters of each of the models may be provided along with the associated indication of the spatial constraint for transmission. The position of a mobile device may be determined by evaluating the parameters of each of the models.
US08983474B2
A radio controller 100 includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a radio communication state of a neighboring cell around the cell formed by a base station 200, and a threshold determination unit configured to determine an in-out threshold based on an acquisition result of the radio communication state by the acquisition unit. The threshold determination unit calculates an estimated overall reception level within a frequency band at a point at which the reception level of the common control channel transmitted by the base station 200 becomes the highest in the cell formed by the base station 200, based on the reception level of the common control channel and the overall reception level, and determines the in-out threshold based on the calculated estimated overall reception level.
US08983473B2
An LTE base station (100) conducts radio communication with a radio terminal which can execute a handover between a plurality of radio communication systems having different attainable communication rates. The LTE base station (100) is provided with a service detection unit (121A), which detects the classification of a communication service being used by a radio terminal, and a transmission unit (111), which sends the radio terminal a command for handover to the radio base station of a radio communication system, which handles the communication rate required for the communication service detected by the service detection unit (121A).
US08983459B2
A method for modifying information stored in a mobile communication network includes steps of receiving, in a network element, a request for an operation in the mobile communication network relating to a user equipment; deriving information on the first register on the basis of the request; determining information on a second register for the user equipment in the network element; comparing information on the first register derived on the basis of the request with information on the second register determined for the user equipment in the network element; and if the outcome of the comparison indicates a mismatch between the information on the first and second registers, the second register is requested to initiate the modification of information in a third register. A network element implementing at least part of the steps of the method is also described.
US08983456B2
Disclosed in the present invention are a resource policy decision method and system in a roaming scenario, for improving the accuracy of the resources allocated to the user. The method includes: after having received an available resource query message from a mobility management and control function MMCF entity, a resource and admission control function RACF entity of a visited network acquiring degrade information of current service of a user from a resource and admission control platform, and according to a candidate access network list in the available resource query message, checking current availability of resource of each candidate access network in the candidate access network list, so as to obtain resource availability information of each candidate access network; the RACF entity of the visited network carrying out resource decision according to the degrade information, the resource availability information and user information of the user.
US08983450B2
In a radio communication system, a first network-based radio station transmits information destined for a plurality of subscriber stations. A second network-based radio station transmits messages destined for individual subscriber stations and the second network-based radio station receives by radio the information transmitted by the first network-based radio station and transmits the same.
US08983448B2
An in-device coexistence interference report control method of a network for terminal to inform the network of interference among heterogeneous radio communication modules coexisting in the terminal is provided. The method includes determining, at a terminal when a terminal capability enquiry message is received from a base station, whether the base station supports an In-Device Coexistence (IDC) interference report, transmitting, when the IDC interference report is supported, a terminal capacity information message to the base station, receiving a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection reconfiguration message including information on whether terminal's IDC interference indicator transmission is permitted from the base station; and transmitting an RRC connection reconfiguration complete message to the base station in response to the RRC connection reconfiguration message. The in-device coexistence interference indication control method is advantageous in preventing the UE from transmitting useless in-device coexistence interference indication messages, resulting in reduction of unnecessary signaling.
US08983434B2
Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are for managing opt-in and opt-out for private data access. According to one aspect disclosed herein, a mobile device can receive a request to obtain private data associated with a user of the mobile device and, in response to the request, determine whether an application program associated with the request is permitted to access the private data based upon a rule. The mobile device, in response to determining that the application program is permitted to access the private data based upon the rule, can instruct the application program to proceed to obtain the private data. The mobile device, in response to determining that the application program is not permitted to access the private data based upon the rule, can instruct the application program to avoid obtaining the private data.
US08983433B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving at a network device, a request from a mobile device to connect to a wireless local area network, inserting mobile device and network attributes into the request, transmitting the request from the network device to an authentication proxy comprising a policy filter, and receiving a response to the request and offloading mobile data to the wireless local area network if the request is allowed. The policy filter is configured to filter requests received at the authentication proxy based on the attributes and a network policy for offloading mobile data to the wireless local area network. An apparatus and logic are also disclosed herein.
US08983422B2
A method of self-calling and emergency reporting using a mobile terminal, and a system thereof, are provided. The method includes: when a particular pattern of a user is inputed to a mobile terminal, and the particular pattern is authentication data previously inputed by the user, changing a mode of the mobile terminal to a self-reception mode previously determined by the user; outputting a query previously stored in a database to the user through the mobile terminal to perform voice recognition; executing a policy previously stored in the database according to the user's voice recognition and a response pattern according to the query; and changing a mode of the mobile terminal to a standby mode when a personal identification number for termination is input.
US08983414B2
A communication system front-end architecture and a method of fabricating same are disclosed in which a diverse set of semiconductor technologies and device types (including CMOS, SiGe CMOS, InP HBTs (heterojunction bipolar transistors), InP HEMTs (high electron mobility transistors), GaN HEMTs, SiC devices, any number from a diverse set of MEMS sensors and actuators, and potentially photonics) is merged onto a single silicon, or other material substrate to thereby enable the development of smaller, lighter, and higher performance systems.
US08983410B2
A configurable 2-wire/3-wire serial communications interface (C23SCI), which includes start-of-sequence (SOS) detection circuitry and sequence processing circuitry, is disclosed. When the SOS detection circuitry is coupled to a 2-wire serial communications bus, the SOS detection circuitry detects an SOS of a received sequence based on a serial data signal and a serial clock signal. When the SOS detection circuitry is coupled to a 3-wire serial communications bus, the SOS detection circuitry detects the SOS of the received sequence based on a chip select (CS) signal. In response to detecting the SOS, the SOS detection circuitry provides an SOS detection signal to the sequence processing circuitry, which initiates processing of the received sequence using the serial data signal and the serial clock signal. The received sequence is associated with one of multiple serial communications protocols.
US08983401B2
A communication apparatus includes a radio portion (100) configured to transmit a modulated transmission signal and to receive a modulated reception signal. The radio portion (100) includes a transmission and reception antenna (103) configured to transmit the modulated transmission signal and to receive the modulated reception signal; a reception antenna (105) configured to receive the modulated reception signal; a transmission filter (107) interposed between a modulation and demodulation circuit (101) and the transmission and reception antenna (103), and configured to pass the modulated transmission signal; a reception filter (109) interposed between the transmission and reception antenna (103) and the modulation and demodulation circuit (101) and between the reception antenna (105) and the modulation and demodulation circuit (101), and configured to pass the modulated reception signal; a first circulator (111) configured to direct the modulated reception signal from the transmission and reception antenna (103) to the reception filter (109); and a second circulator (113) configured to direct the modulated reception signal from the reception antenna (105) to the reception filter (109).
US08983399B2
Provided is an in-millimeter-wave dielectric transmission device. The in-millimeter-wave dielectric transmission device includes a semiconductor chip provided on one interposer substrate and capable of in-millimeter-wave dielectric transmission, an antenna structure connected to the semiconductor chip, two semiconductor packages including a molded resin configured to cover the semiconductor chip and the antenna structure, and a dielectric transmission path provided between the two semiconductor packages to transmit a millimeter wave signal. The semiconductor packages are mounted such that the antenna structures thereof are arranged with the dielectric transmission path interposed therebetween.
US08983385B2
An entertainment system for a vehicle, including a media player and a control panel having an option that allows a user to select either a first communication mode or a second communication mode, wherein the first communication mode sets the entertainment system to respond to a transmitted first set of codes and the second communication mode sets the entertainment system to respond to a transmitted second set of codes.
US08983380B2
An adaptive tuning method comprises the steps of: obtaining a statistical result; determining whether an adaptive tuning procedure is to be performed in accordance with the statistical result; obtaining reference information of the first wireless module; and performing the adaptive tuning procedure in accordance with the reference information.
US08983379B2
A data transmitting and receiving apparatus includes a coil configured to transmit and receive data through inductive coupling, where a voltage drop across the coil constitutes a sensing signal. The apparatus further includes an input unit configured to generate transmission data and a replica signal in accordance with an input data signal, the transmission data being supplied to the coil. The apparatus still further includes a replica unit configured to generate a compensation signal in accordance with the replica signal, and an output unit configured to extract reception data from the sensing signal using the compensation signal.
US08983373B2
A communications system may include a first mobile device holder and a first trigger device associated therewith, a second mobile device holder different than the first mobile device holder and a second trigger device associated with the second mobile device holder, and a first NFC device associated with the first mobile device holder. The system may further include a mobile device configured to be removably coupled with the first holder or the second holder, a second NFC device carried by the housing, and a detector carried by the housing and configured to detect the first trigger device or the second trigger device. The mobile device may also include a controller carried by the housing and configured to determine positioning adjacent the first or second holder based upon the second NFC device and the detector, and operate in a respective first or second operating mode accordingly.
US08983368B2
A wireless bridge device for communicating between a telephone of a public switched telephone network and a wireless transceiver includes a first connecting port, a second connecting port, a first wireless communication module and a first audio conversion module. The first connecting port is coupled to a console base of the telephone. The second connecting port is coupled to a telephonic handset of the telephone. The first wireless communication module outputs wirelessly an incoming signal and receives wirelessly an outgoing signal. The first audio conversion module is coupled between the first connecting port and the first wireless communication module. The first audio conversion module determines whether the incoming signal is received or not. If so, the first audio conversion will convert sound signals transmitted between the telephone and the wireless transceiver.
US08983364B2
Methods and apparatus are presented to allow one receiver architecture to be used for the reception of two different SDARS signals. Common receiver functions can be utilized to process each signal, thereby obviating the need to duplicate hardware elements. For example, it can be assumed that both signals will not be received at the same time, thus allowing for considerable hardware reuse and lowering the cost of an interoperable receiver.
US08983353B2
A fixing apparatus includes: a fixing belt; a pressurizing roller; a supporting member; a heating unit; a nip forming member; and a deform preventing unit. The fixing apparatus and an image forming apparatus including the fixing apparatus prevent a supporting member from deforming due to sliding of a fixing member, improving energy conservation and durability of parts and obtaining a good image.
US08983349B2
A fixing device for thermally fixing a developing agent image to a sheet includes a tubular member, a nip plate, a heater, a reflection plate, and a backup member. The tubular member has an inner peripheral surface defining an internal space and an axis defining an axial direction. The nip plate is disposed in the internal space, and the inner peripheral surface is in sliding contact with the nip plate. A heater is disposed in the internal space and confronts the nip plate in a confronting direction. The reflection plate is configured to reflect radiant heat from the heater toward the nip plate. A backup member is configured to provide a nip region in cooperation with the nip plate for nipping the fusing member between the backup member and the nip plate.
US08983347B2
A developing roller is provided which is capable of forming a toner layer having the most uniform possible thickness on an outer peripheral surface of a roller body thereof. The roller body (2) of the developing roller (1) is formed from a rubber composition comprising: a base rubber which is a mixture comprising NBR and/or SBR, CR and an epichlorohydrin rubber; and not less than 2.5 parts by mass and not greater than 15 parts by mass of a tackiness imparting agent based on 100 parts by mass of the base rubber.
US08983334B2
In an image forming apparatus including a door 10 openable with respect to a main assembly of the image forming apparatus, a drum cartridge 8 detachably mountable to the image forming apparatus main assembly, and detachably mountable developing cartridges 4k-4y provided above the drum cartridge 8, wherein the door 10 includes a positioning urging portion 26 contacting the developing cartridges in a state in which the door 10 is closed, the door 10 includes drum cartridge mounting and demounting guides 28R and 28L for regulating the drum cartridge 8 so as to pass along a non-interference path with the positioning urging portion 26 in contact to the drum cartridge 8 when the drum cartridge 8 is demounted from the image forming apparatus.
US08983326B2
An image forming apparatus may include: a heating unit including a heating member that is heated by a heat source and a backup member that forms a nip portion; a feeding unit; and a control unit configured to control the heat source and the feeding unit, wherein the control unit controls the feeding unit such that each of a plurality of recording sheets is fed to the nip portion, wherein some of the plurality of the recording sheets are sequentially conveyed at a second interval to each other, wherein a first recording sheet of the some of the plurality of the recording sheets is fed to have a first interval with respect to a previously conveyed recording sheet, and wherein the control unit increases the output of the heat source on a timing when a front end of the first recording sheet reaches a periphery of the nip portion.
US08983318B2
An image forming apparatus is disclosed, including a light source; a drum; an optical scanning apparatus; and an endless belt. The image forming apparatus further includes a pattern forming unit which forms, on the endless belt along a conveying direction of the endless belt, a density fluctuation detecting pattern having a period; a density sensor which detects the density fluctuating detecting pattern and outputs a density signal including information on density fluctuations in the conveying direction of the endless belt; and a period detecting sensor which detects the period included in the density fluctuations.
US08983317B2
An image forming apparatus configured to, in a state where a voltage is applied to a charging unit, determine a surface potential of an image bearing member using a first voltage applied when a current value obtained by, after applying a predetermined voltage to a transfer unit, detecting the current value while changing the applied voltage to a positive direction reaches a discharge current value, and a second voltage applied to the transfer unit when a current value obtained by, after applying the predetermined voltage to the transfer unit, detecting the current value while changing the applied voltage to a negative direction reaches the discharge current value.
US08983313B2
An image heating device includes a belt, a wire stretched from one widthwise end to the other widthwise end of the belt near a peripheral surface of the belt, a moving member movably fixed to one end of the wire, a biasing member, a detection unit, and a control unit. The belt heats an image on a sheet. The biasing member biases the moving member. The detection unit detects, from a biasing force of the biasing member provided when the wire is cut, that the moving member is moved. The control unit controls, according to an output of the detection unit with regard to detecting that the moving member is moved, whether or not to prohibit an image heating process.
US08983309B2
A transmitter in an optical communications system includes a digital signal processor for processing a data signal to generate a sample stream encoding successive symbols in accordance with a constrained phase modulation scheme having a constellation of at least two symbols and a modulation phase constrained to a phase range spanning less than 4π. A digital-to-analog converter converts the sample stream into a corresponding analog drive signal. A finite range phase modulator modulates a phase of a continuous wavelength channel light in accordance with the analog drive signal, to generate a modulated channel light for transmission through the optical communications system. A receiver in the optical communications system includes an optical stage for detecting phase and amplitude of the modulated channel light and for generating a corresponding sample stream, and a digital signal processor for processing the sample stream to estimate each successive symbol of the modulated channel light.
US08983307B2
An optical transmitter for an optical communication system includes a light source that outputs optical signals having a plurality of wavelengths, and a wavelength control unit. The wavelength control unit receives an optical signal from the light source, resonates an optical signal having a first wavelength, modulates the optical signal of the first wavelength with a first transmission data signal to obtain an intensity modulated optical signal, and outputs the intensity modulated optical signal. The wavelength control unit may be integrally formed on a semiconductor substrate in which a high thermal conductivity material is used. Alternatively, a trench that intercepts external heat may be formed in a boundary surface of the wavelength control unit, and may be filled with a low thermal conductivity material.
US08983291B1
The present invention is directed to data communication system and methods. More specifically, various embodiments of the present invention provide a communication interface that is configured to transfer data at high bandwidth using PAM format(s) over optical communication networks. In various embodiments, amplitude and phase of the optical wave are modulated. There are other embodiments as well.
US08983287B2
A personnel monitoring system. The personnel monitoring system includes a host node having an optical source for generating optical signals, and an optical receiver. The personnel monitoring system also includes a plurality of fiber optic sensors for converting at least one of vibrational and acoustical energy to optical intensity information, each of the fiber optic sensors having: (1) at least one length of optical fiber configured to sense at least one of vibrational and acoustical energy; (2) a reflector at an end of the at least one length of optical fiber; and (3) a field node for receiving optical signals from the host node, the field node transmitting optical signals along the at least one length of optical fiber, receiving optical signals back from the at least one length of optical fiber, and transmitting optical signals to the optical receiver of the host node.
US08983268B2
In a recording medium on which is recorded a multiplexed stream including a plurality of first packets (V_main) constituting a first I-picture in a first video stream and a plurality of second packets (V_sub) constituting a second I-picture in a second video stream, information for identifying the first I-picture and information for identifying the second I-picture are recorded on the medium. A recording medium can thereby be obtained that enables the rapid detection, from a small amount of information, of a particular picture included in a stream such as a TS in which multiple content streams are multiplexed.
US08983265B2
In a recording medium on which is recorded a multiplexed stream including a plurality of first packets (V_main) constituting a first I-picture in a first video stream and a plurality of second packets (V_sub) constituting a second I-picture in a second video stream, information for identifying the first I-picture and information for identifying the second I-picture are recorded on the medium. A recording medium can thereby be obtained that enables the rapid detection, from a small amount of information, of a particular picture included in a stream such as a TS in which multiple content streams are multiplexed.
US08983263B2
A video stream may include portions that are stored while other portions are being displayed. In one embodiment, a portion of the video stream may be stored in digital storage media at one instance while in the next instance another portion of the stream is being read out of the storage media.
US08983260B2
A non-zero dispersion shifted optical fiber (NZDSF) includes a central core, an inner cladding, and an outer cladding. The central core has an outer radius r1 and a maximum refractive index difference Dn1 with respect to the outer cladding. The inner cladding includes a first intermediate cladding and a buried trench. The first intermediate cladding has an outer radius r2 and a refractive index difference Dn2 with respect to the outer cladding. The buried trench has an outer radius r3, a width w3, and a negative refractive index difference Dn3 with respect to the outer cladding. In some embodiments, the inner cladding includes a second intermediate cladding having an outer radius r4 and a refractive index difference Dn4 with respect to the outer cladding. For a radius of curvature of 30 millimeters at a wavelength of 1625 nanometers, the optical fiber typically exhibits bending losses of about 0.5 dB/100 turns or less. At a wavelength of 1550 nanometers, the optical fiber's effective area is typically about 95 μm2 or greater.
US08983256B2
An optical fiber cable is provided as one capable of preventing damage of an inside tube and an outside tube. An optical fiber cable 1 is provided with an optical fiber 2 for propagating laser light, an inside tube 3 housing an end portion of this optical fiber 2, and an outside tube 4 arranged outside the inside tube 3 and surrounding the inside tube 3. A space portion 5 is provided between the optical fiber 2 and an inner peripheral surface of the inside tube 3.
US08983251B2
An apparatus with either a graphene sheet or an epsilon-near-zero layer sandwiched in a waveguide structure and a tuning device. The tuning device is configured to selectively control application of at least first and second gate voltages across the waveguide structure. The graphene sheet has a first dielectric constant which is zero and the waveguide structure operates at a first absorption state and a first propagation distance with application of the first voltage by the tuning device and has a second dielectric constant and the waveguide structure operates at a second absorption state and a second propagation distance with application of the second voltage. The second dielectric constant is larger than the first dielectric constant, the second absorption state is smaller than the first absorption state, the second propagation distance is longer than the first propagation distance, and the second voltage which is zero or smaller than the first voltage.
US08983246B2
A rotary optical link joint having a small change in transmission loss during rotational use is provided. In order to realize this, the rotary optical link joint according to the present invention is an optical link joint that relatively rotatably holds, centering around an axis line (19, 29), a first optical fiber (11) and a second optical fiber (21), wherein a part or all of the first optical fiber (11) and the second optical fiber (21) are configured by a multi-core optical fiber having a plurality of cores, and wherein the plurality of cores is arranged in a circular or annular area that is sectioned by a concentric circle centered around the axis line (19, 29) of the multi-core optical fiber.
US08983241B2
Techniques are described to form an optical waveguide switch that could reach a very high extinction ratio. In particular, this disclosure describes an asymmetric MZI, in which different waveguide capacitor structures are used in two arms of the MZI: a first arm with a waveguide capacitor to achieve the mainly phase modulation and a second arm with a waveguide capacitor to achieve mainly the magnitude modulation, respectively. Using the asymmetric MZI in accordance with this disclosure, one can design an algorithm to achieve almost unlimited extinction ration during the switching operation.
US08983239B2
An optical control element which has a thin plate having an electro-optical effect and a thickness of 10 μm or less, optical waveguides formed in the thin plate, and a plurality of optical control portions for controlling light propagating through the optical waveguide, wherein, a portion between a plurality of optical control portions is connected by a control signal wiring line that includes any one of a coplanar waveguide type disposed only on a surface of the thin plate, a coplanar waveguide type disposed on the surface of the thin plate and a ground electrode disposed on a back surface thereof, or a micro strip line, for arrival times of light and electric signal set to be substantially the same.
US08983235B2
Disclosed is a pupil detection device capable improving the pupil detection accuracy even if a detection target image is a low-resolution image. In a pupil detection device (100), an eye area actual size calculation unit (102) acquires an actual scale value of an eye area, a pupil state prediction unit (103) calculates an actual scale prediction value of a pupil diameter, a necessary resolution estimation unit (105) calculates a target value of resolution on the basis of the calculated actual scale prediction value, an eye area image normalization unit (107) calculates a scale-up/scale-down factor on the basis of the calculated target value of resolution and the actual scale value of the eye area, and normalizes the image of the eye area on the basis of the calculated scale-up/scale-down factor, and a pupil detection unit (108) detects a pupil image from the normalized eye area image.
US08983234B2
A control circuit operably couples to a non-invasive imaging system that utilizes a particular corresponding effective spectrum and receives imaging information as pertains to an object being imaged. The control circuit uses that information to identify the particular corresponding spectrum for the corresponding source of radiation by, at least in part, evaluating candidate spectra as a function, at least in part, of physical likelihood (for example, by identifying a spectrum that is physically unlikely or physically impossible). Evaluating the candidate spectra as a function of physical likelihood can comprise evaluating the candidate spectra with respect to regularization, smoothness, being non-negative, normalization characteristics, monotonic characteristics, envelope limitations, quasi-concave characteristics, and/or consistency with one or more physics models of choice to note but a few options in these regards.
US08983225B2
A method of coding a moving picture is provided that reduces blocking artifacts. The method can include defining a plurality of defining pixels S0, S1, and S2, which are centered around a block boundary. If a default mode is selected then frequency information of the surroundings of the block boundary is obtained. A magnitude of a discontinuous component in a frequency domain belonging to the block boundary is adjusted based on a magnitude of a corresponding discontinuous component selected from a pixel contained entirely within a block adjacent the block boundary. The frequency domain adjustment is then applied to a spatial domain. Or, a DC offset mode can be selected to reduce blocking artifacts in smooth regions where there is little motion.
US08983218B2
Virtual boundary processing in adaptive loop filtering (ALF) requires that padded values be substituted for unavailable pixel rows outside the virtual boundaries. Methods and apparatus are provided for virtual boundary processing in ALF that allow the use of more actual pixel values for padding than in the prior art.
US08983208B2
Various systems, methods, and programs embodied in computer-readable mediums are provided for detecting a match in patterns. In one embodiment, a method is provided that comprises performing a fractal analysis on a first pattern in a computer system to generate a first global quantitative characterization of the first pattern. The method further comprises comparing the first global quantitative characterization with a second global quantitative characterization associated with a second pattern in the computer system to determine whether the first pattern matches the second pattern. The second global quantitative characterization is generated from the second pattern.
US08983201B2
The techniques discussed herein discover three-dimensional (3-D) visual phrases for an object based on a 3-D model of the object. The techniques then describe the 3-D visual phrases. Once described, the techniques use the 3-D visual phrases to detect the object in an image (e.g., object recognition).
US08983197B2
Techniques are disclosed for ordering images. The technique includes receiving a request, the request including keywords and parameters specifying desired image characteristics. Further, the technique includes identifying a set of images responsive to the request based on a match of the keywords to tags associated with objects depicted in the set of images. Finally, the technique includes determining an ordering of the identified set of images by comparing the received parameters with metadata fields associated with respective tags of the objects and returning an indication of the set of images and the determined ordering of the images.
US08983196B2
A vehicle periphery monitoring apparatus displays a detection line on a display unit, with side portions of the detection line positioned on far-off spots that are farther than a spot on which a center portion of the detection line is positioned. In addition, based on the distance of the respective spots on which the portions of the detection line are positioned, the apparatus includes a parameter table that defines different parameters for a short distance portion, a middle distance portion, and a long distance portion of the detection line. The apparatus detects a moving object based on an actual-detected brightness change of a pixel along the detection line and a predefined brightness change of a pixel along the detection line that is defined by the parameter of the parameter table.
US08983194B2
An information processing system includes a business-card described information acquiring unit and an association unit. The business-card described information acquiring unit acquires business-card described information that is to be extracted from an image in which a document identification image with which a document is identifiable and an image of a business card are arranged and that is at least part of information described on the business card. The association unit associates the document identified by the document identification image with the business-card described information.
US08983185B2
Disclosed is a method of compressing an image to be stored in a memory to satisfy a memory requirement. A size of a region having a uniform colour in the image is determined. The determined size of the region is compared with the candidate values of the region size threshold. A value is selected from the candidate values as the region size threshold based on the comparison between the estimated data amounts to satisfy the region size threshold and the memory requirement. The edges constituting the region which satisfy the selected value of the region size threshold are compressed losslessly.
US08983175B2
The present invention provides an improved method and device for generating a depth map (112) by extracting three-dimensional depth information from the movement vectors of an encoded video bit stream (102) to display two-dimensional video sequences onto three-dimensional displays. In particular, the invention performs depth extraction (110) by means of a post-processing of the movement vectors of the inter-coded macroblocks, which have been already encoded in the video bit stream, thereby significantly reducing the heavy processing requirements associated with conventional motion estimation techniques.
US08983172B2
A visual inspection system includes a database storing a wireframe model of an object and a portable electronic device equipped with an imaging device and a display. The portable electronic device is in communication with the database. The portable electronic device is configured to show on the display the wireframe model as an overlay to an image of the object taken by the imaging device. The display is configured to accept input of a trace of a defect on the display, and displays the trace on the image. A method of transmitting electronic data from an unsecure device to a secure database is also described.
US08983171B2
A method for inspecting structures formed of composite materials during the fabrication thereof including imaging multiple individual plies of a structure, whereby the locations and orientations of edge joints between adjacent courses of each ply are recorded, ascertaining mutual offsets in the locations of mutually parallel ones of the edge joints in the multiple individual plies and providing an output indication when at least one mutual offset of the edge joints is less than a predetermined minimum offset.
US08983165B2
The claimed subject matter describes a novel technique to measure the beam profile using an area detector. In one embodiment, a set of one-dimensional beam profile measurements is performed by taking two images under the same source conditions but at two different positions of the detector, with each position of the detector shifted by a certain distance in the direction corresponding to the direction of the one-dimensional profile measurement. In further embodiments, a set of two-dimensional beam profile measurements is achieved by determining a second set of one-dimensional profiles from the same sampling points in a second direction and building a two-dimensional map of the beam profile by correlating the first one-dimensional profile measurement with the second one-dimensional profile measurement.
US08983164B2
An image processing apparatus includes a calculation unit configured to calculate information indicating similarity among a plurality of tomographic images, and a generation unit configured to generate a tomographic image from the plurality of tomographic images based on the calculated information indicating similarity.
US08983163B2
A method for reducing bandwidth required for transmission of data in a device having two portions rotating with respect to one another. The first portion includes a data acquisition system (DAS) having a charge-to-digital converter and a digital signal processor (DSP) configured to receive and compress digital data from the charge-to-digital processor. The second portion includes a computer configured to receive data from the DAS. The DAS and computer are communicatively coupled via a slip ring having a finite transmission bandwidth. The computer is configured to reconstruct and display an image using compressed data. The method includes using the DAS to compress scan data to a predetermined number of mantissa bits and a predetermined number of exponent bits, transmitting the compressed data from the first portion to the second portion across the slip ring, and using the transmitted compressed data to reconstruct and display an image of an object.
US08983161B2
A method for correcting a volumetric image to address error due to deflection of a patient support is provided. The method includes obtaining a first set of projection data and a second set of projection data. The first and second sets of projection data are generated when the patient is at a first position and a second position, respectively, and are usable to reconstruct a first volumetric image and a second volumetric image, respectively. A corrected volumetric image is then determined based on the first and second sets of projection data.
US08983157B2
System and method are provided for determining hair tail positions. An image containing hair which is received from an image acquisition device is processed to find a coarse hair tail position. The coarse hair tail position is refined through further processing. The refined hair tail position may be used for accurate positioning, for example, of hair transplantation tools in various hair transplantation applications.
US08983156B2
A system and a method are disclosed that forms a novel, synthetic, two-dimensional image of an anatomical region such as a breast. Two-dimensional regions of interest (ROIs) such as masses are extracted from three-dimensional medical image data, such as digital tomosynthesis reconstructed volumes. Using image processing technologies, the ROIs are then blended with two-dimensional image information of the anatomical region to form the synthetic, two-dimensional image. This arrangement and resulting image desirably improves the workflow of a physician reading medical image data, as the synthetic, two-dimensional image provides detail previously only seen by interrogating the three-dimensional medical image data.
US08983151B2
An apparatus for recognizing a face of a person adaptively controls brightness of illumination around the person through image analysis. The apparatus obtains an optimal image through the adaptive brightness control of the illumination regardless of various environments for face recognition.
US08983149B2
An information processing apparatus for selecting images used in an album indicating a group of a plurality of images includes a person setting unit configured to set a person appearing in an image included in the album, an image evaluation unit configured to evaluate an image based on a composition of the image, a count unit configured to count a number of times in which the person set by the person setting unit appears in a plurality of images, and a selection unit configured to select images used in the album based on evaluation made by the image evaluation unit, and a count value obtained by the count unit.
US08983145B2
A method for authenticating the identity of a handset user is provided. The method includes: obtaining, a login account and a password from the user; judging whether the login account and the password are correct; if the login account or the password is incorrect, refusing the user to access an operating system of the handset; if the login account and the password are correct, sending the login account and the password to a cloud server, wherein the login account and the password correspond to a face sample image library of the user stored on the cloud server; acquiring an input face image of the user; sending the input face image to the cloud server; authenticating, by the cloud server, the identity of the user according to the login account, the password and the input face image.
US08983143B2
A biometric authentication device including: a biometric information acquiring unit which generates a plurality of partial images, each of the partial images capturing a portion of biometric information of a user different from each other; a correlation value calculation unit which calculates the correlation value between a portion of biometric information represented on one partial image and registered biometric information; a partial similarity update unit which, based on the correlation value for the one partial image and the correlation value for at least one other partial image acquired before the one partial image, updates partial similarity representing the degree of similarity between the registered biometric information and portions of biometric information represented on the one partial image and the at least one other partial image; an authentication unit which authenticates, when the partial similarity is equal to or higher than an authentication judging threshold, the user as the registered user.
US08983132B2
An image recognition apparatus includes a reception part that receives an image that has been read; a determination part that determines a registered object to correspond to an object included in the received image that has been read from among previously registered plural objects; a reflecting part that reflects colors of the image that has been read in previously stored plural similar objects each similar to the registered object determined by the determination part; and a printing control part that causes a printing apparatus to print the plural similar objects in which the colors have been reflected by the reflecting part.
US08983129B2
The invention relates to a method and device for locating persons (12, 14) in a prescribed area (10) monitored by at least one image acquisition device (3), wherein the image acquisition device (3) continuously generates images of the prescribed monitored area (10), said images being analyzed and evaluated by means of at least one image-processing method and/or image analysis method, and to a computer program product and data processing program. According to the invention, the generated images of the prescribed area (10) are analyzed and evaluated for detecting and locating persons (12, 14), wherein detected and located persons (12, 14) are classified and associated with at least one prescribed group, wherein the association with a group is performed depending on prescribed clothing features.
US08983121B2
An image processing apparatus such as a surveillance apparatus and method thereof are provided. The image processing apparatus includes: an object detecting unit which detects a plurality of moving objects from at least one of two or more images obtained by photographing a surveillance area from two or more view points, respectively; a depth determination unit which determines depths of the moving objects based on the two or more images, wherein the depth determination unit determines the moving objects as different objects if the moving objects have different depths.
US08983120B2
This patent document relates generally to steganography and digital watermarking. One claim recites a method comprising: receiving data representing image or video, in which the data comprises first data corresponding to first color data, second data corresponding to second color data and third data corresponding to third color data, the image or video to host auxiliary information; weighting the first data, the second data and the third data according to at least the following two factors: i) a color direction biased toward an expected embedding direction; and ii) expected image or video distortion introduced to the first data, the second data or the third data through image capture or signal processing; determining, from weighted first data, weighted second data and weighted third data, changes in an image or video attribute; and transforming the data representing image or video with the changes, in which the auxiliary information is conveyed through the changes. Of course, other claims are provided too.
US08983115B2
A CFA pattern is extracted from captured image data for each first unit region. A first altered region is detected from disturbance of the periodicity of the CFA pattern, and the first altered region is an image region in which copying has been performed from image data different from the captured image data to the captured image data. The feature amount of the captured image data is extracted for each second unit region different in size from the first unit region. The feature amounts are compared for each second unit region to detect a second altered region, and the second altered region is an image region in which copying has been performed from the captured image data to the captured image data. Information concerning the first and second altered regions are output as alteration detection results in the captured image data.
US08983114B2
A computer implemented method for detecting a channel system comprises importing channel data, wherein the channel data includes intensity measurements associated with locations in the channel system. The method further comprises calculating, by a processor, directional first derivative data of the intensity measurements; selecting a plurality of localized test wavelets; calculating, by the processor, a plurality of fit-measures, wherein the plurality of fit-measures indicate correlations between the directional first derivatives and the plurality of localized test wavelets; and determining a plurality of selected wavelets from the plurality of localized test wavelets based on the plurality of fit-measures, wherein the plurality of selected wavelets model the channel system.
US08983107B2
A silicon based capacitive microphone includes a printed circuit board, a shell mounted on the printed circuit board and forming a receiving space together with the printed board, a chamber support located on top of the printed circuit board and received in the receiving space, a transducer unit and a controlling chip respectively mounted on the chamber support, wherein the chamber support forms a first chamber together with the printed board, the chamber support includes an opening, the transducer unit is provided with a second chamber and covers the opening, the second chamber communicates with the first chamber via the opening.
US08983102B2
A cochlear implant system includes: an electrode array implanted within a cochlea; an internal processor in communication with the electrode array; an implanted antenna which is electrically coupled to the internal processor; and a modular external headpiece which is removably positioned over the implanted antenna, the modular external headpiece including a core containing a sound processor for processing sound and providing a corresponding signal to the implanted antenna; and a modular component configured to releasably engage the core and supply electrical power to the core. A modular speech processor headpiece includes a core comprising a microphone and sound processor for producing a signal representing ambient sound to be transmitted to a cochlear implant, the core further comprising a number of electrical contacts; and a modular component containing a number of electrical contacts corresponding to the electrical contacts of the core; wherein the core is configured to engage with the modular component such that electrical communication is made between the core and the modular component.
US08983100B2
A personal sound amplifier device in the form of a hearing aid worn by a user not only amplifies sounds but also communicates wirelessly with an external electronic device, such as a cellular telephone. The personal sound amplifier device includes a first microphone, an amplification circuit electrically connected to the first microphone, and a speaker electrically connected to the amplification circuit for amplifying ambient sound detected by the first microphone. A second microphone is situated away from the first microphone. A radio frequency (RF) transmitter and receiver circuit is electrically connected to the second microphone and to the speaker. An antenna is connected to the RF transmitter and receiver circuit. The user's voice is detected by the second microphone and transmitted by the RF transmitter and receiver circuit, through the antenna, to an external electronic device. Signals from the external electronic device are received by the antenna and processed by the RF transmitter and receiver circuit, and are emitted as sound through the speaker for the user to hear.
US08983099B2
An electrostatic loudspeaker includes: a first electrode having acoustic transmission property; a second electrode having acoustic transmission property, and disposed so as to be opposed to the first electrode; a vibrating member having conductibility, and disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode; a first elastic member having elasticity, insulation property, and acoustic transmission property, and disposed between the vibrating member and the first electrode; a second elastic member having elasticity, insulation property, and acoustic transmission property, and disposed between the vibrating member and the second electrode; and a first separation member having insulation property and acoustic transmission property, and disposed on an opposite side of a face of the first electrode, which is opposed to the first elastic member.
US08983094B2
An all-in-one audio system includes an audio chip, an audio interface, first and second audio signal amplifiers, a speaker, a woofer, a multi-function controller, a high definition multimedia interface (HDMI), and a switch. The multi-function controller is connected to the audio chip, the switch, the audio interface, the first and second audio signal amplifiers, and the HDMI. When the multi-function controller detects a high definition multimedia signal through the HDMI, the multi-function controller turns off the switch, decodes the high definition multimedia signal into an audio signal, and transmits the audio signal to the audio interface, and the first and second audio signal amplifiers. The first and second audio signal amplifiers amplify the audio signal and output the amplified audio signal to the speaker and woofer.
US08983091B2
The disclosure provides a network signal receiving system and a network signal receiving method. The network signal receiving system comprises: a high pass filter, a canceller, and an adder. The high pass filter is utilized for performing a high pass filtering operation for an audio data signal to output at least a signal corresponding to transitions of the audio data signal, wherein the audio data signal is synchronized with a network data signal. The canceller is coupled to the high pass filter, and utilized for generating a noise cancelling signal according to the at least a signal output by the high pass filter. The adder is coupled to the canceller, utilized for receiving the network data signal and the noise cancelling signal, so as to use the noise cancelling signal to cancel at least a noise in the network data signal, which is corresponding to the at least a signal.
US08983084B2
A method and apparatus for performing various auditory tests utilizing a hand-held, portable, wireless testing device is provided. Within the device is a diagnostic subsystem used to implement and analyze selected tests. Attached to the device, either directly or via a flexible cable, are one or more probes. A processor, storage means, input means and display means are included, thus allowing the device to process and store instructions as well as process, store and display data. A wireless networking subsystem is included, enabling the device to communicate with other, similarly enabled, systems and devices within the device's communication range. Due to the inclusion of the wireless networking subsystem, the device can be configured to allow the user to transmit and/or print data, connect to a network, obtain device configuration updates, and send and receive patient and office updates.
US08983079B2
A stereo microphone has four condenser microphone units having respective directional axes in the same horizontal plane. The four units each have unidirectivity and a quadrangular shape viewed from the direction of the directional axis. The units are disposed by rotating the directional axes of adjacent units by 90°. A pair of two units diagonally positioned and having the directional axes directed at 180° to each other collaborate with each other to form a pair of bidirectional microphone units.
US08983077B2
Media storage, media reader and method for reading contents of the media storage in the media reader
A media storage device may store content adapted to be inserted in a media reader for reading the content. The content may be encrypted, and the media storage may include a smart object physically attached to the media storage and arranged to be read by a smart object reader of the media reader. The smart object may include security information for decrypting the content in the smart object reader.
US08983069B2
In a counter mode encryption scheme, a sending device sends a first message including first cipher text and a first counter used to generate the first cipher text to a receiving device for decryption. The sending device subsequently generates a second counter for generating second cipher text. The sending device sends a second message including the second cipher text and intermediate state data corresponding to a change between the first counter second counter to the receiving device for decryption. The intermediate state data are represented by a smaller number of bits than the first counter. The method enables improved counter mode encrypted communication in networks that lose one or more intermediate messages between the first message and the second message.
US08983068B2
An NLFSR of length k, configured to output a sequence of masked values x′i=xi+mi according to a masked recurrence x′n+k=f(x′n, . . . , x′n+k−1), the NLFSR including a nonlinear feedback function configured to compute f(x′n, . . . , x′n+k−1) so as to obtain a feedback value, a correction function configured to compute (mn, . . . , nn+k−1)+mn+k+h(mn, mn+k−1, xn, . . . , xn+k−1) to obtain a correction value c, and a corrector configured to correct the feedback value {circumflex over (x)}′n+k using the correction value c to obtain a corrected feedback value which forms x′n+k.
US08983063B1
An encryption technique is disclosed for encrypting a plurality of data blocks of a data segment where the encryption selectively switches between a blockwise independent randomized (BIR) encryption mode and a cipher block chaining (CBC) encryption mode based on a configurable feedback stride. A corresponding decryption technique is also disclosed.
US08983042B1
A voice message system records voice message usage information by creating voice message records when a voice message is sent and when it is received. The voice message record includes: the voice message, a voice message sender identity, a voice message recipient identity, and voice message action records. A voice message action records includes a voice message action that specifies an action on the voice message, and a voice message action time that includes the time at which the action occurs. Voice message actions include sent, received, and listened. The system further includes a voice message analyzer for analyzing voice message records, and a voice message reporter for generating reports from an analysis by the analyzer. The voice message system provides tractable information for voice messages, allowing companies to enforce a voice message usage policy.
US08983041B2
Conserving call logic during handoff may be provided. First, a call may be received at a first server. Next, the first server may determine that it cannot handle the call. Then the call may be transferred by the first server to a second server with enough information so that the second server can take up the call where the first server left off. Transferring the call to the second server with enough information so that the second server can take the call up where the first server left off may comprise placing the information in a REFERRED-BY header and sending the REFERRED-BY header to the second server.
US08983035B2
A flat panel detector has pixels for obtaining image signals and detective pixels for detecting the amount of incident x-rays. A signal processing circuit is of a pipeline-type, wherein first and second buffer memories are connected to the output of an A/D converter. In a dose detecting operation, the signal processing circuit repeats primary cycles alternately with secondary cycles of a shorter length than the primary cycles. In the primary cycle, a dose detection signal based on electric charges from the detective pixels is input in the first buffer memory and, simultaneously, a dummy signal is output from the second buffer memory. In secondary cycle, the dose detection signal is output from the first buffer memory and, simultaneously, a second dummy signal is input in the second buffer memory. On the basis of the dose detection signals, a start-of-radiation detector detects the start of x-ray radiation.
US08983032B2
To cover a wide wavelength bandwidth, a spectroscopic apparatus uses three varied line spacing concave diffraction gratings G1 to G3, the corresponding energy ranges for G1, G2, and G3 being 50 to 200, 155 to 350, and 300 to 2200 eV, respectively. In the respective wavelength ranges, the diffraction conditions are satisfied. To provide a high throughput and a high resolution in the respective wavelength regions, the incident angles α1 to α3 for G1 to G3 measured from the normal line of the diffraction grating are specified to be α1<α2<α3. Presupposing the normal lines of all diffraction gratings are superposed upon a common normal line, in order to meet α1<α2<α3, the center positions Δ1 to Δ3 for G1 to G3 are set on the normal line (as Δ1<Δ2<Δ3). From G1 to G3, one diffraction grating can be selected.
US08983030B2
Disclosed is an inspection machine provided with an imaging device that capture a close-up image of the imaging target portion of the printed circuit board on which a plurality of electronic components are mounted, by coming close to a printed circuit board. The inspection machine has a sensor unit that detects the heights of the electronic components on the printed circuit board by irradiation light in a first direction that is along the surface of the printed circuit board. Control means of the inspection machine sets a limit distance to a position above the highest electronic component among heights detected from the electronic components. The control means also restricts a facing distance by which the imaging device is accepted to approach the printed circuit board, to be the limit distance.
US08983029B2
An apparatus, system, and method corrects line deficiency in radiographic systems. A Fourier transform element provides a one-dimensional Fourier transform on a line orthogonal to a line of a moire patterns appearing in an X-ray image during a use. A peak frequency detection element detects the peak frequency indicating the spatial frequency of the moire pattern on the basis of the results of one-dimensional Fourier transform. The detected peak frequency is transformed to a number of pixels in 1 cycle of the moire pattern by a pixel cycle conversion element. The line deficiency correction element obtains pixels of the same phase as the line deficiency pixel in the moire pattern from the number of pixels, and then corrects the line deficiency pixel by using the pixel value thereof. Since the number of pixels in 1-cycle is acquired from the moire pattern in the X-ray image, the line deficiency can be corrected.
US08983021B2
A reset circuit for Gate Driver on Array, an array substrate and a display is used for increasing reliability and long-term stability of a GOA circuit and thus improving performance of the GOA circuit. The GOA reset circuit includes a first electronic switch circuit (301) connected to an input terminal of a GOA unit of the Gate Driver on Array (INPUT); and a second electronic switch circuit connected to an output terminal of the GOA unit (OUTPUT), wherein the first electronic switch circuit (301) is connected to a low level signal terminal and is switched on to connect the low level signal terminal to a reset terminal of the GOA unit (RESET) when the input terminal of the GOA unit (INPUT) is at a high level; and the second electronic switch circuit (302) is connected to a high level signal terminal and is switched on to connect the high level signal terminal to the reset terminal of the GOA unit (RESET) when the output terminal of the GOA unit (OUTPUT) is at a high level.
US08983014B2
In a receiver circuit which can correct a deviation of phase between an input signal and a clock, a sampler detects an amplitude level of the input signal at timing indicated by the clock, a first comparison circuit compares a first and a second amplitude level detected by the sampler at first and second timings, respectively, with a determined threshold, an interpolation circuit calculates an intermediate level that approximates to an amplitude level of the input signal corresponding to an intermediate point between the first and second timings by an interpolation process based on the first and second amplitude levels, a second comparison circuit compares the intermediate level with the determined threshold, and a phase deviation detection circuit detects the deviation of phase between the clock and the input signal on the basis of comparison results obtained by the first and second comparison circuits.
US08983012B2
A novel receive timing manager is presented. The preferred embodiment of the present invention comprises an edge detection logic to detect the data transition points, a plurality of data flip-flops for storing data at different sample points, and a multiplexer to select the ideal sample point based on the transition points found. A sample window is made with multiple samples. The sample window size can be designed smaller or greater than the system clock period based on the data transfer speed and accuracy requirement.
US08983008B2
Methods and apparatus for trellis termination of a turbo decoder are disclosed which simplifies the hardware implementation. As a given example, backward state metrics, which is required to be calculated with forward state metric as part of a constitute decoding, are initialized with pre-calculated values based on input bits.
US08983005B2
A technology is provided capable of improving the efficiency of an OFDM system by obtaining the performance in Bit Error Rate (BER) in a wireless communication using OFDM and determining the minimum FFT input bit that produces a SNR difference of 0.1 dB or below with respect to a theoretical BER graph at a desired performance.
US08983002B2
Systems and methods for establishing transmission format parameters between communication devices are provided. In some aspects, a method includes identifying, by a first base station, a first communication session with a first user equipment. A master set of transmission format parameters is shared between the first base station and the first user equipment. The method also includes assigning a first subset of the master set of transmission format parameters to the first communication session. The first subset is specifically assigned to the first communication session and specifies which of the master set of transmission format parameters is allocated for use in the first communication session. The method also includes transmitting an indicator of the first subset to the first user equipment.
US08983001B2
A receive node device includes a processor coupled to a memory. The processor is configured to report a first sub-index and to report at least one additional second sub-index for each one of one or more matrices. Each one of the one or more matrices is indexed by the first sub-index and the second sub-index. The first sub-index and the second sub-index have different time-frequency reporting granularity.
US08982998B2
A transmission apparatus includes a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation signal generators, which generate a first OFDM modulation signal and a second OFDM modulation signal. The transmission apparatus also includes a transmitter that transmits the first OFDM modulation signal from a first antenna and the second OFDM modulation signal from a second antenna, in an identical frequency band. A reception apparatus is provided, which includes a plurality of antennas that receive a plurality of OFDM modulation signals; a plurality of OFDM demodulators that transform the plurality of OFDM modulation signals to a plurality of reception signals using Fourier transform; an estimator that outputs a distortion estimation signal using one or more symbols for demodulation included in the plurality of reception signals; and a demodulator that compensates for distortion of the reception signals using the distortion estimation signal and demodulates a data symbol included in the reception signals.
US08982997B2
In a method of transmitting a data stream from a transmitter in a multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communication system, where the transmitter comprises a plurality of transmit antennas, a discrete Fourier transform (DFT) is applied to the data stream to generate a plurality of symbol sequences; symbols of a first symbol sequence from the plurality of symbol sequences are paired with symbols of a second symbol sequence from the plurality of symbol sequences to generate a plurality of symbol pairs, wherein the pairing results in an orphan symbol; a space-time block code (STBC) is applied to the symbol pairs to generate a plurality of sets of STBC symbols, each set of STBC symbols being associated with a corresponding one of the plurality of antennas; a cyclic delay diversity (CDD) operation is applied to the orphan symbol to generate a plurality of CDD symbols, each CDD symbol being associated with a corresponding one of the plurality of antennas; and each one of the antennas transmits the corresponding set of STBC symbols and the corresponding CDD symbol.
US08982991B2
An apparatus and a method for operating a memory compensation Digital Pre-Distortion (DPD) are provided. In the method for operating a memory compensation DPD system, an input signal is received. An input average power of the input signal is determined. When the input average power of the input signal belongs to a non-linear section of the input average power, DPD is performed on a previous signal corresponding to a memory degree set depending on at least one non-linear section of the input average power.
US08982990B2
Wireless communication wherein channel estimation accuracy is improved while keeping the position of each bit in a frame, even when a modulation system having a large modulation multiple value is used for a data symbol. An encoding operation encodes and outputs transmitting data (bit string) and a bit converting operation converts at least one bit of a plurality of bits constituting a data symbol to be used for channel estimation, among the encoded bit strings, into or ‘0’ or ‘0’. A modulating operation modulates the bit string inputted from the bit converting operation by using a single modulation mapper and a plurality of data symbols are generated.
US08982985B2
A transmitting apparatus is provided for transmitting signals in a multi carrier system, in which pilot signals and data mapped on frequency carriers are transmitted in a transmission bandwidth, wherein a part of the transmission bandwidth is not used to transmit signals. The apparatus includes a pilot signal mapper for mapping pilot signals onto selected frequency carriers according to a pilot pattern that is adapted for a channel estimation in a corresponding receiving apparatus, the pilot pattern enabling a channel estimation for frequency carriers next to the part of the transmission bandwidth that is not used to transmit signals.
US08982983B2
A method and an apparatus for sending a Precoding Matrix Index (PMI) and performing precoding are provided in the embodiments of the present invention. The method for sending the PMI comprises the following steps: a user equipment acquires the transmission channel capability of carrying the PMI; according to the transmission channel capability of carrying the PMI, the precoding matrices are selected from a locally-stored first codebook set to form a second codebook set; a first precoding matrix is selected from the second codebook set; an index corresponding to the first precoding matrix is sent to a base station over the transmission channel so as to make the base station can find out the first precoding matrix according to the index and precode the data according to the first precoding matrix. The embodiments of the present invention can realize the flexible configuration and use of the PMI.
US08982977B2
The invention provides a method and system for distributing personalized content to potentially large numbers of recipients. A pool is selected, from among all content available for distribution, of those content elements that will be made available for simultaneous distribution, and personalized content is selected for distribution from that pool. The content of the pool can change with new selections over time. For each individual recipient, content elements in the pool are examined to determine if they are predicted to be of sufficient interest to that recipient for distribution, and if so, those content elements are distributed. If not, successive content elements in the pool are examined, relaxing the standard for sufficient interest, until at least one content element is found and distributed to the individual recipient.
US08982972B2
An apparatus includes a digital processing unit configured to process input signals comprising a variable number of data frequency bands. The digital processing unit is configured to set its processing frequency range for processing the input signal based on the number of data frequency bands in the input signal to be processed. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
US08982966B2
In one embodiment, there is provided a moving image decoder for decoding a compression-coded moving image stream. The decoder includes: a deblocking filter configured to perform deblocking filter processing on each of frames to be decoded; a load detector configured to detect a magnitude of internal processing loads occurring inside a video player, including a processing load for decoding; a determination module configured to determine whether to bypass the deblocking filter processing, depending on the magnitude of the internal processing loads. The deblocking filter is configured to bypass the deblocking filter processing, if the magnitude of the internal processing loads is bigger than a threshold value and a processing subject block of the frame is decoded using inter-view prediction.
US08982959B2
A signal transmission apparatus includes: a two-pixel sampling-out control section that maps pixel samples to video data regions; a line sampling-out control section that samples out the pixel samples every other line from each line of the sub-images to which the pixel samples have been mapped, so as to generate an interlace signal; a word sampling-out control section that samples out for each word the pixel samples which have been sampled out for each line so as to be mapped to video data regions of an HD-SDI prescribed by the SMPTE 435-1; and a readout control section that outputs the HD-SDI.
US08982948B2
A method of operation of a video system includes: generating a quantization matrix for a video input data, the quantization matrix having a corner seed and a right-bottom sub-quad coefficient estimated based on the corner seed; generating a video bitstream based on the quantization matrix; and generating a reconstructed video data with the video bitstream for displaying on a video device.
US08982947B2
A method and a computer-readable medium containing computer program for simultaneously performing rate control and video denoising for video corrupted by noise are presented. Video data includes original video data and noise data. A variance of the noise data for each macroblock within a frame is estimated. Based on the estimated noise variance, a low bound quantization parameter is generated. The video data are reconstructed such that the distortion between the original video data and reconstructed video data is minimized over each macroblock within a frame. The minimization of the distortion between the original video and reconstructed video data is implemented using a quantization parameter that is equal to or larger than the low bound quantization parameter.
US08982945B2
An apparatus, method, and computer program encode video information. The apparatus, method, and computer program use a global deviation for previously encoded video information to encode additional video information. The global deviation represents a difference between (1) at least one expected characteristic of the previously encoded video information if encoded at a target bit-rate and (2) at least one actual characteristic of the previously encoded video information. The apparatus, method, and computer program use the global deviation to adjust at least one encoding parameter, which is then used to encode the additional video information.
US08982940B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of network communication, and specifically discloses an adaptive equalization method, including: obtaining a first filtered signal according to a first filter coefficient; deciding the first filtered signal based on an original constellation map to obtain a first decision signal, and deciding the first filtered signal based on a level (n−1) constellation map to obtain a level (n−1) pseudo decision signal; if average energy of the level (n−1) error signal is less than a level (n−1) threshold, switching the level (n−1) constellation map to a level n constellation map; obtaining a second filter coefficient according to the update magnitude; obtaining a second filtered signal according to the second filter coefficient; and deciding the second filtered signal based on the original constellation map to obtain a second decision signal. Embodiments of the present disclosure also disclose an adaptive equalizer.
US08982935B2
A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus receives a first message from a first wireless communication device and a second message from a second wireless communication device, obtains information associated with a first processing delay with respect to the first message and a second processing delay with respect to the second message, and transmits a third message comprising an indication of the information associated with the first and second processing delays.
US08982931B2
An RF module including transmitting, receiving, and processing elements, capable of operating in a standalone mode or as part of an array of similar or identical modules. The RF module includes a radiator (205), transmit-receive circuitry (165), a digital receiver-exciter (160), a processor (100), and a data interface (150). The processor is configured to exchange in-phase and quadrature data with other processors in an array, so that, when configured as an array, digital transmit beam forming and receive beam forming are possible.
US08982927B2
D-dimensional vectors that each have D real-valued symbols as elements are converted into D-dimensional rotated vectors that each have D real symbols as elements. The conversion is performed by multiplying each of the D-dimensional vectors by a D×D orthogonal matrix. A complex symbol sequence including NC=NS/2 complex symbols is generated from NS real symbols. The complex symbol sequence is generated such that the distance between any two of the D real symbols of each of the D-dimensional rotated vectors is NC/D complex symbols or NC/D−1 complex symbols, or such that the distance between any two of the D real symbols of each of the D-dimensional rotated vectors, except for part of the D-dimensional rotated vectors, is NC/D complex symbols or NC/D−1 complex symbols.
US08982923B2
An apparatus includes a slider with a cavity in a trailing end of the slider. A laser is positioned in the cavity and has an output facet positioned adjacent to a first wall of the cavity. A cap is connected to the trailing end of the slider and covers the laser.
US08982920B2
A submount having a structure and a configuration resistant to an increase in manufacturing cost and a reduction in yields or reliability, and including an oblique waveguide is provided. A submount having a first surface and allowing a semiconductor light-emitting element including a waveguide to be fixed on the first surface, the waveguide having an axis line inclined at θWG (degrees) with respect to a normal to a light-incident/emission end surface of the semiconductor light-emitting element, and made of a semiconductor material with a refractive index nLE, the submount includes: a fusion-bonding material layer on the first surface; and an alignment mark formed in the fusion-bonding material layer, the alignment mark allowed to be recognized at an angle θSM=sin−1 [nLE·sin(θWG)/n0], where a refractive index of a light-transmitting medium in proximity to the outside of the light-incident/emission end surface of the semiconductor light-emitting element is n0.
US08982917B2
A control circuit measures fluctuations in the energy of a pulse laser with respect to the power of an RF signal by varying the power of the RF signal, determines the minimum power of the RF signal which yields a permissible level of fluctuation, and sets the power of the RF signal based on the minimum power of the RF signal. Heat generation in the RF signal generation circuit can be suppressed, and the overall power consumption can also be reduced. It is also possible to reduce the time from when the RF signal is turned on until the RF signal is turned off. As a result, it is possible to generate a stable pulse laser.
US08982912B2
A network component comprising a processor configured to receive a data stream from an upstream node, wherein the data stream comprises a plurality of Ethernet packets and a synchronization request comprising a timestamp, synchronize a clock with the timestamp, and transmit a response to the upstream node, wherein the data stream has the same bandwidth as a second data stream that does not have the synchronization request and the timestamp.
US08982908B1
An apparatus includes a memory to store routing information, and a control unit configured to examine routing information stored in the memory for routing information corresponding to one or more destination nodes in a plurality of destination nodes in response to a message requesting routing information for routes between an originating node and the plurality of destination nodes. If routing information for multiple destination nodes in the plurality of destination nodes is stored in the memory, the control unit generates an information element that includes routing information for the multiple destination nodes, and causes a single message that includes the information element to be generated.
US08982901B2
Systems and methods are disclosed to communicate data between wireless access point with one or more low priority queues; one or more high priority queues; a quality of service (QoS) queue coupled to the low and high priority queues; a fairness counter; and a buffer coupled to the fairness counter and the QoS queue to map buffer mapping to the QoS queue when the fairness counter expires, the method including performing an association request for fairness scheduling; and injecting a low priority packet in a transmit opportunity of the high priority queue.
US08982893B2
A system, method, and node providing a predefined Quality of Service (QoS) level to an Over The Top (OTT) service provider in a telecommunications network. A User Equipment (UE) initiates an IP-based application session (e.g., Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) session) with the OTT service provider by sending an application-dependent message toward an OTT application server. The method begins with a proxy node in the telecommunications network intercepting the application-dependent message. The proxy node then modifies the application-dependent message by adding a subscriber identification to the header of the application-dependent message. The proxy node forwards the modified application-dependent message to the OTT application server. The OTT application server then sends a request having the subscriber identification to the telecommunications network with a QoS requirement for the HTTP session. Next, a network policy node determines an appropriate QoS level for the subscriber. A network gateway then enforces the determined QoS level for the HTTP session with the OTT service provider.
US08982885B2
The disclosure is directed to conducting group communications. An embodiment receives information defining a group communication from a first network, detects an availability of at least one local uni-directional radio broadcast network outside the first network, transmits an acknowledgment indicating an intention to connect to the at least one local uni-directional radio broadcast network, and monitors the group communication on the at least one local uni-directional radio broadcast network.
US08982880B2
Methods, systems, and devices for switching internet protocol (IP) flows from a first communication path to a second communication path are disclosed herein. A user equipment (UE) may include an exchange component, a session component, and a communication component. The exchange component exchanges second communication path availability information between the UE and another UE by sending and receiving session initiation protocol (SIP) messages that include second communication path availability information over the first communication path. The session component changes the communication session by re-routing traffic flows to the second communication path based on the exchanged second path availability information. The communication component sends to and receives from the other UE data corresponding to an IP flow over the second communication path.
US08982870B2
A method for use in a cellular communications system in which system traffic can be exchanged between transceivers comprises receiving traffic from a second transceiver at a first transceiver. The traffic includes data units that are each associated with an identifier. The data units are also divided into segments. The method additionally includes sending status information from the first transceiver to the second transceiver. The status information pertains to one or more data units transmitted by the second transceiver. Additionally, sending the status information includes, for non-received and partially received data units, sending information indicating the data units were non-received or partially received and, for partially received data units, sending information indicating which parts of the data units were not received.
US08982868B2
A base station is provided, including a transmitter configured to broadcast information for determining one or more first preambles contained in a first Random Access Preamble group and any second preamble(s) contained in a second Random Access Preamble group; and a receiver configured to receive a preamble transmitted by a mobile station. The received preamble is randomly selected from among the first preamble(s) when the first Random Access Preamble group is selected, or is randomly selected from among the second preamble(s) when the second Random Access Preamble group is selected. The second Random Access Preamble group is selected if a message size based on data available for transmission by the mobile station meets a first condition and if a value calculated based on a reference signal received power of downlink meets a second condition, and else the first Random Access Preamble group is selected.
US08982847B2
Methods and apparatus for improving the efficient use of a wireless channel. Flows of compatible packets to be transmitted are processed in separate queues based on characteristics of the packets, destination and quality of service (QoS) requirements. Aggregation parameters selected for each flow define when packets aggregated on a flow are to be sent. The aggregation parameters may reflect packet type, such as QoS requirements, an application type and/or wireless channel conditions. In some embodiments, the aggregation parameters indicate a threshold frame size or include a threshold time to buffer a packet while waiting for other packets on that flow to fill a frame. When an aggregation parameter for a queue is met, the aggregated packets are transmitted as a frame. The queue is cleared and subsequent packets may begin aggregating. Some types of packets, such as acknowledgment packets, may be sent without aggregation.
US08982845B2
A measurement control method, system and device for a multi-carrier system are disclosed. The method includes that: UE selects the channel quality of a serving carrier or serving carrier group as a reference value, uniformly starts measurement on carriers except serving carriers or serving carrier groups when the reference value is smaller than a measurement starting threshold, s-Measure, configured by an eNB for the serving carriers or serving carrier groups, and uniformly closes the measurement on the carriers except the serving carriers or serving carrier groups when the reference value is larger than or equal to the s-Measure. Through referring to the channel quality of one serving carrier or one serving carrier group, measurement on the carriers except the serving carriers or serving carrier groups is uniformly started and closed, so as to solve the problem that the UE controls measurement according to multi-carrier signal quality in multiple serving cells.
US08982832B2
A turbo-coded data block is processed for transmission on a wireless communication link by scheduling a plurality of portions of the block for transmission during respectively corresponding transmit intervals that are temporally separated from one another. The block portions are transmitted during the respectively corresponding transmit intervals according to the scheduling.
US08982830B2
A method and an apparatus for supporting multiple frequency bands efficiently in a mobile communication system are provided. The method includes generating first system information including a frequency band indicator indicating a frequency band supported by the base station and an additional frequency band indicator indicating at least one frequency band supported by the base station, and broadcasting the first system information.
US08982827B2
A method of transmitting and receiving radio resource information is disclosed, by which a mobile terminal is able to quickly access a mobile communication system. The present invention includes transmitting a paging message to locate a specific mobile terminal by including information for a radio resource allocated to the mobile terminal in the paging message receiving a response signal for the paging message transmitted according to the information for the radio resource, and performing a connection to the mobile terminal according to the response signal.
US08982824B2
In a method and a device for setting the Transport Format Combination size step in a scheduler of a cellular radio system to be used by a user equipment transmitting data to a radio base station of the cellular radio system, the Transport Format Combination size step is set as a function of a number of pre-defined cell and/or user conditions. This will increase the user bit Crate at low load. Specifically, the time to reach a high bitrate in low load situations is reduced. This leads to enhanced user experience for bursty services such as World Wide Web (WWW) services.
US08982818B2
A wireless communications device that transmits a multiplexed signal of a plurality of data sets of different sizes to a communications terminal includes an empty resource block detection section, which detects empty resource blocks of the data sets each of which does not use any of a predetermined number of resource blocks, from among the plurality of data sets whereto the predetermined number of resource blocks are allocated in the time direction and the frequency direction; and a data redistribution section that redistributes a part of data that is distributed in resource blocks, with respect to the data sets whereto resource including empty resource blocks are allocated, in the vicinity of pilot symbols that are disposed within the empty resource blocks. It is possible to effectively utilize the function of all the pilot symbols and improve error rate characteristics.
US08982817B2
The present invention maintains communication even during a transition period in which ON/OFF of the CIF is switched by higher layer signaling or during a transition period in which the number of component carrier aggregations is increased/decreased. In a radio communication system in which an LTE-A system, in which an LTE-A system to add or remove the frequency band to assign for communication between a base station apparatus (20) and a mobile terminal apparatus (10) on a per component carrier basis, and an LTE system to perform communication between the base station apparatus (20) and the mobile terminal apparatus (10) using one fixed fundamental frequency block, are arranged in an overlapping manner, in the LTE-A system, one of the fundamental frequency blocks assigned to the mobile terminal apparatus (10) is determined as an anchor block, and the anchor block supports the same operation as in the LTE system.
US08982813B2
The present invention relates to a method for transmitting a sounding reference signal from a terminal in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving resource operation information, which includes resource allocation information for channel sounding, from a base station; and transmitting the sounding reference signal through the entire or part of a resource region that is allocated for transmission of a demodulation reference signal on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) according to the resource operation information.
US08982812B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques and apparatus for managing group identifiers (IDs) in multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) schemes to ensure that the group ID maps to the same assigned spatial stream position for a particular station (STA), for either Direct Link Service (DLS) or downlink (DL) MU-MIMO transmissions. One example method generally includes transmitting, from a first apparatus to a second apparatus, a message requesting assignment of a group ID identifying a group of apparatuses for receiving MU transmissions; and receiving, from the second apparatus, an indication of the assigned group ID, such that spatial stream assignments for the group of apparatuses are the same between the first and second apparatuses, the spatial stream assignments corresponding to the assigned group ID.
US08982807B2
A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) burst in a communication system are provided. A transmitter obtains at least one Protocol Data Unit (PDU) according to a decoding order of a receiver which supports a HARQ mode. The receiver controls an order of at least one HARQ burst using burst information including a HARQ Channel IDentifier (ACID).
US08982802B2
Embodiments describe flow based fair scheduling in a wireless multi-hop network. The scheduling can be rate controlled multi-hop scheduling or power controlled multi-hop scheduling. The scheduling chosen is intended to provide maxmin fairness over all flows within the wireless network.
US08982797B2
A wireless communication apparatus including an MMSE combining processing unit that performs MMSE combining based on frequency domain received signals obtained by performing a discrete Fourier transform on received signals, the apparatus including an amount-of-phase-rotation estimating unit that estimates an amount of phase rotation occurring in the frequency domain received signals due to a shift in discrete Fourier transform timing of the received signals, and a reverse rotation unit that applies a reverse rotation of an amount of rotation corresponding to the amount of phase rotation estimated by the amount-of-phase-rotation estimating unit, to the frequency domain received signals, wherein the MMSE combining processing unit computes an MMSE weight based on the frequency domain received signals to which the reverse rotation has been applied by the reverse rotation unit, and performs MMSE combining.
US08982794B2
Techniques for determination of packet retransmission using a time threshold are described. In at least some embodiments, information for a packet that is received is compared to information for previously received packets. If the information for the packet matches a previously received packet, a receive time for the packet is compared to a timestamp for the previously received packet to determine if the packet is a retransmission of the previously received packet. In at least some embodiments, packet information associated with different senders can be stored, e.g., to enable packet information comparison for purpose of retransmission detection. An amount of packet information that is stored can be limited to a certain number of senders to control the impact of packet information storage on memory resources.
US08982793B2
A method for controlling channel access performed by an access point (AP) in a wireless system is provided. The method includes: receiving at least one frame from at least one station (STA), respectively, for a specific time period, each frame including information on a contention window (CW) used when the frame is transmitted; processing information one at least one CW for each STA; determining whether to control the channel access based on the processed information on the CW; selecting an abnormal STA candidate group if it is determined that the channel access control is performed; and controlling the channel access to each STA included in the abnormal candidate STA group.
US08982791B2
A method (200, 400) of and a Node B (102) and a User Equipment (UE) (106) for power control of a data channel (100, 112) between the Node B (102) and the UE (106) in a cellular communication system in case of segmentation of a Radio Link Control (RLC), Protocol Data Umt (PRC) into m Media Access Control (MAC) segments are provided The method (200, 400) comprises the steps of determining (202, 402) a transmit power boost for transmission of the MAC segments and applying (204, 404) the determined transmit power boost for transmission of the MAC segments A method (500) of and a Node B (102) for power control of an uplink data channel (112) in case of segmentation are also provided The method (500) comprises determining (504) a Signal-to-Interference Ratio (SIR) target boost and applying (506) the determined SIR target boost for power control.
US08982787B2
A method for connecting to a network from a mobile terminal capable of forming a high-performance radio channel in a Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS), and an apparatus implementing the same are provided. The method includes transmitting a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection request message indicating a first release version to the network, receiving an RRC connection setup message indicating a second release version from the network, comparing the first and second release versions, determining whether there is a third release version lower than the first release version and higher than the second release version when the second release version differs from the first, and, if there is the third release version lower than the first release version and higher than the second release version, transmitting an RRC connection request message indicating the third release version to the network when the second release version differs from the first release version.
US08982775B2
A method comprising the steps of receiving, with circuitry at a first node, a signal indicative of a request to set up an optical channel data unit label switched path between the first node and a second node in a network. Time slots for a plurality of types of signals to be transmitted from the first node to the second node are reserved, and a set up message is transmitted from the first node to the second node. The set up message identifies the plurality of signal types and the reserved time slots. The optical channel data unit label switched path is then provided between the first and second nodes.
US08982772B2
A radar detector is used with a radio link, the radio link characterized by high duty factor operation of a radio transmitter. The radar detector is located a sufficient distance from the radio transmitter that the radar detector is not overwhelmed by the radio transmission signal in that channel and can detect sufficiently low level radar signals to ascertain potential radio interference at the radar from said radio transmitter. The results of the radar detection are communicated to the transmitter in a way that impacts the transmitter's use of the sensed channel. This communication can occur reactively when a radar detection is achieved (the absence of which indicates no radar has been detected) and/or can be a periodic or event-driven indication that the channel is available for operation (the information expiring if the result is not refreshed).
US08982769B2
A method, base station, and relay device for receiving physical uplink control information are disclosed in the present invention. The method includes: selecting a PUCCH resource of the relay, where the PUCCH resource can form multiplexing with a first resource, and the first resource includes the PUCCH resource occupied by a 3GPP LTE terminal when the terminal transmits the physical uplink control information in a first format; determining a channel index corresponding to the PUCCH resource of the relay; transmitting notification information to the relay, where the notification information includes the channel index; and receiving the physical uplink control information transmitted, according to the channel index, by the relay. In the embodiments of the present invention, the interference between the PUCCH format 1/1a/1b channel of the relay and that of the LTE R8 terminal is effectively reduced.
US08982767B2
A method for transceiving data with both a mobile station and a relay station in a mobile communication system are disclosed. In a present invention, the base station transmits an ACK signal regardless of whether a result of the decoding is successful or unsuccessful to the terminal for using a uplink packet data transmitted from the relay station. And, the relay station operates two operation modes. Procedures of downlink/uplink packet data transmission according to the operation mode are disclosed.
US08982765B2
A data transmission method and apparatus using a multi-point cooperative transmission for a backhaul link transmission of a relay communication system. A data transmission method of a base station in a radio relay communication system include: obtaining, by a first BS, first radio resource information scheduled by a neighbor BS with respect to a first relay node (RN) located within the coverage of the first BS; when the first BS has data to be transmitted to the first RN, scheduling the data of the first BS on first radio resource allocated by the neighbor BS; and transmitting, by the first BS, the data of the first BS on the first BS, wherein the first RN is located within an overlapping cell coverage between the first BS and the neighbor BS. Thus, backhaul link transmission efficiency between the BS and the RN in the relay communication system can be improved and an inter-cell interference with respect to a backhaul link can be reduced.
US08982763B2
A process for communicating with a plurality of push-to-talk (PTT) devices in a wireless network of PTT devices includes, at a first one of the PTT devices, responsive to detecting a change in selected channel, via a channel selector input, from the first channel to a second channel while a PTT input is activated: transmitting, to other PTT devices in a first talkgroup on the first channel, a notification that further transmissions by the PTT device will be made in the second channel, switching the transmitter from the first channel to the second channel, and transmitting further communications to the one or more other PTT devices in a second talkgroup on the second channel.
US08982762B2
Techniques for use in a wireless device which is configured to operate as a group owner (GO) in a peer-to-peer (P2P) network are described. The group owner sends a first multicast message to one or more first P2P devices in the P2P network. The first multicast message includes first notice of absence (NoA) data. The group owner also sends a second multicast message to one or more second P2P devices in the P2P network. The second multicast message includes second NoA data. Partitioning in the P2P network in this fashion may be set based on the different types of communications established with the P2P devices (e.g. different traffic classes or Quality of Service (QoS) types).
US08982761B2
A method, an apparatus, and a system for carrying out a multimedia service are provided in a WLAN. The method includes: receiving a multicast data stream sent by a data server; and monitoring in real time a receiving rate of a terminal connected to an access point, if the receiving rate is higher than or equal to a multicast sending rate at which the access point sends multicast data, sending, in a multicast mode, the multicast data stream sent by the data server to the terminal, and if the receiving rate is lower than the multicast sending rate, converting the multicast data stream sent by the data server into a unicast data stream and sending the unicast data stream to the terminal.
US08982754B2
A set sleep period is coordinated among a plurality of mesh network nodes to conserve power. A neighbor wireless mesh network node in proximity to a second node to be added to the mesh network is actuated, causing the neighbor wireless mesh network to be woke from a sleep state. The second node is added to the wireless mesh network by exchanging data with the neighbor wireless mesh network node to join the network.
US08982751B2
A wireless communication device including: a data processing unit configured to generate an RTS (Request To Send) packet including response timing information designating transmission timings of CTS (Clear To Send) packets from each of a plurality of wireless communication devices; and a transmitter unit configured to transmit the RTS packet generated by the data processing unit.
US08982749B2
Systems and methods for providing radio frequency transceiver user equipment in a packet based radio frequency signaling communication system are disclosed. User equipment is provided with closed subscriber group “CSG” capability including permanent storage for a CSG whitelist, the whitelist including identifiers of CSGs the user equipment is a member of. Base stations transmit signals including identifiers corresponding to CSGs the base station supports. The base station or cell selection process performed by the user equipment includes selecting cells that are part of the CSG whitelist. In additional embodiments, the user equipment includes user alterable storage for a user controlled CSG whitelist. The user alterable storage may further be partitioned into permanent and temporary portions. In an exemplary method, the user controls the cell selection process using the CSG whitelist information stored in the user equipment. Methods for managing the CSG whitelist are described.
US08982745B2
A method for improving the data rate of data for M/H receivers and for improving the quality of channel estimation in an ATSC-M/H transport data stream marks the transport data packets determined for the transmission of data for M/H receivers in N (e.g., 38) consecutively transmitted transport data packets in an ATSC-M/H-slot of the uncoded ATSC-M/H transport data stream originally determined for the transmission of data for stationary receivers. Coded data for M/H receivers are inserted in the marked transport data packets and introduce training sequences in segments of data fields of the coded ATSC-M/H transport data stream containing marked transport data packets.
US08982739B2
A mobile terminal and a method of controlling the mobile terminal are provided. The mobile terminal includes: a display; a wireless Internet module; and a controller for acquiring information about a plurality of voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) accounts that can communicate through the wireless Internet module and for distinguishing information about a first user group corresponding to the acquired plurality of VoIP accounts from information about a second user group not corresponding to the acquired plurality of VoIP accounts and for displaying the information in the display. Therefore, by displaying to distinguish information about a user group corresponding to a plurality of VoIP accounts from other information, a function can be easily selected through a plurality of VoIP accounts.
US08982737B2
A method for conference access includes: receiving, by a switchboard device, a first call request sent by a user terminal, where a calling identifier included by the first call request is an identifier of the user terminal, and the included called identifier is a switchboard number corresponding to the switchboard device; obtaining, according to the identifier of the user terminal, recorded information about a conference corresponding to a call missed by the user terminal, where the information about the conference includes an access number of a conference system to which the conference belongs and a conference identifier of the conference; and enabling the user terminal to access the conference. When a user misses answering a conference-related call, by dialing a switchboard number, the user may directly accesses a conference, thereby improving the efficiency of accessing the conference.
US08982736B2
The present invention provides a method for implementing a radiophone based conference call and dynamic grouping, which generally includes selecting a dynamic grouping function and members of an intended group through a man-machine interface of a radiophone, generating a control packet in a coding format and an extensible interface, the coding format and the extensible interface being inherent to a preset protocol stack module, and then transmitting the control frame in a control frame to a corresponding receiving end, and the receiving end upon reception of the control frame decodes the control frame and initiates a frequency modification module to modify frequency modification information by adding the group ID of the intended group. The radiophone in the present invention can perform a scheduling function, and time can be saved in an emergency for rapid and convenient dealing with an incident.
US08982728B2
A computer-implemented system and method for visualizing message-related relationships within a social network is provided. Entities associated with a group of messages are identified. A social network is built based on a relationship of the entities and messages by connecting those entities that share at least one of the messages from the group. A representation of the social network is generated by representing each message with a node. The nodes are organized based on at least one characteristic of the messages.
US08982724B2
A system and method are provided for implementing a peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) reduction scheme for Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) modulation. A unique PAPR reduction scheme for OFDMA modulation for systems operated according to a DOCSIS standard achieves results similar to those attributable to tone reservation schemes in a manner that does not negatively affect an amount of available data capacity, particularly in implementations with limited numbers of subcarriers. The disclosed systems and methods are particularly adaptable to next generation cable gateways and/or next generation cable modems. These next generation cable gateways and/or cable modems may find particular utility in advanced hybrid fiber/coaxial cable systems. The adaptable cable gateways/modems may include a cable gateway system-on-chip (SOC) configuration. The disclosed schemes may be applicable to OFDM modulation. For OFDM, however, the known tone reservation algorithms also may be employed.
US08982721B2
A method and apparatus for reporting channel state information (CSI) based on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) are used to realize correct reporting of the CSI based on double code books. The method includes the following steps: a reporting mode configuration signaling for the CSI sent from a network side is received, and said reporting mode configuration signaling for the CSI at least carries a designated reporting mode identifier; a first CSI aiming at the whole bandwidth of a system is established according to a reporting type corresponding to said reporting mode identifier; the whole bandwidth of the system is divided into at least two frequency band subclasses, and a second CSI aiming at a designated frequency band subclass is established according to the reporting type corresponding to said reporting mode identifier; and when a reporting indication signaling sent from the network side is received, said first CSI and said second CSI are transmitted to the network side. Therefore, when a user equipment (UE) reports the CSI, a long-term/wideband CSI and a short-term/frequency selective CSI could be considered comprehensively, then a two-level feedback mechanism based on the PUSCH double code books is realized.
US08982720B2
An image processing apparatus includes an interface unit connected to source devices through HDMI Ethernet Channels (HEC). A HEC bandwidth detection unit detects the HEC bandwidth used in the source devices. A bandwidth comparison unit compares the detected HEC bandwidth with a first critical value set on the basis of an upstream bandwidth capacity of an image processing apparatus. A control unit adjusts the connection to at least one of the source devices based on the comparison result output by the bandwidth comparison unit.
US08982701B2
A noise rise estimation method calculates (230) a noise rise measure suitable for stability control purposes, based at least on a useful signal power for the first user after interference whitening, a first user noise floor compensation factor, a code power to interference ratio measure for the first user, a noise floor measure and an estimated neighbour cell interference power. These factors are provided by measuring (210) received total wideband power and generating (212) a measure of an own cell power. An estimate of the noise floor measure is computed (214) and the neighbour cell interference power is estimated (216) based on these measurements and generated measures. An interference whitening is performed (220). The useful signal power for the first user after interference whitening is determined (222). The first user noise floor compensation factor is derived (224) based on combining weights for the first user used in for the first user is obtained (226).
US08982695B2
A slot reservation method is disclosed. The slot reservation method generates slot reservations in two dimensions to address starvation and to reduce bounce of messages transmitted through an interconnect. An interconnect implemented using the slot reservation method is capable of being scaled to larger network-on-chip implementations.
US08982694B2
A method for localized congestion exposure within a local loop in a cellular network that is performed by a localized congestion exposure receiver node of the local loop. The method includes receiving downlink packets destined for a downstream user device. The downlink packets have headers that indicate a level of congestion experienced by the downlink packets. The headers also indicate a level of expected downstream congestion declared by an upstream node. The method also includes forwarding the downlink packets to the downstream user device through a wireless connection. The method further includes sending packets upstream that have feedback indicative of the level of congestion experienced by the downlink packets and any congestion experienced within the localized congestion exposure receiver node.
US08982693B2
Methods and apparatus' of determining radio link quality are disclosed. According to various implementations, a user equipment detects an out-of-synchronization condition corresponding to a first control channel, and monitors a second control channel in response to the detecting the out-of synchronization condition.
US08982680B1
In a data archive system including plural sets of data library apparatuses and a control unit and an information storing unit connected to the plural sets of data library apparatuses, the data library apparatus includes a recording medium storing unit that stores plural recording media, a data recording and reproducing device that records data in the recording media and reproduces data from the recording media, a recording medium transporting unit that transports the recording media between the recording medium storing unit and the data recording and reproducing device, and a data library apparatus control unit that controls an action of the data library apparatus, the information storing unit stores management information for managing the recording medium storing unit, the control unit controls actions of the total data archive system, and when a recording medium storing unit is attached to the data library apparatus.
US08982676B2
A golfing time-keeping apparatus is arranged to indicate time of day using a clock face and a movement which has at least a minute hand arranged to complete a revolution of the clock face every hour. The time piece includes a structure for indicating a plurality of subdivisions of a time period longer than 1 hour and shorter than 5 hours, the structure comprising an indicator having a plurality of markings arranged for general visual alignment with the minute hand. The markings include a sequence of indicia circumferentially spaced apart and continuing for more than one but no more than five revolutions wherein some of the later indicia in the sequence are interleaved with some of the earlier indicia.
US08982675B2
A power supply unit has a first power supply circuit that supplies a voltage to a load driving unit and a second power supply circuit that supplies a voltage to circuits other than the load driving unit. A first switching unit connects any one of a power supply that supplies a power supply voltage and a voltage step-down circuit that supplies a step-down voltage of the power supply voltage to the first power supply circuit. A second switching unit connects any one of the power supply and the voltage step-down circuit to the second power supply circuit. A control unit controls the connection by the first switching unit and the connection by the second switching unit to switch the voltage supplied to the first power supply circuit and the voltage supplied to the second power supply circuit in accordance with properties of the load driving unit.
US08982674B2
The invention relates to a device for correcting a time indication given by a display mechanism for a timepiece of the type comprising a first display member, comprising: a winding stem arranged to occupy at least one time indication correction position A, a pinion coupled in rotation to the winding stem, a correction motion transfer connected kinematically to the pinion when the stem is occupying the correction position A, and a correction wheel assembly engaging with the display member and operated by the correction motion transfer. According to the invention, the correction motion transfer is formed by a ring having an internal circumference and an external circumference, at least one of which is provided with teeth meshing at least indirectly with said correction wheel assembly.
US08982673B2
The calendar mechanism includes a 31 wheel set (31) for controlling a date indicator, a date drive means for driving the 31 wheel set, a 12 wheel set (12) for controlling a month indicator, and a monthly drive means for driving the 12 wheel set at the end of each month. The monthly drive means is activated by the 31 wheel set during the change from the end of one month to the first day of the next month. The calendar mechanism further includes a manually activated month corrector device arranged to advance the 31 wheel set in one stroke to an angular position corresponding to the indication of the first day of the next month, so that the monthly drive means, activated by the change from one month to the next, increments the 12 wheel set by one step.
US08982671B2
The present disclosure provides embodiments seismic energy sources configured to generate enhanced shear wave energy in order to more accurately determine the distribution and orientation of fractures in subterranean formations. At least one seismic energy source includes an elongate rod having a first end and a second end, a detonator coupled to the first end, and a bull plug coupled to the second end. An explosive is helically-wrapped about the elongate rod continuously from the first end to the second end and configured to detonate such that a time-delayed detonation is achieved which induces increased shear wave energy in the surrounding formations.
US08982668B2
In an embodiment a semiconductor device correlates a received signal with a known pattern. A correlation output is used as a basis for forming a confidence reference level. The confidence reference level and the correlation output are compared to identify a peak in the received signal indicating that a present signal state of the received signal contains the known pattern.
US08982666B2
Methods for fracture characterization of unconventional formations are provided. Synthetic seismic fracture responses can be generated based on the derived fracture parameters. The synthetic seismic fracture responses may then be used to derive optimum seismic data acquisition geometry for fracture characterization. These methods of determining the seismic data acquisition geometry are advantageous over conventional methods in that these methods are more reliable and cheaper than existing empirical methods, particularly as applied to fractured unconventional formations. Moreover, these methods allow fracture parameters to be derived from limited but common well log data. Certain embodiments additionally contemplate determining the presence of gas filled fractures. These characterizations and evaluations of unconventional formations are useful for, among other things, determining optimal producing intervals and optimal drilling locations. These methods can eliminate the use of costly image logs and core data. These methods ultimately translate to more efficient seismic imaging and more optimal hydrocarbon production.
US08982665B2
A technique includes generating vibroseis sweeps for a vibroseis survey to produce seismic data acquired in response to seismic signals produced by the sweeps. The generation of the vibroseis sweeps including temporally arranging the sweeps into time-overlapping groups. The technique includes regulating a timing of the groups relative to each other based on a slip time. The technique also includes regulating a timing of the sweeps of each group such that consecutive sweep firings of each group are spaced apart by a time substantially less than the slip time.
US08982659B2
Techniques are disclosed that allow for power conservation in integrated circuit memories, such as SRAM. The techniques can be embodied in circuitry that allows for floating of bitlines to eliminate or otherwise reduce power leakage associated with precharging bitlines. For instance, the techniques can be embodied in a bitline floating circuit having a single logic gate for qualifying the precharge control signal with a wake signal, so that precharging of the bitline does not occur if the wake signal is not in an active state. The techniques further allow for the elimination or reduction of unnecessary power consumption by the I/O circuitry or the memory array, such as when the memory array is not being accessed or when the array or a portion thereof is permanently disabled for yield recovery.
US08982658B2
According to one general aspect, a method may include, in one embodiment, grouping a plurality of at least single-ported memory banks together to substantially act as a single at least dual-ported aggregated memory element. In various embodiments, the method may also include controlling read access to the memory banks such that a read operation may occur from any memory bank in which data is stored. In some embodiments, the method may include controlling write access to the memory banks such that a write operation may occur to any memory bank which is not being accessed by a read operation.
US08982653B2
The invention relates to a method comprising measuring the temperature of at least one location of a non-volatile memory; determining if said temperature measurement indicates that the data retention time of data stored at said at least one location is reduced below a threshold; and re-writing said data to said non-volatile memory in response to a positive determination.
US08982652B2
A single-ended sense amplifier circuit of the invention comprises first and second MOS transistors and first and second precharge circuits. The first MOS transistor drives the bit line to a predetermined voltage and switches connection between the bit line and a sense node and the second MOS transistor whose gate is connected to the sense node amplifies the signal via the first MOS transistor. The first precharge circuit precharges the bit line to a first potential and the second precharge circuit precharges the sense node to a second potential. Before sensing operation, the bit line is driven to the predetermined voltage when the above gate voltage is controlled to decrease. The predetermined voltage is appropriately set so that a required voltage difference at the sense node between high and low levels can be obtained near a changing point between charge transfer/distributing modes.
US08982648B2
An antifuse comprised of an NMOS transistor or an NMOS capacitor includes a first terminal coupled to a gate electrode, a second terminal coupled to a diffusion layer, and a gate insulating film interposed between the gate electrode and the diffusion layer. A programming circuit includes a first programming circuit which has first current drive capability and which performs first programming operation and a second programming circuit which has second current drive capability larger than the first current drive capability and which performs second programming operation to follow the first programming operation. In the first programming operation, the first programming circuit breaks down the gate insulating film by applying a first programming voltage between the first terminal and the second terminal. In the second programming operation, the second programming circuit applies a second programming voltage lower than the first programming voltage between the first terminal and the second terminal.
US08982644B1
Aspects of the disclosure provide an integrated circuit (IC) that includes a processing unit and a signal-terminal matching circuitry. The processing unit is configured to communicate with an external memory device through conductive couplings that electrically couple terminals of an IC external interface respectively with terminals of the external memory device. The external memory device is disposed on a circuit substrate separate from the IC. The signal-terminal matching circuitry is configured to match memory control signals to the terminals of the IC external interface based on the external memory device.
US08982643B2
A system comprises a plurality of first memory macros and a first tracking circuit to be shared by the plurality of first memory macros. The first tracking circuit includes at least one of a first tracking circuit associated with a row of memory cells of a first memory macro of the plurality of first memory macros, a first tracking circuit associated with a column of memory cells of the first memory macro of the plurality of first memory macros, a first decoder tracking circuit associated with decoding circuitries of the first memory macro of the plurality of first memory macros, and a first input-output tracking circuit associated with input-output circuitries of the first memory macro of the plurality of first memory macros.
US08982639B2
A nonvolatile memory device includes a plurality of memory blocks, and a pass transistor array transmitting a plurality of drive signals to a selected memory block among the plurality of memory blocks in response to a block select signal. The pass transistor array includes high voltage transistors including one common drain and two sources formed in one active region and one of the plurality of drive signals transmitted to the common drain is transmitted to different memory blocks through the two sources.
US08982636B2
A memory comprises a memory cell, a sense amplifier, and a control unit. The memory cell stores a first bit and a second bit. The sense amplifier senses a first cell current and a second cell current corresponding to the first and the second bits respectively with a voltage applying on the memory cell. The control unit determines a digital state of the first bit by comparing a first reference current with the first cell current or by comparing a reference data with a first delta current between the first cell current and the second cell current.
US08982630B2
When performing a data erase operation, the control circuit generates positive holes at least at any one of the drain side select transistor and the source side select transistor, and supply the positive holes to a body of the memory string to raise a voltage of the body of the memory string to a first voltage. Then, it applies a voltage smaller than the first voltage to a first word line among the plurality of the word lines during a first time period. In addition, it applies a voltage smaller than the first voltage to a second word line different from the first word line during a second time period.The second time period is different from the first time period.
US08982616B1
Spin-transfer torque magnetic random access memory (STTMRAM) with perpendicular laminated free layer
A perpendicular spin transfer torque magnetic random access memory (STTMRAM) element includes a fixed layer having a magnetization that is substantially fixed in one direction and a barrier layer formed on top of the fixed layer and a free layer. The free layer has a number of alternating laminates, each laminate being made of a magnetic layer and an insulating layer. The magnetic layer is switchable and formed on top of the barrier layer. The free layer is capable of switching its magnetization to a parallel or an anti-parallel state relative to the magnetization of the fixed layer during a write operation when bidirectional electric current is applied across the STTMRAM element. Magnetic layers of the laminates are ferromagnetically coupled to switch together as a single domain during the write operation and the magnetization of the fixed and free layers and the magnetic layers of the laminates have perpendicular anisotropy.
US08982615B2
A decoding system for a phase change non-volatile memory device having a memory array may include a column decoder that selects at least one column of the memory array during programming operations. The decoding system includes a selection circuit that includes selection switches on a number of hierarchical decoding levels for defining a conductive path between at least one column and a driving stage. A biasing circuit may supply biasing signals to the selection switches for defining the first conductive path and bringing the selected column to a programming voltage value. The programming selection circuit may have protection elements between columns and the selection switches. The selection switches and the protection elements may include metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) transistors having an upper threshold voltage level lower than the programming voltage.
US08982609B2
A memory includes a first bit line, a memory cell coupled to the first bit line, and a read assist device coupled to the first bit line. The read assist device is configured to pull a first voltage on the first bit line toward a predetermined voltage in response to a first datum being read out from the memory cell. The read assist device includes a first circuit configured to establish a first current path between the first bit line and a node of the predetermined voltage during a first stage. The read assist device further includes a second circuit configured to establish a second current path between the first bit line and the node of the predetermined voltage during a second, subsequent stage.
US08982603B2
A cross point variable resistance nonvolatile memory device including: a cross point memory cell array having memory cells each of which is placed at a different one of cross points of bit lines and word lines; a word line decoder circuit that selects at least one of the memory cells from the memory cell array; a read circuit that reads data from the selected memory cell; an unselected word line current source that supplies a first constant current; and a control circuit that controls the reading of the data from the selected memory cell, wherein the control circuit controls the word line decoder circuit, the read circuit, and the unselected word line current source so that when the read circuit reads data, the first constant current is supplied to an unselected word line.
US08982595B2
Design of a T-connected autotransformer based 20-pulse ac-dc converter is presented in this invention. The 20-pulse topology is obtained via two paralleled ten-pulse ac-dc converters each of them consisting of a five-phase (five-leg) diode bridge rectifier. For independent operation of paralleled diode-bridge rectifiers, a zero sequence blocking transformer (ZSBT) is designed and implemented. Connection of a tapped inter-phase transformer (IPT) at the output of ZSBT results in doubling the number of output voltage pulses to 40. Experimental results are obtained using the designed and constructed laboratory prototype of the proposed converter to validate the design procedure and the simulation results under varying loads. The VA rating of the magnetic in the proposed topology are calculated to confirm the savings in space, volume, weight, and cost of the proposed configuration.
US08982587B2
A ripple compensation apparatus comprises a ripple detection unit to detect a ripple on a dual DC bus, a waveform generation unit to generate a modulated waveform based on a base waveform and the detected ripple, and a multi-phase control signal generation unit to receive the modulated waveform and to generate at least one pulse width modulated control signal based on the modulated waveform.
US08982582B2
An electronic device contains circuitry such as radio-frequency transceiver circuitry and antenna structures that are coupled using transmission line paths such as coaxial cable paths. A coaxial cable is mounted within an electronic device housing cable mounting structures. The coaxial cable has a meandering portion that forms a service loop. The cable mounting structures includes grooves that receive the meandering portion of the cable. The grooves may be formed within a molded plastic body. Patterned metal may be formed on the surface of the molded plastic body using laser-based processing techniques. The cable in the meandering portion may have a segment in which an outer cable conductor is exposed. The patterned metal on the molded plastic body may short the exposed outer conductor to the electronic device housing or other ground structure.
US08982571B2
Electronic equipment includes a first water cutoff member and a second water cutoff member on the periphery of a hole communicating from outside with a space in which an electric component such as an electric circuit board is provided. This can prevent liquid, dust, and the like, which enter a first housing from outside, from entering the space. Thus, the electric component, etc. placed in the space can be prevented from being damaged due to an electric short-circuit.
US08982557B2
According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a printed circuit board, a heat pipe, a fan unit and a fixing unit. The heat pipe has a first end physically fixed to and thermally connected to a first circuit component, and a second end opposite to the first end. The fan unit is provided in the vicinity of the second end of the heat pipe, and cools the second end. The fixing unit fixes the position of the heat pipe at a position different from the position of the first circuit component.
US08982550B2
An information processing apparatus includes: a hard disk drive unit including a hard disk drive configured to read various data from and write various data in a magnetic disk incorporated therein; a housing of an apparatus main body configured to hold the hard disk drive on a substrate to be freely attached and detached; and a hard-disk-drive holding member provided in the hard disk drive unit, configured to include a first anti-vibration member having vibration damping properties disposed on a predetermined surface parallel to a disk width direction of the magnetic disk and fix and hold the hard disk drive in a state in which the first anti-vibration member is sandwiched between the hard disk drive and the predetermined surface, and formed of a metal member.
US08982545B2
A curved-surface display panel fabrication method for fabricating a curved-surface display panel using a flat display panel having a first substrate and a second substrate includes: paring partially outer surfaces of the first substrate and the second substrate so as to reduce thicknesses thereof to a predetermined thickness; bending the pared flat display panel to a desired curved shape; attaching a first guide member which has a shape corresponding to the desired curved shape to the first substrate with a predetermined gap from the pared outer surface thereof and attaching a second guide member with has a shape corresponding to the desired curved shape to the second substrate with a predetermined gap from the pared outer surface thereof; and forming light transmitting reinforcing layers respectively in a space between the first guide member and the first substrate and a space between the second guide member and the second substrate.
US08982543B2
A slider for keyboard is disclosed, which comprises a keyboard, a slider, and a supporting frame. The slider is slidably disposed on the lateral side of the keyboard. The supporting frame is pivotally connected to the slider. The keyboard includes a top shell and a bottom shell, the top shell formed with a first sliding rail and the bottom shell formed with a second sliding rail. The slider is slightly bent defining a first block and a second block, a first track is formed on the first block, and a second track is formed on the second block. The first sliding rail is slidably received by the first track, and the second sliding rail is slidably received by the second track.
US08982542B2
A hinge mechanism for a mobile electronic device includes a first leaf comprising first and second fixed pivot axes and a second leaf comprising third and fourth fixed pivot axes, the four pivot axes being substantially parallel to one another. A first linkage is pivotally coupled to the first leaf at the first pivot axis and pivotally coupled to the second leaf at the fourth pivot axis. A second linkage is pivotally coupled to the first leaf such at the second pivot axis and pivotally coupled to the second leaf at the third pivot axis. The first and second leaves are pivotable at least about 180° relative to one another. A cam mechanism can be included to bias the pivotal motion of the leaves. An FPC or other electrical connector linking the leaves can pass through a passage in at least one of the linkages.
US08982541B1
The present invention provides for a protective enclosure comprising a base comprising a first continuous mating surface and at least one conveyance aperture, a cover comprising a second continuous mating surface, wherein the second continuous mating surface is configured to form a seal with the first continuous mating surface, and a clamp, wherein at least a portion of the clamp is coupleable to the base, wherein a mouth of the clamp is configured to be offset from the aperture when the clamp is coupled to the base, wherein the clamp comprises a first sealing layer, and wherein the clamp is configured to seal the aperture against contaminants. The protective enclosure may be configured for use in a remotely controllable model vehicle to protect a control module.
US08982538B2
A guide assembly for a switchgear assembly is provided. The guide assembly includes an elongated support member and a passage. The support member is coupled to and extends from a housing assembly rear sidewall. The support member extends in the circuit breaker assembly direction of travel. The passage is disposed on the circuit breaker assembly base and also extends in the circuit breaker assembly direction of travel. The support member is substantially aligned with the passage. In this configuration, as the circuit breaker assembly moves between a withdrawn position and an installed position, the support member moves between a first position, wherein the support member is not disposed in the passage, and a second position, wherein the support member is partially disposed in the passage. When the support member is in the second position, the support member bears a portion of the weight of the circuit breaker assembly base.
US08982525B2
Overvoltage protection equipment may include: a first connection; a second connection; a first discharge path disposed between the first and the second connections, wherein the first discharge path comprises a spark gap; a second discharge path disposed between the first and the second connections, wherein the second discharge path comprises a triggerable circuit breaker and a thermistor connected in series; and a control device that induces the triggerable circuit breaker to switch on, based on at least one of a state or a state path of the first discharge path as a result of a discharge event.
US08982512B1
A low impedance, low crosstalk disk drive suspension circuit has multiple traces carrying a first polarity of a differential signal, interleaved with multiple traces carrying the second polarity of a differential signal. Each pair of conductors consisting of a trace of the first polarity and a trace of the second polarity may cross over each other at multiple crossover points. The crossover connections may utilize a second layer of copper trace conductors over the first and main layer, or alternatively the crossover connections may utilize an isolated portion of the suspension substrate.
US08982507B2
Data storage systems having barriers that may reduce erasure flux and increase write-ability are provided. Data storage systems include a writing element. The writing element has a write pole with a flare region. A magnetic flux barrier is located along the write pole flare region. The magnetic flux barrier is illustratively made from an in-plane magnetically anisotropic material that has an easy plane of magnetization. In another embodiment, a data storage system includes a writing element having an air bearing surface and a shield at the air bearing surface. The shield has a magnetic permeability of approximately zero. The shield illustratively includes alternating layers of positive and negative permeabilities. The shield optionally includes a plurality of shields that may include top, bottom, and side shields.
US08982501B1
A data storage device is disclosed comprising a head actuated over a disk, and a spindle motor configured to rotate the disk, wherein the spindle motor comprises a plurality of windings. A commutation controller is configured to commutate the windings based on a commutation sequence. Compensation values are generated based on: A1 sin ω1t+B1 cos ωlt where A1 and B1 are adaptable coefficients and ω1 represents a first frequency based on a first mechanical parameter of the spindle motor. The compensation values are used to drive the commutation sequence of the commutation controller.
US08982499B1
A data storage device that includes a magnetic storage device and a non-magnetic nonvolatile storage device that measures a hit rate of read/write commands that result in accesses to the non-magnetic nonvolatile storage device, and adjusts a length of a time period, such as an idle time, based on the hit rate. The duration of the time period can be set each time the magnetic storage device is accessed. Upon expiration of the time period, if the magnetic storage device has not yet been accessed, the magnetic storage device is changed from a higher power consumption state to a lower power consumption state.
US08982490B1
A data storage device is disclosed comprising a disk surface comprising a first spiral track, and a head actuated over the disk surface. While reading the first spiral track on the disk surface, a second spiral track is simultaneously written on the disk surface. In one embodiment, the second spiral track is written in an opposite radial direction as the first spiral track, and in another embodiment the second spiral track is written in the same radial direction as the first spiral track.
US08982482B2
The wide-angle optical system of the invention comprises, in order from its object side, a first lens group having negative refracting power and a second lens group having positive refracting power. The second lens group comprises, in order from the object side, a first cemented doublet lens, an aperture stop, a second cemented doublet lens and a first double-convex lens. The widest separation among axial air separations except a back focus provides an axial space for receiving the aperture stop. The optical system is divided into the first lens group and the second lens group with the second widest air separation as a boundary. Focusing is implemented by letting the whole optical system out. The optical system satisfies Condition (1). 1.4≦nd≦1.8 (1) Here nd is the d-line refractive index of the first double-convex lens.
US08982480B2
In accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure, a system comprises a projection system. The system further includes an image generator disposed in the projection system. The image generator is operable to generate a plurality of rays. The system further includes an objective lens disposed in the projection system. The objective lens is operable to refract the plurality of rays. The system further includes a component operable to reflect the refracted rays onto a target in order to form an image. The image is operable to be moved in relation to the target. The movement of the image is independent of any displacement of the projection system in relation to the target.
US08982477B2
Including, in order from an object side: a first lens group having positive power; a second lens group having negative power; and a third lens group having positive power, each distance between respective lens groups varying upon zooming; the third lens group including, in order from the object side, a first sub-group having positive power, a second sub-group having positive power, a third sub-group having negative power, and a fourth sub-group having positive power, the first sub-group being movable along an optical axis for focusing, the third sub-group being movable in a direction including a component perpendicular to the optical axis, thereby correcting an image blur, and a given condition being satisfied, thereby providing a compact zoom lens having high optical performance with disposing a focusing lens and a vibration reduction lens in the same lens group, an optical apparatus equipped therewith, and a method for manufacturing the zoom lens.
US08982466B2
The present invention relates to an optical lens having a lens element produced of plastic, more particularly of plastic which is transparent in a visible spectral range, and having a coating comprising a plurality of layers, the plurality of layers comprising at least one high-refractive-index layer. Furthermore, a hardcoat layer is formed adjacent to the lens element, and a superhydrophobic layer concludes the coating in opposition to the lens element. The at least one high-refractive-index layer has a thickness of less than 40 nm, and the coating overall has a thickness of more than about 380 nm.
US08982460B2
A display device is configured so that color pixels of a plurality of colors are formed in a longitudinal stripe shape. A lenticular lens is arranged on the display device, in which a periodical direction thereof is inclined with respect to the horizontal direction of the display device. A display position adjustment unit shifts a projected image data in predetermined pixel shift amounts of the respective horizontal and vertical directions including the pixel shift amount of 0, in a unit of one pixel defined by each of the color pixels of the plurality of colors in the horizontal direction of the display device and in a unit of each of the color pixels in the vertical direction thereof. A driving unit drives the display device to display the projected image data thereon.
US08982453B2
The invention relates to a laser device (1) for amplifying and/or transporting electromagnetic radiation, comprising a radiation source (2) for generating the electromagnetic radiation and an amplifier (4) for amplifying or a medium for transporting the generated electromagnetic radiation. In order to make available a device (1) for amplifying or transporting electromagnetic radiation that provides a very easy to implement possibility for reducing the influence of non-linear effects, the electromagnetic radiation propagating in the amplifier (4) or medium is largely non-linearly polarized.
US08982452B2
A low-power “all-in-one” Yb/Raman optical fiber laser system includes a pump input, and a Yb/Raman resonator including a segment of integrated Yb/Raman fiber configured to provide both a ionic gain and Raman gain. A set of input gratings and output gratings define a series of reflector pairs that, together with the integrated Yb/Raman fiber, create a nested series of cavities that provide a stepwise transition from the input wavelength to a selected target output wavelength.
US08982450B2
Feedback loops can be used to shift and stabilize the carrier-envelope phase of a frequency comb from a mode-locked fibers laser or other optical source. Compared to other frequency shifting and stabilization techniques, feedback-based techniques provide a wideband closed-loop servo bandwidth without optical filtering, beam pointing errors, or group velocity dispersion. It also enables phase locking to a stable reference, such as a Ti:Sapphire laser, continuous-wave microwave or optical source, or self-referencing interferometer, e.g., to within 200 mrad rms from DC to 5 MHz. In addition, stabilized frequency combs can be coherently combined with other stable signals, including other stabilized frequency combs, to synthesize optical pulse trains with pulse durations of as little as a single optical cycle. Such a coherent combination can be achieved via orthogonal control, using balanced optical cross-correlation for timing stabilization and balanced homodyne detection for phase stabilization.
US08982441B2
An insulated glazing unit includes a spacer defining a framed area, first and second glazing panes attached to the spacer, a pane conductive layer on an inner surface of the first glazing pane, and a dielectric layer disposed on the pane conductive layer. A shade for use with the insulated glazing unit is affixed to the first glazing pane. The shade includes one or more layers selected from a resilient layer, a substantially transparent shade conductive layer, and an opaque shade conductive layer. When an electric drive is applied between the pane conductive layer and the shade conductive layer, a potential difference between the pane conductive layer and the shade conductive layer causes the shade to extend from a retracted configuration to an extended configuration. The shade can further include at least one ink coating layer including pigments that selectively reflect or absorb certain visible colors and infrared.
US08982437B2
A hologram recording film manufacturing method includes the steps of obtaining a laminated structure by alternately laminating M (where M≧2) photosensitive material precursor layers including a photosensitive material and at least one (M−1) resin layer on one another, obtaining M photosensitive material layers, where at least two interference fringes with a desired pitch and a desired slant angle are formed on each of the M photosensitive material layers, from the M photosensitive material precursor layers by irradiating the laminated structure with a reference laser light beam and an object laser light beam, and making the slant angles of the M photosensitive material layers different from each other while retaining the pitch value, which is defined on a face of the photosensitive material layer, by irradiating the laminated structure with an energy ray from the laminated structure's one face side, and heating the laminated structure.
US08982435B2
A storage medium which stores a program to cause an image forming system to execute a process includes, (a1) forming a product image, which is subjected to color correction by a product LUT being applied thereto, and a verification image, which is subjected to color correction by a verification LUT being applied thereto on same paper, (b1) subjecting said verification image that is formed in (a1) to color measurement, (c1) determining whether verification LUT is applicable to color correction of the product image based on a difference between said color measurement values of the verification image that is measured in (b1) and target values, and (d1) forming the product image and the verification image, which are respectively subjected to color correction by applying the verification LUT that is determined to be applicable, and applying another verification LUT to color correction of said verification image, on same paper.
US08982417B2
An image processing apparatus includes a color conversion processing unit, a modulation difference creating unit, a color value modulating unit, and an output unit. The color conversion processing unit performs color conversion from an input color value of a target image to a corresponding output color value to obtain a tentative output color value. The modulation difference creating unit creates modulation differences. The modulation differences include combinations that are obtained by either setting or not setting a value equivalent to the minimum resolution of the tentative output color value for each color component of the tentative output color value. The color value modulating unit performs modulation on the tentative output color value by adding or subtracting a modulation difference selected at random to or from the tentative output color value. The output unit outputs the target image according to the color value obtained after modulation.
US08982415B1
An image processing apparatus includes a first color value registration list generating section that generates a first color value registration list, on a basis of color values of individual pixels of inputted image information in a case where a predetermined number or more of consecutive pixels have color values that match each other, the first color value registration list registering, for each of the color values that match, first color value information that includes the color value and a frequency of the color value.
US08982410B2
A printing control method for printing an image onto a recording medium including inputting data to be used for printing a page, setting a position and a size of a margin for a plurality of pages represented by the input data, according to an instruction from a user, and causing a print device to print an image including the plurality of pages and in which the binding margin with the set width is arranged at the set position, onto the recording medium in a direction determined according to the width of the margin.
US08982404B2
An information processing apparatus changes a display of management information of a non-print job in a print queue to a completed state without waiting for end-of-processing information from a printing apparatus if it is determined that a job is the non-print job. The information processing apparatus changes a display of management information of a print job in the print queue to a completed state in accordance with receiving the end-of-processing information from the printing apparatus if it is determined that a job is not the non-print job.
US08982403B2
A method of providing a context-aware printing service includes storing schedule information of a user; storing contents related with the schedule; identifying a location of a mobile terminal of the user and a current time; determining whether the identified location and the identified time are consistent with the schedule information; transmitting a guide message to print out the contents to the mobile terminal if the identified location and the identified time are consistent with the schedule information; sending, by the mobile terminal, a printing request to an image forming apparatus; and printing out the contents.
US08982394B2
In a conventional scan system, even in the case where an image forming device has an image processing function, since image processing such as OCR processing and OCR preprocessing for increasing a character recognition rate in the OCR processing is performed by only a scan server, a processing load is concentrated in the scan server. In the scan server of the present invention, scan setting and the OCR preprocessing are described in a scan ticket (instruction data), and the image forming device performs, on a scanned image, the OCR preprocessing described in the scan ticket received from the scan server.
US08982388B2
An information processing apparatus that is capable of controlling a screen appropriately even when a screen is switched while processing a job. A Web browser receives screen data from an external apparatus, displays an operation screen based on the screen data, transfers a processing instruction based on a user's operation on the operation screen to a service provider, and transmits a job executed result according to the processing instruction to the external apparatus. The service provider executes the job according to the processing instruction transmitted from the Web browser, and transmits the result of the executed job to the Web browser. The Web browser displays a completion screen with a different tab from the operation screen when another user's operation is performed while executing the job, and displays the completion screen with the same tab as the operation screen when another user's operation is not performed while executing the job.
US08982387B2
An information processing apparatus that is connectable via a network to a print server and a printer having at least one print function of local printing and printing mediated by the print server, comprises: a search unit configured to search for a printer connected to the network; a determination unit configured to determine whether a printer detected by the search unit has both the print functions of local printing and print server-mediated printing; and a display unit configured to display, for each print function, a printer determined by the determination unit to have both the print functions.
US08982386B2
A device includes a display unit, a display control unit configured to display a screen on the display unit according to display data, an execution unit configured to cause the device to perform a process corresponding to a script included in the display data, and a storing unit configured to store information indicating whether the script is charged for. The execution unit is configured to determine whether the script is charged for by referring to the information stored in the storing unit, and update charging information for the process performed by the device if the script is charged for.
US08982385B2
An image reading apparatus in which a session timeout does not take place in a case where user's confirmation is obtained before image data obtained by reading originals is transmitted. Before transmission of image data, a control unit determines whether a protocol having a time out is selected. If the selected protocol has a timeout, the control unit determines whether a memory is in a memory full state each time image data of one page is stored into the memory. If the memory is in a memory full state, the user is requested to confirm as to whether transmission is to be performed. If the necessity of transmission is confirmed by the user, the control unit establishes a session with a destination and transmits image data of pages stored in the memory to the destination.
US08982384B2
Methods and systems of brokering printing device capacity are disclosed. A broker computing system including one or more broker computing devices receives a print request including one or more print parameters from a print requester computing device and availability information from one or more print supplier printing devices. The broker computing device selects one of the one or more print supplier printing devices based on the one or more print parameters and the availability information for the selected print supplier printing device. The print request may be transmitted to the selected print supplier printing device. Alternately, a link for the selected print supplier printing device may be transmitted to the print requester computing device. The link enables the print requester computing device to directly contact the print supplier printing device.
US08982377B2
An image processing apparatus includes a storing unit that stores setting information for operating the image processing apparatus; and an updating control unit that sends a request for obtaining predetermined differentiated setting information, which is a part of a set of setting information stored in a data processing apparatus in a differentiated manner in accordance with a predetermined differentiating criterion, to the data processing apparatus via a network, obtains the predetermined differentiated setting information from the data processing apparatus via the network and controls to update the setting information stored in the storing unit by the obtained predetermined differentiated setting information.
US08982372B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image processing section to process gradation characteristic of the image data based on a tone curve, an image forming section to form an image based on the image data processed by the image processing section; and a control section to control processing in the image processing section. The control section has a function to adjust characteristic of output density relative to input density of image data as the gradation characteristic as a tone curve via a setting screen, saves operational situations at the time of adjustment of the tone curve on the setting screen as a history, and, when the history is designated, reproduces a state at the time of the past adjustment for the tone curve on the setting screen by using the saved operational situations.
US08982368B2
An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of operation modes. An image reading section reads image information from an original document. An image recording section records the image information on a recording medium. An electric power supply supplies electric power to the image reading section and the image recording section. A controller controls the electric power supply. When the image forming apparatus is operating in a first operation mode where the image recording section is involved, if the controller receives a new operation command that involves the image recording section, the controller drives the image recording section to operate in a second operation mode where the image forming apparatus operates at a lower speed than in the first operation mode.
US08982367B2
An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit, a rasterization processing unit, a saving unit, a detector, a conversion unit, a storage unit, and a removing unit. The receiving unit receives print information described in a page description language. The rasterization processing unit performs a rasterization process of converting the print information into bitmap data. The saving unit saves the bitmap data as cache data for each of objects included in the print information. The detector detects, among the objects included in the print information, an object which is called only once to obtain a detection result. The conversion unit converts, in accordance with the detection result, the object which is called only once for the print information into page data. The storage unit stores the page data. The removing unit removes a command to call, from the saving unit, the object called only once for the print information.
US08982363B2
Depth information about a scene of interest is acquired by illuminating the scene, capturing reflected light energy from the scene with one or more photodetectors, and processing resulting signals, in at least one embodiment, a pseudo-randomly generated series of spatial light modulation patterns is used to modulate the light pulses either before or after reflection.
US08982362B2
Described herein is a method and apparatus for measuring the thickness of a deposited semiconductor material. A colorimeter has an optical source that illuminates a portion of a deposited semiconductor material with optical radiation, a sensor that collects and measures color information related to reflected radiation from the deposited semiconductor material, and a processor that receives the color information related to the reflected radiation from the sensor and calculates a thickness of the semiconductor material. The processor may control a semiconductor material deposition apparatus.
US08982360B2
A position detector includes a source of radiant energy, such as infrared light. A sensor is spaced from the source. The source and the sensor can be carried spaced apart from one another by a housing. Control circuits, carried by the housing, are coupled to the source and the sensor. Pulsed radiant energy, emitted by the source is incident on the sensor only when transmitted by a solid optical medium which has a predetermined orientation relative to the housing. When the medium has the predetermined orientation, the sensor receives transmitted radiant energy from the source. When the medium moves from the predetermined orientation, the sensor ceases to receive the transmitted radiant energy from the source, and the control circuits can generate an alarm indication.
US08982357B2
The present invention relates to a structure in which a sensor includes a first area and a second area upon which dispersed first and second lights are focused. The first and second areas are disposed in a dispersion direction or a direction perpendicular to the dispersion direction. A distance between the first and second areas is adjusted by using a distance between a plurality of fiber ends from which a plurality of combined lights exit and an optical magnification at a detecting section.
US08982355B2
Disclosed is a system and method for characterizing optical materials, using steps and equipment for generating a coherent laser light, filtering the light to remove high order spatial components, collecting the filtered light and forming a parallel light beam, splitting the parallel beam into a first direction and a second direction wherein the parallel beam travelling in the second direction travels toward the material sample so that the parallel beam passes through the sample, applying various physical quantities to the sample, reflecting the beam travelling in the first direction to produce a first reflected beam, reflecting the beam that passes through the sample to produce a second reflected beam that travels back through the sample, combining the second reflected beam after it travels back though the sample with the first reflected beam, sensing the light beam produced by combining the first and second reflected beams, and processing the sensed beam to determine sample characteristics and properties.
US08982351B2
An apparatus for measuring the transmittance of a piece of cover glass for a photovoltaic cell which can measure an accurate transmittance irrespective of whether or not the cover glass has a pattern and irrespective of the shape of the pattern. The apparatus includes a light source part disposed in front of the piece of cover glass. The light source part directs light into the piece of cover glass. A detector is disposed in the rear of the piece of cover glass, and detects light that has been directed into the piece of cover glass and then has passed through the piece of cover glass. The detector is disposed within a range where the intensity of the light that has passed through the piece of cover glass is uniform.
US08982343B2
An optical analyzer, in particular an optical gas analyzer, having a holder (10) for installing into a gas-carrying hollow space, wherein the holder (10) has a ball socket (20) and a ball segment (30) with a longitudinal axis (A), wherein the ball socket (20) has at least one first segment (21) and a second segment (22) and is designed such that it at least partly engages around the ball segment (30) in the direction of the longitudinal axis (A).
US08982330B2
A method and an apparatus of profiling a surface are disclosed. The method comprises projecting slit pattern light toward a target object in at least two directions in sequence to obtain pattern images reflected on the target object, obtaining heights by using the pattern images according to the directions, obtaining vector fields showing a direction of maximum variation of height, obtaining confidence indexes of the heights corresponding to the at least two directions, obtaining integrated vector fields by using the confidence indexes and the vector fields, and calculating height of each position of the target object by using the integrated vector fields. Therefore, accuracy is enhanced.
US08982310B2
An electronic device may have a display such as a liquid crystal display. The display may include a layer of liquid crystal material interposed between a color filter layer and a thin-film transistor layer. The thin-film transistor layer may be provided with capacitive touch sensor electrodes. Wide metal lines on the thin-film transistor layer may be used to inhibit parasitic capacitances during touch sensor mode. The color filter layer may include a layer of black masking material that surrounds the active display area. A light-curable adhesive may used to attach the color filter layer to the thin-film transistor layer. Openings may be formed in the black masking material and in the metal lines on the thin-film transistor layer. The adhesive may be cured by applying ultraviolet light to the adhesive through the openings in the black masking material and through the openings in the metal lines.
US08982302B2
A stereoscopic image display device includes a first substrate defining an active area and a non-active area surrounding the active area, the first substrate having a gate line formed at the active area and the non-active area, a gate pad formed at the non-active area, a dummy line defining a dummy pixel by crossing the gate line, and a light leakage blocking layer that is connected to the dummy line and disposed to overlap the gate line and the gate pad; a second substrate opposing the first substrate, the second substrate having a black stripe on a side of the second substrate opposite from the first substrate along portions corresponding to edges of the active area, and a patterned retardation film over the black stripe; and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first and second substrates.
US08982292B2
A spatial light modulator comprising an array-type liquid crystal panel, a polarization beam splitter, an oblique wave plate and a converging lens. The polarization beam splitter is orientated to direct a source light towards a reflective planar surface of the array-type liquid crystal panel. The oblique wave plate and converging lens are located between the polarization beam splitter and the array-type liquid crystal panel. The converging lens is configured to direct light from the reflective planar surface onto a facing surface of the polarization beam splitter.
US08982286B2
A chart generation unit generates an adjustment chart, and a projection unit projects the adjustment chart onto a circular cylinder. A parameter acquiring unit acquires 12 parameters in total, relating to the positions of four corners and middle points of a top side and a bottom side of a chart and lateral expansion of the chart, the chart being input by a user through manipulations of an operation unit. A transform function determination unit calculates, from the total of 12 parameters, an accurate transform function for projecting an image onto the circular cylinder. An image conversion unit applies geometric transformation to the image based on the calculated transform function.
US08982278B2
An HDMI® source determines whether or not an HDMI® sink can receive a sub-signal based on VSDB of E-EDID. When the HDMI® sink can receive the sub-signal, the HDMI® source adds a sub-signal to pixel data of a main image composed of pixel data whose number of bits is smaller than that of transmission pixel data transmitted by a transmitter, thereby constructing transmission pixel data. This data is transmitted by the transmitter through TMDS channels #0 to #2. Furthermore, the HDMI® source transmits a general control packet containing sub-signal information indicating whether or not the sub-signal is contained in the transmission pixel data in the control period of a vertical blanking period. The present invention can be applied to, for example, HDMI®.
US08982274B2
Disclosed herein is a camera module, including: a lens holder including a receiving unit receiving a lens module therein; a driving unit joined to the lens holder to be movable in a direction vertical to an optical-axis direction; a housing in which the driving unit is installed to be movable in the vertical direction to the optical-axis direction and having a protruding member that protrudes on one surface thereof; a shape memory alloy wire part connected to the driving unit to generate driving force in the vertical direction to the optical-axis direction; and an elastic member applying a preload to the shape memory alloy wire part to cause initial transformation.
US08982272B1
Methods, apparatuses, systems and software for focusing a camera are disclosed. The camera focusing system includes a distance measuring device, a video receiver that receives video/images, a graphics overlay unit, and a monitor. The distance measuring device includes an emitter that emits a radiation beam, a detector that detects reflected radiation, and logic that determines and processes distance information for subject(s) or object(s) in detection zones from the reflections. The graphics overlay unit receives video/image information from the video receiver and the distance information from the distance measuring device, and includes a video overlay and data processing unit that generates graphics indicating a field of detection and position for each detection zone and a direction and/or magnitude of a change in focus setting(s) to bring subjects or objects within each detection zone into focus. The monitor displays the video/image and the graphics overlaid thereon.
US08982266B2
An imaging device includes an imaging section for repeatedly forming an image of a subject at a set period, while performing a bulb exposure operation, and outputting image data; an adding processing section for performing adding processing of the image data and previously output image data; an image display section for displaying the added image; and a designation section for designating to display only notification information indicating that bulb exposure is being performed, on the image display section, for a given period from commencement of the bulb exposure.
US08982258B2
Of the output signals of a solid state image sensor 101, only the signals in a vertical OB line period are selected by an OB line selector 105. A level adjuster 107 adjusts the level of a past vertical OB line signal read out from the line memory 106 during a first vertical OB line period of a frame where the amplification factor of an amplifier 102 has changed, and outputs the same. A subtractor 109 subtracts the signal whose level has been adjusted from a current vertical OB line signal. A multiplier 111 multiplies, via a selector B 111, the signal after subtraction by a cyclic coefficient K1H for the first vertical OB line period of the frame where the amplification factor has changed. A subtractor 112 subtracts the multiplication result from the current vertical OB line signal, and rewrites the subtraction result to the line memory 106.
US08982253B2
A single-plate color imaging element where an array of the color filters includes a basic array pattern of M×N provided with first filters corresponding to a first color with one or more colors and second filters corresponding to a second color with two or more colors with contribution ratios for obtaining luminance signals lower than the first color, the first filters are arranged in a check pattern shape in the basic array pattern, one or more second filters corresponding to each color of the second color are arranged in each line in the horizontal and vertical directions of the array of the color filters in the basic array pattern, and a proportion of the number of pixels of the first color corresponding to the first filters is greater than a proportion of the number of pixels of each color of the second color corresponding to the second filters.
US08982250B2
An image processing apparatus is provided which minimizes reduction in S/N ratio and deterioration in resolution feeling at the lens periphery when the peripheral light amount drop correction of the lens is performed. An image processing LSI to perform the peripheral light amount drop correction of the imaging lens includes a space-direction noise removal correction part and a time-direction noise removal correction part. As the distance from the lens center position increases, the space-direction noise removal correction part reduces the noise reduction correction intensity to the image region to which the light amount drop correction gain is added in each image. As the distance from the lens center increases, the time-direction noise removal correction part increases the noise removal correction intensity to the image region to which the light amount drop correction gain is added in each image.
US08982249B2
Image capturing is performed with an image pickup element being exposed to light, whereby a plurality of pieces of exposure image data are obtained. Image processing is performed on the plurality of pieces of exposure image data. The plurality of pieces of exposure image data output are combined into combined exposure image data. A plurality of pieces of dark image data are obtained and one piece of dark reference image data is generated. Image processing that uses a parameter based on the image processing performed on each exposure image data is performed on the one piece of dark reference image data, whereby a plurality of pieces of processed dark image data are output. The plurality of pieces of processed dark image data are combined into combined dark image data. The combined exposure image data is corrected in accordance with the combined dark image data.
US08982241B2
An image photography apparatus includes a storage unit to store data which is generated when an image is edited in the image photography apparatus, a receiver to receive an event to recover the image if editing of the image that is being edited in the image photography apparatus stops, and a controller to determine whether the image is to be recovered to an unedited original image or editing of the image is to be resumed to recover the image to a completely edited image according to an edited degree of the image so as to recover the image to the unedited original image or the completely edited image.
US08982239B2
An imaging apparatus includes: a reading device that reads a recording file on which a plurality of groups of information of character strings are stored in advance; a displaying device that displays any one group of the plurality of groups of the information of character strings; a selecting device that selects one desired group of information of character strings from the plurality of groups of the information of character strings; and a recording device that records shooting completion information that indicates shooting corresponding to the one desired group of the information of character string has been completed on the recording file, when shooting is performed in a state where the one desired group of the information of character string is selected, wherein when one group of the plurality of groups of the information of character strings is selected and displayed, based on the shooting completion information, the displaying device displays the selected one group of the information of character strings, and a display of completed shooting information that indicates an image corresponding to the selected one group of the information of character strings has been shot together.
US08982238B2
An example method of multi-target automatic exposure and gain control based on pixel intensity distribution includes capturing a series of digital images with an image sensor. As the series of digital images are captured, exposure time and/or gain are adjusted to adjust a mean intensity value of the digital images until a target mean intensity value is reached. The method includes dynamically selecting the target mean intensity value from a plurality of target mean intensity values based on a relative number of pixels, in each captured digital image, that have an intensity value that falls outside a range of intensity values.
US08982237B2
A portable electronic device with camera function and an image capture method with auto exposure control. The disclosed method comprises the following steps: obtaining a pre-view frame from a camera module; dividing the pre-view frame into a plurality of blocks and calculating representative brightness values of the blocks; assigning weight values to the blocks according to the representative brightness values; obtaining a weighted brightness value by performing a weighted operation on the representative brightness values based on the weight values of the blocks; setting an auto exposure parameter of the camera module based on the weighted brightness value; and controlling the camera module for capturing images based on the auto exposure parameter.
US08982234B2
An image processing method, for correcting a blur a due to an optical system of an image capturing apparatus, the image processing method including, storing a plurality of representative filters in a memory, selecting a subset of representative filters from the plurality of representative filters based on a pixel position of a pixel of interest in an image, applying each of the selected representative filter to a pixel value of the pixel of interest, and correcting the pixel value of the pixel of interest based on (a) a result of the application of filters, and (b) the pixel position of the pixel of interest.
US08982231B2
The present invention relates to a security element (1), comprising: an optical system, comprising: a transparent or translucent substrate (2), on the side of a first surface (2a, 2b) of the substrate (2) is a combined image (I) comprising a plurality of encoded interleaved images (I1), a exposing screen (4) placed on top of the combined image, enabling the encoded images (I1) to be observed during a change in the direction of observing the security element (1) relative to the optical system, the exposing screen (4) being: located on the side of the first surface (2a, 2b), the combined image then being located between the exposing screen (4) and the substrate (2), in which case the security element (1) comprises, on the side of the second surface (2a, 2b), a reflective surface that enables the encoded images (I1) to be observed through exposing screen (4).
US08982225B2
According to one embodiment, a camera module includes a second imaging optical system and an image processing section. The second imaging optical system forms an image piece. The image processing section has at least one of an alignment adjustment section, a resolution restoration section, and a shading correction section and has a stitching section. The stitching section joins the image pieces, subjected to at least one of alignment adjustment, resolution restoration, and shading correction, together to form a subject image.
US08982224B2
An image pickup apparatus includes image pickup means; holding means for holding a coordinate system used to represent an image capturing direction or a region in an image capturing range of the image pickup means; reception means for receiving a first command for rotating a captured image obtained by the image pickup means or a captured image cut out from the region in the image capturing range by a certain angle, a second command for rotating the coordinate system held in the holding means about the origin by the certain angle, and specification information for specifying the image capturing direction in the coordinate system; and change control means for executing control to change the image capturing direction of the image pickup means to the image capturing direction specified by the specification information.
US08982221B2
A photography device with anti-shake function for sensing camera shake and moving a lens toward a direction to correct the camera shake when photographing an object so that the object may be clearly photographed. A coil and a magnet are included in the invention, and the coil moves in a direction perpendicular to the optical-axis of the lens as a result of magnetic fields generated by the magnet and the coil when electric power is applied to the coil.
US08982219B2
A transmitting device in accordance with the present invention includes an encoding unit that converts an input video signal into encoded data and sends out the encoded data to a transmission line, and a synchronization signal generation unit that generates a synchronization signal SYNC for adjusting the phase of an input video signal on the basis of phase information transmitted through the transmission line, wherein the phase information PHS includes information indicating that a timing of a synchronization signal generated by the synchronization signal generation unit is to be advanced by the time necessary for transmission, and the synchronization signal generation unit generates the synchronization signal SYNC so that an input video signal is advanced by the time necessary for transmission.
US08982218B1
A system and method for detecting media source quality are provided. The system includes a data store comprising a computer readable medium storing a program of instructions for the detection of media source quality; a processor that executes the program of instructions; a video data receiver to receive video raw data, the video raw data corresponding to an uploaded and transcoded video; a video improver to apply a video improvement technique to the received video raw data to produce a modified version of the video raw data; and a video quality assessor to compare the received video raw data and the modified version of the video raw data, and based on the modified version of the video raw data improving on a factor associated with the video improvement technique, the video quality assessor indicates a phenomenon affecting the quality of the uploaded and transcoded video.
US08982206B2
A system and method of high-speed microscopy using a two-photon microscope with spectral resolution. The microscope is operable to provide spectrally resolved, multi-dimensional images from a single scan of a sample. The microscope may include one of a multi-beam point scanning microscope, a single beam line scanning microscope, and a multi-beam line scanning microscope. The microscope includes a descanning arrangement such that emitted fluorescence is static on a receiving detector. The detector is a narrow detector with a width at least half the size of the length, to reduce the amount of pixel data being transmitted and improve scan speeds. The microscope may also incorporate one or more binning techniques whereby pixels are binned together to improve resolution or scan speeds.
US08982198B2
An image signal correction apparatus includes: a frame memory configured to hold input image signals corresponding to a predetermined number of frames; a difference calculation unit configured to calculate a difference signal between an input image signal and each of the image signals held in the frame memory; a filter unit configured to pass a difference signal having a value equal to or smaller than a threshold value; and a control unit configured to change the threshold value of the filter unit in accordance with the value of the difference signal calculated in the difference calculation unit.
US08982196B2
A stereoscopic image display device comprises a display panel which is controlled so that image frame data are stored for frame intervals and are displayed for blank intervals, each of the blank interval being between the frame intervals; a polarization control panel which positioned on the display panel and converts a polarization state of light passing through the display panel; and polarization glasses which creates stereoscopic images by restricting the light converted by the polarization control panel and reaching each eye.
US08982184B2
A method for compensating for cross-talk in a 3-D projector-camera system having a controller including a processor and system memory and at least two channels, includes the steps of calibrating the projector-camera system, computing cross-talk factors applicable to the projector-camera system, and correcting new image data for cross-talk based upon the computed cross-talk factors. The system is calibrated by sequentially projecting and capturing, with a camera, a calibration image for each channel, to capture cross-talk between the channels. The controller can compute the cross-talk factors based upon the captured calibration images.
US08982183B2
A method for processing a multi-view video stream includes receiving the multi-view video stream including a random access picture, the random access picture including a random access slice referring to slices existing at a same time in a different view only, receiving identification information indicating that the received multi-view video stream is a stereo video bitstream, obtaining flag information indicating whether the random access picture is used for inter-view prediction based on the flag information, determining initialization information of a reference picture list of the random access picture based on the flag information, initializing the reference picture list of the random access picture using the initialization information, determining a prediction value of a macroblock in the random access picture based on the initialized reference picture list, and decoding the macroblock using the prediction value of the macroblock.
US08982182B2
A method for depth mapping includes providing depth mapping resources including an illumination module, which is configured to project patterned optical radiation into a volume of interest containing the object, and an image capture module, which is configured to capture an image of the pattern reflected from the object. A depth map of the object is generated using the resources while applying at least one of the resources non-uniformly over the volume of interest.
US08982179B2
A method that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, utilizing a system including at least one processor for determining a video modification plan for a received video stream of a video call session according to the at least one party associated with the video call session, modifying, by the system, a plurality of background images of the received video stream according to the video modification plan to generate a plurality of modified background images, and generating, by the system, a modified video stream according to the plurality of modified background images. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US08982177B2
Disclosed is a method and tool for collaborating in a video conference using a non-electronically enhance whiteboard and without the use of electronically enhanced writing and/or pointing tools. An embodiment may set up a front camera to capture an overall video stream that is split into at least two video feeds, a whiteboard feed and presenter feeds. The front camera may be set up to have a depth of field and focus to capture the whiteboard and presenter as well as specific video capture settings for each feed to optimize the whiteboard or the presenter. An embodiment may capture the two feeds according to the appropriate settings and deliver the two feeds to other video conference member devices. Embodiments may add additional cameras to permit additional optimization such as eliminating whiteboard occluded areas and/or automatically selecting a presenter from a plurality of people who are in the video capture frame.
US08982169B2
According to the present disclosure, a manufacturing method of a fine wiring pattern is disclosed. The manufacturing method includes preparing a support member, forming a first layer on the support member by thick-film printing, and forming a second layer including Ag on the first layer by the thick-film printing. The method also includes forming a predetermined fine wiring pattern by performing an etching process upon the first layer and the second layer.
US08982168B2
A light irradiating device causes a light source to emit light with normal emitted light quantity sufficient for adhering toner on a photosensitive member, on an image portion of the photosensitive member, and causes the light source to emit light with minute emitted light quantity sufficient for preventing toner from being adhered on the photosensitive member, which is smaller than normal emitted light quantity. The light irradiating device includes a determining unit to determine a reference value input to the light irradiating device. Minute emitted light quantity is set based on the reference value input to the light irradiating device. The determining unit determines the reference value to be input to the light irradiating device based on information of relationship between a predetermined reference value and the light quantity in the position of the photosensitive member when causing the light source to emit light, based on the predetermined reference value.
US08982156B2
An assembling method for assembling a measurement or production set-up includes providing an augmented reality system with a processing device, an output device and a sensing device. The sensing device captures sensing data belonging to a working space. The method then includes providing first and second set-up components having first and second markers at the working space where the second set-up component is connectable to the first set-up component. The method captures the first and second markers by the sensing device and identifies the first and second marker. The processing device retrieves respective digital information assigned to the identified first and second markers from a database and makes a decision on the compatibility of the first set-up component with the second set-up component based on the retrieved digital information. An augmented representation of at least part of the captured sensing data and the decision on the compatibility is output.
US08982150B2
A system for advertising on footwear by displaying promotional content on an electronic display of the footwear and wherein the promotional content being displayed occupies 25% to 100% of the outer surface of the footwear. Additionally, the content can be displayed according to a plurality of conditions including time of day, rate of motion of the footwear and environmental lighting conditional around the footwear.
US08982148B2
A stationary or mobile terminal controlled by a pointing or input peripheral device is presented. The invention pertains to the field of man-machine interfaces (MMI) applied to digital reading. There is provided a stationary or mobile terminal that is capable of reproducing, when used, the sensation of reading paper on a screen, of developing novel modes of reading, and of enabling press groups to render the publications thereof paperless while doing away with the material and technical limitations of various reading terminals.
US08982145B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for generating and providing display error indications. In one aspect, a method includes accessing data defining display areas and, for each display area: respective display area borders that are different from display area borders of other display areas; and display data for each of a plurality of objects that are rendered in the display area, the display data defining, for each object: a display position of the object; display dimensions of the object; and content data defining content of the object; wherein each object in each display area corresponds to a respective object in each other display area; receiving user input specifying a change in the display data of a first object in a first display area and, in response, determining whether the change causes a display error; and for each display area for which the change causes a display error, generating an error indication.
US08982142B2
Method for parallel approximation of distance maps on a discrete representation of a manifold, the method comprising: for at least one Euclidean grid applied on the discrete representation of a manifold, iterating over rows of the Euclidean grid in a first direction, and for each row currently visited during the iterating in the first direction, calculating a distance value for each single cell of the currently visited row in parallel, wherein the calculating is carried out according to a predefined approximation rule, using a distance value calculated for each one of respective cells of a row visited immediately before the currently visited row, wherein the cells of the row visited before the currently visited row are adjacent to the single cell in the Euclidean grid.
US08982131B1
A multivariate digital camera device and method for generating pictures of datasets comprised of points in hyperspace is provided. The invention may be embodied in an input device, a computer processor, and an output device. The input device may be a keyboard, a laboratory instrument such as a mass spectrometer, a reader of computer readable medium, or a network interface device. The output device may be a monitor used in conjunction with either a 2D or 3D printer or both. The computer processor receives data from the input device and performs a series of steps to create a 2D or 3D image of the hyperspace object. The resulting image is then produced in a non-transitory medium by at least one of the output devices. The processor steps include the use of a maximum distance method in which distances and angles information from the points in the hyperspace dataset are preserved to produce a more picture-like quality.
US08982125B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for shading computer graphics (CG) representations of materials. One of the methods includes obtaining data describing a physical material; receiving a shading request to shade a particular point in a CG representation of the physical material from a rendering engine, wherein the request identifies a mapping position of the particular point, a view direction at the mapping position, and a light direction at the mapping position; calculating a direct lighting color at the mapping position using a plurality of palettized images; calculating an indirect lighting color at the mapping position using the data describing the physical material; generating a final color at the mapping position by combining the direct lighting color and the indirect lighting color; and providing the final color to the rendering engine for use in rendering the CG representation of the physical material.
US08982124B2
In one embodiment described herein, a graphics engine with shader unit thread load balancing functionality executes shader instructions from multiple execution threads in a smaller number of execution threads by combining instructions from multiple threads at runtime. In one embodiment, multiple shader unit threads containing less than a minimum number of instructions are combined to minimize the discrepancy between the shortest and longest thread. In one embodiment, threads are merged when they contain a common output register.
US08982115B2
A liquid crystal display device discharges residual charge within the liquid crystal display panel. The liquid crystal display device comprises pixels defined by gate lines and data lines intersecting with each other and switching elements for driving the plurality of pixels; a level shifter comprising a first transistor connected between a gate-on voltage terminal and an output terminal and a second transistor connected between a gate-off voltage terminal and the output terminal to selectively output either the gate-on voltage or gate-off voltage to the plurality of gate lines; and a discharge circuit forming a discharge path connecting the gate-off voltage terminal and the ground terminal. The second transistor is turned on during the power-on of the liquid crystal display panel to apply the gate-off voltage. The discharge circuit is turned on to discharge the residual charge of the liquid crystal display panel through the discharge path.
US08982112B2
Embodiments may be directed to a display panel includes a base substrate including a display region having a plurality of pixels and a non-display region adjacent to the display region, a connecting line in the non-display region and including at least a first input pad, a second input pad, and an output pad, and an insulating layer on the connecting line. The insulating layer includes at least one first contact hole exposing at least a portion of the first input pad, at least one second contact hole exposing at least a portion of the second input pad, and at least one third contact hole between the first contact hole and the second contact hole. A first contact electrode, a second contact electrode, and a dummy contact electrode are disposed at the first, second and third contact holes, respectively.
US08982109B2
Systems, devices and methods enabling appearance comparison. The system includes at least one interactive imaging and display station. The station includes a mirror-display device capable of selectably operating in either or both a mirror mode or a display mode; an imaging device to capture one or more appearances appearing in a field of view in front of the mirror-display device; and/or an image control unit to select the mode of operation of the mirror-display device according to a user command.
US08982107B2
A monolithic gate driver capable of operating with a relatively small number of circuit elements is realized. A stage constituent circuit constituting each stage of a shift register includes two output terminals connected to scanning signal lines, two thin-film transistors each having a drain terminal to which an output control clock signal is supplied and a source terminal connected to the output terminal, a first-node connected to the two thin-film transistors in common, a first-node control circuit, and an input terminal for receiving a set signal. In this configuration, the first-node changes from an OFF level to an ON level based on the set signal. Further, the first-node control circuit changes the first-node from the ON level to the OFF level.
US08982100B2
An interactive panel comprises an optical waveguide within which totally internally reflected (TIR) illumination propagates, a display device beneath the optical waveguide and a partially transparent layer beneath the display device. The partially transparent layer reflects backlight illumination towards the display device and at least allows TIR illumination escaping from the optical waveguide and passing through the optical waveguide and the display panel, as a result of one or more contacts made on the optical waveguide, to pass therethrough.
US08982095B2
Provided are a capacitive touch detecting device, a capacitive touch detecting method, and a touch screen panel, using a level shift, and a display device having a built-in touch screen panel, which minimizes an influence due to noise or a parasitic capacitance, and detects a touch input by positively using a signal induced by a common electrode of a liquid crystal display (LCD).
US08982089B2
A touch panel and an electronic device including the same are provided. The touch panel includes a touch panel body including a first substrate and a second substrate that is spaced apart from the first substrate, driving electrodes that are arranged on the first substrate and the second substrate, and electro-rheological fluid that fills a gap between the first substrate and the second substrate; a driver that applies a driving voltage to all or a portion of the driving electrodes; and a sensor that applies a sensing signal sequentially to the driving electrodes and senses a variation in capacitance between the driving electrodes due to a variation of the gap between the first substrate and the second substrate in response to the sensing signal.
US08982084B2
A device implements a method of tracking objects on a touch surface of an FTIR based touch-sensitive apparatus. The method repeatedly operates to generate an interaction pattern that indicates local changes in interaction on the touch surface, identify apparent peaks in the interaction pattern, and update existing movement trajectories based on the apparent peaks. An error suppression process is executed at least intermittently in the method to process the apparent peaks and/or the existing movement trajectories to identify implicated trajectories with a potential tracking problem, define two or more movement propositions for each implicated trajectory, and cause an evaluation of the movement propositions in one or more subsequent repetitions of the method. The error suppression process improves tracking by postponing the final decision on how to track the object of the implicated trajectory until more information is available.
US08982083B2
A display device includes a plurality of first electrodes arranged on a substrate in parallel in a first direction; a plurality of second electrodes arranged in parallel in the first direction and a second direction crossing the first direction without contacting with the plurality of first electrodes; a plurality of first connecting wires, each first connecting wire being connected with at least one of the plurality of the first electrodes; and a plurality of second connecting wires, each second connecting wire connecting the second electrodes to each other in the second direction, wherein a touch driving voltage is supplied to the plurality of first connecting wires and a common voltage is supplied to the plurality of second connecting wires so that mutual capacitance is generated between the a plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes.
US08982082B2
A touch panel includes a substrate, a transparent conductive layer located on the substrate, and a number of electrodes electrically connected to the transparent conductive layer. The transparent conductive layer includes a carbon nanotube film. The carbon nanotube film includes a number of carbon nanotube wires substantially parallel with each other and a number of carbon nanotube clusters located between the number of carbon nanotube wires. The carbon nanotube wires extend along an X direction and are spaced from each other along a Y direction. The carbon nanotube clusters between each adjacent two of the carbon nanotube wires are spaced from each other along the X direction. The X direction is intercrossed with the Y direction.
US08982072B2
There are provided a mobile device and a method of controlling a screen of the mobile device. The mobile device includes: a display unit including an effective display area for displaying a screen; a touch screen panel including a plurality of sensing electrodes; and a control unit detecting a touch input based on a sensing signal generated from the plurality of sensing electrodes and controlling the screen displayed by the display unit, wherein when the touch input corresponds to a previously set first input gesture, the control unit controls such that a size of the screen is reduced at a predetermined first ratio and the reduced screen is only displayed in a portion of the effective display area.
US08982070B2
A display section (2000) that has a plurality of display screens includes: a touch panel type input section (3000) that senses touches on the display screens; and a control section (1000) that causes any one of the two display screens to display a predetermined portion that lies on two display screens of the plurality of display screens based on a touch operation on the display screens.
US08982069B2
Some embodiments provide a single integrated multi-functional input device (1) that provides the discrete input functionality of a keyboard to facilitate efficient text insertion operations and (2) that provides the functionality of a trackpad to facilitate efficient spatially dependent navigation in a graphical user interface (GUI) whereby each such functionality is accessible by the user's hands positioned at the home position keys of the keyboard. More specifically, some embodiments provide an enhanced keyboard with at least one touch sensitive key and software for adapting touches applied over the touch sensitive key to emulate trackpad functionality without interfering with regular text insertion (typing).
US08982066B2
A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for automatically ending an interactive device session. In one embodiment, the system comprises a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and operable to: log out a user, delete locally stored data created during a session, and place one or more system hardware components in a reduced power consumption state based on: occupancy sensor data indicating presence or absence of one or more individuals in proximity to an occupancy sensor, and activity information associated with a display surface.
US08982058B2
Touch screens with more compact border regions can include an active area that includes touch sensing circuitry including drive lines, and a border region around the active area. The border region can include an area of sealant deposited on conductive lines, and transistor circuitry, such as gate drivers, between the active area and the sealant. The conductive lines can extend from the sealant to the active area without electrically connecting to the transistor circuitry. The conductive lines can have equal impedances and can connect the drive lines to a touch controller off of the touch screen. A set of drive signal characteristics for the drive lines can be obtained by determining a transfer function associated with each drive line, obtaining an inverse of each transfer function, and applying a set of individual sense signal characteristics to the inverse transfer functions to obtain the corresponding set of drive signal characteristics.
US08982056B2
An industrial process transmitter includes a transducer positioned to interact with an industrial process, display circuitry that displays a visual output to an operator, and control circuitry. The display can be selectively modified to provide the visual output at one of a plurality of orientations. The control circuitry is connected to communicate with the transducer and the display circuitry and receive an input regarding the orientation of the industrial process transmitter. In response to received input regarding the orientation of the industrial process transmitter, the control circuitry provides instructions to the display circuitry to modify the orientation of the visual output.
US08982054B2
A keyboard includes an input interface, a rotatable infrared emitter, a first counter, a second counter, an infrared receiver, and a processor. The rotatable infrared emitter emits infrared light across the input interface which represents a keyboard. The first counter starts a count at each beginning of the infrared light emission. The second counter starts a count when the infrared emitter rotates to reach a reference direction in each rotating period. The infrared receiver stops the counts of the first counter and the second counter when the infrared receiver receives infrared light reflected from an obstacle. The first counter defines a transmission time of the infrared light. The second counter defines a rotating time. The processor calculates a position of the obstacle on the input interface according to the transmission time, the rotating time, a rotating speed of the infrared emitter, and positions of the infrared emitter and infrared receiver.
US08982050B2
An interactive display system including a wireless pointing device, and positioning circuitry capable of determining absolute and relative positions of the display at which the pointing device is aimed. The pointing device captures images displayed by the computer, including one or more human-imperceptible positioning targets. The positioning targets are presented as patterned modulation of the intensity (e.g., variation in pixel intensity) in a display frame of the visual payload, followed by the opposite modulation in a successive frame. At least two captured image frames are subtracted from one another to recover the positioning target in the captured visual data and to remove the displayed image payload. Motion of the pointing device between the two frames is detected by relative motion sensors, and used to align the positions of the positioning targets in the captured images for those frames to improve the fidelity of the recovered positioning target following the subtraction.
US08982047B2
At least one characteristic of an object is captured at a first instant and the at least one characteristic of the object is then captured at a second instant. A moving direction and a moving speed of the object are calculated according to the at least one characteristic of the object captured respectively at the first instant and the second instant. A left view image and a right view image are projected to the object and if the moving speed of the object is greater than a threshold, a center point of the left view image and the right view image deviates from a center line of the object.
US08982045B2
A computing device is described herein which collects input event(s) from at least one contact-type input mechanism (such as a touch input mechanism) and at least one movement-type input mechanism (such as an accelerometer and/or gyro device). The movement-type input mechanism can identify the orientation of the computing device and/or the dynamic motion of the computing device. The computing device uses these input events to interpret the type of input action that has occurred, e.g., to assess when at least part of the input action is unintentional. The computing device can then perform behavior based on its interpretation, such as by ignoring part of the input event(s), restoring a pre-action state, correcting at least part of the input event(s), and so on.
US08982044B2
A position detector includes a tablet and a position indicator, which includes a coil and configured to continuously transmit a coil-based signal to the tablet as a position signal and to intermittently transmit the coil-based signal to the tablet as a non-positional signal. The tablet is configured to detect a position on its surface pointed to by the position indicator by detecting the continuously-transmitted coil-based signal, and to determine non-positional information regarding the position indicator (e.g., pen pressure, pen ID, etc.) by detecting the intermittently-transmitted coil-based signal. The position indicator further includes position indicator control circuitry configured to control the position indicator to: (i) receive an indicator control signal from the tablet; (ii) based on the received indicator control signal, select one type of non-positional information from among multiple types of non-positional information regarding the position indicator; and (iii) transmit the selected one type of non-positional information to the tablet.
US08982042B2
An image display medium driver includes a voltage applying unit that applies a voltage between a pair of substrates of an image display medium that displays an image, the image display medium including plural groups of colored particles colored in a color which is different for every group, at least one of the substrates having transparent properties, each group of colored particles moved when the voltage equal to or higher than a threshold voltage in terms of absolute value, that is different for every group, and a controller that determines a substrate on which the colored particles are present for each group of colored particles based on the last image information used for displaying an image.
US08982032B2
A display device with an integrated touch screen and a method of driving the same are provided. The display device with an integrated touch screen includes a gate driver that is configured with a plurality of stages that include a pull-up transistor and first and second pull-down transistors and are respectively connected to a plurality of gate lines. The method includes: turning on the pull-up transistor to output a pull-up signal to each of the plurality of gate lines and, after the pull-up signal is outputted, turning on the first pull-down transistor to output a pull-down signal to each of the plurality of gate lines, during an image output period in each frame; and turning on the second pull-down transistor to output the pull-down signal to each of the plurality of gate lines, during a touch sensing period in each frame.
US08982028B2
A display apparatus includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer, and a common electrode. The first substrate includes a gate line, a data line insulated from the gate line while crossing the gate line, and a pixel electrode connected to the gate line and the data line. The second substrate faces the first substrate. The liquid crystal layer is interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The common electrode is disposed on at least one of the first substrate or the second substrate to form an electric field in cooperation with the pixel electrode. A data voltage applied to the pixel electrode has a polarity inverted every at least one frame with reference to a predetermined reference voltage, and a common voltage applied to the common electrode has a polarity inverted every at least two frames with reference to the reference voltage.
US08982025B2
The present invention relates to device for driving liquid crystal display (LCD) and method for driving the same. The device for driving LCD comprises a voltage input module for receiving Gamma reference voltage; a voltage generation module connected to said voltage input module, for generating pixel driving voltage of a corresponding color with one resistor-chain, according to the Gamma reference voltage and the color of pixel being driven; and a voltage output module connected to said voltage generation module, for transmitting the pixel driving voltage of said corresponding color to a liquid crystal panel. According to an embodiment of the present invention, voltage generation units that respectively generate pixel driving voltage of three colors are set on one resistor-chain, and a corresponding voltage generation unit is selected by a multi-selector according to the color of pixel being driven, so that the corresponding voltage generation unit transmits the pixel driving voltage to the voltage output module. According to an embodiment of the present invention, color shifting phenomenon is effectively overcome, thus improving TFT-LCD's picture quality.
US08982015B2
A shift register includes cascade-connected stages, each of which includes a data latch and an output stage. In at least one embodiment, the latch has a single data input which, in use, receives a date signal from a preceding or succeeding stage. The output stage includes a first switch, which passes a clock signal to the stage output when the output stage is activated by the latch. The output stage also comprises a second switch, which passes the lower supply voltage to the stage output when the output stage is inactive.
US08982006B2
A dipole antenna is disclosed. The dipole antenna includes a feed-in terminal, a balun, a first radiator and a second radiator. The feed-in terminal is used for feeding in a radio-frequency signal. The balun is electrically connected to the feed-in terminal for driving out a return current of the dipole antenna to balance a feed-in impedance of the dipole antenna. The first radiator is electrically connected to the feed-in terminal and the balun for radiating the radio-frequency signal in a first frequency band. The second radiator is electrically connected to the first radiator, the feed-in terminal and the balun for radiating the radio-frequency signal in a second frequency band.
US08981996B2
Systems and methods are provided for determining position location information in a wireless network. In one embodiment, timing offset information is communicated between multiple transmitters and one or more receivers. Such information enables accurate position or location determinations to be made that account for timing differences throughout the network. In another embodiment, transmitter phase adjustments are made that advance or delay transmissions from the transmitters to account for potential timing differences at receivers. In yet another embodiment, combinations of timing offset communications and/or transmitter phase adjustments can be employed in the wireless network to facilitate position location determinations.
US08981995B2
An embodiment of the invention provides a method of determining a location of a mobile target that processes locations for the target provided by a wireless location technology tracker system to determine if the locations are outliers, discards locations that are determined to be outliers, and uses locations determined not to be outliers as locations for the target.
US08981990B2
A system and a method of generating a three-dimensional terrain model using one-dimensional interferometry of a rotating radar unit is provided herein. Height information is evaluated from phase differences between two echoes by applying a Kalman filter in relation to a phase confidence map that is generated from phase forward projections relating to formerly analyzed phase data. The radar system starts from a flat earth model and gathers height information of the actual terrain as the platform approaches it. Height ambiguities are corrected by removing redundant 2π multiples from the unwrapped phase difference between the echoes.
US08981984B2
A method, comprising: receiving a plurality of 2-tuples of asynchronously sampled inputs at an asynchronous to synchronous reconstructor; performing a coarse asynchronous to synchronous conversion using the plurality of 2-tuples to generate a plurality of low precision synchronous outputs; generating a high precision synchronous output, z0, using a plurality of asynchronous 2-tuples, low precision synchronous outputs after it, and its own high precision outputs from previous steps; calculating c0 and c−1 by summing future low precision outputs and the past high precision outputs after they are weighted with the appropriate windowed sinc. values and then subtracted from appropriate asynchronous samples; calculating, the four quantities “s−11”, “s01”, “s00” and “s−10” based on particular values of the windowed sinc. function; and using c0, c−1, s−11, s01, s00 and s−10, the high precision synchronous output of interest, z0 is generated.
US08981981B1
Systems and methods provide for the control of a fully-segmented digital-to-analog converter. The selected lead-most current cell of an array in the digital-to-analog converter is addressed individually using a row/column scheme and a decoder. The remaining current cells behind the lead-most current cell are enabled via a ripple enable signal that propagates backwards from the lead-most current cell. The ripple enable signal snakes through the array to enable all the current cells behind the lead-most current cell in a cell-by-cell fashion. The current cells in front of the lead-most current cell are not enabled.
US08981980B2
Systems and methods for providing a mechanism by which digital signals can be converted to analog signals with an efficient structure that reduces the number of filters required by providing a mechanism for cancelling images that would otherwise be generated. By adjusting three parameters in the system, a selection can be made as to whether to generate upper sidebands, lower sidebands and in which direction the envelope of the output from the system will be skewed.
US08981977B2
A system and method for low-power digital signal processing, for example, comprising adjusting a digital representation of an input signal.
US08981968B2
A method and apparatus for displaying aircraft information. A selection of a piece of dynamic information is detected about an aircraft on a first display on a user interface. The piece of dynamic information is used to operate the aircraft and changes during operation of the aircraft. The piece of dynamic information selected from the first display is added to a custom display on the user interface. The custom display is displayed on the user interface on a display system for the aircraft.
US08981961B2
A connection validation apparatus includes a connector engagement mechanism configured to physically engage a connector to connect the connector to a connector interface. The apparatus further includes a connection indication detector located on the connector engagement mechanism and configured to detect at least one of a sound and a vibration corresponding to a secure connection of the connector with the connector interface. The apparatus also includes a connection indicator output unit configured to provide an indication to a user that the connector is securely connected with the connector interface based on the detection of the at least one of the sound and the vibration by the connection indication detector.
US08981952B2
A sensor includes a housing and a mass, suspended in the housing. The motion of the mass emulates dynamic behavior of a brain of the wearer along a plurality of axes. At least one sensing element is coupled to generate sensor data based on the motion of the mass, in response to an impact to a protective helmet.
US08981949B2
A harvester grain bin monitoring system is disclosed. The system includes a sensor that monitors the perimeter of the bin proximate to the top rim to provide a warning to an operator when the grain level reaches approaches the bin rim. The sensor may be optical or mechanical.
US08981943B2
A wireless temperature measuring system, including multiple wireless temperature sensors, and multiple communication terminals; the wireless temperature sensors communicate with the communication terminals via RF, the wireless temperature sensor operates to obtain temperature signals from a temperature detection point, to perform cross-interleaved error correction encoding on the temperature signals whereby obtaining coded temperature signals, and to transmit the coded temperature signals to the communication terminals via RF; the communication terminal operates to receive and decode the coded temperature signals from the wireless temperature sensor, and to obtain decoded temperature signals.
US08981940B2
In one embodiment the present invention includes a radio frequency identification (RFID) system with a shorting loop. The shorting loop at least partially surrounds the antenna. The shorting loop distorts the electromagnetic field generated by the antenna to improve the definition of the border of the read region of the antenna. In this manner, the RFID system provides more accurate discrimination between RFID tags inside the read region versus RFID tags outside the read region (i.e., improves the accuracy of determining that a particular RFID tag is inside the read region).
US08981938B2
Methods of connecting or linking real objects to machines or the virtual world in real time utilizing a device are disclosed. In one embodiment, a wireless tag attached to an object in communication with an electronic device, such as a cellular phone, tablet computer, laptop computer, or watch, monitors and updates the position of a wireless tag locally and on a machine/network/cloud. Methods of using a wireless tag in safety, loss/theft prevention, healthcare, tracking, advertising and marketing, education, games, finance, payment, and athletic are disclosed. In another embodiment, methods of providing an application programming interface and/or a software development kit based on the devices are provided, allowing software developers the ability to create their own programs or applications on top of the disclosed system is disclosed. Methods of allowing developers to distribute and/or monetize applications developed through the application programming interface and/or a software development kit are also disclosed.
US08981937B2
An RFID tag includes: an antenna receiving an RF signal from a reader; an AFE (analog front end) generating voltage using the RF signal; and one or more switches interposed between the antenna and the AFE and controlling the connection between the antenna and the AFE through the switch operation.
US08981929B2
A system, method, and computer program product determine when a user's mobile device has left a secured location, such as a house or office, without predefined site security settings being met, and responsively inform the user of any security anomalies. A predetermined distance threshold is compared with the distance between the mobile device, and the secured location. If the distance exceeds the threshold and a trigger event is detected, an alert is transmitted. An alert may also be sent when a mobile object to be secured is moved away from the user's mobile device by a distance that exceeds the predetermined distance threshold.
US08981925B2
A system provides for radio frequency detection of an offending device within a specific range of a body worn device. Upon detection of the radio frequency signal, the body worn device communicates to an infrastructure to alert of the presence and optionally the location of the radio frequency signal, and therefore the offending device. The user and/or location of the body worn device is/are revealed and the source of the radio frequency signal is readily determined for confiscation of the offending device. Other features include locating/tracking of the body worn device (and wearer) detection of tampering with the body worn device, and detection of cloaking of the body worn device (e.g. submerging in water or covering with aluminum foil, etc.).
US08981924B2
In some embodiments, a personal possession management system using a short range Internet Protocol (IP) based Personal Area Network (PAN) comprises a master device MD to be worn or held by a user, and an IP based RFID electronic tag ET to be attached to or contained within a personal possession desired to be managed. The electronic tag ET has communicability with the master device. The master device MD is configured to allot an IP address to the electronic tag ET in a registration mode using IEEE 802.11 protocols and sends probes to the electronic tag ET. The electronic tag ET is configured to receive messages from the master device MD and respond accordingly. The master device MD alerts a user when the communicability between the master device MD and the electronic tag Er is disrupted in a monitoring mode.
US08981914B1
An improved system for magnifying forces perceived by an operator performing delicate procedures with a tool. The system senses forces between the tip and handle of the tool and actuates forces between the handle held by the operator and a brace contacting some other portion of the operator's anatomy. Magnifying the forces felt at the tip provides the ability to perceive forces that are smaller than could otherwise be felt and to perform procedures that are more delicate than possible without such enhanced perception. In at least one embodiment, the device is completely hand-held and thus can easily be adapted to a wide variety of locations, orientations, and applications.
US08981908B2
Systems and methods for decoding data transmitted by RFID tags are disclosed. One embodiment of the invention includes an analyzer and equalizer configured to filter an input signal, an estimation block configured to obtain a baseband representation of the modulated data signal by mixing the filtered input signal with the carrier wave, and a coherent detector configured to perform phase and timing recovery on the modulated data signal in the presence of noise and to determine a sequence of data symbols.
US08981900B2
A method, a portable data storage medium, an approval apparatus and a system for approving a transaction using acceleration sensors integrated in a portable data storage medium.
US08981892B2
A subsea fuse assembly is provided. The subsea fuse assembly is adapted to be operated in a pressurized environment. The subsea fuse assembly includes an enclosure adapted to be filled with a dielectric liquid, and a pressure compensator including a flexible element for pressure compensation. The subsea fuse assembly also includes a first penetrator and a second penetrator each passing through a wall of the enclosure for leading a first electric conductor and a second electric conductor, respectively, into the enclosure. The subsea fuse assembly includes a fuse arranged inside the enclosure and connected between the first electric conductor and the second electric conductor.
US08981884B2
A Hall effect grain level switch is positioned adjacent a grain fill opening at an upper portion of a grain enclosure. A Hall-voltage generator is coupled to the housing in a fixed position. An elongate member is pivotably coupled to the housing with the magnet being mounted adjacent a proximal end of the elongate member. A grain contact member is coupled adjacent a distal end of the elongate member. The Hall-voltage generator and magnet are positioned adjacent each other to provide a first output signal state when the elongate member extends vertically in a rest position. The Hall-voltage generator and magnet are distanced from each other to provide a second output signal state when the elongate member is pivoted to a non-vertical switched position in response to grain moving the contact member.
US08981877B2
A radio frequency (RF) filter includes an input port configured to receive a signal, an output port configured to output a signal, and a tuning probe configured to be movable within a tuning probe port to adjust filter characteristics. The tuning probe port is configured to receive the tuning probe therein, and a locking mechanism is configured to lock the tuning probe in the tuning probe port at a desired depth and further configured to prevent movement of the tuning probe in the tuning probe port when the locking mechanism is in a locked configuration.
US08981876B2
Film bulk acoustic resonators (FBARs) having frame elements and filters including the resonators are described.
US08981874B2
A resonator device (200) comprises a base (206) comprising an anchor (204) and a vibration unit (212) connected to the anchor (204). The vibration unit (212) is configured to have a first vibration mode (218) and a second vibration mode (216) different from the first vibration mode (218). According to an embodiment, the vibration unit (212) is configured such that the first vibration mode (218) and the second vibration mode (216) destructively interfere at the anchor (204).
US08981873B2
This invention features an absorptive tunable bandstop filter with a wide tuning range including first and second branches of all-pass filter networks, an input power divider for splitting the input signal and passing approximately half of the input signal power through each branch of the all-pass filter networks, and an output power combiner for recombining the signal power from each branch of the all-pass filter networks, at least one of the branches of the all-pass filter networks being electrically tunable to provide an approximately 180° phase difference with similar amplitudes of the split signal power to be recombined at the output power combiner for rejecting but substantially absorbing selected frequencies.
US08981871B2
Systems and methods for achieving high directivity (>20 dB) coupling over a reasonable frequency bandwidth on a microstrip transmission line. An exemplary coupler cancels out-of-phase, coupled reflected power signals on the transmission line thereby increasing the directivity.
US08981868B2
A balun includes an input port, a first output port, a second output port and a coupling microstrip group including an input line connected to the input port, a first output line connected to the first output port, a first coupling line, a second output line connected to the second output port and a second coupling line. The input line includes a first coupling section connected to the input port, a second coupling section opposite to the first coupling section and a connecting section connected between the first coupling section and the second coupling section. An unbalanced signal is transformed into a first balanced signal via coupling among the first coupling section, the first output line and the first coupling line. An unbalanced signal is transformed into a second balanced signal via coupling among the second coupling section, the second output line and the second coupling line.
US08981865B2
An exemplary transmission line system is provided. The system includes a first transmission line partially arranged on a first layer of a PCB including first structure units and partially arranged on a third layer of the PCB including second structure units, and a second transmission line arranged on a second layer of the PCB. Each first structure unit and each second structure respectively include a first connection line, a second connection line, and a first bent line; and a third connection line, a fourth connection line, and a second bent line. A second end of the first connection line and the second connection line of each of the first structure units are respectively connected to a second end of the third connection line and the fourth connection line of the adjacent second structure unit through respective vias.
US08981860B2
An apparatus includes a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) device configured as part of an oscillator. The MEMS device includes a mass suspended from a substrate of the MEMS, a first electrode configured to provide a first signal based on a displacement of the mass, and a second electrode configured to receive a second signal based on the first signal. The apparatus includes an amplifier coupled to the first electrode and a first node. The amplifier is configured to generate an output signal, the output signal being based on the first signal and a first gain. The apparatus includes an attenuator configured to attenuate the output signal based on a second gain and provide as the second signal an attenuated version of the output signal.
US08981857B2
A timer to provide pulses at a comparator output wherein a frequency of the pulses is dependent on temperature, wherein providing each pulse includes biasing a first input of the comparator at a voltage and operating a transistor in a subthreshold region of operation to change the voltage of the first input of a comparator at a rate dependent upon temperature. The output of the comparator changes state when the voltage of the first input crosses a voltage of a second input of the comparator.
US08981854B2
A clock distributor includes a first oscillator and a second oscillator, to each of which a signal controlling an oscillation frequency is input and to one of which a clock is input; a wiring portion that connects the first oscillator and the second oscillator; a first conversion element that converts an output from the first oscillator into electric current, and outputs a result to a first connection portion connecting to the wiring portion; a second conversion element that converts voltage of the first connection portion into electric current, and outputs a result to the first oscillator; a third conversion element that converts an output from the second oscillator into electric current, and outputs a result to a second connection portion connecting to the wiring portion; and a fourth conversion element that converts voltage of the second connection portion into electric current, and outputs a result to the second oscillator.
US08981840B1
A pass device configured from a common gate transistor, wherein an input voltage is applied to the source and an output at the drain is applied to a load. The input resistance of the pass device increases as the input voltage is reduced and limits the useful range of the input voltage. Increasing the gate to source voltage (Vgs) by applying a negative voltage to the gate reduces the input resistance and increases the range of operation of the pass device.
US08981835B2
A charge pump circuit using a voltage doubler-type of circuitry for generating an output voltage is described. An output generating stage uses a voltage double structure, except that the transistors in each leg are not cross-coupled to the other leg, but instead are controlled by an auxiliary section. The auxiliary section has a voltage doubler structure, but is not used to drive the load, but instead provides the gate voltage for the precharge section using the same levels as used for the corresponding transistors in the auxiliary section. This arrangement can be particularly advantageous for applications using low supply voltages to address self-loading effect due to loading. As the auxiliary section does not drive the load, its elements can be sized smaller. Additional improvement can be obtained by using separate clock drivers for the auxiliary section to address secondary self-loading effect due to loading.
US08981822B2
Described is an apparatus comprising a plurality of logic units arranged in a ring, wherein an output terminal of each logic unit from the plurality of logic units is coupled to an input terminal of a next logic unit from the plurality of logic units, wherein the plurality of logic units includes a first multiple input logic unit having input nodes coupled to at least two output terminals of logic units from the plurality of logic units; and a plurality of latch units coupled to the output terminals of the plurality of logic units.
US08981818B2
A two-stage post driver circuit includes a controlling circuit, a pull-up unit and a pull-down unit. A first N-type transistor of the pull-down unit and a first P-type transistor of the pull-up unit are both connected to an output pad. The controlling circuit is used for controlling the first N-type transistor and the first P-type transistor. Consequently, when the pull-up unit or the pull-down unit is turned on, the voltage difference between the drain terminal and the source terminal of the first N-type transistor or the first P-type transistor is lower than a voltage stress.
US08981816B2
A multi-input voltage-to-frequency conversion circuit, includes: a multi-input operational amplifier amplifying one of multiple voltage signals in response to multiple control signals to generate an amplified voltage; a voltage-to-current converter converting the amplified voltage into a sensed current, and generating an oscillation current based on the sensed current and on an offset voltage that is associated with a predetermined frequency range corresponding to the one of the voltage signals; and a current-controlled oscillator generating, based on the oscillation current, a periodic pulse signal that has a frequency linearly proportional to the magnitude of the one of the voltage signals.
US08981805B2
An inspection apparatus includes an insulating substrate, a probe pin having a body portion secured to the insulating substrate, a tip portion connected to one end of the body portion and disposed on the back surface side of the insulating substrate, and a connection portion connected to the other end of the body portion and disposed on the front surface side of the insulating substrate, and a heat-radiating terminal in contact with the connection portion, wherein a current is applied through the heat-radiating terminal and the probe pin to an object to measured, and wherein the heat-radiating terminal discharges heat from the probe pin.
US08981804B2
A contact apparatus includes a pusher having first and second surfaces, the first surface being connected to a pressure unit, stoppers protruding from edges of the second surface of the pusher away from the pressure unit, a pusher block having first and second surfaces facing each other, the first surface facing the pusher, and the second surface being connected to a semiconductor device, coupling members connecting the pusher to the pusher block, and a connector disposed between the pusher and the pusher block, at least part of a surface of the connector being circular, and the circular surface making a point contact with the pusher or the pusher block.
US08981800B2
A current sensor includes a core arranged around a conductor, a sensing element arranged on the core and configured to generate an output variable dependent on a magnetic field in the core, and a measuring unit configured to detect the output variable and to derive a measured value of the current. The current sensor further includes a test coil arranged around the core and a test current generator connected to the test coil. The test current generator is configured to generate a test current signal of a specified amplitude and to output the test current signal to the test coil. The current sensor further includes a testing unit connected to both the measuring unit and the test current generator and configured to output information regarding the current sensor. The information is output as a test signal dependent upon comparing a first and a second measured value.
US08981795B2
A measuring arrangement for determining electrical conductivity of a measured liquid, comprising: a container, in which the measured liquid is accommodated, a gradiometer arrangement, comprising an exciter coil, a first receiving coil and a second receiving coil, wherein the first and the second receiving coils are arranged symmetrically relative to the exciter coil, and a measurement circuit embodied to excite the exciter coil for producing an alternating magnetic field passing through the first receiving coil, the second receiving coil and the measured liquid. The receiving coils are influenced in different manner by the magnetic field induced by the alternating magnetic field in the measured liquid and directed counter to the alternating magnetic field. The measurement circuit is furthermore embodied to register an electrical signal of the receiving coils and to derive from such the electrical conductivity of the liquid.
US08981793B2
An apparatus and method is described for measuring non-invasively level of contents inside an array of containers without setting up any electrodes or attaching sensors around the containers, or inserting of a probe inside. Electromagnetic waves are launched from the bottom of the containers using launchers embedded in a tray the containers rest on. These waves travel through the bulk of the contents inside the container using a mode of propagation similar to dielectric waveguides or optical fibers and set up standing waves due to reflection at the content-air interface. The level inside the container is a function of the complex reflection coefficient (magnitude and phase) at the launcher input and can be thus determined by measuring the complex reflection coefficient.
US08981791B2
A method, apparatus and software related product are presented for adaptive frequency-domain windowing to determine a time-domain crosstalk in a cable and produce effective TDX plots regardless of the frequency of a worst NEXT (near-end crosstalk). An adaptive window such as a low pass or pass band window may be selected based on the frequency of a measured worst NEXT margin for each pair combination.
US08981786B2
A test apparatus that tests a device under test outputting a data signal and a clock signal indicating a timing at which the data signal is to be sampled, the test apparatus comprising a data acquiring section that acquires the data signal output by the device under test, at a timing corresponding to a sampling clock corresponding to the clock signal output by the device under test or a timing of a timing signal corresponding to a test period of the test apparatus; a judging section that judges pass/fail of the device under test, based on a result of a comparison between the data signal acquired by the data acquiring section and an expected value; and a designating section that designates whether the data acquiring section acquires the data signal at the timing corresponding to the sampling clock or at the timing corresponding to the timing signal.
US08981776B2
A method for imaging a subject with a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system using controlled aliasing is provided. A radio frequency (RF) excitation field is applied to excite the spins in a volume-of-interest that may include multiple slice locations. Using the MRI system, a readout magnetic field gradient is established following the application of the RF excitation field to form echo signals. These echo signal receive a differential encoding by way of establishing, while the readout gradient is established, alternating magnetic field gradients along two directions, such as the partition-encoding and phase-encoding directions. Image data is acquired from the formed echo signals and images of the subject are reconstructed from the acquired image data.
US08981767B2
Inductive sensor module comprising a coil arrangement and a carrier, on which electronic components are arranged, wherein the coil arrangement is arranged on a first side of the carrier and the electronic components are arranged on a second side of the carrier directed away from the first side.
US08981766B2
The invention relates to a position/displacement measuring system comprising at least one encoded scale body having at least one encoding track extending in a measuring direction and a sensor device having at least one sensor head sensitive to the encoding, wherein the at least one sensor head comprises at least a first sensor unit and a second sensor unit which provide respective sensor signals and are spaced apart from one another in the measuring direction.
US08981765B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide a motor function analyzing apparatus which simplifies a calibration measurement necessary before measuring a finger tapping motion, and which is capable of evaluating a motor function highly precisely. The present invention provides a motor function analyzing apparatus which simplifies a calibration measurement necessary before measuring a finger tapping motion, and which is capable of evaluating a motor function highly precisely by using a calibration point unique to each apparatus and a calibration point unique to each subject.
US08981760B2
A physically rotatable display for a test and measurement apparatus is provided. The display of instrument information and data is automatically reconfigured based on the user selected orientation to provide optimal data display.
US08981746B2
A low-dropout linear regulator includes an error amplifier which includes a cascaded arrangement of a differential amplifier and a gain stage. The gain stage includes a transistor driven by the differential amplifier to produce at a drive signal for an output stage of the regulator. The transistor is interposed over its source-drain line between a first resistive load included in a RC network creating a zero in the open loop gain of the regulator, and a second resistive load to produce a drive signal for the output stage of the regulator. The second resistive load is a non-linear compensation element to render current consumption linearly proportional to the load current to the regulator. The first resistive load is a non-linear element causing the frequency of said zero created by the RC network to decrease as the load current of the regulator decreases.
US08981736B2
This document discusses, among other things, apparatus for high-efficiency, thermally-compensated regulators. In an example, a regulator can include a zener diode having a first temperature coefficient, the zener diode configured couple to an output and to provide at least a portion of a reference voltage, a transistor having a second temperature coefficient, the transistor configured to receive the reference voltage, to receive a representation of the output, and to provide feedback information indicative of an error of the output using the representation of the output voltage and the reference voltage, and wherein the first temperature coefficient and the second temperature coefficient are configured to reduce at least a portion of a temperature drift effect of the zener diode and the transistor.
US08981734B2
A power source generation circuit includes a regulator circuit which receives an external power source voltage VDDA from an external power source, and generates a predetermined internal power source voltage on a given terminal VDD; and a charging circuit which connects the external power source and the given terminal when the external power source voltage VDDA supplied from the external power source is equal to or lower than a predetermined threshold voltage.
US08981733B2
In one embodiment the present invention includes a system and method of charging a battery using a switching regulator. In one embodiment, a switching regulator receives an input voltage and input current. The output of the switching regulator is coupled to a battery to be charged. The switching regulator provides a current into the battery that is larger than the current into the switching regulator. As the voltage on the battery increases, the current provided by the switching regulator is reduced. The present invention may be implemented using either analog or digital techniques for reducing the current into the battery as the battery voltage increases.
US08981730B2
Provided are a switching device for an electric vehicle and a method of controlling the switching device. The switching device includes a switch, a signal selection part, an inverter, and a controller. The switch generates a first or second switching signal according to an operation mode. The signal selection part receives the first or second switching signal, and selects the first or second switching signal according to the operation mode to output the selected switching signal. The inverter performs a direct current/alternating current conversion process on power according to the switching signal output from the signal selection part, and outputs the power. The controller determines the operation mode, and generates a control signal according to the operation mode such that the signal selection part selects the first or second switching signal.
US08981725B2
A battery protection circuit and a method of controlling the same. The battery protection circuit includes a fuse blowing path connected in parallel to at least a portion of a high-current path between a battery and a terminal unit, the high-current path having a fuse therein, and a fuse current control switch in the fuse blowing path, the fuse current control switch controlling a current flow along the fuse blowing path. The battery protection circuit may completely blow the fuse when a battery malfunctions.
US08981723B2
An air battery system that can inhibit production of hydrogen. The air battery system includes a battery cell which is provided with an air electrode, an anode containing an active material capable of releasing lithium ions, and a solid electrolyte layer and aqueous electrolytic solution layer having lithium ion conductivity which are disposed between the air electrode and the anode; a detecting device which is capable of detecting a voltage between the anode and the air electrode; and a signaling device which emits a signal when the voltage detected by the detecting device becomes 2.2 V or less.
US08981721B2
A battery control device that controls a battery module in which a plurality of cell groups, in each of which a plurality of cells are connected in series, are connected in series or series-parallel, includes: a plurality of cell controller ICs that control each of the plurality of cell groups; and one or more connectors that are provided for connecting the plurality of cell controller ICs to the battery module; wherein: the plurality of cell controller ICs include first and second cell controller ICs that are provided in sequence, so as to control two or more of the cell groups that are connected in series; and an auxiliary connection member (a pin) is provided for connecting GND terminal side wiring of the first cell controller IC and VCC terminal side wiring of the second cell controller IC together, externally to the battery control device.
US08981720B2
A charging dock includes a base, a charging cable and a retractable wire reel module received in the base. A wall of the base is concaved downward to form a charging space including an opening in a cavity of the base. The charging cable includes a power wire, a charging and a power connector interfaces. The charging interface is received in the base. The power interface is positioned out of the base. The retractable wire reel module includes a guiding shaft positioned, a coil spring member and a sleeve member. The sleeve member rotatably sleeves on the guiding shaft via the coil spring member. The power wire is wound on the sleeve member, the coil spring member is connected with the guiding shaft and the sleeve member. The power wire retracts in the base via the sleeve member driven to rotate by the coil spring member.
US08981718B2
Disclosed herein are embodiments of serial multi-vehicle quick charge systems and stations for battery propulsion vehicles and methods thereof. One charging system comprises a charging unit having a plurality of charging circuits configured to be individually switched. The plurality of charging stations is electrically connected to the charging unit through the plurality of charging circuits. A controller is programmed to initiate charging of a vehicle connected to the charging unit through one of the charging stations by signaling a corresponding one of the charging circuits to close, track order of connection of each vehicle connected to the charging unit and initiate charging of each subsequently connected vehicle one at a time based on the order of connection, such that an individual vehicle is charged until a predetermined fraction of battery charge capacity has been obtained before the controller initiates charging of a vehicle next in the order of connection.
US08981713B2
Disclosed herein is a charging apparatus using a pad type electrode contact point, the charging apparatus including: a charging plate having a plate shape; and an attaching plate installed on a portable terminal to provide the power to a charging circuit of the portable terminal.
US08981710B2
An energy management system and method connecting a load to multiple energy sources. The system includes a load connection, source connections for each energy source, a control unit and at least one energy management module having an inductor and four switches. The first source is in parallel with the load. The first switch couples the first source positive terminal to the first inductor end, second switch couples the first source negative terminal to the first inductor end, third switch couples the second source positive terminal to the second inductor end, and fourth switch couples the second source negative terminal to the second inductor end. The control unit controls the four switches of each module to transfer energy between the energy sources through the module inductor. The system can have more than two sources. Modes including one or two switch, synchronous or asynchronous, and buck or boost can be used.
US08981699B2
Rotating electric machine for electric vehicle, drive control device and insulation diagnosis method
A rotating electric machine for an electric vehicle, installed in a vehicle and driven by an inverter power source, includes: a partial discharge measuring device that measures partial discharges occurring in insulated areas between windings, between phases and between the rotating electric machine and a ground.
US08981691B2
When a failure detection part detects a failure in an inverter circuit in a first power supply system, a drive control part stops the inverter circuit from driving a motor. An on/off control part turns off a first power supply relay of a power supply on/off part. Under a state that the inverter circuit stops a motor driving operation, a first coil set of the motor generates an induced voltage by rotation caused by an external force. The induced voltage is regenerated to a battery from the inverter circuit through a second power supply relay and a parasitic diode of the first power supply relay. Thus, circuit elements in the power supply system, which is failing, are protected from breaking down.
US08981687B2
A motor control apparatus includes an A/D converter, which is a hardware part for converting an analog signal of a sensor to a digital signal, a microcomputer, which is a software part, and a drive circuit, which is a hardware part for driving an inverter to supply electric power to a motor. The microcomputer includes calculation blocks, each of which is a calculation block for individually calculating an output from an input. The microcomputer further executes, in parallel to control calculations, software monitor processing for each calculation block to monitor whether the control calculation is executed normally. The motor control apparatus thus can detect a software abnormality without using a monitoring hardware circuit separately.
US08981685B2
The disclosure describes, in one aspect, a system for a machine having an electric drive configuration. The system includes an electric motor associated with at least one wheel and adapted to provide retarding torque to the wheel, and a controller configured to determine a power measurement of a retarding grid and control the retarding torque to the at least one wheel during retarding as a function of the power measurement.
US08981683B2
The present invention relates to a high power battery system having a battery system monitoring electronics and battery modules being electrically connected in series via an operating current line. At least one battery module is a bypass battery module comprising a bypass switch and a bypass line for electrically bypassing the battery module. For each bypass battery module a module monitoring unit of the monitoring electronics monitors the assigned battery module and detects a fault state. In the fault state, the battery system monitoring electronics measures the current flow in the operating current line connecting the battery modules and switches the bypass switch of the bypass battery module concerned from a normal operating position to a bypass position at a time when the current flow in the operating current line is lower than a predetermined limit value.
US08981681B2
Systems and methods for controlling blind systems and other systems with moving parts are disclosed. Certain systems and methods couple to a blind system, and include one or more transceiving, processing, sensor, motion delivery, power delivery, and various other components for collectively or individually controlling a blind system to open or close its blinds. Certain systems and methods utilize preprogrammed control instructions stored locally, or user-initiated control signals received from remote devices to control the blind system.
US08981664B2
The current (Iout) flowing between a plasma chamber and a power supply is limited by limiting the current change di/dt if the current exceeds a predetermined current. A current change limiting device is provided in the current path between the power supply and the plasma chamber and is configured to determine if the current exceeds the predetermined current and limits the current change.
US08981660B2
The present invention discloses an electronic ballast for operating a gas discharge lamp which includes (i) a rectifier bridge circuit; (ii) a power factor correction (PFC) network that includes an electrolytic capacitor that charges by means of a circuit comprised by an inductor, diode and capacitor; and (iii) a switched inverter circuit that converts rectified DC voltage to a high frequency current AC voltage. The electronic circuit has a switch that switches on the aforementioned electronic elements making the (PFC) circuit consume energy continuously from the network, while the electrolytic capacitor remains connected to the voltage of the rectifier bridge, through the inductor and the diode, even if the inductor has no energy stored. From the storage capacitor the inverter is powered by a constant voltage and noise-free, allowing the inverter to power the luminous load properly.
US08981655B2
A solid-state lighting system comprises a plurality of light-emitting devices (e.g., light-emitting diodes) and an alternating current to direct current (AC-DC) converter that converts AC power to DC power for powering the plurality of light-emitting devices. The AC-DC converter is configured to perform AC-DC conversion directly, without the need for or use of a bridge rectifier or step-down transformer. According to one aspect of the invention, the light-emitting devices of the solid-state lighting system are autonomous and individually powered by a plurality of DC power supplies generated from the DC power produced by the AC-DC converter. According to another aspect, a plurality of phase-offset dimmer control signals are generated based on waveform distortions in a dimming signal produced by a conventional dimmer switch. The phase-offset dimmer control signals are used to individually control the dimming of the light-emitting devices.
US08981643B2
An electroluminescent (EL) display panel includes a substrate, an EL display array, at least one first thin film encapsulation (TFE) layer and a first patterned stress releasing layer. The EL display array is disposed on the substrate. The first TFE layer covers the EL display array. The first patterned stress releasing layer covers the first TFE layer.
US08981640B2
A first device may be provided in some embodiments. The first device may comprise a substrate, a first emissive region, and a second emissive region, where the first emissive region and the second emissive region may comprise a contiguous area. The first device may further comprise a first electrode disposed over the substrate that extends across the first and the second emissive regions, and an organic layer disposed over the substrate that extends across the first and second emissive regions, where the organic layer comprises the same emissive material across the first and the second emissive regions. The first device may further include a second electrode disposed over the substrate that extends across the first and second emissive regions, where the second electrode includes a patterned layer of conductive material that is disposed in the first emissive region and that is not disposed in the second emissive region.
US08981637B2
The invention relates to a light source for generating light having a spectral emittance in at least a part of the range of 380 nm to 680 nm. The light has a spectral power distribution E(λ) as a function of the wave-length λ over a first range of 600 nm<=λ<=680 nm, a second range of 505 nm<=λ<=600 nm, and a third range of 380 nm<=λ<=505 nm. A first ratio of the integral power distribution over said first range to that of a range of 380 nm<=λ<=680 nm is given by the relation: Formula (I) wherein 0.65<=Pl<=0.95, A second ratio of the integral power distribution over said second range to that of a range of 380 nm<=λ<=680 nm is given by the relation: Formula (II) wherein Pm>=0.08, A third ratio of the integral power distribution over said third range to that of a range of 380 nm<=λ<=680 nm is given by the relation: Formula (III) wherein Ps>=0.03 or Ps>=0.015 if Pl>=0.75l A respective radiation emission peak in each of the first, second and third wavelength range has a full width half maximum (=FWHM) of at least 12 nm.
US08981616B2
An electric motor (1) comprises a casing (2), a stator housed in the casing (2), a sealing cover (10), a rotor (6) rotatable inside the casing (2) and equipped with a commutator (7), a circuit (8) for powering the commutator (7) comprising two brushes (15) in sliding contact with the commutator (7); the motor (1) comprises two brush holder sleeves (14) in which the brushes (15) slide and two springs (17) operating between the brush holder sleeves (14) and the respective brushes (15) in such a way as to push the latter towards the commutator (7); both the sleeves (14) and the springs (17) form part of the circuit (8) for powering the brushes (15).
US08981614B2
Included are a pair of insulators arranged on axial end surfaces of a split core, and an insulating film attached to lateral side surfaces of the tooth part, for insulating the split core from a coil wound around the tooth part. Each insulator includes projections projecting further than a tooth front end part in the circumferential direction, slits which are formed in the respective projections to a corresponding axial end surface side of the tooth front end part and into which the insulating film is inserted, and ribs formed, on an end surface side in the circumferential direction, in the respective projections. The insulating film inserted into the slits is folded back to a back yoke part side with the ribs interposed therein, and fixed by being interposed between the ribs at tip portions of projections of adjacent insulators. Accordingly, the insulating film can be assuredly fixed and prevented from escaping from a slot.
US08981607B2
It is an object to provide a driving apparatus, according to which a control unit can be detachably connected to a motor unit in a condition that electronic circuits are not exposed to an outside of a housing. The electronic circuits are accommodated in the housing. A first connecting member is supported by a holder unit, which holds a motor terminal connected to a winding of a stator of the motor unit. A second connecting member is attached to the housing from the outside thereof, in such a way that a circuit-board terminal connected to the electronic circuits and the motor terminal are interposed between the first and second connecting members. As a result, the circuit-board terminal and the motor terminal are mechanically and electrically connected to each other.
US08981605B2
An ECU attached to a motor assembly has a substrate and a heat sink. The substrate mounts thereon a microcomputer, which controls driving of a motor in accordance with a rotation angle of the motor. The substrate is fixed to the heat sink. The substrate has a first through hole group and a second through hole group, which are through holes connectable electrically by soldering to rotation angle signal wires connected to a rotation angle sensor, which detects a rotation angle of the motor.
US08981603B2
A voice coil motor (VCM) includes a moving unit, a fixing unit, an elastic plate, and a conducting pole. The moving unit includes a moving barrel and a coil assembly around the moving barrel. The coil assembly includes a connecting portion. The moving barrel defines a blind hole on an upper surface thereof, one end of a conducting pole being received in the blind hole. The fixing unit defines a through hole receiving the moving unit. The elastic plate is connected between the moving barrel and the fixing unit. The conducting pole provides a stable electrical connection between the elastic plate and the connecting portion notwithstanding movements of the moving barrel.
US08981602B2
A proximity switch assembly includes first and second proximity switches comprising first and second proximity sensors and a tactile feature disposed between the first and second proximity switches. The assembly also includes controlling circuitry detecting an object on the tactile feature based on sensed signals from the first and second proximity sensors and preventing activation of the first and second switches when an object is detected on the tactile feature. The assembly further includes a resting pad having a third sensor, wherein the control circuitry detects an object with the first sensor and an object on the resting pad and determines activation of the first and second proximity switches based on the detected objects.
US08981594B2
An advance power-saving power socket for power saving systems includes a socket body which includes an extension cord and has a master socket and at least one slave socket, wherein the slave sockets are connected in parallel with each other at first, and then connected in series with a slave socket temperature sensitive switch and linked with both ends of the power input end on the slave socket control loop. So the master socket is connected in series with the parallel-connected master socket temperature sensitive switch and first heater, and then connected in parallel with the power input end, so as to use the working temperature produced by the current flowing through the first heater of the master socket control loop for controlling over the closed or open state of the slave socket control loop and shunt the current of the master socket control loop.
US08981575B2
A semiconductor package structure includes: a dielectric layer; a metal layer disposed on the dielectric layer and having a die pad and traces, the traces each including a trace body, a bond pad extending to the periphery of the die pad, and an opposite trace end; metal pillars penetrating the dielectric layer with one ends thereof connecting to the die pad and the trace ends while the other ends thereof protruding from the dielectric layer; a semiconductor chip mounted on the die pad and electrically connected to the bond pads through bonding wires; and an encapsulant covering the semiconductor chip, the bonding wires, the metal layer, and the dielectric layer. The invention is characterized by disposing traces with bond pads close to the die pad to shorten bonding wires and forming metal pillars protruding from the dielectric layer to avoid solder bridging encountered in prior techniques.
US08981572B1
To form a semiconductor device, a through electrode is formed in a semiconductor die, and a dielectric layer is then formed to cover the through electrode. The dielectric layer has an opening by being partially etched to allow the through electrode to protrude to the outside, or has a thickness thinner overall so as to allow the through electrode to protrude to the outside. Subsequently, a conductive pad is formed on the through electrode protruding to the outside through the dielectric layer by using an electroless plating method.
US08981566B2
Disclosed is a discrete semiconductor device package (100) comprising a semiconductor die (110) having a first surface and a second surface opposite said first surface carrying a contact (112); a conductive body (120) on said contact; an encapsulation material (130) laterally encapsulating said conductive body; and a capping member (140, 610) such as a solder cap, a further semiconductor die or a combination thereof in conductive contact with the solder portion, said solder cap extending over the encapsulation material. A further solder cap (150) may be provided over the first surface. A method of manufacturing such a discrete semiconductor device package is also disclosed.
US08981562B2
A method of forming photo masks having rectangular patterns and a method for forming a semiconductor structure using the photo masks is provided. The method for forming the photo masks includes determining a minimum spacing and identifying vertical conductive feature patterns having a spacing less than the minimum spacing value. The method further includes determining a first direction to expand and a second direction to shrink, and checking against design rules to see if the design rules are violated for each of the vertical conductive feature patterns identified. If designed rules are not violated, the identified vertical conductive feature pattern is replaced with a revised vertical conductive feature pattern having a rectangular shape. The photo masks are then formed. The semiconductor structure can be formed using the photo masks.
US08981552B2
This power converter includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a power conversion element, and a case portion, and the case portion includes a first connection terminal connected to a first conductor pattern arranged on a side of the first substrate closer to the power conversion element and a second connection terminal connected to a second conductor pattern arranged on a side of the second substrate opposite to the power conversion element.
US08981543B2
Semiconductor packages are disclosed. In a semiconductor package, a package board may include a hole. A mold layer may cover an upper portion of the package board and extend through the hole to cover at least a portion of a bottom surface of the package board. Each of the sidewalls of a lower mold portion may have a symmetrical structure with respect to the hole penetrating the package board, such that a warpage phenomenon of the semiconductor package may be reduced.
US08981541B2
A Quad Flat Package (QFP) semiconductor device has a multi-stepped lead frame for forming rows of external contacts. A semiconductor die is attached to a die pad of the lead frame and electrically connected to lead with bond wires. The die and bond wires are encapsulated with a mold compound and then multiple cuts are made to the lead frame to form the rows of external contacts.
US08981539B2
A power semiconductor device comprises a lead frame unit, a control die, a first MOSFET die and a second MOSFET die, wherein the lead frame unit comprises at least a die paddle for mounting the first and second MOSFET dies, a first pin and a second pin for connecting to top electrodes of the first and second MOSFET dies, a first row of carrier pins and a second row of carrier pins disposed in-line with the first and second pins respectively for the control die to mount thereon.
US08981536B1
A semiconductor structure includes a carrier, a first protective layer, a second protective layer, and a third protective layer. A first surface of the first protective layer comprises a first anti-stress zone. The second protective layer reveals the first anti-stress zone and comprises a second surface, a first lateral side, a second lateral side and a first connection side. The second surface comprises a second anti-stress zone. An extension line of the first lateral side intersects with an extension line of the second lateral side to form a first intersection point. A zone formed by connecting the first intersection point and two points of the first connection side is the first anti-stress zone. The third protective layer reveals the second anti-stress zone and comprises a second connection side projected on the first surface to form a projection line parallel to the first connection side.
US08981534B2
The present disclosure involves an apparatus. The apparatus includes a substrate having a front side a back side opposite the front side. The substrate includes a plurality of openings formed from the back side of the substrate. The openings collectively define a pattern on the back side of the substrate from a planar view. In some embodiments, the substrate is a silicon substrate or a silicon carbide substrate. Portions of the silicon substrate vertically aligned with the openings have vertical dimensions that vary from about 100 microns to about 300 microns. A III-V group compound layer is formed over the front side of the silicon substrate. The III-V group compound layer is a component of one of: a light-emitting diode (LED), a laser diode (LD), and a high-electron mobility transistor (HEMT).
US08981530B2
A semiconductor device includes a first NMOS device with a first threshold voltage and a second NMOS device with a second threshold voltage. The first NMOS device includes a first gate structure over a semiconductor substrate, first source/drain (S/D) regions in the semiconductor substrate and adjacent to opposite edges of the first gate structure. The first S/D regions are free of dislocation. The second NMOS device includes a second gate structure over the semiconductor substrate, second S/D regions in the semiconductor substrate and adjacent to opposite edges of the second gate structure, and a dislocation in the second S/D regions.
US08981528B2
A semiconductor device such as a Schottky diode is provided which includes a substrate, a first active layer disposed over the substrate and a second active layer disposed on the first active layer. The second active layer has a higher bandgap than the first active layer such that a two-dimensional electron gas layer arises between the first active layer and the second active layer. A first electrode has a first portion disposed in a recess in the second active layer and a second portion disposed on the second active layer such that a Schottky junction is formed therewith. A second electrode is in contact with the first active layer. The second electrode establishes an ohmic junction with the first active layer.
US08981524B2
An object is to provide an antifuse with little power consumption at the time of writing. The antifuse is used for a memory element in a read-only memory device. The antifuse includes a first conductive layer, a multilayer film of two or more layers in which an amorphous silicon film and an insulating film are alternately stacked over the first conductive layer, and a second conductive layer over the multilayer film. Voltage is applied between the first and second conductive layers and resistance of the multilayer film is decreased, whereby data is written to the memory element. When an insulating film having higher resistance than amorphous silicon is formed between the first and second conductive layers, current flowing through the antifuse at the time of writing is reduced.
US08981521B1
Provided is a lateral BJT including a substrate, a well region, an area, at least one lightly doped region, a first doped region, and a second doped region. The substrate is of a first conductivity type. The well region is of a second conductivity type and is in the substrate. The area is in the well region. The at least one lightly doped region is in the well region below the area. The first doped region and the second doped region are of the first conductivity type and are in the well region on both sides of the area. The first doped region is connected to a cathode. The second doped region is connected to an anode, wherein the doping concentration of the at least one lightly doped region is lower than that of each of the first doped region, the second doped region, and the well region.
US08981516B2
A back-side illuminated image sensor formed from a thinned semiconductor substrate, wherein: a transparent conductive electrode, insulated from the substrate by an insulating layer, extends over the entire rear surface of the substrate; and conductive regions, insulated from the substrate by an insulating coating, extend perpendicularly from the front surface of the substrate to the electrode.
US08981514B2
A semiconductor package includes a light transmissive cover having a conductive pattern, a substrate having a cavity, a semiconductor chip in the cavity of the substrate and electrically connected to the conductive pattern arranged on the light transmissive cover, and a blocking pattern between the light transmissive cover and the substrate.
US08981510B2
Provided is an image sensor device. The image sensor device includes a substrate having a front side and a back side. The image sensor includes first and second radiation-detection devices that are disposed in the substrate. The first and second radiation-detection devices are operable to detect radiation waves that enter the substrate through the back side. The image sensor also includes an anti-reflective coating (ARC) layer. The ARC layer is disposed over the back side of the substrate. The ARC layer has first and second ridges that are disposed over the first and second radiation-detection devices, respectively. The first and second ridges each have a first refractive index value. The first and second ridges are separated by a substance having a second refractive index value that is less than the first refractive index value.
US08981490B2
A method of fabricating a CMOS integrated circuit (IC) includes implanting a first n-type dopant at a first masking level that exposes a p-region of a substrate surface having a first gate stack thereon to form NLDD regions for forming n-source/drain extension regions for at least a portion of a plurality of n-channel MOS (NMOS) transistors on the IC. A p-type dopant is implanted at a second masking level that exposes an n-region in the substrate surface having a second gate stack thereon to form PLDD regions for at least a portion of a plurality of p-channel MOS (PMOS) transistors on the IC. A second n-type dopant is retrograde implanted including through the first gate stack to form a deep nwell (DNwell) for the portion of NMOS transistors. A depth of the DNwell is shallower below the first gate stack as compared to under the NLDD regions.
US08981485B2
A power transistor having a top-side drain and a forming method thereof are provided. Firstly, a body layer is formed. An epitaxial layer is subsequently formed on the body layer. Then a gate trench is formed in the body layer and the epitaxial layer. Afterward, a gate structure is formed in the gate trench. Then, a doped drain layer is formed within the epitaxial layer. Next, a source is formed in contact with the body layer. Lastly, a drain is formed in contact with the dope drain layer. The structure and forming method disclosed can through arranging the drain at the top of the power transistor integrate with the newly high performance packaging design structure. Accordingly, the efficiency of the power transistor can be greatly enhanced.
US08981475B2
A lateral diffusion metal oxide semiconductor (LDMOS) comprises a semiconductor substrate having an STI structure in a top surface of the substrate, a drift region below the STI structure, and a source region and a drain region on opposite sides of the STI structure. A gate conductor is on the substrate over a gap between the STI structure and the source region and partially overlaps the drift region. A conformal dielectric layer is on the top surface and forms a mesa above the gate conductor. The conformal dielectric layer has a conformal etch-stop layer embedded therein. Contact studs extend through the dielectric layer and the etch-stop layer, and are connected to the source region, drain region, and gate conductor. A source electrode contacts the source contact stud, a gate electrode contacts the gate contact stud, and a drain electrode contacts the drain contact stud. A drift electrode is over the drift region.
US08981474B2
A semiconductor device formed on a silicon-on-insulator substrate includes a gate electrode, a gate insulation film, a drain diffusion region, a drift region, a body region, a plurality of source diffusion regions, and a plurality of charge collection diffusion regions. The source diffusion regions and charge collection diffusion regions are of mutually opposite conductivity types, and alternate with one another in the direction paralleling the width of the gate electrode. The half-width of each source diffusion region is equal to or less than the length of the gate electrode plus the half-length of the drift region.
US08981473B2
According to one embodiment, in a dielectric isolation substrate, an insulating film having a first thickness is provided on a semiconductor substrate. A semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type having a second thickness is provided on the insulating film. An impurity diffusion layer of a second conductivity type is provided partially in a lower portion of the semiconductor layer and is in contact with the insulating film.
US08981466B2
Multilayer dielectric structures are provided having silicon nitride (SiN) and silicon oxynitride (SiNO) films for use as capping layers, liners, spacer barrier layers, and etch stop layers, and other components of semiconductor nano-devices. For example, a semiconductor structure includes a multilayer dielectric structure having multiple layers of dielectric material including one or more SiN layers and one or more SiNO layers. The layers of dielectric material in the multilayer dielectric structure have a thickness in a range of about 0.5 nanometers to about 3 nanometers.
US08981461B2
According to one embodiment, a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes a fin-type stacked layer structure in which a first insulating layer, a first semiconductor layer, . . . an n-th insulating layer, an n-th semiconductor layer, and an (n+1)-th insulating layer (n is a natural number equal to or more than 2) are stacked in order thereof in a first direction perpendicular to a surface of a semiconductor substrate and which extends in a second direction parallel to the surface of the semiconductor substrate, first to n-th memory strings which use the first to n-th semiconductor layers as channels respectively, a common semiconductor layer which combines the first to n-th semiconductor layers at first ends of the first to n-th memory strings in the second direction.
US08981459B2
A semiconductor structure uses its control gate to be the wordline for receiving an operation voltage for the semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure has a first and a second doped region and a buried channel between the first and the second doped region, wherein the buried channel has a first length along the first direction. The semiconductor structure further has a charge trapping layer stack on the buried channel and a conductive layer on the charge trapping layer stack, wherein the conductive layer extends along the first direction. The conductive layer is configured as both the control gate and the wordline of the semiconductor structure.
US08981455B2
In accordance with an embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a substrate with a semiconductor layer and memory cells on the semiconductor layer. Each memory cell includes a laminated body on the semiconductor layer, a gate insulating film on the laminated body, and a control gate on the gate insulating film. The laminated body includes a tunnel insulating film and a floating gate subsequently laminated in a direction vertical to a front surface of the substrate for N (a natural number equal to or above 2) times. A dimension of a top face of any floating gate in a second or subsequent layer is smaller than a dimension of a bottom surface of the floating gate in the lowermost layer in at least one of a first direction parallel to the front surface of the substrate and a second direction crossing the first direction.
US08981445B2
An analog floating-gate electrode in an integrated circuit, and method of fabricating the same, in which trapped charge can be stored for long durations. The analog floating-gate electrode is formed in a polycrystalline silicon gate level, doped n-type throughout its length, and includes portions serving as gate electrodes of n-channel and p-channel MOS transistors; a plate of a metal-to-poly storage capacitor; and a plate of poly-to-active tunneling capacitors. The p-channel MOS transistor includes a buried channel region, formed by way of ion implantation, disposed between its source and drain regions. Silicide-block silicon dioxide blocks the formation of silicide cladding on the electrode, while other polysilicon structures in the integrated circuit are silicide-clad.
US08981443B2
In case the size of the transistor is enlarged, power consumption of the transistor is increased. Thus, the present invention provides a display device capable of preventing a current from flowing to a display element in signal writing operation without varying potentials of power source lines for supplying a current to the display element per row. In setting a gate-source voltage of a transistor by applying a predetermined current to the transistor, a potential of a gate terminal of the transistor is adjusted so as to prevent a current from flowing to a load connected to a source terminal of the transistor. Therefore, a potential of a wire connected to the gate terminal of the transistor is differentiated from a potential of a wire connected to a drain terminal of the transistor.
US08981435B2
The present description relates to the field of fabricating microelectronic devices having non-planar transistors. Embodiments of the present description relate to the formation of source/drain contacts within non-planar transistors, wherein a titanium-containing contact interface may be used in the formation of the source/drain contact with a discreet titanium silicide formed between the titanium-containing interface and a silicon-containing source/drain structure.
US08981433B2
A compensation network for a radiofrequency transistor is disclosed. The compensation network comprises first and second bonding bars for coupling to a first terminal of the RF transistor and a compensation capacitor respectively; one or more bond wires coupling the first and second bonding bars together; and a compensation capacitor formed from a first set of conductive elements coupled to the second bonding bar, the first set of conductive elements interdigitating with a second set of conductive elements coupled to a second terminal of the RF transistor.
US08981431B2
A semiconductor light emitting device including: a substrate made of GaAs; and a semiconductor layer formed on the substrate, in which part of the substrate on a side opposite to the semiconductor layer is removed by etching so that the semiconductor light emitting device has a thickness of not more than 60 μm.
US08981426B2
The invention discloses an ESD protection circuit, including a P-type substrate; an N-well formed on the P-type substrate; a P-doped region formed on the N-well, wherein the P-doped region is electrically connected to an input/output terminal of a circuit under protection; a first N-doped region formed on the P-type substrate, the first N-doped region is electrically connected to a first node, and the P-doped region, the N-well, the P-type substrate, and the first N-doped region constitute a silicon controlled rectifier; and a second N-doped region formed on the N-well and electrically connected to a second node, wherein a part of the P-doped region and the second N-doped region constitute a discharging path, and when an ESD event occurs at the input/output terminal, the silicon controlled rectifier and the discharging path bypass electrostatic charges to the first and second nodes respectively.
US08981423B2
There is provided a power semiconductor device, including a plurality of trench gates formed to be spaced apart from each other by a predetermined distance, a current increasing part formed between the trench gates and including a first conductivity-type emitter layer and a gate oxide formed on a surface of the trench gate, and an immunity improving part formed between the trench gates and including a second conductivity-type body layer, a preventing film formed on the surface of the trench gate, and a gate oxide having a thickness less than that the gate oxide of the current increasing part.
US08981421B2
The present invention discloses a strip-shaped gate-modulated tunneling field effect transistor and a preparation method thereof, belonging to a field of field effect transistor logic device and the circuit in CMOS ultra large scale integrated circuit (ULSI). The tunneling field effect transistor includes a control gate, a gate dielectric layer, a semiconductor substrate, a highly-doped source region and a highly-doped drain region, where the highly-doped source region and the highly-doped drain region lie on both sides of the control gate, respectively, the control gate has a strip-shaped structure with a gate length greater than a gate width, and at one side thereof is connected to the highly-doped drain region and at the other side thereof extends laterally into the highly-doped source region; a region located below the control gate is a channel region; and the gate width of the control gate is less than twice width of a source depletion layer. The device modulates the source-side tunneling junction by using the strip-shaped gate structure, achieves the effect equivalent to that the source junction has a steep doping concentration gradient, and improves the TFET device performance; and the preparation method thereof is simple.
US08981416B2
An organic light-emitting diode has a carrier substrate. The light-emitting diode also contains an active layer that generates and emits electromagnetic radiation at a carrier front face. The active layer is mounted on the carrier substrate. At least one contacting device is located on a carrier rear face and is arranged simultaneously for electrical contacting and for mechanical attachment of the light-emitting diode. The contacting device includes a contact region. The contact region and/or the contacting device, seen in a side view parallel to the carrier rear face, are elevated in a U-shape or L-shape above the carrier rear face and/or extend in a lateral direction away from the active layer.
US08981413B2
An optical communication module includes an optical semiconductor element. The element includes an optical functional region having a light receiving function or a light emitting function, a first transmission layer transmissive to light emitted from the optical functional region or light received by the optical functional region, and a wiring layer stacked on the first transmission layer and constituting a conduction path to the optical functional region. The communication module also includes a second transmission layer transmissive to the light and disposed to cover the optical semiconductor element, and a first resin member stacked on the second transmission layer. The communication module is formed with a fixing hole for fixing an optical fiber. The fixing hole includes a bottom face provided by the second transmission layer, and an opening formed in an outer surface of the first resin member.
US08981412B2
According to one embodiment, an optical semiconductor device includes a light emitting layer, a transparent layer, a first metal post, a second metal post and a sealing layer. The light emitting layer includes a first and a second major surface, a first and a second electrode. The second major surface is a surface opposite to the first major surface, and the first electrode and second electrodes are formed on the second major surface. The transparent layer is provided on the first major surface. The first metal post is provided on the first electrode. The second metal post is provided on the second electrode. The sealing layer is provided on the second major surface. The sealing layer covers a side surface of the light emitting layer and seals the first and second metal posts while leaving end portions of the first and second metal posts exposed.
US08981409B2
A semiconductor light emitting device comprises a first groove extending to a first semiconductor layer from a second semiconductor layer side through the second semiconductor layer and a light emitting layer; a first ohmic electrode formed in contact with the first semiconductor layer in the first groove; an insulating layer covering a surface of the second semiconductor layer and at least the surface of part of the light emitting layer exposed in the first groove; a metal layer covering the surface of the insulating layer and connected to the first ohmic electrode; a second groove extending from a first semiconductor layer side through the first semiconductor layer and the light emitting layer to the second semiconductor layer; a second ohmic electrode formed in contact with the second semiconductor layer in the second groove; and a support body bonded to the metal layer via a junction layer.
US08981397B2
A device includes a textured substrate, which further includes a plurality of trenches. Each of the plurality of trenches includes a first sidewall and a second sidewall opposite the first sidewall. A plurality of reflectors configured to reflect light is formed, with each of the plurality of reflectors being on one of the first sidewalls of the plurality of trenches. The second sidewalls of the plurality of trenches are substantially free from any reflector.
US08981396B2
A semiconductor light emitting device includes a substrate, a semiconductor laminate having a base semiconductor layer, a first conductivity-type semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second conductivity-type semiconductor layer sequentially formed on the substrate and divided by an isolation region to provide a plurality of light emitting cells, an intermediate separation layer interposed between the base semiconductor layer and the first conductivity-type semiconductor layer, a plurality of first and second electrodes connected to the first and second conductivity-type semiconductor layers, respectively, of the plurality of light emitting cells, and a wiring unit connecting the first and second electrodes of different light emitting cells.
US08981393B2
An object is to provide a light-emitting element which uses a plurality of kinds of light-emitting dopants and has high emission efficiency. In one embodiment of the present invention, a light-emitting device, a light-emitting module, a light-emitting display device, an electronic device, and a lighting device each having reduced power consumption by using the above light-emitting element are provided. Attention is paid to Förster mechanism, which is one of mechanisms of intermolecular energy transfer. Efficient energy transfer by Förster mechanism is achieved by making an emission wavelength of a molecule which donates energy overlap with the longest-wavelength-side local maximum peak of a graph obtained by multiplying an absorption spectrum of a molecule which receives energy by a wavelength raised to the fourth power.
US08981391B2
A display panel including a substrate, a meshed shielding pattern, and a plurality of light-emitting devices is provided. The meshed shielding pattern is disposed on the substrate so as to define a plurality of pixel regions on the substrate. The light-emitting devices are disposed on the substrate. At least one light-emitting device of the light-emitting devices is disposed in each pixel region of the pixel regions, wherein an area of the pixel region is A1, an area of the light-emitting device is A2, and a ratio of A2 to A1 is below 50%.
US08981378B2
A mother substrate for an organic light-emitting display apparatus. The mother substrate has a panel area and a peripheral area surrounding the panel area, pixels disposed in a display area of the panel area, pads that are disposed in a non-display area of the panel area and are coupled to the pixels, test wirings disposed in the peripheral area, a local buffer electrically connected to the test wirings, a bridge wiring connecting the local buffer to one of the pads, and a dummy resistance layer having one end in contact with the bridge wiring and another end in contact with one of the test wirings.
