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US07734940B2	Data communication device has data signal generation circuit and transmission circuit on basis of reference voltage and received signal A data communication device performs stable data communications without a malfunction in a system downsized by realizing bi-directional data communications using two terminals. The data communication device includes: a signal terminal (IN) for inputting a received signal having portions of different duty ratios and a constant pulse frequency; a reference voltage terminal (GND) for inputting a first reference voltage; a clock generation circuit for generating a clock signal according to the received signal; a data signal generation circuit for generating a data signal by identifying a duty ratio of the received signal; a transmission circuit for outputting a transmission signal to the signal terminal; and a regulator circuit for generating power supply voltages of the clock generation circuit, the data signal generation circuit, and the transmission circuit on a basis of an internally generated second reference voltage, the received signal, and the first reference voltage.
US07734939B2	Adaptive voltage adjustment A method, system, module, apparatus, use, and computer program product are shown for determining a supply voltage level for operating an integrated circuit. To allow exact voltage level calibration, a high load condition is provided to the integrated circuit, a first voltage level of the integrated circuit is adjusted to provide a stable operation of the integrated circuit in the high load condition, a temperature of the integrated circuit in the high load condition is measured, the measured temperature in the high load condition is stored along with the adjusted first voltage level in the high load condition.
US07734937B2	Power supply device capable of supplying large amount of power necessary for entire system operation A power supply device includes a first power-supply unit to input external power and to output first power supplying a predetermined constant voltage to a load, a second power-supply unit to accumulate charge and to output second power to the load in parallel with the first power being supplied from the first power-supply unit, and a controller to output a control signal to prevent the second power-supply unit from supplying power in case of a current increase due to a dynamic load change, and to cause the first power-supply unit to supply power for the dynamic current increase. The first power-supply unit supplies power having a current value smaller than a predetermined maximum current of the first power-supply unit. The second power-supply unit supplies power for a shortfall current exceeding the predetermined maximum current of the first power-supply unit.
US07734928B2	Secure entry of a user-identifier in a publicly positioned device A method for secure entry of a user-identifier in a publicly positioned device can include establishing a private communications link between a user and the publicly positioned device; dividing the user-identifier into at least two portions; separately prompting the user for each portion of the user-identifier; prompting the user for a combination of random data and the user-identifier; and, discarding the random data from the combination. In the preferred embodiments, the publicly positioned device can have a visual interface through which the user can be visually prompted for the random data and the user-identifier. Alternatively, the publicly positioned device can have a telephone interface through which the user can be audibly prompted for the random data and the user-identifier. In the case of a visual display, the private communications link can be established by linking the publicly positioned device to active glasses having a shuttered display. The opening and closing of the shuttered display can be synchronized with the display of the prompts in the visual interface such that only the wearer of the active glasses can view the prompts. In the case of a telephone interface, an telephone operator system, for example an Interactive Voice Response system or a human operator, can provide the prompts audibly through the telephone interface.
US07734927B2	Real-time voting based authorization in an autonomic workflow process using an electronic messaging system In a network of computer systems having a group of users subscribing to a service comprising restricted channels, a user applies for an action to be performed by an automated software agent. The agent initiates a poll of a predetermined group of subscribers soliciting votes for approving the action. When the poll is complete, the votes are tallied by the agent and compared with predetermined authorization rules. If the votes pass the rules test, the action is approved and performed by a software agent. The user in one embodiment is an automated software agent.
US07734918B2	Preventing rogue implementations of a security-sensitive class interface A method and apparatus for preventing rogue implementations of a security-sensitive class interface are provided. With the method and apparatus, a unique identifier (UID) is created by a server process when the server process is started. Anytime the server process, i.e. a server runtime environment, instantiates a new credential object following start-up of the server process, the encrypted UID is placed into a private field within the new credential object. In addition, the UID is encrypted and stored in a private class of the server runtime environment. A verification class is provided within the server runtime environment which includes one or more methods that receive the credential object as a parameter and return true or false as to the validity of the credential object. These one or more methods determine the validity of the credential object by retrieving the encrypted UID from the private class stored in the server runtime environment, decrypting the UID and comparing it to the decrypted UID stored in the private field of the credential object. If the two UIDs match, a determination is made that the credential object was created by the server runtime environment rather than a rogue application. If the two UIDs do not match, or if there is no UID in the credential object, then a false result will be returned by the verification class.
US07734913B2	Content transmission control device, content distribution device and content receiving device A delivery of content to the unspecified number of persons is prevented by limiting the content delivery range. A delivery source terminal 110 generates an authentication code based on the number of possible transmission times of content and an authentication code key 116, and configures the number of possible transmission times and the generated authentication code in a packet. The delivery source terminal 110 transmits the packet to a delivery destination terminal 130. A router 120 verifies whether the authentication code generated based on the number of possible transmission times and the authentication code key 124 that are received agrees with the authentication code received from the delivery source terminal 110, updates the number of possible transmission times when the two codes agree, generates a new authentication code, and configures it in the packet. The router 120 transmits the packet thus generated to the delivery destination terminal 130.
US07734907B2	Methods and systems for redirecting data Systems and methods are disclosed for redirecting data. These systems and methods may include transmitting over a network an indication from a first node to a second node that a third node has failed. In addition, a first data may be reconfigured to be transmitted over the network between a fourth node and the first node after the indication has been received by the second node. The first data may be initially configured to be transmitted over the network between the second node and the third node. Furthermore, the disclosed systems and methods may include configuring the first node and the fourth node to send and receive the reconfigured first data as encrypted data via a first tunnel and configuring the second node and the third node to send and receive the first data as encrypted data via a second tunnel.
US07734904B2	Resetting a system in response to changes of component settings A system includes plural hardware components having settings that can be changed. In response to changing settings of the plural hardware components, a reset of the system is performed. Changing of the settings is performed during a portion of the boot process that is prior to system memory becoming available.
US07734901B2	Processor core and method for managing program counter redirection in an out-of-order processor pipeline A processor core and method for managing program counter redirection in an out-of-order processor pipeline. In one embodiment, the pipeline of the processor core includes a front-end instruction fetch portion, a back-end instruction execution portion, and pipeline control logic. Operation of the instruction fetch portion is decoupled from operation of the instruction execution portion. Following detection of a control transfer misprediction, operation of the instruction fetch portion is halted and instructions residing in the instruction fetch portion are invalidated. When the instruction associated with the misprediction reaches a selected pipeline stage, instructions residing in the instruction execution portion of the pipeline are invalidated and the flow of instructions from the instruction fetch portion to the instruction execution portion of the processor pipeline is restarted. A mispredict instruction identification checker and instruction identification tags are used to determine if a control transfer instruction is permitted to redirect instruction fetching.
US07734897B2	Allocation of memory access operations to memory access capable pipelines in a superscalar data processing apparatus and method having a plurality of execution threads A superscalar data processing apparatus and method are provided for processing operations, the apparatus having a plurality of execution threads and each execution thread being operable to process a sequence of operations including at least one memory access operation. The superscalar data processing apparatus comprises a plurality of execution pipelines for executing the operations, and issue logic for allocating each operation to one of the execution pipelines for execution by that execution pipeline. At least two of the execution pipelines are memory access capable pipelines which can execute memory access operations, and each memory access capable pipeline is associated with a subset of the plurality of execution threads. The issue logic is arranged, for each execution thread, to allocate any memory access operations of that execution thread to an associated memory access capable pipeline. Such a system has been found to provide an effective balance between increasing the efficiency of operation of the superscalar data processing apparatus when employing multiple execution threads whilst also alleviating the need for complex hardware to handle hazard detection.
US07734896B2	Enhanced processor element structure in a reconfigurable integrated circuit device A reconfigurable integrated circuit device which converts an arbitrary calculation state dynamically, based on configuration data, includes a plurality of processor elements, each of which has an input terminal, an output terminal, a plurality of arithmetic units which are provided in parallel and each of which performs calculation processing in synchronous with a clock signal, and an intra-processor network which connects them in an arbitrary state; and an inter-processor network which connects between processor elements in an arbitrary state. Based on configuration data, the intra-processor network is reconfigurable to a desired connection state, and further, based on the configuration data, the inter-processor network is reconfigurable to a desired connection state.
US07734885B2	Execution of point-in-time copy operations in continuous mirroring environments Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture wherein a point-in-time copy operation command for a point-in-time copy of a point-in-time source volume to a point-in-time target volume is received while performing continuous copy operations from continuous copy source volumes to continuous copy target volumes. A determination is made as to whether the point-in-time target volume is a first continuous copy source volume and whether the point-in-time source volume is a second continuous copy source volume. A determination is made of metadata corresponding to the point-in-time copy operation, in response to determining that the point-in-time target volume is the first continuous copy source volume and the point-in-time source volume is the second continuous copy source volume. Point-in-time copy operations are performed on the continuous copy target volumes based on the determined metadata to execute the point-in-time copy operation command while performing the continuous copy operations.
US07734883B2	Method, system and program for forming a consistency group Provided are a method, system, and program for forming a consistency group of data. Information is provided on a consistency group relationship indicating a plurality of slave controllers and, for each indicated slave controller, a slave storage unit managed by the slave controller. A command is transmitted to each slave controller in the consistency group relationship to cause each slave controller to transmit data in the slave storage unit to a remote storage in a manner that forms the consistency group. A determination is made as to whether all the slave controllers successfully transmitted the data in the slave storage units that is part of the consistency group to the remote storage.
US07734878B1	System and method for performing virtual device I/O operations Systems, methods, apparatus and software can make use of separated I/O processors and strategy processors (implemented in hardware and/or software) to perform virtual device I/O operations. I/O processors operating on cluster nodes, storage appliance ports, or other devices can receive I/O operation requests directed to virtual devices, e.g., volumes or virtual logical units. Information about the request is forwarded to a strategy processor, operating independently or as part of larger volume management software where corresponding physical device I/O operations are determined. The physical device I/O operations can include additional information about the operations, e.g., tag information and summary information, for use in processing the virtual device I/O request. The physical device I/O operations are sent back to the I/O processor which executes the operations and/or passes the operation on to the appropriate storage device. I/O completion messages are sent by the I/O processor in parallel to the source of the I/O request (e.g., a host or application) and to the strategy processor, providing an improvement in I/O latency.
US07734877B2	Method and data processing system for processor-to-processor communication in a clustered multi-processor system A processor communication register (PCR) contained in each processor within a multiprocessor cluster network provides enhanced processor communication. Each PCR stores identical processor communication information that is useful in pipelined or parallel multi-processing. Each processor has exclusive rights to store to a sector within each PCR within the cluster network and has continuous access to read the contents of its own PCR. Each processor updates its exclusive sector within all of the PCRs via a private protocol or dedicated wireless network, instantly allowing all of the other processors within the cluster network to see the change within the PCR data, and bypassing the cache subsystem. Efficiency is enhanced within the processor cluster network by providing processor communications to be immediately networked and transferred into all processors without momentarily restricting access to the information or forcing all the processors to be continually contending for the same cache line, and thereby overwhelming the interconnect and memory system with an endless stream of load, store and invalidate commands.
US07734876B2	Protecting ownership transfer with non-uniform protection windows In a data processing system, a plurality of agents communicate operations therebetween. Each operation includes a request and a combined response representing a system-wide response to the request. Within data storage in the data processing system, a data structure indicates a duration of a protection window extension for each of the plurality of agents. Each protection window extension is a period following receipt of a combined response during which an associated one of the plurality of agents protects transfer of coherency ownership of a data granule between agents. Each of the plurality of agents is configured with a duration of a protection window extension by reference to the data structure, and at least two of the agents have protection window extensions of differing durations. The plurality of agents thereafter employ the configured protection window extensions.
US07734871B2	Removable medium apparatus and control method thereof A removable-medium apparatus having a memory unit that stores a plurality of ID information for accessing a removable medium, and a receiving unit that receives an instruction for specifying ID information from among the plurality of ID information stored in the memory unit. The removable-medium apparatus determines whether or not ID information that is entered matches the ID information that is specified by the receiving unit, and outputs data that is stored on the removable medium when it is determined that the entered ID information matches the specified ID information, and does not output data that is stored on the removable medium when it is determined that the entered ID information does not match the specified ID information.
US07734869B1	Interfaces for flexible storage management Interfaces for flexible storage management. An embodiment of a system includes a data storage, the data storage including one or more of a first storage system, the first storage system including a file structure that is coextensive with a set of memory devices, or a second storage system, the second storage system including a storage structure that is coextensive with a set of memory devices, the storage structure including zero or more file structures. The system further includes an interface system for the data storage, the interface system being used for both the first storage system and the second storage system.
US07734862B2	Block management for mass storage An embodiment of the present invention includes a nonvolatile memory system comprising nonvolatile memory for storing sector information, the nonvolatile memory being organized into blocks with each block including a plurality of sectors, each sector identified by a logical block address and for storing sector information. A controller is coupled to the nonvolatile memory for writing sector information to the latter and for updating the sector information, wherein upon updating sector information, the controller writes to the next free or available sector(s) of a block such that upon multiple re-writes or updating of sector information, a plurality of blocks are substantially filled with sector information and upon such time, the controller rearranges the updated sector information in sequential order based on their respective logical block addresses thereby increasing system performance and improving manufacturing costs of the controller.
US07734854B2	Device, system, and method of handling transactions Some embodiments include, for example, devices, systems, and methods of handling transactions. In some demonstrative embodiments, an apparatus to handle transactions in a computing system may include a master unit to arbitrate between read and write requests to be issued over a request bus according to at least first and second arbitration schemes. A first ratio between read and write requests issued by the master unit according to the first arbitration scheme may be different from a second ratio between read and write requests issued by the master unit according to the second arbitration scheme.
US07734848B2	System and method for frequency offset testing Described is a system and method for frequency offset testing. The system comprises an electronic device, a first testing device providing a reference clock signal at a first frequency to the electronic device, and a second testing device receiving data from the electronic device at the first frequency and transmitting data to the electronic device at a second frequency. The second frequency is equal to a product of the first frequency and a frequency offset value.
US07734847B2	Apparatus to maximize buffer utilization in an I/O controller An apparatus and method for maximizing buffer utilization in an I/O controller using credit management logic contained within the I/O controller. The credit management logic keeps track of the number of memory credits available in the I/O controller and communicates to a chipset connected to the I/O controller the amount of available memory credits. The chipset may then send an amount of data to the I/O controller equivalent to or less than the communicated available amount of memory credits to reduce the occurrence of a “retry” event. The amount of available memory credits is determined by comparing the available memory in each buffer within the I/O controller and designating that the “available” amount of memory for the I/O controller is an amount equivalent to the amount of memory contained in the buffer with the least amount of available memory. This “available” amount of I/O controller memory may then be converted into memory credits and communicated to the chipset.
US07734846B2	Datapipe CPU register array A system for data processing comprises a host circuit (104) and an integrated circuit (102), the host circuit (104) being external to the integrated circuit (102). The integrated circuit (102) includes a plurality of programming elements (300), each element (300) including a host interface (606) for receiving data and a first control signal from the host circuit (104), a control interface (604) for receiving a second control signal. Each element (300) includes a crosspoint switch (318), and a register array (628) for receiving and storing data from the crosspoint switch (318) according to the first and second control signals, for receiving and storing data from the host interface (606) according to the first and second control signals, and for communicating stored data to the crosspoint switch (318) according to the first and second control signals.
US07734835B2	Method and apparatus of setting-up configuration of display devices An apparatus of setting-up configuration of a display device includes a display device and a configuration set-up device. The configuration set-up device downloads configuration data from an external device and stores the downloaded data. When the configuration set-up device uploads the configuration data to the display device, configuration of the display device is automatically set-up according to the uploaded configuration data, which define a set of options associated with operation of the display device.
US07734831B2	Universal remote control device for controlling entertainment-related functions In an embodiment of the invention, an apparatus for a universal remote control system for controlling entertainment-related functions, includes: a remote control device configured to transmit a control signal with a command; a computer configured to translate the command into a modified command and to transmit the modified command in a modified control signal; and an electronic device configured to perform a device function, in response to the modified command. In another embodiment of the invention, a method for a universal remote control system for controlling entertainment-related functions, includes: transmitting a control signal with a command from a remote control device; translating, by a computer, the command into a modified command and transmitting, by the computer, the modified command in a modified control signal to an electronic device; and performing a device function by the electronic device, in response to the modified command.
US07734828B2	Data synchronization transparent to application Synchronization of data accessible by an application program is performed transparent to the application program. After a data item is instantiated by the application program, the synchronization engine performs data synchronization without or with minimal intervention of the application program. The synchronization engine may be part of an operating system. The synchronization engine is preinstalled on a computing device; therefore, application program developers can simply define whether the data items associated with the application programs should be syncable, and if so, to what extent the data items should be syncable. The application program developer is relieved of the task of developing the synchronization engine or other software components associated with data synchronization.
US07734823B2	Edge side components and application programming environment for building and delivering highly distributed heterogenous component-based web applications A method is provided for processing an application on an edge server, wherein the application comprises a set of defined presentation, code and data components, each of which are preferably URI-addressable objects. In response to a client request, the presentation, code and data components are processed according to a set of metadata to generate a response, and the response is delivered to the client. The presentation components are typically content such as HTML fragments, WML fragments, or some combination thereof. The code components are typically Java servlets or beans, XSLT style sheets, or some combination thereof. The data components are typically XML files, native database formatted files, and the like. Each of the presentation, code and data components may have a distinct management profile, cacheability profile, deployment profile, invalidation profile, and security profile. These profiles are settable via metadata or other similar means. Using this framework, heterogenous components may be composed into other components and complete applications or services.
US07734821B2	Media coding for loss recovery with remotely predicted data units An improved loss recovery method for coding streaming media classifies each data unit in the media stream as an independent data unit (I unit), a remotely predicted unit (R unit) or a predicted data unit (P unit). Each of these units is organized into independent segments having an I unit, multiple P units and R units interspersed among the P units. The beginning of each segment is the start of a random access point, while each R unit provides a loss recovery point that can be placed independently of the I unit. This approach separates the random access point from the loss recovery points provided by the R units, and makes the stream more impervious to data losses without substantially impacting coding efficiency. The most important data units are transmitted with the most reliability to ensure that the majority of the data received by the client is usable. The I units are the least sensitive to transmission losses because they are coded using only their own data. While they provide the best coding efficiency, the P units are the most sensitive to data loss because the loss of one P unit renders useless all of the P units that depend on it. The remotely predicted units are dependent on the I unit, or in an alternative implementation, on another R unit.
US07734808B1	End-to-end congestion control in a Fibre Channel network Methods and devices are provided for controlling congestion in a network such as a Fibre Channel network. According to some implementations, a node within a network fabric detects congestion caused by an edge device outside of the fabric and notifies the edge device of the congestion. The edge device applies a congestion reaction mechanism in response to the notification. In some implementations, the congestion reaction mechanism is applied on a per-exchange basis, in order to mitigate congestion caused by a particular operation.
US07734801B2	Method and apparatus for acquiring internet real-time media channels in a private network An apparatus and method for acquiring Internet real-time media channels in a private network. The method includes receiving a service advertisement from a media channel server. The media channel server acts as a gateway between one or more channel service providers and a plurality of rendering devices on a private network. A subscription identifier (ID) and a URI (Universal Resource Identifier) are sent to the media channel server to enable the media channel server to request Internet channel information from one or more channel service providers. If the subscription identifier (ID) is validated by the one or more channel service providers, the Internet channel information is provided from the one or more channel service providers via the media channel server. The Internet channel information is provided to a user for enabling the user to browse the Internet channel information and request media content found on at least one Internet channel to be rendered on at least one of the plurality of rendering devices.
US07734793B2	Service control framework for seamless transfer of a multimedia conference over different media A system, method and computer program product are provided for seamless transfer of a conference over different media. Initially, a conference is initiated on a first medium with a first set of associated capabilities utilizing a network. During use, a request to transfer the conference to a second medium is received utilizing the network. A second set of capabilities associated with the second medium is then determined in response to the request. Aspects of the conference requiring the first set of capabilities associated with the first medium are then disabled in response to the request. In a similar manner, aspects of the conference supported by the second set of capabilities associated with the second medium are enabled in response to the request. The conference is thus seamlessly continued on the second medium.
US07734790B1	Proactive delivery of messages behind a network firewall A subnetwork of client computers includes a designated relay host computer that communicates through a firewall with an outside server computer located within the same computing environment or over an Internet connection. A specially-designated URL on the server is used when the relay host requests that a downlink connection be kept alive indefinitely with the server computer. The server receives the HTTP request and activates a continuous heartbeat program. Heartbeat messages are sent continuously from the server computer to the relay host to keep the downlink connection open indefinitely. When the server needs to send an urgent message to the client computers it can do so immediately by using the already open downlink connection. The relay host forwards messages to the other component client computers in the subnetwork. The relay host may also use a proxy server. The downlink connection uses a standard request-reply protocol.
US07734781B2	Methods and systems for shared storage virtualization In a shared storage infrastructure accessible by more than one customer, the shared storage infrastructure is separated into a plurality of logical storage areas. A customer is associated with at least one logical storage area within the shared storage infrastructure. The customer and its logical storage areas are associated with at least one port in the shared storage infrastructure. Each customer has access only to the logical storage areas associated with the customer and cannot access the logical storage areas of any other customer. The shared storage infrastructure provides policy based storage management to each customer, that is, each customer appears to have access to a non-shared storage subsystem. By providing a virtualization layer, a customer may be given the ability to manage its own storage needs.
US07734778B2	Distributed intelligent virtual server An intelligent distributed virtual server for providing distributed services to a plurality of clients, including one or more servers units, each server units storing data and providing services for accessing by one or more clients; a switch for connecting the clients to the server units and to provide a communication link; and a distribution control station connected to the clients and the server units via the switch, wherein the distribution control station receives a request for a service from a client, and automatically, selectively establishes a data link between that client and an server unit, which stores the requested data and provides services, such that the server unit provides the data stream to the client via the communication link, independent of other server units. The capacity of the intelligent distributed virtual server can be dynamically expanded without interrupt the normal server operation. Due to the non-shared accessing between server units, it represents a more efficient model for computing in terms of the resources usages. It can provide distributed computing cross intra-net or Internet. In addition, it provides scalability and all intelligent services such as real time fault handling, security and others.
US07734777B2	Systems and methods for monitoring components of a remote access server farm The present application is related methods to monitor a state of one or more components of a remote access server farm by an intermediary to distinguish between operating and functional components and improve farm availability for user application requests. The intermediary may be deployed between a client and the remote access server farm and forwards client requests to functional components of the remote access server farm.
US07734771B2	System and method to remotely manage and audit set top box resources A system and method for determining the resources available or used in a remote device is disclosed. The system can be used to determine whether the remote device is using expected resources as originally configured or to determine whether resources are available to support new or extended services. The method can be used to configure or reconfigure the remote device for its intended use or as reconfigure a remote device for new, different or extended purposes.
US07734762B2	Reporting for multi-user services in wireless networks A method and system for adapting multi-user multimedia data in a communication system with a server providing the multi-user multimedia data to clients and with an intermediate network part. The intermediate network part is arranged to provide information on communication between the server and the clients. The server sends multimedia data to the clients. Distribution characteristics are determined for the clients, which are considered by the generation of an aggregated feedback report on the clients' reception conditions of the multimedia data in the intermediate network part. The feedback report includes additional information about aggregation fashion. The aggregated feedback report is sent to the server in order for the server to adapt the transmission of the multimedia data from the server to the clients according to the aggregated feedback report.
US07734756B2	Object oriented communication among platform independent systems over networks using soap A system for object oriented communication among platform independent systems over networks using SOAP, in which communications can be performed over the internet utilizing a single communications protocol. A simple object access communications protocol (SOAP) is utilized for sending messages from one object to another across the internet in a platform independent manner. This type of protocol can be utilized to control network elements provided at various locations.
US07734755B1	Interactive data fault localization system and method An interactive system is provided to help an operator locate the source of a data fault in an Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) network. A database stores information related to data types and subsystems used by the ATM network. A processor coupled to the database uses the information stored therein to formulate a series of queries related to a selected one of the subsystems using the data type experiencing a data fault. The series of queries have a hierarchal order that sequentially inquire about operational status of the various subsystems having a relationship with the data type experiencing the data fault. A graphical user interface (GUI) coupled to the processor displays each query in accordance with the hierarchal order thereof. The GUI simultaneously displays identification of the various subsystems having a relationship with the data type experiencing the data fault.
US07734753B2	Apparatus, system, and method for facilitating management of logical nodes through a single management module An apparatus, system, and method are provided for facilitating management of logical nodes through a single management module. The present invention includes a communication module that selectively communicates a management command from a single management module to one or more logical nodes. A translation module translates the management command into one or more functionally equivalent software-layer commands recognized by one of the software layers of the one or more logical nodes. The software-layer commands are compatible with each logical node. A direction module directs the one or more software-layer commands to an appropriate one of the software layers according to a management command scope. The present invention can address management commands to a plurality of logical nodes having disparate operating systems and executing applications.
US07734752B2	Intelligent integrated network security device for high-availability applications Methods and apparatuses for inspecting packets are provided. A primary security system may be configured for processing packets. The primary security system may be operable to maintain flow information for a group of devices to facilitate processing of the packets. A secondary security system may be designated for processing packets upon a failover event. Flow records may be shared from the primary security system with the secondary security system.
US07734750B2	Real-time feedback for policies for computing system management One aspect of the invention is a method for providing real-time feedback regarding the effect of applying a policy definition used for management in a computing system. An example of the method includes receiving the policy definition, and accessing stored information regarding at least one managed entity in the computing system. This example also includes applying the policy definition to the information regarding the at least one managed entity. This example further includes outputting information providing real-time feedback regarding the effect of applying the policy definition to the information regarding the at least one managed entity. Another aspect of the invention is a method for defining a policy used for management in a computing system.
US07734734B2	Document shadowing intranet server, memory medium and method An intranet server, memory medium and process for handling requests for resources from a downstream intranet server or a user. The intranet server is configured by a data shadowing program to locally store resources that have a high usage frequency. If a resource has not been requested for a predetermined time out period, it is deleted from local memory. Resources stored in local memory are served in response to requests for them, thus avoiding the service of such resources over the internet each time they are requested. An inquiry procedure handles status requests for new versions in either an active or a passive mode. In the active mode, the intranet server that directly interfaces with the internet periodically checks the status and receives updated versions of resources stored in its local memory. The resources stored in local memory are then served upon request from a user. In the passive mode, status inquiries are sent upstream through the intranet system then via the internet to the web server that serves the resource being requested. The web server returns a revised version only if there is one.
US07734733B1	WAFS disconnected-mode read-write access The present invention, in particular embodiments, provides methods, apparatuses and systems directed to providing a Wide Area File System that is robust against network connectivity issues. In particular implementations, the present invention provides a WAFS disconnected-mode read-write access that provides for a more seamless user experience against WAN or other network connectivity failures. Specific embodiments provide for management, at a network device such as an EFG node, of file objects previously opened during a connected state with a remote file server appliance, creation of new file objects during a disconnected state and re-synchronization of those file objects (data and meta-data) when a connection becomes available.
US07734730B2	Content distribution system for operation over an internetwork including content peering arrangements In a network interconnecting a plurality of content providers and a plurality of clients, for providing content to a client, each of the plurality of content providers is coupled to at least one content distribution network of a plurality of content distribution networks, wherein the client is coupled to at least one of the plurality of content distribution networks and a request for the content is sent from the client to a redirector node that receives requests, wherein a redirector at the redirector node provides an address for a server available to serve the requested content. The redirecting can be done using a domain name service (DNS) server that responds to requests for domain name resolution that include metadata encoding for the content being requested and/or attributes of the resolution request other than a domain name or explicit client/redirector communication to perform the redirection.
US07734727B2	Communication arrangement and method for communication systems having an interactive voice function The invention relates to the processing of combined display screen-oriented and voice-oriented web page information (i(html,xml)). To this end, display screen-oriented web page information (i(html)) is processed in an internet terminal (PC) and voice-oriented web page information (i(xml)) is processed in a multimedia platform (VOX). In order to synchronize the processing of web page information that is distributed among the internet terminal and the multimedia platform, voice information (ivox) is exchanged by using voice agents (Avox) and control information (isig) and data (idat) are exchanged by using a communications agent (Asig). This results in dynamically reducing the load placed upon the multimedia platform.
US07734726B2	System and method for dynamically allocating processing on a network amongst multiple network servers The present invention provides a method, apparatus, and computer implemented instructions for processing Web and other Internet or Intranet based services. The system for processing Web requests includes a Web server with a connection to the Internet or Intranet with a predefined network bandwidth, a set of primary Web and application server cluster nodes to process the requests, and a dispatcher to allocate requests to nodes; in addition, one or more offload server nodes are connected to the network. Client Web requests arrive at the dispatcher of the Web server, which determines whether the incoming request can be handled at the primary Web server cluster, whether all or part of the user Web request should be offloaded to one of the offload server nodes, or whether the request should be throttled. If the dispatcher determines that the request should be handled by the primary Web server cluster, it is appropriately routed to one of the nodes in the primary Web server cluster; else if the dispatcher determines that the request should be offloaded, one of the offload server nodes or service providers is selected, and the request is either routed to a primary server node with the appropriate indication to offload all or part of the request, or the request is routed to the selected offload service provider; otherwise, the request is throttled by either routing it to a node which returns information that the service is overloaded, or if the Web servers are too busy to provide even an overload indication, then the request is dropped.
US07734721B2	System and method for passive detection and context sensitive notification of upgrade availability for computer information The present invention is a system and method that monitors upgrade availability for computer information on a user's computer and allows the user to determine which of the available upgrades will be downloaded to the user's computer and installed. The upgrade availability for computer information on the user's computer is monitored in the background, without user-intervention when the user connects to a network, such as the Internet. If any such upgrades are available, a flag is set to notify the user of such upgrades. The user is notified of any available upgrades when computer information is accessed for which an upgrade is available, and given a choice of whether or not to download the available upgrade(s). The downloaded upgrade(s) may then be installed by an installation means. In this manner, the present invention allows for the user to download only those upgrades desired by the user.
US07734719B2	Method and apparatus for creation, personalization, and fulfillment of greeting cards with gift cards An automated fulfillment system enables gift cards to be embedded or sent along with personalized greeting cards. The present invention, a method, system and apparatus enables a person to 1) purchase a gift card from either a Internet Website, Catalog, and/or retail kiosk, 2) choose a retail quality greeting card, 3) personalize the greeting card, and 4) send the personalized greeting cards as a gift with a gift card embedded inside the greeting card. The reverse is also possible, i.e. a user can purchase a greeting card, personalize the greeting card, and then assign that greeting card to have a gift card inserted inside therein.
US07734711B1	Blade server interconnection A computing system having at least one cluster. Each cluster has only one master server. The master server has at least one general processing unit, a relatively high speed data input adapted to send and receive data, a relatively low speed data input adapted to send and receive data, and a buffer memory adapted to buffer data between the relatively high speed data input and the relatively low speed data input. Each cluster also has at least one slave server, which has at least one general processing unit, and a relatively low speed data input adapted to send and receive data, the relatively low speed data input having data communication with the relatively low speed data input of the master server. In this manner, the relatively high speed data input, which tends to be very expensive, is present only in the master server, and is used for the high speed transfer of large amounts of data. However, the master server sends the data out to the slave servers on lower speed connections. Thus, there is a blend of both high speed and low speed data communication within the system, and the data is economically processed in clusters within the system.
US07734705B1	System and method for flexibly managing heterogeneous message delivery A system and method for flexibly managing heterogeneous message delivery. A message is queued. The message includes an identifier and content in intermediate format pending delivery through type-specific message interfaces. The delivery of the message to a recipient is managed with the message cast into one of a plurality of message types. The identifier is formatted and the content of the message is structured from the intermediate format into one such message type for the recipient. The message is sent to the recipient via the message interface corresponding to the selected message type. The delivery of the message is tracked by monitoring an acknowledgement of a receipt of the message by the recipient. An alternate message type available is selected upon non-acknowledgment of message receipt.
US07734701B2	Method to write information to an information storage medium using a network attached storage device A method to write information to an information storage medium comprising a plurality of storage blocks interconnected with a networked attached storage device comprising a first file system, a first file system driver, a second file system and a second file system driver. Using the first file system driver, the method opens a file with write permission, and provides a second file comprising the entire first file system. Using the second file system driver, the method locates an Extent Descriptor associated with the file, reads an address from that Extent Descriptor, where the address points to one or more storage blocks disposed in the information storage medium, and determines if any storage blocks have been allocated for the file. In the event no storage blocks have been allocated for the file, the method then allocates one or more storage blocks, and writes the file to those one or more storage blocks.
US07734689B2	System and method for managing processing of a plurality of events through an event management A data brokering system and method for programming is provided. The data brokering system comprises a process module for executing process logic, a panel module for accessing external information, and a process-panel interface for defining a standard of communication between the process module and the panel module. The panel module communicates with the process module and the external information. The method comprises the steps of executing process logic, having the process logic communicating with a panel module to access external information, and defining a standard of communication between the process logic and the panel module.
US07734683B1	Method for providing a DNS server address list from a server to a client The invention relates to a method for providing a DNS server address list from a server 1 to a client 2 comprising the steps of: the client 2 requests an IP address from the server 1; and the server 1 responds by assigning the IP address together with said DNS address list to the client 1. In the prior art the order of the DNS server addresses in the list is static, that means that upon any IP request the same list, having the same order of addresses is provided to the client. When the client wants to output a DNS request he starts by asking the first server in the list irrespective as to whether said server may currently be overloaded or has gone down. In these situations time is lost since no response is provided by such a disturbed DNS server to a DNS request and the client has to ask another server in the list. In order to overcome these disadvantages the order of the DNS server addresses in the list is dynamically updated in that the client always knows which of the available DNS servers is currently best appropriated.
US07734676B2	Method for controlling the number of servers in a hierarchical resource environment The invention relates to the control of servers which process client work requests in a computer system on the basis of resource consumption. Each server contains multiple server instances (also called “execution units”) which execute different client work requests in parallel. A workload manager determines the total number of server containers and server instances in order to achieve the goals of the work requests. The number of server instances started in each server container depends on the resource consumption of the server instances in each container and on the resource constraints, service goals and service goal achievements of the work units to be executed. At predetermined intervals during the execution of the work units the server instances are sampled to check whether they are active or inactive. Dependent on the number of active server instances the number of server address spaces and server instances is repeatedly adjusted to achieve an improved utilization of the available virtual storage and an optimization of the system performance in the execution of the application programs.
US07734673B2	Control device optimizing computing input sample of data with discrete fourier transform algorithm An automatic control device having an input for inputting measured values of cyclic voltage and/or current; computing device for computing a parameter based on said values of voltage and/or current, and for comparing the computed parameter against a predefined condition; and initiating device for initiating a control function in response to the parameter meeting the predefined condition. The input of the control device is arranged to input a predefined number of samples per one cycle; and the computing device is arranged to compute the parameter with a discrete Fourier transform algorithm optimized based on fixed coefficients related to the predefined number of samples per cycle. An exemplary control device and corresponding control method can provide a significantly faster response time than the earlier general programmed solutions without increasing the related costs as much as the known digital signal processors.
US07734659B2	System and method for creating an object model A method for creating a dynamic domain model of an object. The method includes storing and organizing temporal information about the object in a bitemporal database that includes both a valid time and a transaction time for the information. The information is inserted into a plurality of tables in the database and a key is assigned to each of the plurality of tables. A composite representing the object is formed to represent a state of the object at the current time or at any previous time by dynamically linking the information by key, based on a business logic and a request made by a user.
US07734645B2	Computerized method, system and program product for generating a data mining model A computerized method, system and program product for generating a data mining model. A user can provide objectives for the model and sample data to train, validate, and test the model. A rules system can automatically select a set of algorithms based on the objectives and/or sample data. A plurality of datasets can also be created from the sample data. Using the datasets, the set of algorithms can be optimized for the particular data on which it is intended to be used. The data mining model can then be generated from the optimized set of algorithms.
US07734641B2	Recommendation systems and methods using interest correlation A search technology generates recommendations with minimal user data and participation, and provides better interpretation of user data, such as popularity, thus obtaining breadth and quality in recommendations. It is sensitive to the semantic content of natural language terms and lets users briefly describe the intended recipient (i.e., interests, eccentricities, previously successful gifts). Based on that input, the recommendation software system and method determines the meaning of the entered terms and creatively discover connections to gift recommendations from the vast array of possibilities. The user may then make a selection from these recommendations. The search/recommendation engine allows the user to find gifts through connections that are not limited to previously available information on the Internet. Thus, interests can be connected to buying behavior by relating terms to respective items.
US07734630B2	Program, data processing method and data processing apparatus A specifying portion 371 for specifying a favorite content list of other user “U” indicating same contents as those indicated by a favorite content list D_t1 of a user U_A among a plurality of favorite content lists D_t respectively indicating contents favored by respective users “U” defined by corresponding to the respective users “U”; and a recommendation list generation portion 372 for ranking based on number of respective contents indicated by the favorite content lists D_t of other users by using the favorite content list D_t1 and a favorite content lists of other users “U”, and generating a recommendation content list D_r1; are provided.
US07734629B2	System and method using hierachical clustering for evolutionary clustering of sequential data sets An improved system and method for evolutionary clustering of sequential data sets is provided. A snapshot cost may be determined for representing the data set for a particular clustering method used and may determine the cost of clustering the data set independently of a series of clusterings of the data sets in the sequence. A history cost may also be determined for measuring the distance between corresponding clusters of the data set and the previous data set in the sequence of data sets to determine a cost of clustering the data set as part of a series of clusterings of the data sets in the sequence. An overall cost may be determined for clustering the data set by minimizing the combination of the snapshot cost and the history cost. Any clustering method may be used, including flat clustering and hierarchical clustering.
US07734611B2	Dynamic views based on LDAP Subviews are generated for each unique value in a list of unique values for an attribute that is defined by a dynamic view object in a schema for a lightweight directory access protocol directory. The subviews are maintained by adding and deleting entries as the values for the attribute change. If a change in value causes the subview to have no entries, the subview is deleted.
US07734608B2	System, method and computer program product for querying data relationships over a network In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for querying data relationships over a network. These mechanisms and methods for querying data relationships over a network can enable embodiments to provide the capability to query for more than a single entity at a time. The ability of embodiments to query for more than a single entity at a time can enable improved network throughput, faster response time and more efficient utilization of resources.
US07734607B2	Universal visualization platform The invention relates to a framework system and methods for connecting a plurality of tools. The system comprises a plug-in mechanism configured to dynamically load the plurality of tools, a data pool having storage space configured to store data sets associated with the plurality of tools, a linking mechanism configured to establish communications links between the loaded plurality of tools to enable coordinated operation of the loaded plurality of tools, a session component configured to record the process history of the operations of the loaded plurality of tool and the system states corresponding to the process history of the operations and an annotation module configured to associate user-provided data corresponding to one or more of the stored data sets.
US07734604B1	Locking data in a database after an operation has begun A database management system receives a request to perform an operation on a set of target data and, at some point after it begins executing that operation, places a lock on the target data to prevent concurrent execution of other operations on the target data. In some embodiments, the system receives an instruction from a user to perform a data-definition operation on a set of target data; places an initial lock on the target data at a level that allows at least one concurrent operation on the target data; begins executing the operation; and then places a final lock on the target data at a level that excludes all other concurrent operations on the target data.
US07734598B2	Computer-readable recording medium having recorded hash-value generation program, computer-readable recording medium having recorded storage management program, and storage system A computer-readable recording medium having recorded a hash-value generation program for calculating a hash value within a shorter period of processing time. When a target disk is specified for hash value calculation, a segment division block divides the target disk into fixed-length segments. A first hash-value calculation block applies a one-way hash function to all data in each segment to calculate a per-segment hash value. A second hash-value calculation block arranges the per-segment hash values in a segment order corresponding to the order of the data stored on the target disk and applies the one-way hash function again to the arranged per-segment hash values to calculate a total hash value. The hash value calculated in this manner is defined as a hash value of the target disk.
US07734592B2	Method for reducing a data repository The present invention relates to a method for reducing a data repository with a plurality of sequentially ordered records. Each record is characterized by an identifier and comprises one or more data attributes and/or one or more links. The method includes the step of choosing a first record as base record and verifying whether the identifier of the sequentially next record can be generated from the base record by applying an identifier generating function. As a next step it is verified whether the data attributes and/or the links of the sequentially next record are identical with the data attributes and/or the links of the base record or can be generated from the base record by applying an attribute generating function and/or link generating function. If the above conditions are satisfied, a counter in the base record is incremented and the sequentially next record is deleted. The above steps are repeated for the subsequent records until the above conditions and are not satisfied for any record.
US07734591B1	Coherent device to device data replication An apparatus provides coherent data copying operations where data replication is controlled by a source storage controller directly to a destination controller and managed by a remote application. The apparatus generates a snapshot version for each source data block changed by one or more write operations to the source data block during the course of a copy operation; and copies each block of the source data to a corresponding block in the destination data in the absence of the snapshot version of the block and otherwise copying the snapshot version of the source data block to the corresponding block in the destination data.
US07734589B1	System and method for optimizing data uploading in a network based media sharing system A system and method for optimizing the uploading of digital assets from a client node to a central node in a digital asset sharing system are provided. Digital assets residing at a client node are each tagged with one or more keywords. The client node sends a list of the keywords used to tag the digital assets to the central node and requests that invitations including the list of keywords be sent to potential guests. The potential guests select one or more of the keywords and send responses to the central node identifying the selected keywords. The central node processes the responses to generate a list of desired keywords and requests the digital images tagged with one or more keywords from the list of desired keywords from the client node. In response, the client node uploads the requested digital assets to the central node where they are stored.
US07734576B2	Apparatus and method for relating graphical representations of data tables A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to receive a selection of two or more data source tables from one or more data sources, determine a data source table that defines keys, and receive mapping information that defines one or more column relationships between the data source table and a second data source table. Relationship structures between the data source tables are analyzed. The data source tables and the relationship structures are graphically represented in a sequential order where the order in which the data source tables are depicted is based on a depth of a relationship between the data source table that defines keys and a second data source table.
US07734575B1	System, method, and computer program product for scaleable data collection and audience feedback A system, method and computer program product are provided for scalable data collection. Input is received from users of client devices, utilizing agents. Further, records are formatted with a predetermined format representative of the input, utilizing the agents. In addition, a priority is dynamically assigned to the records according to a policy, utilizing the agents. At least one of a plurality of server devices is also identified based on a load balancing algorithm, utilizing the agents. Further, the records are transmitted from the client devices to the identified server device as a function of the priority. Upon receipt of the records, the records are processed utilizing a hierarchical architecture associated with the at least one server device.
US07734573B2	Efficient recovery of replicated data items Methods and apparatuses are provided for recovering one or more replicated datasets. In accordance to some embodiments of the invention, this is accomplished by determining whether a log contains one or more entries indicating a corruption in a replicated data item; and recovering the replicated data item if the log contains any such entries. The log, however, is maintained at a higher layer in a software hierarchy than the layer at which the replicated data item is recovered. As a result, there is no need to maintain a separate replication log at the layer where the replicated data item is recovered. In accordance to some embodiments of the invention, this is accomplished by recording an entry indicating that an operation was performed on a replicated record in a log at a higher layer in a software hierarchy, determining whether a failure occurred during the operation, and reconciling the replicated record at a lower layer in the software hierarchy if it is determined that a failure occurred during the operation. As a result, the present invention eliminates the need for additional disk writes required by conventional techniques that use a replication log to at the same layer where the data recovery is performed.
US07734572B2	Building automation system controller A building control system is provided that receives information from devices of different subsystems. A trigger causes a zone controller to store the information in a database. The stored data is used to generate customized reports based on sequences or sets of related events. The information from multiple subsystems is consolidated, analyzed, and patterns of behavior are determined. The trigger also causes execution of control actions throughout the building spanning the multiple subsystems, devices, and areas based on the information. An access control subsystem and a non-access control subsystem of the building control system are linked using a common network such that a change in the state of an access control device can affect the state of a non-access control device and a change in the state of a non-access control device can affect the state of an access control device.
US07734568B2	DVD metadata wizard Methods and systems are described that enhance a user's experience when playing a DVD through an enabled media player. One or more databases, managed by a server, maintain metadata associated with DVDs. When a DVD is loaded using the enabled media player, a DVD ID is automatically determined and used to search the metadata database. A user can confirm metadata that is found, causing the metadata to be stored in a local media library. Alternatively, the user can enter other search criteria to be used to locate different DVD metadata. Additionally, a user can either edit metadata that is returned from the metadata database, or manually enter metadata to be associated with a particular DVD. The user-edited or user-entered metadata can then be stored in the local media library.
US07734567B2	Document data analysis apparatus, method of document data analysis, computer readable medium and computer data signal A document data analysis apparatus, the document data analysis apparatus being connected to a database storing plural document groups which a citation relationship is defined, each of the plural document groups including plural documents, includes: inputting unit that inputs an analysis condition including at least one of a document search condition and a specification of a seed document group, the seed document group being a seed of an active propagation process; determining unit that determines an initial active value of each of plural documents based on the analysis condition; executing unit that executes the active propagation process based on the initial active value and the citation relationship; and display that displays a result of the active propagation process.
US07734554B2	Deploying a document classification system A system and method for deploying a document classification system include deploying a document classification system with a first classification engine configuration, and thereafter, automatically redeploying the document classification system with a second classification engine configuration in response to a cost function.
US07734551B1	Redistribution of rights-managed content and technique for encouraging same Use of rights-managed content is enabled by a digital license that includes the identity of the licensee. The licensee redistributes the content by sending a package containing the content and the license to another party. That other party obtains a license to use the content by contacting a license server, and preferably pays a fee for this license. During the contact with the license server, the licensee's identifying information is uploaded to the license server, which allows the license server to determine who distributed the content to the other party. The license server can use this information to reward the original licensee for having redistributed the content.
US07734549B2	Methods and apparatus for managing secured software for a wireless device A system and method to securely create, distribute, install and execute selected features of software on wireless devices combines three different types of licenses, a validation license, a digital rights management (DRM) license, and a feature license with a software application. Each of these three licenses work independent of each other, where the validation license helps prevent malicious code from executing on wireless devices, the DRM license prevents unauthorized copying of the software application and the feature license securely enables or disables specific features of the software application. The system also allows a wireless device to unwrap a DRM protected software application, to validate the software application, to enforce DRM usage rules and to execute selected features of the software application.
US07734532B2	System and method for electronic spread trading in real and synthetically generated markets A system and method are provided to analyze synthetic and real markets that offer interchangeable tradeable objects to find market opportunities that a trader may capitalize on. A synthetic market is an electronic market created out of real markets by a computer terminal or gateway. A real market is an electronic market that is offered by an electronic exchange. If a desirable market opportunity is found, the preferred embodiments can take action such as by sending orders to either one of the markets, or by sending orders to both markets. An advantage of the preferred embodiments, among many others, is that they can make “invisible” trading opportunities more readily apparent.
US07734507B2	Method for directing a user of a mobile device from a current location to a product A method is described for directing a user of a mobile device from a current location to a product, wherein an identification code of the product is recorded in the mobile device and transmitted to a name server. The identification code is used in the name server among others for loading product-related data into the mobile device, e.g. a geographical location where the product can be bought. Following this, the user of the mobile device can go to said geographic location. For directing said user to the product, a direct contactless connection is established between said mobile device and a RFID element with which said product is marked, by using the same identification code or product-related data previously supplied by the name server.
US07734504B2	Method and system for transacting with network traffic A system and method for using targeted network traffic as payment-in-kind in exchange for rights to anything that may be connected to a network, such as network-connected computer hardware and copyrighted software or content on such hardware, is disclosed. The method may be adapted for use with almost any product or service which may be tracked over a network. The system and method are for use with transactions between a user of a subject product or service and a provider of the subject product or service desiring to receive traffic to a target in exchange for it.
US07734503B2	Managing on-line advertising using metrics such as return on investment and/or profit To help advertisers to manage their online advertising, some business metric, such as ROI, profit, gross profit, etc., may be estimated and/or tracked with respect to an ad campaign, or a portion of the ad campaign. An advertiser may provide a business metric target, such as a target ROI, a target gross profit, a target profit, etc. An ad delivery system may then adjust information in an ad campaign (or a portion of an ad campaign) in an effort to meet the target. Similarly, an advertiser may provide a goal, such as maximizing or minimizing a business metric. The ad delivery system may then adjust information in an ad campaign (or a portion of an ad campaign) in an effort to meet the goal. The targets or goals may be subject to one or more constraints. The advertiser may provide limits on values of one or more business metrics. The ad delivery system may then turn off, or govern, the delivery of ads if the limits are violated.
US07734501B2	Method of selling commodities and sharing sales profits using internet The present invention relates, in general, to a method of selling commodities and sharing sales profits using the Internet and, more particularly, to a method of selling commodities and sharing sales profits using the Internet, which not only allows a commodity purchaser to give a predetermined deposit to a commodity seller, to purchase commodities at low prices, and to be issued both a dividend and an award for contribution previously stipulated by the commodity seller, depending on the contribution level of the amount spent purchasing commodities and the deposit after a predetermined period has elapsed, but also allows the commodity seller to finance a business using funds obtained on the basis of the credit thereof, thus maintaining continuous business relations between the commodity purchaser and the commodity seller.
US07734499B1	Method of providing personalized souvenirs A method for providing a personalized souvenir is disclosed. The method includes the steps of contacting a souvenir retailer, preparing artwork, selecting names for personalization of the souvenirs, providing a rack to the souvenir retailer for displaying the souvenirs, and servicing the racks to ensure that the rack is maintained with the proper inventory. Additionally, determining an age range of a sales demographic such that the most popular names are selected to include on the souvenir within that age range.
US07734491B2	Hierarchical projects in a computer-enabled project management method and system Methods and systems are provided for establishing a hierarchical relationship between a parent or master project schedule and sub-project schedules including tasks and phases required for completion of the parent or master project. When changes are made to data contained in a given parent or master project schedule or to a hierarchically related sub-project schedule, an automatic notification is passed to the owners/managers of affected project schedules so that those parties may accept the proposed change, reject the proposed change, or respond to the submitting party with a counter change proposal.
US07734487B2	Process driven quality measures A common metrics manager analyzes customer feedback responses, and assigns a weighted priority to each feedback response. The weighted priority corresponds to a particular feedback response's impact on business goals, such as customer satisfaction. The common metrics manager uses weighted priority feedback responses to generate and rank a set of common metrics. The common metrics manager uses the common metrics to generate phase goals for each phase of a product's lifecycle. The number of phase goals for each product phase corresponds to the ranking of each particular common metric. Once a product ships to a customer which is developed using the common metrics, the customer sends feedback responses to the common metrics manager which the common metrics manager uses to generate new common metrics for use with a new product lifecycle.
US07734483B1	Computer implemented method and system for analyzing pharmaceutical benefit plans and for providing member specific advice, optionally including lower cost pharmaceutical alternatives A method is described for reducing medication purchasing costs for a member of a pharmaceutical benefits plan. A member's currently prescribed medications are analyzed, and at least one substitute medication is recommended for the analyzed medication, this recommendation is based the member's pharmaceutical benefit plan. In response to the recommendation, the system receives at least one of an authorization and selection of a substitute medication. Approval for this medication is requested from the member's doctor. Further, the requested approval is sent along with a plurality of other medication substitution requests. The responses are processed to complete the substitution of the medication for the member. The member is informed that the substitute medication was approved for their purchase.
US07734480B2	Clinical care utilization management system A computer implemented system facilities the submission of clinical events data to a reviewing agency by prompting for data needed to authorize the appropriateness of the event. The system directs an appropriate submission to authorize the event. The system further stores the patient clinical event data and presents the data for review. The system confirms that the clinical event is appropriate by referring to the input data and predetermined validation rules.
US07734479B2	Managing patient bed assignments and bed occupancy in a health care facility An integrated health care delivery network with enabling software and network technology to maximize bed resources, manage varying census levels, and avoid patient diversions through real-time monitoring, automation and communication, is disclosed. Preferably, the present invention is embodied in a bed management system that interfaces with and complements existing Admission/Discharge/Transfer (ADT) systems. The bed management system is an easy-to-use business intelligence application that is designed to allow administrators, clinicians and managers to easily access, analyze and display real-time patient and bed availability information from ancillary information systems, databases and spreadsheets. It enables users to see trends and relationships in hospital (bed) management data directly from their desktop personal computers.
US07734475B2	Frames-based advertising service with response and activity reporting An advertising service divides a consumer transaction at a POS location into multiple time frames. The service then determines an advertisement (ad) for display in one of the time frames and displays the ad in one of the time frames. One of the time frames spans one of the following activities: waiting for a consumer to begin a transaction, greeting a consumer, beginning a transaction, selecting a form of payment, swiping a card for a form of payment, entering a security code for the form of payment, identifying a product for purchase, displaying a total cost for products identified for purchase, signing for a purchase, thanking a consumer his purchase, surveying a consumer, promoting an event, applying for a credit card, informing a consumer, identifying a consumer, interacting with a consumer, and passing through an interstitial period. Determining the ad for display in one of the time frames includes transmitting information about the transaction to an ad-management service that then determines the ad for display based on the transmitted information. A response indicates the determined ad. The service prioritizes multiple ads competing for display and determines the ad with highest priority as the ad for display. The service displays the ad in the one time frame or in a frame following the one time frame. The service advances from the one time frame into another time frame and repeats the determination and display with the other time frame.
US07734471B2	Online learning for dialog systems An online dialog system and method are provided. The dialog system receives speech input and outputs an action according to its models. After executing the action, the system receives feedback from the environment or user. The system immediately utilizes the feedback to update its models in an online fashion.
US07734466B2	Reduced complexity recursive least square lattice structure adaptive filter by means of limited recursion of the backward and forward error prediction squares A method for reducing a computational complexity of an m-stage adaptive filter is provided by updating recursively forward and backward error prediction square terms for a first portion of a length of the adaptive filter, and keeping the updated forward and backward error prediction square terms constant for a second portion of the length of the adaptive filter.
US07734465B2	Sub-band voice codec with multi-stage codebooks and redundant coding Techniques and tools related to coding and decoding of audio information are described. For example, redundant coded information for decoding a current frame includes signal history information associated with only a portion of a previous frame. As another example, redundant coded information for decoding a coded unit includes parameters for a codebook stage to be used in decoding the current coded unit only if the previous coded unit is not available. As yet another example, coded audio units each include a field indicating whether the coded unit includes main encoded information representing a segment of an audio signal, and whether the coded unit includes redundant coded information for use in decoding main encoded information.
US07734461B2	Apparatus for providing voice dialogue service and method of operating the same A speech dialogue service apparatus including: a language analysis module tagging a part of speech (POS) of each respective word included in a sentence recorded in a predetermined text, syntactically analyzing the sentence by classifying a meaning of each respective word, and generating at least one semantic frame corresponding to the sentence according to a result of the syntactical analysis; and a dialogue management module analyzing an intention of the sentence corresponding to the at least one respective semantic frame, and generating a system response corresponding to the sentence intention by selecting a predetermined sentence intention according to whether an action corresponding to the intention of the respective sentence can be performed.
US07734458B1	Translating apparatus having different modes for translating and outputting document data A translating apparatus includes a translator for translating document data into another language, an output unit for outputting the translated document data translated by the translator, a mode setting unit for setting in a first mode or a second mode, and a controller. In a case where the first mode is set, the controller controls the translator so as to translate the document data into a plurality of languages, and controls the output unit so as to output the translated document data by each language group. In a case where the second mode is set, the controller controls the translator so as to translate the document data into a plurality of languages, and controls the output unit so as to output the translated document data by group including each translated language document date.
US07734453B2	Process of estimating relationship between element distortion and analysis error A process is disclosed for estimating by a computer a relationship between geometric distortion of an element used for approximately representing the shape of an object to be analyzed by a finite element method, and an analysis error which occurs, due to the geometric distortion of the element, in analysis results of the object by the finite element method. The process includes: assuming at least one deformation mode occurring in the element upon deformation of the object, in the form of at least one of tension, bending, shear, and torsion; and estimating the analysis error associated with the geometric distortion, for each of the at least one assumed deformation mode.
US07734450B2	Welding deformation computing method, welding deformation computing device, and computer program product A region for which nonlinear analysis should be carried out is extracted and welding deformation of only the extracted region is computed by nonlinear analysis. Specifically, the displacement and reaction force at the limit surface are computed by linear analysis of the object to be welded, the reaction force at the limit surface is computed by nonlinear analysis of the region for which nonlinear analysis is necessary, an amount of correction of the displacement at the limit surface is computed and the above processing is repeated when it is judged that a difference between the two reaction forces is larger than a predetermined value, and welding deformation of the object to be welded is computed based on the computed displacement if it is judged that the difference between the reaction forces is smaller than the predetermined value.
US07734441B2	Method and device for measuring and controlling the amount of flow/volume of liquid pumped/transferred by an electro-pump Disclosed is a method and system for measuring and controlling an amount of flow and volume of liquid fluid and/or electrical energy consumed by an electro-pump. The method and system obtains a plurality of values for electrical parameters of the electro-pump including voltage value, currents value and active/reactive energy value; calculates the plurality values; and determines and controls the amount of instant flow and volume of said liquid fluid based on said calculated values. The system/method gathers these two measuring and controlling features (i.e. measuring and controlling the volume of liquid and amount of energy) in one casing, thereby, where applicable, provides a secure reference for policy making of both two parameters at the same time (e.g. for underground water resources).
US07734435B2	Systems and methods for monitoring moving surfaces using light signals This present specification provides, amongst other things, an electro-optical monitoring system for obtaining a once-per revolution signal based on the surface reflection of a rotating device that mandates non-contacting sensor input in potentially hostile environments. The system can use optical and electronic sections to illuminate and detect surface reflections from the rotating surface using existing mounting locations on the periphery of the machine to be measured. The electronic portion is configured to determine a unique mark as the once-per-revolution marker or allow an attending operator to assign a specific marker based on the observed reflected pattern. The optical portion consists of a light source, receiver, and optics that allow for focused and directed light paths.
US07734432B2	Transmission of a power loss condition over a network A system is disclosed as including a power supply, a secondary capacitive storage device connected to the power supply, and multiple network devices powered by the power supply. The system further includes a designated device for transmitting a power loss condition over a network, where upon detection of an imminent interruption of power from the power supply the secondary capacitive storage device exclusively powers the designated device during transmission of the power loss condition, and the multiple network devices are intentionally powered off.
US07734431B2	Method and apparatus for fluid leak detection Certain embodiments of the invention relate to an apparatus for fluid leak detection. The apparatus includes a fluid supply conduit for supplying fluid to an external structure and a substantially parallel fluid return conduit for carrying fluid away from the external structure. The apparatus further includes: an oscillator for causing a separation of the fluid supply conduit and fluid return conduit to vary over time; sensors disposed relative to the conduits to measure the separation at respective opposed portions of the conduits; and a processor coupled to the oscillator and the sensors. The oscillator is responsive to the processor and receives respective separation measurement signals from the sensors. The processor is configured to determine whether there is a difference between a supply fluid mass flowing in the fluid supply conduit and a return fluid mass flowing in the fluid return conduit based on the separation measurement signals.
US07734407B2	Apparatus for acquiring lateral acceleration at the center of gravity of vehicle, and motion control apparatus for vehicle A center-of-gravity-position lateral acceleration acquisition apparatus of the invention is applied to a vehicle equipped with a lateral acceleration sensor which is installed at a position remote from the center of gravity of the vehicle and which detects lateral acceleration of the vehicle at that position. The apparatus acquires lateral acceleration of the vehicle at the center of gravity of the vehicle by correcting the detected lateral acceleration by making use of two relationships; i.e., a first relationship which holds among yaw rate of the vehicle, the lateral acceleration of the vehicle at the center of gravity of the vehicle, and the detected lateral acceleration, and a second relationship which holds between the yaw rate of the vehicle and the lateral acceleration of the vehicle at the center of gravity of the vehicle during a predetermined stable travel.
US07734398B2	System for automated excavation contour control A control system for a machine is disclosed. The control system has a ground engaging tool operable to remove material from a surface at a worksite. The control system also has a controller configured to generate a desired single-pass excavation contour prior to engagement of the ground engaging tool with the surface. The desired single-pass excavation contour has one or more predefined characteristics.
US07734396B2	Driving position adjusting system A driving position adjusting system automatically adjusts a driving position in a second vehicle appropriately to a target user based on a driving position in a first vehicle adjusted by the target user. The driving position adjusting system includes a storage device, a detection device, an estimation device, a transmission device, and a control device. The storage device stores statistic data. The detection device detects a selected one of a plurality of divided range segments of the driving position in the first vehicle, the selected one being selected by the target user. The estimation device estimates an optimum one of the plurality of divided range segments in the second vehicle based on the statistic data and the selected one. The transmission device transmits to the second vehicle the optimum one in the second vehicle. The control device controls the driving position in the second vehicle correspondingly to the optimum one.
US07734393B2	Object struck discrimination system and protection system An object struck discrimination system for a vehicle is provided which is effective in increasing the discrimination accuracy for discriminating an object struck by the vehicle. In one form, an object struck discrimination system to be installed in a vehicle includes an impact receiving member for receiving an impact from an object struck which extends lengthwise along the width of the vehicle, a detection sensor for detecting the moving speed and/or the acceleration of the impact receiving member during a vehicle collision, and a control unit for deriving the maximum moving speed and the maximum acceleration based on the information detected by the detection sensor and discriminating the object struck based on the correlation between the maximum moving speed and the maximum acceleration.
US07734385B2	Traveling control method, medium, and apparatus for autonomous navigation A traveling control method, medium, and apparatus for autonomous navigation. The traveling control method of controlling an autonomous navigation machine, having at least on the right and left sides thereof at least first and second receivers that receive a radio signal transmitted from a transmitter disposed at a specific position in a traveling area, the method includes allowing at least one of the first and second receivers to receive the radio signal, recognizing a command included in the received radio signal, acquiring data indicating a size of a recognizable area reached by the radio signal and a position of the transmitter while the autonomous navigation machine moves along the border of the recognizable area, and executing the recognized command in the recognizable area.
US07734377B2	Gait generator of legged mobile robot A gait generator determines a desired motional trajectory and a desired object reaction force trajectory of an object 120 for a predetermined period after the current time by using an object dynamic model while supplying, to the object dynamic model, a model manipulated variable (estimated disturbance force) for bringing a behavior of the object 120 on the object dynamic model close to an actual behavior, and provisionally generates a gait of a robot 1 for a predetermined period by using the aforesaid determined trajectories. Based on the gait and an object desired motion trajectory, a geometric restrictive condition, such as interference between the robot 1 and the object 120, is checked, and a moving plan for the object 120 or a gait parameter (predicted landing position/posture or the like) of the robot 1 is corrected as appropriate according to a result of the check, so as to generate a gait of the robot 1. Thus, a desired gait that satisfies a predetermined geometric restrictive condition related to the interference between the robot 1 and an object is generated by reflecting an actual environmental condition in real time while carrying out the operational control of the robot 1.
US07734376B2	Hand and handling robot A hand as an end effector. The hand includes a base, a hook element associated with the base and capable of hooking and lifting an object, a holding element associated with the base and cooperating with the hook element to hold the object therebetween, and a drive section causing a relative movement between the hook element and the holding element. For example, the hook element is arranged movably in a direction toward and away from the holding element on the base, and the drive section drives the hook element. Alternatively, the holding element is arranged movably in a direction toward and away from the hook element on the base, and the drive section drives the holding element. A handling robot includes an arm and the above-described hand attached to the arm.
US07734374B2	Drug storage, indexing and dispensing system A drug storage and dispensing system including a container for containing the drug, a storage tray and a drug identification key. The storage tray includes a plurality of drug storage chambers each defined by a sidewall and configured to receive the container. The key member includes at least one projection and at least one opening configured to receive the at least one projection. The at least one projection is disposed on either the sidewall or the container. The at least one projection receiving member is formed in the other of the sidewall and the container. The at least one projection and at least one opening have configurations that corresponding to at least one feature of the drug. The at least one projection is received in the at least one opening when the container is received in the storage chamber.
US07734366B2	Method and a device for preparing a job of two ophthalmic lenses belonging to the same pair of eyeglasses for mounting Method of automatically preparing an ophthalmic lens for mounting, includes the following steps: automatically measuring centering characteristics of the lens; blocking the lens on cutting-out elements; feeling the lens; and cutting out the lens, wherein the lenses are treated together in pairs of lenses belonging to the same jobs, with the following consecutive steps being performed: measuring and feeling both lenses of the job; then reconciling the detected centering characteristics and the feeler information for both lenses of the job taken together, so that as a function of the result of this reconciliation, the job is confirmed or refused, and then if the job is confirmed, cutting both lenses of the job to shape, or if the job is refused, stopping the preparation of the lenses of the job.
US07734364B2	Mixing media files Mixing individualized media content. When individualized media content is generated from separate media clips or files, mixing the separate media clips includes controlling the audio. The volume of the audio in each clip is determined and normalized with respect to other media clips as the individualized media content is mixed. This provides a consistent audio experience even when the media content is generated from multiple sources having different properties. When more than one track of audio is present, such as voice audio and background music, the volume of one track is lowered such that the other audio track is audible. The volume of the background music, for example, is reduced such that the subscriber can hear the instructions in the voice audio.
US07734363B1	Technique for independent ground fault detection of multiple twisted pair telephone lines connected to a common electrical power source A method and apparatus detects a ground fault on a span-powered telecommunication wireline within a plurality of span-powered wireline segments, to respective ones of which DSL-Cs are coupled, so that a ground fault may be detected when power is delivered by the DSL-C over a respective wireline segment to a respective downstream functional RT. A respective DSL-C measures a first voltage across a first sense resistor representative of current flowing in a first portion of its wireline segment to the RT, and also measures a second voltage across a second sense resistor representative of current flowing in a second portion of the wireline segment from the RT. In response to a difference in the first and second voltages an output representative of a ground fault in that wireline segment is generated.
US07734335B2	Method and apparatus for improving the accuracy of atrial fibrillation detection in lossy data systems An apparatus and a method for detecting cardiac atrial fibrillation events in an EKG signal. The method comprises the steps of detecting a portion of an EKG signal comprising cardiac beats; measuring the duration of a gap in the detected portion of the EKG signal; and computing two or more inter-beat intervals. The computed interval is outputted if the gap in the portion of the EKG signal is not more than a fraction alpha of the computed interval. The method further includes the steps of computing the variance of the inter-beat intervals and classifying the portions of the EKG signal as indicative of an atrial fibrillation event. During classification, the inter-beat interval variance of the portion of the EKG signal that exceeds a pre-determined value V is indicative of an atrial fibrillation event. The method further includes discarding portions of the EKG signal classified as indicative of atrial fibrillation if said portions have a duration less than a pre-determined threshold S and annotating the EKG signal. The non-discarded portions of the EKG signals having inter-beat variances that exceed V are annotated as atrial fibrillation events.
US07734327B2	Flexible image guided surgery marker A bone marker for use in image guided surgery comprises a support having an anchor mechanism for anchoring the support in a bone. The marker includes at least one reference member which can be detected by an image guided system and which is attached to the support. The support has at least one limb which is resiliently deformable.
US07734323B2	Correction factor testing using frequent blood glucose input An apparatus comprising a user interface configured to generate an electrical signal to begin determination of an effective correction factor when prompted by a user, an input configured to receive sampled blood glucose data of a patient that is obtained during a specified time duration, including a time duration after delivery of an initial insulin correction bolus, and a controller in electrical communication with the input and the user interface. The controller includes a correction factor module configured for determining an effective correction factor according to an amount of insulin in the initial insulin correction bolus and a decrease in the blood glucose level determined using the sampled blood glucose data. Other devices and methods are disclosed.
US07734316B2	User-specified outputs in mobile wireless communication devices and methods therefor A mobile wireless communication device, and methods therein, including producing a user-configurable sensory output (620) upon the occurrence of some event on the device, for example, the transition between sleep and active modes, or the mechanical actuation of a portion of the device. In some embodiments, the user-configurable sensory output terminates (630) after a specified time period. In other embodiments, a service provider selects the sensory output and associates it with a particular event that occurs on the device, whereupon the sensory output is produced on the device upon the occurrence of the event, for example, to communication information from the service provider.
US07734314B2	Slim type portable terminal A slim type portable terminal is provided comprising a first housing on which a keypad and a microphone unit are arranged, and a second housing comprising a liquid crystal display unit and a speaker unit, in which a printed circuit board is disposed adjacent to the liquid crystal display unit and arranged side by side with the liquid crystal display unit on a co-planar surface, and a buffer member is attached to an upper surface of the liquid crystal display unit, through which a flexible circuit provided to the terminal extends.
US07734309B2	Power control avoiding outer loop wind-up Techniques for power control that avoids outer loop wind-up are disclosed. In one aspect, wind-up of a target power level is detected, and the target power level is modified in response. In another aspect, unwinding of the target power level is detected, after which the target power level is determined without considering wind-up. Various other aspects are also presented, including wind-up and unwinding detection procedures, and target power level modification procedures. These aspects have the benefit of reducing the time that transmit power exceeds that which is necessary, thus increasing system capacity and performance, and mitigating misallocation of system resources.
US07734307B2	Method for operating a near field communication system A method for operating a near field communication system, including a plurality of participating near field communication devices, the method comprising repeatedly changing, for each of the plurality of participating near field communication devices, an operational mode of the respective participating near field communication device between a target operational mode and an initiator operational mode until communication is established between the respective participating near field communication device and another one of the plurality of participating near field communication devices, or until an interruption condition is fulfilled.
US07734306B2	Wireless device authentication at mutual reduced transmit power A system and method for facilitating the authentication of wireless devices in an environment with multiple wireless networks. A user wishing to join an operating wireless network can bring his wireless device within close physical proximity, for example, less than one meter, of a device in the network that he wishes to join. The user then presses an authenticate button, which causes both devices to enter a low transmission power mode. In such case, the devices are only capable of operation within the close proximity. Being in low power mode will diminish the possibility of eavesdropping on the authentication process. Power down mode also reduces the amount of message traffic in the area and saves scarce power and processing resources at the nodes, which are now out of range. Authentication then takes place in low power mode and once completed, both devices resume normal power levels and continue communicating normally.
US07734300B2	Portable telephone performing a predetermined operation based on location information A portable telephone comprising a GPS receiving section (17) for detecting the current position, an input section (16) having one or more key, a RAM 13 for storing a registered operating order of the keys and registered positional conditions, and a control circuit (11) for executing the operating procedure of the keys stored in the RAM (13) when a current position detected at the GPS receiving section (17) satisfies the positional conditions stored in the RAM (13), wherein the positional conditions specifies one point or the position of an area, and adds a distance exceeding the positional detection accuracy to a specified position.
US07734282B2	System and method for provisioning customer premises equipment A method of provisioning telecommunication offerings includes receiving from a first provider a message at a services clearing house to provision a telecommunication offering at a customer's premises and processing the request into a provisioning message. The method also includes directing the provisioning message to the customer's premises, thereby causing the offering to be provisioned at the customer's premises.
US07734281B2	System and method for bundling information A scheme for redirecting data items to a user of a mobile data communication device that is associated with a host system and communicates therewith via a wireless network. In one embodiment, a method comprises: detecting arrival of data items for a user at the host system from one or more senders, the data items being directed to an address associated with the user at the host system; determining a delivery level provisioned for the user at the host system; and responsive to the delivery level, applying a delivery rule with respect to the data items received for the user to bundle at least a portion of the data items for transport in a single transmission to the user via the wireless network.
US07734279B2	Method and system for controlling resources via a mobile terminal, related network and computer program product therefor Access to resources is controlled via a mobile terminal operatively connected to a network operator, wherein the mobile terminal has an associated authentication module configured for authenticating the mobile terminal with the network operator. The method includes the steps of providing in the mobile terminal at least one facility having authentication capability and adapted for accessing the resources, and authenticating the authentication module with the at least one facility, whereby the at least one facility is authenticated with the network operator via the authentication module.
US07734261B2	Calibrating amplitude and phase imbalance and DC offset of an analog I/Q modulator in a high-frequency transmitter The object of the invention, which relates to a method and an arrangement for calibrating an analog I/Q modulator in a high-frequency transmitter, is to provide a method and an associated circuit arrangement by means of which a calibration of the I/Q modulator is carried out without a balancing operation and thus the complexity is minimized. According to the invention, this object is achieved, in terms of the method, in that transmission signals are produced by the I/Q modulator in three method steps in accordance with the method and said transmission signals are in each case evaluated and the results of the evaluations are stored, in that, in a fourth method step, improved compensation coefficients are calculated on the basis of the results of the previous evaluations, which improved compensation coefficients can be used for a subsequent run-through of the method, and in that the run-throughs of the method are repeated until the error of the amplitude and/or phase response of the I/Q modulator lies below a defined threshold value or a defined number of run-throughs of the method is reached.
US07734256B2	System for interfacing with an audio player, and method of manufacturing same A system for interfacing with an audio player comprises a housing (110, 410) containing a first connector (111, 411), a transmission device (120, 420) including a second connector (121, 421) capable of removable engagement with the first connector, a power interface (130, 430) electrically coupled to the housing, and an audio interface (140, 440) electrically coupled to the housing and capable of being coupled to the audio player. The transmission device is connectable both to the housing and to the audio player directly, and is capable of transmitting an audio signal generated by the audio player to a playback device such as a radio.
US07734246B2	Broadcast communication system and method for providing users with information associated with a geographical area A method is presented for providing information associated with a geographical area to users of broadcast communication receivers. The information, as well as an indication of the geographical area associated with the information, are transmitted to, and received by, each of the broadcast communication receivers. In each of the receivers, the indication of the geographical area is compared with a geographic code associated with, and stored within, the receiver. Each of the receivers also relays the information to the user of the receiver if the geographic code indicates that the receiver is located within the geographical area.
US07734233B2	Development device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus A disclosed development device includes: a latent image carrier; a conveying member disposed so as to face the latent image carrier, the conveying member having plural electrodes insulated from one another and arranged at predetermined intervals so as to generate an electric field for moving toner on the conveying member; a voltage application unit applying a voltage of n phases (n is a positive integer not less than one) to the electrodes so as to form a cloud of the toner and the toner is adhered to the latent image carrier so as to form a visualized toner image; a toner supply unit supplying the toner to the conveying member; and a height adjusting member adjusting a uniform height for a toner layer of the toner immediately before a development area on the conveying member in which development is performed.
US07734227B2	Developing device and image-forming apparatus using multiple-component developer A developing device 2a, which is provided with: a developer tank 16 that houses a developer 24 containing a toner, a carrier for charging the toner and reverse polarity particles that are charged with a polarity reversed to the electrostatic charge polarity of the toner by the carrier; a developer-supporting member 11 that supports the developer supplied from the developer tank on the surface thereof, and transports the developer; and a separating mechanism 22 that separates the toner or the reverse polarity particles from the developer supported on the developer-supporting member, and the reverse polarity particles are collected into the developer tank, is provided, and an image-forming apparatus having such a developing device and an image-forming method applied thereto are also provided.
US07734224B2	Image reading apparatus with a mirror having a curved surface to reduce defocusing during image scanning An image reading apparatus includes a first running device that moves to scan a document at a predetermined speed, which includes an illumination unit and a first mirror; a second running device that moves in the scanning direction parallel to the first running device with half the predetermined speed of the first running device, which includes second and third mirrors; an imaging lens to produce an reduced image; and a line sensor to convert the reduced image to an electrical signal. At least one of the second and third mirrors is comprised of a spherical surface and a curvature radius of the spherical surface of such mirror is such that a distance deviation between the imaging lens and an imaging surface remains within usable range for actual operation regardless of movements of the first and second running devices.
US07734222B2	Image forming apparatus with flexible tube for cooling air and guide channel for flexible tube An image forming apparatus is provided with a cooling fan for cooling toner boxes within the apparatus. The outlet of the cooling fan and the toner boxes are connected by flexible tubes, respectively. This makes it possible to connect the cooling fan with the toner boxes even if there is not sufficient space, thereby enabling cooling of the toner boxes.
US07734216B2	Cartridge and image forming apparatus with discharge electrode detachably attached to a frame A cartridge may include a frame; a photosensitive member that is rotatably supported about a rotation axis inside the frame; a discharge induction electrode that is supported inside the frame and detachably attachable to the frame from outside the frame in a direction perpendicular to the rotation axis of the photosensitive member; and a discharge electrode that is supported inside the frame opposite the discharge induction electrode and detachably attachable to the frame from outside the frame in the direction perpendicular to the rotation axis of the photosensitive member. The discharge electrode may be detachably attachable to the frame independent of the discharge induction electrode when the discharge induction electrode is supported inside the frame.
US07734211B2	Image forming apparatus and retreat method of switch unit of image forming apparatus The present invention has been made to provide a technique by which a switch unit that is disposed on the side surface of an apparatus body and shuts off, at maintenance time, power supply to predetermined electric components provided in the apparatus does not interfere with pull-out operation of a predetermined unit configured to be capable of being withdrawn from the side surface of the apparatus body without sacrificing the miniaturization of the apparatus.An image forming apparatus comprising: a predetermined unit capable of being withdrawn from the side surface of the apparatus body; a switch unit that is provided on the side surface of the apparatus body and that shuts off power supply to predetermined electric components in the apparatus body at maintenance time; and a retreat mechanism that retreats the switch unit to a position that does not interfere with withdrawal operation of the predetermined unit when the predetermined unit needs to be withdrawn from the side surface of the apparatus body.
US07734205B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus is provided, which controls an appropriate developer amount for a desired image so that an image defect such as an unclear font or a white area is prevented, resulting in a stable image formation for a long term. A developer regulating member has a resistance value varying depending on a voltage to be applied. A control device changes over the voltage to be applied to the developer regulating member during the image formation according to image information and changes a potential difference between the developer carrying member and the developer regulating member.
US07734204B2	System and methods for reducing ghosting The presently disclosed embodiments are directed to imaging members useful in electrostatography. More particularly, the embodiments pertain to an improved development systems for electrophotographic imaging and printing apparatuses and machines in which ghosting print defects are reduced, and more particularly, is directed to a method for reducing positive ghosting in such systems.
US07734188B2	Deskew device and deskew method In a receiver, a skew detector detects a skew between two synchronization symbols having different wavelengths among synchronization symbols included in received signals. A skew rough adjustment calculator calculates a delay compensation amount for each received signal based on the skew and a signal delay characteristic in a transmission path. A variable delay processor deskews the received signals based on the delay compensation amount.
US07734177B2	System, method and terminal processing apparatus for optical fiber transmission Disclosed by the present invention is a system and method for optical fiber transmission. The switching portion of the present invention adopts the single-layered integrated switching technology so as to ensure a relatively simple and easy maintenance compared with the switching in a traditional communication network where said switching is made in the service network layer and the bearer network layer, respectively. Moreover, the present invention implements data transmission via optical fiber throughout the entire telecommunication system such that demands for bandwidth resources are satisfied during the whole data transmission process and the QoS (Quality of Service) of different services as well as rapid and un-blocking switching of the services are ensured in the telecommunication system. Therefore, the present invention can implement on-demand allocation of bandwidth resources, enhancing the flexibility in network resource management while a subscriber can apply for bandwidth resources based on its demand, which satisfies the individual needs of the user.
US07734170B2	Imaging apparatus There is provided an imaging apparatus having a viewfinder optical system; a first image sensor; a photometric sensor; and optical path changing means. The viewfinder optical system has a first reflective surface that reflects a monitoring luminous flux, and the first reflective surface changes a reflection angle of the monitoring luminous flux. A change in a reflection angle of the first reflective surface causes a course of the monitoring luminous flux to be switched between a first optical path and a second optical path. In a case of second optical path, a travel direction is changed with the optical path changing means placed on the second optical path, causing a photometric processing to be performed using the first image sensor, while in a case of the first optical path, the photometric processing is performed using the photometric sensor.
US07734165B2	Imaging apparatus When focus adjustment operation is performed, a first measured distance acquired by utilization of TTL-AF and a second measured value acquired by utilization of a distance between the eyes have been computed in advance. The degree of reliability of the first measured distance is compared the degree of reliability of the second measured distance in accordance with a result of a determination as to whether or not a face is detected, a result of a determination as to whether or not an ambient brightness value Br is equal to or less than a reference value, a result of a determination as to whether or not a focal length “f” is equal to or less than a reference value, and a result of a determination as to whether or not a second measured distance De is less than a first measured distance Dt.
US07734164B2	Focus state detection apparatus and optical instrument A focus state detection apparatus has a sensor that senses light rays that pass through a lens subjected to focus detection and is composed of a plurality of photoelectric converter elements, a charge accumulation unit that accumulates pixel signals obtained by the sensor, a first accumulation controller, a second accumulation controller, a first storage unit that stores each accumulated signal of each of the plurality of areas accumulation-controlled by the first accumulation controller, a second storage unit that stores the accumulated signal of the combined area accumulation-controlled by the second accumulation controller, and a defocus state detector that detects a defocus state of the area from the accumulated signal stored in either the first storage unit or the second storage unit.
US07734160B2	Endoscope apparatus An endoscope apparatus including: an endoscope unit having: a lens units; a photographing unit for photographing an optical image picked up through the lens unit; and a lens unit driving motor for driving the lens unit for realizing at least one of a zoom function and a focus function; and a control unit having: an image processing circuit for processing an image signal output from the photographing unit, and for outputting the processed image signal to a monitor, wherein: at least one of the endoscope unit and the control unit comprises: a motor driving circuit for controlling the lens unit driving motor; and a motor control circuit for outputting a control signal that controls the motor driving circuit by detecting a switch signal generated by operation of a zoom switch or a focus switch.
US07734156B2	Disc reproduction apparatus capable of digest reproduction A disc reproduction apparatus reading and reproducing data containing a plurality of chapters recorded on a disc-like recording medium includes an input unit for accepting an input of an instruction from a user and a control unit for controlling a reproduction operation in accordance with the instruction accepted through the input unit. The control unit reads information on the plurality of chapters recorded on the recording medium when information designating a first reproduction time period is accepted through the input unit. In addition, second reproduction time periods respectively corresponding to chapters are calculated based on the information on the plurality of chapters that has been read and the designated first reproduction time period. Then, digest reproduction is performed by reading at least part of the chapter recorded on the recording medium in accordance with the calculated second reproduction time periods.
US07734154B2	Recording medium having data structure for managing reproduction duration of still pictures recorded thereon and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses The data structure includes a data area storing presentation data multiplexed into a transport stream. The presentation data is divided into a number of still picture units, and each still picture unit includes at least one still picture and associated related data. The related data does not include audio data. A navigation area of the recording medium stores at least one playlist. The playlist includes at least one playitem. The playitem indicates at least one of the still picture units to reproduce and provides duration information for display of the still picture in the still picture unit.
US07734147B2	Information recording control apparatus and file recording control method An information recording control apparatus that automatica1ly selects a recording device at the time of file recording. In response to a file recording request from a terminal apparatus and in accordance with the device information about recording devices, which is stored in a management information database, and the attribute information about a file, which is received from a terminal apparatus, an information recording control apparatus searches for a recording device available for recording from among a plurality of recording devices, and selects a recording device for use in recording. The information recording control apparatus changes the status of the selected recording device so that no other recording operation is performed, and transmits the information for identifying the selected recording device to the terminal apparatus. The terminal apparatus sets the recording device designated by the information recording control apparatus as the recording destination, and begins to transmit the file. The selected recording device records the received file on an inserted recording medium.
US07734143B2	Image processing apparatus capable of adjusting image quality by using moving image samples A disclosed technique for adjusting the image quality uses a moving picture for a sample stored in advance on a storage medium. A plurality of sample moving picture images, based on the moving picture for a sample read from the storage medium, having different image quality relative to each other are displayed on the screen. This technique enables confirmation of how the actual image having been subjected to the image quality adjustment would be displayed in an apparatus for displaying a moving image, such as a television receiver, because the sample stored on the storage medium is a moving picture.
US07734127B2	Optical switch module The present invention provides an all optical cross connect switch utilizing two-axis MEMS mirrors for cross connecting optical fibers in a first set of optical fibers to optical fibers in a second set of optical fibers. The optical fibers in the first and second sets of optical fibers are precisely positioned in a first fiber-microlens positioning array to define a first set of parallel collimated cross-connect communication beam paths, with each collimated cross-connect communication beam path connecting an optical fiber in the first set of optical fibers with a MEMS mirror in a first MEMS mirror array. Alignment beams are added to and aligned co-axially with each of the first and second sets of parallel collimated cross-connect communication beams. Two beam direction sensor units are positioned to detect each alignment beam in the first and second sets of alignment beams transmitted through the dichroic mirror and a MEMS control system controls the positions of the MEMS mirrors to connect optical fibers in the first set of optical fibers to any of the optical fibers in the second set of optical fibers.
US07734120B2	Method of scanning a document using a pre-scanning operation A method of scanning a document to generate image data of the document, the method including performing a pre-scanning operation at a first predetermined resolution and speed according to a scan command until a current scanning area is located in a main-scan area; and performing a main-scanning operation at a second predetermined resolution and speed, until the current scanning area is beyond the main-scan area, after the current scanning area has been located in the main-scan area.
US07734118B2	Automatic image feature embedding The invention features a method, system, and computer program product. A source bitmap image, a destination bitmap image, a source image feature outline surrounding a source region of the source bitmap image, and a destination image feature outline surrounding a destination region of the destination bitmap image are received. A point-to-point correspondence between the source image feature outline and the destination image feature outline is generated, such that the point-to-point correspondence defines a reshaping of the source image feature outline. An interpolation surface is calculated interpolating an area of the source bitmap image that includes the source region. The interpolation surface is reshaped using the point-to-point correspondence.
US07734111B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer product An image processing apparatus includes a surrounding-pixels selecting unit that selects surrounding pixels that surround a correction pixel in an input image based on a low-pass filter, a reference-pixels selecting unit that selects pixels from the surrounding pixels based on pixel values of the correction pixel and the surrounding pixels, a smoothed-image creating unit that applies the low-pass filter to the reference pixels to create a smoothed image of the reference pixels, and an output image creating unit that creates an output image based on the smoothed image, and a difference image between the smoothed image and the input image.
US07734108B2	Image processing circuit The present invention provides an image processing circuit capable of properly determining whether or not image data is a static image or a moving image and performing overdrive processing thereon. The image processing circuit includes a quantization unit (quantization/threshold-value proximity determination circuit) for quantizing image data input to a liquid crystal display with a predetermined threshold value and outputting the quantized data, a threshold-value proximity determination unit (quantization/threshold-value proximity determination circuit) for determining whether or not the image data is proximal to the threshold value and outputting threshold-value proximity determination data, a moving-image/static-image determination unit (moving-image/static-image determination circuit) for determining whether or not the image data of a current frame is a static image or a moving image, on the basis of the quantized data and the threshold-value proximity determination data of the current frame and the quantized data and the threshold-value proximity determination data of the previous frame, and an overdrive processing unit (LUT, moving-image/static-image processing circuit) for outputting the image data which has been subjected to overdrive processing if the moving-image/static-image determination unit determines that the image data is a moving image.
US07734106B1	Method and apparatus for dependent coding in low-delay video compression An apparatus comprising an encoder circuit and a storage circuit. The encoder circuit may be configured to generate a reliability score and a referral score for each partition in an input data stream. The input data stream may be encoded based upon the reliability score and the referral score for each partition. The storage circuit may be configured to store the reliability score for each partition of the input data stream.
US07734094B2	Techniques for filtering handwriting recognition results Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that identify possible incorrect recognition results. Handwritten input is received from a user. A recognition operation is performed on the handwritten input to produce an initial recognition result. A possible incorrect recognition is identified using the self-consistency process that identifies the possible incorrect recognition when the initial recognition result is not consistent with a normal writing style of the user. The self-consistency process performs a comparison of the initial recognition result with at least one sample previously provided by the user. If the comparison reveals that the initial recognition result is not consistent with the at least one sample, then the result is identified as possibly incorrect. A classifier confidence process can be alternatively or additionally used to identify a possible incorrect recognition result. The user interface for displaying the final result can be modified as appropriate given the possible incorrect recognition result.
US07734090B2	Information processing device and method, and program Disclosed herein is an information processing device for recognizing a two-dimensional code in which predetermined information is coded by two-dimensionally arranging a plurality of cells according to a predetermined arrangement rule, the information processing device including detecting means and obtaining means. In the information processing device, the detecting means detects the position determining part on a basis of binarized data obtained as a result of binarizing the image of the two-dimensional code on a basis of a first threshold value. The obtaining means detects the arrangement rule of the cells present in the area identified by the position determining part on a basis of binarized data obtained as a result of binarizing the area identified by the position determining part on a basis of a second threshold value different from the first threshold value, and obtains the predetermined information.
US07734088B2	Low-bandwidth image streaming Methods and systems are disclosed for processing image frames to reduce the bandwidth requirements. Embodiment of the present invention may include mode-specific image frame rendering in photorealistic and non-photorealistic modes, such as outline and cartoon modes. In embodiments, update regions may be identified and reduced by an edge position mask. In embodiments, update regions may be bounded by rectangles and such regions may be reduced in number by merging regions together using various no-cost or cost approaches. To improve compressibility, regions to be transmitted that do not require updating at the receiver may be encoded as transparent.
US07734086B2	Reducing ghosting in holographic stereograms A plurality of source data frames is input into a processor. The plurality of source data frames is sectioned into a plurality of sections which are mapped to form a plurality of pre-distort images. The plurality of pre-distort images is compensated for variations in the degree of saturation (Diffraction Efficiency) to reduce ghosting and compressed to form a plurality of holographic elements, which are recorded onto a holographic recording medium to form a holographic stereogram.
US07734075B2	Contrast-invariant registration of cardiac and renal magnetic resonance perfusion images A system and method are provided for contrast-invariant registration of images, the system including a processor, an imaging adapter or a communications adapter for receiving an image data sequence, a user interface adapter for selecting a reference frame from the image sequence or cropping a region of interest (ROI) from the reference frame, a tracking unit for tracking the ROI across the image sequence, and an estimation unit for segmenting the ROI in the reference frame or performing an affine registration for the ROI; and the method including receiving an image sequence, selecting a reference frame from the image sequence, cropping a region of interest (ROI) from the reference frame, tracking the ROI across the image sequence, segmenting the ROI in the reference frame, and performing an affine registration for the ROI.
US07734063B2	Multi-agent autonomous system A multi-agent autonomous system for exploration of hazardous or inaccessible locations. The multi-agent autonomous system includes simple surface-based agents or craft controlled by an airborne tracking and command system. The airborne tracking and command system includes an instrument suite used to image an operational area and any craft deployed within the operational area. The image data is used to identify the craft, targets for exploration, and obstacles in the operational area. The tracking and command system determines paths for the surface-based craft using the identified targets and obstacles and commands the craft using simple movement commands to move through the operational area to the targets while avoiding the obstacles. Each craft includes its own instrument suite to collect information about the operational area that is transmitted back to the tracking and command system. The tracking and command system may be further coupled to a satellite system to provide additional image information about the operational area and provide operational and location commands to the tracking and command system.
US07734039B2	Telephone apparatus The invention relates to a telephone apparatus that allows, when additional installation of a handset unit ends in failure, an immediate retry of the additional installation with appropriate procedure and operations. At additional installation of a handset unit, a base unit (10) transmits an ID of the base unit (10) stored in a base ID storage portion (24a), a handset unit number inputted through a base key matrix (23), and an extension command for indicating an instruction of additional installation to a handset unit (30) wirelessly using a setting channel. When the handset unit number received fails to coincide with a handset unit number inputted through a handset unit key matrix (36), the handset unit (30) transmits a failure-indicating extension completion signal to the base unit (10), and its operation ends. Upon receiving the failure-indicating extension completion signal, the base unit (10) displays an operating guide on a base display device (15).
US07734034B1	Remote party speaker phone detection A system and method are provided for detecting acoustic echo in a telecommunications transmission. Detected acoustic echo is analyzed to determine if the acoustic echo includes characteristics indicative of use of a speakerphone by a remote party. Specific characteristics analyzed include the presence of multiple bulk delay values, echo magnitude, and the length of time for echo delays present within the telecommunications system. If the detected acoustic echo falls outside the range of acceptable parameters, or otherwise exceeds threshold limits, a warning signal is transmitted to the user indicating a high likelihood that the remote party is using a speakerphone. Warning the user of speakerphone use by the remote party can be helpful in ensuring that the communications between the parties is maintained in confidence.
US07734032B1	Contact center and method for tracking and acting on one and done customer contacts The present invention is directed to a contact center for servicing contacts having (a) an input to receive a first contact from a first customer; (b) a selector (i) to determine whether the first contact is related to another contact with the first customer and (ii) when the first contact is related to another contact with the first customer, to service the contact differently than when the first contact is unrelated to another contact with the first customer; and/or (c) a repeat contact determining agent (i) to track, a set of the plurality of agents over a selected time period, a number of contacts serviced by the agent set that are related to another contact serviced by the plurality of agents and (ii) to maintain, for each of the plurality of agents, an indicator indicating one or more of (a) a number of contacts, serviced by the agent set during the selected time period, that are not related to another contact serviced by the agent and (b) a number of contacts, serviced by the agent set during the selected time period, that are related to another contact serviced by the agent.
US07734031B1	Systems and methods for integrating PSTN and IP application platforms to enable advanced telephony services A service control point (SCP) (140) associated with a public-switched telephone network (PSTN) (110) includes a service logic module (210-N+1) and a network interface (215). The service logic module (210-N+1) enables the service control point (SCP) (140) to establish a connection with an Internet Protocol (IP) application server (120) via a transmission control protocol/Internet protocol (TCP/IP) network (105). The network interface (215) communicates via the connection to integrate telephony services between the PSTN (110) and the TCP/IP network (105).
US07734029B2	Apparatus, system, and method for automated call initiation A method for automated call initiation includes initiating a call to a destination using a first communication line. The method also includes initiating a call status determination that determines when a person answers the call at the destination. Furthermore, the method includes during the call status determination, sending audio information from the destination to an agent. In addition, the method includes assigning the call to the agent, in response to the call status determination determining that the person answered the call at the destination. Therefore, the agent is able to monitor the call and assume a natural response to the person, thus eliminating delay as the conversation begins.
US07734025B2	Methods and systems for providing on-line bills for use in communications services A communications system provides a bill for services provided to a user of the system, to a display device via a network. The display device may be a personal computer and the network may be the Internet, for example. A plurality of users may be parties to an account with the system and an indicator of the one of the plurality of users requesting a service may be associated with an entry in the bill for the requested service. A bill for communications services requested by a first party with respect to a second party may include an indicator, such as a name and/or location information, of the second party. The user may also have an option of receiving a bill without indicators. Information about a second party associated with a requested service may be transferred to a contacts folder maintained by the communications system. Methods and systems are disclosed.
US07734017B2	Anti-scatter-grid for a radiation detector The invention relates to an Anti-Scatter-Grid (ASG) with lamellae (2) that absorb incident radiation (1, 8) and that produce an electrical signal proportional to the amount of absorbed radiation. The lamellae (2) may particularly consist of a semiconductor material in which photons produce electron-hole pairs that can be detected with the help of electrodes (3, 4, 6) on the sidewalls of the lamellae (2). The amount of absorbed scattered (8) or primary (1) radiation may thus be determined in a spatially resolved way, allowing to correct the image generated by an array (5) of sensor units (9).
US07734016B2	Radiographic imaging apparatus and method A system is in a standby mode as an imaging preparation condition in step S1. If gripping of an operation handle is detected in step S2, the operation goes to step S3, in which an electromagnetic brake is released, thereby allowing a radiation detector to be rotated substantially around the center of an imaging region. If a rotation angle is detected in step S5, a first limiting device covering an effective imaging region of the radiation detector is changed to a second limiting device so as to be constantly arranged within the effective imaging region even during rotation of the radiation detector.
US07734011B2	Two-dimensional small angle x-ray scattering camera A two-dimensional x-ray scattering camera includes a source, an optic, a detector, and a pair of collimating blocks. The source emits x-ray beams that are reflected by the optic towards a sample. The detector detects scattering from the sample, the pair of collimating blocks is positioned between the optic and the detector to collimate the beam. A bottom surface of one block is substantially parallel a top surface of the other block, and the blocks are rotatable relative to the beam about a pivot. The system forms a two-dimensional beam that is symmetric about the primary beam axis at the detector position, regardless how the beam is collimated by the collimating blocks. The system therefore eliminates smearing and can be used for anisotropic small angle scattering at high resolution and low Qmin.
US07734009B2	Angiographic x-ray diagnostic device for rotation angiography The invention relates to an angiographic x-ray diagnostic device for rotation angiography with an x-ray emitter which can be moved on a circular path about a patient located on a patient support table, with an image detector unit which can moved on the circular path facing the x-ray emitter, with a digital image system for recording a plurality of projection images by means of rotation angiography, with a device for image processing, by means of which the projection images are reconstructed into a 3D volume image, and with a device for correcting physical effects and/or inadequacies in the recording system such as truncation correction, scatter correction, ring artifact correction, correction of the beam hardening and/or of the low frequency drop for the soft tissue display of projection images and the 3D volume images resulting therefrom.
US07733981B2	Direct conversion RF transceiver for wireless communications A single chip radio transceiver includes circuitry that enables received wideband RF signals to be down converted to base band frequencies and base band signals to be up converted to wideband RF signals prior to transmission without requiring conversion to an intermediate frequency. The circuitry includes a low noise amplifier, automatic frequency control circuitry for aligning the LO frequency with the frequency of the received RF signals, signal power measuring circuitry for measuring the signal to signal and power ratio and for adjusting frontal and rear amplification stages accordingly, and finally, filtering circuitry to filter high and low frequency interfering signals including DC offset.
US07733980B2	Quadrature modulation circuits and systems supporting multiple modulation modes at gigabit data rates A quadrature modulation circuit includes a mixer circuit including an integrated sign modulation control circuit and a plurality of mixer ports. The mixer ports include a first input port, a second input port, an output port and a sign modulation control port. The modulation circuit generates a modulated signal by operation of the mixer circuit multiplying a modulating signal applied to the first input port with a carrier signal applied to the second input port to generate a mixed signal output from the output port, and by operation of the integrated sign modulation control circuit controlling polarity switching of a signal at one of the mixer ports in response to a sign modulation control signal input to the sign modulation control port.
US07733966B2	System and method for space diversified linear block interleaving The present invention is directed to unique methods and apparatus for suppressing impulse noise in a multipoint communications environment using a linear block interleaver. One representative embodiment comprises first logic configured to arithmetically combine a time series of input symbols into a block of N-symbol combinations, and second logic configured to transmit, on a separate channel, each N-symbol combination to a receiver. The first logic is located in a transmitter of a first communications device. The time series has size N and N is greater than one, and each of the input symbols is taken from a signaling constellation.
US07733964B2	Automatic adaptive equalization method for high-speed serial transmission link In a method for performing equalization of a communication system, a predetermined signal can be transmitted from a transmitter unit to a receiver unit in a downchannel direction on a transmission line, for example as a pair of differential signals which simultaneously transition in opposite directions on respective signal conductors of the transmission line. At the receiver unit, an eye opening of the signal received from the transmission line can be analyzed to determine equalization information. Equalization information can be transmitted from the receiver unit to the transmitter unit in an upchannel direction on the transmission line and be received at the transmitter unit. Using received equalization information, a transmission characteristic of the transmitter unit can be adjusted.
US07733963B2	Method for encoding and decoding video signal Disclosed is a method for encoding a decoding a video signal. In the procedure of encoding the video signal, when a frame temporarily simultaneous with a frame including a macro block of an enhanced layer which will obtain a prediction video does not exist in a base layer, the macro block is encoded based on difference values of residual data using corresponding residual blocks in a past frame and a future frame of the base layer which are residual data corresponding to image difference values and using a residual block for the macro block of the enhanced layer. In another embodiment, the macro block is encoded based on difference values of residual data using corresponding residual blocks in a past frame and a future frame of the enhanced layer and the residual block for the macro block. Accordingly, a residual prediction mode is applied for a macro block of an enhanced layer even if a frame temporally simultaneous with a frame of the enhanced layer does not exist in a base layer, thereby improve coding efficiency.
US07733961B2	Remote sensing imagery accuracy analysis method and apparatus A method of enhancing a resolution of an image by fusing images includes applying a principal component analysis to a multispectral image to obtain a plurality of principal components, and replacing a first component in the plurality of principal components by a panchromatic image. The method further includes resampling remaining principal components to a resolution of the panchromatic image, and applying an inverse principal analysis to the panchromatic image and the remaining principal components to obtain a fused image of the panchromatic image and the multispectral image.
US07733953B2	Apparatus and method for adaptively correcting I/Q imbalance An apparatus and method for adaptively correcting I/Q imbalance, which is used in a receiver for correcting a received I/Q imbalanced signal to thus eliminate the I/Q imbalance. First, an interference amount caused by interference from an imbalanced in-phase signal to an imbalanced quadrature-phase signal is computed and accordingly subtracted from the quadrature-phase signal, so that a corrected quadrature-phase signal without phase imbalance is obtained. Next, a power of output in-phase signal, a power of output quadrature-phase signal, and a target are compared to thus determine an in-phase scaling factor and a quadrature-phase scaling factor. Finally, the imbalanced in-phase signal is multiplied by the in-phase scaling factor to thus obtain the output in-phase signal, and the corrected quadrature-phase signal is multiplied by the quadrature-phase scaling factor to thus obtain the output quadrature-phase signal.
US07733951B2	Equalization method with adjustable equalizer span An equalization method receiving a received sample to generate an equalizer output. A channel profile is first provided, comprising a main path and a plurality of echoes distributed in time domain. Echoes anterior to the main path are precursors, and echoes posterior to the main path are postcursors. The received sample is filtered with a linear equalizer (LE) comprising a plurality of taps to generate an LE output. A slicer slices the equalizer output to generate a sliced sample. The sliced sample is further sent to a decision feedback equalizer (DFE) comprising a plurality of taps to generate a DFE output. Simultaneously, an equalizer span is determined based on the channel profile. The LE output and the DFE output are combined to generate the equalizer output having the equalizer span. The equalizer span is determined by allocating the position of main tap.
US07733943B2	Method and system for temporal autocorrelation filtering An autocorrelation filter for use with a spread spectrum receiver. The autocorrelation filter can be used as a prefilter stage to reduce phase distortion present in a spread spectrum signal. The autocorrelation filter can be used to process the output from a lattice filter. The lattice filter is configured to remove magnitude distortion from the spread spectrum signal. The autocorrelation filter performs a series of correlations on the output of the lattice filter. The results of these correlations are integrated over a period of time to generate a running impulse response for characterizing and removing the phase distortion in the spread spectrum signal.
US07733941B2	Inter-symbol interference cancellation for wireless multiple access An interference-canceling receiver is configured for cancelling inter-symbol interference due to both inter- and intra-channel interference in coded, multiple-access, spread spectrum transmissions that propagate through frequency-selective communication channels. The receiver mitigates the effects of post-cursor inter-symbol interference using feedback of previously estimated symbols, and mitigates pre-cursor inter-symbol interference using an interference canceller, such as an iterative interference canceller.
US07733937B2	System and method for cross-modulation interference reduction for pulse-position modulated ultrawideband signals The present invention provides a novel technique for reducing the effect of CMI for PPM UWB signals. The system and method in accordance with the present invention greatly improves the performance of receivers and eliminates the possibility of catastrophic errors. The proposed technique introduces a variable modulation index instead of a fixed modulation index as was previously known in the art. The modulation index is changed over each frame within each symbol. In other words, a time hopping modulation index sequence is used over the frames of the UWB symbols in accordance with the present invention.
US07733934B2	Optical waveguide and semiconductor optical element An optical waveguide has a semiconductor laser section, an intermediate section, and an optical modulator section on a surface of a substrate. The distance of a surface extending outwardly from and transverse to both sides of a mesa stripe in the semiconductor laser section from the surface of the substrate is larger than the distance of a surface extending outwardly from and transverse to both sides of the mesa stripe in the optical modulator section from the surface of the substrate. The distance of a surface extending outwardly from and transverse to both sides of the mesa stripe in the intermediate section from the surface of the substrate decreases from the semiconductor laser section toward the optical modulator section.
US07733923B2	Wide-bandwidth mode-locked laser A mode-locked laser that has an optical cavity containing multiple optical amplifiers, each dedicated to a respective spectral portion of an optical signal generated by the laser, wherein the dispersion effects are managed by utilizing a separate intra-cavity phase tuner for each such spectral portion and/or by having appropriately configured waveguides corresponding to different spectral portions. Advantageously, a relatively wide combined gain spectrum provided by the optical amplifiers and the intra-cavity dispersion compensation provided by the phase tuners and/or waveguides enable this laser to realize a mode-locking regime that results in the emission of an optical pulse train having a relatively wide frequency spectrum. In one embodiment, the optical cavity of the mode-locked laser has a perfectly spectrally sampled arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) that is configured to divide the optical signal into the spectral portions and apply these portions to the respective waveguides, optical amplifiers, and phase tuners.
US07733921B2	Packet jitter mitigation for bursty transmission systems Audio packets occupy spaces in a packet stream so as to reduce packet jitter in a receiver.
US07733918B2	System for live audio presentations In a live audio presentation system, a stage rack and a front of house rack are interconnected by a transmission medium that transmits digital audio data and control information between them. Packets of digital audio data and control information are sent at the audio sampling rate. The packets of data are encoded using an encoding technique that provides unique codes that may be detected, thus enabling clock recovery of a clock signal embedded in the data packets. Data packets may include data for error checking. A serial digital transmission medium may be used as the transmission medium. Such a transmission medium uses low voltage signals and supports high bit rates. The system is synchronized by the FOH rack which transmits data to the stage rack according to a local audio sample clock or an external audio sample clock to which it synchronizes. This clock is embedded in data packets sent to the stage rack. The stack rack recovers the audio sample clock from data received from the FOH rack and synchronizes its receive and transmit operations to this recovered clock. The FOH rack recovers the audio sample clock from data received from the stage rack and synchronizes its receive operations to this recovered clock. The FOH rack may include an embedded computer that processes the digital audio data, and may include DSP processing that handles so-called plug-in software. A digital audio workstation or sequencer also may be connected to the FOH rack to either record the live presentation or to inject edited, recorded audio into the live presentation.
US07733916B2	Media access control for a set of downstream and upstream channels In a point to multi-point share-media network, method and apparatus of media access control (MAC) for a modem termination system (MTS) to communicate a plurality of modems over a set of downstream and upstream channels comprising the steps of designating a MAC domain comprising the set of downstream and upstream channels, in which a primary downstream channel and a primary upstream channel being chosen from the set of downstream and upstream channels for MAC message exchanges between the MTS and the modems; S establishing synchronization with the modems by broadcasting first MAC messages via the primary downstream channel; establishing the MAC domain with the modems by broadcasting second MAC messages via the primary downstream channel; calibrating upstream transmission parameters for each of the modems for at least the primary upstream channel by third MAC message exchanges via the primary upstream channel and the primary downstream channel; registering each of the modems by fourth MAC message exchanges via the primary upstream channel and the primary downstream channel; and transmitting packet streams to the modems in one or more the downstream channels simultaneously.
US07733911B2	Error control in multicast video distribution An embodiment of the invention includes an efficient error-control system and method for recovering packet losses, especially losses in distributing multicast video over broadband residential networks. Preferably, unlike most existing error-control algorithms designed for Internet multicast, the system and method does not employ substantial feedback suppression. Preferably, the system and method does not employ substantial multicasted retransmission. Preferably, the system and method does not employ substantial parity retransmission. Preferably, the system and method does not employ substantial local loss recovery. The system and method integrates two existing classes of error-control algorithms: Automatic Repeat Request (ARQ) and Forward Error Correction (FEC), to reduce traffic overhead and achieve scalability.
US07733910B2	Data segmentation using shift-varying predicate function fingerprinting Shift-varying segmentation uses a shift-varying predicate function to evaluate input data within a sliding window to determine if the current sliding window position should be a segment boundary. The shift-varying predicate function is a function of both the input data within the sliding window and the position of the sliding window relative to a previous segment boundary or the beginning of the input data. The shift-varying predicate function includes a containment property and may compute a hash value from the input data in the sliding window. The hash value is compared to a threshold value that is a function of the sliding window position. As the sliding window position advances away from a previous segment boundary, the probability of a segment boundary at the window position increases. Shift-varying segmentation can be used in compression, transaction acceleration, and data storage applications.
US07733909B2	Content delivery A method and apparatus are disclosed whereby a time-slicing approach to the delivery of packet data is enabled. The approach is particularly suited to enabling power management by mobile terminals where receiver demands otherwise place strenuous requirements on an internal power source such as a battery.
US07733907B2	Combined header processing for network packets A computer system to efficiently process packets received over a network operating in accordance with a layered protocol. The system includes logic that provides combined processing to determine whether a received packet complies with multiple requirements of the layered protocol. Combined processing determines compliance with requirements at more than one of the protocol layers of the layered protocol. If the combined processing does not verify compliance with all of the requirements of a protocol layer, those requirements may be verified in a layered fashion following the combined processing. In this way, greater efficiencies may be achieved through the combined processing of requirements from multiple protocol layers, but advantages of implementing a layered protocol in a modular fashion may still be retained.
US07733903B2	Text transcriptions for voice communications A method and system for converting a voice communication to a text transcription. The method comprises receiving by a computing system in a control command center, a first transmission identifier from a vehicle. The first transmission identifier identifies the vehicle. The computing system receives voice communication data for the vehicle from a user in the control command center. A software application within the computing system converts the voice communication data into text data. The computing system transmits the voice communication data, a first copy of the text data and a second transmission identifier to the vehicle. The second transmission identifier identifies the control command center. The computing system receives a confirmation request from the vehicle to confirm if the text data comprises correct information related to the voice communication data. The confirmation request is displayed on a video monitor system. The computing system transmits confirmation data to the vehicle.
US07733900B2	Multi-service ethernet-over-sonet silicon platform An integrated circuit device for use in connecting synchronous optical networks to packet networks and synchronous time division multiplexed subscriber lines and a method of operation of same is disclosed. An embodiment of the invention may include SONET/SDH compatible optical carrier framing, cross connect, and packet mapping functionality. In addition, it may support Ethernet packet network connections and DS1/E1 and DS3/E3 time division multiplexed subscriber circuits, and may include a telecom bus compatible interface for the connection of additional communications devices. An embedded microprocessor core and embedded memory may permit the present invention to support enhanced remote diagnostic, trouble reporting, traffic management, and software update capabilities.
US07733893B2	Method and receiver for determining a jitter buffer level The invention relates to a method and a receiver having control logic means for determining a target packet level of a jitter buffer adapted to receive packets with digitized signal samples, which packets are subject to delay jitter, from a packet data network. According to the invention, the jitter buffer is made adaptive to current network conditions, i.e., the nature and magnitude of the jitter observed by the receiver, by collecting statistical measures that describe these conditions. The target buffer level is determined with regard to the effect of packet losses in terms of duration of the discontinued playback of the true signal. This effect is derived from statistical measures of the network conditions as perceived by the receiving side and as reflected by a probability mass function which is continuously updated with packet inter-arrival times. The target buffer level is the result of minimization of a cost function which weights the internal buffer delay and an expected length of buffer underflow.
US07733889B2	Network switching device and method dividing packets and storing divided packets in shared buffer A network switching device that prevents its shared buffer from suffering a blocking problem, while achieving a higher memory use efficiency in buffering variable-length packets. Every received packet is divided into one or more fixed-length data blocks and supplied to the buffer. Under the control of a buffer controller, a transmit queue is created to store up to a fixed number of data blocks for each different destination network, and the data blocks written in the buffer are registered with a transmit queue corresponding to a given destination. The linkage between data blocks in each packet, as well as the linkage between packets in each transmit queue, is managed as a linked list structure based on the locations of data blocks in the buffer.
US07733885B2	Extending access to a device in a limited connectivity network to devices residing outside the limited connectivity network The invention makes possible remote control of devices in a piconet by remote users communicating over the Internet and the like by providing a proxy-bridge device. The proxy-bridge device is a bridge for sending packets to and from between an external device and a device in the piconet. Moreover, the proxy-bridge device also serves as a proxy for the external device to devices in the piconet and as a proxy for devices in the piconet accessing an external device. The proxy-bridge wireless device's protocol stack allows communications with the piconet devices within the piconet. In addition, the protocol stack allows an application to communicate with a remote device e.g., via the Internet Protocol. Thus, the proxy-bridge device, using two protocols, enables remote users discover the presence of a service offered by a device in a piconet as a logical embedded device within the proxy-bridge device and vice-versa.
US07733877B2	Method for transporting variable-length packets in temporal circuit frames A procedure is provided for transmitting packets of variable length, such as AAL2 packets and permitting the transmission of cells such as ATM cells, in time-division circuits such as E1/T1 frames, each divided into a number of time slots, each occupied by an eight-bit byte. The consecutive eight-bit bytes of each packet of variable length and of each cell are located in the slots of consecutive time of at least one group of time slots of the frames. The first eight-bit byte of a packet or a cell is placed at a time slot marked by a pointer occupying a specific time slot of the corresponding group of time slots.
US07733876B2	Inter-autonomous-system virtual private network with autodiscovery and connection signaling A layer-2 virtual-private-network (L2-VPN) service with automatic discovery and connection establishment is provided within a wide-area, multiple-autonomous-system (AS) network according to one of two approaches. In the first approach, inter-AS tunnels are used to connect pairs of provider edge (PE) routers of different ASes, and the PE routers then establish signaling connections to each other which are used to create pseudowires that implement the layer-2 connectivity. A second approach utilizes so-called “pseudowire switching” in which separate pseudowires are created within each AS and between ASes, and then the separate pseudowires are stitched together to form end-to-end connections. The first approach has the benefit of transparent operation provided by the tunnel, while the second approach requires fewer inter-AS signaling connections.
US07733871B2	QoS control apparatus in multi-cell network system and method thereof In a QoS information controller and method, the QoS information controller is used in a multi-cell environment to determine the traffic characteristic, the mobile communication system characteristic, the traffic processing capacity, and the radio resource, and to control the QoS information. In addition, a QoS requested by a user may be achieved since the traffic characteristic, the mobile communication system characteristic, the traffic processing capacity, and the radio resource are determined and the QoS information is controlled to efficiently process the QoS information for the multimedia traffic in the multi-cell environment.
US07733863B2	Out of band messages A method and apparatus for processing message is described. In one embodiment, an application programming interface is configured for receiving and sending messages. A building block layer is coupled to the application programming interface. A channel layer is coupled to the building block layer. A transport protocol stack is coupled to the channel layer for implementing properties specified by the channel layer. The transport protocol stack has a concurrent stack consisting of an out of band thread pool and a regular thread pool. The regular thread pool forms one thread for every messages from a sender. The out of band thread pool to form one thread for messages marked as out of band from the sender. Messages processed with the thread from the out of band thread pool are processed before messages processed with the regular thread pool.
US07733857B2	Apparatus and method for sharing variables and resources in a multiprocessor routing node A router for transferring data packets between external devices. The router comprises: 1) a switch fabric; and 2) R routing nodes coupled to the switch fabric. Each routing node exchanges data packets with the external devices and with other routing nodes via the switch fabric. A first routing node comprises: i) an inbound network processor comprising a first plurality of microengines capable of forwarding incoming data packets from external ports to the switch fabric; ii) an outbound network processor comprising a second plurality of microengines capable of forwarding outgoing data packets from the switch fabric to the external ports; and iii) an asynchronous variables circuit for controlling access of the inbound and outbound network processors to at least one of i) a shared resource and ii) a shared variable in the router.
US07733848B2	Signal-type dependent real-time fax relay In order to enable V.34 fax relay communications over IP (“FoIP”) without increasing a gateway complexity, the gateway relays all types of fax control signals in demodulated form and transfers fax image type signals either as demodulated or as PCM encoded signal, based on a predetermined condition. The PCM data type is added to FoIP protocol to allow transferring PCM encoded fax image signals without exiting from FoIP mode of operation until the completion of a fax call. During a FoIP call, the communicating gateway determines whether the input fax signal is a ‘fax control signal’ or a ‘fax image’ type signal. If the gateway determines that the input signal is a fax control signal or supported fax image signal, it handles it in a traditional fax relay manner. However, if the gateway determines that the input fax image type signal cannot be demodulated, it outputs the fax signal to the IP network as PCM encoded signal and without performing demodulation.
US07733842B2	Dynamic beaconing in wireless mesh networks A method, apparatus and system for communicating in a wireless mesh network may relate to a mesh point observing beacon transmissions of one or more neighboring mesh points and dynamically determining if and when to transmit its own beacon based on these observations. Determining when to transmit the beacon may be performed without time synchronization between the one or more neighboring mesh points and be dynamically selected based on the observed transmission time pattern of the neighboring mesh points. Various additional details and embodiments are also disclosed.
US07733841B2	Vehicle network with time slotted access and method A vehicle network and method for communicating information within a vehicle. The network includes a plurality of network elements joined by communication links. A data frame is provided for communicating information between a first device and a second device attached to the network. A network element in the network is capable of mapping a first resource on an incoming communication link of the network element to a second link resource of an outgoing communication link of the network element. The network element further has ports for receiving the data frame from the first link resource of the incoming communication link and for communicating the data frame to the second link resource of the outgoing communication link. The mapping may be done statically or dynamically such as based on information stored in the network element or based on information stored in the data frame.
US07733838B2	Devices and methods of transmitting data, source drivers using the same, and liquid crystal display (LCD) devices having the same A data transmission device for reducing power consumption includes a data source configured to provide data, a data transmission line having a plurality of data transmission sections, and data storage units respectively coupled to the data transmission sections. The respective data storage units determine whether the data storage units store the provided data, and store the provided data based on the determination result. The provided data is sequentially stored into the data storage units, from one end of the data storage units to the other end of the data storage units. A data transmission controller is configured to control the data transmission sections and to transmit the provided data to one of the data storage units. Therefore, the data transmission device may reduce electromagnetic interference (EMI) that is proportional to the current in the source driver.
US07733837B2	Apparatus and method for adjusting an input range for a soft-decision decoder An apparatus and method for adjusting a desired expression section according to input bit values in a mobile communication system that expresses only a defined partial section of the input bit values in order to make the number of output bits be less than the number of the input bits, and maps bit values included in unexpressed sections to a specific value is provided. In the apparatus and method, a measurer divides possible output bit values into at least three sections, and measures output frequencies of output bits for the respective sections for a predetermined time. A controller adjusts the desired expression section, when an output frequency for a specific section is greater than output frequencies for other sections.
US07733832B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving control information of user equipment for uplink data transmission A method and apparatus for transmitting a happy bit indicating whether a UE needs additional resources for uplink data transmission in a mobile communication system supporting an uplink packet data service are provided. The UE sets a happy bit for a current process based on a different criterion, depending on the current process is an active process activated for scheduled transmission or an inactive process allowed for non-scheduled transmission. A Node B interprets happy bits received for a plurality of processes and interprets them according to the types of the processes. Then the Node B determines an allowed maximum data rate and the number of active processes for the UE and schedules uplink data transmission for the UE according to the determination result.
US07733831B2	Detecting a wireless network air interface The present invention provides methods for detecting a wireless air interface. The method includes receiving information indicative of at least one wireless access type, determining whether the information indicative of the at least one wireless access type is within an expected range, performing at least one first measurement associated with a first air interface in response to determining that the information indicative of the at least one wireless access type is within the expected range, and performing at least one second measurement associated with a second air interface in response to determining that the information indicative of the at least one wireless access type is not within the expected range.
US07733821B2	Core network interoperability in a pico cell system In a wireless communication system, a method and apparatus of communicating between at least one base station and a core network is claimed. Signaling messages and voice streams are transported using packet-switched protocols (IP). A CIC field (Circuit Identity Code) is used to identify at least one VoIP streams. The CIC field may be interpreted as a UDP port number for the voice over IP stream. Also, a synchronization source or contributing source filed of a RTP header may be used as the CIC field.
US07733820B2	Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data in digital broadcasting system A digital broadcasting system and a data processing method are disclosed. A receiving system of the digital broadcasting system comprises a baseband processor, a management processor and a presentation processor. The baseband processor receives a broadcast signal including mobile service data and main service data, wherein the mobile service data configure a Reed-Solomon (RS) frame. The RS frame includes at least one of the mobile service data and notification messages. The notification messages are packetized in accordance with any one of a first transport protocol and a second transport protocol. The management processor decodes the notification messages from the RS frame in accordance with any one of the first transport protocol and the second transport protocol. The presentation processor directly outputs the decoded notification messages to an output unit in accordance with a channel which transmits the decoded notification messages, or outputs the decoded notification messages to the output unit only if a user selects the notification messages.
US07733813B2	Apparatus and method for canceling interference in relay station in a communication system A method and apparatus for canceling interference between a transmission signal and a received signal in a full-duplex RS in a communication system are provided, in which an RF/IF signal received from a first node through an antenna is converted to a baseband received signal, demodulated and decoded, a baseband transmission signal is generated by encoding and decoding the decoded data, a baseband interference estimate is calculated using the baseband received signal and the baseband transmission signal, a baseband interference is eliminated from the baseband received signal according to the baseband interference estimate, the baseband transmission signal is converted to an RF/IF transmission signal for a second node, an RF/IF interference estimate is calculated by converting amplitude of the RF/IF transmission signal and delaying it, and an RF/IF interference is eliminated from the RF/IF received signal according to the RF/IF interference estimate.
US07733812B2	Method for enabling multipoint network services over a ring topology network A method, device, and system for providing multipoint network services over a ring topology network. According to the disclosed method point-to-point connections and point-to-multipoint connections are established between network elements (NEs) providing the same network services. These connections eliminate the need for replicating packets at a source NE and, as a result, the bandwidth utilization is significantly improved. In one embodiment of this invention the multipoint network services provided by the present invention is a virtual private LAN service (VPLS).
US07733811B2	Method and system for bridging traffic in a resilient packet ring network A method for bridging traffic over a network includes receiving, at stations that are coupled to the network, forwarding information for remote devices that are coupled to the network via the stations. The forwarding information associates a remote address of each remote device with an address of one of the stations. Each station that receives the forwarding information stores the forwarding information in a forwarding database. The method also includes receiving traffic at a first station from a first remote device that is coupled to the first station. The traffic includes a destination address that is a remote address of a second remote device that is coupled to a second station of the network. Furthermore, the method includes identifying an address of the second station that is associated with the remote address of the second remote device in the forwarding database. The method also includes communicating the traffic directly to the second station using the identified address.
US07733804B2	Method and apparatus to establish routes based on the trust scores of routers within an IP routing domain A router includes a management module and a routing module. The routing module can be used to route data around a network. The management module can be used to manage the operation of the routing module, including generating an integrity report for the router, which can be used to generate a trust report for the router. The trust report can include an integrity/trust score for the router. The management module can control the routing module via a secure control interface.
US07733801B2	Network device management apparatus, network device management program, and network device management method A network device management apparatus which generates distribution routes for transmitting distribution information via communication devices, in order to distribute information to plural communication devices connected to a network, and makes the distribution information be transmitted in accordance with the generated distribution routes. The apparatus comprises: a hierarchy structure creation section that creates, based on units and the number of communication devices to which the distribution information is to be distributed, a hierarchy structure constituted by the units of communication devices as constitutional elements; and a distribution control section that controls distribution of the distribution information, by use of the hierarchy structure created by the hierarchy structure creation section. Therefore, the network device management apparatus can reduce the total distribution time and distribute information efficiently when the information is distributed to a huge number of communication devices.
US07733793B1	System and method for suppressing silence data in a network environment A method for suppressing data is provided that includes receiving a first packet communicated by an end user and identifying a difference in a comfort noise level associated with a second packet received as compared to the first packet. The second packet may be communicated without a data payload in cases where the difference in comfort noise level associated with the second packet as compared to the first packet is below a predetermined threshold.
US07733790B2	Method and apparatus for verifying service provisioning in networks used to provide digital subscriber line services A method and apparatus to permit testing of Layer 2 and higher services provisioned for a port on a digital subscriber line access multiplexer (DSLAM) line card. Each line card is provisioned with a virtual port, a virtual port cross-connect function, and a virtual port tunneling function. The virtual port can be linked to any physical port on the line card. A test host can link to the virtual port from anywhere in a network to perform verification of end-to-end service provisioning and functionality throughout a network.
US07733773B2	Playout based delay scheduler A node (22) of a telecommunications network (2) receives, over a transmission chain (24) subject to packet jitter, packets of a connection involving a client device (26). The node (22) comprises a packet buffer (38) configured to store the packets received over the transmission chain prior to transmission of the packets to the client device (26). The node (22) further comprises a client-conscious scheduler (40) which is configured to schedule the transmission of the packets from the packet buffer (38) over a channel (32) to the client device (26) in accordance with a timing consideration of the client device (26). In an example embodiment, the timing consideration of the client device (26) which is taken into account by the scheduler (40) is avoidance of drain of a playout buffer of the client device.
US07733771B2	NoC semi-automatic communication architecture for “data flows” applications A data processing method in a network on chip formed of a plurality of processors configured to communicate between one another, and at least one network controller configured to initialize communications in the network, the method including: receiving and storing in a memory by a first processor, one or more credit management configuration programs received from the network controller, and establishing a first communication between at least said first processor and at least one second processor.
US07733767B2	Service alarm correlation A system and method for correlating alarms from a plurality of network elements (NEs) are provided to unambiguously associate separate alarms to one another. This is accomplished by a method where a fault identifier FID is generated by a serving NE who discovered the faulty hardware or software unit. The serving NE signals its lost or degraded service to a client NE in a traffic message and appends the generated FID to the traffic message. The client NE extracts the FID from the traffic message and appends it to a service alarm which the NE sends to a network management system. The serving NE also generates an alarm message and provides it with same FID. The serving NE sends the alarm message and its FID to the network management system. The service alarm and the alarm message received by the network management system will thus contain the same FID. In the management system the FID is used to correlate the two alarms with one another.
US07733766B2	System and method for providing quality of service provisions and congestion control in a wireless communication network A system and method for providing a traffic control scheme for QoS provision and congestion control across multiple interfaces of wireless nodes (102, 106 and 107), such as wireless access points (107 and 106), communicating in a wireless multihopping communication network (100). The nodes (102, 106 and 107) can include multiple transceivers. The system and method detects bottleneck interfaces in these nodes (102,106, 107) to control the traffic along the path of the corresponding traffic flow. Different measurements and cross-layer feedback are used to differentiate the cause of the congestion, such as wireless link quality degradation due to fading or degradation due to congestion in a shared medium. The nodes (102, 106, 107) inform each other on the status of their congestion level. High and low level signaling and interruption mechanisms are used to control the interfaces of the congested node (102, 106 or 107) to adjust traffic flow and alleviate the congestion.
US07733762B2	Super-resolution optical recording medium and method for recording information on super-resolution optical recording medium A super-resolution optical recording medium has at least a recording layer and a super resolution layer on a substrate. A recording mark with the size of a resolution limit or less and a space with the size of the resolution limit or less are formed in the super-resolution optical recording medium by adjusting the intensity of a laser for recording or an emission pattern of the laser for recording such that at least the recoding mark with the size of the resolution limit or less out of recording marks in a modulation code is formed into a concave section with respect to a not-recorded section.
US07733755B2	Recording medium with optional information and apparatus and methods for forming, recording, reproducing and controlling reproduction of the recording medium A recording medium, such as a high-density and/or read-only recording medium, such as BD-ROM, which includes an identification information, which can identify whether optional information, such as copy protection information, is needed or not for the playback of contents stored on the recording medium, and to methods and apparatuses for forming, recording, and reproducing data on the recording medium.
US07733748B2	Optical disk apparatus method for compensating recording power for the same In a method for compensating recording power, being suitable for an optical disk apparatus, applying the WOPC therein, as a means for compensating recording power during recording operation, and also an optical disk apparatus applying the same therein, wherein the recording operation is interrupted, when a predetermined amount of data is recorded continuously, to determine the recording power for when recoding next, from the recoding condition onto the optical disk just before interruption thereof, and thereby starting the recording, with the recording power determined from that just after said interruption thereof, wherein an adjustment is made on a tilt angle of an optical pickup when the recording power, which is determined when interrupting the recording operation, exceeds a predetermined threshold value, and the recording is started just after said interruption, with the recording power onto the optical disk just before it is interrupted. Further, by detecting the recording power, again, by reproducing an end portion just before the interruption, or by reducing the recording power determined, the recording is started just after that interruption thereof, with the said reduced recording power.
US07733744B2	Musical module for a watch movement A musical module for a watch movement, said module comprising a barrel (11), at least one part (5) having pins (12), a comb (13) with a number of tines, a regulating system (7, 8, 9, 10), and a control device (16, 17, 21). The part (5) or each part (5) is a toothed disc driven by the barrel (11) via at least one pinion (6). The or each toothed disc (5) with said pins (12) on at least one face is able to be positioned over or underneath the comb (13) so that the pins (12) act on the tines of the comb (13) to play a tune. The control device (16, 17, 21) is designed to trigger a rotation of the toothed disc or discs (5) in order to start the tune. The regulating system (7, 8, 9, 10) maintains a constant rotation of the toothed disc or discs (5).
US07733738B2	Semiconductor memory device and a data write and read method thereof Provided are a semiconductor memory device and a data write and read method thereof. The semiconductor memory device includes a write data controller, an address controller, and a read data controller. The write data controller writes data received with an address to a first memory cell corresponding to the address and simultaneously stores the data in a data register. The address controller decodes and stores the address in an address register. The read data controller outputs data from a second memory cell corresponding to an address received with a data read command if the received address is different from the address stored in the address register, and outputs the data stored in the data register if the received address is equal to the address stored in the address register.
US07733729B2	Thermally stable reference voltage generator for MRAM A non volatile memory device comprises memory cells such as MRAM cells, reading circuits and a reference cell for generating a reference for use by the reading circuits, and can determine if the reference is degraded by thermal instability. This can help reduce a data error rate. Detecting such degradation can prove to be more effective than trying to design in enough margins for the lifetime of the device. The reference cell can be less susceptible to degradation than other cells by using different shape of cells and different write currents. Where each reference cell is used by many memory cells, the reference cell tends to be used more often than any particular memory cell and so can be more susceptible to degradation. Another way of ensuring against longer term degradation of the reference is periodically rewriting the reference cell.
US07733721B2	Semiconductor testing device and method of testing semiconductor memory The disclosure concerns a semiconductor tester for testing a MUT, comprising a pattern generator; a pattern formatter; a comparator comparing a result signal from the MUT with an expectation value; a bad block memory; an AFM pre-storing pass/fail information of each of memory cells; a data compressor compressing data of pass/fail information in the AFM; a compression failure buffer memory storing data compressed; a good block register storing an address number of a good block prepared; and an address generator, wherein when the block to be compressed is a good one, the good block register sends a address number of the good block to the compress failure buffer memory.
US07733720B2	Method and system for determining element voltage selection control values for a storage device A method and system for determining element voltage selection control values for a storage device provides energy conservation in storage arrays while maintaining a particular performance level. The storage device is partitioned into multiple elements, which may be sub-arrays, rows, columns or individual storage cells. Each element has a corresponding virtual power supply rail that is provided with a selectable power supply voltage. At test time, digital control values are determined for selection circuits for each element that set the virtual power supply rail to the minimum power supply voltage, unless a higher power supply voltage is required for the element to meet performance requirements. The set of digital control values can then be programmed into a fuse or used to adjust a mask at manufacture, or supplied on media along with the storage device and loaded into the device at system initialization.
US07733717B2	Memory system having distributed read access delays A system having a plurality of memory cells organized in rows and columns. Each column includes upper and lower sets of memory cells connected to corresponding common upper/lower bit lines. Each column includes an evaluation circuit coupled to the upper and lower bit lines and configured to evaluate signals on these bit lines and to produce an output signal. Each of the upper and lower bit lines has an associated bit line delay, one of which is greater than the other. The evaluation circuit has first and second inputs which have associated evaluation delays, one of which is greater than the other. In each column, the bit line having the greater bit line delay is connected to the evaluation circuit input having the smaller evaluation delay, and the bit line having the smaller bit line delay is connected to the evaluation circuit input having the greater evaluation delay.
US07733712B1	Storage subsystem with embedded circuit for protecting against anomalies in power signal from host A storage subsystem includes a charge pump that receives a power signal from a host system, and generates a regulated power signal that is provided to the storage subsystem's controller. When the power signal from the host is interrupted, the charge pump additionally acts as a backup power supply to enable the storage subsystem to continue to operate temporarily, and power isolation circuitry in the storage subsystem prevents power from flowing back to the host system. The storage subsystem further includes a digitally programmable voltage detection circuit that accepts various supply voltages and asserts a busy signal to the controller when an anomaly in the power signal is detected. The controller includes logic circuitry that will block the host system from performing write operations to the storage subsystem either when the voltage detection circuit asserts a busy signal or when the controller is busy executing memory operation commands.
US07733704B2	Non-volatile memory with power-saving multi-pass sensing Power-saving techniques are employed in sensing a group of non-volatile memory cells in parallel. One technique is that the coupling of the memory cells to their bit lines is delayed during a precharge operation in order to reduce the cells' currents working against the precharge. Another technique is that a power-consuming precharge period is minimized by preemptively starting the sensing in a multi-pass sensing operation. High current cells not detected as a result of the premature sensing will still be able to be detected in a subsequent pass.
US07733702B2	Semiconductor memory device and method of erasing data therein A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array of NAND cell units. The NAND cell unit includes a plurality of electrically erasable programmable nonvolatile memory cells connected serially, and a first and a second selection transistor provided to connect both ends of the memory cells to a bit line and a source line, respectively. The semiconductor memory device also includes dummy cells inserted in the NAND cell unit adjacent to the first and second selection transistors, respectively. The dummy cells in the NAND cell unit are erased simultaneously with the memory cells under a weaker erase potential condition than that for the memory cells and set in a higher threshold distribution than an erased state of the memory cells.
US07733695B2	Non-volatile memory device and method of operation therefor In one embodiment, the non-volatile memory device includes a well of a first conductivity type formed in a substrate, and a first plurality of memory cell transistors connected in series to a bit line formed in the well. A buffer is formed in the substrate outside the well and is connected to the bit line. At least one de-coupling transistor is configured to de-couple the buffer from the bit line, and the de-coupling transistor is formed in the well.
US07733692B2	Thin film magnetic memory device capable of conducting stable data read and write operations A tunnel magnetic resistive element forming a magnetic memory cell includes a fixed magnetic layer having a fixed magnetic field of a fixed direction, a free magnetic layer magnetized by an applied magnetic field, and a tunnel barrier that is an insulator film provided between the fixed and free magnetic layers in a tunnel junction region. In the free magnetic layer, a region corresponding to an easy axis region having characteristics desirable as a memory cell is used as the tunnel junction region. A hard axis region having characteristics undesirable as a memory cell is not used as a portion of the tunnel magnetic resistive element.
US07733690B2	Semiconductor integrated circuit having a latch circuit A semiconductor integrated circuit comprising a data holding circuit sets the data holding circuit to a desired data state by first setting the power-supply voltage of the data holding circuit to be less than a specified voltage, and then setting the power-supply voltage of the data holding circuit to the specified voltage or greater, regardless of the data state that is stored beforehand in the data holding circuit.
US07733681B2	Ferroelectric memory with amplification between sub bit-line and main bit-line A memory capable of suppressing increase of the chip area thereof while increasing a read voltage is obtained. This memory comprises a memory cell array including a plurality of subarrays, a sub bit line arranged on each subarray and provided to be connectable to a main bit line, a storage portion connected between the word line and the sub bit line and a first transistor having a gate connected to the sub bit line and a first source/drain region connected to the main bit line for controlling the potential of the main bit line on the basis of the potential of the sub bit line in a read operation.
US07733672B2	Programmable conduction mode control for switching circuits A control system that controls a switching circuit having a switching element and an inductive element coupled to an output of the switching element. The control system includes a switching control circuit that controls the switching element to operate the switching circuit in a first conduction mode of operation, such as a boundary conduction mode (BCM), in which current in the inductive element is maintained at a non-zero level during a first time period within each switching cycle. A conduction mode control circuit is configured for switching the switching circuit into a second conduction mode of operation, such as a discontinuous conduction mode (DCM), in which current in the inductive element is maintained at a non-zero level during a second time period within each switching cycle. The first time period differs from the second time period.
US07733661B2	Chip carrier and fabrication method A substrate having a ground plane, a first side, and a second side is provided. A via that electrically connects the first side to the second side is formed. A printed wire is formed on the first side, and a printed wire is formed on the second side. A passive component is formed on the first side. The passive component is formed free of the ground plane. An active component is attached to the first side.
US07733659B2	Lightweight audio system for automotive applications and method A lightweight radio/CD player for vehicular application is virtually “fastenerless” and includes a case and frontal interface formed of polymer based material that is molded to provide details to accept audio devices such as playback mechanisms (if desired) and radio receivers, as well as the circuit boards required for electrical control and display. The case and frontal interface are of composite structure, including an insert molded electrically conductive wire mesh screen that has been pre-formed to contour with the molding operation. The wire mesh provides EMC, RFI, BCI and ESD shielding and grounding of the circuit boards via exposed wire mesh pads and adjacent ground clips. The PCB architecture is bifurcated into a first board carrying common circuit components in a surface mount configuration suitable for high volume production, and a second board carrying application specific circuit components in a wave soldered stick mount configuration. The major components and subassemblies are self-fixturing during the final assembly process, eliminating the need for dedicated tools, fixtures and assembly equipment. The major components and subassemblies self-interconnect by integral guide and connection features effecting “slide lock” and “snap lock” self-interconnection. The radio architecture includes improved push buttons employing 4-bar living hinge linkage and front loaded decorative trim buttons.
US07733653B1	Heat radiating member mounting structure A heat radiating member mounting structure for enabling multiple heat radiating members to be fastened together in a stack without tools is disclosed. Each heat radiating member has convex portions and lugs formed on each of two upright side flanges at two sides of a flat base thereof such that multiple heat radiating members can be fastened together by means of engaging protruding portions of the lugs of one heat radiating member into locating grooves in the convex portions of another heat radiating member.
US07733644B2	Notebook computer with tilting keyboard vent A notebook computer with a tilting keyboard, which opens a vent when tilted, solves multiple problems and may further materially contribute to countering terrorism. A tilted position of the keyboard allows the vent to open when the notebook lid is open, thereby providing extra cooling capacity during periods of computer use when there is a lessened need for compactness. The vent is it least partially closed when the keyboard is in the stowed position and the lid is closed, thereby reducing the possibility of debris ingestion when air flow needs are reduced and the need for compactness is increased. A security inspection position of the keyboard enables inspection of the inside of the computer, for example as part of a security checkpoint procedure. A negative tilt can reduce wrist strain and repetitive motion injuries for some users. Some embodiments tilt the keyboard automatically in response to the lid opening, and stow the keyboard automatically in response to the lid being closed.
US07733639B2	Tamper evident portable memory housing and device A portable memory housing includes a first housing section and a second housing section that couples to the first housing section to define an enclosure for portable memory components. At least one of the housing sections includes a prong extending from an edge of the housing section and an other of the housing sections defines a slot configured to receive the prong. The prong includes at least one flat that is parallel and at least one flat that is perpendicular to the edge of its respective housing section. The slot is defined by a parallel wall configured to abut the parallel flat of the prong and limit relative lateral movement of the first and second housing sections, and a perpendicular wall configured to abut the perpendicular flat of the prong to impede separation of the first housing section from the second housing section.
US07733638B2	Electronic apparatus A hinge member that couples a display unit to a main unit in an openable and closable manner is fixed to the display unit by a hinge fastening section of the hinge member. A panel attachment member having a panel fastening section fastened to the side of a display panel of the display unit is fixed to the display panel independently of the hinge fastening section. A tongue piece of the panel fastening section overlaps and contacts the hinge fastening section from the front surface side of a display screen of the display panel.
US07733635B2	Systems and methods for providing a robust computer processing unit The present invention features a robust customizable computing system comprising: a processing control unit; an external object; and means for operably connecting the processing control unit to the external object, the processing control unit introducing intelligence into the external object, thus causing the external object to perform smart functions. The processing control unit preferably comprises: (a) an encasement module comprising a main support chassis having a plurality of wall supports and a plurality of junction centers containing means for supporting a computer component therein, a dynamic back plane that provides support for connecting peripheral and other computing components directly to a system bus without requiring an interface, means for enclosing the main support chassis and providing access to an interior portion of the encasement module; (b) one or more computer processing components disposed within the junction centers of the encasement module; and (c) means for cooling the interior portion of the encasement module.
US07733631B2	Capacitor liner A capacitor is presented that includes a housing, an electrode stack, a liner, and a fill port. The liner is located between the housing and the electrode stack. The liner includes a recessed portion. A fill port extends through the housing across from the recessed portion in the liner. A gap is formed between the recessed portion and the fill port.
US07733628B2	Multilayer chip capacitor A multilayer chip capacitor including: a capacitor body having a plurality of dielectric layers deposited therein and having a parallelepiped shape; at least three pairs of first and second external electrodes formed on two longer sides, the first and second external electrodes in each of the pairs having different polarities and opposing each other, and the first and second external electrodes on each of the longer sides arranged alternately with each other; and a plurality of first and second internal electrodes arranged alternately to interpose each of the dielectric layers, the first and second internal electrodes connected to the first and second external electrodes by leads, respectively, wherein the capacitor body has a length that is 2.5 times greater than a width thereof.
US07733618B2	Electrostatic discharge device An electrostatic discharge device includes a first protection element including a MOS transistor type first diode, which provides a first capacitor including a first insulation layer, and provides a first path between an input/output pad and a power supply voltage line using the first diode, for discharging static electricity, a second protection element providing a second path between the input/output pad and a ground voltage line for discharging the static electricity, a trigger circuit including a resistor that is connected in series to the first capacitor, and a power clamp element providing a third path for discharging the static electricity between the power supply voltage line and the ground voltage line by a voltage applied to the resistor.
US07733615B2	Dynamic braking load analyzer A dynamic braking load analyzer that determines the proper resistance value for a dynamic braking load resistor to be used in combination with a variable frequency drive or servo-drive to accommodate the power dissipated from an induction motor when it is being reduced in speed. The analyzer includes a resistor bank having a plurality of resistors electrically coupled in parallel. Switches are provided between the resistors, and a resistor selector switch determines which resistors are switched into the resistor bank circuit. A heat sensing resistor in the resistor bank measures the heat generated by the resistors and provides a signal that is read by a heat meter. The combination of the temperature measurement and the resistance of the resistors in the circuit gives the proper braking resistance value for the deceleration of the induction motor.
US07733611B2	Magnetoresistance effect element comprising nano-contact portion not more than a mean free path and magnetic head utilizing same A magnetoresistance effect element comprises a free layer composed of a ferromagnetic layer, a pinned layer composed of a ferromagnetic layer, and a layer disposed between the free layer and the pinned layer and including at least one nano-contact portion disposed at least one portion between the free layer and the pinned layer. The nano-contact portion has a dimension, including at least one of a length in the layer lamination direction and a length in a direction normal to the layer lamination direction, being not more than Fermi length. The nano-contact portion is provided, in an inside portion thereof, with a magnetic wall composed of either one of Bloch magnetic wall, Nëel magnetic wall or a combination wall thereof.
US07733606B2	Thin film magnetic head with thermal flying height control pads located at both ends of all pads series on slider side plane Embodiments of the invention prevent the write element lead wires from inducing crosstalk current in the read element lead wires. In one embodiment, a magnetic head slider comprises: a substrate portion; a heating resistor formed on the substrate portion through the intermediary of an insulation layer; a magnetic write element and a magnetic read element which are formed over the heating resistor through the intermediary of an insulation layer; and a terminal array structure provided with first terminals to wire the magnetic write element, second terminals to wire the magnetic read element, and third terminals to wire the heating resistor, wherein two of the third terminals for the heating resistor are located respectively on the opposite outer sides of the first and second terminals. In addition, an arm suspension is provided with a wiring structure in which wires connected to the terminals of the magnetic head slider, wires connected to the terminals, and wires connected to the terminals are guided to a predetermined direction and the magnetic write element lead wires are separated from the magnetic read element lead wires by the wires located in the central portion.
US07733603B2	Reduced tape stick tape drive systems A read and/or write head for a tape drive system has a tape bearing surface that includes relatively smooth areas surrounded by relatively rough areas. Read and/or write elements are located in the smooth areas.
US07733601B2	Hard disk drive adapted to prevent release of strain between voice coil motor and base Embodiments of the invention provide a hard disk drive base adapted to prevent release of a strain due to the difference in thermal expansion between the vice coil motor and the base and thereby prevent a degradation in the positioning accuracy of the magnetic head. In one embodiment, a hard disk drive base is provided which includes a plurality of contact surfaces to which a lower yoke of a voice coil motor is fixed and thin portions each formed around a respective one of the plurality of contact surfaces and having a thickness smaller than that of other portions of the base.
US07733595B2	Hard disk drive with external sensor interface, system for use thereof and method A hard disk drive, its use and production are described. A read/write disk stores digital data. A spindle motor supports the read/write disk for controlled rotation thereof. A head arrangement moves to selectively access the read/write disk in a data access mode and moves to a parked position. A dedicated input is receives a first sensor related input signal. A processing arrangement executes the data access mode by cooperatively controlling the spindle motor and the head arrangement, monitoring the sensor related input signal for a predetermined characteristic thereof, and responsive to detection of the characteristic, at least moves the head arrangement to the parked position. A hard disk drive multi-sensor group, monitoring technique and interface are described.
US07733594B2	Storage device with pulsed motor torque A system and method for overcoming adhesion between media and a surface of a storage device in contact with the media. A storage device comprises a media velocity detector and a media drive motor controller. The media velocity detector detects storage media velocity as torque is applied to a storage media. The media drive motor controller causes a media drive motor to apply acceleration torque to the storage media. If the media velocity detector detects no increase in media velocity as acceleration torque is applied to the storage media, then the media drive motor controller causes the media drive motor to apply a torque pulse to the storage media.
US07733591B2	Data storage device with data recovery process using fixed phase clocking for analog-to-digital conversion The invention includes apparatus and methods that allow a data storage device perform an enhanced data recovery procedure (DRP) that includes obtaining a new digital sampling of the voltages for the failing unit of data by re-reading the analog signal and converting it to digital form using an analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) using a fixed phase clock signal. The data samples are re-interpolated using a programmable delay line. The digital values representing the voltages are stored a buffer so that the data can be processed repeatedly using varying parameters as part of the data recovery procedure. Optionally the samples stored in the buffer can be processed in the reverse direction (from end of sector to beginning of sector) without requiring modification of the standard Viterbi detector since it inherently works on data processed in either direction.
US07733577B2	Lens barrel A lens barrel having a configuration lending itself to effectively reducing the size thereof and ensuring appropriate and safe operation thereof. The lens barrel includes a guiding portion provided for a lens holding member for guiding a cam follower in a radial direction of a cam barrel; a tabular elastic member provided for the lens holding member for urging the cam follower in a guiding direction of the guiding portion; and a regulating member limiting the transfer of the cam follower that is to be moved in a direction opposite to the urging direction by the elastic member. The regulating member is configured to be brought into contact with a predetermined portion of the lens holding member.
US07733569B2	Image display device Provided is an image display device including: an image forming layer for forming a plurality of images; and a lens layer which is integrally provided with the image forming layer and includes a plurality of lenses for guiding the plurality of images formed in the image forming layer in a plurality of corresponding directions.
US07733568B2	Retroreflective optical collimation layer and display devices incorporating same A display comprises a backlight comprising a plurality of individually-controllable light emitters, a light modulator comprising a plurality of individually-controllable elements, and, a retro-reflective optical layer positioned between the backlight and the light modulator. The retro-reflective optical layer is configured to pass light incident thereon at an angle with respect to a normal to the retro-reflective optical layer of less than a threshold angle φ, and reflect light incident thereon at an angle with respect to a normal to the retro-reflective optical layer of greater than φ in a direction opposite and generally parallel to an incoming direction of incident light.
US07733566B2	Supporting mechanism A supporting mechanism comprises a movable unit and a fixed unit. The movable unit is movable in a reference plane. The fixed unit has a rectangular frame that is connected with the movable unit, that is composed of strips perpendicular to the reference plane, and that is fixed to another part of the fixed unit. The fixed unit movably supports the movable unit through an elastic transformation of the rectangular frame.
US07733563B2	Optical properties restoration apparatus, the restoration method, and an optical system used in the apparatus An optical system has fluoride compounds provided in an environment exposed by vacuum ultraviolet light or plasma light, which has higher photon energy than an absorption wavelength of a base stock of the optical system. 1-layer of a protective film of SiO2 or metal oxides having a film thickness of 2-20 nm is formed at least on the light irradiation side (inner side) of the optical system to prevent the stripping of the fluorine atoms from the surface of the optical system. In addition, the protective film is a 1-layer film selected from one of SiO2, MgO, TiO2, or ZrO2.
US07733555B2	Environmentally safe electrochromic mirrors This invention recognizes the hazards of beryllium and beryllium oxide in automotive applications and offers alternative material solutions. In particular, commercial electrochromic mirrors use beryllium comprising alloys for busbars and may also use beryllium oxide for the electronics used to power and control these mirrors. Further, this can be combined by reducing other known hazards such as mercury, cadmium, lead and antimony compounds.
US07733531B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing program, and image processing method with error diffusion An image processing apparatus includes: an image data acquiring unit that acquires image data formed of plural pixel data having an M-ary (M≧3) gradation value; a grouping unit that divides the image data acquired into J (J≧2) image data areas and sections the J image data areas into K (2≦K≦J) groups; a pixel data selecting unit that selects, for each of the image data areas forming the respective groups, predetermined pixel data out of pixel data included in the image data area; an N-arization processing unit that applies the N-arization (M>N≧2) processing to the pixel data selected on the basis of a predetermined threshold value; and an error diffusing unit that diffuses a difference between a value of the selected pixel data and a value after the N-arization processing for the selected pixel data to pixel data not subjected to the N-arization processing, wherein the error diffusing unit diffuses the difference in directions different from one another in two or more groups of the K groups.
US07733522B2	Apparatus and method for optimized facsimile transmission The present invention is configured to provide optimization of printed output transmitted by a facsimile machine. By generating and comparing a baseline quality score with a companion quality score, optimization decisions can enhance the quality of facsimile transmissions. Optimization is also enhanced by recognizing the type of facsimile machine used and the optimal configuration settings for the facsimile. The settings for multiple facsimile machines are stored in a database, along with optimal settings for each facsimile machine. To further enhance the results of a facsimile transmission, a database of printers may also be consulted. By utilizing the best possible output from a printer, combined with the optimal settings for a fax machine, the optimal results for can be obtained. Additionally, the use of bar-coded identification for facsimile transmission provides a method of automating the optimization, thereby increasing efficiency by reporting the results of the optimization.
US07733516B2	Image forming apparatus and method for erasing data thereof In one embodiment of an image forming apparatus according to the invention, an overwrite data determination device for determining overwrite data so that a hard disk containing information on image forming jobs is overwritten with the overwrite data. An overwrite block size determination device for determining size of an equal-size block so that a disk memory area is divided into equal-size blocks to be overwritten with the overwrite data. The size of the equal-size block is larger than that of the overwrite data. Using the overwrite settings specified by the overwrite data determination device and the overwrite block-size determination device, a data erase control device overwrites the hard disk with meaningless data in order to erase data stored in the hard disk.
US07733515B2	Two-branch outputting solid-state imaging device, driving method for the same and imaging apparatus A solid-state imaging device is provided and includes: a semiconductor substrate; a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements arranged in a two-dimensional array, each of the photoelectric conversion elements accumulating a signal charge in accordance with a received amount of light; a charge transfer path that transfers the signal charge read out from the photoelectric conversion elements; two branch transfer paths, each receiving the signal charge transferred through the charge transfer path and transferring the signal charge to an output end of the solid-state imaging device; a charge branching part in a connecting portion between the charge transfer path and the two branch transfer paths, the charge branching part distributing the signal charge toward one of the two branch transfer paths, and a unit that treats signals corresponding to branching residual charges in the charge branching part so that the signals are distributed in a checkerboard pattern on a reproduced image.
US07733504B2	Shape evaluation method, shape evaluation device, and device having the shape evaluation device A shape evaluation device performs simulation by using an annular light source or concentric light source instead of a rectilinear light source and calculates a characteristic line for performing shape evaluation. The shape evaluation device includes a calculation device (2) having: a distance vector calculation unit (2a) for acquiring a distance vector representing a distance between the circle and the vector, a distance function unit (2b) for acquiring a distance function from the distance vector, and a distance function calculation unit (2c) for acquiring a point on a curved surface where the value of the distance function is a predetermined value. By performing simulation using the annular or concentric light source, it is possible to obtain a characteristic line capable of observing distortion in all the directions by one calculation. The present invention reduces the number of calculations required for calculating the characteristic line for performing shape evaluation and reduce the time required for calculation, thereby enabling evaluation by a dynamic shape.
US07733489B2	Optical method of multi-band mixing The color difference and/or chromaticness difference between target objects and background objects can be enhanced. Different colors with different color attributes mean different objects. In some cases, different chromaticness, such as saturation and hue, mean different two- or three-band ratio. The light from the surface of objects is filtered by optical system integrated with two- and three-band mixing method so that only the light in the wavelength range of the pass bands can reach optical sensors for opto-electronic sensing devices. With this kind of opto-electronic sensing devices, two- and/or three-band ratio criteria widely used in remote sensing and machine vision applications can be calculated in terms of color attributes. Multi-spectral imaging system can be replaced by this kind of sensing devices. This kind of two- or three-band mixing illumination can be used to identify, classify, and detect objects for human visual application, remote sensing, and machine vision application.
US07733486B2	Environmental sensor including a baffle A baffle for use with an environmental sensor such as a particle counter. The environmental sensor includes a housing and an inlet. The inlet has an axis and defines a first cross-sectional area with respect to the axis. The baffle includes a bullet configured to be positioned adjacent to the inlet along the axis. The bullet has a second cross-sectional area with respect to the axis that is between about seventy-five percent smaller than the first cross-sectional area and about three-hundred percent larger than the first cross-sectional area. In some constructions, the baffle substantially reduces interference from external light sources without substantially inhibiting the transport of particles entrained in the fluid to be analyzed by the environmental sensor.
US07733482B2	System and method for determining at least one constituent in an ambient gas using a microsystem gas sensor A system and method for measuring air quality using a micro-optical mechanical gas sensor is disclosed. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the system includes an emission source that includes a conduit gap for receiving a gas; a plurality of electrodes for applying an electric field to at least a portion of the conduit gap, the application of the electric field creating a plasma in the conduit gap; and a detector that detects an emission from the plasma. The emission source and the detector may be micro-optical mechanical devices. A method for measuring air quality is discloses. According to one embodiment, the method includes the steps of (1) placing a chip containing an emission source and a detector in a gas flow; (2) applying an electric field to at least a portion of a conduit gap within the emission source, the electric field creating a plasma; (3) detecting an emission from the plasma; and (4) processing data related to the detected emission to determine at least one constituent of the gas flow.
US07733480B2	Device to aid the positioning of a pilot in an aircraft A visual aid is used by a pilot in an aircraft to position himself in the cockpit by an axial movement, called movement along the X axis, in an aircraft reference coordinate system, and by a vertical movement, called movement along the Z axis, in the aircraft reference system. The visual aid comprises two geometric shapes (3, 4), separated in space and designed to be visually aligned by the pilot; these shapes have the characteristic that each has a visual reference (31, 41) on its surface, approximately in the same horizontal plane perpendicular to the vertical XZ plane.
US07733477B2	Micro-cavity measuring equipment and method based on double optical fiber coupling A micro-cavity measuring equipment based on double optical fiber coupling includes a sight and transmitter, a controller, and a length measuring device. The equipment detects small changes in the position of an object with respect to a probe from a moment when the sight and transmitter starts working to another moment when the sight and transmitter stops working. The controller has a program to automatically control the whole measuring process. The measuring equipment is characterized in that the sight and transmitter consists of a laser unit, a data collecting and processing unit, and a double optical fiber coupling unit with its ends of incident and effluent optical fibers fixed on a coupler. A micro-cavity measuring method based on double optical fiber coupling consists of the following steps: inserting the probe into the micro-cavity and moving it in the measuring direction; sending signals to the length measuring device by the sight and transmitter to cause the length measuring device to record the corresponding position of the probe when the probe is contact with the sides of the micro-cavity; and then calculating the dimensions of the micro-cavity.
US07733473B2	Inspection apparatus and inspection method An inspection apparatus includes a wafer stage for carrying a wafer, an illumination module which irradiates an inspection beam on the wafer carried on the wafer stage, a detection module which detects scattering rays or reflection rays from the wafer on the wafer stage and outputs an image signal, a coordinates control module which stores information about the arrangement of individual inspection areas on the wafer, and an imperfect area recognition module which recognizes, on the basis of the inspection area arrangement information stored in the coordinates control module, an imperfect inspection area interfering with a wafer edge.
US07733472B2	Method and system for determining condition of process performed for coating film before immersion light exposure A method is used for determining a condition of a predetermined process for preparing a process target, which includes a coating film formed on a substrate and including a resist film. This is to prevent film peeling from occurring in the coating film when performing immersion light exposure after the predetermined process. The method includes preparing test targets, each of which includes a sample film corresponding to the coating film and formed on a sample substrate corresponding to the substrate; performing a test process on each of the test targets in a testing unit, which imitates an immersion light exposure apparatus, under a condition corresponding to a designated immersion light exposure condition; and determining a condition of the predetermined process to be used for the coating film, based on a result of the test process.
US07733471B2	Foreign substance inspection apparatus A foreign substance inspection apparatus includes an irradiating unit and first and second detecting units. The irradiating unit is configured to emit irradiating light to be obliquely incident on a surface to be inspected to form a linear irradiation region on the surface to be inspected. The first and second detecting units are arranged on the same side as that provided with the irradiating unit with respect to the surface to be inspected, and they are configured to detect scattered light caused by a foreign substance on the surface to be inspected. The first and second detecting units are arranged at opposite positions with respect to a plane containing the linear irradiation region.
US07733466B2	Measurement of constitutive properties of a powder subject to compressive axial and radial loading, using optical sensing A method and system for measuring radial strain on powder or other granular material while the powder is subject to compressive axial and radial loading. The powder is contained within a pliable sleeve. As pressure is applied to the powder, the sleeve changes diameter. An optical emitter emits a beam of light, which is intersected by the entire diameter of the sleeve. An optical sensor receives the intersected beam, and generates a response signal that indicates the diameter of the sleeve. This change in diameter can be related to a constitutive property such as strain.
US07733463B2	Lithographic apparatus and device manufacturing method A support constructed to support a patterning object, the patterning object being capable of imparting the radiation beam with a pattern in its cross-section to form a patterned radiation beam, is disclosed, wherein the support comprises a plurality of structures having a plurality of local contact areas, respectively, on which the patterning object is disposed, in use, and a clamp configured to clamp the patterning object to the plurality of contact areas, wherein each structure is configured so that a local shear stiffness of each local contact area is substantially balanced with a local friction limit at each local contact area, respectively.
US07733462B2	Exposure apparatus and exposure method An exposure apparatus includes a beam providing unit having a first component and second component to provide an exposure beam having pattern information to a substrate W, a measurement unit which measures a relative variation between the first component and the second component, a driving mechanism which drives at least one of the first component and second component, and a compensator which controls the driving mechanism on the basis of the measurement result obtained by the measurement unit so as to reduce the relative variation between the first component and the second component in at least the period during which the pattern is transferred onto the substrate.
US07733460B2	Aligner and self-cleaning method for aligner When a self-cleaning method for an aligner is carried out, a reflecting plate having a convex lens portion is set in an original plate holder, and exposure light rays are irradiated from a light source. The surface of the lens portion is coated with a reflective film. The light rays are reflected by the reflecting plate, diffused, and emitted onto the surface of a condenser lens, thereby breaking down and removing contaminants that are adhered to the surface of the condenser lens. The light rays also enter the interior of the condenser lens to clean away contaminants that are adhered to locations other than a normal exposure path. When a concave mirror and/or a reflecting plate having 50% transmittance is used as the reflecting plate, the emission range of the light rays (i.e., the locations that are cleaned) can be changed.
US07733458B2	Method for manufacturing an electro-optic device and electro-optic device, and article therefor To obtain truly flexible electro-optic films for image display or other related applications and to obtain a low cost solution for making electro-optic films, a new concept for manufacturing such films is disclosed. The method disclosed in this invention include mixing liquid crystal with “sponge particles” having fibril or porous surface morphology, coating such mixture directly on substrates with conductive electrodes and laminating with release liner or another substrate having conductive electrodes. The electro-optic films manufactured by using traditional R2R coating techniques. The electro-optic film manufactured by the method disclosed in the invention can be used for segment type, passive matrix type or active matrix type display applications or other related applications.
US07733448B2	Liquid crystal display device It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for manufacturing a thin phase difference film of a liquid crystal display easily so as not to prevent a liquid crystal from being driven so that cost for manufacturing a liquid crystal display is more reduced than conventionally. A liquid crystal display device according to the present invention has a structure in which phase difference films that have the same function as a conventional phase difference film are formed by using a liquid crystal stabilized with a polymer over a first substrate and a second substrate that have electrodes formed thereover, and a liquid crystal material is interposed between these substrates. In addition to the structure as described above, it is also a feature that the phase difference film formed over the substrate is formed by using a liquid crystal that is stabilized with a polymer including a conductive material.
US07733436B2	Liquid crystal display module In a liquid crystal display module of edge light system, a periphery of a liquid crystal panel, a light guide plate and a reflective sheet are laid one upon another and surrounded by a case, and a lamp and a reflecting plate are disposed between an incidence surface of the light guide plate and a side of the case. A rear side of the module is not covered by the case. The reflecting plate is of a groove type that the lamp is held in the groove while an opening of the groove is opposed to the incidence surface. The case has an opening formed in a predetermined side of the case. The reflecting plate is insertable through the opening. The reflecting plate is slid from the opening while a reflecting plate bottom is in abutment against a side of the case, thereby being detachably attachable.
US07733435B2	Active matrix substrate, display apparatus, and pixel defect correction method An active matrix substrate comprises a TFT (4) in which a plurality of drain electrodes (16a and 16b) are provided for a single source electrode (6), and at least one of the drain electrodes is electrically connected to the pixel electrode (1) via the drain outgoing wire. The drain outgoing wire includes a first conductive pattern section comprising (i) a drain outgoing wire common section (7d) and drain outgoing branch sections (7a and 7b) each of which extends from said drain outgoing common section into each of said drain electrodes, and (ii) a correction connection electrode 9 which is partially overlapped with said branch sections of said first conductive pattern section via an insulating layer. The correction connection electrode 9 is electrically connectable to a plurality of said branch sections by being conducted to said branch sections through said insulating layer. This structure allows pixel defect correction within the pixel.
US07733434B2	Liquid crystal display including buffer electrodes with higher voltage than pixel electrodes, on same layer with pixel electrodes, and overlapping a gate line A liquid crystal display, including a thin film transistor array panel, a common electrode panel including a common electrode and facing the thin film transistor array panel, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the thin film transistor array panel and the common electrode panel, wherein the thin film transistor array panel, includes a substrate, gate lines formed on the substrate, data lines intersecting, and insulated from, the gate lines, pixel electrodes formed in intersection areas of the gate and data lines, first thin film transistors electrically connected to the gate lines, the data lines, and the pixel electrodes, and buffer electrodes being supplied with a first voltage higher than a second voltage of the pixel electrodes when a corresponding pixel electrode is supplied with a data voltage and located at a boundary of the intersection areas in which they are formed and overlapping a portion of the gate line adjacent to the boundary.
US07733418B2	Encapsulated self-balancing remote video camera system An encapsulated self-balancing remote video camera system is provided, which is capable of righting itself into an upright, balanced position. The encapsulated self-balancing remote video camera system has a video camera, wireless communication means and balancing mass disposed within an internal, self-righting, inner structure. The inner structure is disposed within a transparent outer container, such that the inner structure may rotate within the outer container when resting upon a surface, such that the video camera rotates into an upright position by gravitational forces acting upon the balancing mass disposed with the inner structure. In addition, a remote operation means is provided, which enables a user of the present system to view video images transmitted from the video camera, and to remotely control movement of the lens and/or video camera.
US07733411B2	Image capturing apparatus performing filtering process with variable cut-off frequency An image capturing apparatus includes an optical system having distortion aberration for expanding a central part and compressing a peripheral part of an object; a filtering device for cutting low-frequency components of each image signal; a filter setting device for assigning: first coefficients for cutting frequencies equal to or lower than a first frequency to an image area corresponding to the central part, and second coefficients for cutting frequencies equal to or lower than a second frequency higher than the first frequency to an image area corresponding to the peripheral part; a device for integrating each image signal and generating an evaluation value; a device for performing area division based on data relating to divided areas formed by dividing an effective image area, by setting each divided area for the integration device; and a device for controlling focusing based on the evaluation value with respect to each divided area.
US07733409B2	Method for detecting objects in a digital image using image zones of different resolutions A method and system according to the invention comprises the means for or steps of: acquiring, by means of a digital image taking apparatus, a digital image with aberration of a scene, the digital image incorporating at least a first image zone and a second image zone, the first and second image zones having respectively at least a first resolution and at least a second resolution, the first and second resolutions being different, calculating a deployed digital image, by deployment of at least one zone of the digital image with aberration, applying an object detection algorithm in the deployed digital image, and supplying information on each object detected in the deployed digital image.
US07733408B2	Optical device module, optical path fixing device, and method for manufacturing optical device module A solid-state image sensor, a transparent cover, a DSP, a wiring board and the like are sealed in a sealing portion by molding of a synthetic resin, and fixed to an imaging unit. At this time, a portion of the transparent cover is exposed from the sealing portion. The optical path fixing device and the imaging unit sealed by the sealing portion are fixedly combined by engagement of hook engaging portions and hook portions, in a state where the lower end surface of a lens barrel comes into contact with the exposed portion. As the result, positioning accuracy of a lens with respect to a pixel area of the solid-state image sensor dose not deteriorate even if a substrate on which the solid-state image sensor is arranged is deflected or distorted.
US07733405B2	Apparatus and method for resizing an image A hardware implemented method for resizing an image is provided. In this method, the image is captured and a size of the image is calculated as the image is being received by a display controller. Thereafter, a scaling ratio is calculated based on the calculated size of the image and an output image size. The display controller then scales the image according to the calculated scaling ratio. A display controller and a resizer for resizing the image are also described.
US07733400B2	Optical image receiving device having wide dynamic range Provided is an optical image receiving device having a high and rapid sensitivity and a wide dynamic range manufacture in a CMOS process. The image receiving device includes a capacitor transistor for a special purpose in addition to a general structure of three transistors and a light receiving portion. The capacitor transistor has first and second source/drain ports connected to the capacitance node and the floating diffusion node, respectively, and is gated in response to activation of a predetermined capacitor control signal. In the CMOS optical image receiving device, the floating diffusion node is pumped over an external power voltage. Thus, the electronic potential of the floating diffusion node in the initialization state is much higher than the maximum voltage of the light receiving portion. Thus, the CMOS active pixel has a very high sensitivity in a region where the intensity of light is weak. Furthermore, since the sensitivity decreases in a region where the intensity of light is strong, the dynamic range thereof can be increased very large.
US07733395B2	Variable-gain amplifier circuit and method of changing gain amplifier path A variable-gain amplifier circuit and a method of changing gain amplifier paths are provided for receiving and amplifying an image sensing signal. The variable-gain amplifier circuit includes variable path and gain amplifier circuits. According to the amplification factor for the image sensing signal, the gain amplifier paths in the variable path and gain amplifier circuits are changed based on a control signal, so as to achieve the appropriate construction of the variable-gain amplifier circuit. The image sensing signal generates the required image result through appropriate numbers of variable gain amplifiers, thereby decreasing the power consumption of the circuit and reducing the design requirement of the circuit.
US07733394B2	Focus state display apparatus and focus state display method A focus state display apparatus comprising focus area extraction means for extracting the image signals of a predetermined area from photographed image signals, edge enhancement processing means for enhancing the edge of the extracted image signals, time integration value calculation means for calculating an integration value of the edge-enhanced image signals in a certain period of time, focus state determination means for determining the focus state of the photographed image signals on the basis of the calculated integration value, and focus state display means for displaying the determined focus state. A user is capable of readily determining the focus state of a camera and confirming and adjusting the focus thereof with accuracy even in a display apparatus of a camera-equipped portable terminal device, where the size and resolution thereof are limited.
US07733387B1	Digital camera with detachable memory for storing image data A digital camera stores image data, which represent object images captured via a taking lens and a charge coupled device, in a built-in memory, which is provided in a camera body and which is able to store image data of plural object images. When the built-in memory is filled with the image data, a memory card is inserted into a card slot so that the memory card connects to a card connector, and then the image data stored in the built-in memory are automatically transferred to the memory card. In this case, more than ⅓ of the memory card in the insertional direction is exposed, and hence the camera can be small-sized without being restricted by standards of the memory card.
US07733382B2	Wide dynamic range linear-and-log active pixel A pixel circuit having an improved dynamic range is disclosed. When incoming light detected by the photodiode is strong, the accumulated (integrated) charge on a signal capacitor becomes large. To compensate, the excess signal component becomes compressed and the pixel circuit begins operating in logarithmic rather than linear mode. In this way, the circuit can achieve a higher dynamic range more closely resembling the image sensing properties of the human eye.
US07733379B2	Composite still-image creating device capable of creating a still image from moving images Each of the frames forming moving images is decoded in sequence and while a candidate frame is decoded, a decision is made as to whether or not the motion vector variable-length decoded for each macroblock is greater than a threshold, so that if the motion vector is greater than the threshold, the decoded image of the corresponding block is decided as a partial image forming a subject portion that had motion in the candidate frame and then combined with a base image stored in a still memory in a combining unit, whereby, by repeating this process, a composite still image which allows the motion of the subject to be grasped visually is created in the still memory.
US07733373B2	System and method of network-linked digital terrestrial television broadcasting In a cellular phone terminal, a bit error rate measurement section measures a bit error rate of broadcast data received by a broadcast reception section for receiving a digital broadcast to output broadcast data while a transmission operation of a communication transmission section for wirelessly communicating with a broadcasting communication network is performed. When the measured bit error rate is equal to or higher than a predetermined threshold, stopping of the transmission operation of the communication transmission section is instructed. Thus, a failure such as interruption of television broadcasting reproduction can preliminarily be prevented by avoiding error occurrence in reception of the 1 segment broadcasting service due to an influence of a transmission electric wave in data communication. As a result, stable reception of the 1 segment broadcasting service can be executed.
US07733370B2	Night vision camera mount quick disconnect The night vision camera system includes a light, a night vision camera, and a linkage. The night vision camera is attached to the light such that the light and camera maintain a fixed orientation with respect to each other. The light is attached to the linkage and is configured to manipulate the light and night vision camera concurrently. The linkage is attached to the vehicle and extends into the vehicle interior where a handle is provided allowing the user to aim the light and night vision camera from the interior of the vehicle.
US07733367B2	Method and system for audio/video capturing, streaming, recording and playback A system and method for audio/visual displaying, capturing, streaming, recording and playback is disclosed. The invention has many applications including distance learning and video capture of legal proceedings. The video deposition embodiment of the present invention facilitates paperless depositions by allowing the simultaneous, single channel recording and streaming of a deponent (witness) and his or her exhibits during a litigation deposition or similar process, such as courtroom record-making and teleconferencing. One aspect of the present invention is the paperless, digital display of rich media exhibits at the deposition on a large-format display such as an LCD, DLP, or plasma screen that is positioned next to the deponent, facing the camera, displaying exhibits in a digital (paperless) format. Another aspect of the present invention is the capability of video recording, video teleconference (VTC) and/or video streaming the combined images of both the deponent and the displayed exhibits in a single frame-of-view permitting transmission of a single video signal for storing, streaming, replaying and viewing, all in a single window.
US07733359B1	Pixel structure for electrical flat panel displays The present invention is a system and method for providing trapezoidal pixel segments with peripheral interconnections to rows and columns of pixel segments for electrical flat panel display devices. Interconnections made to pixel segments are located substantially in the non-emitting space between pixels. Pixel segment area may be configured to correspond to a desired luminous intensity for individual pixels. Luminous intensity may be determined from user, machine or process identified criteria.
US07733355B2	Apparatus and method of transforming three color signals into multi-color signal A method of and apparatus for transforming a three color signal into a multi-color signal. A method of transforming a color signal having three color components into a color signal having first through n-th color components, includes: producing a lookup table having signal values of (n-3) of n color components of a color within a three-dimensional color space and reference variables corresponding to the signal values of the (n-3) color components; extracting the reference variables from an input color signal; determining the signal values of the (n-3) color components corresponding to the extracted reference variables from the lookup table; and producing a color signal having n color components using the determined signal values of the (n-3) color components.
US07733353B2	System and method for profiling digital-image input devices In a system and a method for profiling a digital-image input device, profiling of the digital-image input device is performed based at least on an image of a color chart and an estimated illumination of the color chart generated by comparing illumination of device-dependent coordinate values for the image of the color chart with illumination of device-independent coordinate values of the color chart. Because the estimated illumination of the color chart is performed on data pertaining to the color chart, the present invention may generate a profile without reference to data pertaining to scenery in the image outside of the color chart. Consequently, the present invention may generate a profile irrespective of the relative exposure of the color chart with respect to other scenery in the image.
US07733349B1	Device, method, and system for generating per-pixel light values using texture parameters A method for applying texture mapping in per-pixel operations includes receiving a plurality of parameters. The parameters define a pixel value at a pixel in a graphics primitive. From among these parameters, a set of parameters is selected to be associated with textures. The parameters that are not selected define a set of unselected parameters that have constant values over the primitive. A texture value is then determined for each of the selected parameters by accessing a set of textures, with the texture value for the selected parameters varying over the primitive. The pixel value at the pixel is then evaluated using the constant unselected parameters and the texture values for the selected parameters. A device and system for applying texture mapping in per-pixel operations also are described.
US07733341B2	Three dimensional image processing A method and apparatus for storing object files containing triangle strips and displaying the triangle strips in the order in which they were created and stored in the object files.
US07733336B2	Liquid crystal display device and method of driving the same A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel, a backlight unit supplying light to the liquid crystal panel, a photo sensor detecting a brightness of an ambient surrounding the liquid crystal panel and generating a sense signal, and a signal processor adjusting a luminance of the light supplied by the backlight unit according to the sense signal.
US07733334B2	Hidden touch pad structure A hidden touch pad structure adapted for an electronic product has a plate, a touch pad arranged inside the plate, a circuit board disposed under and retained against the plate and the touch pad simultaneously, and a lighting device surrounding the touch pad and received inside the plate. The circuit board receives a pressure signal via the plate and the touch pad and drives the lighting device to provide light. The touch pad is recognized via the lighting device surrounding the touch pad.
US07733314B2	Display device In a display device, a first image processor outputs a first pretilt gray scale in response to a first external image signal during a first pretilt period and a second image processor outputs a second pretilt gray scale higher than the first pretilt gray scale in response to a second external image signal during a second pretilt period. A gamma reference voltage generator outputs a gamma reference voltage. A data driver outputs a first pretilt voltage by converting the first pretilt gray scale into the first pretilt voltage and outputs a second pretilt voltage identical to the first pretilt voltage by converting the second pretilt gray scale into the second pretilt voltage.
US07733305B2	Plasma display device and method for driving a plasma display panel There are provided a plasma display device in which dark contrast can be enhanced without deteriorating an image quality and a method of driving a plasma display panel. In a case of driving a plasma display device in which a magnesium oxide layer containing a magnesium oxide crystal to be excited by the irradiation of an electron beam and performing a cathode luminescence having a peak in a wavelength range of 200 to 300 nm by a sub-field method, in order to initialize all display cells, reset discharge is caused in each of the display cells in M sub-fields of N consecutive sub-fields (0
US07733302B2	Plasma display device and driving method thereof In conventional plasma display devices, reset by obtuse waves has been performed since discharge intensity becomes higher and background light emission is increased when reset by rectangular waves is performed. However, further improvement of the contrast to improve the image quality has been demanded. The present invention provides a driving method of a plasma display device using obtuse-wave reset in which sustain time of an achieved potential of the obtuse-wave reset is controlled in accordance with a display ratio of a video signal.
US07733299B2	Plasma television and image display device When a target image with an aspect ratio of 4:3 is displayed on the screen A of the PDP26 with an aspect ratio of 16:9, the rectangular black images on the left and right of the target image are not solid black. Instead, the luminance of the rectangular black images is lowered stepwise as it becomes more distant from the boundary of the target image, and finally reduced to substantially zero, or to a black image at a position away from the boundary to some extent. This prevents the luminance from sharply falling from the boundary and edge from causing due to the addition of the rectangular black image, thereby preventing burning on a part of the screen A corresponding to the position of the boundary.
US07733294B2	Method and system for wireless transmission Multimedia from a source can be wirelessly transmitted in an infrared system to a display. To support rapid reads of data written into a slave at the display by a master at the source in accordance with I2C protocol, a master simulator on the display side continually polls the slave for changes, and maintains a shadow memory in a slave simulator at the source side current, so that reads from the master may be immediately executed from the shadow memory in the slave simulator without transmitting the wireless link.
US07733287B2	Systems and methods for high frequency parallel transmissions A plurality of high-frequency beam-forming RF antenna arrays are used to enable parallel data transmission at multi-Gigabit per second data rates. In one embodiment, the 60 GHz band is used for parallel transmission of data from an antenna array printed on the substrate or packaging of an integrated circuit.
US07733281B2	Combined satellite and broadband access antennas using common infrastructure A method of installing multiple over-the-air antennas is disclosed. The method includes the steps of mounting a satellite antenna to a installation surface, such that the mounting allows the satellite antenna to be aimed at a satellite, attaching a broadband access antenna to one of the installation surface and a portion of the satellite antenna, such that the attaching allows the broadband access antenna to be aimed at a broadband access source, connecting first wiring from the broadband access antenna to a first downconverter and second wiring from the satellite antenna to a second downconverter, providing outputs of the first and second downconverters to a cable in communication with at least a satellite receiver and positioning, on at least a coarse scale, the satellite antenna and the broadband access antenna such that they are approximately pointed at the satellite and the broadband access source, respectively.
US07733253B2	Superconductor multi-level quantizer A superconductor multi-level quantizer is disclosed, which quantizer includes a number N of Josephson junction (JJ) comparators connected in parallel to a common input node. The quantizer further includes at least one flux bias device. Each flux bias device is capable to adjust the flux threshold for at least one of the JJ comparators. The quantizer is so configured a feedback current from the output is capable to shift the flux threshold for each of the JJ comparators.
US07733250B1	Microcontroller having in-situ autocalibrated integrating analog-to-digital converter (IADC) A microcontroller has an integrating analog-to-digital converter (IADC) with an in-situ autocalibrating functionality. On-chip autocalibrating circuitry supplies a first predetermined analog input voltage to the IADC and obtains a first data value from the IADC. The autocalibrating circuitry supplies a second predetermined analog input voltage to the IADC and obtains a second data value. The first and second data values are used to calibrate the IADC such that if the first input voltage is later supplied to the IADC, then the IADC will output a first predetermined desired digital output value and such that if the second input voltage is later supplied to the IADC, then the IADC will output a second predetermined desired digital output value. The first and second analog input voltages are generated on-chip so the calibration is performed automatically without having to supply external calibrating signals to the microcontroller. Other related methods and circuitry is disclosed.
US07733245B2	Compression scheme for interval data A method of data compression for use in a data communication's system for an electrical utility or the like to affect the most efficient transfer of data. The data is first formed into a forming a block (B). A parameter (M) is selected from among a group of parameters. Each data value in the block is divided by the selected parameter to produce, for each data value, a quotient (q=└n/M┘) and a remainder (r=n−qM). The quotient of each data value is encoded using unary coding in which the value for the quotient is encoded by transmitting an appropriate number of zeroes followed by a one. The remainder of each data value is encoded using binary encoding, and the resultant encoded block of data is then transmitted. The data values comprising the block of data are positive integer values and the encoding employs a Golomb-Rice code defined by a positive integer parameter.
US07733244B2	Navigation system A navigation system having a camera captures a front view image for guiding a driver of a vehicle to a destination. A portion of the front view image is identified as a destination image area, and the destination image area is marked by an arrow based on a processing in the navigation system. Then, the front view image with destination marking is displayed on a monitor for guiding the driver.
US07733242B2	System, method and apparatus for manual control of a traffic light An application for a traffic control system includes an enclosure for containing the traffic control system that has an access door with a lock for controlling access to the enclosure through the access door. The traffic control system has an automatic mode of operation and a manual mode of operation, whereas the traffic control system automatically transitions a state of a plurality of traffic lights when in the automatic mode of operation and cycles the state of the plurality of traffic lights in response to a change signal when in the manual mode of operation. An automatic mode activation switch is housed within the enclosure. Activation of the automatic mode activation switch changes the state of the traffic control system from the automatic mode of operation into the manual mode of operation. A watchdog timer is coupled to the traffic control system, The watchdog timer is reset when the automatic mode activation switch is operated and in response to the change signal. If the watchdog timer expires, the traffic control system switches to the automatic mode of operation.
US07733239B2	Distance determining system and method A distance determining system includes a first transceiver and a second transceiver spaced a distance from the first transceiver and inductively coupled thereto. The first transceiver outputs a first electromagnetic wave. The second transceiver receives the first electromagnetic wave and outputs a second electromagnetic wave, which is received by the first transceiver. One of the first and second transceivers determines a distance therebetween based at least in part upon the elapsed time of travel of the first and second electromagnetic waves. An air spring assembly can include such a distance indicating system. A method of determining a distance is also included.
US07733238B2	Handheld data capture system with power and safety monitor and method therefore The present invention provide a motion detection circuit for a handheld item detection system, where the motion detection circuit includes an accelerometer outputting at least one signal corresponding to a measured acceleration. A differentiator differentiates the measured acceleration. A motion detection device evaluates a discriminated version of the acceleration and a discriminated version of the acceleration to determine whether the handheld item detection system is in motion. The present invention extends battery life and allows a handheld system to quickly enter an active operational mode without any user intervention other than handling (moving) the system.
US07733230B2	Mobile readpoint system and method for reading electronic tags A self-contained, integrated mobile readpoint unit capable of reading at least one electronic tag that includes a housing, a power source located proximate the housing, at least one reader located proximate the housing that is capable of reading from and writing to the at least one tag and receives power from the power source, and a repositionable antenna structure that includes at least one readpoint antenna capable of communicating a signal to and from the electronic tag.
US07733229B2	Ultra wideband radio frequency identification techniques Ultra wideband (UWB) techniques are applied to radio frequency identification (RFID). For instance, a reader generates a UWB IR interrogation signal, and receives a UWB IR reply signal from an RFID tag in response to the interrogation signal. In addition, the reader may generate from the UWB IR reply signal a baseband response sequence. This sequence includes at least a tag identifier. A reader may store at least a tag identifier. Upon receipt of a UWB IR interrogation signal, the tag obtains a plurality of clock pulses from the UWB IR interrogation signal. Based on the plurality of clock pulses, the reader transmits at least the tag identifier in a UWB IR response signal.
US07733226B2	Infrared intrusion detection device The invention relates to an infrared intrusion detection device. It comprises a housing 1, a window 2, which is arranged at a front side of the housing and which is transparent for at least infrared radiation emitted by an intruder, an infrared sensor arranged inside the housing for detecting the infrared radiation emitted by the intruder. Further it comprises a light guide 7, which is arranged inside the housing, which has at least one light entrance facet and which has a plurality of light exit facets 3 being arranged at the front side of the housing. A light emitter 6 is arranged inside the housing for injecting light into the at least one light entrance facet of the light guide. A light detector is provided for detecting light reflected back into the housing by an obstacle in the vicinity of the window. A signal processing unit is arranged for triggering an alarm, when an absolute difference of the intensity of back-reflected light to a predetermined value exceeds a threshold value.
US07733214B2	System and methods for the remote measurement of a person's biometric data in a controlled state by way of synchronized music, video and lyrics A method enabling a user with an electronic communication device to establish and stabilize his mental, emotional and physical condition in response to stimulation data and then using biometric sensors applied to the user to provide for remote/local gathering of standardized biometric data into a remote database coordinated with remote server software via an electronic network. The method includes initiating a session and selecting a session type by the user. The method also includes loading a track with the stimulation data, establishing links to the biometric sensors, setting the timing tolerances and biometric parameters based on new or existing user rules, stimulating the user with at least one of visual, audio, lyrics, text and vibration tracks to elicit stimulation data from the user, recording time stamps corresponding to key/tap input, deriving sync relationship between the user and the stimulation data, waiting for the variance and biometric parameters to stabilize and displaying a depiction of the stabilized condition on a screen.
US07733211B2	Chip resistor and its manufacturing process A chip resistor (1) includes a chip substrate (2) a mutually separated terminal electrodes (3, 4) formed on the upper surface of the substrate (2), and a meandering resistor film (5) formed between the two terminal electrodes (3, 4). Each of the terminal electrodes (3, 4) includes an inner edge (3a, 4a) extending diagonally from one side surface (2a) toward the other side surface (2b) of the chip substrate (2). Each of the inner edges (3a, 4a) has a portion closer to the resistor film (5) that is electrically connected to a narrow portion (7, 8) formed integral with the resistor film (5). The narrow portion extends outward from an end (5a, 5b) of the resistor film (5).
US07733208B2	High voltage pulse type transformer with increased coupling coefficient through primary and secondary winding proximity The present invention provides a high voltage, step-up, high current DC pulse type transformer with increased coupling coefficient between the primary and secondary windings through close proximity of the primary winding turns and secondary winding turns by means of transformer construction that provides a plurality of winding bays for a high voltage secondary winding physically located in close proximity to the primary winding. The plurality of winding bays for the secondary winding are provided by means of a frame and separate thin insulation layer where the thin insulation layer provides the barrel for all or part of the secondary winding. The invention significantly increases the transformer's coupling coefficient in high voltage step-up transformer applications where the transformer's core is pushed beyond saturation due to the high peak current typically found in capacitive discharge type circuits such as those used in electric fence controllers, strobe circuits, and high performance ignition systems for automobile, marine, or motorcycle engines.
US07733206B2	Spiral inductor having variable inductance Disclosed is a spiral inductor formed on a semiconductor substrate. The spiral inductor comprises: a metal line forming a spiral pattern on a substrate using conductors having different widths and having open or short-type stubs at one side of each of the conductors; and switching means connection-controlled in accordance with a selection signal for adjusting an inductance and selectively connecting the conductors of the different widths of the metal line. According to the invention, the open or short-type stubs may be formed at one sides of each of the conductors, thereby inducing a parasitic capacitance or parasitic inductance. Based on the inducement of the parasitic capacitance or inductance and selectively connection of the conductors to one another through switching means, it is possible to accurately control a whole inductance value of the spiral inductor, depending on use purposes.
US07733202B2	Electromagnetic switching device An electromagnetic switching device is disclosed with an electromagnet and a movable magnet armature, which is mounted in the switching device with a resetting force, which counteracts the closing force, is different than zero in an OPEN position and is formed at least partially by a magnet arrangement with at least one permanent magnet. The magnet arrangement is arranged fixed in position in the switching device outside the magnetic circuit formed from the electromagnet and the magnet armature, and whose resetting force, which acts on the magnet armature, is at a maximum in the OPEN position.
US07733199B2	Electrical circuit breaker having a protective function An actuating unit or actuating mechanism and release for a circuit breaker. The magnetic mechanism of the release includes a magnet armature, which can move linearly in a magnet coil, is in the form of a tripping plunger and can be moved towards a permanent magnet counter to the force of a storage compression spring and is held fixedly by said permanent magnet in the case of a magnet coil through which no current is flowing. The tripping unit is in the form of a mechanical force store. After a tripping action, the mechanical force store needs to be reset manually again. For this purpose, a rotary movement of the drive shaft with an angular displacement of from 20 to 30 degrees takes place in the opposite direction to the ON switching rotary movement.
US07733197B2	Duplexer and communications equipment A duplexer includes a piezoelectric substrate, a transmitting filter, and a receiving filter. A transmitting filter includes a ladder filter having a first resonator group which has one or more resonators in one or more series arms and one or more resonators in one or more parallel arms. A receiving filter has a passband higher than that of the transmitting filter, and includes a second resonator group which has one or more resonators in one or more series arms and one or more resonators in one or more parallel arms. A node connects both the transmitting filter and the receiving filter. The receive-side closest resonator closest to the node in the parallel arm is closer to the node than a resonator which is closest to the node in the series arm, and a resonance frequency of the receive-side closest resonator is lower than the passband of the transmitting filter.
US07733195B2	Waveguide attenuator having coaxial probes Various methods and devices are provided for attenuating RF signals propagating within a waveguide. In particular, a plurality of coaxial probes are incorporated into the waveguide for the purpose of attenuating X-band RF signals. In one embodiment, a 7-bit, 3 dB linear digital attenuator is provided having a waveguide in a racetrack configuration. Coaxial probes in communication with the waveguide are adapted to couple energy to and from a signal traveling within the waveguide. The attenuator can also include switches adapted to reflect coupled energy back into the waveguide or pass the coupled energy to a resistive termination.
US07733178B1	High efficiency audio amplifier According to the invention, an audio amplifier system for use with a single-ended portable power supply that is referenced to ground, such as a small battery, has a single-channel class G amplifier section, a multiple voltage output charge pump subsystem for supplying complementary pairs of power supply voltages at selected ratiometric levels to an amplifier section, a set of switches on the power supply rails and a power-measuring comparator for selecting which complementary pair of power supply voltages is provided to the amplifier section.
US07733176B2	System and method for power amplifier output power control A system for controlling amplifier power is provided. The system includes a voltage envelope detector that receives a voltage signal and generates a voltage envelope signal. A current envelope detector receives a current signal and generates a current envelope signal. A power amplifier level controller receives the greater of the voltage envelope signal and the current envelope signal, such as by connecting the output of the voltage envelope detector and the current envelope detector at a common point and conducting the high frequency current components to ground via a capacitor. A power amplifier level control signal is then generated based on the voltage drop across the capacitor.
US07733171B2	Class D amplifier having PWM circuit with look-up table A class D amplifier includes a noise-shaping modulator, a pulse width modulator, and a pulse amplifier. The noise-shaping modulator receive a pulse code modulated (PCM) signal and produces an oversampled PCM signal. The pulse width modulator produce a pulse width modulated (PWM) signal from the oversampled PCM signal. The pulse amplifier amplifies the PWM signal to produce an amplified PWM signal. The PWM uses a lookup table to convert from PCM to PWM. A compensation circuit optimizes amplifier performance. An optional demodulator filter converts the amplified PWM signal to an analog signal. The amplifier is ideal for integrated audio applications.
US07733162B2	Plumping voltage generating circuit A pumping voltage generating circuit of a semiconductor memory apparatus, the pumping voltage generating circuit includes a detecting unit configured to compare a level of a pumping voltage with a level of a reference voltage to generate a detection signal, an oscillating signal generator configured to sequentially generate a first oscillating signal and a second oscillating signal in response to the detection signal, and to elevate frequencies of the first and second oscillating signals when the second oscillating signal is generated, a first pump configured to perform a pumping operation in response to the first oscillating signal, and a second pump configured to perform a pumping operation in response to the second oscillating signal, wherein output terminals of the first pump and the second pump are commonly connected, and the pumping voltage is output at the output terminals of the first pump and the second pump.
US07733153B2	High speed level shifter The invention relates to a level shifter comprising an input stage having a parasitic capacitance and a first input terminal for applying an input signal, a limiter stage having a second input terminal for applying a switching signal, wherein said input stage is coupled between a first supply terminal and said limiter stage, an output stage being coupled between a second supply terminal and said limiter stage and providing an output signal which is a level shifted version of said input signal, and a current source being adapted for injecting a current pulse into said parasitic capacitance dependent on variations of said switching signal over time.
US07733150B2	Method and apparatus for adaptive clock phase control for LSI power reduction Methods and apparatus for distributing a clock signal to a digital circuit provide for: producing a clock signal; and delaying, advanced, or leaving the clock signal unchanged to produce an output clock signal as a function of a control signal, wherein an amount of delay or advancement between the clock signal and the output clock signal (phase difference) is a function of time variant changes in a magnitude of a power supply voltage to the digital circuit.
US07733147B2	Delay circuit of delay locked loop having single and dual delay lines and control method of the same A delay circuit in a delay locked loop includes a first delay circuit unit for delaying an input signal using a single delay line in response to first control signals and then outputting a first delay signal and a second delay signal, and a second delay circuit unit for delaying the first delay signal and the second delay signal by delay time, which is correspondent to second control signals and third control signals, using a dual delay line and then outputting a third delay signal and a fourth delay signal.
US07733135B2	High side boosted gate drive circuit A high-side boosted gate drive circuit is disclosed. In a particular example, an output driver is described, comprising a switching device configured to selectively conduct current in response to a charge being present at a control terminal for a duty cycle, a charging device configured to deliver charge to the control terminal based on the first duty cycle, a charge control device configured to selectively couple the charging device to deliver charge to the control terminal and to selectively decouple the charging device from the control terminal to charge the charging device, and a discharge control device configured to remove charge from the control terminal.
US07733131B2	Signal presence detector A signal presence detection device has a first reference voltage generation device in the form of a first voltage divider, a second reference voltage generation device in the form of a second voltage divider and a third reference voltage generation device in the form of a third voltage divider. The detection device also has a signal conditioning device such as a hysteretic amplifier with an output that is coupled to the first and second voltage dividers. A comparison device is coupled to all three voltage dividers to compare a voltage of the first voltage divider to a voltage of the third voltage divider and to compare a voltage of the second voltage divider to the voltage of the third voltage divider. The comparison device is coupled at two outputs thereof to two respective inputs of an XOR device. The XOR device receives respective signals from the first and second outputs of the comparison device and produces a signal presence output that serves to indicate whether an incoming signal is present or absent.
US07733129B2	Method and circuit for generating memory clock signal A memory clock signal is generated in response to a reference clock signal and a clock enable signal. The memory clock signal with a frequency identical to that of the reference clock signal is generated during the clock enable signal is in an enabled state; and the memory clock signal with a reduced frequency is generated when the clock enable signal is changed from the enabled state to a disabled state. The generation of a memory clock signal is adaptive so as to save power.
US07733128B2	Transmitting apparatus To provide a transmitting apparatus capable of suppressing the fluctuation of a common mode potential and performing high-speed, long-distance signal transmission. The transmitting apparatus has a main buffer circuit and a pre-emphasis buffer circuit 20. The pre-emphasis buffer circuit 20, which has a switch circuit 21, a first current source 22, and a second current source 23, uses the switch circuit 21 to output a current signal having the same direction as an output current of the main buffer circuit 10 during a certain time interval starting from a time point when the level of data to be transmitted changes, and brings the output terminals 201, 202 to a High-Z state during a time interval when the level is constant after a lapse of the abovementioned certain time interval. The output of the pre-emphasis buffer circuit 20 has no influence on the common mode potential of the output of the main buffer circuit but has influence only the amplitude of the current signal output to a differential transmission line. In this manner, the transmitting apparatus can suppress the fluctuation of the common mode potential and can perform high-speed, long-distance signal transmission.
US07733126B1	Negative voltage generation A first logic state is at a first output voltage level at a first output of a level shifter that selects a first negative regulation voltage level in response to the first logic state. A negative supply voltage begins at first potential and decreases to the first negative regulation voltage level. The first output voltage level decreases as the negative supply voltage decreases. The first output of the level shifter is switched from the first logic state to a second logic state in response to the negative supply voltage reaching the first negative regulation voltage level. The second logic state is provided at a second output voltage level that selects a second negative regulation voltage level for the negative regulation voltage. The first output of the level shifter remains at the second logic state but is reduced in voltage.
US07733123B1	Implementing conditional statements in self-timed logic circuits An exemplary circuit for implementing conditional statements in self-timed logic circuits includes first and second logic circuits, an input circuit, an output circuit, and a pipelined routing path. The first and second logic circuits each have a self-timed input and a self-timed output. The input circuit is coupled to provide a self-timed input signal to the self-timed input of a selected one of the first or second logic circuits based on the value of a control signal, and is further coupled to output a self-timed select signal. The output circuit is coupled to receive the self-timed output from the first logic circuit and the self-timed output from the second logic circuit, and to output a selected one of the self-timed outputs based on a value of the self-timed select signal. The pipelined routing path routes the self-timed select signal from the input circuit to the output circuit.
US07733122B2	Semiconductor device A first operation unit stores first code information having a bit length shorter than a first set bit, receives dictionary information expressing each set bit corresponding to each code information, reads the set bit corresponding to the first code information from the dictionary information to obtain the first set bit, and further, changes setting according to the first set bit to execute any of a plurality of operations so as to obtain an operation result. A second operation unit stores second code information having a bit length shorter than a second set bit, receives the dictionary information from the first operation unit, reads the set bit corresponding to the second code information from the dictionary information to obtain the second set bit, and further, changes setting according to the second set bit so as to execute any of the operations with respect to the operation result.
US07733117B1	Method for protecting a security real time clock generator and a device having protection capabilities A device having protection capabilities, the device includes a voltage supply unit that is connected to an integrated circuit and provides a supply voltage to the integrated circuit; wherein the integrated circuit includes: a security real time clock generator that includes an input; a masking unit that is connected to the input, wherein the masking unit isolates the input when a voltage supply monitor is disabled; and wherein the voltage supply monitor monitors the voltage supply unit and wherein a change in a level of supply voltage affects a level of a signal provided to the input.
US07733097B2	Method for determining a property of a fluid for a household device Method for determining a property of a fluid for a household device includes the following steps: measurement of a physical variable of the fluid associated with the property of the fluid, in each case when a first parameter influencing the physical variable has one of at least two predetermined values, in order to obtain at least two measurement values for the first parameter, and correlation of the at least two measurement values for the first parameter, in order to obtain a first value characterizing the property of the fluid.
US07733092B2	Magnetic field coil and magnetic resonance imaging apparatus Provided is an RF coil which can highly efficiently and uniformly irradiate a RF magnetic field having two or more magnetic resonance frequencies close to each other, and receive magnetic resonance signals of two or more magnetic resonance frequencies close to each other with high sensitivity and uniform sensitivity profile in an MRI apparatus. Two or more frequencies to which the coil is tuned are adjusted so as to be between resonance frequencies of series resonant circuits constituting the RF coil.
US07733089B2	Transportable magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system A portable MRI or NMR imaging system comprising a cryogen vessel housing cooled equipment, said system being housed within a transportable container, said container being divided into at least three sections. A first section provides accommodation for an operator and access to equipment as required to operate the cooled equipment. A second section houses the cryogen vessel. A third section houses auxiliary equipment required for operation of the cooled equipment but which is not required to be accessed by the operator to operate the equipment.Also provided is a cryostat comprising an outer vacuum container, itself housing a cryogen vessel for containing cooled equipment, wherein space between the cryogen vessel and the outer vacuum container is evacuated. The outer vacuum container is in the form of at least a section of a standard shipping container.
US07733088B2	MRI system RF coil assembly with a birdcage transmit only coil and a pseudo-chain-link receive only coil array There is provided an RF (radio frequency) coil assembly of a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system, which comprises a birdcage transmit-only coil using inhomogeneous modes. Further, a multi-channel receive-only phased array coil is provided. In one embodiment, the multi-channel receive-only phased array coil may include a plurality of ring-shaped receive-only coils, wherein the receive-only coils are connected to each other in a pseudo-chain-link configuration to form a ring shape. The multi-channel receive-only phased array coil may be located inside said transmit-only coil and spaced a predetermined distance apart therefrom. In accordance with the embodiments, emphasis images of the peripheral part of a human brain with high resolution and high signal to noise ratio may be obtained.
US07733082B2	Signal transmission device The invention provides a signal transmission device that transmits a signal applied to a pair of input terminals to a pair of output terminals insulated electrically from the pair of input terminals while reducing the influence of an external noise magnetic field. The signal transmission device has a pair of coils, a pair of magnetic sensors and a signal output section. Each of the coils is connected between the pair of input terminals. Each of the coils generates a magnetic field respectively in response to the input signal applied between the pair of input terminals. A direction of the magnetic field generated by one of the coils is opposite to a direction of the magnetic field generated by the other of the coils. Each of the magnetic sensors corresponds to one of the coils exclusively. Each of the magnetic sensors detects the magnetic field generated by the corresponding coil, and outputs a detection signal in response to the detected magnetic field. The signal output section outputs an output signal to the pair of output terminals. The output signal corresponds to a difference between the pair of detection signals outputted by the pair of magnetic sensors. In the difference, the signal component caused by an external noise magnetic field is canceled. On the other hand, in the difference, the signal component caused by the input signal applied between the pair of input terminals are doubled with respect to the input signal. Thereby, the signal output section outputs the output signal with high S/N ratio.
US07733079B2	Clock distribution circuit and test method A clock distribution circuit having plural stages of buffers disposed along branch paths for dividing up a clock signal and configured in a manner that outputs of a plurality of buffers in a final stage and/or a middle stage are short-circuited, includes in relation to at least one buffer of a plurality of buffers in the same stage on a branch path, a selector for receiving an output of an adjacent buffer located upstream in terms of chain-connection along which the plurality of buffers are connected in testing, and a signal at a branch node corresponding to the at least one buffer by a first input and a second input respectively, selecting one of the first input and the second input based on a select control signal, and supplying the selected input to the one buffer.
US07733051B2	Model-based active electronic damping for stepper motors A method for damping vibrations in a stepper motor with micro-stepping control which comprises the steps of identifying the force amplitudes and phase shifts of multiple harmonic detent torques of the stepper motor, such as the first, second and fourth harmonic detent torques, and tuning the stepper motor with different current commands until minimum friction and resistive torque are obtained. Thereafter, a compensating harmonic current derived from said force amplitudes and phase shifts of the said multiple harmonic detent torques is injected into a current command during operation of the stepper motor to compensate for torque ripples.
US07733050B2	Motion control using electromagnetic forces Motion control using electromagnetic forces. The control of motion in unpowered apparatus and an apparatus driven by electric motors and/or other prime movers utilizes electromagnetic force/torque for control of motion. One objective is to extend the domain of electric motor speed control, traditionally characterized by electronic techniques, to small apparatus such as bubble vibration toys, paper dispensers, toothbrushes and other appliances.
US07733045B2	Motor driving circuit According to some preferred embodiments of the present invention, a motor driving circuit includes a phase detection circuit configured to detect a rotation phase of a motor and output a phase detection signal, a first amplifier configured to amplify the phase detection signal and output an amplified detection signal, and a second amplifier configured to amplify the amplified detection signal in accordance with a power supply voltage and output a driving signal to the motor. The motor driving circuit is further provided with a controlling circuit configured to detect the power supply voltage and increase/decrease amplitude of the amplified detection signal outputted from the first amplifier in response to an increase/decrease of the detected power supply voltage, whereby heat generation and noise generation can be restrained, irrespective of the increase/decrease of the power supply voltage.
US07733042B2	Rotor position detection circuit and motor driving device A rotor position detection circuit detects a position of a rotor in a motor from a detection signal of an induced voltage generated in a stator coil. The circuit includes: a first low pass filter having a first reference potential for filtering the detection signal; a comparator for comparing an output signal from the first low pass filter with a predetermined reference voltage and for outputting a rotation position signal; and a second low pass filter having a second reference potential for filtering a virtual neutral point potential of the motor. The first reference potential is the filtered virtual neutral point potential, and the second reference potential is a ground.
US07733039B2	Electric vehicle system for charging and supplying electrical power A power system that provides power between an energy storage device, an external charging-source/load, an onboard electrical power generator, and a vehicle drive shaft. The power system has at least one energy storage device electrically connected across a dc bus, at least one filter capacitor leg having at least one filter capacitor electrically connected across the dc bus, at least one power inverter/converter electrically connected across the dc bus, and at least one multiphase motor/generator having stator windings electrically connected at one end to form a neutral point and electrically connected on the other end to one of the power inverter/converters. A charging-sourcing selection socket is electrically connected to the neutral points and the external charging-source/load. At least one electronics controller is electrically connected to the charging-sourcing selection socket and at least one power inverter/converter. The switch legs in each of the inverter/converters selected by the charging-source/load socket collectively function as a single switch leg. The motor/generators function as an inductor.
US07733038B2	Switching device for linking various electrical voltage levels in a motor vehicle Switching device for linking various electrical voltage levels in a motor vehicle, in which a drive voltage level has an electric drive machine which may be actuated by a power converter, and a drive energy accumulator which is associated with an intermediate circuit, and in which the drive voltage level is connected to a vehicle electrical system voltage level by an electrical converter. The electrical converter is designed as a coupling circuit which is connected at the drive side to at least one node point of a winding circuit of the electric drive machine and to a voltage potential relative to the intermediate circuit. The coupling circuit is connected at the vehicle electrical system side to the vehicle electrical system via a switching unit which has at least one non-diminishing, finite impedance.
US07733033B2	Lighting unit with multiple light sources of a different color temperature In a lighting unit for operating lamps (LA1, LA2) of a different color temperature, a number of predetermined color points can be adjusted. The color points are chosen so that the color difference calculated in the CIELAB space is the same for subsequent adjustable color points.
US07733031B2	Starting fluorescent lamps with a voltage fed inverter A lamp ballast includes an inverter circuit, a resonant circuit, a control circuit, and a startup circuit. When the DC bus reaches its final value, a capacitor in the startup circuit charges to a predetermined voltage, at which point a pulse is sent to start a gate drive circuit in the inverter. Additionally, a gate in the control circuit is initially OFF, allowing full power to the lamp, and a capacitor in the control circuit charges to a predetermined voltage, at which point a gate is turned ON. When the gate is ON, power to the lamp is reduced. The control circuit capacitor is selected so that it charges for a sufficient period to allow the lamp to complete a glow phase of startup before turning on the gate and reducing power as the lamp transitions into an arc phase.
US07733022B2	Plasma display panel Disclosed herein is a plasma display panel in which afterimage is improved. The plasma display panel according to the present invention includes a panel unit having an upper plate and a lower plate, a frame that supports circuitry, and a conductive material formed between the panel unit and the frame. As such, a conductive material is formed on a bottom surface of a lower plate of a panel. Thus, charges introduced into the lower plate are properly controlled to improve the waveform stability of the panel. Also, a charge characteristic is improved to implement a stable operation. Accordingly, an afterimage time can be reduced. Further, a sheet of a low hardness and light weight is used. It is thus possible to absorb shock and noise of a PDP, accomplish light weight of the PDP and reduce the materials of the sheet.
US07733011B2	Organic light-emitting diode with relief patterns The invention relates to an organic light-emitting diode comprising on a substrate, from the rear face to the front face, at least one rear electrode of a first type surmounted by an organic light-emitting layer, itself surmounted by at least one front electrode of a second type, the organic light-emitting layer producing light when holes and electrons are injected into it by a current flowing through the electrodes, the types corresponding to an anode and a cathode, at least one of the electrodes being substantially transparent for the produced light in order to allow it to escape through one of the faces of said diode, referred to as the exit face. According to the invention, said substantially transparent electrode comprises at least one transparent extraction zone and at least one reflective zone adapted to return the produced light through the light-emitting layer, and said diode also comprises reflector means which are arranged on the opposite side of said substantially transparent electrode from the organic light-emitting layer and are adapted to return the produced light to said substantially transparent electrode through the light-emitting layer. The diode may be configured by embossing, and various embodiments are described.
US07732999B2	Direct acting capacitive transducer A capacitive transducer having a significantly increased actuation force and improved response time as compared to similar prior art capacitive transducers. In the capacitive transducer of the present invention it is not necessary to balance response time and actuation force or to provide pre-strain to the transducer in a direction of actuation. Additionally, buckling in the capacitive transducer is prevented, or at least substantially reduced, in a simple manner.
US07732988B2	Fluid amplifiers and vibration damping and isolation systems Fluid amplifiers and vibration damping and isolation systems are provided. A fluid amplifier includes a housing assembly, a piezo-electric element, two amplification stages, and a rod. The piezo-electric element is disposed within the housing assembly and is capable of being energized to lengthen axially to provide an input stroke at an initial magnitude. The first amplification stage is disposed within the housing assembly adjacent to the piezo-electric element and is adapted to amplify the input stroke from the piezo-electric element to a first magnitude. The second amplification stage is disposed in series with the first amplification stage and is adapted to increase the input stroke from the first magnitude to a second magnitude that is greater than the first magnitude to yield an amplified input stroke. The rod extends through the second amplification stage and is coupled thereto to transmit the amplified input stroke having the second magnitude.
US07732987B2	Ultrasonic transducer array and a method for making a transducer array A transducer array comprises a conductive back plate 32, a conductive front plate 33 having openings 62, and a plurality of piezoelectric vibrator elements 31 located in an array between the plates. The vibrator elements 31 are two-layer elements which each include a metal portion 311 and a PZT element 312. These elements 311, 312 are in electrical contact with the respective plates. The vibrator elements 31 are attached to support elements 51 upstanding as part of the back plate 32. The transducer array can be formed as a batch process in which the vibrator elements 31 are formed simultaneously, and then simultaneously attached to the support elements 51.
US07732981B2	Ultrasonic motor having lightweight vibrating element An ultrasonic motor includes a vibrating element having a piezoelectric body attached thereto to produce a traveling wave when the piezoelectric body is supplied with an electric power, and a contacting element to come in friction contact with the vibrating element when the vibrating element is vibrated by the traveling wave. The vibrating element is formed of a Mg-based alloy having a Mg content of more than 85% by weight.
US07732976B2	Piezoelectric actuator drive device In a piezoelectric actuator control device for controlling operation of one or more piezoelectric actuators, when receiving a drive signal of a low level, a discharging switch is repeatedly turned on and off in order to discharge electric charge accumulated in the piezoelectric actuator. That is, the discharging switch is kept ON until a discharging current from a piezoelectric actuator reaches a peak threshold value Ip. When the discharging current reaches the peak threshold value Ip, the discharging switch is turned OFF and kept OFF until a discharging current from a piezoelectric actuator reaches a peak threshold value Ip. The device has a threshold value setting circuit for increasing the peak threshold value according to a discharging period of time.
US07732975B1	Biased gap-closing actuator A gap-closing actuator includes a stator having one or more first electrodes, a mover having one or more second electrodes interposed among the first electrodes, and a biasing mechanism for applying a non-capacitive bias to the mover for urging the mover to move in a desired direction with respect to the stator. The non-capacitive bias is different from a capacitive force generated between the first and second electrodes when the gap-closing actuator is in operation.
US07732971B2	Carbon brush holder A carbon brush holder includes an insulated housing having a through hole with a first section, a second section and a stepped portion between the first and second sections. A carbon brush-holding member is inserted into the first section of the insulated housing and has a first end face, a second end face opposite to the first end face, and an insertion portion adjoined with the second end face. The insertion portion of the carbon brush-holding member extends into the second section of the insulated housing, thereby enabling the second end face of the carbon brush-holding member to be located in the second section of the insulated housing. Thus, the second end face of the carbon brush-holding member can firmly contact a conductive member that is disposed inside the second section of the insulated housing and electrically connected with a carbon brush inserted into the carbon brush-holding member.
US07732966B2	Superconducting homopolar inductor alternator for power applications A portable power system has a turbine engine generating mechanical energy. A homopolar electrical machine receives this energy. The homopolar electrical machine has a single stationary superconducting field coil configured to create a magnetic field. A homopolar rotor is configured to rotate within the magnetic field such that a rotating magnetic field is created in a stationary winding by interaction of the rotating permeance wave produced by the homopolar rotor and the magnetic field produced by the single stationary field coil. The homopolar electrical machine is configured as a generator and produces electrical power for the portable power system.
US07732964B2	Permanent magnet unit for an electrical machine, a method of installing permanent magnet units and a rotor of an electrical machine A permanent magnet unit is provided for an electrical machine. The electrical machine includes a stator and rotor. At least one permanent magnet is enclosed in a non-magnetic enclosure. The enclosure has means for connecting it to at least one other substantially similar enclosure containing a permanent magnet.
US07732963B2	Small-sized motor having ring-shaped field magnet A small-sized motor includes a field magnet attached to an inner circumferential surface of a metallic motor casing and having four or more magnetic poles. The field magnet is formed of a single ring-shaped magnet member having a predetermined thickness with respect to the radial direction and a predetermined length with respect to the thrust direction. At each of portions between the magnetic poles formed through magnetization, the magnet member has a thin portion having a reduced thickness with respect to the radial direction, the thin portion being formed by cutting the magnet member from the radially outward side. The magnetization is performed in the radial direction so as to alternately form S poles and N poles in the circumferential direction. At each of portions between the magnetic poles, the magnet member may have cut portions formed at opposite end portions of the magnet member with respect to the thrust direction.
US07732943B2	Method and a device for selecting and dimensioning measures in a case of instability in an electrical power system A method for determining/dimensioning measures for restoring an electrical power system, which experiences or is heading for a voltage instability, to a steady-state condition, wherein there is no immediate risk of instability. An actual voltage/phase angle in the electrical power system is determined. The power unbalance within at least one sub-area in the electrical power system is determined. Suitable power-balancing measures are determined. The extent of the respective measures is determined. The power-balancing measures are carried out. Also, a device for carrying out the method.
US07732941B2	Multi-module current sharing scheme A circuit provides multi-module current sharing for circuit modules. The circuit includes an error amplifier having a negative and a positive input and an output. The positive input of the error amplifier is connected to a reference voltage. A buffered differential amplifier has an output connected to the negative input of the error amplifier and a positive and a negative input. A correction current is sourced to the negative input of the buffered differential amplifier. A resistor connected to the negative input of the buffered differential amplifier has a value that controls the amount of current correction applied to the negative input of the buffer differential amplifier by the current correction source.
US07732907B2	Integrated circuit package system with edge connection system An integrated circuit package system including a plurality of substrates and a plurality of semiconductor devices formed on each of the substrates. An edge connection system is provided and an electrical edge connector on each of the substrates is for attachment to the edge connection system. A vertically stacked configuration of the substrates is formed by attaching the substrates to the edge connection system.
US07732896B2	Semiconductor apparatus and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor apparatus comprises a plurality of transistor devices including a control terminal being inputted with a control signal and a first and a second terminals that a current flows therein according to the control signal, and a plurality of substrate conductive portions each formed in a region different from a region where the plurality of transistor devices are formed therein, wherein the transistor devices are connected to the substrate conductive portions, and each of the substrate conductive portion includes a semiconductor layer separated from other substrate conductive portions.
US07732892B2	Fuse structures and integrated circuit devices Fuse structures and integrated circuit devices are disclosed. An exemplary embodiment of a fuse structure comprises a first and second metal pads formed at different positions in a first dielectric layer and a conductive line formed in a second dielectric layer underlying the first dielectric layer, electrically connecting the first and second pad. The conductive line is formed with at least one first portion at an end thereof and a second portion connected with the first portion, wherein the width of the first portion is greater than the width of the second portion.
US07732884B2	Photoelectric conversion device and method of manufacturing the same A photoelectric conversion device comprises a semiconductor substrate and a multilayer wiring structure, wherein the multilayer wiring structure includes a first wiring layer which serves as a top wiring layer in an effective region and contains aluminum as a principal component, a first insulation film arranged in the effective region and an light-shielded region so as to cover the first wiring layer, and a second wiring layer which serves as a top wiring layer arranged on the first insulation film in the light-shielded region and contains aluminum as a principal component, and wherein the first insulation film has, in the effective region, a first portion which is positioned above the photoelectric conversion unit, and the first portion functions as at least a part of an interlayer lens.
US07732862B2	Power semiconductor device having improved performance and method In one embodiment, a semiconductor device is formed in a body of semiconductor material. The semiconductor device includes an offset body region.
US07732855B2	Semiconductor memory device including recessed control gate electrode A semiconductor memory device may include a semiconductor substrate, at least one control gate electrode, at least one storage node layer, at least one tunneling insulating layer, at least one blocking insulating layer, and/or first and second channel regions. The at least one control gate electrode may be recessed into the semiconductor substrate. The at least one storage node layer may be between a sidewall of the at least one control gate electrode and the semiconductor substrate. The at least one tunneling insulating layer may be between the at least one storage node layer and the at least one control gate electrode. The at least one blocking insulating layer may be between the storage node layer and the control gate electrode. The first and second channel regions may be between the at least one tunneling insulating layer and the semiconductor substrate to surround at least a portion of the sidewall of the control gate electrode and/or may be separated from each other.
US07732854B2	Nonvolatile semiconductor memory and fabrication method for the same A nonvolatile semiconductor memory includes a first and a second active area configured to extend in the column direction in parallel; an element isolating region configured to electrically separate the first and the second active area; a plurality of word lines configured to extend in the row direction and be constituted by respective main parts and respective ends; and a plurality of memory cell transistors configured to be disposed on intersections between the respective main parts of the plurality of word lines and the second active area. Each memory cell transistor comprises a gate insulating film, a floating gate electrode, an inter-gate insulating film, and a control gate electrode, constituting a memory cell array; a short-circuit region configured to electrically short circuit the ends of the plurality of word lines; and a trench configured to separate the ends from the main parts of the plurality of word lines.
US07732848B2	Power semiconductor device with improved heat dissipation A semiconductor device is disclosed that improves heat dissipation by providing blind contact elements on a dielectric layer. Embodiments are disclosed which include a substrate having at least one electrode contact area accessible at a surface of the substrate and a surface adjacent the electrode contact area, a dielectric layer disposed above the surface; an intermediate oxide layer disposed above the dielectric layer, a current conducting metallization layer disposed above the intermediate oxide layer; and at least one contact element vertically extending from the dielectric layer through the intermediate oxide layer to the metallization layer above the surface adjacent the electrode contact area, the at least one contact element having a heat conductivity that is higher than that of the intermediate oxide layer.
US07732839B2	Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same A MIS transistor includes a gate electrode portion, insulating sidewalls formed on side surfaces of the gate electrode portion, source/drain regions and a stress film formed so as to cover the gate electrode portion and the source/drain regions. A height of an upper surface of the gate electrode portion is smaller than a height of an upper edge of each of the insulating sidewalls. A thickness of first part of the stress film located on the gate electrode portion is larger than a thickness of second part of the stress film located on the source/drain regions.
US07732833B2	High-voltage semiconductor switching element In a base region of a first conductivity type, at least one emitter region of a second conductivity type and at least one sense region of the second conductivity type, spaced away from the emitter region, are selectively formed. The emitter region and the sense region are located so as to be aligned in a second direction perpendicular to a first direction going from a collector region of the first conductivity type, which is formed so as to be spaced away from the base region, toward the base region. The width of the sense region, the width of the emitter region, the width of a part of the base region that is adjacent to the sense region, and the width of a part of the base region that is adjacent to the emitter region in the second direction are set in such a manner that a sense ratio varies in a desired manner in accordance with variation in collector current.
US07732831B2	Compound semiconductor light-emitting device with AlGaInP light-emitting layer formed within A pn-junction compound semiconductor light-emitting device is provided, which comprises a stacked structure including a light-emitting layer composed of an n-type or a p-type aluminum gallium indium phosphide and a light-permeable substrate for supporting the stacked structure, and the stacked structure and the light-permeable substrate being joined together, wherein the stacked structure includes an n-type or a p-type conductor layer, the conductor layer and the substrate are joined together, and the conductor layer is composed of a Group III-V compound semiconductor containing boron.
US07732825B2	AC light emitting diode Disclosed herein is an AC light emitting diode. The light emitting diode comprises a plurality of light emitting cells two-dimensionally arranged on a single substrate. Wires electrically connect the light emitting cells to one another to thereby form a serial array of the light emitting cells. Further, the light emitting cells are spaced apart from one another by distances within a range of 10 to 30 μm, and the serial array is operated while connected to an AC power source. Accordingly, the excellent operating characteristics and light output power can be secured in an AC light emitting diode with a limited size.
US07732822B2	Light emitting device and method of manufacturing the same A light emitting device having improved light extraction efficiency is disclosed. The light emitting device includes a nitride semiconductor layer including a first semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second semiconductor layer, which are sequentially stacked, a portion of the first semiconductor layer being exposed to the outside by performing mesa etching from the second semiconductor layer to the portion of the first semiconductor layer, and at least one groove formed through a portion of the first semiconductor layer, the active layer, and the second semiconductor layer.
US07732821B2	Silicon carbide semiconductor device The SiC semiconductor device includes a substrate of a first conduction type made of silicon carbide, a drift layer of the first conduction type made of silicon carbide, the drift layer being less doped than the substrate, a cell portion constituted by a part of the substrate and a part of the drift layer, a circumferential portion constituted by another part of the substrate and another part of the drift layer, the circumferential portion being formed so as to surround the cell portion, and a RESURF layer of a second conduction type formed in a surface portion of the drift layer so as to be located in the circumferential portion. The RESURF layer is constituted by first and second RESURF layers having different impurity concentrations, the second RESURF layer being in contact with an outer circumference of the first RESURF layer and extending to a circumference of the cell portion.
US07732818B2	Display device, manufacturing method thereof, and television receiver The present invention discloses a method for manufacturing a display device comprising the steps of forming a first film pattern using a photosensitive material over a substrate, forming a second film pattern in such a way that the first film pattern is exposed by being irradiated with a laser beam, modifying a surface of the second film pattern into a droplet-shedding surface, forming a source electrode and a drain electrode by discharging a conductive material to an outer edge of the droplet-shedding surface by a droplet-discharging method, and forming a semiconductor region, a gate-insulating film, and a gate electrode over the source electrode and the drain electrode.
US07732814B2	Liquid crystal display device and method of fabricating the same A liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes a gate line and a data line crossing each other to define a pixel region on a first substrate, a thin film transistor connected to the gate line and the data line, a first protrusion and a second protrusion formed on the first substrate, a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor in the pixel region, a first patterned spacer and a second patterned spacer formed on a second substrate facing the first substrate, wherein the first patterned spacer corresponds to the first protrusion, and the second patterned spacer corresponds to the second protrusion.
US07732807B2	Integrated circuit A fine vacuum tube element and other electronic elements are integrated and formed on a semiconductor substrate, and the fine vacuum tube element and the other electronic elements transmit signals to and from each other. When integrating the vacuum tube element with the other electronic elements, a quantum effect is realized in a room temperature environment by utilizing ballistic electrons (non-scattering electrons) traveling through the vacuum, and in the integrated circuit, an A/D converter is constructed by an interference system such as a Mach-Zehnder interferometer. Also an integrated circuit of an advanced function-integrated type is provided, comprising an interference system such as a Mach-Zehnder interferometer wherein weighting of the Mach-Zehnder interferometer is constituted for image processing and signal code conversion. A very high-speed light-receiving integrated circuit for optical communication is constructed by utilizing a very high-speed optical response characteristic of electron emission of the vacuum element, and a sensor such as a magnetic/electric field sensor is constructed by utilizing a quantum effect of ballistically traveling electrons.
US07732802B2	Semiconductor light emitting device Disclosed is a semiconductor light emitting device. The semiconductor light emitting device comprises a substrate comprising a reflective pattern with a valley, a first nitride semiconductor layer on the substrate, an air gap formed between the reflective pattern and the first nitride semiconductor layer, an active layer on the first nitride semiconductor layer, and a second nitride semiconductor layer on the active layer.
US07732798B2	Programmable via structure for three dimensional integration technology A programmable link structure for use in three dimensional integration (3DI) semiconductor devices includes a via filled at least in part with a phase change material (PCM) and a heating device proximate the PCM. The heating device is configured to switch the conductivity of a transformable portion of the PCM between a lower resistance crystalline state and a higher resistance amorphous state. Thereby, the via defines a programmable link between an input connection located at one end thereof and an output connection located at another end thereof.
US07732797B2	Detection device and method for detecting objects subject to cyclic or repetitive motion A device and method for detecting the presence or absence of an object which has repetitive motion are disclosed comprising, a receiver for receiving a signal from the object, and circuitry for determining the presence or absence of the object to be detected, wherein the circuitry records the signal from the receiver as a pattern of data during at least part of the repetitive motion of the object, compares the data with a previously recorded data pattern and, produces an output signal based on the comparison. The signal may be received during discrete time intervals, and may be light which can be transmitted with varying intensity. The circuitry may determine the value of signal received at a receiver and produce a binary value. The signal received at the receiver can be reflected from the object to be detected.
US07732791B2	Semiconductor testing method and semiconductor tester A semiconductor testing method capable of quickly counting semiconductor cells in which a seemingly horizontal or vertical line is drawn with a mouse, and raster rotation is performed in alignment with the closer axis. After that, the stage is horizontally moved, pattern matching is performed on an image on a position where the image should be disposed, and an angle is adjusted. The stage is moved evenly along the X-axis and the Y-axis, achieving a movement to a destination like a straight line. In synchronization with the smooth movement of the stage, a cell is surrounded in a rectangular frame by a ruler, and the number of cells is displayed with a numeric value.
US07732790B2	Ion implanting apparatus for forming ion beam geometry An ion implanting apparatus is provided, which prevents a failure of the processing object caused by a scattering of the deposited particles of the ion species on an inner surface of a through hole of a member that forms a beam geometry of an ion beam. Since at least an inner surface of the through hole 222 of the member 220 having a through hole and being capable of forming a beam geometry is coated with a thermal spraying film, unwanted deposition of the ion species on the inner surface of the through hole 222 is inhibited. Moreover, since a deposition film generated on the surface of the thermal spraying film has an unoriented poly-crystalline structure that exhibits extremely higher inter-layer adhesiveness, a failure of the processing object caused by a scattering of the particles peeled-off from the deposition layer is prevented.
US07732783B2	Ultraviolet light monitoring system An ultraviolet light monitoring system includes first and second electrodes, an evaluation subject film and a power source. The first and second electrodes are opposingly disposed and attract holes which are generated in accordance with irradiation of ultraviolet light. The evaluation subject film is formed in a vicinity of the first and second electrodes, and is a subject of evaluation of damage caused by the irradiation of ultraviolet light. The power source, at times of monitoring of the ultraviolet light, applies a predetermined bias to a series path formed by the first electrode, a gap between the first and second electrodes, and the second electrode.
US07732780B2	Combined cold plate and radiation shield A combined cold plate for RF shield is optimized both for cooling a device and also for shielding it against RF. One embodiment uses a two-part material so that it has improved thermal characteristics from one part and RF shielding characteristics from another part.
US07732775B2	Apparatus and method for radiation imaging The radiation imaging apparatus includes a radiation source for irradiating an object, a radiation image detector having a radiation-receiving plane that receives radiation from the radiation source through the object, for detecting a radiation image of the object, a shape information acquiring device for acquiring shape information that represents a shape of the object and a shape information display device that displays the shape information such that it reproduces a position of the object as occurs when the shape information is acquired. The radiation imaging method takes a first radiation image of a first object and generates shape information which represents the shape of the first object, inverts the shape information and displays inverted shape information such that it reproduces a position of the first object and takes a second radiation image of a second object.
US07732750B2	Wavefront coding interference contrast imaging systems An interference contrast imaging system images phase objects. The system includes an illumination source, illumination optics, polarizing optics for splitting the illumination into orthogonal polarizations and for recombining the polarizations, objective optics that form an image at a detector, a wavefront coding element and a post processor for processing the image by removing a phase shift imparted by the wavefront coding element. The wavefront coding element has an aperture, is between the phase object and the detector, and provides an altered optical transfer function of the imaging system by imparting the phase shift to the illumination transmitted through the wavefront coding element. The altered optical transfer function is insensitive to an object distance between the phase object and the objective optics over a greater range of object distances than would be provided by an optical transfer function of a corresponding interference contrast imaging system without the wavefront coding element.
US07732744B2	Image input apparatus, photodetection apparatus, and image synthesis method An image input apparatus includes an imaging optical system, a microlens array having a plurality of microlenses two-dimensionally arrayed with a predetermined pitch in the vicinity of a focal plane of the imaging optical system, and a photoreceptor array having a plurality of photoreceptors for each of the microlenses, each of the photoreceptors receiving bundles of rays passing through one of different exit-pupil regions of the imaging optical system. A power of the microlens and a gap between the microlens array and the photoreceptor array are determined so that a cross-sectional dimension of the bundles of rays for forming an image of each of the photoreceptors related to the microlens is equal to or smaller than the pitch of the microlens, within a range from the microlens array to a predetermined distance.
US07732732B2	Laser machining apparatus, and apparatus and method for manufacturing a multilayered printed wiring board There is provided a laser processing apparatus, a multilayer printed wiring board manufacturing apparatus, and a manufacturing method to form via holes of ultra-fine diameter. The laser beam from the CO2 laser oscillator (60) is converted to the shortened wavelength beam by a tellurium crystal (94) to control diffraction of the laser beam. Simultaneously, when the laser beam is condensed, a limit value of the condensation limit is reduced. Thereby, the spot diameter of laser beam is reduced and a hole for via hole is bored on the interlayer insulation resin on a substrate (10). Therefore, even when the laser beam output is raised to form a deeper hole, the hole diameter is not widened and thereby a hole for a small diameter via hole can be formed.
US07732728B2	Apparatuses for adjusting electrode gap in capacitively-coupled RF plasma reactor A plasma processing chamber includes a cantilever assembly configured to neutralize atmospheric load. The chamber includes a wall surrounding an interior region and having an opening formed therein. A cantilever assembly includes a substrate support for supporting a substrate within the chamber. The cantilever assembly extends through the opening such that a portion is located outside the chamber. The chamber includes an actuation mechanism operative to move the cantilever assembly relative to the wall.
US07732720B2	Draft protection device for a balance and having a friction reduction device A draft protection device for a balance and a balance equipped with the draft protection device, wherein the draft protection device includes front and rear panels, two side panels and a top panel, and four posts which are fixedly mounted on a top cover of the balance, and wherein the posts extend vertically. The front and rear panels rest against the posts and are held in place by grooves provided in front and rear top frames which are connected to the top ends of the posts. The side panels are slidable while the front and rear panels are stationary. A friction reduction device mounted in the scale top cover so that the side panels slide along the friction reduction device.
US07732719B1	Hand held luggage scale case construction A hand held luggage scale case is comprised of a generally pentagonal pair of shells which fit compatibly together and include a storage chamber section for weight sensing elements as well as a tape measure. The case includes a recess channel molded into the shell to retain a weight measurement hook.
US07732718B2	Combination weighing apparatus with conveying unit including trough and spiral member A combination weighing apparatus includes a dispersion unit, conveying units and weighing units. The dispersion unit is arranged to radially disperse product material. The conveying units are arranged around a periphery of the dispersion unit. The weighing units are arranged around a periphery of the conveying units. Each of the conveying units includes a trough. At least one of the troughs has a cross-sectional diameter that gradually increases generally from the inside end to the outside end so that the one of the troughs and an adjacent one of the troughs are kept in contact with each other from the inside ends to the outside ends. At least one of the conveying units has a spiral member disposed over a bottom surface of the trough. The spiral member is configured and arranged to convey the product material supplied from the dispersion unit toward the outside end of the trough.
US07732708B1	Longitudinal load limiting devices for transmission lines and the like A device for limiting loads on towers that limits loads only in the longitudinal direction and does not affect the manner in which vertical and transverse loads are resisted by the structure. The device incorporates a shield to prevent ice buildup that could affect its operation. It also has optional antifriction bearings to provide a consistent release force independent of the amount of ice that may accumulate on the wires. The device is of simple construction. The device includes an optional energy absorber, such as that used in U.S. Pat. No. 3,211,260 that can provide a resisting force that is within the longitudinal strength of the tower. The device includes both a mechanical fuse and an energy absorbing mechanism that is used to arrest the wire movement. The energy absorber can extend as much as 50 ft to safely absorb the energy released by broken wires with heavy ice coatings.
US07732707B2	Ground rod and connection sleeve filled with compound of electric conduction An installation structure of a ground rod for driving the rod deep into the ground comprising an overhead earth wire installed to protect transformers, power-transmission lines, etc. from lightning; a ground wire that is extended from a lightning arrester to a ground; a multi-stage ground rod elongated by a thread type connection and connected with the end of the ground wire that it is buried into the ground; and a connecting sleeve for connecting the ground rod to the ground wire, the electric conductive compound preventing corrosion in the thread connection including a lead terminal side junction of the and a ground wire side junction of the connecting sleeve. Corrosion of the gap between junctions is inhibited by inserting electric conductive compound into the junctions of the lead terminal side and of the ground wire side of the ground wire connecting sleeve, increasing ground rod lifetimes and decreasing maintenance costs.
US07732704B2	Conductive paste for connecting thermoelectric conversion material The present invention provides an electrically conductive paste for connecting thermoelectric materials, the paste comprising a specific powdery oxide and at least one powdery electrically conductive metal selected from the group consisting of gold, silver, platinum, and alloys containing at least one of these metals. By connecting a thermoelectric material to an electrically conductive substrate with the electrically conductive paste of the invention, a suitable electroconductivity is imparted to the connecting portion of the thermoelectric element. Further, the thermal expansion coefficient of the connecting portion can be made close to that of the thermoelectric material. Therefore, even when high-temperature power generation is repeated, separation at the connecting portion is prevented and a favorable thermoelectric performance can be maintained.
US07732702B2	Modular structures facilitating aggregated and field-customized musical instruments This invention allows for easy field-customization of mainstream and exotic electronic musical instruments with extensive support for the easy creation of aggregated instruments. This invention leverages extensive functional customization of instruments within mainstream accepted instrument modalities as well as opening a wide range of completely new instrument modalities. The invention further facilitates entirely new manufacturing, marketing, and sales paradigms permitting a broad range of open industry development and commerce, thus making an individual musician's creation of new exotic instrument arrangements an economically viable sector for both mass manufacturing and the niche cottage industry. New opportunities are provided for the creation of multiple-vendor standardizations, multiple-vendor manufacturing, multiple-vendor competitive features, etc. while offering the music equipment user and music industry as a whole, access to an extensive range of instrument customization, diversification, and education. The principles of the invention thus create a rich environment for instrument, user, feature, music, and market.
US07732685B1	Plants and seeds of corn variety CV827360 According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV827360. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV827360, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV827360 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV827360 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV827360.
US07732676B2	Soybean variety D5236984 The invention relates to the soybean variety designated D5236984. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety D5236984. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety D5236984 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety D5236984 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US07732675B2	Soybean variety D5231451 The invention relates to the soybean variety designated D5231451. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety D5231451. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety D5231451 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety D5231451 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US07732670B1	Soybean cultivar S06-CL056534 The present invention is in the field of soybean variety S06-CL056534 breeding and development. The present invention particularly relates to the soybean variety S06-CL056534 and its progeny, and methods of making S06-CL056534.
US07732669B2	Regulatory sequences for regulation of gene expression in plants and other organisms, and compositions, products and methods related thereto The invention relates to regulatory sequences that regulate gene expression in the mesocarp and/or senescent leaves of certain plants. In certain embodiments, the invention is directed to abundant and selective expression of type 3 metallothionein-like genes in the mesocarp of a variety of plants including members of the Palme family. The invention also relates to methods of generating transgenic plants and plant tissues that comprise a nucleic acid of the invention. The invention further provides products derived from transgenic plants, plant materials or plant cells of the invention. Particular applications in oil palms are discussed. The invention further relates to nucleic acid constructs of the invention in cells of organisms other than plants.
US07732664B2	Genes associated to sucrose content Modern sugarcane cultivars are complex hybrids resulting from crosses among several species of the Saccharum genus. Traditional breeding methods have been extensively employed in different countries along the past decades to develop varieties with increased sucrose yield, and resistant to plagues and diseases. Conventional varietal improvement is, however, limited by the narrow pool of suitable markers. In this sense, molecular genetics is seen as a promising tool to assist in the process of molecular marker identification. The present invention concerns the identification of 348 genes associated with sucrose content in sugarcane plants. The genes were found to be differentially expressed when high sucrose and low sucrose plants and populations of plants were compared and/or when high and low sucrose internodes were compared. The expression data was obtained using cDNA microarray and quantitative PCR technologies. The genes identified can be used to identify, distinguish, characterize and/or develop plants with increased sucrose content. More preferably SEQ ID Nos: 1 to 203 should be useful as molecular markers. SEQ ID Nos: 204 to 228 are given as controls or examples of genes never associated with sucrose content. SEQ ID Nos. 1-203 and SEQ ID Nos. 229 to 373 can be targeted in the development of transgenic or non-transgenic varieties with increased sucrose content.
US07732661B2	Compositions isolated from forage grasses and methods for their use Isolated polynucleotides encoding polypeptides active in lignin, fructan and tannin biosynthetic pathways are provided, together with expression vectors and host cells comprising such isolated polynucleotides. Methods for the use of such polynucleotides and polypeptides are also provided.
US07732656B2	Minimal contact treatment device A tissue treatment device has a flexible treatment portion that includes one or more parts and holes arranged in an openwork. A treatment area is defined in the openwork. The treatment portion is deployed such that the treatment area is positioned over tissue to be treated. The openwork minimizes contact between the tissue treatment device and the tissue being treated. A flexible cover is secured against the flexible treatment portion to close the holes and form a treatment volume in the openwork. The minimal contact between the tissue treatment device and the tissue being treated promotes a desired clinical objective.
US07732655B2	Controlled release therapeutic wound dressings A wound dressing comprising: a therapeutic agent selected from the group consisting of antimicrobial substances, pain relieving substances, protease inhibitors, and mixtures thereof; and a barrier layer for initially separating the therapeutic agent from a wound fluid in use, wherein the barrier layer comprises a substrate for an enzyme selected from the group consisting of proteases, kallikrein and tissue-plasminogen activator. Preferably the substrate comprises a substrate for elastase or a collagenase. The barrier layer breaks down in infected or chronic wounds, thereby releasing the therapeutic substance selectively into such wounds.
US07732644B2	Process for producing α,β-unsaturated aldehyde compounds The present invention relates to processes for producing α,β-unsaturated aldehyde compounds and unsaturated alcohols with a good yield. There is provided a process for producing and α,β-unsaturated aldehyde compound including the step of subjecting a raw aldehyde compound to an intermolecular condensation reaction in the presence of an amine and a protonic acid having 4 to 20 carbon atoms or a salt thereof; and a process for producing an unsaturated alcohol including the step of subjecting the α,β-unsaturated aldehyde compound to a reduction reaction.
US07732643B2	Transition metal complex, catalyst for olefin polymerization, and process for producing olefin polymer with the same The present invention relates to a transition metal complex represented by the formula (I): wherein M represents a Group 4 transition metal; —Y— represents (a): —C(R1)(R20)-A-, (b): —C(R1)(R20)-A1(R30)—, (c): —C(R1)=A1-, or (d): —C(R1)=A1-A2-R30; A represents a Group 16 element and A1 and A2 each represents a Group 15 element; R1 to R9, R20, and R30 are the same or different and each represents an optionally substituted hydrocarbon group, etc.; and X1 and X2 are the same or different and each represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an optionally substituted C1-10 alkyl group, etc., and an intermediate product thereof, and a catalyst for olefin polymerization which comprises said transition metal complex as a component.
US07732640B2	Process for urea production from ammonia and carbon dioxide A process for urea production comprises a first process step in which ammonia (7) and carbon dioxide (6) are obtained, subjecting natural gas (1) to reforming treatments (12, 14), and a second step of urea (8a) production from such ammonia (7) and from carbon dioxide, through a formation of a solution comprising urea and ammonium carbamate in a urea synthesis reactor (20) and a subsequent decomposition of the ammonium carbamate and. urea recovery, the process comprises the steps of:—treating combustion smokes (5) comprising carbon dioxide with an aqueous solution (9a) comprising a part (7b) of such ammonia (7), obtaining an aqueous ammonium carbamate solution (9c);—supplying the solution (9c) thus obtained to the second process step.
US07732638B2	Method of amidocarbonylation reaction A novel method of an amidocarbonylation reaction among an aldehyde compound, an amide compound, and carbon monoxide, which comprises using a palladium-supporting crosslinked-polymer composition containing palladium clusters having a major-axis length of 20 nm or shorter to conduct the amidocarbonylation reaction. Thus, an N-acyl-α-amino acid can be more efficiently and selectively synthesized in a dean reaction system. Also provided is a catalyst for use in the method.
US07732632B2	Process for obtaining pure oseltamivir The present invention provides a process for obtaining highly pure crystalline form of oseltamivir free base, thus, for example, suspending or dissolving impure or non-crystalline oseltamivir free base in a hydrocarbon solvent and then isolating crystals to obtain oseltamivir free base in well defined crystalline form. The present invention also provides a process for preparation of oseltamivir phosphate in high purity.
US07732631B2	Eco-friendly process for the preparation of 2-Chlorobenzylidene-Malononitrile (CS) An improved process for the preparation of 2-chlorobenzylidenemalononitrile (CS) comprising of the steps of: preparing malononitrile suspension by adding 5-20% (wt %) preferably 12-14% malononitrile to water while constantly stirring and then adding 0.05-0.5% (v/v) preferably 0.1-0% of a catalyst like piperidine, pyridine, 2-picoline, 3-picoline, 4-picoline or morpholine preferably piperidine piperidine with constant stirring at 20-30° C.; condensing the malononitrile suspension prepared in step (a) with 2-chlorobenzaldehyde by adding 10-15% (w/v) preferably 25-30%, of 2-chlorobenzaldehyde cover a period at 30-45 minutes so that the temperature of the reaction mixture remains below 50° C., constantly stirring for 20-40 minutes, then filtering the CS and drying it at 20-30° C. under water vacuum for 3-5 hrs.
US07732628B2	Functional biopolymer modification reagents and uses thereof Hydrazino, oxyamino and carbonyl-based reagents and methods for incorporation into oligonucleotides during their solid phase synthesis are provided. Modified oligonucleotides are provided that incorporate the reagents provided herein. Immobilized oligonucleotides and oligonucleotide conjugates that contain covalent hydrazone or oxime linkages are provided. Methods for preparation of surface bound oligonucleotides are provided. Methods for the preparation of oligonucleotide conjugates are also provided.
US07732622B2	Naphthalene derivatives A compound of formula (I) wherein R1 and R3 are the same or different and represent ═O, hydrogen, C1-6alkyl, C1-6dialkyl, ═CHC1-C5alkyl, ═S, or a 5- or 6-membered aryl; R4 to R9 are the same or different and represent hydrogen, C1-6alkoxy, OCF3, OCH2CF3, O-cyclopropyl, OCH2-cyclopropyl, C1-C6alkyl, S-alkyl, NR210 where R10 is hydrogen or C1-6alkyl, halogen, NO2, OH, CH2OC1-C6alkyl, CH2OH, or CF3; Q1 is hydrogen, C1-6alkyl, C1-6dialkyl, C1-6alkoxy, NHAc, NR210 where R10 is hydrogen or C1-6alkyl, difluoro, fluoro, ═O, or OH; Q2, Q3, Q4 and Q5 are the same or different and represent hydrogen, C1-6alkoxy, OCF3, OCH2CF3, O-cyclopropyl, OCH2-cyclopropyl, C1-C6alkyl, S-alkyl, NR210 where R10 is hydrogen or C1-6alkyl, halogen, NO2, OH, CH2OC1-C6alkyl, CH2OH, or a 5- or 6-membered aryl; with the proviso that the compounds [4-(1-oxo-1,3-dihydro-2H-benzo[f]isoindol-2-yl)phenyl]-2-propionic acid, sodium salt and [4-(4,9-diethoxy-1-oxo-1,3-dihydro-2H-benzo[f]isoindol-2-yl)phenyl]acetic acid are excluded; and pharmaceutically acceptable derivatives thereof.
US07732612B2	7-amino alkylidenyl-heterocyclic quinolones and naphthyridones The present invention relates to compounds having a structure according to Formula I wherein n, m, z, R, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, A, E, X, Y, a and b are as defined above; or an optical isomer, diastereomer or enantiomer thereof; a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, hydrate, or prodrug thereof.
US07732608B2	Salts of clopidogrel and process for preparation Disclosed are salts of Clopidogrel viz. Clopidegrel mesylate, Clopidegrel besylate and Clopidogrel tosylate, methods for their preparation and pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use in medicine.
US07732607B2	Heteroaryl-substituted diazatricycloalkanes and methods of use thereof The present invention relates to amide and urea derivatives of heteroaryl-substituted diazatricycloalkanes, pharmaceutical compositions including the compounds, methods of preparing the compounds, and methods of treatment using the compounds. More specifically, the methods of treatment involve modulating the activity of the α7 nAChR subtype by administering one or more of the compounds to treat or prevent disorders mediated by the α7 nAChR subtype. The diazatricycloalkanes typically consist of a 1-azabicyclooctane fused to pyrrolidine ring. The substitutent heteroaryl groups are 5- or 6-membered ring heteroaromatics, such as 3-pyridinyl and 5-pyrimidinyl moieties, which are attached directly to the diazatricycloalkane. The secondary nitrogen of the pyrrolidine moiety is substituted with an arylcarbonyl (amide type derivative) or an arylaminocarbonyl (N-arylcarbamoyl) (urea type derivative) group. The compounds are beneficial in therapeutic applications requiring a selective interaction at certain nAChR subtypes. That is, the compounds modulate the activity of certain nAChR subtypes, particularly the α7 nAChR subtype, and do not have appreciable activity toward muscarinic receptors. Radiolabeled versions of the compounds can be used in diagnostic methods.
US07732599B2	Process for preparing tetrahydrobiopterin and analogs of tetrahydrobiopterin Process for the preparation of tetrahydrobiopterin from neopterin and/or 6-substituted pterins with an improved yield and a high stereoselectivity. Also disclosed herein are novel individual intermediates prepared in the preparation of tetrahydrobiopterin, such as selectively protected neopterin useful for the preparation of tetrahydrobiopterin.
US07732598B2	Triazine-based compound, method of making the same, and an organic light-emitting device including the same A triazine-based compound having three biphenyl groups, represented by Structure 1, below, wherein R1 through R18 are each independently one of: hydrogen, a substituted C1-30 alkyl group, an unsubstituted C1-30 alkyl group, a substituted C6-50 aryl group, an unsubstituted C6-50 aryl group, a substituted C4-50 heteroaryl group, and an unsubstituted C4-50 heteroaryl group, and at least one of R1, R2, R7, R8, R13 and R14 is one of: a substituted C1-30 alkyl group, an unsubstituted C1-30 alkyl group, a substituted C6-50 aryl group, an unsubstituted C6-50 aryl group, a substituted C4-50 heteroaryl group, and an unsubstituted C4-50 heteroaryl group.
US07732596B2	Fused heterocycle derivative, medicinal composition containing the same, and medicinal use thereof The present invention provides nitrogen-containing fused cyclic derivatives represented by the following general formula or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, or prodrugs thereof, which exhibit an excellent inhibitory activity in human SGLT and are useful as agents for the prevention or treatment of a disease associated with hyperglycemia such as diabetes, postprandial hyperglycemia, impaired glucose tolerance, diabetic complications or obesity, in the formula one of R1 and R4 represents a group represented by the following general formula (S) (in which R5 and R6 represent H, OH, a halogen atom, etc.; Q represents an alkylene group etc.; and ring A represents an aryl group etc.), and the other represents H, OH, an amino group, etc.; R2 and R3 represent H, OH, an amino group, a halogen atom, and an optionally substituted alkyl group, etc.; A1 represents O, S, etc.; A2 represents CH or N; G represents a group represented by the following general formula (G-1) or (G-2) (E1 represents H, F or OH; and E2 represents H, F, a methyl group, etc.), and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same, and pharmaceutical uses thereof.
US07732594B2	Method on clinical applications in head neck cancer by using DSG3 molecule for predicting malignant degree of cancer, serving as a molecular target and using RNA jamming sequence on inhibition-specific of DSG3 expression The present invention provide a method for analyzing the DSG3 overexpression in tumor tissues with clinical features of cancer cells to validate that overexpression is relates to size, depth and migration of tumor. Therefore, DSG3 overexpression is capable for using in clinical applications, determining malignant degree of tumor, serving as molecular target in Head Neck Cancer (HNC). Moreover, a jamming sequence, RNA, is designed to act on DSG3 mRNA and is effective inhibition-specific DSG3 expression, and then inhibits cell growth, invasion and migration in HNC.
US07732592B2	ALK protein tyrosine kinase, cells and methods embodying and using same The present invention provides for a transgenic animal model that constitutively expresses a protein encoded by the NPM-ALK gene in lymphoid tissue, and exhibits enhanced and accelerated development of a T cell lymphoproliferative disorder or B cell plasma cell tumor, together with the identification of cells transduced with the ALK tyrosine kinase gene or fusion proteins thereof, and methods for using this animal model and cells for screening compounds or treatments for antitumor activity. In preferred embodiments, the animal is a transgenic mouse that expresses a human NPM-ALK gene operably linked to human regulatory sequences, and the cells of the mouse have at least one copy of the NPM-ALK transgene, whereby the mouse constitutively expresses a protein encoded by the NPM-ALK transgene. The animals and cells of the invention are useful in the study of NPM-ALK-dependent lymphomagenesis and plasma cell tumors and in the development of treatments for these conditions.
US07732591B2	Compositions, devices and methods for treatment of huntington's disease through intracranial delivery of sirna The present invention provides devices, small interfering RNAs, and methods for treating a neurodegenerative disorder comprising the steps of surgically implanting a catheter so that a discharge portion of the catheter lies adjacent to a predetermined infusion site in a brain, and discharging through the discharge portion of the catheter a predetermined dosage of at least one substance capable of inhibiting production of at least one neurodegenerative protein. The present invention also provides valuable small interfering RNA vectors, systems, and methods for treating Huntington's disease in vivo without impairment of cell endoplasmic reticulum, spontaneous motor activity, or locomotor activity of a patient.
US07732590B2	Modulation of diacylglycerol acyltransferase 2 expression Compounds, compositions and methods are provided for modulating the expression of diacylglycerol acyltransferase 2. The compositions comprise oligonucleotides, targeted to nucleic acid encoding diacylglycerol acyltransferase 2. Methods of using these compounds for modulation of diacylglycerol acyltransferase 2 expression and for diagnosis and treatment of diseases and conditions associated with expression of diacylglycerol acyltransferase 2 are provided.
US07732586B2	Modified bacteriocins and methods for their use Modified forms of naturally occurring bacteriocins, such as the R-type pyocins of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, are disclosed. The bacteriocins are modified at the ends of their tail fibers in a region responsible for binding specificity and affinity to their cognate binding partners, or receptors, such as those on the surface of bacteria. Methods for the use of the modified bacteriocins, such as to bind receptors, including virulence or fitness factors, on the surfaces of bacteria, are also described.
US07732573B2	Method for producing porous body comprising apatite/collagen composite fibers A method for producing a porous body comprising apatite/collagen composite fibers comprising the steps of gelling a dispersion comprising long apatite/collagen composite fibers having an average length of 10-75 mm, short apatite/collagen composite fibers having an average length of 0.05-1 mm, and a liquid; freezing and drying the resultant gel to form a porous body; and cross-linking collagen in the porous body.
US07732572B2	Cysteine variants of alpha interferon-2 The growth hormone supergene family comprises greater than 20 structurally related cytokines and growth factors. A general method is provided for creating site-specific, biologically active conjugates of these proteins. The method involves adding cysteine residues to non-essential regions of the proteins or substituting cysteine residues for non-essential amino acids in the proteins using site-directed mutagenesis and then covalently coupling a cysteine-reactive polymer or other type of cysteine-reactive moiety to the proteins via the added cysteine residue. Disclosed herein are preferred sites for adding cysteine residues or introducing cysteine substitutions into the proteins, and the proteins and protein derivatives produced thereby.
US07732562B2	Trisoxetane compound, production process and optical waveguide therewith The present invention relates to a trisoxetane compound represented by the following formula (1): wherein R1 and R3 to R8 are the same or different and each represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atom(s) with the proviso that at least one of R3 to R8 is an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atom(s); R2 represents a divalent aliphatic chained organic group having 0 to 16 carbon atom(s); and R9's each represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atom(s), a process for producing the same, and an optical waveguide including the same.
US07732548B2	Water-soluble sulfonic group-containing copolymers and terpolymers the production thereof and water-based painting and coating systems Water-soluble copolymers and terpolymers as stabilizers for aqueous building material systems and water-based paint and coating systems are described. Advantages of the copolymers and terpolymers used according to the invention compared to conventional products are firstly the very good stabilizing properties of the building material systems or water-based paint and coating systems produced correspondingly and secondly the fact that the viscosity of the systems is barely increased, so that these have excellent processability.
US07732537B2	Methods addressing aging in flocculated molecular sieve catalysts for hydrocarbon conversion processes One aspect of the invention relates to a method for formulating a molecular sieve catalyst composition, the method comprising the steps of: (a) providing a synthesized molecular sieve having been recovered in the presence of a flocculant; (b) thermally treating the synthesized molecular sieve at a temperature from about 50° C. to about 250° C. and under other conditions sufficient to form a thermally treated synthesized molecular sieve having a first LOI less than 26% and a first micropore surface area; (c) aging the thermally treated synthesized molecular sieve for at least one year; (d) analyzing the aged, thermally treated molecular sieve to determine a second micropore surface area, wherein the second micropore surface area is 3% or less lower than the first micropore surface area; and (e) combining the aged, thermally treated synthesized molecular sieve, a binder, and optionally a matrix material to produce an aged, formulated molecular sieve catalyst composition.
US07732525B2	Polymers for paper and paperboard coatings The invention is directed to the composition and use of substantially water-soluble amphoteric (co)polymers as co-binders for paper and paperboard coating applications.
US07732519B2	Emulsion composition for silicone rubber, process for producing the same, and process for producing silicone rubber A silicone rubber emulsion composition comprising (A) 100 parts diorganopolysiloxane having at least two silicon-bonded alkenyl groups, (E) 0 to 60 parts reinforcing silica filler, (B) 10 to 250 parts water containing a smectite clay, (C) 0.1 to 15 parts emulsifier, and (D) a cross-linking agent (e.g., an organohydrogenpolysiloxane) in an amount sufficient for cross-linking component (A) and a catalyst (e.g., a platinum-type catalyst). A method for preparing the aforementioned emulsion composition comprising mixing components (A) and (E) with other components in a high-speed stirrer-equipped mixer. A method of manufacturing a silicone rubber comprising either heating and dehydrating the aforementioned emulsion composition.
US07732512B2	Laser light transmitting colored polyolefin resin compositions and process for laser welding Laser ray transmitting colored polyolefin resin composition containing an anthraquinone salt forming dye below; and method of laser welding wherein welding a portion of contact of a laser ray transmitting material of said resin composition and a laser ray absorbing material by irradiating laser ray so that the laser ray transmitting material transmits the laser ray and the laser ray is absorbed in the laser ray absorbing material with the laser ray transmitting material and the laser ray absorbing material in contact with each other: A, B: —NH— or —O—; R1-R3: hydrogen, amino, hydroxy, halogen; R4-R13: hydrogen, alkyl, nitro, sulfonic group; Kin+: organic ammonium ion; m: 1 or 2; n: 1 or 2; the sulfonic group is —SO3 or SO3M, the number of —SO3 being m, M representing hydrogen or an alkali metal.
US07732509B2	Polymeric colorant-based ink compositions An ink composition suitable for ink jet printing comprises a polymeric colorant in a carrier, the colorant containing at least one hydrophilic portion and at least one hydrophobic portion, wherein the composite log Kow of the polymeric colorant is more positive than −0.7.
US07732507B2	Spirotetrathiocarbamates and spirooxothiocarbamates Spirotetrathiocarbamates (STOCs) or oxa substituted compounds (SOTOCs) of Formula I: Formula (I) or bisSTOC or bisSOTOC compounds of Formula II: Formula (II) wherein X1, X2, X3, X4, X5, X6, X7, and X8, are independently O or S; and preferably at least two and up to all four of X1, X2, X3 and X4, and at least two and up to all four of X5, X6, X7, and X8 are sulfur; Z is —CmR22m wherein m=1 to 4; —C(R2)2SC(R2)2—, C(R2)2SSC(R2)2—, or —C(R2)OC(R2)2; n is from 0 to 4; M is selected from CH2Cl, CH2SC(O)R1, CH2SC(S)R1, CH2S(CH2CH2S)qH wherein q is 0, 1 or 2; —CR2═CH2, —CH2OC(O)CR2═CH2, CH2N═C═S, CH2N═C═O, CH2NR2H, CH2OH, CH2SCH2CH2CR2═CH2, phenyl, C(R2)phenyl, furan, thiophene, halogen, C3-C6 cycloalkyl, C3-C6 heretocyclics, thiol, H, (III) or (IV) wherein A is S, O or phenyl; x is 0 or 1; R1 is C1-C22 alkyl; and R2 is H or C1-C22 alkyl have excellent optical properties. Methods for preparing these compositions and optical lenses prepared from the compounds are also provided.
US07732504B2	Functionalized photoinitiators The invention relates to novel photoinitiators of formula (I) wherein each of the substituents is given the definition as set forth in the Specification and the claims. The photoinitiators can be used to prepare multifunctional photoinitiators.
US07732503B2	Recycle of electrical equipment The conventional techniques for recycling an electrical equipment including a hardened epoxy resin and electroconductive material has involved conventional problems that a catalyst is degraded to an extent that it can be no longer reused when a water is contained in a dissolving system. Moreover, moisture, when present in the dissolving system for treating an electrical equipment including an electroconductive material of aluminum, may react with aluminum to produce an aluminate compound which is transformed into aluminum oxide (alumina) under heating, which, in turn, may cause abnormal temperature rise to melt aluminum. This may be accompanied by formation of hydrogen which can cause danger of explosion. The present invention manages moisture content in the dissolving system by drying an object to be treated, a catalyst and a solvent prior to the dissolving treatment.
US07732499B2	Preparation of syngas for acetic acid synthesis by partial oxidation of methanol feedstock A method for the production of syngas from methanol feedstock is disclosed. The methanol feed (110) is supplied to a partial oxidation reactor (112) with oxygen (114) and optionally steam (116) to yield a mixed stream (118) of hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and carbon dioxide. The carbon dioxide (122) is separated out and the hydrogen and carbon monoxide mixture (124) is fed to a cold box (126) where it is separated into hydrogen-rich and carbon monoxide-rich streams (130, 128). The separated carbon dioxide (122) can be recycled back to the partial oxidation reactor (112) as a temperature moderator if desired. The carbon monoxide-rich stream (128) can be reacted with methanol (134) in an acetic acid synthesis unit (132) by a conventional process to produce acetic acid (136) or an acetic acid precursor. Optionally, an ammonia synthesis unit (144) and/or vinyl acetate monomer synthesis unit (156) can be integrated into the plant.
US07732494B2	Method of concentrating fine particle dispersion and method of recovering fine particle A method for concentration of fine particles dispersed in a dispersion into an ionic liquid comprising, adding an ionic liquid, especially an organic ionic liquid at ordinary temperature, e.g., a salt of 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium with PF6− to a dilute dispersion of fine particles so as to concentrate the fine particles into the ionic liquid.
US07732491B2	Treatment of breast cancer with a PARP inhibitor alone or in combination with anti-tumor agents In one aspect, the present invention provides a method of treating breast cancer that is negative for at least one of ER, PR, or HER2, comprising administering to a subject at least one PARP inhibitor. In another aspect, the present invention provides a method of treating breast cancer comprising administering to a subject at least one PARP inhibitor in combination with at least one anti-tumor agent.
US07732473B2	Compounds with nootropic action, their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions containing them, and use thereof Described herein are new bicyclic arylimidazolones having nootropic action (i.e., protecting and stimulating cerebral functions), analgesic action and anti hyperalgesic action; also described is the process for their preparation and pharmaceutical compositions comprising them, useful for the treatment of cognitive deficits, and of various types of pain.
US07732471B2	6-oxazol-4-ylmetholmethoxy-alko-alkoxymethyl substituted benzoic acid derivatives forming peroxisome proliferator—activated receptor (PPAR) ligands, process for their preparation and methods of use thereof The present invention comprises compounds and compositions for the treatment of metabolic disorders and more particularly, those insulin-related metabolic disorders of the blood such as hyperlipidemia, diabetes, insulin-resistance and the like comprising acetic acid derivatives with cyclohexylmethoxy substituents and their salts. Known as peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) agonists/antagonists, the invention relates to compounds of formula I wherein R1-R6 are further defined herein.
US07732457B2	Amino-pyridines as inhibitors of β-secretase The present invention provides an amino-pyridine compound of formula I The present invention also provides methods for the use thereof to inhibit β-secretase (BACE) and treat β-amyloid deposits and neurofibrillary tangles.
US07732429B2	Reducing tetracycline resistance in living cells The present invention provides an improved methodology by which therapeutically to overcome resistance to tetracycline in living cells including bacteria, parasites, fungi, and rickettsiae. The methodology employs a blocking agent such as C5 ester derivatives, or 6-deoxy 13-(substituted mercapto) derivatives of tetracycline, in combination with other tetracycline-type antibiotics as a synergistic combination of compositions to be administered simultaneously, sequentially or concurrently. In another embodiment, certain novel compositions are provided which may be administered alone against, for example, a sensitive or resistant strain of gram positive bacteria such as S. aureus and E. faecalis. The concomitantly administered compositions effectively overcome the tetracycline resistant mechanisms present such that the cell is effectively converted from a tetracycline-resistant state to a tetracycline-sensitive state.
US07732415B2	Topical treatment or prevention of ocular infections The topical application of an azalide antibiotic such as azithromycin to the eye is useful in treating or preventing ocular infections. In one embodiment, the azalide antibiotic is supplied to the eye in a depot for sustained release. A more convenient dosing regimen can also be provided by the use of an appropriate depot. Furthermore, a composition containing a combination of medicaments is also provided.
US07732409B2	EspFU nucleic acids and proteins and uses thereof Disclosed are EspFU (EspF-like polypeptide encoded by a gene of the cryptic prophage CP-933U of enterohemorrhagic E. coli) polypeptides, fragments thereof, nucleic acids that encode EspFU polypeptides, or fragments thereof, and cells including the polypeptides, fragments, and/or nucleic acids. Also disclosed are model systems, kits, and methods for screening that use, for example, EspFU polypeptides and nucleic acids. Also included are pharmaceutical and diagnostic compositions and methods of diagnosis and treatment of EHEC infections.
US07732407B2	Method for treatment of demyelinating central nervous system disease A method for treating demyelinating central nervous system diseases in a subject that comprises administering to the subject a composition comprising a therapeutically active amount of colony stimulating factor or CSF-like ligand. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the CSF is a GM-CSF. In a most preferred embodiment of the present invention, CSF is sargramostim.
US07732404B2	Pro-nanodispersion for the delivery of cyclosporin A novel cyclosporine formulation, which is a pro-nanodispersion at room temperature, featuring solid particles of a relatively large particle size (at least about 150 nm) and yet which is a nanodispersion at body temperature.
US07732401B2	Inhibitor of TGF-β activation reaction The present invention aims to provide a substance(s), especially a peptide(s) capable of inhibiting the TGF-β activation reaction. The present invention provides a peptide consisting of 11 to 50 amino acid residues, which comprises an amino acid sequence Gln-Ile-Leu-Ser-X1-X2-X3-X4-Ala-Ser-Pro (SEQ ID NO: 1) wherein each of X1 to X4 independently represents any given amino acid residue, and X1-X2-X3-X4 is a sequence that is not Lys-Leu-Arg-Leu (SEQ ID NO: 12) and is not cleavable by proteases.
US07732395B2	Water-stabilized antimicrobial organosilane products, compositions, and methods for using the same The present invention relates to water-stable compositions and compounds formed by mixing an organosilane, optionally having a non-hydrolyzable organic group, but having one or more hydrolyzable groups, and an acidified stabilizing solution prepared from at least one acid, at least one glycol ether, and at least one cationic surfactant, preferably at least one quaternary ammonium salt (QAS), in water. The present invention also relates to methods of treating a substrate by mixing or contacting the substrate with the product, compound, or composition of this invention for a period of time sufficient for treatment of the substrate, methods of antimicrobially treating a food article, methods of antimicrobially coating a fluid container, methods of dyeing and treating a substrate, and methods of antimicrobially coating a latex medical article. The invention also pertains to a treated substrate having adhered thereto the product, compound, or composition of this invention.
US07732391B1	Manual transmission fluid made with lubricating base oil having high monocycloparaffins and low multicycloparaffins A manual transmission fluid having a VI greater than 160 and a Brookfield viscosity at −40° C. less than 30,000 cP. It comprises: 1) a base oil (made from a waxy feed) having less than 0.06 wt % aromatics, greater than 5 wt % total molecules with cycloparaffinic functionality, and a ratio of molecules with monocycloparaffinic functionality to molecules with multicycloparaffinic functionality greater than 20; and a manual transmission fluid additive package. In another embodiment, the manual transmission fluid comprises: 1) a base oil having a high VI and a kinematic viscosity at 100° C. greater than 5.5 cSt, 2) less than 0.01 wt % pour point depressant, and 3) a manual transmission fluid additive package. This invention is also directed to a process to make the manual transmission fluid, comprising the steps of hydroisomerization dewaxing, selecting base oil fractions having a high VI, and blending the fractions with an additive package.
US07732389B2	Lubricating fluids with low traction characteristics The invention relates to lubricating fluids and oil formulations which provide exceptionally low traction, a method of lowering traction coefficients in lubricating compositions, and to uses of such compositions.
US07732386B2	Rust inhibitor for highly paraffinic lubricating base oil A rust inhibitor providing a pass in the TORT B rust test, comprising a solubility improver, a mixture of amine phosphates, and an alkenyl succinic compound. A finished lubricant comprising the rust inhibitor and a lubricating base oil. A finished lubricant having a kinematic viscosity at 40° C. between about 90 and 1700 cSt that passes the TORT B rust test, comprising a highly paraffinic base oil and a solubility improver having an aniline point less than 50° C. A finished lubricant that passes the TORT B rust test, comprising a Fischer-Tropsch wax, oligomerized olefins, or mixture thereof; and a solubility improver. A process for making a lubricant, comprising blending together: a) a mixture of amine phosphates, b) an alkenyl succinic compound, and c) a highly paraffinic lubricating base oil. A method of improving the rust inhibition of a lubricating oil by incorporating a solubility improver having an aniline point <10° C.
US07732382B2	Cross-linking composition and method of use A cross-linking composition comprises (a) an aqueous liquid, (b) a pH buffer, (c) a cross-linkable organic polymer, (d) a cross-linking agent which comprises an organic titanate, an organic zirconate, or combinations thereof, and (e) a delay agent which is a hydroxyalkylaminocarboxylic acid. The composition provides flexibility in rate of cross-linking and can be used over a wide range of pH. Further disclosed are methods to use the composition in oil field applications for hydraulic fracturing and plugging of permeable zones and leaks in subterranean formations.
US07732362B2	Microwave dielectric ceramic A dielectric ceramic material as claimed in claim 1 with a composition of formula x CaTiO3+(1−x)SmzRe(1−z)AlO3 (1) optionally doped with about 0.005% to about 5% of CeO2 as a dopant, wherein 0.5≦x≦0.9, 0.3≦z≦0.995, or Re may be selected from a group consisting of La, Pr, Dy, Gd, Y, Er, Ho and mixtures thereof.
US07732361B2	Dielectric porcelain composition for use in electronic devices The invention intends to provide a dielectric porcelain composition for use in electronic devices which can be controlled in the temperature coefficient τf in particular in a negative direction and can shorten a sintering period while maintaining a high Qf value and a high dielectric constant. According to the invention, in conventional composition having a composition formula represented by XBa(Mg1/3Ta2/3)O3—Y(BazSr1-z)(Ga1/2Ta1/2)O3, when Mg is substituted by Ni to form a specific structure, the temperature coefficient τf can be controlled in a negative direction and the τf can be controlled in the range of 0.80 to −4.45 ppm/° C. while maintaining a high Qf value and a high dielectric constant, and even when a sintering period, which has been so far necessary substantially 50 hr, is reduced to 25 hr substantially one half the above, similar Qf value can be obtained.
US07732360B2	Colorless glass composition The invention is a colorless glass composition having a base glass composition, comprising, in weight percentage, from about 0.01 to 0.03 wt % of Fe2O3; about 20-30% reduction (% Fe+2) and about 0.05 to 1 wt % of TiO2, the glass having a visible light transmission of at least 89%, a ultraviolet radiation transmittance of no more than 81%; a solar direct transmission of no more than 90%; a dominant wavelength from 600 nm to 490 nm; and a purity of less than 2%.
US07732358B2	Inorganic matrix compositions and composites incorporating the matrix composition A modified alkali silicate composition for forming an inorganic network matrix. The modified alkali silicate matrix is made by reacting an alkali silicate (or its precursors such as an alkali hydroxide, a SiO2 source and water), an acidic inorganic composition, such as a reactive glass, water and optional fillers, additives and processing aids. An inorganic matrix composite can be prepared by applying a slurry of the modified aqueous alkali silicate composition to a reinforcing medium and applying the temperature and pressure necessary to consolidate the desired form. The composite can be shaped by compression molding as well as other known fabrication methods. A notable aspect of the invention is that, although composite and neat resin components prepared from the invention can exhibit excellent dimensional stability to 1000° C. and higher, they can be prepared at the lower temperatures and pressures typical to organic polymer processing.
US07732354B2	Flat implant of textile thread material, in particular hernia mesh implant The invention relates to a flat implant of textile thread material, in particular a hernia mesh implant, in the form of single-layered mesh fabric (1) of a basis weight of 5 to 40 g/m2.
US07732335B2	Method for forming pattern in semiconductor device A method for forming a semiconductor device includes forming an etch target layer, forming a sacrificial hard mask layer having a metal layer and a carbon-based material layer on the etch target layer, forming a photoresist pattern on the carbon-based material layer, etching the carbon-based material layer by the photoresist pattern until a remaining carbon-based material portion has a predetermined thickness, etching the remaining carbon-based material portion until a corresponding metal layer portion is exposed to form a carbon-based material pattern, and etching the metal layer by using the carbon-based material pattern to form a hard mask pattern for forming the pattern.
US07732334B2	Method for manufacturing semiconductor device It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for manufacturing a substrate having film patterns such as an insulating film, a semiconductor film, and a conductive film in simple processes. It is another object of the invention to provide a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device with high throughput and high yield at low cost. A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device including the steps of: forming a first film over a substrate; discharging a solution containing a mask material to the first film thereby forming a mask over the first film; patterning the first film with the use of the mask thereby forming low wettability regions and a high wettability region over the substrate; removing the mask; and discharging a solution containing a material of an insulating film, a semiconductor film, or a conductive film to the high wettability region provided between the low wettability regions thereby forming a pattern of the insulating film, the semiconductor film, or the conductive film.
US07732330B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method using an ink-jet method of the same The manufacturing method of the present invention includes steps of selectively forming a photocatalyst material or a material including an amino group by discharging a composition including the photocatalyst material or the material including an amino group; immersing the photocatalyst material or the material including an amino group in a solution including a plating catalyst material so as to adsorb or deposit the plating catalyst material onto the photocatalyst material or the material including an amino group; and immersing the plating catalyst material in a plating solution including a metal material so as to form a metal film on a surface of the photocatalyst material or the material including an amino group adsorbing or depositing the plating catalyst material, thereby manufacturing a semiconductor device. The pH of the solution including the plating catalyst material is adjusted in a range of 3 to 6.
US07732320B2	Apparatus and method for semiconductor wafer bumping via injection molded solder An improved apparatus for semiconductor wafer bumping utilizes the injection molded solder process and is designed for high volume manufacturing. The apparatus includes equipment for filling patterned mold cavities on a mold structure with solder, equipment for positioning and aligning a patterned surface of a semiconductor structure directly opposite to the solder filled patterned mold cavities of the mold structure, a fixture tool for holding and transferring the aligned mold and semiconductor structures together, and equipment for receiving the fixture tool and transferring the solder from the aligned patterned mold cavities to the aligned patterned semiconductor first surface. The solder transfer equipment include a wafer heater stack configured to heat the semiconductor structure and a mold heater stack configured to heat the mold structure to a process temperature slightly above the solder's melting point. The fixture tool with the aligned mold and semiconductor structures is inserted between the wafer heater stack and the mold heater stack. A deposition chamber is formed between the wafer heater stack and the mold heater stack by sealing the wafer heater stack and the mold heater stack against the frame.
US07732318B2	Fabricating method for flat display device A fabricating method of a flat panel display device can reduce manufacturing costs of the flat panel display device. A fabricating method of a flat panel display device includes providing a conductive nanopowder thin film material having a first conductive nanopowder and a second conductive nanopowder, spreading the conductive nanopowder thin film material over a substrate, forming a conductive thin film pattern by patterning the conductive nanopowder thin film material, and forming a conductive thin film by baking the conductive thin film pattern, wherein the first conductive nanopowder is located in a middle of the conductive thin film and the second conductive nanopowder is located in an outer part of the conductive thin film.
US07732307B2	Method of forming amorphous TiN by thermal chemical vapor deposition (CVD) A modified TDEAT (tetrakisdiethylamino titanium) based MOCVD precursor for deposition of thin amorphous TiN:Si diffusion barrier layers. The TDEAT is doped with 10 at % Si using TDMAS (trisdimethlyaminosilane); the two liquids are found to form a stable solution when mixed together. Deposition occurs via pyrolysis of the vaporised precursor and NH3 on a heated substrate surface. Experimental results show that we have modified the precursor in such a way to reduce gas phase component of the deposition when compared to the unmodified TDEAT-NH3 reaction. Deposition temperatures were the range of 250-450° C. and under a range of process conditions the modified precursor shows improvements in coating conformality, a reduction in resistivity and an amorphous structure, as shown by TEM and XRD analysis. SIMS and scanning AES have shown that the film is essentially stoichiometric in Ti:N ratio and contains low levels of C (˜0.4 at %) and trace levels of incorporated Si (0.01
US07732303B2	Method for recycling of ion implantation monitor wafers A method of recycling monitor wafers. The method includes: (a) providing a semiconductor wafer which includes a dopant layer extending from a top surface of the wafer into the wafer a distance less than a thickness of the wafer, the dopant layer containing dopant species; after (a), (b) attaching an adhesive tape to a bottom surface of the wafer; after (b), (c) removing the dopant layer; and after (c), (d) removing the adhesive tape.
US07732302B2	Integrated sensor and circuitry and process therefor A micromachined sensor and a process for fabrication and vertical integration of a sensor and circuitry at wafer-level. The process entails processing a first wafer to incompletely define a sensing structure in a first surface thereof, processing a second wafer to define circuitry on a surface thereof, bonding the first and second wafers together, and then etching the first wafer to complete the sensing structure, including the release of a member relative to the second wafer. The first wafer is preferably a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafer, and the sensing structure preferably includes a member containing conductive and insulator layers of the SOI wafer. Sets of capacitively coupled elements are preferably formed from a first of the conductive layers to define a symmetric capacitive full-bridge structure.
US07732295B2	Post last wiring level inductor using patterned plate process A method of forming a semiconductor substrate. A substrate is provided. At least one metal wiring level is within the substrate. A first insulative layer is deposited on a surface of the substrate. A portion of a wire bond pad is formed within the first insulative layer. A second insulative layer is deposited on the first insulative layer. An inductor is within the second insulative layer using a patterned plate process. A remaining portion of the wire bond pad is formed within the second insulative layer, wherein at least a portion of the wire bond pad is substantially co-planar with the inductor.
US07732288B2	Method for fabricating a semiconductor structure A method for fabricating a semiconductor structure. The novel transistor structure comprises first and second source/drain (S/D) regions whose top surfaces are lower than a top surface of the channel region of the transistor structure. A semiconductor layer and a gate stack on the semiconductor layer are provided. The semiconductor layer includes (i) a channel region directly beneath the gate stack, and (ii) first and second semiconductor regions essentially not covered by the gate stack, and wherein the channel region is disposed between the first and second semiconductor regions. The first and second semiconductor regions are removed. Regions directly beneath the removed first and second semiconductor regions are removed so as to form first and second source/drain regions, respectively, such that top surfaces of the first and second source/drain regions are below a top surface of the channel region.
US07732287B2	Method of forming a body-tie A method of forming a body-tie. The method includes forming the body-tie during an STI scheme of an SOI process. During the STI scheme, a first trench is formed. The first trench stops before a buried oxide layer of the SOI substrate. The first trench may determine a height of body tie that is shared between at least two FETs. A second trench may also be formed within the first trench. The second trench stops in the SOI substrate. The second trench defines the location and shape of a body-tie. Once the location and shape of the body-tie are defined, an oxide is deposited above the body-tie. The deposited oxide prevents certain implants from entering the body tie. By preventing these implants, a source and a drain implant may be self-aligned to the source and drain areas without requiring the use of the photoresist mask to shield the body tie regions from the source and drain implant.
US07732279B2	Semiconductor device with improved overlay margin and method of manufacturing the same Semiconductor devices with an improved overlay margin and methods of manufacturing the same are provided. In one aspect, a method includes forming a buried bit line in a substrate; forming an isolation layer in the substrate to define an active region, the isolation layer being parallel to the bit line without overlapping the bit line; and forming a gate line including a gate pattern and a conductive line by forming the gate pattern in the active region and forming a conductive line that extends at a right angle to the bit line across the active region and is electrically connected to the gate pattern disposed thereunder. The gate pattern and the conductive line can be integrally formed.
US07732278B2	Split gate memory cell and method therefor A split gate memory cell has a select gate, a control gate, and a charge storage structure. The select gate includes a first portion located over the control gate and a second portion not located over the control gate. In one example, the first portion of the select gate has a sidewall aligned with a sidewall of the control gate and aligned with a sidewall of the charge storage structure. In one example, the control gate has a p-type conductivity. In one example, the gate can be programmed by a hot carrier injection operation and can be erased by a tunneling operation.
US07732273B2	Semiconductor device manufacturing method and semiconductor device A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device having a highly reliable capacitor, and the semiconductor device are provided. The semiconductor device manufacturing method according to the present invention includes: a first step of forming a first electrode of a capacitor on a semiconductor substrate; a second step of forming a capacitor insulating film on the whole surface including a side surface and an upper surface of the first electrode; a third step of forming a protection insulating film made of a material different from that of the capacitor insulating film, on the capacitor insulating film; a fourth step of removing the protection insulating film and the capacitor insulating film from the upper surface of the first electrode, by anisotropically etching the protection insulating film and the capacitor insulating film; a fifth step of removing the protection insulating film that remains on the side surface of the first electrode; and a sixth step of forming a second electrode of the capacitor on the capacitor insulating film, after removing the protection insulating film.
US07732267B2	Flat panel display device and fabricating method thereof A flat panel display device (FPD) and fabricating method thereof are disclosed, which reduce the number of masks during fabrication and prevent electro-chemical corrosion problems. In the FPD, a cell area and a pad area are defined on a substrate. A storage electrode traverses an active layer in parallel to a gate line. Source and drain regions of the active layer in the vicinity of both sides of a gate electrode are not formed below the storage electrode. An insulating interlayer over the substrate has first and second contact holes on the source and drain regions, respectively. A source electrode contacts the source region via a first contact hole and a drain electrode contacts the drain region via a second contact hole to directly contact a pixel electrode. A protective layer is disposed over the substrate including the pixel electrode.
US07732257B2	Semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same A semiconductor device and a fabricating method thereof are provided. The semiconductor device can include a first chip having transistors of only the NMOS type, a second chip having transistors of only the PMOS type, and an interconnection electrically connecting the first and second chips to each other. By forming NMOS and PMOS transistors on separate chips, the total number of implant photo processes can be decreased, thereby reducing the fabrication cost.
US07732256B2	Fabrication method of non-volatile memory A method of fabrication a non-volatile memory is provided. A stacked structure is formed on a substrate, the stacked structure including a gate dielectric layer and a control gate. Then, a first dielectric layer, a second dielectric layer and a third dielectric layer are respectively formed on the top and sidewalls of the stacked structure and the exposed substrate. Thereafter, a pair of charge storage layers are formed over the substrate to respectively cover a portion of the top and sidewalls of the stacked structure, and a gap exists between each of the charge storage layers.
US07732236B2	III nitride semiconductor crystal and manufacturing method thereof, III nitride semiconductor device manufacturing method thereof, and light emitting device The invention provides Group III nitride semiconductor crystals of a size appropriate for semiconductor devices and methods for manufacturing the same, Group III nitride semiconductor devices and methods for manufacturing the same, and light-emitting appliances. A method of manufacturing a Group III nitride semiconductor crystal includes a process of growing at least one Group III nitride semiconductor crystal substrate on a starting substrate, a process of growing at least one Group III nitride semiconductor crystal layer on the Group III nitride semiconductor crystal substrate, and a process of separating a Group III nitride semiconductor crystal, constituted by the Group III nitride semiconductor crystal substrate and the Group III nitride semiconductor crystal layer, from the starting substrate, and is characterized in that the Group III nitride semiconductor crystal is 10 μm or more but 600 μm or less in thickness, and is 0.2 mm or more but 50 mm or less in width.
US07732233B2	Method for making light emitting diode chip package The LED chip package of the present invention uses a semiconductor substrate as package substrate, which improves heat dissipation. Also, the LED chip package is incorporated with a planarization structure, which renders the LED chip and the substrate a substantially planar surface, thereby making formation of a planar patterned conductive layer possible. Accordingly, serial/parallel electrical connections between light emitting diode chips can be easily implemented by virtue of the planar patterned conductive layer.
US07732232B2	Series interconnected optoelectronic device module assembly Series interconnection of optoelectronic device modules is disclosed. Each device module includes an active layer disposed between a bottom electrode and a transparent conducting layer. An insulating layer is disposed between the bottom electrode of a first device module and a backside top electrode of the first device module. One or more vias are formed through the active layer, transparent conducting layer and insulating layer of the first device module. Sidewalls of the vias are coated with an insulating material such that a channel is formed through the insulating material to the backside top electrode of the first device module. The channel is at least partially filled with an electrically conductive material to form a plug that makes electrical contact between the transparent conducting layer and the backside top electrode of the first device module. Portions of the backside top electrode and insulating layer of a second device module are cut back to expose a portion of the bottom electrode of the second device module. The first and second device modules are attached to an insulating carrier substrate. Electrical contact is made between the backside top electrode of the first device module and the exposed portion of the bottom electrode of the second device module.
US07732227B2	Method and apparatus for wall film monitoring A wall film monitoring system includes first and second microwave mirrors in a plasma processing chamber each having a concave surface. The concave surface of the second mirror is oriented opposite the concave surface of the first mirror. A power source is coupled to the first mirror and configured to produce a microwave signal. A detector is coupled to at least one of the first mirror and the second mirror and configured to measure a vacuum resonance voltage of the microwave signal. A control system is connected to the detector that compares a first measured voltage and a second measured voltage and determines whether the second voltage exceeds a threshold value. A method of monitoring wall film in a plasma chamber includes loading a wafer in the chamber, setting a frequency of a microwave signal output to a resonance frequency, and measuring a first vacuum resonance voltage of the microwave signal. The method includes processing the wafer, measuring a second vacuum resonance voltage of the microwave signal, and determining whether the second measured voltage exceeds a threshold value using the first measured voltage as a reference value.
US07732225B2	Method for measuring contamination in liquids at PPQ levels A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes placing a sample of a liquid chemical containing a contaminant on a substantially impurity-free surface of a substrate. The liquid chemical is evaporated, leaving the contaminant on the surface. The contaminant is concentrated in a scanning solution, which is then evaporated to form a residue. A concentration of the contaminant in the residue is determined.
US07732224B2	Metal line pattern of semiconductor device and method of forming the same A method of forming a metal line pattern for a semiconductor device is provided. The method includes forming a preliminary structure on a semiconductor substrate, having a lower barrier metal layer, a metal layer, and an upper barrier and/or passivation layer having a first thickness; removing a top surface of the passivation layer so that the passivation layer has a second thickness; forming a sub-passivation layer on the passivation layer; forming an adhesion promoter and a photoresist pattern on the sub-passivation layer; and forming a metal line pattern by etching the preliminary structure using the photoresist pattern as an etching mask.
US07732209B2	Hyperactive, non-phosphorylated, mutant transposases of mariner mobile genetic elements The invention relates to hyperactive, non-phosphorylated, mutant transposases of mariner mobile genetic elements. The invention also relates to recombinant nucleotide sequences encoding such transposases. The invention further relates to a method of producing said transposases and to the use thereof for in vitro or in vivo transposition.
US07732205B2	Development and stratification of pine somatic embryos using a liquid system The invention provides methods for producing pine somatic embryos using a liquid development medium and/or a liquid stratification medium. In a first aspect, the methods comprise the step of culturing embryogenic cells in, or on, a liquid development medium to produce cotyledonary pine somatic embryos. In another aspect, the methods comprise the step of culturing pine cotyledonary somatic embryos in, or on, a liquid stratification medium to produce stratified cotyledonary somatic embryos. The invention also provides methods for producing pine somatic embryos in bioreactors.
US07732199B2	Process for making transplantable cardiomyocytes from human embryonic stem cells This invention provides populations human cells of the cardiomyocyte lineage. The cells are obtained by causing cultures of pluripotent stem cells to differentiate in vitro, and then harvesting cells with certain phenotypic features. Differentiated cells bear cell surface and morphologic markers characteristic of cardiomyocytes, and a proportion of them undergo spontaneous periodic contraction. Highly enriched populations of cardiomyocytes and their replicating precursors can be obtained, suitable for use in a variety of applications, such as drug screening and therapy for cardiac disease.
US07732188B2	Protozoan strains of reduced virulence and use thereof The present invention relates to a protozoan strain of the family of the Trypanosomatidae the virulence of which is lower than that of the corresponding wild-type strain, characterized in that at least one copy of the SIR2 gene present in the genome of the strain is inactivated.
US07732187B2	Recombinant attenuated clostridium organisms and vaccine The present invention discloses attenuated Clostridium perfringens organisms that express a substantially nontoxic alpha-toxin. The expressed alpha-toxin is a deletion mutein that relative to the alpha-toxin of the mature alpha-toxin of Clostridium perfringens strain 13, is missing at least nine consecutive amino acid residues including His68. The present invention also discloses attenuated organisms that encode the muteins, as well as the use of such attenuated organisms as vaccines.
US07732186B2	Recombinant methods and materials for producing epothilone and epothilone derivatives Recombinant nucleic acids that encode all or a portion of the epothilone polyketide synthase (PKS) are used to express recombinant PKS genes in host cells for the production of epothilones, epothilone derivatives, and polyketides that are useful as cancer chemotherapeutics, fungicides, and immunosuppressants.
US07732175B2	Method and circuit arrangement for treating biomaterial The invention relates to a method for treating biomaterial using at least one electrical field generated by a first voltage pulse which is terminated once the value for an electrical parameter has exceeded or dropped below a preset limit. After the first voltage pulse has been terminated, it is continued by an additional voltage pulse. The invention also relates to a circuit arrangement comprising at least one storage device for electrical charges to generate at least one voltage pulse by selectively discharging the storage device, and at least one control unit for controlling the discharge. The present invention provides a controller for monitoring the chronological progression of the voltage pulse. This controller controls at least one continuation of discharge after termination.
US07732171B2	Process for the preparation of dihydroxy esters and derivatives thereof A process is provided for the preparation of a compound of formula (1) wherein R and R′ represent optionally substituted hydrocarbyl groups and X represents a hydrocarbyl linking group. The process comprises either the stereoselective reduction of the keto group in a dihydroxy keto precursor followed by selective esterification of a primary hydroxy, or selective esterification of a primary hydroxy of a dihydroxy keto precursor followed by stereoselective reduction of the keto group.
US07732169B2	Method for detecting West Nile virus nucleic acids in the 5′ non-coding/capsid region Methods for detecting flavivirus nucleic acids. Particularly described are methods for detecting very low levels of West Nile virus nucleic acids in the 5′ non-coding/capsid region.

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