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US07810638B2	Packaging for cosmetic products, typically a compact, with an improved grip and that can be opened with a single hand Compact (1) for packaging cosmetic products for face care, the said compact comprising a cover (10) usually provided with an inner mirror (60) and a base (20) typically provided with an intermediate support for at least one cup that will contain a cosmetic product (70), the said base and the said cover each having a sidewall (11 and 21). The gripping area comprises two areas (22 and 23) located on the sidewall on each side of the plane of symmetry of the compact and having a height greater than the height of the remainder of the sidewall. Preferably, the sidewall (21) of the base (20) is made of elastomer, at least in the gripping area (22 and 23). The compact may comprise a side closer placed in the gripping area, under an elastomer layer. In another embodiment, the base comprises a flat base (25), a lip (50) acting as a sidewall (21) and a pusher (40) in the shape of an arc or U, trapped between the lip and the base.
US07810636B2	Conveyor chain A conveyor chain has outer and inner first link plates which run on the same side of the conveyor chain and second outer and inner link plates which run on a second side of the conveyor chain, the second side being opposite the first side, wherein the outer first link plates have a larger area than the inner first link plates.
US07810628B2	Apparatus for receiving and distributing cash The present invention relates to methods and systems for receiving and distributing currency. In particular, the present invention provides a novel apparatus for the inflow and outflow of a variety of currency. The systems of the present invention are capable of recycling a variety of currency from multiple countries and multiple denominations. The systems of the present invention have the added advantage of compact size.
US07810626B2	Vehicle transmission comprising a parking brake and method for controlling the same A vehicle transmission having shifting elements (A-E) and a parking brake for locking a drive train output and a method for controlling the transmission. Activation of the parking brake depends on a driver's control action. Deactivating the parking brake, when the vehicle is on a slope greater or lesser than a preset value and depending on the slope, a combination of shifting elements (A, D) or (B, D) frictionally slip, such that the output rotates against the strain on a parking brake locking element, caused by the slope, to partially eliminate this strain. Next, one of shifting elements (C, A or B) engages locking the output. The parking brake is then released and finally, the engaged shifting element (C or A or B) is disengaged in a regulated manner, such that the output can be driven according to the driver's control action.
US07810624B1	Centrifugal clutch with expansion ring assembly A centrifugal clutch for utilization with an engine of a motorcycle is disclosed herein. The centrifugal clutch includes a clutch basket, a cover plate, a hub, first clutch plates, second clutch plates and a dynamic expansion ring assembly having cam members. The dynamic expansion ring assembly imparts substantially equal expansion forces in opposite directions. A gap is present when the engine is at an idle speed and cam members are positioned radially inward, and the gap is not present when the engine is operating faster than idle and the cam members are positioned radially outward by centrifugal force.
US07810618B2	Vibration generator The invention relates to a vibration generator comprising a working piston and to a construction apparatus having a vibration generator, wherein the vibration generator is operated by a pressure fluid and comprises a control device having a control piston, which is supported in a displaceable manner inside the working piston.
US07810616B2	Electric direct-acting actuator and electric brake device An electric direct-acting actuator is proposed which can maintain a large power increasing function without mounting a separate speed reducer. A plurality of planetary rollers (7) are disposed between the radially outer surface of a rotor shaft (5) of an electric motor and the radially inner surface of an outer ring member (1) fixed in position around the rotor shaft (5) so as to be rotatable about the rotor shaft (5) and about their own axes when the rotor shaft (5) rotates. A helical rib is defined by a rib member (9) engaged in a helical groove (8) formed in the radially inner surface of the outer ring member (1). The helical rib is engaged in circumferential grooves (10) formed in the radially outer surface of each planetary roller (7) at the same pitch as the turns of the helical rib. Thus, the rotary motion of the rotor shaft (5) is converted to a linear motion of the planetary rollers (7), so that it is possible to ensure a large power increasing function without mounting a separate speed reducer.
US07810615B2	Brake disk A brake disk for a disk brake, in particular, for motor cycles or bicycles, includes a brake band of a first material which has a high heat resistance and an inner part (20) of a second material which has a lower density than the first material. The brake band and the inner part (20) each have a plurality of extensions, which in each case are arranged in pairs bordering one another. A plurality of connecting elements connect the brake band (10) to the inner part (20) by being received in recesses (13, 23) formed in the extensions. Thus, a divided brake disk has little deformation or wear in the region of the connection between the brake band and the inner part in combination with a low weight. Specifically, the recess (23) is formed in such a way that the connecting line (51) between the ends of the recess (23) is at an angle α of from 15 to 85° to the tangential direction (50).
US07810607B2	Electric power steering apparatus An electric power steering apparatus including a steering system into which steering torque is inputted, an electric motor for imparting steering assist force to the steering system, a controller for controlling a energizing state of the electric motor according to the steering torque, a terminal board electrically connected to the electric motor, and a control unit provided with a connector, wherein a mounting face of the electric motor with respect to the control unit, a mounting face of the terminal board with respect to the control unit, and a mounting face of the connector with respect to the control unit are arranged on a same plane.
US07810595B2	System and method for initiating operation of a fuel cell hybrid vehicle The present disclosure provides a method and system for powering a hybrid electric vehicle with a fuel cell, and in particular, efficiently initiating power generation in the fuel cell, the method and system comprising electrically connecting a battery to an ultracapacitor-based propulsion energy storage; using the battery to charge the propulsion energy storage to a predetermined voltage level for powering an air delivery compressor for a predetermined amount of time; disconnecting the battery from the propulsion energy storage; electrically connecting the propulsion energy storage to the air delivery compressor; operating the air delivery compressor using the charge on the propulsion energy storage to provide a predetermined quantity of air to the fuel cell; and causing the fuel cell to generate electricity.
US07810592B2	Light hybrid vehicle configuration The present invention provides a hybrid conversion module configured to easily attach to existing powertrain components in order to produce a light hybrid vehicle. The hybrid conversion module includes an electric motor/generator operable to transmit power to a torque converter and thereby drive the light hybrid vehicle. A storage device such as a battery is operatively connected to the electric motor/generator and is configured to transmit energy to or receive energy from the electric motor/generator. A clutch is configured to selectively decouple the light hybrid vehicle's engine from the torque converter such that the vehicle can be powered by the electric motor/generator in an efficient manner. The apparatus of the present invention also includes a light hybrid vehicle having such a hybrid conversion module attached in the manner described to a conventional powertrain.
US07810587B2	Drill bits comprising dual-phase tungsten carbide material The invention relates to a drill bit containing tungsten carbide powder having powder particles which have a core of cast tungsten carbide and a shell of tungsten monocarbide.
US07810585B2	Bi-directional rotary steerable system actuator assembly and method Methods and apparatuses to direct a drill bit of a directional drilling assembly are disclosed. The methods and apparatuses employ the use of bi-directional actuators that are capable of displacing a hybrid steering sleeve in positive and negative directions. The bi-directional actuators are capable of greater control and precision in their actuations than traditional “engaged-disengaged” unidirectional actuators, thereby allowing for more precise directional drilling operations. The bi-directional actuators are preferably driven by drilling fluids and may optionally be shielded to lessen the erosive effects thereof.
US07810576B2	Mobile smoke control and fire protection device A mobile smoke control and fire protection device for buildings is provided. The device comprises a sealing unit that can be applied to, or inside, an opening of a wall, a ceiling or a floor, is adapted to the opening in terms of the shape and size thereof, and is provided with at least one passage for people and/or at least one passage for tools, firefighting equipment, and the like. The passage for people and/or the passage for equipment can be least partially covered.
US07810574B2	Submersible pump puller and method of use An apparatus is shown for installing a pulling a submersible pump from a well bore where the pump is supported on a length of flexible tubing. The apparatus has a pivot frame located on a transportable base frame. A take up reel for the flexible tubing is also supported on the pivot frame by a pair of pivoting support arms. The take up reel is centered over the well bore by pivoting the reel on the support arms between a collapsed and a vertical work position. The reel can be further centered by pivoting the pivot frame in a horizontal plane relative to the base frame.
US07810573B2	Method for retrofitting a downhole drill string with a flow through subassembly and method for making same A method for retrofitting a downhole drill string with a flow through subassembly having a hollow outer body or barrel with a plurality of outwardly extending blades. Fluid flow inlets are provided in the lower section of the body below the blade openings and flow outlets are provided in an upper section above the blades. A fluid flow bypass channel is formed in the outer body and extends between said blades and from said fluid inlet to said fluid outlet. Drilling fluids outside of the subassembly may flow through the inlet, up the fluid flow bypass channel and out the outlet thereby bypassing any plug or pack-off formed between the subassembly and the well bore. Thus, an existing subassembly may be retrofitted to provide a fluid flow bypass channel around the blades.
US07810572B2	Method for delivering a multi phase mixture and pump installation The object of the invention is to improve delivery of the multi-phase mixture, in particular hydrocarbons from a well, and to limit the free gas volume. According to the invention, this object is attained in that a partial liquid flow (13) is split off on the pressure side from the main delivery flow and guided to the high-pressure side of at least one ejector pump (2) arranged on the suction side as an auxiliary delivery device. The pump installation provides a feed line (7) connecting the pressure chamber of the displacement pump (1) with the high-pressure side of at least one ejector pump (2), whereby the ejector pump (2) is arranged on the suction side in the delivery direction of the displacement pump (1).
US07810547B2	Single crystal seed A single crystal seed for use in casting a single crystal article, consisting essentially of, in weight %, about 5.0% to about 40.0% Mo, up to 0.1% C and balance essentially Ni wherein the seed is disposed in a casting mold for casting a single crystal article.
US07810543B2	Roller screen device A roller screen device includes a fixed sectional element (10) and a mobile sectional element (11) that is able to move parallel to the fixed sectional element inside a frame contained in which is a screen (13), the mobile sectional element (11) bearing a roller (12) inside it, wound on which is the screen (13), which, at the other end, is anchored to the fixed sectional element (10). Guide elements (14 and 24) for guiding the mobile sectional element (11) are positioned at the top and at the bottom of the screen (13) and fixed at one end to the mobile sectional element (11), while the other ends of the guide elements (14) slide into the fixed sectional element (10). Moreover provided is a system for tensioning the guides (14 and 24), which acts during the steps of opening and closing of the screen (13). The tensioning system includes a thread (20), which extends starting from the end (21) of the top guide (14) that slides in the fixed sectional element (10) towards and around a bottom roller (22) and from here to the end (23) of the bottom guide (24), which slides in the fixed sectional element (10), to proceed to and around a top roller (25) and from here to the end (21) of the top guide (14) so closing to form a loop.
US07810542B2	Flexible guide for a mosquito net A flexible guide (1) for a mosquito net (100) of a type which is fixable to a window opening, comprising a plurality of rigid adjacent links (2a, 2b, 200), in which each link (2a, 2b 200) exhibits a pair of opposite flanks (5a, 5b, 205) which between them receive the mosquito net (100), and a connecting portion (6, 206) arranged transversally and fixed to the flanks (5a, 5b), each link (2a, 2b, 200) being provided with a seating (4, 204) for receiving a flexible strap element (3, 203) in order to form, with adjacently-situated links (2a, 2b), a single chain.
US07810540B2	Hand-held electric sealer with dual heads A hand-held electric sealer with dual heads includes a seat, a sealing module, a press cover, a supporting casing, and a battery cover. The seat has a central engaging rod and a first replacement element. The sealing module can be attached to, or detached from, the seat. The press cover includes a central engaging piece, a heat insulation block, and a second replacement element. Through engagement of the central engaging piece with the central engaging rod, the press cover can be selectively swung to press the heat insulation block against the sealing module, or to press the second replacement element against the first replacement element. The first replacement element and the second replacement element can be substituted with an appropriate module element upon demand on various functions.
US07810536B2	Apparatus for positioning packing boxes An apparatus for positioning packing boxes relative to a covering sheet comprises a belt for conveying the sheet from a gluing unit to a device for centering the box on the pre-glued sheet and optical sensors for identifying the position of the sheet on a belt conveyor surface, the belt being made with at least two regions of the conveyor surface having contrasting colors.
US07810535B2	Pneumatic radial tire Provided is an ultra-low profile pneumatic radial tire for SUV or the like having an aspect ration of 55% or less and a tire outer diameter of 720 mm or more, which has improved load durability while managing a weight reduction without deteriorating driveability. A carcass layer (4) thereof is configured as a single ply, and both ends thereof are folded back around left and right bead cores (7) so as to wrap bead fillers (8). A folded-back portion (4t) is wrapped on the inner side of an end of a belt layer (5) in a range not greater than 10% of the maximum width of the belt layer (5). The hardness of the bead fillers is 65 to 80 in terms of JIS durometer A hardness, and a height hb of the bead fillers (8) from a bead base is brought to 10 to 20% of the height H of a tire cross-section.
US07810520B2	Connector for articulated hydrocarbon fluid transfer arm A hydrocarbon transfer system includes a first structure carrying an articulated arm, having at a free end a first connector part, and a vessel having a second connector part, each connector part including a coupling member. The coupling member of the first connector part supporting at least one fluid duct on its exterior, which duct can be placed into sealing engagement with a fluid duct on the vessel along respective sealing faces, and a locking member for locking the coupling members together. The fluid duct on the vessel has a substantially horizontally directed first and second duct section. The first duct section is connected to piping on the vessel. The second duct section is connected to the fluid duct on the coupling member of the first connector part, the first and second duct sections being mutually connected.
US07810518B2	Sub-sea solenoid valves A solenoid-operated valve comprises an inlet valve member which is disposed to close in response to fluid pressure at an inlet port. A venting valve member is disposed relative to the inlet valve member so that closure of either valve member lifts the other. The valve includes at least one coil within which is a tubular assembly that forms a chamber with an operating space for the venting valve member and contains an armature for striking a rear part of the venting valve member when the coil is energised. The chamber includes a flux tube which provides a path for magnetic flux in parallel with the armature, the flux tube terminating before a region where the armature strikes the rear part of the venting valve member. A non-magnetic ring surrounds this region so that the density of the magnetic flux is increased in this region to increase the force with which the armature can strike the rear part of the venting valve member.
US07810516B2	Control of fluid conditions in bulk fluid distribution systems An improved bulk fluid distribution for supplying process fluids to semiconductor process tools. The improved system having an alternating pressure vessel engine substantially eliminates pressure fluctuations in the bulk fluid supply line due to head losses from the changing weight of the fluid in the dispensing vessels. The system also enables flexible control of the flow conditions of the fluid in the fluid supply line.
US07810513B1	Substrate preparation using megasonic coupling fluid meniscus and methods, apparatus, and systems for implementing the same An apparatus for preparing a substrate is provided. The apparatus includes a proximity head and a megasonic proximity head. The proximity head is configured to be applied to a substrate frontside and is capable of generating a preparation meniscus on the substrate frontside. The preparation meniscus includes a preparation chemistry that is configured to remove a material defined on the substrate frontside. The megasonic proximity head is configured to be applied to a substrate backside, and is capable of generating a coupling meniscus on the substrate backside. The megasonic proximity head is further capable of imparting megasonic energy to the coupling meniscus. The megasonic energy imparted to the coupling meniscus is configured to enhance a mass transport of the preparation chemistry through a material to be removed on the substrate frontside.
US07810511B2	Lens cleaner A device may include a receiving surface to receive a cleaning device adapted to clean a surface of a lens when the device is proximate to the surface of the lens. The device may further include a mounting surface to moveably support the device on a host surface, where the host surface further supports a lens. The mounting surface may further maintain the device in a first position that maintains the cleaning device proximate to the surface of the lens to remove a foreign object from the surface of the lens, and maintain the device in a second position that maintains the cleaning device away from the surface of the lens to allow the lens to receive optical information related to a subject.
US07810510B2	Packaging and applicator assembly for mascara and its use in applying mascara Package/applicator for mascara, comprising a receptacle of axis XX and a wall, defining an inside space, the top portion of the wall being stiffened, and the bottom portion of the wall being flexible and capable of being moved from an expanded position to a squeezed position, a closure for temporarily closing said receptacle; a head, that is mounted on a stem, that is secured to the closure and that is capable of being put into contact with mascara, in the closed position, such that the volume defined by the bottom portion represents 15% to 60% of the total volume defined by the wall Alternatively, the package/applicator is such that the major fraction of the head is facing the stiffened portion, perpendicularly relative to axis XX.
US07810501B2	Orthotic device for preventing and/or correcting deformational posterior plagiocephaly The present invention is a simple, adaptable orthotic device that can correct and/or prevent deformational posterior plagiocephaly, especially if used before the infant is 4 months of age. The manufactured article provides an anatomically correcting, adjustable, concave-shaped resting surface for an infant's head in a manner that effectively eliminates uneven pressure on the infant's occiput. The orthotic device has a module design which permits easy adjustments of the devices' head cavity to accommodate differences in individual infant head size and shape, thereby providing the infant's head with a custom fit. Also, as the infant continues to grow in size, the adjustable head cavity and torso recess features of the orthotic device allow the contoured spatial volume and dimensions of the molded supporting surfaces to expand as the infant's calvaria grow; and thereby facilitate a progressive, normalization and rounding of the infant's occiput.
US07810500B2	Female condom An improved female condom apparatus includes a pouch that has a wall, an open end, a closed end and a frame. The frame is positioned proximate the open end of the pouch and extends around a perimeter of the open end. An anchoring device is located within the pouch proximate the closed end to secure the condom in position during use. A harness includes a center strap and may include side straps. One end of each strap is secured to the open end of the pouch. Further, one or more of the straps may be detachable from the pouch. At least the center strap may be constructed of a resilient and/or pliable material. As such, during use the center strap extends between a user's legs and resiliently engages the user's back in a clamping or tensioning action. This clamping action assists in securing the condom in position during use.
US07810496B2	Method and apparatus for providing positive airway pressure to a patient A system including methods and apparatus for treatment of a medical disorder such as obstructive sleep apnea or congestive heart failure. The system involves applying a gain to flow rate of pressurized gas delivered to a patient during inspiratory and/or expiratory phases of a respiratory cycle to deliver the pressurized gas in proportion to the respective gains during inspiration and/or expiration. A base pressure may be applied in addition to the gain-modified pressures and an elevated pressure profile may be employed to assist or control inspiration. The system may be fully automated responsive to feedback provided by a flow sensor that determines the estimated patient flow rate. A leak computer can be included to instantaneously calculate gas leakage from the system. The system may be utilized in connection with conventional continuous positive airway pressure treatments, such as CPAP or bi-level positive airway pressure equipment to effect various beneficial treatment applications.
US07810494B2	Dry powder inhaler An Inhaler for delivering an aerosolized dose of a powdered drug for inhalation by a user is disclosed. The inhaler comprises a drug entrainment device vice to a receive a package having a piercable lid containing a dose to be delivered, the device including a drug outlet tube terminating with a primary piercing element to pierce an opening in said lid when a package is located in the inhaler, a secondary piercing member to pierce a plurality of peripheral openings in said lid and, an airflow path to enable the supply of a charge of gas into the package via said peripheral openings to scour the interior of a pierced package such that all or substantially all of the dose is entrained in the gas and flows out of the package via the drug outlet tube. A medicament pack is also disclosed.
US07810489B2	Solar air conditioner A solar air conditioner includes an inlet assembly (20), an outlet assembly (30), a solar collector assembly (10), and a plurality of connecting assemblies (14) connecting the solar collectors, and the inlet and the outlet assemblies together. The solar collector assembly includes a plurality of solar collectors (12). Each of the solar collectors has a bottom plate (124), a heat-absorbing unit (123) mounted on the bottom plate, and a transparent panel (121) positioned on the heat-absorbing unit. The heat-absorbing unit divides an inner space of the solar collector into an upper heat-storage cavity (125) and a lower heat-absorbing cavity (125). The inlet and outlet assemblies seal two ends of the upper heat-storage cavity and communicate with two ends of the lower heat-absorbing cavity.
US07810478B2	System and method for facilitating homogeneous charge compression ignition A method of transitioning between homogeneous charge compression ignition and spark ignition in a combustion chamber of an engine that is configured for homogeneous charge compression ignition under at least some engine operating conditions and for spark ignition under at least some engine operating conditions, the method comprising heating contents of the combustion chamber with a glow plug prior to transitioning between homogeneous charge compression ignition and spark ignition.
US07810473B2	Control device and method for internal combustion engine This control device for an internal combustion engine includes a variable intake valve device and a variable exhaust valve device; and it performs fuel cut-off for a plurality of cylinders of the internal combustion engine. And it further includes: an intake valve control means which, when the fuel cut-off execution condition has come into effect, controls the variable intake valve device, so as to keep in a closed state the intake valve of a cylinder, for which an exhaust valve is not kept in a closed state; and an exhaust valve control means which, when the fuel cut-off execution condition has come into effect, controls the variable exhaust valve device, so as to keep in an open state an exhaust valve of at least a pair of cylinders, between which gases in the pair of cylinders come and go via an exhaust passage as the pistons operate.
US07810468B2	Controller and control system for internal combustion engine A requested injection time InjT that is necessary for a fuel injector to inject a fuel per one combustion cycle is computed in response to variables of an accelerator manipulated by a driver. An injectable time InjMax per one combustion cycle is computed on the basis of an engine speed, and whether the requested injection time InjT is larger than the injectable time InjMax is determined. Then, when it is positively determined that the requested injection time InjT is larger than the injectable time InjMax, the fuel pump is subjected to load-up operation so as to increase a fuel feed pressure.
US07810463B2	Quick restart HCCI internal combustion engine The invention relates to an internal combustion engine operable in homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) combustion mode and in conventional spark ignited combustion mode and a method for restart of HCCI combustion therein. Whilst cranking the exhaust valve is arranged to be closed before top dead center (TDC) during an exhaust stroke. The intake valve is arranged to be opened after TDC during an induction stroke. Fuel injection control means are arranged to perform a first fuel injection after closing of the exhaust valve and before TDC of the exhaust stroke. The ignition control means are arranged to cause said spark plug to ignite the first injected quantity of fuel before said opening of the intake valve. The fuel injection control means are arranged to perform at least one further fuel injection in the interval after TDC of the exhaust stroke and before TDC of a subsequent compression stroke.
US07810454B2	Animal breeding plant The inventive animal breeding plant comprises an animal stall area (1a-1f), means (11) for sharply flushing a cleaning fluid in said area in order to wash it and a channel which is used for recovering a mixture formed by said cleaning fluid and wastes flushed thereby and is arranged in front of said flushing means with respect to said area. The flushing means comprise at least one bucket (11) which is movably mounted between filling and flushing positions and whose shape is selected such that, when the filling level thereof with the cleaning fluid attains a predetermined threshold, the gravity center of the thus filled bucket (11) is shifted to such a point that the bucket (11) is tilted from said filling position to the flushing position in such a way that the fluid is sharply flushed in the area (1a-1f).
US07810448B2	Apparatus and method for the treating of workpieces The invention relates to an apparatus and a method for the coating of hollow bodies, in particular for the internal coating of plastic drinks bottles by means of a PICVD. It is an object of the invention to ensure a flexible process sequence, a high throughput, an improved supply of fluid and a high-quality coating. The invention in particular proposes a rotary apparatus which comprises a treatment device with double reactors for receiving in each case at least one workpiece, a fluid supply apparatus and at least one fluid control device, which can be used to control the supply of fluid to the treatment device. It is preferable for the vacuum pumps to be arranged on the rotor such that they rotate therewith.
US07810435B2	Power regulation device for model railway system A power regulation device and method for a model railway system is provided. The device comprises inputs that connect to a supply of a digital command control (DCC) waveform and to a track section to be powered by the DCC waveform. The device comprises a current measuring circuit that measures current flow associated with the DCC waveform supplied at the inputs. A switch is connected between the inputs and outputs that are in turn connected to respective rails of the track section. A controller is provided that analyzes a current measurement signal produced by the current measuring circuit and controls the switch to disconnect supply of the DCC waveform to the outputs when a true over-current condition is detected. The device may also comprise an auto-reversing function to accommodate reverse loop track sections.
US07810434B2	Heated ski lift The present invention is an improved ski lift. The ski lift contains a solar power source which is attached to one or more heating elements. The heating elements heat a passenger's hands during transit up the mountain. As a result, the passenger is made more comfortable during transit, increasing his or her overall skiing experience.
US07810433B2	Device for the assembly and disassembly of a fastening device, more preferably a rail fastening device on a support body The invention describes a device for the assembly and disassembly of a fastening device, more preferably of a rail fastening device on a support body, wherein the device is designed as screw adapter and the screw adapter is to be placed on the rail fastening device.The invention is based on developing a device for the assembly and disassembly of a rail fastening device which sits on the fastening device with an accurate fit and largely guarantees automated screwing in and screwing out of the fastening device in existing engagement stages.According to the invention this is achieved in that the screw adapter comprising an engagement pin at its stem, in the contact surface of its main body possesses a centrally arranged recess to accommodate the head of a fastening element, wherein the main body on both sides next to this recess comprises two mounting pockets designed trough-shaped as well as a stop.
US07810430B2	Wireless detonator assemblies, corresponding blasting apparatuses, and methods of blasting A wireless or partially wireless detonator assembly (10) and corresponding blasting apparatus, that may be “powered Up” by a remote source of power (13) that is entirely distinct from the energy used for general command signal communications (16). In one embodiment, the detonator assembly (10) may include an active power source (25) with sufficient power for communications, but insufficient power to cause intentional or inadvertent actuation of the detonator (10).
US07810428B2	Method of manufacturing pre-inked stamps and stamp member At stamp manufacturing blank printing plate (3) and inked porous base plate are brought to contact for the moment of creation of printing pattern. Blank stamping member for pre-inked stamp consisting from blank printing plate (3), made from porous thermo-plastic material, printing plate's case (1) and porous base plate (2), filled by ink. Printing plate is attached to the case, but separated from the inked base plate by air clearance, due to what the printing plate is free from ink up to the creation of printing pattern onto its surface, whereas supporting elements (5) are used, that prevent the said air clearance to collapse spontaneously. When the stamping member is compressed in flash moulding machine, the printing plate is pressed against the inked base plate and become inked.
US07810426B2	Device for preparing froth A device for preparing froth, in particular for preparing milk froth by means of hot steam output by a domestic coffee machine, contains an elongate nozzle body having a rear end and a front end, which can be connected in the region of its rear end to a hot steam source and which has an outlet nozzle in the region of its front end. A casing sleeve having a rear end and a front end surrounds the nozzle body and has an air intake opening in the region of its rear end and an outlet opening in the region of its front end, an intermediate space being formed between the nozzle body and the casing sleeve. An outer sleeve surrounds the casing sleeve at least in the region of the rear end of the casing sleeve.
US07810425B1	System for processing grains, carbohydrates, sugars, and oilseeds The present invention includes a method apparatus and system for processing grains, sugars, carbohydrates and oilseeds. Specifically, the present invention includes a method and apparatus for fermenting carbohydrates from grains to produce ethanol.
US07810423B2	Gas operated firearm action delay device The invention relates to a device for delaying the gas action operated firearm. The device includes a gas chamber and an outlet, wherein the outlet is in fluid communication with the action tube of the firearm. The device has a port in fluid communication between the gas chamber and the barrel and a one-way check valve in the port. A gas release valve is included and is disposed on the container and in fluid communication with the gas chamber and the outlet. The device further includes linkage attached to the gas release valve and in mechanical communication with the bolt, such that when the gas release valve is in the closed position, gas is retained in the gas chamber and the linkage blocks the bolt from moving, and when the gas release valve is in the open position the linkage unblocks the bolt permitting normal gas action of the firearm.
US07810419B2	Rotating log clamp A rotating log saw clamp for clamping a product roll to be sawn. The rotating log saw clamp includes a first portion disposed for rotation about an axis and a second portion disposed for rotation with the first portion and movable relative to the first portion between an open position and a clamping position. The second portion is rotatable from the clamping position to the open position by relative rotation of the first and second rotating portions in a common direction.
US07810414B2	Depth adjustment device for power tool A depth adjustment device is mounted to a front end of a power tool, having a coupling member fixed to the front end of the power tool, a hollow stationary sleeve, and a hollow adjustment sleeve. The coupling member includes a limit recess and a lock recess at an external periphery thereof. The stationary sleeve is sleeved onto the coupling member, having two first lock portions corresponding to the limit recess, a springy part formed at a rear end thereof, and a second lock portion formed at a distal end of the springy part. The first lock portions are stopped against the lock recess. The second lock portion is locked to the lock recess. The adjustment sleeve includes a lip portion at a front end thereof for lying against a surface of a workpiece and is threadably connected with the stationary sleeve to be movably mounted to the stationary sleeve.
US07810413B2	Hexagon spanner handle for increasing turning force A hexagon spanner handle of the present invention includes a handle whose three edges are inwardly concaved respectively so as to form three shaft-like bodies at three triangle points. The handle has plural hexagonal apertures in different sizes arranged along the three shaft-like bodies. One plane surface of the handle has three position-limiting slots which are respectively located in three shaft-like bodies and outwardly extended along the shaft-like body and are communicating with the hexagonal apertures. The bottom of each position-limiting slot has plural indentations in different widths, and a magnetic body is located at the end of the position-limiting slot. Thereby, each hexagonal aperture can be inserted by the short leg of corresponding hexagon spanner, and the position-limiting slot can receive the long leg of the hexagon spanner with the magnetic body attracts thereof for fixing, so that the handle can be assembled with hexagon spanners in different standards.
US07810407B2	Fixed type constant velocity joint A fixed type constant velocity joint has a plurality of torque transmitting ball tacks, the torsional angle at the input torque 0 Nm in a torque-torsional angle diagram be approximately 0. Further, the torsional rigidity in the vicinity of input torque 0 Nm in the torque-torsional angle diagram is placed in a range of 1.5 Nm/deg to 6 Nm/deg.
US07810397B2	Tuft gripping strength test method and apparatus for carpet primary backing mats A test method for measuring yarn and tuft or loop gripping strength characteristics and capability of tufted nonwoven primary backing mats for making tufted carpets, the tufted primary backing mat having no additional binder or adhesive on the backside of the mat prior to making tufted carpet is disclosed. The test apparatus and test method can be used for quality control purposes and for evaluation of experimental or new candidates for primary backing mats for making interim tufted products for carpets that are more resistant to tuft or loop defects. Revealed is a new and critical Quality Knee characteristic of primary backing mats that is crucial for minimizing tuft or loop defects during the tufting process and also the force magnitude on the yarn necessary to pop the tuft completely out of the primary backing mat sample.
US07810396B2	Test device for electronic product A test device for an electronic product includes a vertical pressing pole having a pushing end. The test device also includes a movable platform with a sticking point, wherein upward movement of the movable platform moves the vertical pressing pole upwards by the sticking point. The vertical pressing pole passes through a balance weight which rests on the sticking point. A pressurized platform bears pressure from the pushing end, when the pushing end is pushed onto the pressurized platform. A load-bearing platform supports the pressurized platform and the electronic product located below the pressurized platform. The product is pressed between the pressurized platform and the load-bearing platform due to the pressure from the pushing end lying on the pressurized platform. When the movable platform is further moved downwards after the pushing end is on the pressurized platform, the sticking point bearing the balance weight is separate from the movable platform.
US07810395B2	Ultrasonic pressure sensor and method of operating the same An ultrasonic pressure sensor and a method of detecting ultrasonic pressure. In one embodiment, the ultrasonic pressure sensor includes: (1) an interferometer having a reference arm and a signal arm that includes a probing fiber, the probing fiber having a reflective coating at a distal end thereof and configured to couple to ultrasonic waves proximate the distal end, the interferometer configured to receive laser light and produce two output beams based on the ultrasonic waves and (2) a photodetector coupled to the interferometer and configured to generate electronic signals based on the two output beams.
US07810393B2	Method for determining linear acceleration and device for its implementation The present technical solution for determining linear acceleration, the vector whereof is considered to be at a tangent to a trajectory of movement of a moving object, is based on determining new differences of accelerations. It is considered to be the basis for efficient, accurate, with the threshold of sensitivity equal to zero in small-size option solving the tasks of autonomous navigation, piloting, stabilization and etc. Said solution is irrespective of disturbance factors, in particular, cross-axis and centrifugal accelerations, vibrations, temperature and others, and can be used without any gyroscopes.
US07810391B2	Aerodynamic hood lift and deflection measurement device An aerodynamic hood lift deflection measurement device includes an airfoil body mounted to a front vehicle fender such that a portion of the airfoil body held over the vehicle hood. A laser measurement device is secured to the airfoil body in a position so as to be directly over the vehicle hood. The airfoil body is mounted at an angle such that a length direction of the airfoil body is parallel to an air flow direction. The resultant disruption of the air flow surrounding the vehicle hood is minimized due to the shape and positioning of the measurement device.
US07810382B2	Method and device for determining material properties The invention relates to a method of determining material properties of a contact formed between a measurement tip of a microscopic probe and a sample surface of a sample material. According to the method, a distance modulation is applied for modulating a distance between a support of the microscopic probe end the sample surface in a direction essentially normal to the sample surface and wherein a normal force signal indicative of a normal force is measured and demodulated. In the method it is proposed that the material properties be determined using measurement data comprised in the demodulated normal force signal and related to a (concave) buckling deformation of the microscopic probe relative to and away from the sample surface.
US07810381B2	Hydrostatically compensated deep sea probe with shear strain gauges A hydrostatically compensated soil resistance probe includes a cylindrical body having a distal tip for insertion into a material, a plurality of load gates for transitioning an axial load on said cylindrical body to a shear load, and a plurality of shear load sensors to measure a transverse loading on said probe due to an axial loading. The axial loading can be the result of the resistance on the probe tip to the insertion of the probe in the soil, or the frictional forces acting on a friction sleeve as the probe passes through the soil.
US07810377B2	Method and device for testing the sealing tightness of tear-off lids In a linear transport device (30) for tear-off lids (20), the latter are tested for the impermeability of the seal and the foil in a test device (9) that is integrated into the linear transport device. The lid is fixed between a pressure chamber (43) and a measuring chamber (47, 48, 49) in an airtight manner and a test pressure is applied to the lid from the underside. An air-permeable support (47) in the measuring chamber exerts pressure on the upper face of the lid and any increase in air pressure in the measuring chamber caused by a degree of permeability is detected and evaluated by a sensor (55). A burst test can be carried out in the same test device.
US07810373B2	MEMS shock sensors A shock sensor comprises a substrate and at least one flexure coupled to the substrate and configured to deflect upon an application of force to the shock sensor sufficient to deflect the flexure. Deflection of the at least one flexure produces a detectable change in an electrical property of the shock sensor. Examples of detectable changes in an electrical property of the shock sensor include an open circuit condition, a closed circuit condition, and a variation in voltage of a piezo-electric detector. In some embodiments, the change in the electrical property of the shock sensor may be remotely read by interrogation of a radio frequency identification transponder positioned on the substrate using a remote radio frequency identification transceiver. The disclosure also relates to a shock sensing system and method of shock detection.
US07810372B1	Payout-glide-flakeoff apparatus for characterizing deodorant and antiperspirant sticks An apparatus and system for characterizing and quantifying certain attributes of antiperspirants and deodorants is provided, such as payout, friction, and flakeoff. The apparatus is capable of reproducibly applying antiperspirants and deodorant to a substrate.
US07810363B2	Electric steering locking apparatus An electric steering locking apparatus includes a cam plate (5) that rotates in an unlocking direction (R1) and a locking direction (R2) by driving operation of a motor unit, and a locking shaft (8) that follows a sliding surface (6) of the cam plate (5) and that moves between a locking position where the rotation of a steering shaft is prevented and an unlocking position where the rotation of the steering shaft is permitted. The cam plate (5) is set such that a rotation center (O) coincides with a center of gravity (G).
US07810359B2	Headband with tension indicator A headband with a tension indicator having an elastic segment sized to fit around a wearer's head; and a non-elastic segment being smaller than and attached with the elastic segment. The non-elastic segment is sized to span a portion of the elastic segment when the elastic segment is stretched, and the non-elastic segment is larger than the portion of the elastic segment it spans when the elastic segment is not stretched. The non-elastic segment is attached with the elastic segment in such a manner that the non-elastic segment projects out from the surface of the elastic portion when the headband is not sufficiently tight, thus creating a loop which provides a visual indication that the headband needs re-tightening.
US07810358B2	Latch-type needle with sliding surface A latch-type needle that is particularly suitable for knitting machines that work without sinkers includes a latch that preferably carries on its outermost end a cam or extension, the cam or extension is provided with a sliding surface. The sliding surface may move along a complementary sliding or runner surface and temporarily prevent the latch from pivoting out of its open position, for example. A corresponding wear of material is concentrated on the sliding surface. A damage, deformation or impairment of other parts of the spoon or latch head, in particular of either of its edges, is prevented.
US07810357B2	Knitting machine without holding-down sinkers A knitting machine in accordance with the invention includes a thread guide that is associated with a runner. The runner is disposed to hold open the latches of driven out needles of a first group while the needles of a second group are being driven out. Due to the time-staggered driving-out of the latch-type needles and of a first group and a second group, and due to the alternating arrangement of the needles of the first group and the second group, a rising of the knit fabric while the needles are being driven out is prevented without the assistance of holding-down/knock-over sinkers. Inasmuch as a runner that is separate from the thread guide is used for holding open the latches, the position of said runner can be optimally adjusted independent of the position of the thread guide.
US07810356B2	Process and apparatus for producing porous quartz glass base The present invention provides a process for producing a porous quartz glass base, which comprises hydrolyzing a silicon compound in an oxyhydrogen flame in a reaction furnace to generate and deposit fine silica particles on a starting member, thereby forming a porous quartz glass base, wherein a gas discharge pipe for discharging an unnecessary gas from the reaction furnace is heated. According to the present invention, fine silica particles can be prevented from adhering to a gas discharge pipe for discharging the unnecessary hydrogen chloride gas generated in producing a porous quartz glass base.
US07810349B2	Rapid fluid cooling apparatus and method An apparatus and method are provided for rapidly cooling small volumes of fluids. The apparatus includes a plurality of cooling elements each including a housing forming a sealable cooling fluid chamber which can house a cooling fluid. At least one spacer is arranged to separate opposed cooling elements and provide a separation distance between the opposed cooling elements. Each of the plurality of cooling elements is arranged to be independently separable to allow ready assembly, disassembly, and cleaning. The plurality of cooling elements can include a stack of disc-shaped cooling elements or concentric cylinders that can be situated in a container and rotated by a motor.
US07810337B2	Method to re-engage start of dynamoelectric machine A method of starting a gas turbine engine with a synchronous multiphase alternating current (AC) dynamoelectric machine with a rotor and a stator that allows re-engagement of a starting operation at non-zero rotor speeds comprises the steps of: applying electrical excitation to the rotor; measuring electromotive force (EMF) generated in the stator; determining rotor speed, acceleration and position from the measured EMF by sensorless means; initiating closed-loop sensorless position controlled power to the stator if the determined rotor speed is at least a pre-determined minimum closed-loop sensorless re-engagement speed; initiating open-loop position controlled power to the stator if the determined rotor speed is less than the pre-determined minimum closed-loop sensorless re-engagement speed but at least a predetermined minimum open-loop re-engagement speed and the determined rotor acceleration is no more than a pre-determined maximum open-loop re-engagement acceleration; and initiating open-loop zero-speed start power to the stator if the determined rotor speed is less than the predetermined minimum open-loop re-engagement speed.
US07810323B2	Load control device for engine of work vehicle A device for use in a work vehicle such as a wheel loader, capable of reliably preventing engine stall due to rapid application of high hydraulic load, without causing problems such as deterioration in fuel efficiency or vehicle performance and waste of energy. When determining that an engine speed detected by the engine speed detecting sensor has been decreased to the threshold value or lower, the controller implements a control to reduce the absorption torque of the variable displacement hydraulic pump. The hydraulic load is thus shifted to a low hydraulic load line. The change of the hydraulic load from the high hydraulic load to the low hydraulic load gives a margin to the current torque of the engine with respect to the low hydraulic load. Consequently, the actual speed of the engine is increased to return onto the regulation line, exceeding the threshold value.
US07810314B2	Approach for controlling particulate matter in an engine A method for operating an engine comprises correlating a measured property associated with a carbon nanostructure layer to an amount of particulate matter from an exhaust stream of the engine. In this way, engine operation may be adjusted based on an amount of sensed particulate matter.
US07810312B2	Heat exchanger arrangement In certain circumstances recovery of a fluid flow presented through a heat exchanger into another flow can create problems with respect to drag and loss of thrust. In gas turbine engines heat exchangers are utilized for providing cooling of other flows such as in relation to compressor air taken from the core of the engine and utilized for cabin ventilation and de-icing functions. By providing an outlet valve through an outlet duct in a wall of a housing the exhaust fluid flow from the heat exchanger can be returned to the by-pass flow with reduced drag effects whilst recovering thrust. The valve may take the form of a flap displaceable into the by-pass flow before an exit plan to create a reduction in static pressure drawing fluid flow through the heat exchanger.
US07810310B2	Integrated coal gasification combined cycle plant An IGCC plant which can improve the power generation efficiency and which can suppress the emission of sulfur components and dust into the atmosphere is provided. The IGCC plant described above has a coal gasifier for converting pulverized coal to a syngas; an exhaust heat recovery boiler generating steam; a gas turbine system which is operated by the syngas and which supplies a combustion exhaust gas to the exhaust heat recovery boiler; a steam turbine system operated by the steam generated by the exhaust heat recovery boiler; a power generator connected to the gas turbine system and/or the steam turbine system; a desulfurization device for removing sulfur components from the combustion exhaust gas discharged from the exhaust heat recovery boiler; and a wet-type electric precipitator for removing sulfur components and dust.
US07810308B2	Method of producing a low twist towel The invention relates to a method for producing a towel, specifically a low twist towel, comprising the following steps: Z twisting a thick yarn and separately Z twisting a fine count yarn; unevenly S twisting the Z-twisted yarns to make the volume of the thick yarn more than that of the fine count; weaving the yarn to produce a fabric; processing the fabric with hot water to reduce inner tension in the yarn and make the fabric become fluffy. Fabric produced by this method can solve the dependency on PVA, reduce energy consumption and material consumption, and prevent water pollution. This method for producing a low twist towel is environmentally friendly, healthy, and energy saving.
US07810301B2	Ice bagging apparatus In accordance with the principles of the present invention, an ice-bagging apparatus and method are provided. The apparatus comprises an ice maker for making ice and hopper for receiving the ice from the ice maker. The apparatus further includes a drawer system, operatively associated with the hopper, for measuring the ice and delivering of the ice. The drawer system includes top door and drawer. A bag delivery mechanism for placing the ice in a bag is also included, with the bag delivery mechanism including a bag supply mechanism, a blower engaged to open the mouth of the bag to receive the product, and a sealer that seals the open mouth of the bag once the bag is filled with the ice. A control device is included that manages and monitors the drawer and bag delivery mechanism and allows transmission of the collected data to the Internet.
US07810288B2	Cladding method and system for buildings A cladding system for cladding a supporting structure, the cladding system includes two cladding panels each defining a respective substantially laterally extending panel flange. The cladding panels are attachable to the supporting structure in a substantially coplanar and side-by-side relationship relatively to each other. The system also includes a cladding moulding insertable between the first and second cladding panel, the cladding moulding defining a moulding base and two moulding legs each extending from the moulding base substantially opposed to each other, the two moulding legs being angled relatively to the moulding base, each of the moulding legs defining a respective leg edge substantially opposed to the moulding base. The cladding moulding being substantially resiliently deformable between an undeformed configuration and a deformed configuration, the moulding legs being spaced apart from each other by a smaller distance in the deformed configuration than in the undeformed configuration. The substantially resilient deformation of the cladding moulding allows for snapping the cladding moulding in place between the first and second cladding panels after the first and second cladding panels have been attached to the supporting structure and the removal the cladding moulding from the supporting structure while leaving the cladding panels in place by deforming the cladding moulding into the deformed configuration and sliding the cladding moulding through the gap formed between adjacent panel flanges.
US07810283B2	Exterior pocket door An exterior pocket door of simple design is provided that can be used for commercial and residential exterior building applications. The exterior pocket includes a door frame structure having a top head jamb coupled to a bottom sill plate by a left wall jamb and a right wall jamb. A first exterior wall panel and a second exterior wall panel are coupled to an outside face of the frame structure and a first interior wall panel and a second interior wall panel coupled to an inside face of the frame structure. A first sliding door unit and a second sliding door unit are mounted within the door frame structure to be moveable between an open position and a closed position. The first exterior wall panel and the first interior wall panel form a first pocket in which the first sliding door unit is located in the open position, and the second exterior wall panel and the second interior wall panel form a second pocket in which the second sliding door unit is located in the open position.
US07810280B2	Automatic opening/closing apparatus for vehicle The force from a drive rod driven by an electric motor is transmitted via a link arm pivotally linked to the drive rod and a back door. When the back door is operated in an open direction, the link arm is supported by an open-side support slider and the acting direction of the force applied to the link arm by the drive rod is shifted to the opening direction of the back door. When the back door is operated in a closing direction, the link arm is supported by a closed-side support slider and a closed-side support roller and the acting direction of the force applied to the link arm by the drive rod is shifted to the closing-direction of the back door. The open-side and closed-side support sliders are pressed against the link arm by leaf spring members so that the link arm is prevented from oscillating between the sliders.
US07810277B2	Lawn edging with integral electrical conductor and clip connectors A lawn edging strip includes imbedded conductors which can be used to conduct low voltage electricity to allow the lawn edging to double as a lighting strip. The lawn edging product enables solderless connection of one or more low voltage lights at points along the length of the edging using a light socket body with a plug adapted for insertion into holes formed in the strip to expose embedded conductors. Adjacent sections of lawn edging may be connected together physically and electrically.
US07810275B2	Root growth barrier and method A root growth barrier and method for use with transplantable plants is provided. The barrier is a bilayer, comprising an inner layer of a root-tip-trapping material bonded to an outer layer of a root-impenetrable material. The inner layer faces the roots of a plant and serves to trap root tips to promote root branching. When a black or dark-colored inner layer is bonded to a white or light colored reflective outer layer, soil temperatures are lower and water retention is promoted. Such a barrier may be used as a freestanding container for plants or be manufactured into preformed rolls for use in plant pots and containers.
US07810260B2	Control system for tool coupling A control system for a tool coupling of the type that attaches a tool to an excavator dipper stick and provides for rotation of the tool with respect to the dipper stick about an axis, and further provides for tilting of the tool, includes a rotation sensor and a tilt sensor. The rotation sensor is mounted on the coupling for determining the amount of rotation of the tool with respect to the dipper stick about an axis. The tilt sensor is mounted on the coupling for determining the amount of tilt of the tool with respect to gravity. A control is responsive to the rotation sensor and to the tilt sensor for determining the orientation of the tool.
US07810257B2	Article of footwear with removable upper An article of footwear includes a sole assembly having a midsole having an upper surface, a frame recess and a first registration recess being formed in the upper surface. A frame member is seated in the frame recess, and has a first end secured to the midsole, a second end free of the midsole, and a first registration member extending downwardly from a lower surface of the frame member. The first registration member is received in the first registration recess. An upper is removably attached to the sole assembly, and has a pocket on a bottom surface thereof, with the second end of the frame member being received in the pocket.
US07810252B2	Laminate and method for making laminate A method of insert molding comprises placing in a first mold a curable rubber composition comprising a reactive species; placing on a surface of the rubber composition a first thermoplastic material in a film or layer comprising a group reactive with the reactive species of the rubber composition; curing the rubber composition in the mold to form a first molded article of cured rubber having a first thermoplastic material layer covalently bonded through reactive of the reactive species and the group; placing the first molded article as an insert into a second mold, the cured rubber contacting an inside surface of the second mold and the thermoplastic layer facing into the second mold cavity; closing the second mold and injecting into the second mold a second thermoplastic material that to form a second molded article comprising the first molded article thermally welded and/or covalently bonded to the second thermoplastic material.
US07810249B2	Program to make of cutting data for inner face of dental prosthesis To remove an undercut part from three-dimensional data of the inner face, the program includes a surface model creating means to create a surface model based on three-dimensional data of a gypsum model including an abutment tooth, a cutting direction specifying means to specify a direction of a cutting bar, and a surface model creating means to create a surface model for machining by changing the three-dimensional data to have new coordinates by determining a base axis in parallel with the cutting bar in the surface model and plane moving coordinates of the cutting bar, and converting the coordinates of a point which becomes an undercut part, to be equal to the plane moving coordinates of a point having a high height from a specified face rectangular to the base axis at the opposite side of the occlusion face and a long distance from the base axis.
US07810246B2	Bolt as-builter survey cone Survey tool for performing as-built survey measurements with improved accuracy by engaging with and centering on stationary fasteners. The survey tool has a substantially conical receiver with a narrow end and a wide end, the wide end adapted for centering on stationary fasteners of various sizes. A connector is coupled to the narrow end of the conical receiver and is adapted for engaging a rod.
US07810232B2	Method of manufacturing a circuit board A printed circuit board and manufacturing method thereof. A printed circuit board has an insulation substrate, which includes an insulation layer, a circuit pattern formed on one side of the insulation layer, and an interlayer passage joined to the insulation layer and configured to electrically connect with the circuit pattern, and a heat-release layer, which is stacked on the other side of the insulation layer to be stacked on the insulation substrate, can provide a high heat-releasing effect and high bending strength, by means of inner layers or ground layers formed by the heat-release layers.
US07810222B2	Method for protecting a connection interface in a computer-docking assembly A method for protecting a connection interface in a computer-docking assembly in which a computer-support assembly is partially rotated about an arm assembly while moving the computer-support assembly toward a connection interface of the base station. The computer-support assembly is generally aligned with the connection interface of the base station to posture the computer-support assembly in proximity to the interface connection of the base station for protecting the interface connection.
US07810220B2	Coupling device A coupling device for engagement with an anchor member is provided. The coupling device includes a lever that moves between a closed position that substantially covers the mouth of the device and an open position in which the mouth is substantially uncovered by the lever. The lever may be moved to the open position by camming forces or by direct manipulation of a portion of the lever by a user. The coupling device may include a cover with a recognizable shape such as a pet or fictional character. The protruding ears and/or head of the recognizable shape aid in the gripping and operation of the device and the mouth receives the anchor member.
US07810217B2	Gin saw stand with adjustable seed roll retaining member A saw type gin stand for separating cotton lint from seed cotton in which the improvement comprises one or more of the inwardly facing surfaces of the roll box being movably adapted to re-shape the roll box. Specifically the inner surface of the roll box door member and a seed roll retaining member are adjustable during operation of the gin to re-shape the shape of the gin to optimize performance and, when the breast is opened, to retain the seed roll within the roll box and prevent pieces of the seed roll from breaking off of the roll.
US07810214B2	Automatically opening hinge assembly for portable electronic devices A hinge assembly (200) includes a housing (12), a shaft (11), a fixing pin (14), a transposition mechanism (13) and a first spring (16). The housing has a circumferential wall defining a manual slot (121) and an automatic slot (123). Each of the manual slot and the automatic slot runs through a circumferential wall thereof. The shaft defines a pin hole (1141), and the shaft is engaged in the housing. The fixing pin passes through the pin hole of the shaft. One end of the fixing pin is alternatively received in the manual slot or the automatic slot. The transposition mechanism is configured for switching the pin from the manual slot to the automatic slot. The first spring provides an elastic force causing the housing to move relative to the shaft when the pin breaks away from the manual slot.
US07810212B2	Furniture hinge with damping device Furniture hinge with damping device which is insertable into the box of the hinge and fixable therein before the box is assembled with the other components of the hinge. In this way the damping device is protected against external actions, such as impact or pressure that can damage or affect the functioning of the device, by the same box made of steel or of another rigid material.
US07810200B2	Electric toothbrush An electric toothbrush wherein the number of revolution of a motor shaft is in match with the frequency of reciprocating motion of the brush. A motor (2) housed in a tubular case (1) is coupled to a reciprocating shaft (5) slidably extending through the forward end of the case by a scotch yoke mechanism (40) for converting one turn of rotation of the motor shaft (21) into one stroke of reciprocating pivotal movement of a pivotal body (4), and by motion conversion means (3) for converting one stroke of reciprocating movement of the pivotal body (4) into one stroke of linear reciprocating motion of the reciprocating shaft (5).
US07810199B2	Electric toothbrush and toothbrush head for the same A toothbrush head of an electric toothbrush, the toothbrush extending longitudinally and having a hand part, the toothbrush head including a drive rocker, a brush-head carrier coupled to the drive rocker, a main bristle carrier and an additional bristle carrier, both carriers bearing a bristle arrangement and moveably attached to the brush-head carrier and driven in oscillation by the drive rocker, and a drive-coupler affixed to at least one of the bristle carriers and coupled to the drive rocker. The head can include two separately mounted bristle carriers, supporting bristle arrangements, which are driven about different movement axes by the drive rocker to enhance the cleaning action of the toothbrush.
US07810198B2	Wheelchair lift apparatus The present invention is directed to a wheelchair lift apparatus (1) for mounting to a vehicle, e.g., to a bus or a railway car, comprising a platform (2) having a bridge plate (3) pivotally hinged thereon, said platform (2) being retained by at least one carriage (5), said carriage (5) being carried for travel into and out of a housing (50) of the vehicle, said carriage (5) with the platform (2) being connected by two hinge arms (4) disposed on either side of the platform, said carriage (5) comprising at least one drive (6) for connection to the hinge arms (4), said bridge plate being pivotally carried in the platform (2) through a pivot axis (20), a push rod linkage (10), which is positively coupled at one end to the at least one hinge arm (4) and which is connected for rotation of the pivot axis (20) to the pivot axis (20) of the bridge plate (3) at the other end being provided, a limit stop (30) acting onto the pivot axis (20) being provided, said limit stop being spring-loaded for the bridge plate (3) to be swung open by the spring-loaded limit stop when the ramp platform is deployed.
US07810197B1	Illuminated cable ramp Cable ramps are illuminated in an effort to increase awareness of the ramp thereby decreasing the risk of a person tripping or entanglement with the ramp. Light sources (e.g., light emitting diodes) are placed at various locations on a cable ramp and illuminate the cable ramp helping users to see it, particularly in dark conditions. In one exemplary embodiment, the cable ramp has a movable lid, and at least one light source is positioned such that light emitted from the light source passes through the movable lid.
US07810192B2	Head support pillow A pillow having a pillow body including a flat cushion and a flexible cover covering the surface of the pillow body. The pillow body includes a central portion defining a back head support and side head supports located on left and right sides of the back head support. The back head support includes a first slit extending in a widthwise direction and a second slit and a third slit extending so as to be inclined relative to the first slit.
US07810187B2	Patient handling system whereby a patient table top can move over a table base A patient handling system comprising a table top (6) for carrying a lying patient (8). The table top (6) is supported by a table base (1) and the table top (6) can move in longitudinal direction over said table base (1) so that at least a part of the table top (6) can be displaced to a position away from said table base (1). At least a portion (1;4) of said table base (1), to which portion (1;4) the table top (6) is movably attached, can be displaced in substantially said longitudinal direction in which the table top (6) can move. Thereby, said table top (6) can be displaced in longitudinal direction over a distance which is larger than the length of the table top (6).
US07810182B1	Animated-figures-rocked cradle for amusing and rocking an infant An animated-figures-rocked cradle for amusing and rocking an infant. The animated-figures-rocked cradle includes a cradle and a pair of animated figures. The cradle is pivotally mounted to the pair of animated figures and holds the infant. The pair of animated figures amuse the infant and support and rock the cradle.
US07810180B2	Baby bathtub chair & kit An infant high chair adapted for feeding, entertaining, cleaning, and attending to an infants waste evacuation needs within the safe confines of a bathtub. The chair has four telescoping legs for variable elevation of and supporting a seat with an orthogonal back disposed thereon and having an enlarged hole centered on the seat for passage of the infant's waste to a potty slidably disposed thereunder. A pair of telescoping arms depend orthogonally from the back to a distal cross member from which depend a pair of telescoping legs for support of the arms, thereby providing an enclosure for the infant while seated or standing therein. The arms of the enclosure concomitantly provide a structure to support a play and or eating table/tray.
US07810175B2	Swimming goggles Swimming goggles have a left frame and a right frame respectively receiving lenses therein, a connecting bridge between the left frame and the right frame, a head strap, and buckles for supporting the head strap. Each buckle comprises an assembling frame and a strap frame pivotably assembled to each other. The assembling frame includes a pivoting shaft, an abutting arm extending from the pivoting shaft, and a resilient arm extending from the pivoting shaft and opposite to the abutting arm. Branches respectively extend from opposite sides of the resilient arm. A first controlling arm and a second controlling arm are formed on outward sides of the assembling frame and adjacent to the branches for controlling the branches. The strap frame defines a pivoting orifice for pivoting to the pivoting shaft, and a guiding hole for guiding the head strap. The head strap is operated by a couple of fingers, making manual operation ergonomic.
US07810172B2	Garment for accomodating medical devices A garment for accommodating medical devices comprises a garment panel detachably coupled to a garment body. The garment panel contains a concealed pocket suitable for accommodating one or more medical devices. The garment panel is detachable from the garment body at predetermined attachment zones which provide access to device sites and permit complete detachment of the garment panel. The panel may also be fixed to the garment body at anchor zones, while allowing decoupling at attachment zones. The pocket may contain an inner compartment for receiving a supplemental material such as an absorbing or deodorizing material. Apertures to the inner compartment allow the supplemental material to proximate device sites on the patient body or medical apparatus stored in the pocket. Stabilizers positioned on the interior of the garment may be used to secure medical monitor wires, tubing, or other devices. The garment is intended for wear by children and adults.
US07814561B2	Managing device access in a software partition A system and method to manage device access in a software partition are provided. The illustrative embodiments provide a mechanism for exporting resources/devices from an administrator partition to a software partition in its purview. A trusted device list data structure is provided that identifies which devices are permitted to be exported into a software partition from an administrative partition. This trusted device list data structure also identifies which of the devices in the list of devices should be exported by default when exporting devices to a software partition, i.e. if no overrides are specified. In addition, a user-specifiable mechanism to override the entries in the trusted device list data structure is provided. For security purposes, this mechanism may not be used to export devices not listed in the trusted device list data structure. The mechanism may also be used to prevent the exporting of devices which are exported by default.
US07814544B1	API-profile guided unpacking An executable program including packed code is launched in an API-monitored environment, such as a sandboxed environment, in which each call to an API issued by the executable program is intercepted. A packer API profile list including one or more packer API profiles identifying associated sets of one or more APIs utilized by an associated known packer to unpack packed code is accessed. The executable program is allowed to run so long as the executable program issues calls to APIs within an API set of a packer API profile in the packer API profile list. When the executable program issues a call to an API not within an API set of a packer API profile in said packer API profile list, the packed code is assumed to be unpacked in memory as a memory image. The memory image is evaluated, e.g., scanned, for malicious code, and upon detection of malicious code, protective action is taken.
US07814535B1	Method and apparatus for peer-to-peer compliancy validation in secure managed networks Method and apparatus for peer-to-peer compliancy validation in secure managed networks. Embodiments may provide a peer compliancy mechanism that may augment compliancy control conventionally implemented on one or more trusted servers. Embodiments may enable nodes seeking admission to a secure managed network to communicate with a trusted node or nodes on the secure managed network for at least some compliancy functions including, but not limited to, health validation and remediation, thus reducing the load and reliance on central compliancy servers in the secure managed network.
US07814528B2	System and method for performing broadcast like data communication between networked nodes A method of transmitting image data from one node to another in a network includes obtaining image data in the node, transmitting the image data to the other node via an IEEE 1394 serial bus using one of isochronous transfer and asynchronous stream, and controlling the other node to form an image in accordance with the image data.
US07814507B2	Method for controlling ball auto-balance system of optical disk drive A method for controlling a ball auto-balancing system of an optical disk drive is provided. A rotational member is fixed on a rotating axis of an optical disk drive and rotates synchronously therewith. A spindle motor drives the rotational member to accelerate and decelerate within the rotating speed range at least twice. When the spindle motor accelerates and decelerates for many times, if the measured central error value is greater than the last measured one, the accelerating and decelerating range is adjusted.
US07814503B2	Optical disk device and adjusting method thereof An adjustment holding portion (21) for adjusting the inclination of a guide shaft (22) guiding an optical pickup (2) in a radial direction with respect to a base (1) is mounted to the base (22) at a first supporting point (1n), a second supporting point (23) and a third supporting point (24). When the optical pickup (2) is located at a first position on the inner circumference side of the optical disk, the shaft-receiving portion (2c) of the optical pickup (2) is located on a line connecting the first supporting point and the second supporting point. When the optical pickup (2) is located at a second position on the outer circumference side of the optical disk, the shaft-receiving portion (2c) of the optical pickup (2) is located on a line connecting the first supporting point and the third supporting point.
US07814493B2	Resource presentation convergence A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that, in an embodiment, find duplicate resource identifiers that originate from different applications, converge the duplicate resource identifiers into a converged interface object, and present the converged interface object. The duplicate resource identifiers identify the same resource, and the different applications manage the same resource. Duplicate links associated with the duplicate resource identifiers are found, where the duplicate links originate from different applications, and the duplicate links are converged into a converged interface object. The duplicate links provide information regarding the same resource. Duplicate task identifiers are found that are associated with the duplicate resource identifiers and that originate from the different applications. The duplicate task identifiers are converged into a converged interface object. The duplicate task identifiers identify tasks that are performed by the different applications via the same resource. In an embodiment, the duplicate resource identifiers and duplicate task identifiers may be found based on a convergence level. Invocation options are presented for the different applications in response to selection of the converged interface object. A most critical status associated with the duplicate resource identifiers is determined and presented.
US07814491B1	Method and apparatus for managing system resources using a container model A method for managing system resources including creating a container, wherein creating the container comprises allocating a first portion of a first resource to the container, associating the container with a resource pool, wherein the resource pool is associated with the first resource, determining whether the first portion of the first resource is valid, and activating the container if the first portion of the first resource is valid.
US07814488B1	Quickly reacquirable locks Techniques are provided for quickly reacquiring mutual exclusion locks (QRLs), such as in the case in which a single process repeatedly acquires and releases the lock and in which no other process attempts to acquire the same lock. When the first holder of a QRL first acquires the lock, it biases the lock to itself. Bias may be directed in different way or at different times in some realizations. Biasing may involve a one-time compare-and-swap instruction. Thereafter, this bias-holder can reacquire and release the lock free of atomic read-modify-write operations. If a second process attempts to acquire a QRL, then the lock may revert to a “default lock”. Any standard mutual exclusion lock may be used as the default lock. A QRL lock may be reinitialized so that it can be rebiased. Rebiasing may be valuable in the case of migratory data access patterns.
US07814481B1	Method and system for minimal disruption during software upgrade or reload of a network device A method and system for resetting a network device. Specifically, in one embodiment, a method is disclosed for upgrading and/or reloading software for a network device with minimal disruption. The method begins by separating operations associated with layer two of an International Standardization Organization Open Systems Interconnect (ISO/OSI) reference model from other layers in the ISO/OSI reference model in a network device. Then, the software operations in layer two of the network device are reset. The software operations are reset while maintaining continuity for a communication session between the network device and other network devices coupled together through a network. Thereafter, for minimal disruption, execution of the software operations is recovered at layer two before continuity of the communication session s terminated.
US07814480B2	Control software updating technique for a network apparatus A network apparatus has first and second controllers that are coupled via communication channel, and is coupled to a network by the first controller. In order to update the firmware of this first controller, the first controller obtains update data for updating via the network and transfers the obtained data to the second controller. The second controller stores the update data transferred from the first controller in a storage device incorporated in the second controller. After the entirety of the update data has been stored in the storage device by the second controller, the second controller transfers the update data to the first controller. The first controller updates the firmware for the first controller using the update data transferred from the second controller.
US07814479B2	Simultaneous download to multiple targets Provided are a techniques for processing a download. Under control of a first target device, a download command is received via a first communication medium that indicates that an update is to be downloaded. The download command is issued to a second target device via a second communication medium, wherein the second communication medium is a private device communication medium that enables private communication between the first target device and the second target device. The update is received via the first communication medium. In response to determining that the update has been downloaded, run with the update.
US07814477B2	Packaging system for customizing software In one embodiment, a system for customizing executable software code is provided. The system can include a scan logic configured to scan the executable software code to determine an execution trigger point in the executable software code. A packager logic can be configured to alter the execution trigger point by embedding, into the executable software code, alternative code configured to cause a customized logic to execute at the execution trigger point.
US07814476B2	Systems and methods for updating software Systems and methods are disclosed for updating a software program through base image patching. In an exemplary method for base image patching, the method includes receiving a patch, retrieving a base image, wherein the base image corresponds to a base version of a software program, and combining the base image with the patch to create an updated program. In another exemplary method, the method includes receiving an updating patch, wherein the updating patch is used to create an updated software program, retrieving a patch from a repository, wherein the patch is a previous update to a stored program, distilling a base image of the stored program using the previous patch, combining the base image with the updating patch to create an updated program, and replacing the stored program with the updated program.
US07814460B2	Hierarchical modular software packages and associated development tool A hierarchical modular software development tool provides a graphical user interface to allow development of hierarchical module software components. The software development tool allows graphical creation of a software component processing hierarchy and then generates a software component using this specified processing hierarchy. The packages developed using this tool are able to include event modules that allow sub-branches of the software component processing hierarchy to be executed without requiring processing of modules of the software component hierarchy that precede the event nodes. Further nodes that are able to be included in the processing hierarchy include action nodes, that contain operational software, and conditional nodes that allow condition testing and conditional execution of processing branches.
US07814459B2	System and method for automated on demand replication setup A method of automatic replication setup is disclosed. The method allows the business application user to focus on the requirements posed by the business application and to abstract from the low level infrastructure details. Information specific to the databases and infrastructure design decisions can be provided by a subject matter expert. By automating the requirements analysis and infrastructure setup process, the time to deliver can be decreased significantly and the potential for errors reduced.
US07814451B2	Incremental relative slack timing force model Simultaneous Dynamical Integration modeling techniques are applied to global placement of elements of integrated circuits as described by netlists specifying interconnection of morphable-devices. Solutions to a system of coupled ordinary differential equations in accordance with Newtonian mechanics are approximated by numerical integration. A resultant time-evolving system of nodes moves through a continuous location space in continuous time, and is used to derive placements of the morphable-devices having one-to-one correspondences with the nodes. Nodes under the influence of net attractive forces, computed based on the interconnections between the morphable devices, tend to coalesce into well-organized topologies. Nodes are also affected by spreading forces determined by density fields that are developed based on local spatial node populations.
US07814450B2	Active skew control of a digital phase-lock loop using delay lock-loops Systems and methods for transmitting a signal having a desired phase at the device are disclosed. The systems and methods further include determining a signal path length to a device over a transmission line and adding a delay to a signal to be transmitted over the transmission line. The determination is made in response to determining the path length to the device.
US07814448B2	Representing and propagating a variational voltage waveform in statistical static timing analysis of digital circuits An approach that represents and propagates a variational voltage waveform in statistical static timing analysis of digital circuits is described. In one embodiment, there is a statistical static timing analysis tool for analyzing digital circuit designs. The statistical static timing analysis tool includes a variational waveform modeling component that is configured to generate a variational waveform model that approximate arbitrary waveform transformations of waveforms at nodes of a digital circuit. The variational waveform model transforms a nominal waveform into a perturbed waveform in accordance with a plurality of waveform transformation operators that account for variations that occur between the nominal waveform and the perturbed waveform. A variational waveform propagating component is configured to propagate variational waveforms through a timing arc from at least one input to at least one output of the digital circuit in accordance with the variational waveform model.
US07814440B2	Method for controlling display of indicators in wireless mobile terminal A method for allowing users to set a display of desired indicator icons indicating states of a wireless mobile terminal such as a battery status and a received signal strength. The method includes the steps of selecting an indicator setting menu, selecting an indicator icon desired by a user, selecting a display mode of the indicator icon, and then determining whether to apply or cancel the indicator icon's selection.
US07814438B2	Contact page A computing system and a user interface display requested data corresponding with a contact at a display device. The requested data includes contact information, communication histories, and files associated with the contact. The requested data is obtained from one or more contact information directories located locally and/or remotely from the computing system. The user interface also displays contact-centric tasks that may be engaged in between the user and the contact based upon the capabilities of the corresponding computing systems or that can be performed on a contact. Some of the contact information can be edited with an edit mode of the user interface. The contact may be a person, group, organization, or household.
US07814435B2	Method and apparatus for displaying local brand icons for navigation system A method and apparatus for a navigation system displays local brand icons in such a way that a user not familiar with the local brand icons can tell the types of business that the brand icons represent through graphic representations on a screen of the navigation system. The method includes the step of creating an icon database regarding generic icons and brand icons where the icon database includes information for distinguishing a local brand icon from a national brand icon, displaying the icons over a map image on a screen of a navigation system, detecting whether there is any local brand icon displayed on the screen, and indicating a business category of a business entity using the local brand icon when the local brand icon is detected on the screen.
US07814432B2	Method and system for image rendering including polymorphic image data in a graphical user interface A method and system are provided for developing images for use in a graphical user interface. In one implementation, the method includes displaying a graphical user interface on a display device, and providing an operating system on a computer that is in communication with the display device. The operating system includes an imaging object structure that is an abstract base class from which subclasses of text imaging objects, picture imaging objects, and pattern imaging objects are derivable. The subclasses of text imaging objects, picture imaging objects, and pattern imaging objects are used to respectively generate text imaging objects, picture imaging objects, and pattern imaging objects for display in the graphical user interface.
US07814422B2	Reproduction apparatus, reproduction method and recording method A BD-ROM has recorded therein an AV Clip generated by multiplexing a video stream and a graphics stream. The graphics stream represents an interactive display to be overlayed with the video stream, and includes a sequence of three Button State groups. The interactive display includes a plurality of buttons, each of which changes from a normal state to a selected state, and from the selected state to an active state, according to a user operation. In the three Button State groups in the graphics stream, the first-order group (N-ODSs) is made of a plurality of pieces of graphics data, which represent normal states of the buttons, the second-order group (S-ODSs) is made of a plurality of pieces of graphics data, which represent selected states of the buttons, and the third-order group (A-ODSs) is made of a plurality of pieces of graphics data, which represent active states of the buttons.
US07814419B2	Changing an orientation of a user interface via a course of motion The invention relates to a method for changing an orientation of a User Interface (UI), the method comprises the steps of detecting a course of motion that is performed on the UI, and changing the orientation of the UI with respect to a device in which the UI is integrated according to the detected course of motion. The course of motion that is performed on the UI may for instance be the dragging of an element across a touch-screen display or the drawing of a gesture on a touch-screen display. The invention further relates to a device, a mobile phone, a computer program and a computer program product.
US07814413B2	System and method for controlling web pages In one embodiment, a system for controlling content on a web page is provided. In the embodiment, the system includes a display map configured to identify selected content to be displayed to a selected position within one or more web pages. Moreover, the system includes a web page control logic configured to display content to one or more web pages based on the display mapping where the displayed content can be reorganized by modifying the display mapping without modifying the web page control logic.
US07814411B2	Method and apparatus for adapting external controls to a portal design A method and apparatus for adapting the looks of an at least one control developed in an environment to a portal developed in a different environment. The apparatus and method enable the preview of a component comprising the control without deploying the changes to the portal, so other users can continue using the component in an uninterrupted manner until deployment.
US07814400B2	Digital broadcasting transmission apparatus and inserting method of information for receiver demodulation thereof A digital broadcasting transmission apparatus and an inserting method of information for receiver demodulation thereof. The digital broadcasting transmission apparatus includes: a turbo coder performing turbo coding on a transport stream (TS) a field sync signal generator inserting information for receiver demodulation into a reserved area of a field sync signal; and a multiplexer adding the field sync signal into which the information for receiver demodulation has been inserted and a segment sync signal to the turbo coded TS to form a data frame. Accordingly, a reception apparatus can precisely determine the information for receiver demodulation and thus provides an improved reception performance.
US07814395B2	Rewrite strategy and methods and systems for error correction in high-density recording Strategy and methodology by which the various error sources are taken into account and methods applied to compensate substantially entirely for such errors and/or diminish the effect of such errors.
US07814392B2	System, apparatus and methods of dynamically determined error correction codes in communication systems A code designer unit may dynamically determine an error correction code having a performance for current conditions of a communication channel that substantially matches a current desired performance. The code designer unit may dynamically determine the error correction code at least by automatically estimating the performance of the code for the current channel conditions. Information relating to the error correction code may be provided to a transmitter code generator to generate a representation of the error correction code for encoding, and information relating to the error correction code may be provided to a receiver code generator to generate a representation of the error correction code for decoding. In the example of low-density parity-check codes, the information relating to the error correction code may be a common randomness source and definition of an ensemble of low-density parity-check codes an average performance of which substantially matches the current desired performance.
US07814384B2	Electrical diagnostic circuit and method for the testing and/or the diagnostic analysis of an integrated circuit An electrical diagnostic circuit and testing method is disclosed. In one embodiment, the electrical diagnostic circuit for testing an integrated circuit includes a number of external inputs, a plurality of essentially similar, series-connected switching units and a circuit output. The switching units are constructed to be controllable in such a manner that an input signal present at the internal input of the switching unit, in dependence on a control signal of the switching unit, can either be forwarded unchanged to the internal input of the switching unit in each case arranged downstream, or can be combined with the test signal in each case present at the external input.
US07814382B2	Fully-buffered dual in-line memory module with fault correction A memory module comprises first memory that includes memory blocks, second memory, and non-volatile memory. A control module, during testing of at least one of the memory blocks having a first address, stores data from the at least one of the memory blocks in the second memory at a second address and stores the first and second addresses in the non-volatile memory. Content addressable memory (CAM) stores addresses of defective memory locations in the first memory and stores and retrieves data for the defective memory locations.
US07814366B2	On-demand CPU licensing activation A method and apparatus for on-demand CPU licensing. An embodiment of a processor license system includes an agent to determine that a computer processing element in a computer system is faulty or unreliable. The system further includes an activation license manager. The activation license manager provides automatic activation of a spare computer processing element for the computer system upon a determination by the agent that the computer processing element is faulty or unreliable.
US07814361B2	System and method for synchronizing redundant data in a storage array Systems and methods for synchronizing redundant data in a storage array are disclosed. In accordance with a method, a pointer indicating the amount of data synchronized between a first storage resource to a second storage resource may be maintained and a power event may be detected. In response to the detection of the power event, an attempt may be made to flush a write cache associated with the second storage resource to transfer data from the write cache to a non-volatile storage area of the second storage resource. A determination may be made whether the attempt to flush the write cache is successful. In response to determining that the attempt to flush the write cache is successful, a flag may be set to indicate that the pointer accurately indicates the amount of data mirrored from the first storage resource to the non-volatile storage area of the second storage resource.
US07814358B2	Electronic apparatus capable of outputting data in predetermined timing regardless of contents of input data Simply constituted electronic apparatus that can definitely output an outputted data after predetermined length of time from a time when an inputted data processing is started, even if data processing time of the inputted data varies with the contents of the data.
US07814355B2	System, electronic device and method for timely receiving and displaying electronic files A method for timely receiving and displaying electronic files is provided. The method includes: providing an electronic device being electrically coupled to an electronic sending device, the electronic device comprising a receiving unit and a main part, the main part being in one of a “power-on” state and a “power-off” state; receiving a want-to-send signal from the electronic sending device with the receiving unit; determining the main part is in the “power-on” state or in the “power-off” state via the power controlling unit; providing power supply to the main part under control of the receiving unit if the main part is in the “power-off” state; sending a ready-to-receive signal to inform the electronic sending device of sending an electronic file; receiving the electronic file from the electronic sending device with the receiving unit; displaying the electronic file with the main part.
US07814345B2	Gate drive voltage selection for a voltage regulator A system comprises a load and a voltage regulator. The voltage regulator is configured to select a gate drive signal from among a plurality of input voltages. The voltage regulator is configured to use the selected gate drive signal to turn on a power transistor to produce a regulated voltage for the load.
US07814340B2	Power management mechanism in system for supplying power over communication link System and methodology for managing power supplied to powered devices over communication links, such as Ethernet links. A power supply system has multiple power supply ports for providing power to respective powered devices via multiple communication links. A power-in-use bus shared by the multiple power supply ports is configured for receiving a power-in-use signal representing total amount of power being used by the powered devices. Multiple port control circuits associated with the power supply ports are responsive to the power-in-use signal for controlling supply of power to the respective powered devices.
US07814339B2	Leakage power estimation Methods and apparatus to provide leakage power estimation are described. In one embodiment, one or more sensed temperature values (108) and one or more voltage values (110) are utilized to determine the leakage power of an integrated circuit (IC) component. Other embodiments are also described.
US07814335B2	System and method for installing system manufacturer provided software A system and method of selectively installing software onto a computer system which includes reading a configuration file that contains computer system information, determining an encryption key from data contained in the configuration file, and deciphering data stored on a nonvolatile storage device using the encryption key. The computer system information includes system specific information that may be used to determine whether the computer system was purchased from a particular vendor. In a Windows™ based application, the configuration file includes a BIOS/DOS file that includes computer system specific information and the encryption key is optionally stored in a registry file to provide for repeated uses of the encryption key if more than one data file are being deciphered. In another embodiment, the data file is stored on a World Wide Web page accessible over a global computer network, such as the Internet, to install and decipher encrypted data files stored on a Web server.
US07814330B2	Method and apparatus for facilitating multi-level computer system authentication One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates authenticating a user at a computer system. During operation, the system creates an authentication profile and assigns the authentication profile to a user, wherein the authentication profile specifies authentication criteria. Next, the computer system receives a login request from the user, and in responding to the login request, the computer system checks if the authentication criteria in the authentication profile are satisfied. If so, the system allows the user to login. If not, the user is prevented from logging into the computer system.
US07814328B1	Digital signatures for embedded code Generating a digital signature of an entire embedded code project is provided while maintaining certain exclusion areas so that a productivity application can incorporate application-specific information into the embedded code project without hampering the digital signature. A tree structure of data may be serialized into a data stream. The tree structure may include multiple branches and one or more elements identified as an exclusion area. A digital signature of the data stream may be created and included in a document associated with the tree structure.
US07814313B2	System, terminal, network entity, method and computer program product for authorizing communication message A system, terminal, method, and computer program product use a capability certificate to authorize a sender to send a communication message to a recipient, such that the recipient can quickly and easily determine whether to receive the message. In this regard, a system for controlling receipt of a communication message by a recipient comprises a sending terminal and a receiving terminal. The sending terminal may be capable of sending the communication message from a sender. The receiving terminal may be capable of determining if the communication message is cryptographically bound to a capability certificate, such that the receiving terminal receives the communication message if the communication message is cryptographically bound to the capability certificate. Determining if the communication message is cryptographically bound to a capability certificate may comprise determining if the communication message is signed by the sender using a private encryption key of the sender.
US07814305B2	Apparatus and method for generating reset signals for function chips in a terminal Provided are an apparatus and method for generating reset signals in a portable terminal, in which function chips are provided. The apparatus includes a master chip, which resets the function chips using at least one address port selected from among address ports connected to a memory, and using a General Purpose Input Output (GPIO) port, and a reset unit, which generates reset signals for the function chips by combining output signals of the at least one address port and enables or disables the reset signals by a control signal received through the GPIO port.
US07814304B2	Switching drivers between processors Systems, methods, and computer software for operating a device can be used to operate the device in multiple modes. The device can be operated in a first operating mode adapted for processing data, in which a first processor executes a driver for a nonvolatile memory and a second processor performs processing of data stored in files on the nonvolatile memory. An instruction can be received to switch the device to a second operating mode adapted for reading and/or writing files from or to the nonvolatile memory. The driver for the nonvolatile memory can be switched from the first processor to the second processor in response to the instruction, and the driver for the nonvolatile memory can be executed on the second processor after performing the switch. A communications driver can be executed on the first processor in response to the instruction to switch the device to the second operating mode.
US07814302B2	Address calculation instruction within data processing systems A data processing system 2 is provided including an instruction decoder 34 responsive to program instructions within an instruction register 32 to generate control signals for controlling data processing circuitry 36. The instructions supported include an address calculation instruction which splits an input address value at a position dependent upon a size value into a first portion and second portion, adds a non-zero offset value to the first portion, sets the second portion to a value and then concatenates the result of the processing on the first portion and the second portion to form the output address value. Another type of instruction supported is a select-and-insert instruction. This instruction takes a first input value and shifts it by N bit positions to form a shifted value, selects N bits from within a second input value in dependence upon the first input value and then concatenates the shifted value with the N bits to form an output value. The address calculation instruction and the select-and-insert instruction described above are useful when manipulating two-dimensional data arrays, and particularly so when these are two-dimensional data arrays are formed of Viterbi trellis data through which traceback operations are to be performed.
US07814301B2	Clock architecture for multi-processor systems In one embodiment, a computer system, comprises at least a first computing cell and a second computing cell, each computing cell comprising at least one processor, a routing device to couple the first and second computing cells, a global clock signal source coupled to the at least two computing cells to generate a global clock signal, at least one timing manager to generate a timing control signal, wherein the at least two computing cells comprise a local oscillator to generate a local clock signal, and a multiplexer coupled to receive the global clock signal, the local clock signal, and the timing control signal, and to output one of the global clock signal or the local clock signal in response to the control signal.
US07814300B2	Configurable pipeline to process an operation at alternate pipeline stages depending on ECC/parity protection mode of memory access A method includes providing a data processor having an instruction pipeline, where the instruction pipeline has a plurality of instruction pipeline stages, and where the plurality of instruction pipeline stages includes a first instruction pipeline stage and a second instruction pipeline stage. The method further includes providing a data processor instruction that causes the data processor to perform a first set of computational operations during execution of the data processor instruction, performing the first set of computational operations in the first instruction pipeline stage if the data processor instruction is being executed and a first mode has been selected, and performing the first set of computational operations in the second instruction pipeline stage if the data processor instruction is being executed and a second mode has been selected.
US07814296B2	Arithmetic units responsive to common control signal to generate signals to selectors for selecting instructions from among respective program memories for SIMD / MIMD processing control Provided is a data processing circuit. A control unit outputs an operation control signal and a memory control signal. A plurality of program memories each outputs a command in response to the memory control signal. A plurality of arithmetic sections each selectively performs any one of the commands from the plurality of program memories in response to the operation control signal. Operation modes of the data processing circuit can be flexibly changed according to operation environments.
US07814283B1	Low latency request dispatcher A first-in-first-out (FIFO) queue optimized to reduce latency in dequeuing data items from the FIFO. In one implementation, a FIFO queue additionally includes buffers connected to the output of the FIFO queue and bypass logic. The buffers act as the final stages of the FIFO queue. The bypass logic causes input data items to bypass the FIFO and to go straight to the buffers when the buffers are able to receive data items and the FIFO queue is empty. In a second implementation, arbitration logic is coupled to the queue. The arbitration logic controls a multiplexer to output a predetermined number of data items from a number of final stages of the queue. In this second implementation, the arbitration logic gives higher priority to data items in later stages of the queue.
US07814279B2	Low-cost cache coherency for accelerators Embodiments of the invention provide methods and systems for reducing the consumption of inter-node bandwidth by communications maintaining coherence between accelerators and CPUs. The CPUs and the accelerators may be clustered on separate nodes in a multiprocessing environment. Each node that contains a shared memory device may maintain a directory to track blocks of shared memory that may have been cached at other nodes. Therefore, commands and addresses may be transmitted to processors and accelerators at other nodes only if a memory location has been cached outside of a node. Additionally, because accelerators generally do not access the same data as CPUs, only initial read, write, and synchronization operations may be transmitted to other nodes. Intermediate accesses to data may be performed non-coherently. As a result, the inter-chip bandwidth consumed for maintaining coherence may be reduced.
US07814268B2	Row expansion reduction by inversion for range representation in ternary content addressable memories A method and circuit to implement a match against range rule functionality. A first rule entry and a second rule entry are stored. The first rule entry includes at least two consecutive identical bits. The first rule entry represents a numerical range. A first field of a binary key is compared with the first rule entry to determine whether any of the bits of the first field are not identical. A logical result of the comparison between the first field and the first rule entry is inverted to generate a first comparison result. A second field of the binary key is compared with a second rule entry to generate a second comparison result. The first comparison result is then logically ANDed with the second comparison result to determine whether the binary key falls within the numerical range represented by the first rule entry and matches the second rule entry.
US07814266B1	Partial row expansion by logically combining range representation values in content addressable memory A method and apparatus to reduce the number of rule entries used to implement ranging matching in a Content Addressable Memory (“CAM”) array. A first CAM entry is stored in a single CAM cell of an array of CAM cells. The first CAM entry is compared with a first key entry of the CAM array to generate a first comparison result. Each of multiple second CAM entries is stored in corresponding multiple CAM cells of the array of CAM cells. The multiple second CAM entries are compared with a second key entry to generate multiple second comparison results. A match signal is generated by the CAM array if the first key entry matches the first CAM entry and the second key entry matches one of the multiple second CAM entries.
US07814263B2	Erase history-based flash writing method A method for writing into a flash memory device includes calculating a physical block for writing data thereto, checking whether the calculated physical block has been erased since a last power-up of the device and if it has been erased writing the data, or, if it has not been erased performing a refresh operation thereby obtaining a newly erased block since a last power-up that the data can be written to. The newly erased block may be the calculated block or another block of the flash memory.
US07814261B2	Flash memory and method of dynamically loading firmware operation module in optical drive A flash memory in which a code for debugging an optical drive and a code for controlling the optical drive are downloaded when required, the functions of the downloaded code are subsequently executed, and the executed code is then deleted. The flash memory includes a first area where a firmware operation module that is received from an external source is executed and deleted; and a second area allocated to store a code for loading the firmware operation module that is stored in the first area, a code for executing the firmware operation module that is stored in the first area, and a firmware code.
US07814236B2	Multifunction device, control device, multifunction device control system, method of controlling multifunction device, program, and storage medium A multifunction device achieves a device function by appropriately combining plural elemental functions including a scanning function, a printing function, and a communication function. The multifunction device includes: a service layer for executing the plural elemental functions; an API table storage section which stores an API table in which a first API for executing the device function is associated with a second API that the service layer can receive; and an Open I/F layer which receives the first API, specifies, in the API table, the second API corresponding to the first API, and outputs the specified second API to the service layer. With this arrangement, it is possible to provide a multifunction device which allows new control from a control device to the multifunction device to be easily developed.
US07814234B2	Offline execution of web based applications The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for offline execution of Web based applications. Embodiments of the present invention facilitate the local storage of Web based executable instructions and data at a computer system. The Web based executable instructions and data can be used to locally fulfill requests (directed to a domain that sent the executable instructions and data for storage) from modules associated with a Web browser at the computer system. Accordingly, locally stored Web based executable instructions and data can be used at a computer system to simulate communication with Web site when the Web site is otherwise unavailable.
US07814230B2	Client device identification when communicating through a network address translator device Enabling a host system to communicate with and to identify at least one client device that communicates with the host system through a network address translator device includes enabling communications from a first client device through the network address translator device. A data packet is received that includes a payload portion and an attribute portion, where the attribute portion includes a destination address that indicates a destination for the data packet and a nearest source address. A portion of the received data packet other than the nearest source address is examined for a host-assigned identifier that identifies a client device that communicated the received data packet. The received data packet typically is processed in accordance with predetermined host system controls accessible to the host system for the first client device identified, such as host-enabled parental controls.
US07814226B2	System and method for supporting service networks in a service-oriented architecture environment A system and method for supporting Service Networks in a SOA environment. In accordance with an embodiment, the principles governing the topology of computer networks can be similarly applied to the service space—from small federated Service Segments (or sub-domains), to large public federated Service Domains. At the heart of the Service Network are one or more Service Routers, that are themselves responsible for transparently bridging between federated Service Segments. The Service Routers determine where services reside in the Service Network and, based on routing information gathered through interaction with other Service Routers, Network Routers and other mechanisms, deliver service requests, using optimal routes, from a source Service Segment to the target Service Segment. Working in concert with the Service Router, an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) can abstract the location of services, and hide the existence of the Service Network from service requestors.
US07814220B2	User interface for an electronic device An electronic device includes a media player and a control unit operable to selectively access any one of a plurality of different types of media sources, such as a local media file memory, and at least one signal input for media data received through a communication connection from an external source, such as a streaming media data or a real time FM radio signal. A user-operable key is carried on the device, which upon activation triggers the control unit to store data related to a currently accessed media source in a playlist. Both the storage and selection of a playlist, which are dependent on from which type of media source the media data is accessed, are performed automatically in the device.
US07814215B2	System and method for controlling the devices connected to control gateway A system for controlling the devices connected to a control gateway includes one or more devices, a control gateway, a server and an open platform. The control gateway is electrically coupled to the devices. The server provides a plurality of control gateway base drivers. The open platform is electrically connected to the control gateway. According to the device's description and type information provided by the control gateway, the system automatically downloads a corresponding control gateway base driver from the server, and converts a first device service type into a second device service type automatically by the control gateway base driver. Thereby, other internal bundles on the open platform or external control devices with the second device service type can use the devices connected to the control gateway.
US07814214B2	Contact management in a serverless peer-to-peer system Systems and methods are described that facilitate the management of contact information, at least some of the contact information related to entities in a serverless, peer-to-peer system. A contact store may store information regarding which other entities of a plurality of other entities are authorized to monitor presence of a user entity. Presence of an entity may generally indicate the willingness and/or ability of the entity to communicate and/or collaborate with other entities, for example. The contact store may also store information regarding which other entities of the plurality of other entities the presence of which should be monitored by the system. A user entity may be able to add contacts to and/or delete contacts from the contact store, for example. The user entity may also be able to modify the contact store to modify which other entities are authorized to monitor presence of the user entity and/or which other entities the presence information of which should be monitored by the system, for example.
US07814212B1	Data delivery system using local and remote communications Non-deterministic digital content can be generated frequently and automatically. The content can then be delivered to another device using local and remote communication channels. One type of digital content is access code for accessing a host (which, in many cases, is located in the home or office of a user). There is no need for the user to remember any number or perform any special operations. In one embodiment of the present invention, the host contains information or devices that the user wishes to access remotely using a portable unit. Either the host or portable unit (the originator) generates non-deterministic access codes at regular time intervals (e.g., once a day) using a random number generator. The non-deterministic codes are delivered to the counterpart (host or portable unit) of the originator using local communication. Because the user is likely to visit his/her home or office frequently, the codes can be updated frequently. When the user is far away from the host, he/she can use the codes stored in the portable unit to access the host.
US07814208B2	System and method for projecting content beyond firewalls A system and method for exchanging information between clients separated by firewalls is disclosed. A server may receive the information as posted through a browser client from beyond a first firewall and relay it to another client beyond a second firewall without lowering the security levels of the firewalls.
US07814200B2	Web-based task assistants for wireless personal devices The present invention relates to a method for enhancing the use of a computer network which is accessed by use of wireless device. Specifically, one embodiment of the present invention pertains to a method of using server-resident software assistants, programs to assist the wireless device user, to perform a significant amount of the tedious input tasks required when wireless devices such as PDAs attempt to exploit the services available on the Internet. The method provides a mechanism by which software assistants can be programmed to a users' own specific information and ways of performing tasks that exploit Internet services such as purchasing, information searches, event planning and complex scheduling. The task can be organized in structural task lists that interface with a user's stored preferences and PIM information on the portable electronic device.
US07814181B1	Method for configuring a network element at a customer premise via a mobile data terminal An enhanced network element and method for configuring and deploying computer network elements is disclosed. A customer orders a network element from an equipment provider. Upon receipt of the unconfigured network element, a Trusted Configuration Device (TCD) is shipped from a network provider to the customer. The TCD transmits information to the NE that enables it to download a configuration file from a Provisioning Server (PS) via a secure channel.
US07814175B1	System having generalized client-server computing A protocol provides generalized client-server computing by providing a server program that can utilize standard and non-standard ports for applications.
US07814171B2	Method and system for modifying host application functionality based upon downloaded content An application hosting a browser modifies its own functionality in some manner based on whether particular content (e.g., an identifier) is present in a document for rendering by the browser. In one embodiment, a financial statement page for rendering via the hosted browser is scanned to determine if an identifier corresponding to a download button is present. If present, the host application provides an alternate download button that does not scroll off the screen as the page is scrolled. The present invention also suppresses a dialog box (e.g., the open/save dialog box) when a request for a certain file type is made by a hosted browser. For example, a request for download of financial information suppresses the open/save dialog box, and automatically opens the downloaded file.
US07814167B2	System and method for obtaining remote instant messages A system and method for retrieving instant messages includes establishing a first instant message (IM) session an then, establishing a second instant message session using a same account as the first instant message session. The first IM session is rendered dormant such that active instant messages are received by the second instant message session.
US07814162B2	Self-protecting e-mail Local capacity threshold values for a user e-mailbox and costs are stored for overflow storage devices accessible on a network. The costs provided a ranking of the overflow storage devices. E-mail's are processed responsive to increases in accumulated storage of the e-mails beyond the respective local capacity threshold values to reduce storage space of the e-mails. An e-mail is received that increases the accumulated storage volume of the user's e-mails beyond the maximum local capacity threshold value. A subset of the overflow storage devices is selected by reference to the costs. One of the overflow storage devices of the subset is selected responsive to availability of storage space on the overflow storage devices of the subset and cost ranking among the overflow storage devices of the subset. The received e-mail is sent for storing on the selected overflow storage device, instead of storing the received e-mail in the user's e-mailbox.
US07814161B2	System and method for handling electronic mail mismatches A system and method for handling e-mail address mismatches between the address contained within a user's certificate or certificate chain, and the account address actually being used is disclosed. In order to resolve address mismatches a canonical or generic domain name or user name may, for example, be used as a lifelong address of a user that is contained in the user's certificate. Upon detection of an address mismatch, the system and method disclosed herein may automatically re-check the certificate or search for a certificate containing the canonical or generic domain name and/or user name to attempt to resolve the mismatch. This mismatch resolution is preferably transparent to the user and occurs automatically. The canonical or generic domain and/or user names that are available to the device may be typically controlled by IT policy that is in place on the system for the device. While this system is suitable for any type of electronic messaging system, it has particular applicability to systems that use mobile wireless communication devices with electronic messaging capability.
US07814160B2	Unified communication escalation A method and system for providing message threads with messages of multiple modes of communication in a uniform manner is provided. A messaging system provides a unified communications user interface for message threads that include messages sent using different modes of communications. When a user wants to reply to a message of one mode with a message of another mode, the messaging system displays the communication client application context of the other mode so that the user can prepare and send the message using the appropriate functions. When the instant message is sent, the messaging system adds the instant message to the message thread so that it can be displayed as part of the message thread.
US07814137B1	Combined interpolation and decimation filter for programmable logic device A programmable logic device can be configured as a finite impulse response (FIR) filter capable of operating in either interpolation mode or decimation mode and of switching between those modes at run time. The FIR filter structure can be mapped onto a specialized processing block of the programmable logic device that includes multipliers and adders for adding the products of the multipliers. The FIR filter structure minimizes the number of multipliers used by reusing various calculations that are repeated as a result of the interpolation or decimation operation, using multiplexers or other run-time-controllable selectors to select which current or stored multiplier outputs to use.
US07814130B2	Efficient parallel bitwise sweep during garbage collection A method, system, and program for efficient parallel bitwise sweeps of larger objects during garbage collection are provided. During a bitwise sweep, a helper thread scans a mark vector looking for a consecutive sequence of unmarked bits of a sufficient length following a marked bit. Once a consecutive sequence of unmarked bits of a sufficient length following a marked bit is detected, the helper thread fetches the size of a marked object corresponding to the marked bit. If the size of the marked object exceeds a size represented by the consecutive sequence of unmarked bits, the remainder of the bits representing the marked object are skipped, such that once a marked object is identified as potentially exceeding an object fetch threshold the helper thread efficiently skips the remainder of the bits represents the marked object and continues scanning for a number of consecutive zeroes indicating free space.
US07814128B2	Multi-volume file support A computer accessible medium comprises instructions which, when executed, receive a request to allocate one or more blocks for a file. At least one allocation policy is assigned to the file, wherein the allocation policy specifies one or more storage units on which the blocks are to be allocated. Additionally, if more than one storage unit is specified, the allocation policy includes a control indication indicating a mechanism for selecting among the storage units. The instructions, when executed, may also allocate blocks according to the allocation policy. In another implementation, a computer accessible medium comprises instructions which, when executed receive a request to allocate one or more blocks for a file in a filesystem and allocate blocks according to an allocation policy. Allocation policies are specifiable at two or more levels of granularity in the filesystem.
US07814115B2	Multi-dimensional search results adjustment system A search query comprising a plurality of search terms is used to generate a plurality of search results. The search query, in its entirety, is represented by an object in multi-dimensional space. The multi-dimensional space comprises a plurality of dimensions to represent a plurality of search criteria, respectively. The object has a position in the multi-dimensional space based on values of the search criteria. The object is manipulated simultaneously in at least two dimensions of the multi-dimensional space to simultaneously modify respective values of at least two of the search criteria. The search results are filtered based on the modified values of the search criteria to produce a subset of the search results, and the subset is displayed.
US07814106B2	Geographic database organization that facilitates location-based advertising A method of facilitating delivery of advertising to users of mobile computing platforms is disclosed. A geographic database contains data entities that represent geographic features, such as roads, located in a geographic region. Advertising zones are defined within the geographic region. Associated with at least some of the data entities that represent geographic features are data that indicate in which of the advertising zones the represented geographic feature is located. Advertisers are allowed to associate advertising messages with the advertising zones. Users of mobile computing platforms are provided with geographically-related services that use the geographic database. As a user of a mobile computing platform travels in the geographic region, the location of the mobile computing platform is determined. The user of the mobile computing platform is provided with the advertising message associated with the advertising zone in which the mobile computing platform is determined to be located.
US07814097B2	Discovering alternative spellings through co-occurrence A search query that includes a first spelling of a term is received. A second spelling of the term is generated. A first set of items that are associated with the first spelling of the term is accessed, and a second set of items that are associated with the second spelling of the term is accessed. A comparison is performed between the first set to the second set. A determination is made as to how to respond to the search query based, at least in part, on the comparison. The response may include a suggested search query that includes the second spelling of the term. The second spelling may be a suggested spelling correction or an alternative spelling. The response may include search results that are relevant to a search query that includes the first spelling of the term, the second spelling, or both the first and second spelling.
US07814089B1	System and method for presenting categorized content on a site using programmatic and manual selection of content items Embodiments provide for the creation of network pages or presentations that include pages on which programmatically selected/categorized content and manually-identified content from website users may be combined and displayed.
US07814079B2	Apparatus and method for managing file An apparatus and method for reducing the time required to search for files in a file system are provided. The apparatus includes a first calculating unit which calculates a first hash value of the file name of a file among a plurality of files included in a file entry, a second calculating unit which calculates a first result value based on the first hash value, a mapping-table-generating unit which generates a mapping table indicating a mapping relation between the first result value and entry numbers of the file having the first result value, and a control unit which manages a plurality of files included in the file entry based on the mapping table.
US07814078B1	Identification of files with similar content A method, apparatus, and system identity files with similar content. One embodiment is a method that divides files into plural segments. The method computes a hash value and a size for each of the plural segments of the files. In order to identify which files have similar content, the method adds together segments common between files. File similarity information of files with similar content is output.
US07814074B2	Method and system for assuring integrity of deduplicated data The present invention provides for a system and method for assuring integrity of deduplicated data objects stored within a storage system. A data object is copied to secondary storage media, and a digital signature such as a checksum is generated of the data object. Then, deduplication is performed upon the data object and the data object is split into chunks. The chunks are combined when the data object is subsequently accessed, and a signature is generated for the reassembled data object. The reassembled data object is provided if the newly generated signature is identical to the originally generated signature, and otherwise a backup copy of the data object is provided from secondary storage media.
US07814068B2	Identifying changed records in a file stored on an electronic token A method and system for detecting change to a record in a file stored on an electronic token involves storing a change detection code (CDC) so that a change detection applet can calculate a current CDC for corresponding record(s), and compare the current CDC with the stored CDC to determine if data has changed. Any changes to records are registered by a registering element that provides a service feature, back-up of the file and/or synchronizes the file with other files stored remotely. One use of the method is to back-up phonebook records on USIM/SIM cards.
US07814067B2	Asynchronous actions using flashback Techniques are disclosed for sharing information in a wide variety of contexts. An information sharing system is described that allows both an explicit capture process and an implicit capture process to add information items to a staging area. Further, the information sharing system supports both implicit and explicit consumption of information items that are stored in said staging area. A rules engine is provided to allow users to create and register rules that customize the behavior of the capture processes, the consuming processes, and propagation processes that propagate information from the staging areas to designated destinations. Techniques are also described for achieving exactly-once handling of sequence of items, where the items are maintained in volatile memory. Techniques are also provided for recording DDL operations, and for asynchronously performing operations based on the previously-performed DDL operations.
US07814066B1	System for backup and recovery of a plurality of heterogeneous databases A system for backup and recovery of a plurality of heterogeneous databases is disclosed. The system comprises a first computer system configured to comprise a plurality of heterogeneous databases and a second computer system configured to execute an application program. The second computer system is in operational relationship with the plurality heterogeneous databases. The application program is configured to issue a transaction statement that triggers a change in the plurality of heterogeneous databases. The system also comprises a third computer system configured to accumulate information from the transaction statement from the plurality of heterogeneous databases. The third computer system is further configured to recover the plurality of heterogeneous databases to a point in time based on the information from the transaction statement.
US07814063B1	Retention and disposition of components of a complex stored object Retention and disposition of components of a complex stored object is disclosed. An indication that a retention policy is to be applied to a complex stored object comprising a root content object and one or more child content objects included in a body of managed content is received. The root content object and the one or more child content objects and associated metadata are retained in parallel automatically in accordance with the retention policy.
US07814062B2	Systems and methods for expiring digital assets based on an assigned expiration date Systems and methods for managing digital assets in a distributed computing environment are described. Meta-data for the digital assets is stored separately from the digital assets. Meta-data for some of the digital assets is copied and stored at a central location. Meta-data for the digital assets is generated by clients of the system.
US07814056B2	Method and apparatus for data backup using data blocks Methods and apparatuses for backing up data to a database are provided. A specified data set to be backed up is broken down into a plurality of data blocks, each data block is associated with a data block digest, and the data blocks and associated data block digests are stored in the database. When one or more data blocks are subsequently changed, an update to the backup may be performed by adding to the backup data only the data blocks that have changed since the initial backup. Methods and apparatuses for restoring backup data from a database are also provided. Timestamp information associated with the data blocks in the database is used to select the data blocks to be restored.
US07814044B2	Data access service queries A technique includes selectively obtaining information stored in a business warehouse. Such a technique may include selecting a data access service from a library during run-time and presenting data within the business warehouse using the selected data access service. The library may contain at least one data access service for each of the plurality of on-line analytical processing data access queries. Related apparatus, systems, computer program products, and computer systems are also described.
US07814042B2	Selecting candidate queries In an example embodiment, multiple candidate selection techniques are made available to a query-processing unit for processing a query. A candidate selection technique is chosen from among the available candidate selection techniques for an incoming query. The candidate selection technique may be chosen based on a configuration file or user input or based on some aspect of the query, the user, or the database on which the query will run. A set of semantically equivalent queries (also called a set of candidate queries) is determined for an the incoming query based on the chosen candidate selection technique. A choice is then made among the candidate queries, usually based on a cost measure, as to which query to execute or store for later execution.
US07814039B2	Signal processing device and method which learn a prediction coefficient by least-Nth-power error minimization of student teacher data error to detect a telop within image signals which are input signals by selectively outputting input signals following decision of the processing deciding means The present invention relates to a signal processing device which learns operations made by a user without the user knowing, and which can perform processing optimal to the user based on the learning results. At a learning unit 22, operating signals supplied according to user operations are monitored, and judgment is made whether or not these can be used for learning. In the event that the operating signals are learning operating signals which can be used for learning, the learning unit 22 learns a correction norm which is the norm for correcting input signals, based on the learning operating signals. On the other hand, at a correcting unit 21, post-correction signals, wherein the input signals are corrected based on the correction norm obtained by learning, are output as output signals. The present invention can be applied to an NR (Noise Reduction) circuit which removes noise.
US07814038B1	Feedback-tolerant method and device producing weight-adjustment factors for pre-synaptic neurons in artificial neural networks In an artificial neural network a method and neuron device that produce weight-adjustment factors, also called error values (116), for pre-synaptic neurons (302a . . . 302c) that are used to adjust the values of connection weights (106 . . . 106n) in neurons (100) used in artificial neural networks (ANNs). The amount of influence a pre-synaptic neuron has had over a post-synaptic neuron is calculated during signal propagation in the post-synaptic neuron (422a . . . 422n) and accumulated for the pre-synaptic neuron (426) for each post-synaptic neuron to which the pre-synaptic neuron's output is connected (428). Influence values calculated for use by pre-synaptic neurons may further be modified by the post-synaptic neuron's output value (102) (option 424), and its error value (116) (option 1110).
US07814037B2	Information processing apparatus and method, and program for teaching an action to a device in a time-series pattern An information processing apparatus including a learning unit that learns a predetermined time-series pattern. An output unit outputs a time-series pattern corresponding to the result of learning by the learning unit. An adjusting unit supplied with a time-series pattern obtained from an action by an action unit on the basis of a time-series pattern supplied from the output unit and external teaching for the action adjusts a time-series pattern supplied from the output unit correspondingly to the input time-series pattern. The learning unit learns the time-series pattern supplied from the output unit and adjusted by the adjusting unit.
US07814036B2	Processing well logging data with neural network An artificial neural network, ANN, and method of training the ANN for inversion of logging tool signals into well logs of formation parameters is disclosed. Properly selected synthetic models of earth formations are used to train the ANN. The models include Oklahoma and chirp type of formations. In each model parameter contrasts of from 10 to 1 to about 100 to 1 are included. Models including maximum and minimum parameter values spanning the operating range of the selected logging tool are included. Parameter contrasts at interfaces are limited to realistic values found in earth formations. The selected models are used to generate synthetic tool signals, which are then used as inputs to the ANN for training. When the ANN coefficients are properly adjusted to produce an output matching the original models, the ANN can be used for inversion of any real signals from the selected logging tool.
US07814030B2	Systems and methods for managing enterprise IT support planning An integrated enterprise IT architecture planning system and method of planning the IT support of the enterprise business architecture that is based on a central database of record. Within this database of record, the current status of the IT support is documented, the desired target status of the IT support is defined and maintained, and operational plans for future IT support are created, reviewed, and consolidated. Based on the information captured in the database of record, full transparency is achieved, mutual consistency across the current, planned, and target status of the IT support can be analyzed, and target plans can be effectively enforced. Business support maps are directly generated from the central database of record, and are the central mechanism for presentation and input of information throughout the method. Any changes performed on such maps feed directly back into the database of record, updating the underlying information.
US07814021B2	Managed distribution of digital assets A technique for establishing usage control over digital assets such as computer files. The system model not only tracks authorized users' access to files, but monitors passage of such files to uncontrollable removable storage media or through network connections and the like which may indicate possible abuse of access rights. In accordance with a preferred embodiment, an autonomous independent agent process running at a point of use, such a background process in a client operating system kernel, interrupts requests for access to resources. The agent process senses low level system events, filters, and aggregates them. A policy engine analyzes sequences of aggregate events to determine when policy violations occur.
US07814019B2	System and method for enhancing financial institution revenues through acceleration of debit processing A system and method for enhancing financial institution revenue through acceleration of debit processing is provided. The method includes modeling the processing of account debit transactions, identifying ways to accelerate the processing of the account debit transactions and accelerating the account debit transactions. In a further embodiment, account debit transaction processing is accelerated from beginning on what has traditionally been referred to as Day 0 to beginning on some day before Day 0.
US07814016B2	Personal teller system and method of remote interactive and personalized banking Systems and methods for providing personalized services to remote customers using personal teller machines (PTM) from a centralized call center. The customer initiates the transaction providing identification at a PTM. The identification of the customer is verified and audio and/or video communication is established between the customer at the PTM and a teller at a teller station in the call center. Upon establishment of video and audio connection, the customer may request the performance of specific financial transactions that are controlled by a teller through the teller station that is connected with the PTM over a network. Upon completion of the transactions of the customer by the teller, a receipt is printed for the customer and the video and audio connections are closed.
US07814015B2	Methods and systems for performing a sales transaction using a mobile communications device Methods and systems for performing sales transactions using a mobile communications device and without requiring text messaging or paging services are disclosed. In one example, a subscriber desiring to purchase goods or services proceeds to a point of sale device where the purchase price for the goods or services is totaled. The subscriber then initiates a voice call with a central transaction server. The subscriber provides a point of sale device identifier and the purchase price to the central transaction server. The central transaction server contacts a local transaction server using the identifier provided by the subscriber. The central transaction server also prompts the subscriber to select the payment account for the transaction and verifies that the subscriber has sufficient credit to purchase the goods or services. The central transaction server locates a pending transaction entry in a database local to the point of sale using the device identifier provided by the subscriber. Upon locating the pending transaction entry and verifying that the subscriber has sufficient credit, the central transaction server notifies the subscriber and the point of sale device that the transaction is complete.
US07814007B2	On-line higher education financing system A method of providing a user with education financing information, includes the acts of: maintaining an electronic site on a computer network to which the user may connect; sending data to the user over the network for presenting at least one electronic screen which contains financial award information concerning a potential student of an educational institution, the financial award information including a monetary award which may be used for the student to attend the educational institution; and sending data to the user over the network when requested for presenting at least one electronic screen which contains cost projection information, the cost projection information being a function of the award and including an amount of money required for the student to attend the educational institution.
US07813999B2	Fair revenue participation contracts and exchange A new class of investment instruments, Fair Revenue Participation Contracts (FRPC), and Redeemable Revenue Participation Contracts (RRPC), that allows investors to participate in revenue rather than profits. The FRPC gives the investor rights to the revenues of an issuing company, it being structured as a promise to pay X % of revenues for Y number of years. An exchange for trading in the FRPCs is also disclosed, and this includes, where necessary, a government regulating body (GRB) for regulation and a screen-based trading (SBT) system which may be owned and operated by the Authorized Trading Members (ATMs), said ATMs being pre-qualified by said GRB, the ATMS effectively owning the exchange and holding seats therein, and serving alternately as buyer agents, seller agents, and underwriters for transactions in the FRPCs.
US07813993B1	Method and apparatus for scheduling a resource A method includes generating a plurality of bid requests for processing a workpiece. Each bid request is associated with one of a plurality of resources capable of processing the workpiece. For each of the bid requests, a commitment window including a kernel specifying a time period required for processing the workpiece is generated. A first committed capacity of the associated resource is determined based on a schedule of engagements compatible with the processing required for the workpiece. A second committed capacity of the associated resource is determined based on a schedule of engagements not compatible with the processing required for the workpiece. A first rate function specifying a processing cost for the associated resource as a function of the first and second committed capacities is provided. The first and second committed capacities and the first rate function are combined to generate a basic cost function associated with the associated resource. A plurality of candidate bids are generated based on the basic cost functions. One of the candidate bids is selected for scheduling the associated resource.
US07813991B1	Automated trading negotiation protocols A market process facilitates trade negotiation between trading processes using three methodologies. In one methodology, when a fruitful negotiation opportunity is detected, the market process provides an alphanumeric message to one of the trading processes so that the owners of the trading processes can negotiate privately, such as by telephone. In another methodology, the market process provides the name of a broker to at least one of the trading processes; the broker may be a human or another software process. In a third methodology, the market process forwards messages between the trading processes. Each trading process can specify a disclosure level associated with orders left with the market process and with market inquiries. Each trading process can specify desirable or undesirable contra-parties, and the trading history of a pair of trading processes can be used to determine their desirability or undesirability as trading partners.
US07813989B2	Financial goal planning and analysis system A financial advisory system is described that facilitates planning regarding financial goals, such as retirement. According to one embodiment, a method of forecasting a future value of a financial product holding is provided. Exposure analysis is performed on a financial product in which an investor holds an interest to determine how the financial product behaves relative to a set of asset classes. A forecast is generated for the financial product holding at a configurable time horizon based on forward-looking scenarios of one or more asset classes of the set of asset classes. Based on the forecast, information is directly or indirectly caused to be presented regarding a projected value of the financial product holding at the configurable time horizon.
US07813984B2	Method and system for determining modulated volume information for a tradeable financial element A method and system for determining modulated volume information for a tradeable element, such as a security or commodity. The invention compensates for normal fluctuations in volume occurring during the course of a trading period, thereby enabling convenient visualization of abnormal volume activity. In one embodiment, the invention involves providing a historical data source containing historical volume information for the tradeable element for a plurality of historical time intervals; obtaining unmodulated volume information for the tradeable element for a selected time interval in the trading period; retrieving from the historical data source selected data representing historical volume information for one or more of the historical time intervals corresponding to the selected time interval; and using the selected data to convert the unmodulated volume information for the selected time interval to modulated volume information for the selected time interval.
US07813983B2	Account and customer creation in an on-line banking model A system, method and article of manufacture are provided for account and customer creation in an online banking model. An application is received from a customer. The application includes information relating to the user and also documentation relating to the user. A first computer is utilized to create a profile for the customer based on the application received from the customer. The first computer is also utilized to create an account for the customer. Information relating to the created profile and account is transmitted from the first computer to a second computer where a notification is generated. The notification indicates that the account has been created. The notification is transmitted from the second computer to the customer utilizing a network.
US07813977B2	Graphical user interface related to non-standard trading of financial instruments A graphical user interface related to non-standard settlement trading in financial instruments is provided. The graphical user interface preferably includes a selectable portion of a display screen related to a financial instrument and a selectable tab for accessing a selectable portion of the display screen related to one or a plurality of non-standard settlement positions with respect to the financial instrument. In one embodiment of the invention, when the tab is selected, access is provided to the selectable portion of the display screen related to the plurality of non-standard settlement positions.
US07813972B2	Currency management Management of currency inventory within and among network nodes of a financial network (e.g., bank branches, ATMs, and kiosks) may involve receiving information of currency inventory at one or more nodes in the network, generating a forecast for currency demand for the one or more nodes based on the historical currency demand for the one or more nodes, and establishing a currency transportation plan that includes a currency delivery schedule for the one or more nodes, wherein the currency transportation plan is based on the currency inventory, the forecast for currency demand, and one or more costs of handling currency. The costs of handling currency may include costs such as the expected loss from robbery and other currency theft.
US07813961B2	System and method for planning, allocation, and purchasing A method of integrating planning, purchasing, and allocation of goods in a computerized system is disclosed. The method includes providing a purchase order workbench for generating a purchase order list based on received purchasing data. The purchase order list includes a plurality of items and associated purchasing data for each item. The method further includes providing a planning workbench for applying one or more budget rules to the plurality of items in the purchase order list to determine whether the purchase of the items in the purchase order list should be approved based on the application of the one or more budget rules, providing an allocation workbench for generating an allocation table. The allocation table includes at least one of the plurality of items from the purchase order list that has been approved for purchase and a designation of a sales location for each item. The method yet further includes providing a system interface configured to access the purchase order, planning, and allocation workbenches.
US07813960B2	System and method of generating service plans for refrigeration systems A service plan system includes a computer program with a plurality of modules operable to generate service plans for refrigeration systems customers. The service plans offer multiple coverage levels, as well as various co-pay options (e.g., lower monthly fixed payment with higher event co-pay or higher monthly fixed payment with lower event co-pay) with increased controllable variable cost (e.g., high event co-pay). The different coverage levels provide options to the customer to select the program that provides the greatest opportunity for overall savings, while requiring active program participation by the service provider and the customer to maximize potential savings.
US07813952B2	Managing customer loss using customer groups Techniques are provided for managing customer loss. Customers are first grouped using a predetermined category definition and then customers in one group are segmented based on common customer characteristics. The techniques may be used to categorize customers based on a likelihood of being lost and segmenting customers with a high likelihood of being lost into smaller, more homogenous groups of customers based on shared customer characteristics.
US07813945B2	System and process for multivariate adaptive regression splines classification for insurance underwriting suitable for use by an automated system A method and system for automating the decision-making process used in underwriting of insurance applications is described. While this approach is demonstrated for insurance underwriting, it is broadly applicable to diverse decision-making applications in business, commercial, and manufacturing processes. A structured methodology is used based on a multi-model parallel network of multivariate adaptive regression splines (“MARS”) models to identify the relevant set of variables and their parameters, and build a framework capable of providing automated decisions. The parameters of the MARS-based decision system are estimated from a database consisting of a set of applications with reference decisions against each. Cross-validation and development/hold-out combined with re-sampling techniques are used to build a robust set of models that minimize the error between the automated system's decision and the expert human underwriter. Furthermore, this model building methodology can be used periodically to update and maintain the family of models if required to assure currency.
US07813943B1	System and method for managing payments for health care services A health care claim payment system and method receives a claim for a health care service provided to a participant in a benefits plan. The claim is received by a payment services system, and a portion of the claim is payable by the participant. The payment services system remits the portion of the claim payable by the participant on behalf of the participant so that payment can be remitted to the provider in a single payment and accepts risk of delinquency and/or non-payment by the participant. In one example, the health care provider receives payment for the participant portion and employer portion of the claim within 30 days of issuing a health care service.
US07813940B2	System and method for enabling health care providers to effect compensatory invoicing of patients who use a coverage entity in addition to their health insurer A system and method is provided for compensatory invoicing of a patient for health care services rendered by a Health Care Provider. The system and method enables a Health Care Provider to obtain payment of Full Rates for services rendered to a patient in circumstances where a Health Insurance Entity provides less than full-rate compensation (e.g., compensation at Contracted Rates) to the Health Care Provider AND the patient has been reimbursed additionally by another payment party for claims already paid for by the Health Insurance Entity. In one implementation, the patient contracts with the Health Care Provider to ensure that the Health Care Provider is fully compensated for the services rendered after the patient receives payments from a tortfeasor and/or First and/or Third Party Payment Entity (e.g., an auto insurance carrier, worker's compensation insurance carrier, Medpay, PIP etc.) for the services. The invention tracks claim(s) filed by the patient against the tortfeasor and/or First and/or Third Party Payment Entity and tracks payments) made by the tortfeasor and/or First and/or Third Party Payment Entity to the patient. The patient and/or the First and/or Third Party Payment Entity is then billed for the difference in payments made to the Health Care Provider by the Health Insurance Entity, effecting compensatory invoicing for a Full Rate fee chargeable by the Health Care Provider in cases when a tortfeasor and/or First and/or Third Payment party has reimbursed the patient for similar services as already reimbursed by the Health Insurance Entity.
US07813930B2	Information processing apparatus and information processing method for determining whether text information of an obtained item should be subject to speech synthesis by comparing words in another obtained item to registered words Information including a first item and a second item is obtained and the first item of the obtained information is compared with registered words. A determination is made as to whether or not text information of the second item is to be subjected to speech synthesis. If the second item is determined not to be subjected to the speech synthesis, an item other than the second item is synthesized into speech, whereas if the second item is determined to be subjected to the speech synthesis, at least the second item is synthesized into speech.
US07813929B2	Automatic editing using probabilistic word substitution models An input sequence of unstructured speech recognition text is transformed into output structured document text. A probabilistic word substitution model is provided which establishes association probabilities indicative of target structured document text correlating with source unstructured speech recognition text. The input sequence of unstructured speech recognition text is looked up in the word substitution model to determine likelihoods of the represented structured document text corresponding to the text in the input sequence. Then, a most likely sequence of structured document text is generated as an output.
US07813921B2	Speech recognition device and speech recognition method There is provided a voice recognition device and a voice recognition method that enhance the function of noise adaptation processing in voice recognition processing and reduce the capacity of a memory being used. Acoustic models are subjected to clustering processing to calculate the centroid of each cluster and the differential vector between the centroid and each model, model composition between each kind of assumed noise model and the calculated centroid is carried out, and the centroid of each composition model and the differential vector are stored in a memory. In the actual recognition processing, the centroid optimal to the environment estimated by the utterance environmental estimation is extracted from the memory, model restoration is carried out on the extracted centroid by using the differential vector stored in the memory, and noise adaptation processing is executed on the basis of the restored model.
US07813910B1	System and method for developing an application playing on a mobile device emulated on a personal computer A system, method and software product emulate and profile an application to play on a mobile device. Characteristics defining performance of the mobile device are defined. The mobile device is emulated using a model based upon the characteristics. The application is played and monitored within the model to determine resource utilization of the application for the mobile device.
US07813909B2	Register mapping in emulation of a target system on a host system Methods and systems for register mapping in emulation of a target system on a host system are disclosed. Statistics for use of a set of registers of a target system processor are determined. Based on the statistics a first subset of the target system registers, including one or more most commonly used registers is determined. The registers in the first subset are directly mapped to a first group of registers of a host system processor. A second subset of the set of target system registers is dynamically mapped to a second group of registers of the host system processor.
US07813908B2	Clock control module simulator and method thereof A method for simulating an integrated circuit having a plurality of clock control modules includes simulating the integrated circuit, and automatically receiving from each clock control model during simulation an indication of a simulated power state of the clock control model. Accordingly, the simulated power state of the portion of the integrated circuit model to be clocked by a clock control model can be monitored based on the indicator from the clock control model, rather than on a higher level analysis of the simulated input/output behavior of the integrated circuit model.
US07813905B2	Simulation apparatus, simulation method, and computer-readable recording medium in which simulation program is stored The simulation apparatus includes mesh dividing section, process condition setting section, boundary surface simulating section for simulating a change in a shape of a boundary surface of the structure which change is caused from the process using the calculation condition set by the process condition setting section, level value determining section for determining level values each of which concerns a distance between one of the nodes and the boundary surface, and level value data retaining section for retaining, for each of the nodes, the level value in association with the boundary surface. The simulation apparatus makes it possible to express a number of materials being smaller in size than the mesh element. Consequently, the mesh element size can be set larger to improve the memory consumption amount and the calculation speed.
US07813900B2	Displacement detection method, displacement detection device, displacement detection program, phase singularity matching method and phase singularity matching program A displacement detection method detects a displacement from phase singularities before and after the displacement, by specifying the phase singularities based on predetermined elements by acquiring the elements from a phase structure of the phase singularities, and detecting positions of the phase singularities after the displacement based on the elements acquired by specifying of the phase singularity.
US07813899B2	Method and circuit for statistical estimation A method for determining a quality indication, such as a bit error rate or a signal to noise ratio, of a photonic signal is described. The photonic signal is sampled, and then an estimated quality indication, such as the bit error rate, is calculated utilizing statisical analysis of the sampled photonic signal.
US07813897B2	Method for measuring quantity of usage of CPU The present invention relates to a method for measuring a quantity of usage of a CPU, in particular to a method for measuring a quantity of usage of a CPU which is capable of getting a credible quantity of usage of a CPU without amending an algorithm in order to adapt it to the an operating system, e.g., MS-Windows System, or requiring a complicated code. The method uses various algorithms provided by the operating system on the behalf of a registry storing a quantity of usage of a CPU inside a system. Accordingly the present invention can measure a quantity of usage of a CPU easily without lowering a performance of the operating system.
US07813896B2	System and method for diagnostic analysis of delivery services A method of analyzing the operation of a delivery system. The method includes: determining a seeding plan; placing a seed piece into the delivery system; tracking the seed piece through the delivery system to generate tracking data; storing the tracking data in a central repository; and analyzing the tracking data to determine one or more faults.
US07813886B2	Calibration of frequency monitors having dual etalon signals in quadrature Improved calibration of a dual-etalon frequency monitor having x-y outputs is provided. An ellipse is fit to the (x,y) points from a set of calibration data. For each (x,y) point, an angle θ is determined. A linear fit of frequency to θ is provided. Differences between this linear fit and the determined values of θ are accounted for by including a spline fit to this difference in the calibration.
US07813885B2	Method and apparatus for measurement of AC voltages in an HVAC system A control system to measure a sinusoidal AC voltage in a heating, ventilation includes a controller and a circuit connected to the controller. The circuit generates a pulse voltage based upon the AC voltage. The pulse voltage has a pulse duration. The controller measures a measured pulse duration based on the pulse duration and determines the AC voltage based upon the measured pulse duration.
US07813883B2	Remotely reconfigurable system for mapping subsurface geological anomalies Methods and apparatus are provided for receiving, detecting and transmitting geophysical data from a plurality of electrodes inserted through a structure's pavement foundation in a non-destructive manner and into the soil utilizing a dynamically reconfigurable wireless control unit located on each electrode. Data from the control units is transmitted by a wireless signal to a centralized data processor for analysis. Control data is provided from a central control processor to the control unit by wireless transmission. The control unit, which is positioned, includes a multi-channel radio frequency transmitter/receiver and a processor to actuate relays and record data returns from the measured substrate soil for transmission to the central data processor. The control unit incorporates a changeable code or address to unambiguously identify itself, and its spatial relationship to other electrodes, to the central data processor and the central control processor. The control units are equipped with a GPS positioning device to allow for automatic transmission of electrode location and for electrode placement without a manual survey being required.
US07813873B2	Geocoding locations near a specified city Specified streets or intersections that are within a specified distance of a specified city can be found by a search, even when they are not actually in that city. For computational efficiency, some addresses are included in search results even when they exceed the specified distance from the specified city by a small amount (“false positives”). The search method guarantees that no instance of the street name within the specified distance of the specified city is erroneously missed (“false negatives”).
US07813863B2	Method for operating an internal combustion engine In an internal combustion engine, gasoline is injected directly into a combustion chamber and ignited by auto-ignition. The characteristics map range within which fuel is ignited by auto-ignition is enlarged by supercharging the internal combustion engine.
US07813860B2	Brake force detecting device A brake force detecting device for detecting strain in a caliper bracket. The brake force detecting device includes a sensor plate fixed to the outside surface of a brake load receiving portion of the caliper bracket in the circumferential direction of a brake disc and a strain gauge attached to the sensor plate for detecting strain generated in the sensor plate. The strain gauge is connected to an amplifier.
US07813857B2	Power transfer assembly with torque sensors and torque control system A transfer case for a motor vehicle having an input shaft, a first output shaft, a second output shaft, a clutch, a transfer mechanism, a sensor portion and a magnetoelastic torque sensor. The clutch has a clutch pack and a thrust mechanism that is configured to exert an engagement force on the clutch pack. The clutch pack has a first portion, which is rotatably driven by either or both of the input shaft and the first output shaft, and a second portion that is supported for rotation relative to the first portion. The transfer mechanism couples the second portion of the clutch pack to the second output shaft. The sensor portion is coupled to the first or second output shaft and is at least partially formed of a magnetoelastic material. The magnetoelastic torque sensor is disposed about and radially in-line with the sensor portion.
US07813853B2	Damping force control apparatus for vehicle A damping force control apparatus for a vehicle includes adjustable-damping-force shock absorbers. When the vehicle turns, an electronic controller calculates an actual roll angle of the vehicle body in accordance with sprung accelerations detected by sprung acceleration sensors. The electronic controller also calculates a target roll angle of the vehicle body in accordance with a lateral acceleration detected by a lateral acceleration sensor. The target roll angle is set such that it increases with the lateral acceleration acting on the vehicle during turning and is uniquely determined by the lateral acceleration. The electronic controller sets target damping forces of the shock absorbers such that the actual roll angle coincides with the target roll angle, and controls the damping forces of the shock absorbers in accordance with the set target damping forces.
US07813845B2	Airport taxiway navigation system A method and system for providing taxiway navigational information to a crewmember of an airplane taxiing at an airport. An airport taxiway navigation system (“ATNS”) that executes on an onboard computer system that displays a map of the taxiways of an airport, receives the name of each taxiway of the taxi route specified by the taxi clearance, and highlights the taxiways on a displayed map to provide a visual indication of the cleared taxi route for the crewmembers.
US07813841B2	Rubidium elution system control A method of controlling an 82Sr/82Rb elution system having a generator valve for proportioning a flow of saline solution between an 82Sr/82Rb generator and a bypass line coupled to an outlet of the generator such that saline solution traversing the bypass line will merge with eluted saline solution emerging from the generator to provide an active saline solution. During each elution run, a plurality of successive concentration parameter values are obtained at predetermined intervals. Each concentration parameter value is indicative of a respective instantaneous activity concentration of the active saline solution. Respective error values between each concentration parameter value and a target activity concentration value of the elution run are computed. Error data based on a plurality of the computed error values is accumulated. Between successive elution runs, at least one performance parameter of the elution system is adjusted based on the accumulated error data.
US07813839B2	Process for controlling a production process A production process such as an isocyanate production process, conducted with a production facility having (a) at least two incoming streams, b) at least one exit stream and c) at least one inner recycling stream is controlled by adjusting at least one incoming stream amount by means of regulating controls to control the exit stream concentration and/or amount.
US07813837B2	Robot control system A robot control system for controlling a position and an attitude of a robot head is provided with an operating head held by an operator and a sensor for detecting a position and an attitude of the operating head.An attitude recognition portion of the control means recognizes an initial attitude of the operating head when a control switch provided at the operating head is turned on, and acquires a displacement vector from the initial attitude by a change in the attitude of the operating head.An attitude conversion portion converts the displacement vector from the initial attitude to a displacement vector from the reference attitude corresponding to a predetermined reference attitude, and the control means makes the attitude of the robot head follow the displacement vector from the reference attitude.In whatever attitude the operator holds the operating head, the position and the attitude of the robot head can follow the change in the position and the attitude of the operating head.
US07813830B2	Method and an apparatus for performing a program controlled process on a component A drilling machine drills at a multiplicity of target locations on a component. Two robots, calibrated with calibration data, move the component in a 6-D coordinate system. A metrology system ascertains the position of the component relative to the drilling machine. The movement of the robots is effected by commands generated by off-line programming. The component is moved relative to the drilling machine to a target position, ready for drilling, by a closed-loop process in which the differences in position between the expected position (the target position) and the actual position (as viewed by the metrology system) are corrected.
US07813829B2	Sheet manufacturing method and sheet manufacturing device A sheet manufacturing method is provided including the steps of (i) extruding a sheet material to a sheet form; (2) forming a desired sheet by performing a predetermined processing involving dimensional change in a transverse direction of a sheet; (3) measuring a thickness distribution in the transverse direction of the sheet before completion and after completion of the predetermined processing; (4) calculating a manipulated variable corresponding to each measuring position based on a thickness distribution measurement value in the transverse direction of the sheet after completion of the processing; and (5) controlling the thickness of the sheet. In the calculation of the manipulated variable of step (4), a correspondence position in the transverse direction of the sheet after completion of the processing is determined, and a thickness control is performed based on the determined correspondence position in the transverse direction of the sheet.
US07813828B2	Substrate processing system and group management system It is intended to provide a substrate processing system and a group management system enabling a more flexible and simplified structure of substrate processing apparatuses. The substrate processing system according to this invention has a plurality of substrate processing apparatuses for processing substrates and the group management system connected to the substrate processing apparatuses, and the group management system includes a structure information memory device (structure management device) for memorizing structure information, a plurality of communication devices (connection management devices) for communicating with at least one of the plural substrate processing apparatuses based on the structure information memorized in the structure information memory device, and an apparatus information storage device (data management device) connected to any of the plural communication devices based on the structure information memorized in the structure information memory device and which stores information relating to the substrate processing apparatus performing communication with the communication device.
US07813820B2	Method to increase the safety integrity level of a control system Controller capable of executing non-safety-related control logic. A safety module is added to the controller in order to increase the safety-integrity level of a control system. The controller is able to execute safety-related control of real-world objects. Such a control system may exist at an offshore production platform or in a hazardous area of a chemical plant.
US07813819B2	Control system for control subject having combustion unit and control system for plant having boiler A control system includes a basic control command operating unit, a fuel data storage unit, a running results database for storing past running results values of a control subject, a data creating unit configured to calculate a distance between data of the past running results values and the data sets and determining data set in which a distance between data becomes minimum, a modeling unit configured to model a relationship between operation parameters of a combustion apparatus and components in combustion gas of the combustion apparatus by using the data set determined by the data creating unit and a correcting unit for calculating combustion apparatus operation parameters with which components having a better condition than that of the components in a current gas are provided by using a model of the modeling unit and correcting operation command values of the basic control command operating unit by calculated operation parameters.
US07813816B2	Methods and structures for utilizing a memory device for a PLC Certain exemplary embodiments comprise a method comprising a plurality of activities comprising: at a programmable logic controller comprising a memory device, receiving a request to create a data log that is adapted to receive data from a process; initializing the data log by writing to the data log a head marker code in the record type field of a first record and an invalid code in the record type field of a last record of the data log, the last record logically preceding and logically adjacent to the first record.
US07813812B2	Baroreflex stimulator with integrated pressure sensor The present invention is an implantable medical device comprising, a pulse generator to generate baroreceptor stimulation pulses, a sensor circuitry, a lead adapted to be electrically connected to the pulse generator and to the sensor circuitry, the lead including an electrode to distribute the baroreceptor stimulation pulses to a baroreceptor site, a pressure sensor to provide a signal indicative of blood pressure to the sensor circuitry and a controller connected to the pulse generator and the sensor circuitry, the controller adapted to adjust the baroreceptor stimulation pulses based on the blood pressure.
US07813811B2	Refillable reservoir lead systems Medical electrical lead systems and related methods are described. The medical electrical lead systems may be configured to be at least partially implanted in a body of a subject. Some variations of the medical electrical lead systems may comprise a lead body comprising a proximal end and a distal end and a lumen extending at least partially therebetween, at least one electrode in the proximity of the distal end of the lead body, and a reservoir in fluid communication with the lumen, where the reservoir is located at a position removed from the distal end of the lead body. Certain variations of the medical electrical lead systems may comprise a lead body comprising a proximal end and a distal end and first and second lumens extending at least partially therebetween, and at least one electrode in the proximity of the distal end of the lead body.
US07813809B2	Implantable pulse generator for providing functional and/or therapeutic stimulation of muscles and/or nerves and/or central nervous system tissue An implantable pulse generator for prosthetic or therapeutic stimulation of muscles, nerves, or central nervous system tissue, or any combination is sized and configured to be implanted in subcutaneous tissue. The implantable pulse generator includes an electrically conductive laser welded titanium case. Control circuitry is located within the case, and includes a primary cell or rechargeable power source, a receive coil for receiving an RF magnetic field to recharge the rechargeable power source, non-inductive wireless telemetry circuitry, and a microcontroller for control of the implantable pulse generator. A stimulation system for prosthetic or therapeutic stimulation of muscles, nerves, or central nervous system tissue, or any combination comprises at least one electrically conductive surface, a lead connected to the electrically conductive surface, and an implantable pulse generator electrically connected to the lead.
US07813804B1	Methods and systems for treating a nerve compression syndrome Methods of treating a nerve compression syndrome include applying at least one stimulus to a stimulation site within a patient with an implanted stimulator in accordance with one or more stimulation parameters. The at least one stimulus is configured to treat the nerve compression syndrome.
US07813799B2	Adaptive safety pacing Methods and systems involve adjusting an energy used for safety pacing based on the capture threshold. The safety pacing energy may be adjusted prior to a capture threshold test. During the capture threshold test, backup safety paces are delivered using the adjusted pacing energy. Following suspension of automatic capture verification, the device may enter a suspension mode. During the suspension mode, safety pacing pulses are delivered using a pacing energy adjusted based on capture threshold.
US07813798B2	Systems and methods for preventing, detecting, and terminating pacemaker mediated tachycardia in biventricular implantable cardiac stimulation systems Various techniques are described for preventing pacemaker mediated tachycardia (PMT) within biventricular pacing systems and for detecting and terminating PMT should it nevertheless arise. In a first prevention technique, refractory periods applied to the atrial channel are synchronized to begin with a second of a pair of ventricular pacing pulses to more effectively prevent T-wave oversensing on the atrial channel. In a second prevention technique, the sensitivity of the atrial channel is reduced during T-waves also to prevent T-wave oversensing. In a third prevention technique, template matching is performed on the ventricular channels to prevent T-wave oversensing. In a fourth prevention technique, T-wave detection windows are applied to both the ventricular and atrial channels subsequent to any paced or sensed events.
US07813792B2	Method and apparatus for analyzing and editing ECG morphology and time series A method and apparatus for analyzing the QT interval characteristics of ECG signal data having a succession of waveforms produced by the beating of the heart. ECG signal data is obtained from a patient. The R-R interval and the QT intervals of the waveforms of the ECG signal data are determined. Waveforms of the ECG signal data having a stable heart rate are selected for use in determining the QT interval characteristics. Preferably, the waveforms selected are those having minimum R-R interval standard deviation and minimum R-R interval dispersion. The QT correction (QTc) is computed from the ECG signal data waveforms selected in the foregoing manner or on the basis of clinician editing. The R-R intervals, the QT intervals, and QTc for the heart beats of the selected waveforms are displayed for analysis and diagnosis purposes. The invention can also be used, in an analogous manner, to obtain and display other cardiac data from the ECG waveforms.
US07813791B1	Systems and methods for employing an FFT to distinguish R-waves from T-waves using an implantable medical device A Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) converts time-varying event waveforms into the frequency domain waveforms to thereby decompose the events into their spectral components, which are analyzed to distinguish R-waves from T-waves. In some embodiments, the FFT is only activated if a ventricular tachyarrhythmia is already indicated. For example, an initial ventricular rate may be derived from a ventricular IEGM based on all events detected therein. The initial ventricular rate is compared against one or more thresholds representative of ventricular tachycardia (VT) and/or ventricular fibrillation (VF) to determine if VT/VF is indicated. If so, the FFT is activated to distinguish R-waves from T-waves and, in particular, to detect and eliminate T-wave oversensing. Then, the ventricular rate is re-determined based only on the rate of true R-waves. Therapy is delivered if VT/VF is still detected.
US07813790B2	Dental implement and method for tooth surface inspection Described are dental implements useful for inspecting tooth surfaces for abnormalities such as caries or plaque. Preferred implements of the invention include light-emitting diodes mounted on an implement body having a mirror for insertion into a user's mouth. Such implements also have on-board batteries mounted in chambers in the implement handle, and a switch for energizing and de-energizing the LED with the battery. Also described are methods for examining tooth surfaces for abnormal conditions indicative of plaque involving illuminating surfaces with radiation at a wavelength in the range of 390-450 nm wherein the radiation is effective to cause detectable fluorescence emissions from bacterial metabolites known to be associated with plaque-containing surfaces, and detecting the emissions.
US07813787B2	Dental implement and method for tooth surface inspection Described are dental implements useful for inspecting tooth surfaces for abnormalities such as caries or plaque. Preferred implements of the invention include light emitting diodes mounted on an implement body having a mirror for insertion into a user's mouth. Such implements also have on-board batteries mounted in chambers in the implement handle, and a switch for energizing and de-energizing the LED with the battery. Also described are methods for examining tooth surfaces for abnormal conditions indicative of plaque involving illuminating surfaces with radiation at a wavelength in the range of 390-450 nm wherein the radiation is effective to cause detectable fluorescence emissions from bacterial metabolites known to be associated with plaque-containing surfaces, and detecting the emissions.
US07813784B2	Interactive computer-assisted surgery system and method A system and method for providing computer assistance for performing a medical procedure provides a graphical user interface to guide and/or assist a user, for example a surgeon, performing the medical procedure, whether surgical or non-surgical. The computer-assisted system comprises a software application that may be used for a medical procedure.
US07813782B2	Imaging system including an object handling system The invention described herein provides systems and methods for handling objects within an imaging system, such as a multi-modal imaging system. An object handling system operates to position an object to be imaged in an interior cavity of a light imaging system, and also moves the object to be imaged between the light imaging system and a second imaging system. The object handling system can include components such as a stage that supports the object, a manipulator configured to move the stage between the interior and exterior of the light imaging system and a light seal configured to interface with a light seal on an exterior wall of the light imaging system.
US07813777B2	Antenna tuner with zero volts impedance fold back An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a wireless handset and an antenna tuner within the wireless handset that is adapted to preset its impedance to the transmit/receive circuitry in the handset.
US07813775B2	Portable terminal foldable to form a triangular prism A portable terminal is provided. The portable terminal includes first, second and third housings. The second housing is rotatably engaged with one portion of the first housing. The third housing has one end engaged to linearly move closely beneath the rear surface of the second housing and the other end rotatably engaged with the other portion of the first housing. The third housing is folded onto the first housing, interposed between the first housing and the second housing, and when the second housing and the third housing rotate away from the first housing, the first, second and third housings form a triangular prism.
US07813773B2	Electronic key apparatus for vehicle An electronic key apparatus for vehicle includes a vehicle mounted device, and a portable device. The vehicle mounted device operates a controller upon authenticating an ID code of the portable device by communication with the portable device, and includes a first sending/receiving unit, a first memory that stores ID codes to authenticate portable devices, a first CPU that sends a request signal to the portable device, and receives and decodes whether an answer signal matches the ID code, and a driving unit that outputs a control signal. The portable devices includes a second sending/receiving unit, a second memory that stores a unique ID code, and a second CPU that encrypts the unique ID code and sends an answer signal. The vehicle mounted device includes a disablement unit that temporarily suspends use of an ID code, and does not communicate with the portable device with the suspended ID code.
US07813764B2	Baseband module and data transmission method A baseband module for a base station is in a mobile communication network. The baseband module includes at least two baseband devices connected to each other by an internal interface, thereby forming a chain of baseband devices. The baseband module is connected to a radio frequency module by two external interfaces, each external interface being connected to a baseband device at the end of the chain of baseband devices.
US07813763B2	Apparatus and method for disabling RF signal transmissions from wireless network modems An apparatus and method is provided for disabling radio frequency signal transmissions from a wireless communications network modem when in proximity to sites where explosive devices are being detonated. The apparatus includes an input switch to signal a command to the modem to disable the transmitter portion of the modem or to tune the transmitter to a null gateway on the wireless communications network. By disabling transmissions from the modem, accidental detonation of explosive devices is prevented When the modem is moved a safe distance away from the explosive devices, the transmitter is re-enabled automatically.
US07813760B2	Method of controlling communication mechanism utilized to arbitrate transmissions of wireless signals and communication apparatus utilizing the same A method of controlling a communication mechanism utilized to arbitrate transmissions of a first and a second wireless signals and a communication apparatus utilized the method are disclosed. The method includes determining a transmission quality indicator corresponding to one of the first wireless signal and the second wireless signal, and dynamically turning the communication mechanism on or off according to the transmission quality indicator. Therefore, the present invention is able to arbitrate transmissions of different wireless signals while decreasing the occurrence of transmission disconnection resulted from the arbitration.
US07813756B2	Mobile communication system, user equipment in mobile communication system, control program thereof, and transmission power control method in mobile communication system In a W-CDMA wireless system, when communication is performed by using a StandAlone-DCCH, adequate transmission power control is performed depending on change in a communication status. In a W-CDMA wireless system 1, a reception quality of a common channel is measured, and if a StandAlone-DCCH state has occurred, transmission power control corresponding to the common channel is performed in which a target SIR is determined depending on the reception quality of the common channel. Therefore, even in the StandAlone-DCCH state in which Blind transport format detection is used, it is possible to set the target SIR in accordance with a reception status of a user equipment 20, enabling the adequate transmission power control depending on the change in the communication status.
US07813747B2	Methods and apparatus for providing PTT data buffering support indications from mobile devices and PTT data buffering control by wireless networks In one illustrative example of the present disclosure, a mobile communication device has one or more processors and a wireless transceiver adapted to provide communications through a wireless communication network. The one or more processors are operative to produce a mobile device indication message which indicates whether the mobile device supports buffering of Push-To-Talk (PTT) communications from the mobile device. This message is transmitted by the wireless transceiver to a PTT service entity through the wireless network. The one or more processors may be further operative to receive, from the PTT service entity through the wireless network, a network indication message which instructs the mobile device whether to use buffering for the PTT communications from the mobile device (assuming a buffer memory for PTT buffering is available in the mobile device). The mobile device may use the buffer memory for the buffering of the PTT communication based on the network indication message from the PTT service entity.
US07813744B2	Method for determining DFS channel availability in a wireless LAN A LAN has a wireless portion which includes access points and wireless communications devices and a wired portion which includes such things as routers, servers, and a PBX. The LAN operates in a radio frequency band where certain channels (DFS channels) are shared with a signal that is of higher priority than the communications signals transmitted and received by the access point and the wireless communications devices. If a higher priority signal is sensed on a particular channel of the wireless medium by a master device, it is necessary for all of the slave devices communicating on this channel to stop transmitting on that channel within a short period of time. The wireless communications devices are mobile and can be easily transported around in space or roam during a communications session. While roaming during a communications session, it is likely that the communications device will move out of range of an access point with which it is currently associated and possibly cause the session to end prematurely, and so it is important that a handoff procedure operates so that a communications session is continuous as the communications device roams from access point to access point. By setting and maintaining a timer dedicated to each available DFS channel, it is possible to ensure that the communications sessions is not interrupted during the roaming process in an environment were certain channels are shared with a higher priority signal.
US07813741B2	System and method for initiating responses to location-based events A system and method for initiating responses to location-based events includes a rules system for applying one or more rules to state/attribute information corresponding to one or more mobile units, to determine if a location-based event has occurred. If it is determined that a location-based event has occurred, a response is provided to one or more location-based services applications. The response can be used by the location-based services applications to provide location-based services, such as email, instant messaging, paging and the like. A state/attribute database can be used with the system and method to store and update the state/attribute information corresponding to the one or more mobile units.
US07813739B2	Method for reducing inter-cell interference in wireless OFDMA networks Protocols for OFDM/OFDMA/SC-FDMA based wireless networks provide adaptive inter-cell interference management without explicit spectrum or frequency planning. Base stations and mobile stations acquire information about subcarrier allocation from a handoff protocol. The mobile stations can also acquire this information using cognitive sensing. Cognitive sensing can be rewarded by the base station. Using this information, subcarriers can be allocated randomly, with blind optimization, or by joint optimization. The stations can use game theory to select among the different optimization strategies.
US07813730B2	Providing mobile core services independent of a mobile device The present disclosure includes a method and system for providing mobile core services independent of a mobile core device. In some embodiments, a method includes presenting a network element as a Base Station Controller to a first Mobile Switching Center (MSC) to provide mobile core services to a device foreign to the mobile core network. The network element is presented as a different MSC to the first MSC for providing an authentication vector used to confirm the foreign device as a mobile communication device.
US07813729B2	System and method for associating a wireless mobile communications device with a specific vehicle A communications system may include a first transceiver and a second transceiver both mountable to a vehicle. The first transceiver may include a range substantially limited to a close proximity of the vehicle. The communications system may also include a mobile communications device. The mobile communications device may be adapted to receive a signal from the first transceiver when within the range of the first transceiver. The signal may include information useable by the mobile communications device for configuration of the mobile communications device for two-way communications with the second transceiver.
US07813727B2	Portable radio receiver with an identification module The portable radio receiver (4) with which programs of a central radio sender (1) can be received comprises an identification module (40) in which user-specific data are stored as well as a contactless interface (41) over which a radio connection can be established with external devices at close range in order to send said user-specific data to these external devices.Application: for example as identification module for public transportation.
US07813725B2	Wireless data exchange A system of exchanging and managing information includes a mobile device configured to automatically insert, exchange and update a caller's contact information into a user's phonebook. The phonebook can reside on either the UICC card, SIM, USIM, Mega SIM, any other smart card or an integrated chip, on the mobile device or on a remote server. The automatic insert and/or automatic exchange mechanism is triggered when a call is made between two people on mobile phones or other devices.
US07813718B2	Authentication in a communication network A mobile wireless terminal, the terminal comprising a generator configured to generate and store a first numerical chain comprising a series of n values using a one-way coding function such that a given value within the chain is easily obtainable from a subsequent value, but the subsequent value is not easily obtainable from that given value, and an authentication requester configured to disclose a value from the numerical chain to an access node, in order to allow the access node to authenticate the mobile wireless terminal, wherein the disclosed value succeeds any values in the chain already disclosed by the mobile wireless terminal.
US07813712B2	Electronic device having metal outer case and antenna therein With the object of providing an electronic device having good radio signal receiving characteristics with a metal outer case housing therewithin an antenna section without restrictions imposed with regard to material or design, an electronic device minimally having an antenna section 32, an information processing means 33 for processing information that is captured by the antenna section 32, and a metal outer case 31, which houses therewithin the antenna section 32 and the information processing means 33, wherein the metal outer case is configured so that the antenna section 32 can receive magnetic flux from outside via the metal outer case 31 and can resonate, the metal outer case 31 minimally comprising a metal case body member 45 and a metal caseback member 41, and wherein a joining and fixing portion 400 between the metal case body member 45 and the metal caseback member 41 is not provided at a location or in the vicinity of at least a location opposite the substantially center part of the antenna section 32.
US07813700B2	Adaptive beam forming with multi-user detection and interference reduction in satellite communication systems Satellite communications methods include receiving communications signals including co-channel interference at a space-based component from a plurality of wireless terminals in a satellite footprint over a satellite frequency band and reducing interference in the communication signals by (a) performing co-channel interference reduction on the communications signals to generate a plurality of interference reduced signals and (b) performing multiple access interference cancellation on the interference reduced signals. An interference reducing detector for a satellite communications system includes an interference reducer configured to perform co-channel interference reduction on communications signals to generate a plurality of interference reduced signals, and a detector configured to perform multiple access interference cancellation on the interference reduced signals. Satellite communications systems and satellite gateways including interference reducing detectors are also disclosed.
US07813692B2	Waste-toner conveying device, cleaning device, and process cartridge A waste-toner conveying device includes a conveying unit that conveys foreign matter accumulated inside a container in a conveying path and that includes a coil unit, and a driving unit that drives the conveying unit to rotate. The coil unit includes a first coil on an upstream side and a second coil on a downstream side in a conveying direction, and the first coil and the second coil are connected in an eccentric manner.
US07813683B2	Belt detaching device and image forming apparatus including belt detaching device A belt member faces a plurality of carrying bodies that respectively carry toner images or developers. A plurality of facing members respectively faces the carrying bodies via the belt member. A detaching unit brings at least one of the facing members to face a corresponding carrying body and detaches other facing members from other carrying bodies. A contacting member contacts the belt member to detach the belt member from the other carrying bodies when the detaching unit detaches the other facing members from the other carrying bodies.
US07813673B2	Developing cartridge having gear support A developing cartridge is provided. The developing cartridge includes an input gear which receives an external driving force; a developing roller which carries developer; a supply roller that is in contact with the developing roller and supplies the developer to the developing roller; a supply roller gear that is meshed with the input gear to drive the supply roller using a driving force transmitted from the input gear; and a developing roller gear that drives the developing roller with a driving force transmitted from the supply roller gear.
US07813668B2	Process cartridge, developing cartridge and electrophotographic image forming apparatus A process cartridge is detachably mountable to a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus and which is transportable in a state of being mounted to the main assembly of the apparatus. The cartridge includes an electrophotographic photosensitive member, a developing roller for developing an electrostatic latent image formed on the member with a developer, a developer accommodating portion accommodating the developer and having a developer supply opening for permitting passage of the developer to supply the developer to the roller, a sealing member unsealably sealing the opening and a grip member, provided on the sealing member, for being gripped to unseal the opening when the sealing member is removed from the opening. The grip member is movable between a first position where the cartridge can move to a predetermined position in the main assembly to permit transportation of the cartridge when mounted to the main assembly, and a second position where the cartridge is prevented from moving to the predetermined position from the first position when the cartridge is dismounted from the predetermined position.
US07813667B2	Web fed charging roll cleaner An apparatus for applying an electrical charge to a charge retentive surface, wherein a bias charge roll member is situated proximately to a surface to be charged such as, a photoreceptor having a cleaning system which includes a web material in contact with the bias charge roll to remove containments thereform.
US07813663B2	System and method of controlling temperature of fixing unit based on detected current A system and method of controlling a temperature of a fixing unit, the system includes a current detector to detect a current of an input power to heat a heating roller, a switching unit to switch a supply of the input power to the heating roller, and a controller to control a switching operation of the switching unit according to an instantaneous current detected by the current detector.
US07813662B2	Transfer unit and image forming apparatus using the unit An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image forming units and a plurality of transfer units. The image forming units have corresponding image carriers and charging units. The image forming units form toner images of different colors on the corresponding image carriers. The transfer units face the corresponding image carriers to form transfer areas between the transfer units and the image carriers, and press a transfer member to the corresponding image carriers to transfer the toner images onto the transfer member at the transfer areas. The charging units include at least one corona-type charger and at least one contact-type charger. The image forming apparatus sets a first transfer condition for the transfer unit(s) corresponding to the image carrier(s) charged by the at least one corona-type charger and a second, separate transfer condition for the transfer unit(s) corresponding to the image carrier(s) charged by the at least one contact-type charger.
US07813660B2	Image adjusting method and image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus forms a toner image onto sheets at the first feeding interval on a photoconductor or intermediate transfer member and, if the temperature of a fixing unit falls outside a set temperature range, the sheet layout is changed to a feeding interval wider than the first feeding interval. Adjustment processing is performed based on the image forming condition so that the feeding interval is changed to a wider one in the feeding interval changing step during image formation and it is determined in the determination step to perform adjustment processing, toner patch images are formed in an area where no toner image is formed on the photoconductor or intermediate transfer member . The adjustment processing is performed based on reading toner patch images.
US07813655B2	Signal waveform deterioration compensator The waveform deterioration detection range is broadened and multi bit rates can be handled. A chromatic dispersion compensator (or polarization mode dispersion compensator) (102) receives a waveform-deteriorated NRZ optical signal entered through an input fiber (101) and compensates it. On the other hand, an optical detector (106) receives part of output light and a sampling circuit (A/D converter) (107) performs asynchronous sampling of received waveform intensity. A control circuit (110) calculates the nth even moment (n is 4 or more) from an obtained waveform amplitude histogram and performs control to minimize its value.
US07813650B2	Optical system A system and method for controlling the gain of an optical amplifier receiving one or more optical input signal channels at a first end include a source for generating a gain control signal, which is input to the optical amplifier at the opposite end to the input signal channels. The gain control signal is generated at a power level that produces stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) in the optical amplifier.
US07813649B2	Optical module An optical module includes a stem with a piercing hole, an optical element mounted on a top surface of the stem, a lead which passes through the piercing hole, one end of the lead being connected to the optical element, and an insulating material in the piercing hole and insulating the stem from the lead. An opening of the piercing hole on the top surface of the stem is smaller than an opening of the piercing hole on an underside of the stem.
US07813644B2	Optical device with a steerable light path A steerable-light-path optical device includes a light transceiver having an external light path associated therewith, and a path-steering device that controls the direction of the light path relative to a steering axis. The path-steering device has a first beam-deviation optical element including a first prism structure having a first diffraction grating thereon, and a second beam-deviation optical element including a second prism structure having a second diffraction grating thereon. The steering axis passes through the first and second beam-deviation optical elements. A rotational drive is operable to rotate at least one of the first beam-deviation optical element and the second beam-deviation optical element, and preferably both of the beam-deviation optical elements, about the steering axis.
US07813642B2	Optical transmission apparatus and method of controlling the same The present invention relates to an optical transmission apparatus capable of suppressing a transitional gain variation when a number of signal wavelengths changes, and maintaining communication quality in optical signals. The optical transmission apparatus is provided with an optical power control device that varies light power of light for each wavelength component corresponding to a wavelength channel, the light including signal light and spontaneous emission light; a wavelength arrangement information obtaining unit that obtains arrangement information of the wavelength channel of the signal light; and a control unit that controls the power control device based on the arrangement information obtained at the wavelength arrangement information obtaining unit so that light power of a wavelength component of the signal light and light power of a wavelength component other than the wavelength component of the signal light become substantially equal.
US07813639B2	Camera cover It is an object of the present invention to mount a focusing mechanism of a camera device on a vehicle without bringing the mechanism in contact with a worker's hands in an in-focus state of a lens system in the camera device having an eyelid part for preventing stray light covering part of a lens, and to improve the beauty and increase mounting flexibility. In a camera cover according to the present invention, a cylinder body (21) of the camera cover (10) covers most including the first half portion of the volume of the camera device, and the cylinder body (21), a frame body (23), an eyelid part (25) and/or an eyelid part (26), and a housing part (27) are integrally molded. Beauty seen from the front can be improved, and the beauty will not be spoiled when the camera device (12) is displaced together with the camera cover (10) and mounted.
US07813638B2	System for generating camera triggers A system for generating a camera trigger that causes a camera to capture image data includes a memory for storing a plurality of trigger values. Each trigger value corresponds to a position of a moving stage. The system includes a controller for receiving position information indicative of a current position of the moving stage, generating a current position value based on the position information, comparing the current position value to at least one of the trigger values, and generating a camera trigger if the current position value matches one of the trigger values.
US07813637B2	Digital camera A digital camera is provided with a special successive shooting mode wherein an imaging device makes a series of successive shots upon each shutter release operation, including at least a non-flash shot and at least a flash shot. When a shutter button is pressed halfway in the successive shooting mode, an exposure condition deciding device decides an exposure condition common to the non-flash and flash shots, or individual exposure conditions for the non-flash shot and the flash shot. When the shutter button is fully pressed, the imaging device starts the successive shots of one series. Images captured by the non-flash shot and the flash shot are displayed on an LCD panel. Before the imaging device starts the successive shots, necessary warning marks are displayed together with the exposure conditions decided by the exposure condition deciding device.
US07813623B2	Method and apparatus for creating still picture management data on a rewritable storage media A process and system for creating and recording still picture management data in a rewritable storage media making it possible to reduce the amount of navigation information and index information necessary by grouping a plurality of still pictures according to their attributes, thus sharing navigation information and recording index information of still pictures with common attributes linked by the shared navigation information. In the method of the present invention, instead of creating navigation information and index information of each still picture, a plurality of still pictures share navigation information according to their attributes or those of audio signals linked to the still pictures and index information of the still pictures are recorded based on the shared navigation information, thereby effectively reducing the amount of navigation information and index information required for reproduction of still pictures recorded on a rewritable storage media.
US07813621B2	Synchronized streaming layer with presentation layer A “tag” is attached to streaming video data as it is streamed from the streaming layer to the presentation engine. Each frame containing a button or other user feature also has a “tag” associated with it. When the presentation engine processes a packet of data, it updates a state variable with the tag associated with the packet of data. The streaming layer can query this state variable at any point to get the tag associated with the currently rendered unit. When the user clicks on a button or feature, the streaming layer, rather than utilizing an associated operation in the data being streamed, instead uses the tag associated with the frame being displayed and then takes the appropriate action. The invention may also be used to provide frame-accurate editing features to allow streaming video data to be indexed or reversed to a frame-accurate level.
US07813620B2	Recording apparatus, editing apparatus, digital video recording system, and file format Provided is a digital video recording system which can properly maintain a corresponding relationship between recorded data in two different kinds of formats which are generated from the same inputted video-audio data, even if those data are managed separately. In a case where the first file is generated as a main material file with a high resolution, and the second file is generated as a low-bitrate audio-video (AV) data file (204) with a low resolution, a CLIP-UMID (309) which is identification information unique to the first file is stored in a skip box (304) in the low-bitrate AV data file (204).
US07813619B2	Synchronizing of a digital signal using a PCR program clock reference A digital signal receiving system is provided for establishing high-speed clock resynchronization even if abnormality such as a poor radio wave receiving condition takes place. The system is constructed such that recipient STC data and PCR data are acquired in response to detection of a variation in frequency of a clock signal, and these data are stored as variation information data. The receiver 10 sets the PCR data in the R_STC counter 142, and sends the variation information data to the host device 20. The host device 20, in turn, sets a computation result obtained based on host STC data and the variation information data in the H_STC counter 242.
US07813615B2	Flexible film optical waveguide using organic-inorganic hybrid material and fabrication method thereof Disclosed herein is a flexible film optical waveguide, which is in flexible film form and includes upper and lower cladding layers, each of which is formed of an organic-inorganic hybrid material, and a core layer provided between the upper and lower cladding layers and formed of an organic-inorganic hybrid material having a refractive index higher than that of the organic-inorganic hybrid material of each of the upper and lower cladding layers. In addition, a method of fabricating such a flexible film optical waveguide is also provided.
US07813611B2	Aluminum doped optical fiber According to one example of the invention an optical fiber comprises: (i) a core comprising of Al doped silica having a first index of refraction n1; (ii) at least one silica based cladding surrounding the core and having a second index of refraction n2, such that n1>n2; (iii) a hermetic carbon based coating surrounding said cladding, said hermetic coating being 300 nm-1000 nm thick; and (iv) a second coating surrounding said hermetic coating, said second coating being 5 μm to 80 μm thick.
US07813610B2	Plastic optical medium and production method thereof A first polymerizable composition is poured into a pipe (30), then is polymerized to be a first layer (13). Next, a second polymerizable composition is poured into the pipe (30) and polymerized to be a second layer (14). These pouring and polymerizing processes are repeated to form an optical medium (10) including n-layers of polymer. Each layer is formed by polymerizing the polymerizable composition comprising same kinds of plural polymerizable contents as those in other polymerizable compositions for other layers. The layer at the inner side is formed from the polymerizable composition including larger ratio of a polymerizable content which has higher refractive index than that of at least another polymerizable content in the same polymerizable composition, compared with the polymerizable composition for forming the adjacent layer at the outer side. A difference of refractive indices between adjacent two polymer layers is at least 5×10−5 but less than 5×10−3.
US07813609B2	Imaging catheter with integrated reference reflector In part, the invention relates to a lens assembly. The lens assembly includes a micro-lens; a beam director in optical communication with the micro-lens; and a substantially transparent film. The substantially transparent film is capable of bi-directionally transmitting light, and generating a controlled amount of backscatter. In addition, the film surrounds a portion of the beam director.
US07813605B2	Data communication cable comprising filling matrix and method of fabrication A data communication cable can comprise multiple pairs of twisted conductors. A jacket that extends along the outside surface of the cable can define a longitudinal core, internal to the cable. The conductor pairs can be disposed in the core of the cable along with a foam matrix or a porous filler, with the matrix and the conductors occupying essentially all of the volume of the core. The foam matrix can hold each conductor pair in a respective location within the cable core to control signal crosstalk on each pair. A co-extrusion process can produce the cable via simultaneously extruding the foam matrix and the jacket. A pulling apparatus can feed the conductor pairs though respective ports of an extrusion head-and-die assembly. As one extruder encases the moving conductor pairs in the foam matrix, another extruder forms the jacket over the matrix and the embedded conductors.
US07813601B2	Reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer Disclosed is an add-drop multiplexer that receives an optical signal having a plurality of channels. The multiplexer spatially separates the channels, and a spatial light modulator within the multiplexer, which in some embodiments is a switched blazed grating, routes the channels along first or second paths according to whether the particular channels are to be sent along as a part of an output communication signal or “dropped” into a dropped-channel optical communications signal. The add-drop multiplexer is also operable to receive optical channels to be added to an optical signal and to use a spatial light modulator to add those optical signals to that optical signal.
US07813593B2	Display of thumbnails of image data The display of each thumbnail with an appropriate paper size enables the operator to readily grasp the number of pixels constituting each image data corresponding to the thumbnail. Such display enhances the workability for selection of desired image data. Multiple thumbnails provided for respective image data are displayed as a list in a specific thumbnail display area on a window. The appropriate paper size of each thumbnail is shown on the upper right corner of the thumbnail. The appropriate paper size of each thumbnail is determined to be suitable for the print size for printing the image data corresponding to the thumbnail. The appropriate paper size is the paper size of the greatest dimensions among multiple paper size options stored in a paper size table that are sufficient for printing the image data having a specified number of pixels.
US07813584B2	Image reproduction device and image reproduction method employing a brightness adjustment An image reproducing device includes: an image signal inputting part for receiving input of a first image signal; a sub image signal generating part for generating a sub image signal from information on a sub image extracted from said first image signal; a main image signal decoding part for extracting a main image signal from said first image signal and decoding said main image signal; a brightness detecting part for detecting a brightness of said main image signal and calculating a brightness average value; a brightness adjusting part for adjusting a brightness of said sub image signal based on said brightness average value; an image signal composing part for composing said main image signal and said sub image signal, the brightness of which is adjusted, and generating a second image signal; and an image signal outputting part for outputting said second image signal.
US07813580B2	Method for adaptive image region partition and morphologic processing An adaptive dilation method receives an image and performs an adaptive background distance transform to create an adaptive background distance transform image. A threshold is applied to the adaptive background distance transform image to generate adaptive dilation image output. An adaptive erosion method receives an image and performs an adaptive foreground distance transform to create an adaptive foreground distance transform image. A threshold is applied to the adaptive foreground distance transform image to generate adaptive erosion image output.
US07813579B2	Microscope system A microscope system is constructed by a light guiding optical system 20 having an objective lens 21 and beam splitters 27a and 27b for splitting an optical image of a sample S, a photodetector 31 for acquiring an image of the sample S, and two CCD cameras 33 and 34 for focus control disposed on optical paths split by the beam splitters 27a and 27b. The cameras 33 and 34 are disposed being inclined with respect to the optical path so that the optical paths thereof in the light guiding optical system 20 vary along a z-axis direction in opposite directions to each other. Images acquired by these cameras 33 and 34 are analyzed in a focus controller 37, and the image pickup focal point to the sample S is controlled on the basis of the analysis result, whereby the focus control when an image of the sample is acquired can be suitably performed.
US07813577B2	Image editing apparatus and image editing method Modified image data is composed by combining unprocessed original image data and modification information expressing a modification process applied to that original image data, enabling the original image data to be recreated from modified image data without deterioration in picture quality. In addition, recording modification information at each process step enables past modifications to be undone and redone at any time.
US07813574B2	Low complexity and unified transforms for video coding A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for decoding data (e.g., video data) using transforms. In one embodiment, the decoding process comprises scaling a block of coefficients using a scaling factor determined for each coefficient by computing an index for said each coefficient and indexing a look-up table (LUT) using the index. The index is based on a quantization parameter, a size of the block of coefficients, and a position of said each coefficient within the block. The method also comprises applying a transform to the block of scaled coefficients.
US07813568B2	Moving picture coding method and moving picture decoding method According to a picture coding method of the present invention, a coded picture identified by a picture number is stored, as a reference picture, into a storage unit; commands indicating correspondence between picture numbers and reference indices for designating reference pictures and coefficients used for generation of predictive images are generated; a reference picture being used when motion compensation is performed on a current block in a current picture to be coded is designated by a reference index; a predictive image is generated by performing linear prediction on a block being obtained by motion estimation within the designated reference picture, by use of a coefficient corresponding to the reference index; a coded image signal including a coded signal obtained by coding a prediction error being a difference between the current block in the current picture to be coded and the predictive image, the commands, the reference index and the coefficient is outputted. At that time, information indicating the maximum reference index value is coded and included into the coded image signal, and the commands indicating correspondence between at least one picture number and a plurality of reference indices are generated.
US07813563B2	Systems, methods, and computer program products for compression, digital watermarking, and other digital signal processing for audio and/or video applications Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for digital signal processing, which may include obtaining a first set of digitized coefficients from source data and determining a best-fit distribution of a generalized Gaussian distribution for the set of digitized coefficients. The digital signal processing may further include applying a quantization algorithm to the first set of plurality of digitized coefficients to obtain a second set of quantizers, wherein the quantization algorithm is based at least in part on the determined best-fit distribution, and providing second set of quantizers as a compressed representation of the source data. The digital signal processing may also include retrieving suspected encoded data, determining at least one parameter of a generalized Gaussian distribution for the suspected encoded data, determining a digital watermark within the suspected encoded data based at least in part on the determined parameter, and extracting the digital watermark from the suspected encoded data.
US07813561B2	Automatic classification of objects within images A system for automatically classifying an object of a target image is provided. A classification system provides a collection of classified images along with a classification of the dominant object of the image. The classification system attempts to classify the object of a target image based on similarity of the target image to the classified images. To classify a target image, the classification system identifies the classified images of the collection that are most similar to the target image based on similarity between salient points of the target image and the classified images. The classification system selects a classification associated with the classified images that are most similar to the target image as a classification for the object of the target image.
US07813553B2	Image region detection method, recording medium, and device therefor Using an image region detection method according to the present invention, the detection of sides in the four directions (vertical and horizontal directions) is performed on the basis of results of edge detection performed on lines having a particular width, starting from an inner point toward the periphery of the quadrangular region in an input image, and the shape and the four corners of the quadrangle formed by the detected four sides are verified. Thereby, when there is a side that has been falsely detected, redetection on sides that are closer to the periphery than the side that has been detected falsely is performed, such that the quadrangular region can be formed at high speed.
US07813540B1	System and method for detecting nuclear material in shipping containers A system and method for detecting metal contraband such as weapons related material in shipping containers where a container is scanned with at least one penetrating beam, preferably a tomographic x-ray beam, and at least one image is formed. The image can be analyzed by a pattern recognizer to find voids representing metal. The voids can be further classified with respect to their 2 or 3-dimensional geometric shapes. Container ID and contents or bill of lading information can be combined along with other parameters such as total container weight to allow a processor to generate a detection probability. The processor can use artificial intelligence methods to classify suspicious containers for manual inspection.
US07813525B2	Method and apparatus for detecting suspicious activities A method and apparatus for detecting suspicious activities is disclosed. In one embodiment at least one low-level feature set is detected in a plurality of frames of a sequence of scene imagery. The frame-to-frame associations of the detected low-level feature set are determined, and suspicious activities is identifying on the bases of these frame-to-frame associations.
US07813519B2	Microphone apparatus with increased directivity A microphone assembly includes a housing including at least one first tube in communication with at least one first cavity, at least one second tube in communication with at least one second cavity, one third tube in communication with at least one third cavity, and at least one microphone element separating the first, second and third cavities, wherein sound waves are received in the first, second, and third tubes and directed into the cavities and received by the microphone element. A method for converting sound waves into an electrical signal includes receiving the sound waves through at least three tube openings and directing the received sound waves along tube pathways into at least a first, second, and third cavity to a microphone separating the first, second, and third cavity. The method further includes converting the received sound waves into an electrical signal with the microphone.
US07813516B1	System for cardioid sound field generation from dissimilar sources Front to back linear arrays of loudspeakers provide a sound field compressed both vertical and horizontally with the horizontal directivity patter exhibiting a cardioid shape. The problem addressed is improving the horizontal directivity of linear arrays. A linear array of bass units is placed behind a linear array of mid to high frequency range devices to improve horizontal directivity. The first and second linear arrays are placed back to front, oriented to radiate in a forward direction and spaced by a known distance “d”. The distance “d” may be selected to determine the degree of narrowing of the cardioid pattern sound field generated. Greater directivity is also achieved by adding additional linear arrays of bass units behind the second array. The upper frequency knee of the bass unit arrays must overlap the lower frequency knee of the mid/high-frequency unit array.
US07813513B2	Multi-channel encoder There is described a method of encoding input signals (CHI to CH3; 400 to 450) in a multi-channel encoder (5; 15) to generate corresponding output data comprising down-mix output signals (610, 620) together with complementary parametric data (600). The method includes a first step of down-mixing input signals (CHI to CH3; 400 to 450) to generate the corresponding down-mix output signals (610, 620), and a second step of processing the input signals (CHI to CH3; 400 to 450) during down-mixing to generate said parametric data (600) complementary to the down-mix output signals (610, 620). Processing of the input signals (CHI to CH3; 400 to 450) involves including information in the down-mix signals (610, 620) which is useable during subsequent decoding of the down-mix output signals (610, 620) and the parametric data (600) to determine at least some parameter data and thereby enabling representations of the input signals (CHI to CH3; 400 to 450) to be subsequently regenerated. Coders for use in the encoder (5; 15) for performing essential signal processing operations therein are also elucidated.
US07813498B2	Full-duplex communication device and method of acoustic echo cancellation therein The invention provides a full-duplex communication device. In one embodiment, the full-duplex communication device comprises a first adaptive filter, a second adaptive filter, a channel decoupling module, and a frequency processing module. The first adaptive filter having a first tap length filters out echoes of a far-end talker from a first near-end signal carrying voices of a near-end talker according to a far-end signal carrying voices of the far-end talker to obtain a second near-end signal. The second adaptive filter having a second tap length less than the first tap length filters out echoes of the far-end talker from the first near-end signal according to the far-end signal to obtain a third near-end signal. The channel decoupling module processes the second near-end signal to generate a fourth near-end signal and subtracts the second near-end signal from the third near-end signal to obtain a fifth near-end signal. Finally, the frequency processing module cancels echoes of the far-end talker from the fourth near-end signal in frequency domain according to the fifth near-end signal to obtain a six near-end signal.
US07813493B2	Method and system for handling calls at an automatic call distribution system A method for handling calls at an automatic call distribution system includes receiving a first call for connection with one of a plurality of agents and distributing the first call to a first agent of the plurality of agents. The method includes presenting to the first agent at least one target time associated with handling the first call and modifying the at least one target time associated with handling the first call based on call parameters and a service level goal. The call parameters comprise a status of a queue comprising calls awaiting connection with agents. The method also includes presenting the at least one modified target time associated with handling the first call to the first agent.
US07813482B2	Internet telephone voice mail management A method, system, and program provide for voice mail management. A voice mail filtering controller calculates a separate Bayesian score for each voice mail message from among multiple voice mail message entries received into a voice mailbox for a user, wherein each separate Bayesian score indicates a probability that the associated voice mail message is unwanted by said user. During playback, the voice mail filtering controller automatically deletes a selection of the voice mail messages each with a separate Bayesian score greater than a particular Bayesian score of the last played voice mail message from the voice mailbox.
US07813481B1	Conversation recording with real-time notification for users of communication terminals A recording device provides conversation recording with real-time notification between users of communication terminals engaged in a conversation. The recording device provides a recording start notification to a second communication terminal in response to receiving an initiate recording request from a first communication terminal, and initiates recording of the conversation. The recording device terminates recording of the conversation in response to receiving a terminate recording request from the first communication terminal, provides a recording stop notification to the second communication terminal, and saves the recorded conversation to a file in a file storage medium. The recording start and recording stop notifications can be either audible or electronic notifications. The first communication terminal may be muted prior to providing a notification, and un-muted subsequent to the notification. The recording device may obtain permission from the second communication terminal to record the conversation.
US07813479B2	X-ray device with scattered-beam suppression The invention relates to an X-ray device with an X-ray radiation source and with a preferably digital detector, which is placed in the beam path of the radiation source behind the object, particularly behind a patient. Scattered-rays are suppressed by means of a scanning device that scans the object and the detector only in sections. During a half-scanning process, the X-ray image is composed of half images, one image half being faded out.
US07813475B1	X-ray microscope with switchable x-ray source An x-ray imaging system uses a synchrotron radiation beam to acquire x-ray images and at least one integrated x-ray source. The system has an imaging system including sample stage controlled by linear translation stages, objective x-ray lens, and x-ray sensitive detector system, placed on a fixed optical table and a mechanical translation stage system to switch x-ray sources when synchrotron radiation beam is not available.
US07813471B2	X-ray CT apparatus An X-ray CT apparatus is provided, having a function for deciding an X-ray imaging condition prior to scanning, the X-ray imaging condition allowing an acquisition of contrast to noise ratio appropriate for identifying a diagnostic object. Prior to the real scan, a three-dimensional model of an object is estimated from scanogram projection data of the object, a contrast to noise ratio enabling identification of the diagnostic object is calculated, based on the diagnostic object size set by an operator via an operating device when planning the scan, the three-dimensional model, and a standard imaging condition that is stored in a storage device. Then, an optimum irradiated X-ray condition (tube current and tube voltage) is calculated for achieving the contrast to noise ratio enabling identification. The X-ray condition being calculated is displayed in the form of information such as image SD value and exposure dose, under the calculated X-ray condition and under other condition.
US07813465B2	Pressure suppression and decontamination apparatus and method for reactor container A pressure suppression and decontamination apparatus for a reactor container which is provided with a reactor pressure vessel containing nuclear core fuel and forms a dry well space including, a dry well cooling unit for cooling a gas in the dry well space and for producing a condensate of the gas, a circulation device for leading the gas in the dry well space to the dry well cooling unit, and a sprinkling device for sprinkling the condensate in the dry well space.
US07813457B2	Device, system and method for detecting and handling co-channel interference Briefly, some embodiments of the invention may provide devices, systems and methods to estimate, detect and handle cross-correlation between co-channel interference and a received signal in a wireless communication network. For example, a method in accordance with an embodiment of the invention may handle a data block of a received signal based on an estimated cross-correlation between co-channel interference and the received signal.
US07813439B2	Various methods and apparatuses for impulse noise detection Methods and apparatuses for reducing effects of impulse noise in a DSL transmitter receiver device are described. According to certain embodiment, the method includes comparing a hard decision output of a decoder with a soft decision output for a convolution coded modulation symbol received at a digital subscriber line (DSL) receiver. The presence of impulse noise is detected based on a lack of agreement between the hard decision output and the soft decision output.
US07813438B2	Detector and method for estimating data probability in a multi-channel receiver A detector and method for estimating channel data probability in a multi-user or multiple-input multiple-output communication system includes summing conditional bit probabilities conditioned on hypothetical channel data patterns over stochastically selected hypothetical channel data patterns. Various detailed hardware structures and circuits are also described.
US07813436B1	Frame synchronization method and apparatus In a method for synchronizing a receiver to a synchronous signal, a plurality of potential symbols are detected in a signal, the signal having been processed based on automatic gain control (AGC) with a varying gain. Next frame potential symbols corresponding to potential symbols in the plurality of potential symbols are determined, the next frame potential symbols being in frames subsequent to the frames in which the corresponding potential symbols are located. A gain of the AGC is fixed for each corresponding symbol interval during which a next frame potential symbol is operated on by the AGC. In between next frame potential symbols, the AGC is allowed to vary. Next frame potential symbols are analyzed after a transform is calculated to determine if any correspond to a start of a frame.
US07813428B2	Method of encoding and decoding video signals Disclosed herein is a method of encoding video signals. The method includes creating a bit stream of a first layer by encoding the video signals, and creating a bit stream of a second layer by encoding the video signals based on the first layer. When residual data, corresponding to an image difference, within the first layer, is up-sampled and used for the encoding of the second layer, the residual data is up-sampled for each block that is predicted based on motion compensation.
US07813427B2	Method and apparatus for accomplishing multiple description coding for video A method and apparatus for utilizing temporal prediction and motion compensated prediction to accomplish multiple description video coding is disclosed. An encoder receives a sequence of video frames and divides each frame into non-overlapping macroblocks. Each macroblock is then encoded using either an intraframe mode (I-mode) or a prediction mode (P-mode) technique. Both the I-mode and the P-mode encoding techniques produce an output for each of n channels used to transmit the encoded video data to a decoder. The P-mode technique generates at least n+1 prediction error signals for each macroblock. One of the at least n+1 P-mode prediction error signals is encoded such that it may be utilized to reconstruct the original sequence of video frames regardless of the number of channels received by the decoder. A component of the one of the at least n+1 P-mode prediction error signals is sent on each of the n channels. Each of the remaining at least n+1 P-mode prediction error signals is sent on a separate one of the n channels (along with the above mentioned component). These remaining at least n+1 P-mode prediction error signals are encoded such that, when combined with the component of the one P-mode prediction error signal which was sent on the same channel, a reasonably good reconstruction of the original sequence of video frames may be obtained if the number of received channels is between 1 and n−1.
US07813413B2	Antenna array communication using spreading codes A first reference signal and a first data signal are transmitted from a first antenna of a base station and a second reference signal and a second data signal are transmitted from a second antenna of the base station. The first and second antennas are difference antennas. The first and second reference signals having different codes and the first and second data signals having different codes. The received first and second reference signals are combined using an adaptive algorithm producing adaptive algorithm weights. Data from the first and second data signals is recovered by combining the first and second data signal in response to adaptive algorithm weights.
US07813411B1	Spread spectrum frequency synthesizer with high order accumulation for frequency profile generation A frequency synthesizer is described illustrating a system and method for modulation. In particular, the frequency synthesizer includes a control circuit for producing a plurality of input signals that is scalable to a frequency profile. Each of the input signals includes a slope and a direction of the slope. A higher order accumulator block is coupled to the control circuit and receives the plurality of input signals. The higher order accumulator block includes at least two accumulators. The higher order accumulator block sums the plurality of input signals to generate a standard curve that is non-linear. A frequency spreading control pattern generation modulator is coupled to the higher order accumulator block and modulates the standard curve to generate the desired frequency profile.
US07813408B2	Wireless communications device with white gaussian noise generator and related methods A wireless communications device may include a wireless transmitter, a modulator connected to the wireless transmitter, and a white Gaussian noise generator connected to the modulator. The white Gaussian noise generator may include at least one pseudorandom number generator, and a fast Walsh transform module for generating white Gaussian noise based upon the pseudorandom numbers.
US07813402B2	Surface emitting laser and method of manufacturing the same Provided is a surface emitting laser which can maintain a fundamental transverse mode to obtain higher power while higher-order transverse mode oscillations are suppressed, and a method of manufacturing the surface emitting laser. The surface emitting laser includes: an aperture portion to be a path for injecting a current to an active layer; a current confinement region provided in the vicinity of the aperture portion; and a current injection region which is provided on an opposite side to a light output side with respect to the active layer therebetween, in which a current injection path in the current injection region has a smaller diameter than the aperture portion.
US07813398B2	Semiconductor optical element for external cavity laser The present invention provides a semiconductor optical element applicable to an EC-LD or an SLD, and an external cavity laser having the semiconductor optical element. The semiconductor optical element has a pair of cleavage surfaces, and comprises a semiconductor substrate 11 having a base surface and a planer structure provided on the base surface and provided with a waveguide 1G having an active layer. The waveguide 1G has an end surface with low reflectivity and another end surface with certain reflectivity. The waveguide 1G includes an end portion having a first optical axis in the vicinity of the first end surface 1TL and an end portion having a second optical axis in the vicinity of the second end surface 1TH, the first optical axis being inclined at a first angle ΦL other than zero degree with respect to a normal to the first end surface 1TL, the second optical axis being inclined at a second angle ΦH other than zero degree with respect to a normal to the second end surface 1TH, the first angle ΦL being different from the second angle ΦH. The end portion of the waveguide 1G is different in width from the other end portion of the waveguide 1G.
US07813395B1	Distributed feedback laser having enhanced etch stop features In one example embodiment, a DFB laser includes a substrate, an active region positioned above the substrate, and a grating layer positioned above the active region. The grating layer includes a portion that serves as a primary etch stop layer. The DFB laser also includes a secondary etch stop layer located either above or below the grating layer, and a spacer layer interposed between the grating layer and the active region.
US07813394B2	Laser with gain medium suppressing higher order modes to provide lasing output with high beam quality High-power, diode-pumped solid state (DPSS) pulsed lasers are preferred for applications such as micromachining, via drilling of integrated circuits, and ultraviolet (UV) conversion. Nd:YVO4 (vanadate) lasers are good candidates for high power applications because they feature a high energy absorption coefficient over a wide bandwidth of pumping wavelengths. However, vanadate has poor thermo-mechanical properties, in that the material is stiff and fractures easily when thermally stressed. By optimizing laser parameters and selecting pumping wavelengths and doping a concentration of the gain medium to control the absorption coefficient less than 2 cm−1 such as the pumping wavelength between about 910 nm and about 920 nm, a doped vanadate laser may be enhanced to produce as much as 100 W of output power without fracturing the crystal material, while delivering a 40% reduction in thermal lensing.
US07813390B2	Injection-seeded monolithic laser An injection seeding laser system in which the seeded laser has a monolithic structure without any moving parts. The seeder emits light whose wavelength is swept in a radio frequency (RF) over a range that covers one or more longitudinal mode(s) of the seeded laser, which eliminates the need for active cavity length control and phase locking between the injected and output signals. The gain medium of the seeded laser is an active medium whose population is substantially inversed in response to an excitation, which can be electrical or optical. Time synchronization between the injected seeds and the triggering signal to the slave is generally not required. The present invention enables fiber MOPO that produces high power laser pulses in an efficient and cost-effective manner.
US07813373B2	Systems, methods and apparatus for detecting time slot interference and recovering from time slot interference in an ad hoc wireless communication network In a network comprising a source, a destination, and intermediate nodes along a route between the source and the destination, techniques are provided for allocating one or more time slots to transmit a particular data stream along the route based on the QoS requirements to transmit the particular data stream. In one implementation, a Scout Request message (SRM) is sent from the source to the destination to allocate time slots along the route to transmit a particular data stream to the destination. The SRM can include QoS requirements to transmit the particular data stream. Each intermediate node along the route can allocate one or more time slots to transmit the particular data stream based on the QoS requirements needed to transmit the particular data stream along the route.
US07813371B2	System and method for short range communication using adaptive channel intervals A system and method for data transmission on wireless discontinuous channels including a control/safety information (CSI) channel having a duty cycle, and a plurality of service channels. The system and method include: evaluating channel utilization of one or more of the channels; calculating an optimal CSI channel duty cycle responsive to the channel utilizations; adjusting the duty cycle of the CSI channel to the calculated optimal CSI channel duty cycle; broadcasting the optimal CSI channel duty cycle; and transmitting data during the optimal CSI channel duty cycle.
US07813370B2	Facilitating wireless spectrum migration Migrating from a legacy spectrum allocation to a target spectrum allocation can be accomplished by adding new access points and, at a selected time, activating the new access points and deactivating the legacy access points with a remote network manager. Alternatively, the new access points can initially support legacy channels and at a selected time be reconfigured to support only the target channels. Alternatively, the new access points are initially activated in a mode which supports only a subset of the target channels and at a selected time reconfigured to support only the target channels. A remote network manager may be employed to remotely monitor, reconfigure, and trigger activation and deactivation of access points in support of the technique. New access points adapted to respond to inputs from the remote network manager further facilitate the invention. For example, the new access points may be remotely configurable to activate, deactivate, support a legacy spectrum or portions thereof, support a target spectrum or portions thereof, and provide traffic load and other data to the remote network manager.
US07813368B2	Communication system A communication system includes master and slave controllers, a local device connected to the slave controller, and a communication cable having a pair of wires and connected between the master and slave controllers. The master controller feeds a first DC voltage to the slave controller via the communication cable and communicates with the slave controller by changing the first DC voltage such that voltages on the wires of the communication cable are opposite in phase. The slave controller generates a second DC voltage from the first DC voltage and feeds the second DC voltage to the local device. When the master and slave controllers communicate with each other, the slave controller changes the second DC voltage such that voltages on terminals of the local device are opposite in phase and vary synchronously with the voltages on the communication cable.
US07813362B2	Communication apparatus, electronic apparatus, imaging apparatus A communication apparatus is disclosed that includes a transmission circuit configured to transmit transmission data to a communication counterpart; a reception circuit configured to receive reception data from the communication counterpart; a storage device configured as at least two buffers including a transmission buffer that stores the transmission data and a reception buffer that stores the reception data; and an address mapping unit configured to perform address mapping of the buffers including the transmission buffer and the reception buffer on the storage device, and adjust the storage capacity of the transmission buffer and the storage capacity of the reception buffer.
US07813361B2	System and method for transmitting/receiving hybrid automatic repeat request buffer capability information in broadband wireless access communication system Disclosed is a system and method for transmitting and receiving hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) buffer capability information in a broadband wireless access communication system. According to the system and method, a mobile station detects its own HARQ buffer capacity, and transmits a message including information about the detected HARQ buffer capability to a base station. The base station receives the message and determines the amount of a transmission signal to be allocated to the mobile station based on the HARQ buffer capability, so that it is possible to operate a HARQ scheme in accordance with the HARQ buffer capability of the mobile station.
US07813359B1	Communication gateway A gateway device is disclosed which processes only really necessary information for gatewaying and thereby prevents unnecessary increases in communication traffic on a communication bus to which data is sent through the gatewaying. When it is judged that the contents of received data concern a command that does not need gatewaying, the processing for gatewaying is inhibited. When it is judged that the contents of the received data show information that should be processed for gatewaying only when there is a change in the contents, the contents are compared with the latest contents of the same kind of information stored in a memory, to determine whether there is a change in the contents, and the processing for gatewaying is inhibited when it is determined that there is no change.
US07813346B1	Filter-based forwarding in a network A router receives a packet at an ingress interface. The router classifies the received packet based on at least a first field value contained in the header of the packet. According to the classification of the received packet, the router associates one of the plurality of forwarding tables to the packet. The router then performs a lookup operation in the associated forwarding table according to at least a second field value contained in the header of the packet. Based on the lookup operation, the router determines an egress interface and transmits the received packet from the determined egress interface.
US07813340B2	Methods and apparatus for updating subsource addressing multicast routing records in a communications network Methods and arrangements for facilitating subscription among at least two nodes in a distributed network, involving the designation of one of the nodes as a publisher node, the designation of one of the nodes as a subscriber node, and the recordation of a path between the subscriber node and the publisher node. The path includes at least one link between the subscriber node and the publisher node, and the recordation involves recording each distinct link in the path between the subscriber node and the publisher node.
US07813324B1	Scalable mobile adaptive reliable ToS based automatic retransmit request A method for handling data transmission errors in a wireless communication network includes receiving a first data from a first node at a second node using a data transmission protocol having a first slot for transmitting the first data. The first slot includes a plurality of bits and a first slot header comprising an acknowledgment request for at least one group of bits. The method also includes evaluating the first set of data for errors and generating a second slot using the data transmission protocol. The second slot includes at least a second slot header comprising acknowledgement data in response to the acknowledgement request. The acknowledgement data has a structure based on a Forward Error Correction (FEC) protocol block size. The second slot is then transmitted to the first node.
US07813323B1	Dynamic adjustment of reverse-link frame-error-rate (RFER) target based on reverse-link RF conditions Methods and systems are provided for dynamic adjustment of the reverse-link frame-error-rate (RFER) target based on reverse-link RF conditions. In an embodiment, a base station provides service to at least one mobile station on a carrier in a wireless coverage area using a first RFER target. The base station calculates a reverse noise rise (RNR) value for the carrier, and then selects a second RFER target based at least in part on the calculated RNR value. The base station then provides service to at least one mobile station on the carrier in the wireless coverage area using the second RFER target.
US07813319B2	Framework of media-independent pre-authentication This application describes, among other things, a framework of Media-independent Pre-Authentication (MPA), a new handover optimization mechanism that has a potential to address issues on existing mobility management protocols and mobility optimization mechanisms. MPA is a mobile-assisted, secure handover optimization scheme that works over any link-layer and with any mobility management protocol. This application also shows, among other things, an initial implementation of MPA in our testbed and some performance results to show how existing protocols could be leveraged to realize the functionalities of MPA.
US07813315B2	Spectrum sharing in a wireless communication network A system and method for synchronous spectrum sharing for use in a wireless communication system based on orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) or orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) signaling is disclosed. The system includes a frame detector configured to detect a frame of a broadcast waveform and extract sub-carrier information from a subframe or Secondary User Map (SU MAP). SU MAP includes information on usable sub-carrier and pilot sub-carriers for secondary users. The system allows transmitting data from the secondary user node in unused sub-carriers thereby making efficient use of unused or idle spectrum. Accordingly, secondary users of wireless communication systems can dynamically form ad-hoc mesh network communications in fixed or mobile scenarios.
US07813313B2	MIMO communication system based on random beamforming and its user scheduling method Embodiments of the present invention provides a MIMO communication system based on random beamforming and its user scheduling method. The system includes: a transmitter that is used to transmit the data frame including at least the channel estimation signal and the user data; and at least one receiver that is used to receive the data frame from the transmitter and to produce the corresponding feedback information and recover the user data. The transmitter produces the scheduling information according to the feedback signal and utilizes the scheduling information to implement adaptive user scheduling. The scheduling information includes the scheduled users, data streams that should be supported by each scheduled user and the transmit beam adopted by each data stream. Embodiments of the present system can schedule the users with fixed number or adaptively according to the instant channel condition as well as different feedback information so that the intelligence of the system control and communication stability can be improved to approach the maximum system capacity.
US07813304B2	Providing conferencing data in a network communications system based on client capabilities An improved networked computer communications system handles arbitrary streams of data, and transports at varying speeds those streams where intermediate updates can be dropped if they are made obsolete by later arriving data updates, optimizing the utilization of network and node resources. Complex buffering by system server software allows distributed, parallel, or redundant processing, transmission, and storage for performance, reliability, and robustness. Various parameters of the system can be monitored, and the system can be reconfigured automatically based on the observations. Varied techniques reduce the perceived end-to-end latency and take advantage of software and hardware capabilities that assets connected to the system may possess. One conferencing system allows conference participants to share all or a portion of the display seen on their computer screens. The conferees may be at sites removed from each other, or may view a recorded presentation or archived conference at different times. Conference participants are either “presenters” who can modify the display or “attendees” who cannot modify the display. A pointer icon, which can be labeled to identify the conferee, is displayed on the shared image area Each conferee can modify the position of his or her own pointer, even when not presenting, so that every participant can see what each conferee is pointing to, should a conferee choose to point to an element of the display. These and other features apply to other data streams shared in the conference or in meetings where there is no shared-image data stream.
US07813300B2	Communication system, storage medium having stored thereon communication program usable for the same, and connection control apparatus displaying connection request according to a specified display manner A communication terminal transmits, to an access point apparatus, a connection request which includes communication terminal information for identifying the communication terminal and display manner information representing a display manner in which the communication terminal information is displayed on a display device of the access point apparatus. The access point apparatus displays particulars of the communication terminal information included in the connection request, transmitted from the communication terminal, in the display manner represented by the display manner information included in the connection request. The access point apparatus further allows the user to select whether the communication terminal corresponding to the communication terminal information displayed on the display device is to be permitted for connection or not.
US07813298B2	Root cause problem detection in network traffic information A device retrieves a first subset of events from data associated with a network, and determines one or more discriminating features of the first subset of events using a feature selection method. The device also retrieves one or more additional subsets of events, different than the first subset of events, from the data associated with the network, and cross validates the one or more discriminating features based on the one or more additional subsets of events. The device further detects a feature that is a root cause of a problem in the network based on the cross validated one or more discriminating features.
US07813291B2	Method and apparatus for requesting and reporting channel quality information in mobile communication system Disclosed is a method and device for requesting and reporting channel quality information in a mobile communication system. A base station a locates a dedicated feedback channel for channel quality information report to an uplink radio resource, transmits the allocation information to subscriber stations, and generates a CQI report message to request channel quality information from the subscriber stations. The subscriber stations receive the CQI report message from the base station, measures a radio channel quality for communication with the base station, generates channel quality information, generates a CQI response message including the channel quality information, and transmit—the CQI response message to the base station through a dedicates feedback channel designated in the allocation information.
US07813282B2	Connection admission control method and apparatus in broadband wireless access system Provided are a Connection Admission Control (CAC) method and apparatus in a Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) system. The CAC method includes checking a class of a requested service; converting the transmission request rate of the service into the number of required air resource blocks by using an average block capacity of the checked class; and determining whether to admit or deny connection by comparing the number of required resource blocks with the number of available resource blocks.
US07813276B2	Method for distributed hierarchical admission control across a cluster A network cluster is provided herein having a plurality of cluster members. In order to control the admission of client requests sent to the cluster, one member of the cluster is elected “reservation coordinator.” The reservation coordinator runs a reservation algorithm for controlling the distribution of rate capacity across members of the cluster. For example, each member of the cluster may reserve some amount of rate from the coordinator to allow for passing of client requests. To ensure that each member is provided with the appropriate rate capacity, each member of the cluster runs an estimation algorithm to determine whether or not additional rate capacity should be reserved from the reservation coordinator, or released back into the cluster for redistribution. The estimation algorithm is run in real-time and allows the admission control algorithm to adapt to changes in rate distribution.
US07813275B2	Wireless communication device, a wireless communication system and a wireless communication method A wireless communication device, a wireless communication system and a wireless communication method for preventing buffer over flow in the wireless communication device acting as a relay node, and for improving throughput within the whole system are disclosed. The wireless communication device includes an information acquisition unit configured to acquire information on the amount of data relay processing in the wireless communication device and/or a neighbor wireless communication device; a priority calculation unit configured to calculate transmission priority of the wireless communication device, based on the acquired information; and a priority determination unit configured to determine a priority related parameter for data transmission from the wireless communication device, based on the transmission priority.
US07813274B1	Dynamic demultiplexing of network traffic Dynamic demultiplexing of network traffic to maximize availability of a source restricting service is disclosed. In one embodiment, a request is received from a host associated with a first network space to establish a connection to a source restricting service associated with a second network space. In one embodiment, the request is received at a node configured to use network address translation or similar techniques to facilitate communication between hosts associated with the first network on the one hand and hosts associated with the second network on the other. If establishing the requested connection using a first source identifier would result in a per source limit associated with the source restricting service being exceeded with respect to the first source identifier, a second source identifier is instead used to establish the requested connection.
US07813268B2	Retry strategies for use in a streaming environment Strategies are described for performing retry analysis in an environment which involves the transmission of media information from a source module to a target module. In the context of the source module, the retry analysis determines whether the source module should satisfy the retry requests issued by the target module. In the context of the target module, the retry analysis determines whether the target module should generate the retry requests in the first place. Novel request reporting formats are also described. The target module performs analysis to determine what reporting format it should use to convey the retry requests to the source module.
US07813267B2	Method and system for providing control plane resiliency with undisrupted forwarding in a data network Method and system for providing continuous data forwarding during a failure mode in a wireless data network including detecting a control plane failure mode of a network switch, maintaining data path between one or more network entities with the network switch, detecting the network switch recovery from the control plane failure mode, and re-authenticating the one or more network entities over the data network is disclosed without disrupting data traffic forwarding.
US07813261B2	Methods and systems for transmission of orthogonal frequency division multiplexed symbols In some embodiments of the present invention there is provided a frame structure for transmitting an integer number of OFDM symbols in which some of the OFDM symbols are to be transmitted in a unicast format and some of the OFDM symbols are to be transmitted in a broadcast format. The frame structure includes partitioning of a frame into at least two portions to accommodate both unicast and broadcast modes in the frame. The frame structure is used for transmitting multiple frames in a serial manner from at least one transmitter. The unicast mode supports transmission of OFDM symbols from a single transmitter to a single receiver. The broadcast mode supports transmission of OFDM symbols from multiple transmitters to all receivers within range of the multiple transmitters. The multicast mode supports transmission of OFDM symbols from multiple transmitters to multiple receivers within range of the multiple transmitters.
US07813259B2	Electronic circuit An electronic circuit capable of reducing crosstalk to such a degree that the crosstalk can be substantially disregarded even where a plurality of communications channels are juxtaposed in close proximity to each other when achieving communications between substrates by inductive coupling. The transmitter coils 11 are placed on a lower chip and the receiver coils 12 are placed on an upper chip, and where it is assumed that the distance between the chips is X, and the distance between the communications channels is Y (that is, the horizontal distance between the coil centers), there exists a position, where the magnetic flux density in the receiver coils 12 resulting from the transmitter coils 11 becomes zero (0), at a predetermined Yo. That is, because large crosstalk occurs when Y is small, and small crosstalk of an inverted symbol occurs when Y is large, in the meantime, there will exist a position, where the value obtained by integrating the magnetic flux density B in the receiver coils 12 becomes zero (0), without fail. No crosstalk is theoretically generated at the position.
US07813254B2	Piezoelectric reading of ferroelectric data storage media An apparatus comprises mechanically scanned ferroelectric data storage media. A scanning electrode contacts the scannable surface with a contact force. The ferroelectric data storage media generates a piezoelectric potential that is picked up by the electrode. The piezoelectric potential has a polarity that varies as a function of data polarity on the data storage media.
US07813249B2	Information recording apparatus and method, information reproduction apparatus and method, information recording medium, program storage medium and program An information recording apparatus and method and an information reproduction apparatus and method enable security information of AV data to be managed appropriately. A copy control information detection section acquires copy control information (CCI_i) of a video signal supplied from a terminal and outputs it to a controller. The controller determines the values of is_not_free and is_encrypted based on the copy control information supplied from the copy control information detection section and outputs the values to a source packetization section. Is_not_free and is_encrypted represent a limitation to copying and an encryption mode of data recorded on a recording medium, respectively, and are described in the header of a source packet produced by a source packetization section. The source packet produced by the source packetization section is encrypted in accordance with the value of is_encrypted, undergoes a predetermined process by an encryption section, and is then recorded onto the recording medium.
US07813245B2	Optical disk image forming device, optical disk image forming method and optical disk When an image is formed on an optical disk, an optical disk image forming device reads information written in an information area of the optical disk. When a reflection preventing process is applied to an image forming area of the optical disk, the optical disk image forming device corrects at least one of a laser power or a focus gain in accordance with information about the image forming area written in the information area. Thus, the optical disk image forming device can form the image with a clear brightness and a good visibility on the image forming area of the optical disk without allowing a rainbow-color to appear or a face or a background to be reflected due to the interference of light.
US07813244B2	Write-once recording medium, and a recording apparatus and a reproducing apparatus for a write-once recording medium A write-once recording medium recording/reproduction is carried out by performing a process including: determining whether or not replacement management information including a replacement physical address is found in the replacement management information list, the replacement physical address matching the physical address corresponding to the logical address included in the recording instruction, when the replacement management information is not found, as a first time pseudo-overwrite recording for a location indicated by the physical address corresponding to the logical address included in the recording instruction, performing a process; and when the replacement management information is found, as a second time or more pseudo-overwrite recording for a location indicated by the physical address corresponding to the logical address included in the recording instruction, performing a process.
US07813238B2	Method and system for buffering data file to buffer memory This invention provides a method and a system to read and buffer an audio data file from an optical storage medium into a buffer memory. The data file comprises blocks sequentially stored in the medium. Each block comprises a subcode block with encoded subcodes and a corresponding main data block with encoded audio data. The method first designates a starting block where buffering starts and searches for the starting block in the blocks. After the starting block is searched, trigger a main data block decoding procedure to decode the starting block and main data blocks in later blocks. According to the timing when the main data block decoding procedure is triggered, decide the timing to trigger buffering the decoded subcodes to the buffer memory. Therefore, the subcodes and corresponding audio data belonging to the same block before decoding can be buffered into the same buffer unit after decoding.
US07813236B2	Information recording medium, information recording method and information recording/reproduction system An information recording medium including a plurality of sectors of the present invention includes: a first spare area including a spare sector for replacing a defective sector among the plurality of sectors; a defect management information area for managing the replacement of the defective sector by the spare sector; and a volume space in which user data can be recorded. The volume space is configured so that a second spare area including a spare sector for replacing a defective sector among the plurality of sectors can be additionally allocated. Location information indicating a location of the second spare area is recorded in the defect management information area.
US07813233B2	Information recording and reproduction apparatus including optical pickup unit An optical pickup unit includes a light source emitting a light beam, an objective lens focusing the light beam onto an information recording medium, a light detection part receiving the light beam reflected from the information recording medium, and a light blocking part selectively blocking a part of the light beam with respect to a radial direction. The light blocking part is provided in an optical path of the light beam centered on an optical axis.
US07813231B2	Optical disc drive apparatus An optical disc drive apparatus has: a rotation angle counter cleared when the number of pulses in a frequency multiplied FG signal has reached a value corresponding to one rotation of the disc; a switching sector detector detecting polarity switching locations based on the output signal of an RF processor to clear the rotation angle counter; a switching window signal generator generating a switching window signal having a predetermined width based on the count value; a timing signal generator generating a timing signal for each sector based on the output signal of the RF processor; and a polarity switching signal generator generating a polarity switching signal based on the switching window signal and the timing signal.
US07813230B2	Optical recording medium driving apparatus and optical recording medium driving method When a type of an optical disc is discriminated by disc type discriminating processing, search operation by a CD light beam is carried out in CD discriminating processing, and a distance from a position xf where a large signal change of a first time is detected as a fake phenomenon to a position xs where the large signal change of a second time corresponding to a recording layer is detected as a moving distance d3. Based on the moving distance d3, whether the optical disc is a CD medium is determined. In this manner, whether the optical disc is the CD medium or not can be determined correctly with high precision.
US07813227B2	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).
US07813224B2	Seismic source/receiver probe for shallow seismic surveying Systems and methods are implemented for evaluating underground structures and objects, particularly relatively shallow underground structures and objects, using a seismic or acoustic source signal and a resulting seismic or acoustic wave. A discrete or unitary apparatus incorporates both a seismic source transducer and a receiver transducer within a common housing or frame. A unitary seismic probe includes a ground engaging member and a seismic source mechanically coupled to the ground engaging member. The probe further includes a sensor assembly mechanically coupled to the ground engaging member and configured to sense ground vibrations resulting from an impact to the ground engaging member by the seismic source.
US07813216B2	Reading of the state of a non-volatile storage element A method for reading of the state of a non-volatile memory element, including conditioning the frequency of a first oscillatory to the state of this element, and comparing the frequency of the first oscillator with the predetermined frequency of a second oscillator, selected between two possible frequency values for the first oscillator, according to the state of the storage element.
US07813214B2	Semiconductor memory device A reference cell outputs a reference current of a data reading current of a memory cell. A trimming data in accordance with the reference current is memorized in a non-volatile memory cell. A standard current generator outputs a standard current whose current quantity is adjusted in accordance with the trimming data. A current comparator compares the standard current to the reference current. The output of the reference current from the reference cell is adjusted through a reference cell adjuster based on a result of the comparison by the current comparator.
US07813210B2	Multiple-type memory A multiple-type memory is disclosed. The multiple-type memory includes memory blocks in communication with control logic blocks. The memory blocks and the control logic blocks are configured to emulate a plurality of memory types. The memory blocks can be configured into a plurality of memory planes that are vertically stacked upon one another. The vertically stacked memory planes may be used to increase data storage density and/or the number of memory types that can be emulated by the multiple-type memory. Each memory plane can emulate one or more memory types. The control logic blocks can be formed in a substrate (e.g., a silicon substrate including CMOS circuitry) and the memory blocks or the plurality of memory planes can be positioned over the substrate and in communication with the control logic blocks. The multiple-type memory may be non-volatile so that stored data is retained in the absence of power.
US07813205B2	Semiconductor memory device A semiconductor memory device is provided for minutely changing a refresh interval according to a detected temperature and thereby lowering its power consumption. A temperature detector detects a temperature of a chip and outputs the corresponding temperature signal. A reference temperature signal output unit outputs the corresponding reference temperature signal with each of different reference temperatures to be compared with the chip temperature according to a selection signal. A temperature comparison unit compares the chip temperature with the reference temperature through the temperature signal and the reference temperature signal. A selection signal output unit outputs the selection signal according to the compared result of the temperature comparison unit. A refresh interval control unit changes the refresh interval according to the compared result of the temperature comparison unit.
US07813200B2	Sense amplifier control circuit for semiconductor memory device and method for controlling sense amplifier control circuit A sense amplifier control circuit for a memory device is provided. The sense amplifier control circuit for a memory device including: a level detection unit configured to generate a level detection signal by detecting a core voltage level in an active operation interval; and a control unit configured to generate a pulse signal to control a sensing start time of a bit line detection signal by varying a delay time according to the level detection signal.
US07813199B2	Current mode data sensing and propagation using voltage amplifier A method and a circuit for current mode data sensing and propagation by using voltage amplifier are provided. Example embodiments may include providing an output signal from a voltage amplifier in response to the voltage amplifier receiving an input signal. The method may include providing a current output signal from a voltage-to-current converter in response to the voltage-to-current converter receiving the output signal. The output signal may be used to drive a current sense amplifier.
US07813192B2	System and method for capturing data signals using a data strobe signal A signal capture system and method is used to capture a data signal using a data strobe signal having a preamble of strobe signal transitions. The system includes a data latch circuit receiving the data signal. The data latch circuit is clocked by transitions of the data strobe signal to capture respective bits of data corresponding to the data signal. A decoder receives a memory command signal and generates a data start signal after a delay period from receiving the memory command signal if the command signal corresponds to a read or a write command. The receipt of read or write command signals is used by a control circuit to identify the start of valid read or write data signals. The control circuit then outputs the captured data signals responsive to the data start signal, thereby ignoring the transitions in the preamble of the data strobe signal.
US07813190B2	Input circuit of semiconductor memory device ensuring enabled data input buffer during data input An input circuit of a semiconductor memory device that prevents data from being input into a data input buffer prior to the enablement of the data input buffer. The input circuit includes an input buffer enabling control unit that generates an input buffer enabling signal which is enabled before a point at which data is input and which has an enabling period of at least a predetermined burst length. A data input buffer is controlled by the input buffer enabling signal, and the data input buffer buffers and outputs the data during the enabling period of the input buffer enabling signal.
US07813185B2	Nonvolatile memory device and method of operating and fabricating the same Provided is a method of reliably operating a highly integratable nonvolatile memory device. The nonvolatile memory device may include a string selection transistor, a plurality of memory transistors, and a ground selection transistor between a bit line and a common source line. In the nonvolatile memory device, data may be erased from the memory transistors by applying an erasing voltage to the bit line or the common source line.
US07813173B2	Multi-level cell memory devices and methods using sequential writing of pages to cells sharing bit buffers An apparatus includes a nonvolatile memory including a plurality of memory cells, each configured to store data having at least two bits and a control circuit configured to write data to a first memory cell connected to a wordline of the nonvolatile memory and to then write data to a second memory cell that is connected to wordline and shares a bit buffer with the first memory cell.
US07813168B2	Spin-transfer torque memory self-reference read and write assist methods A spin-transfer torque memory apparatus and self-reference read and write assist schemes are described. One method of self-reference reading a spin-transfer torque memory unit includes applying a first read current through a magnetic tunnel junction data cell and forming a first bit line read voltage and storing the first bit line read voltage. A magnetic field is applied through the magnetic tunnel junction data cell forming a magnetic field modified magnetic tunnel junction data cell. Then a second read current is applied thorough the magnetic field modified magnetic tunnel junction data cell forming a second bit line read voltage and the bit line read voltage is stored and compared with the first bit line read voltage to determine whether the first resistance state of the magnetic tunnel junction data cell was a high resistance state or low resistance state. Methods of applying a magnetic field to the MTJ and then writing the desired resistance state are also disclosed.
US07813165B2	Magnetic memory layers thermal pulse transitions A ferromagnetic thin-film based digital memory having bit structures therein with a magnetic material film in which a magnetic property thereof is maintained below a critical temperature above which such magnetic property is not maintained, and may also have a plurality of word line structures each with heating sections located across from the magnetic material film in a corresponding one of the bit structures. These bit structures are sufficiently thermally isolated to allow selected currents in the adjacent word lines or in the bit structure, or both, to selectively heat the bit structure to approach the critical temperature. Such bit structures may have three magnetic material layers each with its own critical temperature for maintaining versus not maintaining a magnetic property thereof.
US07813163B2	Single-ended read and differential write scheme A method to read and write at least one static memory cell is provided, said cell comprising a cross-coupled inverter pair and two pass-devices wherein said method is characterized in that during read only one of the two pass-devices is selected, while for write both pass-devices are selected. Furthermore, a circuit to read and write at least one static memory cell is described, said cell comprising a cross-coupled inverter pair and two pass-devices. Said circuit is characterized in that for each pass-device of the cell an individual wordline is connected with a gate of the particular pass-device, wherein both wordlines are selected for write and a single wordline is selected for read.
US07813161B2	Dual port SRAM with dedicated read and write ports for high speed read operation and low leakage A dual port static random access memory (SRAM) having dedicated read and write ports provides high speed read operation with reduced leakages. The dual port SRAM includes at least one write word line, at least one read word line, at least one pair of write bit line and read bit line, a plurality of rows and columns. Each rows and column has at least one cell which includes at least one pair of memory elements cross-coupled to form a latch for storing data, a pair of write access semiconductors and a pair of read access semiconductors. The SRAM includes an inverter circuit and a pull down circuit which are operatively coupled to the at least one cell to increase read operation performance and eliminate leakage.
US07813159B2	Semiconductor memory device and data write and read methods of the same A semiconductor memory device includes first to third resistive memory elements, a first transistor having a first gate electrode, first and second source/drain electrodes, the first source/drain electrode being connected to one terminal of the first resistive memory element, and the second source/drain electrode being connected to one terminal of the third resistive memory element, a second transistor having a second gate electrode, third and fourth source/drain electrodes, the third source/drain electrode being connected to one terminal of the second resistive memory element, and the fourth source/drain electrode being connected to one terminal of the third resistive memory element, a first bit line connected to the other terminal of the third resistive memory element, a second bit line connected to the other terminal of each of the first and second resistive memory elements, and first and second word lines connected to each of the first and second gate electrodes.
US07813155B1	Content addressable memory (CAM) cell having column-wise conditional data pre-write A content addressable memory (CAM) device can include a plurality of CAM cells arranged in rows and columns to form multi-byte words. Each CAM cell can include a comparator circuit and one or more data storing circuits. Each comparator circuit can have one or more charge transfer paths arranged between a match line and a first voltage source node. Each data storing circuit can include a write circuit that provides a controllable impedance path between one or more charge transfer paths and a data storage node of the data storing circuit.
US07813153B2	Inverter An inverter (1) for feeding electric power into a utility grid (7) or into a load is described. The inverter (1) contains direct voltage inputs (2, 3), one first intermediate circuit (8) connected thereto and comprising two series connected capacitors (C1, C2) that are connected together at a ground terminal (14), two alternating voltage outputs (5, 6) of which one at least is provided with a grid choke (L1) and one bridge section (10). In accordance with the invention, the inverter (1) contains only two switches (S1, S2), which are disposed in the bridge section (10) and are to be switched at high frequency, as well as, between the first intermediate circuit (8) and the bridge section (10), a second intermediate circuit (9) that is devised at least for selectively boosting or bucking the direct voltage and intended for supplying said bridge section (10) with positive and negative voltage, said second intermediate circuit comprising an internal freewheeling (D5, D6) for maintaining the currents flowing through the grid choke (L1) in opposite directions.
US07813152B2	Power converter To provide a power converter, comprising: a pair of main circuit switching elements to which diodes are connected; a means for generating a first PWM basic signal for driving a main circuit switching element; and a reverse voltage application circuit to be operated, triggered by a second PWM basic signal which differs from the first PWM basic signal only in phase.
US07813143B2	Conversion module and chassis arrangement, and related methods A telecommunications arrangement including a chassis, at least one power supply, and a plurality of conversion modules that provide an electrical-to-optical or optical-to-electrical signal conversion. The chassis includes a separate back plane made up of individual back panels. The back panels are attached to the chassis by a tab and swell latch. The conversion modules include a printed circuit board, an input/output arrangement of connectors, and a radius limiter mounted to the printed circuit board.
US07813137B2	Rotatable memory card with improved locking mechanism A memory card (100) includes a main body portion (1) and a rotatable portion (2) connected by a pair of hinges (3) to rotate around an axis extending across a width of the memory card. A conductive member (12) includes a base (121) retained in the main body portion (1) to form a SD card interface and an extension (122) extending beyond the main body portion to form a USB plug interface. The rotatable portion has a slot (2117) and a slider (22) movably received in the slot. The slider (22) includes a locking projection (2215) holding a distal end (123) of the extension at a closed position and sliding away the distal end to expose the second interface at an opened position.
US07813132B2	Heat dissipation assembly A heat dissipation assembly has a containment apparatus preventing unwanted migration of a thermal interface material to surrounding areas on a top surface of a heat sink. The containment apparatus includes a cap correspondingly covering the thermal interface material and an annular frame extending downwardly from a bottom end of the cap and attached to a periphery of a top of the heat sink. The cap includes a ceiling and a plurality of inclined sidewalls extending downwardly and outwardly from edges of the ceiling, thereby forming a protective space within the cap combining with the top surface of the heat sink to enclose the thermal interface material. Two ears extend outwardly from the frame and accommodate opposite ends of an abutting body of a wire clip therein.
US07813130B2	Electronic device and heat dissipation unit thereof A heat dissipation unit is provided. The heat dissipation unit includes a heat sink, a first fixing station, a first heat pipe, a second fixing station and a second heat pipe. The first fixing station is located on a first plane. The first heat pipe is connected to the first fixing station and the heat sink. The second fixing station is located on a second plane, wherein a gap is formed between the first plane and the second plane. The second heat pipe is connected to the second fixing station and the heat sink, wherein the first fixing station partially overlaps the second fixing station.
US07813122B2	Electronic device with support member An electronic device includes a main body, two pivot shafts, a cover rotatably connected to the main body via the pivot shafts, and two supporting members extending from a side of the cover and connected to the main body. Each supporting member has a supporting surface. A distance between the supporting surface and an axis of the pivot shaft is larger than a distance between a bottom surface of the main body and the axis of the pivot shaft.
US07813114B2	Universal attachment for computer peripheral equipment A mounting device for computer peripheral equipment. Preferably included are two spring arms, friction boots mounted on the ends of the spring arms, a non-skid pad and a rotating platform. The rotating platform ensures that the non-skid pad can be positioned between a first position, where the pad and friction boots cooperate to grip computer display bezels over a first range of bezel thicknesses and a second position, where the pad and friction boots cooperated to grip computer display bezels over a second range of bezel thicknesses. Also, the pad and friction boots are preferably dimensioned so as to render the entire mounting device self-standing when desired.
US07813111B2	Electronics enclosure and associated mounting apparatus An enclosure is arranged for housing electronics associated with a luminaire and includes a first member including a mounting interface arranged to couple the first member to the luminaire and a second member mechanically coupled to the first member. The mounting interface facilitates provisionally coupling the first member to the luminaire and securing the enclosure to the luminaire. A corresponding mounting apparatus for securing an enclosure to a luminaire includes a mounting member having an opening and configured to be secured to a surface of a luminaire and a neck portion extending from the enclosure and configured to pass through the opening. The neck portion includes a neck opening that is configured to allow wiring to be routed from the electronics to the luminaire. The neck portion and the mounting member may include respective complementary surfaces to provide a mounting interface for provisionally coupling the enclosure to the luminaire.
US07813109B2	Switchgear Switchgear having a vacuum-insulated switchgear 2 comprising switches having at least breaking and disconnecting functions, each placed in a unit, and solid-insulated bus bars 12 for electrically connecting the switches in each unit; an air-insulated switchgear 1 comprising switches having at least breaking and disconnecting functions, each placed in a unit, and air-insulated bus bars for electrically connecting the switches in each unit; and_the vacuum-insulated switchgear 2 and the air-insulated switchgear 1 are installed side-by-side, wherein the vacuum-insulated switchgear 2 and the air-insulated switchgear 1 are electrically connected through flexible conductors 17 which are provided between the solid-insulated bus bars 12 and the air-insulated bus bars.
US07813101B2	Solenoid-operated valve actuating controller A solenoid-operated valve actuating controller actuates a solenoid-operated valve by energizing an actuating coil of the solenoid-operated valve in a rated mode, enough to move a movable member in the actuating coil, during a first period. Further, the actuating coil is energized in a power saving mode, during a second period after the first period. The solenoid-operated valve actuating controller has a timer circuit for setting the first period, an oscillating circuit for energizing the actuating coil in the power saving mode during the second period, and a control circuit for stopping an oscillating operation of the oscillating circuit during the first period based on an output signal from the timer circuit, and for energizing the actuating coil in the rated mode.
US07813095B2	Discrete hot swap and overcurrent-limiting circuit The present invention is directed towards a discrete protection circuit located on a circuit card, and systems and methods related thereto. The protection circuit protects circuit card components from an inrush current and overcurrent conditions. The discrete protection circuit includes a switch to control a delivered load current to an output port, an SCR which latches when an overcurrent condition is detected across a sense resistor, and a series of resistors and a capacitor that determines the retry delay subsequent to an overcurrent detection. Advantages of the discrete protection circuit of the invention over prior art integrated circuits include: lower parts counts, lower production costs, greater flexibility, and increased reliability.
US07813093B2	Output driver with overvoltage protection An output driver in an integrated circuit includes a driver circuit operable by a power supply voltage and coupled to an output pad, and a driver power conditioner configured to generate a fractional pad voltage in response to a voltage on the output pad and to provide the fractional pad voltage to at least one transistor of the driver circuit as a protected supply voltage in response to an absence of the power supply voltage.
US07813092B2	ESD unit protection cell for distributed amplifiers Improved protection circuits are provided for use as voltage overload protection circuits, ESD protection circuits for RF input pins, and unit protection cells for distributed amplifiers. Preferably, the protection circuits include a positive threshold voltage trigger used to trigger a switch wherein the trigger includes a diode string in series with a resistor and the switch includes a bipolar transistor switch in series with a single reverse diode. Alternatively, the trigger includes a diode string in series with a single diode and a single resistor, and is used to trigger a Darlington pair transistor switch in series with a single reverse diode. In another embodiment, a Darlington pair transistor switch is triggered by a capacitor. In use with distributive amplifiers, the ESD protection circuits are preferably absorbed inside the artificial transmission lines of the distributed amplifier.
US07813091B2	Leakage current detector interrupter with continuous duty relay An LCDI device comprising a first switching element coupled to a second switching element. A shield conductor coupled to the first switching element form a system that monitors output conductors of the device for faults. The second switching element is coupled to a relay that electrically connects input conductors of the device to output conductors of the device when the relay is energized by the second switching element. When a fault occurs, the first switching element generates a signal to the second switching element which de-energizes the relay causing said relay to electrically disconnect the input conductors from the output conductors.
US07813088B2	Magnetoresistance effect device A magnetoresistance effect device has a fixed ferromagnetism layer, a free ferromagnetism layer, and a barrier layer sandwiched by these ferromagnetic layers. It is constituted so that CoFeB whose amount of addition of boron B (b: atomic %) is 21%≦b≦23% may be used for the free ferromagnetism layer. In the magnetic resistance effect element, a magnetostrictive constant does not change steeply near the magnetostrictive constant zero. A MR ratio is maintained to be high.
US07813086B2	Thin film magnetic head comprising metal layer and having improved asymmetry characteristic and method of producing the same Producing a thin film magnetic head includes forming a pair of openings in a predetermined region of a TMR layer formed on a lower magnetic shield layer; forming a pair of bias-applying layers in the pair of openings so that an upper surface thereof is located above an upper surface of the TMR layer; laminating a metal layer that covers the upper surface of a portion located between the pair of bias-applying layers in the TMR layer and the upper surface of the pair of bias-applying layers; forming a resist layer across the upper surface of a portion located above the pair of bias-applying layers in the metal layer and the upper surface of a portion located above the TMR layer in the metal layer; and etching a part of the TMR layer and a part of the pair of bias-applying layers with the resist layer being as a mask.
US07813085B2	Thin-film magnetic head having laminate shields for tolerating external magnetic field A thin-film magnetic head having an MR element in which the tolerance of external magnetic field is improved even under the condition that shields have smaller areas. The head includes: an MR element includes lower and upper shield layers provided so as to sandwich an MR multilayer, one of edges of each of the layers reaching a head end surface on an ABS side; and an electromagnetic transducer including main and auxiliary magnetic pole layers, one of edges of each of the layers reaching the head end surface, wherein at least one laminate shield layer for tolerating an external magnetic field is provided adjacently on one side or on both sides in a track width direction of at least one layer out of the upper and lower shield layers and the auxiliary magnetic pole layer, and one edge of the at least one laminate shield layer reaching the head end surface.
US07813078B1	Disk drive load/unload ramp with integrated air features A disk drive (310) is disclosed that uses an integral load/unload ramp (350) with one or more integrated air features. In one embodiment, the load/unload ramp (350) includes a body (352), a plurality of head load/unload sections (354) for head parking operations, a plurality of air dams (370) for affecting the airflow on at least part of the primary data storage surfaces of the data storage disks (318) used by the disk drive (310), and a plurality of disk extenders (380) for affecting the airflow at the perimeter (320) of the various data storage disks (318). There is no joint of any kind between the body (352) and any of the head load/unload sections (354), between the body (352) and any of the air dams (370), or between the body (352) and any of the disk extenders (380).
US07813076B2	Method for estimating position error gain for hard disk drives A hard disk drive with a controller that determines a position error signal gain. The position error signal gain is determined from a total servo loop gain and a function that is defined by a slope of a line of A and B servo bits measured at N off-track positions. The function determines an actual plant gain and thus provides a more accurate position error signal gain.
US07813057B2	Optical lens system for taking image An optical lens system for taking image comprises: a first lens element with positive refractive power, an Abbe Number of the first lens element being V1, and it satisfying the relation: 50
US07813056B2	Imaging lens and camera system including the same lens An imaging lens comprises, in order from an object side: a first lens having a negative refractive power with a concave surface on an image side thereof; a second lens with at least one aspherical surface; an aperture stop; and a third lens having a positive refractive power with at least one aspherical surface, wherein the first lens is formed of an optical glass whose Abbe number is 40 or more, the second lens is formed of a plastic whose Abbe number is 40 or less, and the third lens is formed of a plastic whose Abbe number is 50 or more, and wherein assuming that a point, where a light ray which constitutes an outermost light ray in light rays which enter an image plane intersects a lens surface, constitutes an effective aperture terminating edge, the second lens is such that an intersection point between an object side surface and an optical axis lies closer to an image forming side of the imaging lens than an effective aperture terminating edge of the object side surface does.
US07813055B2	Light receiver and Fresnel lens used therein A light receiver comprises a Fresnel lens for collecting light signals, and a light receiving element disposed closer to the Fresnel lens than the focal point of the Fresnel lens for receiving the light signals collected by the Fresnel lens. The Fresnel lens comprises a lens surface group having a plurality of lens surfaces, and a back cut surface group having a plurality of back cut surfaces connecting the lens surfaces. The back cut surfaces are inclined with respect to the center axis of the Fresnel lens. Thus, the light receiver has a high light collection efficiency of light signals incident within a certain acceptance angle.
US07813054B2	Optical elements with saddle shaped structures for diffusing or shaping light Optical elements for efficiently diffusing or shaping light have substrates with saddle shaped structures on their surfaces which provide substantially uniform light along a predefined angular range. Each saddle shaped structure defines an aperture of a lens, where the outer boundary of such aperture, when viewed normal to surface, may be of one of more different shapes, such as square or rectangular, circular, hexagonal, oval, or other geometric or arbitrary shape which may represent a full saddle shape or a subset region thereof. A plurality of saddle shaped structures may be arranged periodically or randomly along the surface. An optical element with a saddle shaped structure is referred to as a saddle lens, and optical elements with different shaped saddle shaped structures provide different types of saddle lenses.
US07813049B2	Optical element An optical element includes a container including first and second end face walls, a side face wall, and an accommodating chamber inside the walls; first and second liquids enclosed in the chamber; a first electrode provided on a surface of the first end face wall; a second electrode provided on a surface of the second end face wall; an insulating film provided on a surface of the second electrode; and a unit configured to apply a voltage. The shape of an interface between the liquids is changed by a voltage application, and a light transmission path, the center of which is a virtual axis passing through the end face walls in the thickness direction of the container, is formed in a portion of the second liquid. An opening having a diameter the same as or larger than the maximum diameter of the transmission path is provided in the first electrode.
US07813048B2	Inductorless electroactive lens driver and system An electroactive lens driver comprises a voltage generator generating a high alternating current voltage signal for application to an electroactive lens in response to a low direct current voltage signal. The voltage generator does not include an inductor or a transformer.
US07813038B2	Light-scattering film, polarizing plate and image display A light-scattering film is provided and includes a transparent support having thereon at least a light-scattering layer. When substantially parallel light is incident on a surface of the film at an incident angle of 5°, the reflectance for an angle θ in the light-receiving part measured in a plane containing the film normal line and the incident direction is R(θ), the value obtained by normalizing R(θ) by the reflectance of regular reflection is Rrel(θ), and the value calculated from the maximum variation \|dRrel(θ)/dθ\|max for the angle θ is a scattering coefficient A (formula 1), the reflection coefficient B (formula 2) calculated from the scattering coefficient A and the 5° specular reflectance Rs is from 2.0 to 5.0. Scattering coefficient A=1/(10×\|dRrel(θ)/dθ\|max) (Formula 1) Reflection coefficient B=2.2×log 10(Rs)−7.5×log 10(A)+5.9 (Formula 2)
US07813033B1	Connecting structures comprising heated flexures and optical packages incorporating the same Particular embodiments of the present invention relate generally to connecting structures comprising heated flexures for aligning a first component with a second component. According to one embodiment of the present invention, an optical package includes a laser, a wavelength conversion device, a mirror and a connecting structure. The mirror reflects a laser beam such that the laser beam is incident upon the wavelength conversion device. The connecting structure includes a structure base and three bipod flexures. Each of the bipod flexures includes first and second bipod legs extending from the structure base to the mirror. A heating element is thermally coupled to the first and second bipod legs. The bipod flexures are arranged in a tripod configuration such that changes in the length of the bipod legs alter the reflection of the laser beam from the mirror.
US07813028B2	Manufacturing method for stress compensated X-Y gimbaled MEMS mirror array A wafer-level manufacturing method produces stress compensated x-y gimbaled comb-driven MEMS mirror arrays using two SOI wafers and a single carrier wafer. MEMS structures such as comb drives, springs, and optical surfaces are formed by processing front substrate layer surfaces of the SOI wafers, bonding together the processed surfaces, and removing the unprocessed SOI layers to expose second surfaces of the front substrate layers for further wafer-level processing. The bonded SOI wafers are mounted to a surface of the carrier wafer that has been separately processed. Processing wafer surfaces may include formation of a stress compensation layer to counteract physical effects of MEMS mirrors to be formed in a subsequent step. The method may form multi-layered conductive spring structures for the mirrors, each spring having a first conducting layer for energizing a comb drive, a second conducting layer imparting a restoring force, and an insulating layer between the first and second conducting layers.
US07813027B2	Pixel based gobo record control format A special record format used for commanding light pattern shapes and addressable light pattern shape generator. The command format includes a first part which commands a specified gobo and second parts which command the characteristics of that gobo. The gobo is formed by making a default gobo based on the type and modifying that default gobo to fit the characteristics.
US07813018B2	Method and apparatus for recording one-step, full-color, full-parallax, holographic stereograms Holographic stereograms and holographic optical elements are printed using computer rendered images of three-dimensional computer models or using computer processed images. A coherent beam is split into object and reference beams that interfere with each other at an elemental hologram on a holographic recording material. A voxel-control lens placed in the path of the object beam and in close proximity to the holographic recording material can be used to control the resolution of a holographic stereogram. Interchangable band-limited diffusers and reference-beam masking plates can assist exposure of the elemental hologram and avoid exposing portions of the holographic recording material that are not part of the elemental hologram.
US07813012B2	Document feeder An automatic document feeder includes: an inlet; an outlet; a transfer system configured to transfer a document from the inlet to the outlet; an input transfer path configured to guide a document during transfer from the inlet passed a scanning point to an end point positioned above the inlet; an output transfer path configured to guide the document during transfer from the end point passed the scanning point to the outlet; a secondary system configured to feed the document from the inlet; and a drive system configured to drive the transfer elements and the secondary system, wherein the drive system controls the transfer system such that, in at least some instances, operation of the secondary system is independent of operation of the transfer system.
US07813010B2	Document reading apparatus, image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and copying machine A driving unit drives an illuminating light. An image pick-up device reads a document in a main-scanning direction. An optical unit projects an image of the document onto the image pick-up device. An extracting unit extracts image signals at a plurality of points in the main-scanning direction of a first position and a second position in a sub-scanning direction. A document detecting unit creates binary data indicating a presence of the document at each of the points based on the image signals extracted. A size detecting unit determines a size of the document in the main-scanning direction based on a distribution of presence and absence of the document.
US07813008B2	System and method for improving an appearance of a raster image comprising glyph shapes A system and method for improving the appearance of a raster image that includes glyph shapes is provided. A pair of glyph shapes is defined. Each glyph shape is differentiated two-dimensional machine readable data of relatively uniform appearance. Each of the glyph shapes is assigned to a different bit value. Digital data from an input source is encoded into a bitmap image space by representing a bit value for each item of the digital data as the glyph shape corresponding to that bit value. A raster image of the encoded glyph shapes is generated from the bitmap image space.
US07812999B2	Methods and apparatus for automatic scanner calibration An automatic scanner calibration method and apparatus is disclosed in which a calibration target, such as a Kodak® gray strip, is attached to a scanning surface of a scanner. During a normal scan, the calibration target area can be ignored or scanned depending on user selection. If the calibration target is scanned, then the resulting information is used to calibrate the scanner automatically. Such calibration is more accurate than an older in time or preset default calibration. Another embodiment of the invention actuates a print of a printer calibration target on a printer on a scheduled basis. Thereafter, the user can take the printer calibration target and place it on the scanner and perform a calibration of a scanner/printer system.
US07812995B2	Machine setup by scanning a configuration sheet A method, system, and computer program for configuring a device provides the capability for a user to easily enter complex configuration settings by scanning sheets or documents having information defining the configuration settings into the device. A method for configuring a device comprises imaging a document, extracting configuration data from the imaged document, and setting configuration parameters of the device using the extracted configuration data.
US07812970B2	Method and system for inspecting parts utilizing triangulation A method and system for inspecting parts utilizing triangulation are provided. The system includes a part support subsystem including a fixture for supporting a part to be inspected and a head apparatus. The head apparatus includes at least one radiation source for directing a plane of radiation at the part so that the part occludes the plane of radiation to create unobstructed planar portions of the plane of radiation wherein each of the unobstructed planar portions of the plane of radiation contains an amount of radiation which is representative of a respective geometric dimension of the part. The head apparatus also includes at least one receiver module for measuring the amount of radiation present in each of the unobstructed planar portions and a triangulation-based sensor to illuminate the part with a beam of electromagnetic energy to obtain a reflected beam of electromagnetic energy and to sense at least one portion of the reflected beam of electromagnetic energy. The system further includes a movable stage subsystem coupled to the head apparatus for translating the head apparatus relative to the part so that the plane of radiation and the beam of electromagnetic energy linearly scan the part supported by the fixture and a controller for generating control signals to control linear movement of the stage subsystem during the linear scan.
US07812967B2	Microscopy method and microscope The present invention provides a microscopy method and a microscope, which enable microscopic observation of desired information of a specimen with an extremely high S/N ratio in a short period of time without increasing intensity of a light sources. The method of the invention is characterized in that it comprises: a simultaneous irradiation step of irradiating a specimen with first and second electromagnetic rays having different wave length with the rays overlapping at least partly each other; and a simultaneous irradiation visualization step of visualizing a spatial distribution of a refractive index variation caused by the irradiation of the first electromagnetic ray as a phase contrast image of the second electromagnetic ray having passed through the specimen in the region of the specimen to which the overlapped the first and the second electromagnetic rays are irradiated.
US07812965B2	Multiple-degree of freedom interferometer with compensation for gas effects The disclosure features multiple degree-of-freedom interferometers (e.g., non-dispersive interferometers) for monitoring linear and angular (e.g., pitch and/or yaw) displacements of a measurement object with compensation for variations in the optical properties of a gas in the interferometer measurement (and/or reference) beam paths. The disclosure also features interferometry systems that feature an array of interferometers (e.g., including one or more multiple degree-of-freedom interferometer), each configured to provide different information about variations in the optical properties of the gas in the system. Multiple degree-of-freedom interferometers are also referred to as multi-axis interferometers.
US07812963B2	Interferometry method for ellipsometry, reflectometry, and scatterometry measurements, including characterization of thin film structures A method including: imaging test light emerging from a test object over a range of angles to interfere with reference light on a detector, wherein the test and reference light are derived from a common source; for each of the angles, simultaneously varying an optical path length difference from the source to the detector between interfering portions of the test and reference light at a rate that depends on the angle at which the test light emerges from the test object; and determining an angle-dependence of an optical property of the test object based on the interference between the test and reference light as the optical path length difference is varied for each of the angles.
US07812956B2	Time dependent fluorescence measurements Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for collecting optical data pertaining to one or more characteristics of a sample. The apparatus has a light source, one or more illumination optical elements, a scanner, one or more collection optical elements, and a device forming an aperture that limits detection of light from the sample. The illumination optical elements direct a light beam from the light source onto the sample. The scanner scans the light beam across the sample. The collection optical elements collect light from the sample and transmit the collected light to a detector. None of the collection optical elements are included among the illumination optical elements. The device forming an aperture limits detection of light from the sample to light associated with a limited vertical depth within the sample, and is one of the collection optical elements.
US07812955B2	Sample analysis apparatus and analysis method A light beam irradiating optical system is associated with a dielectric material member having a surface, on which a thin film layer has been formed, a sample being brought into contact with a surface of the thin film layer. The light beam irradiating optical system produces and irradiates a light beam to an interface between the dielectric material member and the thin film layer. The light beam is constituted of light beam components, which have various different incidence angles with respect to the interface, and which have intensities varying in accordance with the incidence angles. A single measuring detector for outputting a signal representing an intensity of an entire area of received light is secured and located so as to receive the light beam having been reflected from the interface.
US07812950B2	System method and apparatus for optical directional determination A method for measuring the direction and velocity of a target in a measurement volume in a laser Doppler velocimetry system includes selecting a discrete number of grating positions for an electrically switchable grating, placing the electrically switchable grating in a light path of a laser source. The laser source outputs a laser beam along the light path. The method further includes switching the electrically switchable grating sequentially through the discrete number of grating positions at a grating frequency to generate diffracted light beams from the laser, directing the diffracted light beams through a lens, focusing the diffracted light beams on a measurement volume, passing a target through the measurement volume in a target direction at a target velocity and receiving scattered light in a detector and calculating the power spectrum of light intensity fluctuations. The power spectrum includes a maximum peak. The maximum peak occurs at a frequency shifted from the grating frequency an amount corresponding to the target velocity and in a direction corresponding to the target direction. A laser Doppler velocimetry system for measuring the direction and velocity of a target in a measurement volume is also disclosed.
US07812947B2	Apparatus and method for measuring and/or controlling paper pulp properties A method includes illuminating a material using first light. The first light is associated with one or more ultraviolet wavelengths/wavelength bands, and the material includes pulp fibers. The method also includes measuring second light from the material, where the second light is based on the first light. The method further includes determining an amount of lignin in the material using the measured second light. The ultraviolet wavelengths/wavelength bands could include at least one wavelength between 260 nanometers and 300 nanometers, inclusive (such as 280 nm). The one or more ultraviolet wavelengths/wavelength bands could additionally include 205 nanometers, 250 nanometers, 300 nanometers, and/or 360 nanometers. The method could also include illuminating the material using third light and measuring fourth light from the material, where the fourth light is based on the third light. The third light is associated with at least one wavelength/wavelength band that falls within a non-absorption wavelength band of lignin.
US07812940B2	Angular position sensor for relative attitude sensing A disclosed sensor includes a light emitter configured to transmit an emitted light beam having a range of wavelengths toward a reflecting element that is configured to produce a reflected light beam having a particular wavelength that is a function of an angle of incidence of the emitted light beam from a normal of the reflecting element. The sensor also includes a color sensor in proximity to and fixed relative to the light emitter and configured to (i) receive the reflected light beam, (ii) detect the particular wavelength of the reflected light beam, and (iii) transmit a color signal indicating the particular wavelength of the reflected light beam. The sensor further includes processing circuitry disposed in electrical communication with the color sensor and configured to receive the color signal and calculate the angle of incidence based on the particular wavelength.
US07812934B2	Physical quantity measuring apparatus A physical quantity measuring system according to the present invention comprises: an optical fiber having fiber Bragg gratings; a light source connected to the optical fiber; an arrayed waveguide grating connected between the light source and the optical fiber via an optical branching filter, and having output channels of which central wavelengths of at least three output channels are included in a one-tenth loss band of a reflected light by the fiber Bragg grating; light receiving devices for receiving light output from the output channels on a one-to-one basis; and a central reflected wavelength change detecting unit connected to the light receiving devices for estimating a change in a central reflected wavelength based on a physical quantity, by calculating first and second group signals from light receiving signals corresponding to the at least three output channels, and by calculating a differential signal between the first and the second group signals.
US07812930B2	Lithographic apparatus and device manufacturing method using repeated patterns in an LCD to reduce datapath volume A method and device for programming an array of individually controllable elements configured to impart a beam with a pattern. For example, the method can be suitable for use in a lithographic apparatus. The method includes generating first data representing a first pattern, generating second data representing a second pattern, writing the first data to a first buffer, and reading the first data from the first buffer to program the array of individually controllable elements to display the first pattern, while writing the second data to a second buffer in parallel.
US07812928B2	Exposure apparatus An exposure apparatus that exposes an object to be exposed with light from an EUV light source. The light has an exposure wavelength component and a non-exposure wavelength component. The exposure apparatus has a detector that independently detects the quantity of light of the exposure wavelength component and the quantity of light of the non-exposure wavelength component of the light. Therefore, for example, even if the quantity of light of the exposure wavelength component and the quantity of light of the non-exposure wavelength component individually fluctuate, it is possible to accurately ascertain fluctuations in the characteristics of the optical system resulting from irradiation heat. As a result, it is also possible to achieve a high performance mirror adjustment system.
US07812914B2	Display device The present invention realizes a display device with dummy pixel portions and a frame region required for the dummy pixel portions and code notation, in which the frame region is minimized while achieving code notation in required size.In a dummy pixel portion (122) of the present display device, the number of gate electrodes in a thin film transistor formed by a semiconductor layer (11) is reduced to two, so that distances from a contact hole (12) to another contact hole (13) and to a through-hole (14) can be shortened as compared to those in pixel formation portions (112a, 112b), making it possible to dispose the contact hole (13) and the through-hole (14) in a lower portion in the figure. In addition, provided in the vicinity of the center of the dummy pixel portion (122) is only an electrode equivalent to a storage capacitance line (170). Thus, a wide transparent region can be ensured to note a code (22) of a sufficient size in the dummy pixel portion (122).
US07812911B2	Liquid crystal display A liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal display panel driven by a dot inversion method using a data driver driven by a column inversion method. Within the liquid crystal display, liquid crystal cells capable of expressing any one color are alternately arranged adjacent left and right sides along the length of a data line.
US07812899B2	Polarized light emitting light guide plate, method of manufacturing the same and illuminator for flat panel display device using polarized light emitting light guide plate, comprising anisotropic liquid crystal polymer layer with light extraction microstructure and liquid crystal alignment microstructure A polarized light emitting light guide plate includes: a transparent substrate of optically isotropic material, in which the light incident through a lateral side thereof travels; an anisotropic liquid crystal polymer layer formed on an upper surface of the substrate and having first and second refractive indices with respect to first and second perpendicular polarization components; and a polarization separation microstructure formed at an interface between the transparent substrate and the liquid crystal polymer layer, which refracts or reflects the first polarization component and transmits the second polarization component. The refractive index of the polarization separation microstructure is substantially equal to the refractive index of the substrate; the first refractive index of the liquid crystal polymer layer is greater than the refractive index of the substrate, and the second refractive index of the liquid crystal polymer layer light is substantially equal to the refractive index of the substrate.
US07812897B2	Method for making prism sheet A method for making a prism sheet includes: providing a cutting device comprising a cutter, a table plate, and a control unit, the table plate controlled to move up and down by the control unit, and the cutter having a blade rotatable; providing a mold insert preform on the table plate, the mold insert preform having a flat surface; moving the cutter to etch the flat surface of the mold insert preform along a first direction, and simultaneously driving the table plate to move up and down by the control unit in a first predetermined manner to form first elongated depressions in the flat surface; moving the cutter to etch the flat surface of the mold insert preform along a second direction to form second elongated depressions in the flat surface, thereby forming a mold insert; using the mold insert to form the prism sheet by injection molding method.
US07812879B2	Self-triggering CMOS image sensor An image sensor and method for using the image sensor to capture an image are disclosed. The image sensor includes an imaging array, a first block amplifier and a controller. A first plurality of pixels in the imaging array includes pixels having a photodiode connected to a first node by a gate transistor, a reset transistor connected between the first node and a reset node, a pixel amplifier having an input connected to the first node and an output, and an output gate for connecting the pixel amplifier output to an output bus. The sensor has a monitoring mode and an image capture mode. In the monitoring mode the reset node is connected to the first block amplifier whose output is monitored and used to trigger the image capture mode when the output exceeds a predetermined threshold.
US07812875B2	Solid-state imaging device The signal processing circuit of the present invention comprises a drive unit and a processing unit for picture signal. The drive unit supplies each of the shift pulses separately to the electronic shutter shift register and the readout shift register. The processing unit for picture signal designates a control start position of a digital picture signal outputted from an A/D converter and performs interpolation processing thereon along the horizontal direction and the vertical direction. The drive unit adjusts cycles of each of the shift pulses for controlling a vertical-line readout rate of the solid-state imaging device, and then intermittently reads out the analog picture signal from the solid-state imaging device. The processing unit for picture signal performs vertical-line interpolation processing in accordance with the vertical-line readout rate for extending a part of picture area of the digital picture signal.
US07812874B2	Solid-state imaging apparatus and camera A solid-state imaging apparatus includes a plurality of sensors that are formed on a substrate on a pixel basis and photoelectrically convert the light incident from a first surface side of the substrate, and a readout circuit that is formed on a second surface side of the substrate, which is the opposite side to the first surface side, and processes a signal from the plurality of sensors. The readout circuit includes a plurality of transistors and the transistors are disposed in a region between the pixels in an aligned manner.
US07812871B2	Index identification method and apparatus The orientation of each index is estimated from a sensed image, and the index detected from the image is identified based on the orientation of an image sensing device and that of the index estimated from known coordinate information of the index. In this way, indices which are located at nearby positions but have different orientations are never misidentified, and can be stably identified. Indices can be stably identified from the sensed image in which indices located in the physical space appear.
US07812869B2	Configurable pixel array system and method Present embodiments relate to techniques for capturing images. One embodiment may include an image sensor, comprising a substrate, a first pixel cell array disposed on the substrate, a first photographic lens arranged to focus light onto the first pixel cell array, a second pixel cell array disposed on the substrate, a second photographic lens arranged to focus light onto the second pixel cell array, and an image coordination circuit configured to coordinate the first array and lens with the second array and lens to provide an image. The first pixel cell array and the first photographic lens may be configured to cooperate to capture a first image of a scene, and the second pixel cell array and the second photographic lens may be configured to cooperate to capture a second image of the scene.
US07812868B2	Signal processing method and apparatus, and image sensing apparatus At least two high-frequency signals are generated using luminance signals of at least two color components contained in a video signal, and a high-frequency signal for edge emphasizing processing is generated from the at least two generated high-frequency signals based upon the size relationship between the at least two high-frequency signals. Edge emphasizing processing is applied to the luminance signals, which are obtained from the video signal, using the high-frequency signal for edge emphasizing processing thus generated.
US07812866B2	Defective pixel correction device First pixel data of a pixel of interest is output from a first shift register, while second and third pixel data of neighboring pixels indicative of the same color are output from second and third shift registers, respectively. Differential data between estimated pixel data calculated from the second and third pixel data and the first pixel data is input to a comparator. A threshold value stored in a register is modulated by the estimated pixel data, and is input to the comparator as modulated threshold data. When the comparator judges that the differential data is greater than the modulated threshold data, a selector outputs the estimated pixel data as corrected pixel data.
US07812860B2	Handheld device for capturing text from both a document printed on paper and a document displayed on a dynamic display device A device for capturing rendered text is described. The device incorporates one or more visual sensors that receive visual information as a part of capturing rendered text. The visual sensors are collectively capable of capturing both text that is permanently printed on a page, and text that is displayed transitorily on a dynamic device. The device further incorporates a visual information disposition subsystem for disposing of visual information received by the visual sensors. The device further incorporates a package that bears the visual sensors and the visual information disposition subsystem, and is suitable to be held in a human hand.
US07812857B2	Edge analysis in video quality assessment Edge detector techniques, known per se in the art, are applied to the field of automated video quality assessment. Any known edge detection algorithm is used as the basis of an edge detection stage for performing edge analysis of test video fields/frames in order to generate an edge parameter value that can then be used to contribute to an overall video quality value. The use of an edge detector stage contributes valuable information concerning image attributes which are perceptually significant to a human viewer to the quality assessment, thus rendering the result provided by the automated assessment more similar to that which would be performed by a human viewer undertaking a subjective assessment.
US07812852B2	Method and system for zoomable attachment handling on a portable electronic device A method for viewing a full image of a server stored original attachment on a portable electronic device including: building a graph structure within the server representing a map of the original image, downloading and displaying a re-sized image from the server to the portable electronic device, the original image exceeding an image size limit of the portable electronic device indicative of screen size of the portable electronic device, dividing the original image into four individual quadrants and calculating width and height parameters of the four individual quadrants, sending a request from the portable electronic device to the server to enlarge the image displayed on the device based on the width and height parameters, the request including the image size limit, retrieving and traversing the graph structure within the server to locate a separate image component constructed for the image size limit, collecting image binary data from the separate image component and modifying the image binary data based on the width and height parameters to create the full image of the original image, downloading each of the four resized quadrants to the attachment viewer and assembling the resized quadrants to display the full image of the original image on the portable electronic device.
US07812846B2	PC-based computing system employing a silicon chip of monolithic construction having a routing unit, a control unit and a profiling unit for parallelizing the operation of multiple GPU-driven pipeline cores according to the object division mode of parallel operation A PC-based computing system employing a silicon chip having a routing unit, a control unit and profiling unit for parallelizing multiple GPU-driven pipeline cores according to the object division mode of parallelization operation, during a graphics application. The PC-based computing system includes system memory for storing software graphics applications, software drivers and graphics libraries, and an operating system (OS), stored in the system memory, and a central processing unit (CPU), for executing the OS, graphics applications, drivers and graphics libraries. The system also includes a CPU/memory interface module and a CPU bus. The routing unit (i) routes the stream of geometrical data and graphic commands from the graphics application to one or more of the GPU-driven pipeline cores, and (ii) routes pixel data output from one or more of GPU-driven pipeline cores during the composition of frames of pixel data corresponding to final images for display on the display surface. The control unit accepts commands from the software multi-pipe drivers, and controls components within the silicon chip, including the routing unit. The profiling unit profiles the performance of the GPU-driven pipeline cores and feeds back performance data to the software multi-pipe drivers, for balancing the data load among the GPU-driven pipeline cores during the object division mode of parallelization operation.
US07812845B2	PC-based computing system employing a silicon chip implementing parallelized GPU-driven pipelines cores supporting multiple modes of parallelization dynamically controlled while running a graphics application A PC-based computing system employing a silicon chip implementing parallelized GPU-driven pipelines cores supporting multiple modes of parallelization dynamically controlled while running a graphics application. The PC-based computing system includes system memory for storing software graphics applications, software drivers and graphics libraries, and an operating system (OS), stored in the system memory, and a central processing unit (CPU), for executing the OS, graphics applications, drivers and graphics libraries. The system also includes a CPU/memory interface module and a CPU bus. The routing unit (i) routes the stream of geometrical data and graphic commands from the graphics application to one or more of the GPU-driven pipeline cores, and (ii) routes pixel data output from one or more of GPU-driven pipeline cores during the composition of frames of pixel data corresponding to final images for display on the display surface. The control unit accepts commands from the software multi-pipe drivers, and controls components within the silicon chip, including the routing unit. The profiling unit profiles the performance of the GPU-driven pipeline cores and feeds back performance data to the software multi-pipe drivers, for dynamically determining and controlling the mode of parallelization during the generation of each frame of pixel data, while running a graphics application.
US07812840B2	Scene modifier representation generation apparatus and scene modifier representation generation method There are provided a scene modifier generation device and a scene modifier generation method capable of improving expressive power of animation when automatically generating a modifier concerning a scene used in computer graphics from an inputted text sentence. A scene modifier as a modification expression concerning a scene of computer graphics is stored together with the application condition. It is possible to automatically generate a unique scene modifier appropriate for a scene according to an agentive in the scenario, a meaning of the operation, and a component of a scene modifier contained in the scenario including an adverb.
US07812838B1	Typed data graph visualization system in three dimensions A visualization system presents inter-connected three-dimensional models representing components of a data graph to a user on a display. A visualization graph is created from the association of a user-specified data graph, which may not include graphical information, to three-dimensional models through a type graph. Arrangement of three-dimensional models into discrete units is determined from local relations between components of the data graph.
US07812837B2	Reduced Z-buffer generating method, hidden surface removal method and occlusion culling method A rendering processing apparatus is provided which performs occlusion culling for excluding from rendering targets a hidden object behind another object as seen from a point of view, when given a plurality of objects. An object input unit stores a plurality of objects in an object storing unit. An internal volume generating unit generates an internal volume which is included in a target object. A reduced Z-buffer updating unit updates a reduced Z-buffer based on the internal volume. An external volume generating unit generates an external volume which includes the target object subject to culling test. A culling determination unit consults the reduced Z-buffer and performs a Z culling test on the target object based on the external volume.
US07812836B2	Display apparatus and power control method thereof A display apparatus and a power control method thereof are provided. The display apparatus includes a power supplying part; a Transition Minimized Differential Signaling (TMDS) receiving part which decodes a TMDS signal input from an external signal source; a controller which controls the power supplying part to supply driving power to the TMDS receiving part when a clock signal of the TMDS signal is received. The power control method includes cutting off driving power to a Transition Minimized Differential Signaling (TMDS) receiving part when the display apparatus enters a power-saving mode; determining whether a clock signal is detected in a TMDS signal; and supplying driving power to the TMDS receiving part if it is determined that the clock signal is detected.
US07812830B2	Touch-initiated power-saving clock system and method for touch screen controller A touch screen controller circuit (1A) including means for generating a first and second levels of a pen touch signal (PENTOUCH) if a touch point (Q) is present or absent, respectively. A clock start signal (CLKSTART) is generated in response to the first level. An internal clock signal (INTCLK) is generated in response to the clock start signal. First and second levels of a synchronized pen touch signal (PENTOUCH1) corresponding to the first and second levels, respectively, of the pen touch signal are generated in response to the internal clock signal. A stop clock signal (CLKSTOP) is generated in response to the second level of the synchronized pen touch signal. The internal clock signal (INTCLK) is stopped in response to the clock stop signal.
US07812826B2	Portable electronic device with multi-touch input A portable communication device with multi-touch input detects one or more multi-touch contacts and motions and performs one or more operations on an object based on the one or more multi-touch contacts and/or motions. The object has a resolution that is less than a pre-determined threshold when the operation is performed on the object, and the object has a resolution that is greater than the pre-determined threshold at other times.
US07812815B2	Compact haptic and augmented virtual reality system The invention provides compact haptic and augmented virtual reality system that produces an augmented reality environment. The system is equipped with software and devices that provide users with stereoscopic visualization and force feedback simultaneously in real time. High resolution, high pixel density, head and hand tracking ability are provided. Well-matched haptics and graphics volumes are realized. Systems of the invention are compact, making use of a standard personal display device, e.g., a computer monitor, as the display driver. Systems of the invention may therefore be inexpensive compared to many conventional virtual reality systems.
US07812812B2	Driving method of display apparatus A display device is driven by a driving method including a first drawing step of displaying an image by controlling a display medium on the basis of a first image signal, and a second drawing step of overwriting a handwritten image on the displayed image by controlling the display medium on the basis of a second image signal. In the first drawing step, an image is drawn by a reset drive for resetting a previous display image and a writing drive for writing an image, and in the second drawing step, the writing drive of a minimum or a substantially maximum luminance is performed without effecting the reset drive only in an area in which the handwritten image is written.
US07812810B2	Inverter driving apparatus and liquid crystal display including inverter driving apparatus An inverter driving apparatus for driving a plurality of lamp units is provided. The inverter driving apparatus includes a plurality of inverter boards for generating driving signals for driving respective lamp units based on a control signal and a voltage signal. Each lamp unit includes at least one lamp, and the plurality of inverter boards are connected in series and include a first outer inverter board receiving the control signal and a second outer inverter board located opposite the first outer inverter board receiving the voltage signal. Each of the plurality of inverter boards transmits the control signal and/or the voltage signal to at least one of the plurality of inverter boards adjacent thereto.
US07812809B2	Display device and a method thereof The display device includes a backlight unit including a field sequential light source operated using a sequential partition method and an optical shutter using an electrowetting phenomenon disposed on a light emitting surface of the backlight unit and switching light outputted from the backlight unit.
US07812802B2	Liquid crystal display overdrive accuracy adjustment device and method An overdrive accuracy adjustment device and method for use in a liquid crystal display panel is presented. According to a current grayscale value of a pixel in an awaiting to be displayed image and a previous grayscale value of the corresponding pixel in an already-displayed image, the corresponding overdrive grayscale value is found from a look-up table. In order to more efficiently use the limited storage capacity of the look-up table as well as improve the accuracy of the overdrive, in accordance with the physical characteristics of the liquid crystal display panel in particular (in particular to the grayscale values which often require the overdrive), the gap size between the current grayscale values and/or the gap size between the previous grayscale values may be adjusted in the look-up table, without having to increase the quantity of the overdrive grayscale values stored in the look-up table.
US07812796B2	Pixel circuit of organic light emitting display A pixel circuit includes a first transistor transmitting a reference signal or a data signal in response to a selection signal applied through a scan line, second and third transistors inputting a reference current in response to a control signal applied through a control line, a first capacitor storing a voltage compensated by the input reference current to compensate for the data signal received from the first transistor, a second capacitor storing the compensated data signal by the first capacitor, a fourth transistor receiving the compensated data signal to generate a driving current, a fifth transistor transmitting the driving current in response to the control signal applied through the control line, and an organic light emitting diode receiving the driving current from the fifth transistor to emit light.
US07812795B2	Modulation of common voltage and method for controlling AMOLED panel A control circuit for use in an active matrix organic light emitting diode (AMOLED) panel comprising a memory unit and a voltage control unit is provided. The operating time of the AMOLED panel is counted and saved by the memory unit. According to the memory unit's information, the voltage control unit decides a common voltage. The purpose of the present invention is to reduce the common voltage when the turn-on time of the AMOLED panel is increased so that the increase in the voltage difference between the two terminals of an organic light emitting diode (OLED) of the AMOLED panel may be compensated. Thus, the present invention may provide a stable driving current for the OLED and a stable picture definition for the AMOLED panel.
US07812790B2	Method for driving plasma display panel A method of driving a plasma display panel that is adaptive for improving a picture quality. In the method, first and second sustain pulses having a different width during the sustain period are alternately applied to the first and second row electrodes.
US07812782B2	Radome A GPS reception arrangement includes a GPS radome body having an upper body portion, a lower body portion and a peripheral body portion between the upper body portion and the lower body portion and extending circumferentially there around, and a GPS antenna positioned inside the radome body. A plurality of light sources on the peripheral body portion of the radome body project light in a manner to identify the GPS radome. Retroreflective material is positioned around the radome body on the peripheral body portion, adjacent the plurality of light sources.
US07812779B2	RFID transceiver sensitivity focusing system Shielding of a particular material and geometry is interposed between a radio frequency identification (“RFID”) antenna transceiver and a zone to be monitored by the antenna. The shielding has an aperture therein that to some extent defines a degree of focusing of the radio frequency (“RF”) field associated with the antenna. RFID tags having appropriate RFID circuitry are only detected by the antenna when they pass within the focused RF field. The shielding is formed of a thin metalized plastic material, such as film used in forming anti-static material for storage of sensitive electronics. One particular formulation is primarily polyethylene film with an aluminum coating or layer thereon.
US07812775B2	Mm-wave fully integrated phased array receiver and transmitter with on-chip antennas A phased array mm-wave device includes a substrate, a mm-wave transmitter integrated onto the substrate configured to transmit a mm-wave signal and/or a mm-wave receiver integrated onto the substrate and configured to receive a mm-wave signal. The mm-wave device also includes a phased array antenna system integrated onto the substrate and including two or more antenna elements. The phased array mm-wave device also includes one or more dielectric lenses. A distributed mm-wave distributed combining tree circuit includes at least two pairs of differential transconductors with regenerative degeneration and accepts at least two differential input signals. Two mm-wave loopback methods measure the phased array antenna patterns and the performance of an integrated receiver transmitter system.
US07812763B2	Time adjustment device, timepiece with a time adjustment device, and a time adjustment method A time adjustment device has a reception unit that receives a satellite signal transmitted from a positioning information satellite, a time information generating unit that generates internal time information, and a time information adjustment unit that adjusts the internal time information. The satellite signal contains satellite time information that is kept by the positioning information satellite. The reception unit includes a signal level acquisition unit that searches for positioning information satellites and acquires the signal level of the satellite signal transmitted from each positioning information satellite, a reception satellite selection unit that selects a positioning information satellite based on the acquired signal level, and a satellite time information acquisition unit that receives the satellite signal transmitted from the positioning information satellite selected by the reception satellite selection unit, and acquires the satellite time information contained in the satellite signal. The time information adjustment unit adjusts the internal time information based on the acquired satellite time information when the satellite time information acquisition unit has acquired the satellite time information.
US07812760B2	Short-range radar and control method thereof A transmitting unit of a short-range radar includes a first pulse generating unit, a second pulse generating unit, an oscillator and a switch, and while complying with the spectrum mask specified for a UWB short-range radar, emits a predetermined short pulse wave not interfering with the RR prohibited band or the SRD band into the space. The first pulse generating unit outputs a first pulse having the width larger than the width of the short pulse wave in a predetermined period. The second pulse generating unit outputs a second pulse having the width corresponding to the width of the short pulse wave during the period when the first pulse generating unit outputs the first pulse. The oscillator oscillates only during the period when the first pulse generating unit outputs the first pulse, and the switch is turned on and passes the output signal from the oscillator only during the period when the second pulse generating unit outputs the second pulse, thereby to emit the output signal from the switch into the space as the predetermined short pulse wave.
US07812739B2	Programmable appliance remote control A universal remote control is provided. For each channel supported, a mode is initially established as rolling mode. For a fixed code appliance, a fixed code is received and stored, and the mode changed to fixed mode. When an activation request is received, the mode associated with that activation input is examined. If the mode is rolling mode, a sequence of rolling code activation signals is transmitted, each based on one of the plurality of rolling code transmission schemes. If the mode is fixed mode, at least one activation signal is transmitted based on a fixed code transmission scheme and including the stored fixed code.
US07812734B2	Alarm system employing existing conductive aspect of copper lines as well as optional pressure switch sensor for triggering a copper theft event A theft preventative system, such as which is specifically associated with high resale value metals employed in heating, cooling and ventilation (HVAC) assemblies. A first embodiment utilizes a transformer and relay arrangement creating a closed circuit through the lines of conductive copper pipe, via interconnecting wires, and which is also hooked to an alarm for notifying when the metal conductive circuit to the copper line is opened, either by cutting the copper pipe or the wire connected to it. A second variant discloses incorporating a fluid pressure switch into each of the copper lines, for notifying when fluid pressure within the line decreases, this indicative of the normally fluid filled copper line being sectioned.
US07812733B2	Container power sensing system and method An automated and/or remote method for identifying and/or changing the source of power for these generator sets, which may apply to any environment where there are alternative sources of power available which must be managed remotely (such as for other powered containers not used for refrigeration transport).
US07812717B1	Situational network A method of forming a situational network includes receiving an indication of an occurrence of a situation. A first set of connections are established with devices corresponding to a plurality of individuals, where the connections are established based on a determination that the plurality of individuals are affected by the occurrence of the situation. A second set of connections between two or more of the devices corresponding to the plurality of individuals is facilitated, where the first set and second set of connections are used at least in part to exchange information related to the situation among at least a subset of the individuals corresponding to the devices of the second set of connections.
US07812715B2	Control of a personal transporter based on user position An apparatus controller for prompting a rider to be positioned on a vehicle in such a manner as to reduce lateral instability due to lateral acceleration of the vehicle. The apparatus has an input for receiving specification from the rider of a desired direction of travel, and indicating means for reflecting to the rider a propitious instantaneous body orientation to enhance stability in the face of lateral acceleration. The indicating may include a handlebar that is pivotable with respect to the vehicle and that is driven in response to vehicle turning.
US07812709B2	Office communication system An office communication system provides intra-office communication within a medical or dental office, for example. The system includes a door or wall unit, a table or desk unit, and a wearable or portable unit. The door and desk units are configured to transmit and receive both infrared and radio frequency type wireless signals. The portable unit may include an infrared light transmitter configured to transmit infrared light encoded with a unique address or identifier. The system operates to non-obtrusively notify office personnel whether a practitioner has entered or is presently within a particular exam room of the office, even if a door of the exam room is closed.
US07812708B2	Manipulation protection for a fire detector A method for differentiating between a fire and the manipulation of a fire detector. The fire detector has at least two sensor units, each of which contains a light source and a light collector. A cover plate is formed with at least two light exit and entry windows. The device is used to monitor at least one fire parameter in the area surrounding the fire detector according to a scattered light method. The respective light entry and exit windows on the cover plate are connected to an optical fiber element in such a way that light from the light source of one sensor unit is guided to and captured by the light collector of the other sensor unit.
US07812696B2	Method and device for securely operating a switching device A method and a device for secure operation of a switching device including at least two main contacts which can be switched on and off and include contact pieces and a displaceable contact bridge, and a control magnet having a displaceable anchor. The method may include producing an electric control signal to release a contact breaking device when the control magnets are switched on and off. The emitted control signal lies outside the ON state of the switching contact during the regular operation of the switching device and releasing the contact breaking device in defective operation of the switching device if the switching contact remains in the ON state when the control magnets are switched on or off. The switching contact may connect through the control signal to release the contact breaking device.
US07812693B1	Lowpass-bandstop common mode filter for differential lines carrying high rate digital signals The present invention provides a novel structure that can be used to make a common mode filter. Only the common mode will be attenuated and the differential mode will not be attenuated. This structure can be implemented in a number of ways, a specific embodiment using strip-line and slot-line junctions is very compact and well-suited to use with multilayer PCBs, and does not require any extra components. It can be designed to attenuate certain discrete frequencies, by designing the poles of the transfer function to be at these frequencies.
US07812689B2	Phase shifter including a resonant type switch with a free region Disclosed is a microwave phase shifter including switches each of which utilizes resonance between an off-capacitance of an FET and an inductor connected in parallel with the off-capacitance of the FET, an LPF, and an HPF, a series circuit of an inductor and an MIM capacitor is arranged in parallel with the FET in each portion of the resonance. In a layout of the LC series-connected circuit, though the inductor is of a non-close-packed structure, a metal member or a dielectric material having a relative dielectric constant higher than that of a dielectric substrate is arranged in a free space in a central portion of the inductor.
US07812684B2	Communication apparatus A communication apparatus has a local oscillator which performs phase modulation based on a phase component of a baseband signal and outputs a phase modulated signal, a controlling circuit which is supplied with an integer portion included in an amplitude component of the baseband signal and generates and outputs a controlling signal based on a size of the integer portion, a subtractor which is supplied with the integer portion and the controlling signal, subtracts a value of the controlling signal from the integer portion, and outputs a result, a MASH (Multi-stAge-noise-Shaping) circuit which is a second-order delta-sigma modulation means supplied with a fractional portion of the amplitude component, an order of the MASH circuit being switchable between a first order and a second order based on the controlling signal, and an amplifier which sets a voltage value based on an output of the MASH circuit and an output of the subtractor, multiplies the voltage value and the phase modulated signal, and outputs a result.
US07812683B2	Integrated circuit package with glass layer and oscillator An integrated circuit package comprises an integrated circuit that comprises a temperature sensor that senses a temperature of the integrated circuit. A memory module stores oscillator calibrations and selects one of the oscillator calibrations as a function of the sensed temperature. An oscillator module generates a reference signal having a frequency that is based on the selected one of the oscillator calibrations. An epoxy layer adheres a glass layer to the integrated circuit. A packaging material encases at least part of the glass layer and the integrated circuit.
US07812682B2	Crystal-based oscillator for use in synchronized system A crystal oscillator-based module, which includes a crystal resonator receiving a conditioned signal from a first bus and passing a resonator signal to a sustaining stage amplifier. A synchronization range expansion circuit is connected between a gain control network and the resonator. A tri-state buffer has a main input connected to receive the resonator signal through a buffer. The output of the tri-state buffer is connected to a second bus, through a matching network if necessary. A synchronous clock system can be formed by connecting these modules alternately to the two busses. The tri-state buffer also has a control input, which may be connected to a delay circuit between Vcc and ground, so as to allow hot swapping and for other benefits.
US07812677B2	Synthesizer characterization in real time A frequency synthesizer includes a phase locked loop (PLL) for generating a desired frequency. The PLL includes two loop filters. A characterization circuit is included, which is configured to receive a digital word for characterizing the PLL and provide a pre-charge value for pre-charging one of the loop filters to generate the desired frequency. A successive approximation analog to digital (A/D) converter is coupled between the loop filters and the characterization circuit, for providing both (a) the digital word to the characterization circuit, and (b) the pre-charge value to the selected loop filter. The digital word includes n-bits ranging in values from a most significant bit (MSB) to a least significant bit (LSB), and the pre-charge value is formed by the n-bits. The successive approximation A/D converter includes a successive approximation register (SAR) for forming the digital word, and a digital to analog (D/A) converter for forming the pre-charge value. The successive approximation A/D converter includes a comparator for comparing (a) a value corresponding to a loop filter voltage with (b) an analog value formed by a bit of the digital word.
US07812663B2	Bandgap voltage reference circuit A bandgap voltage reference circuit includes an operational amplifier, a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, a first resistor, a second resistor, a first diode, a second diode, and a divider. The first transistor, the second transistor, and the third transistor form current mirrors. The reference current of the current mirrors is generated according to the first diode, the second diode, and the first resistor. The reference voltage of the voltage reference circuit is output from the first end of the second resistor. The divider is coupled to the second end of the second resistor so that the reference voltage of the voltage reference circuit can be reduced.
US07812657B2	Methods and apparatus for synchronizing with a clock signal Clock synchronization and skew adjustment circuits that utilize differing unit delay elements in their delay lines in either a graduated or a stepped unit time delay arrangement are for synchronizing with a clock signal. These graduated or a stepped unit time delays allow reduction in the number of the fine unit delay elements of the delay lines by placing a fine delay element granularity at the most critical timings to sense and adjust for the portion of the clock signal time period that are high speed or critical.
US07812655B2	Delay-locked loop control This invention relates to devices, a chip, a method and a computer-readable medium for controlling operation of a delay-locked loop. A delay-locked loop unit is adapted to trigger generation of first-type edges of a target signal. A main control unit is adapted to control operation of the delay-locked loop unit in a way that the delay-locked loop unit is turned on before generation of each first-type edge of the target signal and turned off after generation of each first-type edge.
US07812650B2	Bias voltage generation circuit and clock synchronizing circuit Bias voltage generator circuit and clock synchronizing circuit includes a bias unit configured to control a current in response to a bandwidth control signal, an amplification unit configured to differentially amplify an input signal in response to the current controlled by the bias unit and an output unit configured to receive an output signal of the amplification unit to output the bias voltage.
US07812645B2	Signal converting circuit A signal conversion circuit 2 comprises a differential amplifier portion 10 and a source follower portion 20. When differential voltage signals INp and INn are input to a first input terminal 5 and second input terminal 6 respectively, operations occurs either in a mode in which only the differential amplifier portion 10 operates, or a mode in which both the differential amplifier portion 10 and the source follower portion 20 operate, or a mode in which only the source follower portion 20 operates, according to the levels of the differential voltage signals INp and INn. The differential amplifier portion 10 and source follower portion 20 have fewer components compared with a circuit comprising two differential amplifier circuits. By this means, the circuit area can be reduced, and in addition current consumption can be reduced. Also, because the source follower portion 20 performs non-inverting amplification of the differential voltage signals INp and INn, high-speed operation is possible.
US07812640B2	Bridge design for SD and MMC data buses A circuit with bi-directional signal transmission, including a first signal source, for generating a first signal comprising one bit per clock cycle during a first plurality of clock cycles, a second signal source, for generating a second signal including one bit per clock cycle during a second plurality of clock cycles, a first buffer, coupled with the first signal source, that outputs the first signal when the first buffer is enabled, a second buffer, coupled with the second signal source, that outputs the second signal when the second buffer is enabled, and a plurality of logical gates, coupled with the first signal source, the second signal source, the first buffer and the second buffer, that control enablement of the first buffer and the second buffer, such that (i) at any given clock cycle at least one of the first buffer and the second buffer is disabled, and (ii) when the first buffer and said the buffer are both disabled, subsequent generation of a ‘0’ bit in the first signal or the second signal causes enablement of the first buffer or the second buffer, respectively.
US07812637B2	Level shifter Input transistors have sources which are connected to a first input reference node and gates to which a pair of input signals are input. Input-side voltage relaxing transistors have sources connected to drains of the pair of input transistors and gates connected to a second input reference node. Output-side voltage relaxing transistors have sources connected to output nodes, gates connected to a first output reference node, and drains connected to drains of the input-side voltage relaxing transistors. First and second inverter circuits are in correspondence with the output nodes, and are connected between second and third output reference nodes. Each of the first and second inverter circuits also supplies a voltage at one of the second and third output reference nodes to its corresponding one of the output nodes, depending on a voltage at its non-corresponding one of the output nodes.
US07812636B2	Method and device for generating pseudo-random binary data A device for generating k-bit parallel pseudo-random data includes “n” registers, from the first through the n-th registers (“n” is an integer not less than 3), and “k” exclusive-OR gates, from the first through the k-th exclusive-OR gates (“k” is an integer not less than 2). An output of the m-th register is input to the (m+k)th register (“m” is an integer between 1 and (n−k)). Outputs of the first through the (k−1)th exclusive-OR gates are respectively input to the second through the k-th exclusive-OR gates. An output of the first register is input to the first exclusive-OR gate. The outputs of the first through the k-th exclusive-OR gates are respectively input to the k-th through the first registers. Outputs of “k” registers, from the (n−k+1)th through the n-th registers are respectively input to the k-th through the first exclusive-OR gates, and also extracted as the k-bit parallel pseudo-random data.
US07812635B1	Programmable logic device architecture with the ability to combine adjacent logic elements for the purpose of performing high order logic functions A high efficiency PLD architecture having adjacent logic elements that can be selectively combined to perform higher order logic functions than can be performed alone by a single logic element. The programmable logic device includes a logic block having a first logic element including a first look up table. The first look up table includes a first pair of sub-function generators and is capable of implementing logic functions of a first order. The logic block also includes a second logic element having a second input look up table including a second pair of sub-function generators. Programmable sharing circuitry is also included in the logic block. The programmable sharing circuitry selectively couples the first pair of sub-function generators and the second pair of sub-function generators so that the first logic element is capable of performing logic functions of either (i) the first order, or (ii) a second order, wherein the second order is higher than the first order.
US07812627B2	Test device A test device includes a movable mounting table having a temperature controlling mechanism therein; a probe card provided with a plurality of probes positioned above the mounting table; and a first temperature control unit for controlling the temperature controlling mechanism so that a target object on the mounting table can be heated to a predetermined temperature to test electrical characteristics of the target object. The mounting table is provided with a heater facing a plurality of probes protruding from the mounting table in the high-temperature test on the target object.
US07812625B2	Chip test apparatus and probe card circuit A circuit in probe card, which includes a signal line, a detection probe and a plurality of switch modules. A plurality of test response signals form a plurality of chips to be tested are transmitted on the signal line. The detection probe is coupled to the signal line for receiving the test response signals from the tested chips. In addition, each of the switch modules is respectively coupled to the signal line and the probes to selectively transmit the test response signals from the chips to the signal line such that the chips are able to be tested without disruption caused by an electrical short.
US07812623B2	Transparent conductive film roll and production method thereof, touch panel using the same, and non-contact surface resistance measuring device A transparent conductive film roll which has a transparent conductive layer on at least one surface thereof and has an excellent distribution uniformity of surface resistance in longitudinal and lateral directions thereof wherein the distribution uniformity D of surface resistance defined by the following expression (1) is 0.2 or less when the surface resistance of the transparent conductive layer is measured at a total of 33 points within the film roll, and therefore, is suitable especially for a large panel, D=(Rmax−Rmin)/(Rmax+Rmin) (1) where Rmax and Rmin represent the maximum and minimum values of 33 surface resistance measurement values.
US07812621B2	Measuring apparatus and method for measuring a surface capacitance of an insulating film A measuring unit applies a dc voltage causing an inversion layer to be formed on an interface between a semiconductor substrate and an insulating film to the semiconductor substrate while changing a change speed of a level of the dc voltage, and measures a current flowing through the insulating film. An arithmetic unit obtains a straight line showing a relationship between the current flowing through the insulating film and the change speed of the dc voltage on the basis of a relationship between the current measured by the measuring unit and the dc voltage, and calculates a slope of the obtained straight line as surface capacitance of the insulating film. The arithmetic unit calculates permittivity of the insulating film on the basis of the calculated surface capacitance, an area of contact between a probe and the insulating film and a thickness of the insulating film.

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