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US07860838B2	Dynamic hierarchical data structure tree building and state propagation using common information model A computer implemented method for managing entities in a computer system. The method includes relating the managed entities and sub-entities each with a node into a hierarchical tree structure defined in a common information model with a tree root and child associations, traversing the tree structure until the tree root and all of the child associations are encountered and determining an origination of each managed entity based on the associations encountered for at least one of adding, deleing or revising information associated with the node for dynamically propagating a status of the managed entities of the hierarchical tree structure.
US07860834B2	Method and system for updating versions of content stored in a storage device A system for generating a compact update package between an old version of content and a new version of content. The system includes a conversion element generator for generating a conversion element associated with the old version and new version. A modified version generator for generating a modified version including applying the conversion element to the old versions. An update package generator for generating the compact update package. The compact update package includes the conversion element and a modified delta based on the modified version and the new version.
US07860831B2	Object graph editing context and methods of use The present invention comprises a novel system for managing changes to a graph of data bearing objects. In one embodiment, an object graph manager object referred to as an editing context is used to identify changes made to data bearing enterprise objects and to notify other interested objects when changes occur. As a result, data bearing objects need not themselves contain code necessary for monitoring changes. In another embodiment of the invention, the editing context is used to provide event-based “undo” capabilities. In another embodiment of the invention, each enterprise object has a primary key that is used to maintain the identification between an enterprise object instance and a corresponding database row. In another embodiment of the invention, multiple levels of editing contexts are used to provide multiple isolated object graphs, each of which allows independent manipulation of the underlying data bearing objects.
US07860829B2	Computer architecture and method of operation for multi-computer distributed processing with replicated memory The present invention discloses a modified computer architecture (50, 71, 72) which enables an applications program (50) to be run simultaneously on a plurality of computers (M1, . . . Mn). Shared memory at each computer is updated with amendments and/or overwrites so that all memory read requests are satisfied locally. During initial program loading (75), or similar, instructions which result in memory being re-written or manipulated are identified (92). Additional instructions are inserted (103) to cause the equivalent memory locations at all computers to be updated.
US07860809B2	Methods and devices for digital media distribution A brokerage for digital media distribution allows initial recipients of digital media to promote and generate additional distribution of the digital media. The brokerage may involve transferring a copy of the digital media from the device of the initial recipient to a device of an entity interested in obtaining the same digital media, and the device of the entity may then complete the transfer by submitting a record of the transaction that identifies the recipient who has generated the sale such that this initial recipient is compensated by the digital media distributor. The brokerage may alternatively involve directing the device of the receiving entity to a network link that provides access to the digital media and that is associated with the initial recipient. The device of the entity may then complete the transfer that causes the initial recipient to be compensated by the digital media distributor.
US07860805B2	Computer-implemented personal information manager method and system A computer-implemented method for managing personal information. The method includes (a) electronically receiving personal information of a monitored individual and a unique identifier of the monitored individual; (b) electronically receiving mortality information based on a mortality database having one or more records; and (c) electronically searching the mortality database records for the unique identifier of the monitored individual to obtain a mortality search result.
US07860802B2	Flexible licensing architecture in content rights management systems A license is issued to a user as decryption and authorization portions. The decryption portion is accessible only by such user and has a decryption key (KD) for decrypting corresponding encrypted digital content and validating information including an identification of a root trust authority. The authorization portion sets forth rights granted in connection with the digital content and conditions that must be satisfied to exercise the rights granted, and has a digital signature that is validated according to the identified root trust authority in the decryption portion. The user issued accesses the decryption portion and employs the validation information therein to validate the digital signature of the authorization portion. If the conditions in the authorization portion so allow, the rights in the authorization portion are exercised by decrypting the encrypted content with the decryption key (KD) from the decryption portion and rendering the decrypted content.
US07860797B2	Method for documenting property or possession and transfer of property or possession of a merchandise A method wherein, by using a storage medium arranged on goods, it is possible to distinctly register a conveyance of ownership or title on this storage medium, and wherein only the current owner or proprietor and possibly also an independent verifying agency has access to the storage medium.
US07860796B2	Automated order protection trading system Methods and systems for trading financial or commodity assets are presented. In particular, the invention relates to a trading system and method that operates with third party data and a Third Party Inside Market to promote fair and orderly transactions. In some embodiments, a client order or client bid/offer is protected by automated order protection (AOP), which may be a set of rules or specifications that can modify a client's order. In certain embodiments, an average weighted price function is used to protect a client order that might be larger than the best bid/offer. In other embodiments, an autofill, a tie-breaking, and a wait-for-follow process can be used to promote trading opportunities for dealers and/or clients.
US07860789B2	Multiple account advanced payment card and method of routing card transactions A system of accessing through a financial processing network multiple accounts associated with a single financial card. Data is input to the financial network in addition to the transaction data and the account identification data that is read from the card. This additional data permits the proper account to be accessed. The data may be input at the point of sale as an account selection. In this instance, the selection may be used to route the transaction data through the financial processing network or may be used to read data regarding one of multiple accounts encoded on the card. The data may also be stored as conditional routing rules at transfer points in the financial processing network. In this instance, the transaction is routed to the proper account based on the stored rules.
US07860787B2	System and method for modifying attribute data pertaining to financial assets in a data processing system A processing system for modifying attributes of a plurality of loans is described. The processing system includes an attribute change processor for receiving and implementing a proposed change to an attribute of at least one of the plurality of loans and a loan pricing processor for generating a pricing value associated with the proposed change to the attribute of the at least one loan.
US07860785B2	Communications system to automatically refer an inbound communication A machine, computer-readable media, and method using a communications system to automatically refer an inbound communication. The communications system includes a computer and a call-routing database in a memory operably associated with the computer. The method and operations include: receiving an inbound communication with the communications system; capturing information associated with the inbound communication and using the captured information in a search of the call-routing database; if the database reveals a previous successful referral associated with the captured information, routing the inbound communication to a same outbound communications path as used in the previous successful referral; if the database does not reveal a previous successful referral associated with the captured information and if the database reveals call-routing criteria associated with the captured information, routing the inbound communication to an outbound communications path selected in accordance with said call-routing criteria; and if the database does not reveal a previous successful referral associated with the captured information and if the database does not reveal call-routing criteria associated with the captured information, routing the inbound communication to an outbound communications path.
US07860784B2	Method and system for user payment account management Embodiments of a method and system for user payment account management in a networked system are disclosed. User information regarding a user, an account identifier, and a server location may be received from a merchant application. The account identifier may identify the user to the merchant application. An underwriting process may be initiated using the user information to determine whether to establish a user payment account for the user. The user payment account may enable the user to perform at least one of making a payment and receiving a payment in a networked system. The user payment account may be established for the user in response to a result of the underwriting process. Establishment information may be provided regarding the user payment account and the account identifier at the server location designated by the merchant application. The establishment information may include information regarding functionality available through use of the user payment account.
US07860777B2	Stored, temporary alteration of business logic A method and system are presented for making temporary changes to business logic implemented in a software program. In the preferred embodiment, business logic is stored in rules that are associated together in a series of tests. Changes to the business logic are stored in overrides, which contain one or more instructions for altering the rules. These instructions can either add or delete a business rule, or can create a new test that contains multiple business rules. The overrides themselves are grouped together into negotiations. Since the changes to the rule set are stored in overrides, no changes are made to the base rule set. Thus, updates to the base rule set are immediately effective in implementations using one or more overrides. When an evaluation is conducted in situations requiring a variation from the standard business process, the base rule set is still utilized as a starting point. The negotiations and associated overrides are then loaded and the changes found in the overrides are made to the base set. Only at this point does rules engine begin analyzing the rule set.
US07860776B1	Sales system with buyer price selection Some embodiments include a networked sales method. The method includes presenting, via a first network, item information associated with an item on a sales screen to a user. The method also includes communicating a variable price schedule for the item to the user. The variable price schedule includes a plurality of price selections for the item. The method includes receiving a reminder command associated with a selection of an entry in the variable price schedule from the user. The reminder command includes a price selection from the plurality of the price selections for the item. The method includes notifying the user when the entry in the variable price schedule is reached.
US07860767B1	Systems and methods for financing multiple asset classes of collateral A method of determining an interest rate to be applied against a debit amount in a collateralized lending transaction. The method includes identifying a plurality of assets to be used as collateral, grouping the assets by class, and assigning an interest rate to each class of assets. The method also includes allocating the debit amount to each of the asset classes based on market values of the assets, calculating a blended interest rate based on the allocated debit amounts, and applying the blended interest rate to the debit amount to determine the accrual amount due on the debit amount.
US07860761B2	Code management system A code management system is provided for reducing an amount of data on a product identification number assigned to a product in traceability system and enabling to reduce an information management burden required for a history reference. In a weighing label attaching process, a main server distributes unused individual product code complying with a request from a weighing machine. The weighing machine creates and stores a weighing related information that relates a case code previously read to a weighing result (weight), a calculating result (price), a label code (a product identification information) determined as any of individual product codes, and a content of a label information. The main server requires the weighing related information to provide, complying with a request submitting the label code from a purchaser of the product. The weighing machine searches and transmits the weighing related information to the main server complying with the request from the main server.
US07860759B2	Product recommendations based on collaborative filtering of user data A system gathers user behavior data from a group of web retailers and/or non-web retailers, analyzes the user behavior data to identify product recommendations for products offered by the web retailers, and provides one of the identified product recommendations in connection with a product page associated with one of the web retailers.
US07860744B2	System and method for automatically providing personalized notices concerning financial products and/or services A personalized notice pertaining to financial products or services is provided, including a method and system for preparing the same. The financial product and/or financial services are associated with a set of separate descriptions, characteristics and/or identifications, any one of which may be presented within a personalized content section of the personalized communication documents. The notices are generated automatically by a computing system such that different consumer entities can be provided with different personalized content for a particular product/service.
US07860737B2	Constraint-based production planning and scheduling The present invention is a constraint-based planning tool that specifically addresses the needs of complex discrete and process industries by providing a computationally efficient method and system for fulfillment of customer orders in a supply chain. By comprehensively synchronizing and optimizing the flow of materials through the enterprise, the present invention creates a feasible plan for manufacturing operations that simultaneously optimizes both material and capacity constraints by planning and scheduling multiple customer orders, planning for use the various resources located in remote locations needed to fulfill such orders, and scheduling the used resources for replenishment at appropriate times so that the resources meet the needs of the orders.
US07860731B2	Monitoring and feedback wireless medical system and method A system and method are provided for obtaining medical data from a user, analyzing it and providing a feedback message. Existing home medical devices are connected to a data translation device which transmits the data to a cellular phone. The cellular phone transmits the data to a server where it is analyzed and a feedback message is transmitted back to the phone.
US07860727B2	Laboratory instrumentation information management and control network An interface point network (IPN) and a method for communication with a laboratory information system using an IPN, wherein the IPN includes at least one host computer in communication with at least one laboratory instrument, the laboratory information system and an interface point server in communication with the host computer and the laboratory information system, the interface point server being configured to function as a communication interface between the host computer and the laboratory information system in a manner responsive to a predetermined communication protocol. Use of bar code and RFID labels for tracking samples and in maintaining sample data is described.
US07860722B1	System and method for keyword detection in a controlled-environment facility using a hybrid application A method for keyword detection in a controlled-environment facility comprises capturing a conversation within the controlled-environment facility and executing a hybrid keyword detection application for detecting a keyword spoken during the conversation. A system comprises an audio capture system operable to capture an audio signal within a controlled-environment facility and a hybrid keyword detection system connected to the audio capture system, where the hybrid keyword detection system is operable to detect a keyword.
US07860721B2	Audio encoding device, decoding device, and method capable of flexibly adjusting the optimal trade-off between a code rate and sound quality Provided are an audio encoding device and an audio decoding device, by which optimal trade-off between code rates and sound quality can be flexibly adjusted. A variable frequency segmentation encoding unit includes: difference degree calculation units for calculating a difference degree between first and second input signals depending on a segmentation method for segmenting a frequency band into sub-bands; a selection unit for selecting one of the segmentation methods; and a difference degree and segmentation information encoding unit for encoding the selected method and the difference degree for each sub-band. A variable frequency segment decoding unit includes: a segmentation information decoding unit for decoding the segmentation information to learn the segmentation method; a switching unit for outputting a difference degree code corresponding to the segmentation method; and difference degree decoding units for decoding the difference degree code to the difference degree for each sub-band.
US07860717B2	System and method for customizing speech recognition input and output A system and method may be disclosed for facilitating the site-specific customization of automated speech recognition systems by providing a customization client for site-specific individuals to update and modify language model input files and post processor input files. In customizing the input files, the customization client may provide a graphical user interface for facilitating the inclusion of words specific to a particular site. The customization client may also be configured to provide the user with a series of formatting rules for controlling the appearance and format of a document transcribed by an automated speech recognition system.
US07860714B2	Detection system for segment including specific sound signal, method and program for the same The present invention is a detection system of a segment including specific sound signal which detects a segment in a stored sound signal similar to a reference sound signal, including: a reference signal spectrogram division portion which divides a reference signal spectrogram into spectrograms of small-regions; a small-region reference signal spectrogram coding portion which encodes the small-region reference signal spectrogram to a reference signal small-region code; a small-region stored signal spectrogram coding portion which encodes a small-region stored signal spectrogram to a stored signal small-region code; a similar small-region spectrogram detection portion which detects a small-region spectrogram similar to the small-region reference signal spectrograms based on a degree of similarity of a code; and a degree of segment similarity calculation portion which uses a degree of small-region similarity and calculates a degree of similarity between the segment of the stored signal and the reference signal.
US07860713B2	Reducing time for annotating speech data to develop a dialog application Systems and methods for annotating speech data. The present invention reduces the time required to annotate speech data by selecting utterances for annotation that will be of greatest benefit. A selection module uses speech models, including speech recognition models and spoken language understanding models, to identify utterances that should be annotated based on criteria such as confidence scores generated by the models. These utterances are placed in an annotation list along with a type of annotation to be performed for the utterances and an order in which the annotation should proceed. The utterances in the annotation list can be annotated for speech recognition purposes, spoken language understanding purposes, labeling purposes, etc. The selection module can also select utterances for annotation based on previously annotated speech data and deficiencies in the various models.
US07860712B2	Method of storing data in a memory circuit for AHO-corasick type character recognition automaton and corresponding storage circuit A method of storing data in a memory circuit of an Aho-Corasick type character recognition automaton recognizes character strings by implementing successive transitions in a tree of nodes stored in a memory. Each node corresponds to a state of the automaton and to a recognition of a sequence of the character string. Each node is associated with a transition vector serves to determine the destination node or nodes of a transition. For storage of the data, a test is performed to find out whether transition vectors point to common destination addresses. The transition vectors are combined if the addresses to which the vectors point are separate by formulating a combination vector and the nodes are stored at the memory addresses pointed at by the combination vector.
US07860711B2	Transmitter and receiver for speech coding and decoding by using additional bit allocation method The present invention relates to a transmitter and a receiver for speech coding and decoding by using an additional bit allocation method. The transmitter and the receiver according to the present invention realize a voice communication service of high quality by using additional bits permitted in system requirements while using a conventional speech coder as it is. In addition, the transmitter and the receiver according to the present invention have an advantage in that they enable insertion of additional quantization blocks while not changing the structure of the conventional standard speech coder, since they allocate additional bits by applying a multi-stage quantization procedure not in a speech signal domain but in a parameter domain.
US07860705B2	Methods and apparatus for context adaptation of speech-to-speech translation systems A technique for context adaptation of a speech-to-speech translation system is provided. A plurality of sets of paralinguistic attribute values is obtained from a plurality of input signals. Each set of the plurality of sets of paralinguistic attribute values is extracted from a corresponding input signal of the plurality of input signals via a corresponding classifier of a plurality of classifiers. A final set of paralinguistic attribute values is generated for the plurality of input signals from the plurality of sets of paralinguistic attribute values. Performance of at least one of a speech recognition module, a translation module and a text-to-speech module of the speech-to-speech translation system is modified in accordance with the final set of paralinguistic attribute values for the plurality of input signals.
US07860702B1	Assessing distributed energy resources for the energynet An improved method for analyzing power systems; in particular, power systems that may incorporate distributed energy resources (DER), that provides a thorough determination of the potential for network performance improvement that DER could provide, independent of non-network benefits DER could provide. The method incorporates an Energynet dataset simulating the power system, integrating transmission and distribution elements together and capable of evaluating the impacts of additions of real energy sources and/or reactive energy sources anywhere in the network. Such energy source additions are evaluated for their impact on a broad set of performance measures. The specific DER projects that would realize that potential improvement in network performance are characterized as an Optimal DER Portfolio. Network performance improvement attributable to the Optimal DER Portfolio is quantified in engineering and financial terms.
US07860701B2	Methodology for image fidelity verification A method for predicting functionality of an integrated circuit segment to be lithographically printed on a wafer. Initially there is provided a two-dimensional design of an integrated circuit, including an integrated circuit segment having critical width, and a two-dimensional printed image of the critical width integrated circuit segment is simulated. The method then includes determining a ratio of perimeters or areas of the designed critical width integrated circuit segment to the simulated printed critical width integrated circuit segment, and predicting functionality of the critical width integrated circuit segment after printing based on the ratio of perimeters or areas.
US07860699B2	System and method for optimizing optical and digital system designs A software product includes instructions stored on computer-readable media, that when executed by a computer, perform steps for optimizing an optical system design and a digital system design. The instructions are for simulating an optical model of the optical system design, simulating a digital model of the digital system design, analyzing simulated output of the optical model and simulated output of the digital model, to produce a score, modifying the optical model and the digital model, based upon the score, controlling re-execution of the instructions for simulating the optical model, the instructions for simulating the digital model, the instructions for analyzing and the instructions for modifying to produce an optimized optical model and an optimized digital model, and outputting predicted performance of the optimized optical and digital models.
US07860682B2	Intelligent integrated diagnostics A diagnostics system comprising a topological map of a target system that has nodes (38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48) that correspond to components (29, 30, 32, 34, 36) of the target system and links that correspond to connections between the components. Associated with the topological map is a knowledge store (50) that has a structure that reflects or corresponds to that of the topological map. Included in this store (50) is a plurality of sections or libraries each of which is provided for storing design specific data associated with one of the nodes (38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48) of the topological map. Data received from one or more sensors on the target system is included in the topological map, and used together with the design specific information in the knowledge store to diagnose faults.
US07860671B1	High precision liquid level gauge system High resolution liquid level gauge includes a float member with a buoyant, free end, and an opposing end rotatably attached to an interior surface of a reservoir such that the float member is free to rotate about an axis of rotation. A single magnet defining a single magnetic field is attached to the pivoting end such that the magnetic field is centered on the axis of rotation and rotates with the float member. A magnetic rotary encoder chip configured to detect angular position of the magnetic field is positioned to be aligned with the axis of rotation on the exterior of the reservoir at a distance from the magnet to detect the magnetic field. The encoder is configured to provide a signal representative of the angle of the magnetic field. A computer processor determines the liquid level within the reservoir based upon the signal.
US07860670B2	Device and method for detecting a leak in a cylinder of an internal combustion engine A device for detecting a leak in a cylinder of an internal combustion engine, the internal combustion engine including a piston in the cylinder, the piston being attached to a crankshaft, includes a time interval determining unit which is designed to determine a first time interval in which the crankshaft passes a preset first angle segment before reaching the ignition top dead center of the piston in the cylinder, and to determine a second time interval in which the crankshaft passes a preset second angle segment after reaching the ignition top dead center of the piston in the cylinder, and a cylinder leak determining unit which is designed to detect a leak in the cylinder as a function of the first time interval and as a function of the second time interval.
US07860666B2	Systems and methods for determining drop distance and speed of moving sportsmen involved in board sports A system for determining airtime, speed and/or drop distance of a moving sportsman includes at least one accelerometer for detecting vibration or acceleration of the sportsman and/or a GPS unit. A processor in communication with the at least one accelerometer may process signals from the accelerometer to determine free-fall.
US07860661B2	Least-square deconvolution (LSD): a method to resolve DNA mixtures Least Square Deconvolution (LSD) uses quantitative allele peak data derived obtained from a sample containing the DNA of more than one contributor to resolve the best-fit genotype profile of each contributor. The resolution is based on finding the least square fit of the mass ratio coefficients at each locus to come closest to the quantitative allele peak data. Consistent top-ranked mass ratio combinations from each locus can be pooled to form at least one composite DNA profile at a subset of the available loci. The top-ranked DNA profiles can be used to check against the profile of a suspect or be used to search for a matching profile in a DNA database.
US07860660B2	Characterization of phenotypes by gene expression patterns and classification of samples based thereon Generally, the present invention applies a transformation to convert a probability distribution of gene expression signals in control samples to a uniform distribution. The uniform distribution allows better comparisons between expression levels for genes. The transformation is derived from gene expression signals of control data, and is applied to gene expression signals of phenotype data. The phenotype data can be represented in a matrix format. A number of gene expression patterns may be determined (in the form of submatrices) that will characterize the phenotype. The uniform distribution helps in this regard, as it allows better comparisons of patterns. The gene expression patterns can then be used to classify samples as belonging to the phenotype set. Preferably, a discriminant function is used to compare a sample with the gene expression patterns that characterize the phenotype. The discriminant function can determine a score that can be used to determine whether the sample belongs to the phenotype.
US07860659B2	Methods and systems for providing a nutraceutical program specific to an individual animal The present invention relates to methods and systems for providing an animal with a nutraceutical program that is specifically tailored to address the deficiencies and/or needs of the particular animal. Blood is drawn from the animal and analyzed at a lab to obtain blood test results. The blood test results are scored to obtain at least one blood test score for at least one corresponding blood parameter. If the at least one blood test score falls within a normal range but outside of an optimal range, one or more nutraceuticals needed to bring the animal within the optimal range for the at least one corresponding blood parameter are identified. A prescribed dosage amount is then calculated for at least one of the one or more identified nutraceuticals for the animal. The calculation of the prescribed dosage amount is based on at least the blood test score for the corresponding blood parameter and a deviation of the blood test score from the optimal range.
US07860657B2	Forward synthetic synthon generation and its useto identify molecules similar in 3 dimensional shape to pharmaceutical lead compounds A forward synthetic method is described that utilizes recursive application of established organic chemical reactions to derive more complex synthons from available reagents than are available from the reagent synthons themselves. The product of each reaction serves as the starting point for further reactions thereby permitting the generation of multiple complex molecular structures. This synthon generation procedure typically yields 20 ? 30 new structures within the limits of easily accessible syntheses based upon each starting reagent. More complex syntheses yield even more structures. The generated synthons are characterized with a molecular structural descriptor possessing a neighborhood property and can be further characterized with features. The synthons are searched for three dimensional shape and feature similarity to molecular fragments derived from query molecules, typically pharmacological molecules of interest. Identified synthons can be assembled into molecules possessing the same three dimensional shape and likely activity as the molecule of interest.
US07860648B2	Map display system and method Provided is a computer system and methods related to a map display. A method includes but is not limited to receiving a request for the map, the map illustrating one or more locations; determining a status associated with at least one of the one or more locations on the map, the status being a function of one or more location interaction rules associated with the at least one of the one or more locations on the map; and generating a signal related to indicating on the map the status associated with the at least one of the one or more locations.
US07860647B2	Guide report device, system thereof, method thereof, program for executing the method, and recording medium containing the program A navigation device 100 includes: a map information acquirer for acquiring map information; a current position acquirer for acquiring current position information about a current position of a mobile body; a destination acquirer for acquiring destination information about a destination; an information retriever for acquiring plural pieces of parking information about parking lots to park the mobile body based on the map information; a route setting section for setting travel routes from the current position to the parking lots and travel routes from the parking lots to the destination; and a display controller for controlling a terminal display section 140 to display any one of the parking lots and at least one of the travel routes based on the travel routes.
US07860646B2	Method and apparatus for routing ocean going vessels to avoid treacherous environments A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for generating a route for a vessel to travel from a start point to an end point. A start point and an end point for the vessel are identified. A forecast of wave conditions during a period of time is obtained. A model of the vessel is obtained, wherein the model includes parameters used to calculate a response of the vessel to the wave conditions. A route is generated from the start point to the end point for the vessel to travel on using the model of the vessel and the forecast of the wave conditions, wherein the route avoids conditions that may cause a treacherous environment and meets a set of goals.
US07860640B1	Marker means for determining direction and zoom of a means for viewing A system for determining a direction and a magnification of a means for viewing is described herein. The system can have a means for viewing, a marker means, and a processor in communication with a data storage. The means for viewing can have a means for viewing longitude, a means for viewing latitude, a means for viewing height, and a field of view. The system can have a marker means disposed within the field of view, and the marker means can have a certain point, which has a marker means longitude, a marker means latitude, and a marker means height. The marker means can have a first area of a certain shape and of at least one color.
US07860634B2	Method and apparatus for identification of wheels of a vehicle and a vehicle comprising same A method of determining the location information of a plurality of wheels mounted on a vehicle by obtaining a relationship between the lateral location of a wheel and the polarity of a transverse acceleration transmitted by an accelerometer of a wheel in response to a lateral turn of the vehicle in a direction of a lateral side of the vehicle and determining the lateral location of a wheel with reference to the polarity of the transverse acceleration signal transmitted by the accelerometer of the wheel upon the vehicle undergoing a lateral turn.
US07860632B2	Method for operating a drive train by treating the motor characteristic by means of parallel evaluation and PT1-filtering At least one input signal is detected in a time slot, representing the temporal progression of at least one rotational value of the motor of a drive train section and/or the respective corresponding power thereof and is electronically treated and/or evaluated a plurality of times in a parallel manner and according to different characteristics. At least one comparison of the different treating and/or evaluation results of the same input signal is determined, whether the transmission behavior of the drive train or at least one predetermined drive train component is altered. A PT1 filtering, for example, is used for the treatment and/or evaluation.
US07860625B2	Vehicle occupant classification system A vehicle seat pressure sensor includes a light source, a non-fiber optical polymer sheet, a boundary layer and a detection unit. The non-fiber optical polymer sheet is composed of non-woven flexible optical polymer material and has a first surface with a peripheral edge surrounding the first surface. The peripheral edge of the optical polymer sheet is aligned with the light source such that light emitted from the light source projects into the optical polymer sheet through the peripheral edge. The boundary layer is disposed along the first surface of the optical polymer sheet. The detection unit is disposed relative to the optical polymer sheet to detect changes in attenuation of light emitted from the peripheral edge of the optical polymer sheet in response to elastic deformation of the boundary layer and the optical polymer sheet.
US07860608B2	Method and apparatus for generating and tracing cleaning trajectory of home cleaning robot A method and apparatus generating and tracing a cleaning trajectory of a home cleaning robot the method including: controlling the home cleaning robot to straightly travel as much as a set distance from the docking station and then rotationally travel, maintaining the set distance from the docking station, until the home cleaning robot reaches one of two walls; controlling the home cleaning robot to travel as much as the set distance along the wall if the home cleaning robot reaches the wall and resume rotational-traveling around the docking station, maintaining a distance between the docking station and the home cleaning robot increased by the set distance until it reaches one of the two walls; and repeatedly controlling the home cleaning robot to travel as much as the set distance along the wall if the home cleaning robot reaches the wall and resume rotational-traveling around the docking station, maintaining a distance between the docking station and the home cleaning robot increased by the set distance until it reaches one of the two walls until the home cleaning robot arrives at a point where it cannot travel in a direction in which a distance between the docking station and the home cleaning robot increases.
US07860602B2	Mail processing system A mail processing system in which an estimated group of mail pieces is sorted in a mailroom area and delivered to a preset number of mailboxes is provided. The mail processing system includes a memory for storing information related to sorting and delivery and a processor that uses the sorting and delivery related information to determine, (i) an amount of time required to sort the estimated group of mail pieces, and (ii) an amount of time required to deliver the estimated group of mail pieces to the mail boxes. Operation of the mailroom may be evaluated by comparing a sum of the amount of time required to sort the estimated group of mail pieces and the amount of time required to deliver the estimated group of mail pieces to the preset number of mail boxes with an amount of time available for both sorting the estimated group of mail pieces and delivering the mail pieces to the preset number of mail boxes.
US07860601B2	Profile characterization A system and method are disclosed for quickly characterizing the profile of a surface of a processed workpiece using a non-contact scanner, such as a laser scanner, in preparation for subsequent machining. The method determines the location of a plurality of features of a processed workpiece on a machine tool, and includes steps of reading a first list of approximate feature locations, defining a scan path based on the first list, scanning a profile of the workpiece along the scan path and calculating an actual location of each feature of the plurality of features based on the profile. The system and method are well suited to determine the location of features such as holes in welder header boxes.
US07860599B2	Lid attachment mechanism Apparatus and methods for assembling semiconductor chips packages are provided. In one aspect, a method of manufacturing is provided that includes placing a first set of semiconductor chip package substrates in a first group of receptacles of a first processing station. Each of the first set of semiconductor chip package substrates has a first footprint. The receptacles of the first group being dimensioned to accommodate the first footprint. A second set of semiconductor chip package substrates is placed in a second group of receptacles of the first processing station. Each of the second set of semiconductor chip package substrates has a second footprint larger than the first footprint. The receptacles of the second group being dimensioned to accommodate the second footprint. A first set of lids is placed on the first set of semiconductor chip package substrates and a second group of lids is placed on the second set of semiconductor chip package substrates.
US07860598B2	Method, device, computer system and computer program product for controlling a material flow In a method for controlling material flow in production, or a consumable or replacement part maintenance, of a product comprised of a plurality of individual parts, the individual parts are delivered to a goods receipt of a logistic system, a transponder being associated with the individual parts. In the transponder are stored production and delivery data regarding the individual part. The data of the transponder are read at the goods receipt and used for controlling further material flow such that the individual parts are transported in a controlled manner to subsequent process stations.
US07860593B2	Well prog execution facilitation system and method A prog analysis and execution system and method. The system includes a computer control system, an interface engine in communication with the computer control system, the interface engine being configured to receive prog information, and an action item development engine in communication with the control system, the action item development engine being configured to analyze received prog information and to determine corresponding action items. The system further includes a sensor engine in communication with the computer control system, the sensor engine being configured to receive input from at least one sensor for use in controlling a well drilling operation, and an operational equipment engine in communication with the computer control system, the operational equipment engine being configured to receive input from the computer control system and to control the well drilling operation in accordance with the determined action items in the prog.
US07860590B2	Artificial ambiance processing system An apparatus and method simulates more accurately the natural statistics of a physical reverberation process. A new filter design is provided having a comb shaped group delay. Gain minimums at a plurality of frequencies are combined with a delay line to create a constant reverberation time independent of frequency while allowing for temporal spreading. In addition, the connection topology between the plurality of energy transmission networks is temporally randomized to facilitate energy distribution within the reverberation apparatus. Both the temporal and spectral responses are actively changed on each iteration of the energy recirculation. By making the response have a high echo density and a lack of spectral coloration in the decay, the illusion of a natural process is enhanced.
US07860588B2	Method and apparatus for positioning a feeder needle, and feeder The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for positioning a feeder needle, and to a production line for optical components, in which a feeder needle of an apparatus for portioning fluid material, preferably softened glass, in particular of a needle feeder, has its position relative to a seat for the feeder needle recorded by means of a force-measuring device, and to further apparatuses which realize this method and to objects produced by the process.
US07860586B2	Process parameter estimation in controlling emission of a non-particulate pollutant into the air A parameter value estimator is provided for a process performed primarily to control emission of a particular non-particulate pollutant, such as NOx and SO2, into the air. The process has multiple process parameters (MPPs) including a parameter representing an amount of the particular non-particulate pollutant emitted. The parameter value estimator includes either a neural network process model or a non-neural network process model. In either case the model represents a relationship between one of the MPPs, other than the parameter representing the amount of the emitted particular non-particulate pollutant, and one or more other of the MPPs. Also included is a processor configured with the logic, e.g. programmed software, to estimate a value of the one MPP based on a value of each of the one or more other MPPs and the one model.
US07860578B2	Miniature circular mapping catheter A cardiac ablation device, including a catheter and an expandable ablation element incorporating one or more balloons at the distal end of the catheter, has a continuous passageway extending through it from the proximal end of the catheter to the distal side of the expandable ablation element. A probe carrying electrodes is introduced through this passageway and deploys, under the influence of its own resilience, to a structure incorporating a loop which is automatically aligned with the axis of the expandable ablation device, so that minimal manipulation is required to place the probe. The probe may have an atraumatic tip with a ball formed at the leading edge. The atraumatic tip prevents any tissue damage such as perforation of heart wall.
US07860577B2	Intracranial electrode and method for producing same With use of three-dimensional data of a brain shape, a mold for forming a sheet-shaped structure having a three-dimensional shape of the gyrus or sulcus surface, or the interhemispheric fissure or interlobar fissure surface is formed. With use of the mold, a sheet-shaped silicone structure 2 having a three-dimensional shape of the gyrus or sulcus surface, or the interhemispheric fissure or interlobar fissure surface is formed. An electrode 3 is arranged on at least one side of the silicone structure 2. With this configuration, an intracranial electrode 1 in which the electrode 3 is arranged on the sheet-shaped silicone structure 2 having the three-dimensional shape of the gyrus or sulcus surface, or the interhemispheric fissure or interlobar fissure surface can be produced.
US07860571B2	Pain relief device The Pain relief device used to relieve pain and promote faster healing in the bodies of humans and animals safely. A positive electrode touches the skin at the site of an injury and a negative electrode completely shielded with insulation is place on the skin at a spaced distance form the positive electrode. A low voltage direct current power source supplies a positive voltage to the positive electrode and a negative voltage to the negative electrode. Electrical stimulation occurs harmlessly, because the shielded negatively charged electrode or insulated pad, being an insulated sheet of aluminum foil produces an electric field in the body that is strong enough to cause a current to flow into the body at the site of the positive electrode. However, no current can flow at the site of the negative electrode because it is insulated and therefore no burns to the skin.
US07860570B2	Implantable microstimulators and methods for unidirectional propagation of action potentials Miniature implantable stimulators (i.e., microstimulators) are capable of producing unidirectionally propagating action potentials (UPAPs). The methods and configurations described may, for instance, arrest action potentials traveling in one direction, arrest action potentials of small diameters nerve fibers, arrest action potentials of large diameter nerve fibers. These methods and systems may limit side effects of bidirectional and/or less targeted stimulation.
US07860568B2	Lead retention assembly for implantable medical device A lead retention assembly for an implantable medical device includes (i) a conductive set screw and (ii) a housing defining an opening for receiving at least a portion of the set screw. The assembly further includes a block disposed within the housing. The block defines a lead receiving bore and a second bore extending generally perpendicular to and intersecting with the lead receiving bore. The assembly further includes a conductive lead engagement member having a lead engagement feature. The lead engagement feature is disposed within and movable within the second bore such that advancement of the set screw causes the lead engagement feature to move within the second bore towards the lead receiving bore. The set screw is electrically isolated from the conductive lead engagement member.
US07860559B2	Means and method for the detection of cardiac events Disclosed is a system for the detection of cardiac events that includes an implanted device called a cardiosaver, a physician's programmer and an external alarm system. The system is designed to provide early detection of cardiac events such as acute myocardial infarction or exercise induced myocardial ischemia caused by an increased heart rate or exertion. The system can also alert the patient with a less urgent alarm if a heart arrhythmia is detected. Using different algorithms, the cardiosaver can detect a change in the patient's electrogram that is indicative of a cardiac event within five minutes after it occurs and then automatically warn the patient that the event is occurring. To provide this warning, the system includes an internal alarm sub-system (internal alarm means) within the cardiosaver and/or an external alarm system (external alarm means) which are activated after the ST segment of the electrogram exceeds a preset threshold.
US07860556B2	Tissue imaging and extraction systems Tissue imaging and extraction systems are described herein. Such a system may include a deployment catheter and an attached imaging hood deployable into an expanded configuration. In use, the imaging hood is placed against or adjacent to a region of tissue to be imaged in a body lumen that is normally filled with an opaque bodily fluid such as blood. A translucent or transparent fluid, such as saline, can be pumped into the imaging hood until the fluid displaces any blood, thereby leaving a clear region of tissue to be imaged via an imaging element in the deployment catheter. Additionally, the extraction system can include features or instruments for procedures such as clearing blood clots, emboli, and other debris which may be present in a body lumen. Other variations may also be used for facilitating trans-septal access across tissue regions as well as for balancing body fluids during a procedure.
US07860555B2	Tissue visualization and manipulation system Tissue visualization and manipulation systems are described herein. Such a system may include a deployment catheter and an attached imaging hood deployable into an expanded configuration. In use, the imaging hood is placed against or adjacent to a region of tissue to be imaged in a body lumen that is normally filled with an opaque bodily fluid such as blood. A translucent or transparent fluid, such as saline, can be pumped into the imaging hood until the fluid displaces any blood, thereby leaving a clear region of tissue to be imaged via an imaging element in the deployment catheter. Additionally, any number of therapeutic tools can also be passed through the deployment catheter and into the imaging hood for treating the tissue region of interest.
US07860552B2	CNS assay for prediction of therapeutic efficacy for neuropathic pain and other functional illnesses In general, the invention features methods for identifying therapeutic interventions for functional illnesses, e.g., neuropathic pain or depression, and methods for identifying markers for functional illnesses by employing an acute painful stimulus or other stimulus for a functional illness and measuring levels of CNS activity.
US07860548B2	Tissue stimulation models, systems, devices, and methods This document discusses brain stimulation models, systems, devices, and methods, such as for deep brain stimulation (DBS) or other electrical stimulation. A model computes a volume of influence region for a simulated electrical stimulation using certain stimulation parameters, such as electrode contact selection or location. The model uses a non-uniform tissue conductivity. This accurately represents brain tissue, which has highly directionally conductive neuron pathways yielding a non-homogeneous and anisotropic tissue medium. In one example, a second difference of an electric potential distribution is used to define a volume of activation (VOA) or similar volume of influence. In another example, a neuron or axon model is used to calculate the volume of influence without computing the second difference of the electric potential distribution.
US07860544B2	Analyte monitoring device and methods of use An analyte monitor includes a sensor, a sensor control unit, and a display unit. The sensor has, for example, a substrate, a recessed channel formed in the substrate, and conductive material disposed in the recessed channel to form a working electrode. The sensor control unit typically has a housing adapted for placement on skin and is adapted to receive a portion of an electrochemical sensor. The sensor control unit also includes two or more conductive contacts disposed on the housing and configured for coupling to two or more contact pads on the sensor. A transmitter is disposed in the housing and coupled to the plurality of conductive contacts for transmitting data obtained using the sensor. The display unit has a receiver for receiving data transmitted by the transmitter of the sensor control unit and a display coupled to the receiver for displaying an indication of a level of an analyte. The analyte monitor may also be part of a drug delivery system to alter the level of the analyte based on the data obtained using the sensor.
US07860541B2	Apparatus for conveying information in a portable communication device A portable communication device (100) includes a radio (102) and RF memory key (104) that allows both RF and baseband signals to be transported over the radio antenna port. A single wire memory device (134) is embedded into RF memory key (104) along with frequency diplexing circuitry (116) to transport single wire bus communications between the radio (102) and RF memory key (104) while RF is passed from the radio (102) to an antenna (150).
US07860535B2	Radio-frequency receiver device A radio-frequency receiver device including receiver antenna elements each arranged to receive a signal from a desired communication object, a phased-array control portion to perform a phased array antenna control for controlling the directivity of reception of the signals by the receiver antenna elements, an adaptive-array control portion to perform an adaptive array antenna control for controlling the directivity of reception of the signals by the receiver antenna elements, a received-signal-quality determining portion to determine whether the signals received by the receiver antenna elements has a quality higher than a predetermined threshold, and a directivity control switching portion configured to enable the phased-array control portion to perform the phased array antenna controls, and to enable the adaptive-array control portion to perform the adaptive array antenna control only if a negative determination is obtained by the received-signal-quality determining portion after the phased array antenna control.
US07860533B2	Mobile device for printing a security identification A mobile telecommunications device is disclosed. The mobile telecommunications device has a media feed path, a sensor module in the media feed path for sensing data encoded on a surface of a print medium, the data encoding at least a print media identifier, a print medium identifier identifying the print medium, processor for determining the print media identifier from the data, communication means for communicating a request to a remote server, the request including the print media identifier, and for receiving a security identification associated with the print media identifier from the remote server, and a printer module in the media feed path for printing the security identification on the print medium.
US07860528B2	Mobile universal communication gateway Systems and methods for a mobile universal communication gateway are provided. The mobile universal communication gateway can bridge a mobile station located in a personal area network with one or more wide area networks. The mobile universal communication gateway can select one or more backhaul communication links to the one or more wide area networks based on a variety of factors such as available bandwidth, access cost, traffic loads and the like. The mobile universal communication gateway can also include a non-volatile storage area to store information for mobile stations of the personal area network.
US07860517B1	Mobile device tracking using mobile agent location breadcrumbs A method, a computer readable medium and a system for using a mobile agent to track a mobile device using a plurality of location breadcrumbs in an environment where network access may be unreliable, comprising, registering with a tracking server by a tracking client to receive a location of the mobile agent, receiving a location breadcrumb by the tracking server from the mobile agent, and reporting the location of the mobile agent by the tracking server to the tracking client.
US07860516B2	Automatic localization of devices A device is described which changes its operation dependent upon the location of the device. The device accesses parameters which are specific to its location and uses these to determine how the operation of the device should be changed.
US07860506B2	Model and method for computing performance bounds in multi-hop wireless networks Disclosed is a general model and method for computing performance bounds in multi-hop wireless networks. Rather than focusing on computing asymptotic performance bounds under assumptions of homogeneity or randomness in the network topology and/or workload, the present invention accommodates any given network, technology, interference model, routing paradigm, and workload. Using a conflict graph to formally characterize the impact of wireless interference on the performance of multi-hop wireless networks, methods for computing upper and lower bounds on the capacity of a given wireless network are detailed. Besides computing network capacity, the model and method disclosed can also enable or benefit other applications including maximizing fairness and minimizing maximum link utilization.
US07860503B2	Radio control device, mobile station, and mobile communication method A radio network controller includes a selection decision unit for deciding whether or not the selection of cells to be used by mobile stations after data reception is to be performed, and a mobile station controller for instructing the mobile stations to select cells to use after the data reception according to a result of a decision by the selection decision unit.
US07860496B2	Device and method for simulating a data transmission via a data transmission network A device for simulating a data transmission via a data transmission network, especially in a motor vehicle, for evaluating the transmission quality via the network as a function of an interference environment and of a channel characteristic of the network. To be able to draw a conclusion regarding transmission quality that is as reliable and as close to reality as possible, the device receives at least one modulated input signal to be transmitted via the network, that it receives a description of a simulated interference environment, that it receives a description of a simulated channel characteristics of the network, and that it features a logic module which is programmed in such a way that an output signal is computed according to a specifiable algorithm as a function of the received signal and taking into consideration the description of the interference environment and the description of the channel characteristic, the output signal allowing for a conclusion regarding the quality of transmission via the network.
US07860493B2	Method of transmitting data through mobile communication equipment and mobile communication equipment utilizing the method The invention provides a method for transmitting data through mobile communication equipment. The mobile communication equipment has a first communication mode and a second communication mode. In the method, it is first determined whether the mobile communication equipment is required to transmit the data by the first communication mode or the second communication mode, wherein the data conforms to a first format related to the first communication mode. Subsequently, when the mobile communication equipment is required to transmit the data by the second communication mode, the data is adjusted according to a second format related to the second communication mode to generate an adjusted data. The adjusted data is then transmitted by the second communication mode.
US07860488B2	Device detection in mobile networks An application (1, 10, 20) in a mobile network, receives an EIR trigger (MAP CHECK_IMEI). The application generates a signature derived from a device identifier (IMEI) and a subscriber identifier (e.g. IMSI), the signature not having a semantic meaning as it is pseudo-randomly generated. The application (1, 10, 20) checks if the signature exists in a signature store (2, 11, 21); and if not, determines that the device/subscriber combination has not been detected in the network within a certain preceding time window, and stores the signature in the store, with an associated timestamp. It also transmits a notification to an external system such as a device management system. If the signature is already in the database, the application determines that the device/subscriber combination already exists in the network and updates a time stamp associated with the signature in the store to indicate the last time the signature was processed.
US07860485B2	Device and process for wireless local area network association and corresponding products The present invention concerns WLAN association device and process for associating a new station to a WLAN, via a central apparatus.The association device comprises receiving and sending means for exchanging signals between the station and central apparatus, securing means for automatically providing the central apparatus with at least one central secret key, and recording means for recording the station as part of the WLAN, under wireless exchanges between the station and central apparatus initiated by an association request sent by the station and secured by means of the central key and a station secret key corresponding to the central key. The recording means confirm the recording of the station only when the user executes a confirmation physical action on the central apparatus.
US07860484B2	Automated billing and distribution platform for application providers Systems and methods according to certain embodiments of the invention include integrating a network-enabled application with a platform having a plurality of users and a plurality of communication channels with a respective plurality of wireless network carriers. The systems and methods include providing a developer library for use by developers in creating their network-enabled applications.
US07860480B2	Method and apparatus for controlling a harmonic rejection mixer In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for receiving a radio frequency (RF) signal and mixing the RF signal with a master clock to obtain a mixed signal, cyclically rotating the mixed signal to each of N gain stages for at least one cycle of the master clock, and summing the outputs of the N gain stages to provide an output signal.
US07860479B2	FM receiver An FM receiver that is suitable for reducing a transmission bandwidth WF of a bandpass filter to remove adjacent-channel interference, and increasing WF to prevent audio distortion. A detection output signal SOUT is inputted to an HPF 122 when a reception electric field strength signal SM-DC indicates an intermediate or stronger electric field. In a weak electric field, an AC component signal SM-AC, which is extracted from an intermediate signal SIF1 prior to detection and which has fewer high-pass noise components than SOUT, is inputted to the HPF 122. A control circuit 120 detects a case as an adjacent-channel interference state when a large amount of high-pass components passes through the HPF 122, and reduces WF of an IFBPF 70 in order to remove adjacent-channel interference. When a small amount of high-pass components is transmitted, WF is increased in order to minimize audio distortion.
US07860477B2	Self-calibrating filter Techniques for self-calibrating filtering circuits with feedback are described herein.
US07860474B1	Circuits and methods for controlling switching noise in switched-mode circuits A method of controlling noise in a pulse width modulation circuit includes varying a sample frequency and a range of information levels, wherein each sample within a data sample stream at the sample frequency represents a level within the range of information levels, to shift in frequency noise generated at the sample frequency during encoding of the data sample stream into pulse width modulated patterns.
US07860468B2	Programmable variable gain amplifier and RF receiver including the same A programmable variable gain amplifier includes at least three amplifiers. A first amplifier is configured to amplify an input signal. A second amplifier, which includes a programmable output load stage, is configured to receive an output signal from the first amplifier and to output a first differential output signal. The output load stage includes multiple first switches and multiple first diode-connected transistors that are open-circuited or short-circuited by the first switches. A third amplifier, which includes a programmable current mirror input stage, is configured to receive the first differential output signal from the second amplifier through the current mirror input stage and to output a second differential output signal. The current mirror input stage includes multiple second switches and multiple second transistors that are open-circuited or short-circuited by the plurality of second switches. The second transistors respectively form current mirrors with the first diode-connected transistors corresponding to the second transistors.
US07860463B2	Method of reporting channel state in mobile communication system A method of reporting channel state information by a Mobile Station (MS) in a mobile communication system is disclosed. The method includes measuring a state of a downlink channel for the entire frequency band, determining a first Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) level corresponding to the measured channel state, and reporting the determined MCS level to a Base Station (BS).
US07860458B2	Audio transmitting apparatus and mobile communication terminal An audio transmitting apparatus connectable to an audio playing apparatus via a short distance wireless communication network includes: a transmission buffer configured to store an audio signal; and a short distance wireless transmitting unit configured to cause the audio signal to be stored in the transmission buffer, or transmit the audio signal stored in the transmission buffer to the audio playing apparatus. When a transmission process in which the audio signal is transmitted to the audio playing apparatus by the short distance wireless transmitting unit is interrupted, the short distance wireless transmitting unit corrects the audio signal and stores the corrected audio signal in the transmission buffer, or corrects the audio signal stored in the transmission buffer and transmits the corrected audio signal to the audio playing apparatus.
US07860456B2	Method and apparatus for secured communication between bluetooth® devices Provided is a method and apparatus for secured communication between Bluetooth devices. A temporary Bluetooth Device Address (BD_ADDR) is generated and set if a Bluetooth communication request is generated in a secured mode and Bluetooth communication is performed using the temporary BD_ADDR; when the Bluetooth communication is terminated, the temporary BD_ADDR is released and eliminated and a default BD_ADDR is set. Thus, it is possible to prevent another Bluetooth device from performing the Bluetooth communication without a bonding process, thereby enabling secured communication.
US07860455B2	Electronic communications system, apparatus and electrode layout method An electric field generated by another electric field communications apparatus reaches electric field sensor ES. Electric field sensor ES outputs an electric signal in response to the changes in the electric field. The electric field that reaches electric field sensor ES enters a return path of the electric field communications apparatus that is a source of the electric field. By locating electric field sensor ES between receiver main electrode ERB and receiver return electrode ERG, electric field intensity at the location where electric field sensor ES is positioned. Therefore, sensitivity of the changes in electric field for electric field communications apparatus TRX can be improved.
US07860451B2	Apparatus for controlling power of relay in amplify-forward relay system and method using the same A method and apparatus for controlling a power of a relay are provided. The apparatus includes: a signal receiver which receives signals which are transmitted to a plurality of receiving antennas directly from a source or via at least one relay; a channel information acquirement unit which acquires channel information between the source and the at least one relay, and acquires channel information between the at least one relay and the plurality of receiving antennas; a power control signal generation unit which generates a power control signal, based on the acquired channel information and a maximum SNR; and a relay power control unit which transmits the generated power control signal to the relay and thereby controls a transmit signal power with respect to the at least one relay.
US07860449B1	Method and system for delivering contextual content to a mobile device A system and methods for targeting mobile content to a mobile device based on the context of where and how a user discovers the content. Instead of advertising content during commercial breaks of a television program, the invention contextually targets the mobile content to specific program content (e.g., music video) as it is being broadcast in the form of a screen pop-up containing text messaging instructions to obtain the mobile content concurrently with, or following the broadcast of the specific program content. Such “contextual targeting” leads to a significantly higher frequency and profitability of conversions and downloads. Similarly, the invention contextually integrates mobile content into a user's online experience using a web-enabled device in which the contextual content can be integrated with a search engine or a contextual link can be placed on web pages that are served to the user.
US07860445B2	Document feeder A document feeder includes a bidirectional feed path having both ends connected to predetermined positions of the bidirectional feed path, respectively. A document is fed from a downstream side of the image reading position to an upstream side with leading end and trailing end being reversed. The driving force is not transmitted when the rotation of the rotating member of the driving source is switched from one direction to the other, while the driving force is transmitted when an actuator is operated based on the driving system being rotated in the other direction. The actuator is actuated when the driving system is rotated in the other direction and the document is drawn in the bidirectional feed path. If the rotated amount of the driving source during the actuation of the actuator is less than a predetermined value, the actuator is actuated by a predetermined period.
US07860444B2	Image-forming machine fixing device with a nipping region having a pressure distribution A fixing device comprises a thermally fixing roller, a belt, and pushing means which pushes the belt toward the thermally fixing roller. A nipping region is formed between the belt and the thermally fixing roller. A maximum pressure is produced in an upstream end region of the thermally fixing roller in the direction of rotation in the nipping region, another maximum pressure is produced in a downstream end region thereof in the direction of rotation in the nipping region, and a pressure is produced in an intermediate region, which pressure being not higher than the maximum pressure in the upstream end region and not higher than the another maximum pressure in the downstream end region.
US07860443B2	Fusing device and image forming apparatus using the same A fusing unit provided in a printing path of an image forming apparatus to fuse an image transferred onto a printable medium, the fusing unit including a heat source; a heating roller of which a surface is heated by heat generated by the heat source; a plurality of pressing rollers which is provided opposite to the heating roller and presses a supplied printable medium in cooperation with the heating roller; a fusing pressing belt which is wound on the plurality of pressing rollers and forms a fusing nip contacting with the heating roller; and a supporting unit which rotatably supports the plurality of pressing rollers and guides the fusing pressing belt, a surface hardness hP of at least one of the plurality of pressing rollers is greater than or equal to a surface hardness hH of the heating roller.
US07860439B2	Image forming apparatus, an image forming method and an image detecting method An image forming apparatus, includes: a latent image carrier that moves in a first direction; an exposure head that includes a light emitting element and an imaging optical system row which is arranged in the first direction and which is made up of imaging optical systems which are arranged in a second direction different from the first direction and image light emitted from the light emitting element on the latent image carrier; a developing unit that develops a latent image formed on the latent image carrier by the exposure head; and two detectors that detect an image obtained by developing a latent image by the developing unit, the latent image being formed using the same imaging optical system row.
US07860437B2	Developer container, developing apparatus and process cartridge A developer container for an image forming apparatus includes a developer accommodating chamber, provided with an opening, for accommodating a developer to be supplied to the opening; a feeding member, provided in the developer accommodating chamber and having an elasticity, for feeding the developer by rotation thereof; a deforming portion, provided in the developer accommodating chamber and contactable to the feeding member, for deforming the feeding member against the elasticity with the rotation of the feeding member; and a restoration portion for permitting the feeding member deformed by the deformed portion to restore elastically, thereby to throw the developer toward the opening, wherein a boundary portion between the deformed portion the restoration portion is disposed below a lower end of the opening.
US07860433B2	Process cartridge and electrophotographic image forming apparatus A process cartridge detachably mountable to a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus, includes an electrophotographic photosensitive drum, a developing roller, a drum frame, a movable developing frame taking a position where the roller contacts the drum, and a force receiver having first and second force receivers for receiving first and second external forces. The second force receiver moves relative to the developing frame. The second force receiver takes a stand-by position retracted from an operating position when the first force receiver receives the first external force, and moves from the stand-by to the operating position for moving the developing frame from the contacting position to the spacing position. The distance the second force receiver moves from the stand-by to the operating position is larger than the distance the first force receiver moves by the first external force.
US07860429B2	Cleaning device and image forming apparatus using the same A cleaning device, comprises: a plurality of brush rolls being contact with a surface of the image carrier that a toner is attached; and a biasing unit applying bias voltages having different polarities from each other to at least two of the brush rolls, the plurality of brush rolls including a first brush roll and a second brush roll, a bias having a polarity opposite to a normal polarity of the toner being applied to the first brush roll, a bias having the same polarity as the normal polarity of the toner being applied to the second brush roll, a surface circulating speed of the first brush roll being set to be higher than the surface circulating speed of the second brush roll.
US07860428B2	Detachable holding portions in an image forming apparatus There is provided an image forming apparatus including: an image carrier carrying an image; a charging roll charging the image carrier; a cleaning member configured to be brought into contact with the charging roll for cleaning the charging roll; a first holding portion detachably provided in an apparatus main body for holding the image carrier; and a second holding portion provided within the apparatus main body independently from the first holding portion, for holding the cleaning member.
US07860425B2	Printing system, job processing method, and storage medium In order to build a convenient printing environment which can meet various needs associated with double-sided printing (e.g., a reduction of the load on the operator) from users upon double-sided printing and can cope with the POD environment, a user request associated with a double-sided printing job to be executed by a printing system which includes a printing apparatus that can execute a double-sided printing operation is accepted from the user via a user interface unit. When the user request accepted via the user interface unit is a specific user request, the printing apparatus is controlled to execute a series of double-sided printing operations using a function of adjusting a printing position of data to be printed on one of first side and second side of a printing medium in the double-sided printing job to be processed.
US07860414B2	Heating apparatus and fixing apparatus A heating apparatus includes: an exciting coil provided in close vicinity of a heated body having a conductive layer; a capacitor connected serially or in parallel with the exciting coil; a switching element that generates a high frequency current by turning on/off a direct current and that supplies the high frequency current to the exciting coil and the capacitor; a specifying unit that specifies an electric value to be supplied to the exciting coil; an output unit that outputs, to the switching element, a driving signal to turn on the switching element for a period determined in correspondence with the specified electric value; a voltage detection unit that detects a flyback voltage value generated in a resonance circuit including the exciting coil and the capacitor; and an abnormality detection unit that detects an abnormality in the heated body based on the detected flyback voltage value.
US07860413B2	Image forming apparatus and method therefor as well as program and storage medium thereof An image forming apparatus which is capable of adjusting the color density while improving the printing efficiency. A color density adjustment value-adjusting unit adjusts a color density adjustment value in predetermined adjustment timing so as to keep colors of an image constant. A color density adjustment value-storing unit stores the color density adjustment value in advance. An adjustment timing occurrence-determining unit determines whether or not the adjustment timing occurs during execution of an image forming job. A color density adjustment value-predicting unit predicts the color density adjustment value in the adjustment timing determined to occur, based on the color density adjustment value stored in advance. The color density adjustment value-adjusting unit is adapted to adjust the color density adjustment value based on the predicted color density adjustment value.
US07860405B2	Data transmission system and receiver device for optical data signals A receiver device for optical data signals, in particular optical data signals in the Gb/s range, comprising an opto-electrical conversion unit, a frequency multiplicator unit (24) for frequency-multiplying the converted electrical data signal, and a clock recovery unit is characterized in that the frequency multiplicator unit (24) performs a frequency multiplication by a factor of n, with n being a natural number larger than 2. The receiver device has an improved tolerance on dispersion as far as generating a clock line is concerned.
US07860397B2	Wavelength superimposing device, manufacturing method therefor, and WDM network system The present invention is a wavelength superimposing device that can restrain a system scale and further reduce an optical transmission loss, while broadcasting a video signal light in a WDM network system, a manufacturing method therefor, and the WDM network system, and comprises a filter device that reflects some light of an input wavelength-multiplexed light in a direction different from an optical path direction of the input wavelength-multiplexed light and transmits a light of remaining wavelengths, a first optical system in which a reflected light reflected by the filter device is re-incident on a plurality of incident positions on a reflecting surface of the filter device, and a second optical system in which a transmitted light from the filter device is spectrally separated for each wavelength and each separated light is incident on the plurality of incident positions from a transmission surface of the filter device.
US07860396B2	Noise reduction in optical communications networks The add path of a dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) add/drop node comprises an n:1 coupler for combining n signal sources. The combined signal is amplified and then demultiplexed. Each output of the demultiplexer is passed through a variable optical attenuator (VOA) and the VOA outputs multiplexed to form the add signal. Channels carrying no add signal and not used to control the added signals are attenuated to zero to remove a broadband noise contribution from those channels. The signal sources are run at maximum power and the signals of those channels are attenuated by the respective VOAs to control their amplitude and optimize the optical signal to noise ratio of the add signal.
US07860395B2	Optical access network system An optical access network system capable of transmitting and receiving high-speed signals and which allows the number of subscribers to be increased without increasing the number of wavelengths used is provided. An optical line terminal and an optical network unit are joined via an optical fiber transmitting line, a star coupler, and a plurality of branching optical fiber transmitting lines. The optical line terminal and optical network unit are constituted comprising an optical processing section and an electrical processing section. The optical processing section comprises a light-emitting element and a light-receiving element. The electrical processing section comprises a transmitting signal processing section that generates an encoded transmitting signal in the form of an electrical signal by encoding a transmitting signal and a receiving signal processing section that obtains a receiving signal by decoding a code-division-multiplexed signal that has been converted from optical-signal form to electrical-signal form by the light-receiving element. The optical access network system is characterized in that the decoding processing circuit that the receiving signal processing section comprises is constituted comprising an analog matched filter and a decision circuit.
US07860393B1	System for flexible multiple broadcast service delivery over a WDM passive optical network based on RF block-conversion, of RF service bands within wavelength bands A system and method for simultaneous delivery of a plurality of independent blocks of 500 MHz digital broadcast television services, stacking a plurality of RF blocks on a plurality of spectrally sliced WDM optical bands. The method for delivering a plurality of video blocks to a user terminal serviced by a remote node comprises the steps of receiving, by a first WDM, a broadband signal from a broadband signal source, separating, by the first WDM, the broadband signal into a plurality of optical hands, modulating each of the plurality of optical bands with a composite signal representing data in a plurality of independent RF blocks to form a plurality of modulated signals, forwarding the plurality of modulated signals to a second WDM to form a combined broadcast signal, transmitting the combined broadcast signal over feeder fiber to a remote node, selecting a RF block for distribution over a distribution fiber to a conventional satellite set-top box at a user's site and forwarding the selected RF block to the user's site. A novel method and system for reducing spontaneous beat noise is also described.
US07860390B2	Imaging element package, imaging element module and lens barrel, and image capturing apparatus An imaging element package includes: an imaging element chip having an imaging surface; a substrate on which the imaging element chip is mounted; an optical member that allows light to pass; and a supporting body having a body portion where a through-opening serving as a light path for imaging is formed, and an attachment portion that is provided in the body portion and is to be attached to an attachment position. The substrate is attached to the body portion so as to close one end of the opening in a through direction in a state where the imaging surface faces another end from the one end of the opening in the through direction, and the optical member is attached to the body portion so as to close the other end of the opening in the through direction.
US07860389B2	Photographic device, method of processing information, and program A photographic device which may include a selection portion for selecting a given number of shooting modes matched with shooting conditions from a plurality of shooting modes previously prepared, a display control portion for juxtapositionally displaying images indicating the shooting modes selected by the selection portion, and a shooting control portion for taking photos in a shooting mode indicated by an image which has been selected by a user from the images displayed by the display control portion.
US07860379B2	Temperature measurement and control of wafer support in thermal processing chamber The present invention provides apparatus and methods for achieving uniform heating to a substrate during a rapid thermal process. More particularly, the present invention provides apparatus and methods for controlling the temperature of an edge ring supporting a substrate during a rapid thermal process to improve temperature uniformity across the substrate.
US07860377B2	Subsurface connection methods for subsurface heaters A system for heating a subsurface formation is described. The system includes a first elongated heater in a first opening in the formation. The first elongated heater includes an exposed metal section in a portion of the first opening. The portion is below a layer of the formation to be heated. The exposed metal section is exposed to the formation. A second elongated heater is in a second opening in the formation. The second opening connects to the first opening at or near the portion of the first opening below the layer to be heated. At least a portion of an exposed metal section of the second elongated heater is electrically coupled to at least a portion of the exposed metal section of the first elongated heater in the portion of the first opening below the layer to be heated.
US07860368B2	Information recording medium, information recording device and method, information reproduction device and method, information recording/reproduction device and method, computer program for controlling recording or reproduction, and data structure containing control signal An information recording medium (100) on which there are recorded: a series of content information which includes an image portion which can be a background image; button information (301) for defining a button menu which allows an operation as for the content information and which is displayed during the reproduction of the content information; and play list information (120) for defining reproduction sequence of the content information by a unit of item, which constitutes the content information and which is accessible upon reproduction, the button information including a plurality of button pages (301p) each of which can constitute the button menu and whose display can be changed to each other.
US07860366B2	Information processing device and method, recording medium, and program The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program capable of generating a priority table in a straightforward manner. JPEG 2000 data 151 inputted to a table generation section 114 is held by a JPEG 2000 data reading section 161, and is provided to a JP2 packet information extraction section 162 at a prescribed timing. After the necessary JP2 packet information has been extracted in packet form, this is provided to a priority table editing section 164. Then, at the priority table editing section 164, a priority table with priority values set for all of the JP2 packets is made based on setting information 152 designating priority values for some of the JP2 packets corresponding to the JPEG 2000 data 151 provided by the setting information reading section 163 and is outputted by the priority table output section 165. The present invention can be applied to personal computers.
US07860364B2	Methods for accessing a fiber within a fiber optic cable to splice thereto and tools for use with the same Apparatus for accessing a length of a selected one or more of a plurality of optical fibers within an outer protective jacket of a cable including the plurality of optical fibers and at least one strength member extending longitudinally therein include a cable positioning fixture. The cable positioning fixture is configured to receive a portion of the cable therein and to establish a desired orientation of the portion of the cable in the fixture relative to the at least one strength member therein while a cutting member removes a scalloped segment from the outer protective jacket.
US07860361B2	Water-blocked optical cable and process for the production thereof An optical cable for communication includes at least one retaining element blocked with respect to the water propagation as well as a process for manufacturing such an optical cable. The optical cable includes, in addition to the retaining element, at least two transmission elements housed within the retaining element and a water swellable yarn housed within the retaining element. The water swellable yarn is selected according to the following equation: V w V TF = k V t + R ( 1 ) in which Vw is the volume of the water swellable yarn after swelling upon contact with water; VTF is the total free volume in the retaining element; k is a constant ≧180; R is a constant ≧1.4; and Vt is the free volume per each transmission element. Advantageously, the optical cable is water-blocked and the water swellable yarn does not induce microbending effects on the transmission elements.
US07860352B2	Light-collecting apparatus and contact-type solid-state imaging apparatus using the same The present invention provides a contact-type solid-state imaging apparatus which realizes high resolution and high sensitivity, and also implements downsizing and lowering the cost of the contact-type solid-state imaging apparatus. Each pixel includes a protection glass plate, a light-collecting device, a light-receiving device, a semiconductor integrated circuit, a light emitting diode (LED) and a mounting package. The light-collecting apparatus has two kinds of distributed index lens (o lens and convex lens), and Sin (N=2) film, which is a two-stage concentric structure, is embedded in SiO2 (N=1.45) film.
US07860345B2	Position and orientation measurement method and position and orientation measurement apparatus The first values of position and orientation of an image sensing device are obtained by using positions of all indices in a frame image. Indices having the same inherent information between a first index group (FIG) in the frame image and a second index group (SIG) in a preceding frame image are detected as a common index. If the information of the SIG contains information different from that of the FIG, second values of the position and orientation are obtained by using the positions of the common indices in the preceding frame image. If the information of the FIG contains information different from that of the SIG, third values of the position and orientation are obtained by using the positions of the common indices in the frame image. The first values are corrected by using correction values based on the obtained first to third values.
US07860329B2	Edge enhancement processing unit, endoscope processor, and computer program product An edge enhancement processing unit comprising a determination block and a signal processing block is provided. The determination block determines whether the luminance of a surrounding pixel is greater than at zero level. The surrounding pixel is located around a focused pixel. The signal processing block carries out an edge enhancement process for a pixel signal generated by the focused pixel. The edge enhancement process is carried out if the determination block determines that the luminance of the surrounding pixel is greater than at zero level.
US07860326B2	Adaptable shape image encoding apparatus and decoding apparatus The present invention improves the encoding efficiency, image quality, resolution, and the like of an input image having a special property, for example, an image input from a special camera. The input image is sliced according to a recognized shape and divided into blocks having a size according to a pixel density or an image resolution. Then, an object in the image is defined using a parameter including the numbers of the sliced images and the amounts of shift of the sliced images from a reference position, and the respective blocks are encoded using the movement of the object. Further, when a partial image is cut out from a base image, encoded, and then transmitted, a processing load in the encoding processing is reduced by encoding the partial image making use of preprocessing data.
US07860323B2	Method, apparatus, medium, and display driving circuit for image encoding and decoding The disclosure describes an image encoding apparatus, method, and medium and an image decoding apparatus, method, and medium to encode and decode an original image. The disclosure also describes a display driving circuit and a method and medium using the same. The image encoding apparatus may include an encoding mode determiner that determines a first encoding mode and a second encoding mode to be encoding modes of a first pixel and a second pixel that are adjacent to each other and are included in a line, a first encoder that encodes the first pixel whose encoding mode is determined to be the first encoding mode to generate a first bitstream, and a second encoder that encodes a difference of the second pixel whose encoding mode is determined to be the second encoding mode from its reference pixel to generate a second bitstream.
US07860321B2	Image pickup apparatus with function of rate conversion processing and control method therefor A rate conversion unit determines a frame thinning-out rate to thin out frames on the basis of a recording rate at the time of photographing and a display rate for display on a display apparatus so that a temporal updating interval of a video image between continuous fields becomes constant. After that, a frame is repeatedly inserted so that a frame rate becomes equal to the display rate.
US07860320B2	Classifying image regions based on picture location A method of classifying regions in a digital image or video captured by an image capture device includes providing a geographic location determining device associated with the image capture device; using the location determining device to measure the image capture location at substantially the time that the digital image or video was captured; and classifying regions in the captured digital image or video into one or more classes based on the image-capture location.
US07860315B2	Touch input program and touch input device A game apparatus includes a CPU core. In response to a setting of a reverse input mode, the CPU core reverses vertically and horizontally BG/OBJ data corresponding to a question, and displays on an LCD an image based on the reversed BG/OBJ data. When a handwriting input operation associated with the image is accepted by a touch panel, the CPU core displays on the LCD an image based on handwriting input data corresponding to the accepted handwriting input operation.
US07860310B2	Image processing apparatus and method, computer program, and storage medium In a method for detecting a background-color level in accordance with a selected region, if the selected region does not contain a large amount of background color, the background-color level cannot be detected accurately. Thus, an image signal of a region read by an image reader is input, a part of the read region is selected, a background-color region is detected in accordance with the image signal of the input read region and an image signal of the selected region, and a background color contained in the selected region is removed in accordance with the level of an image signal of the detected background-color region.
US07860308B2	Approach for near duplicate image detection A content-based approach is provided for detecting near duplicate images. The approach generally involves analyzing the content of images to be compared and generating color and texture histogram descriptor data for each image. The images may then be compared based upon the color and texture histogram descriptor data to determine whether the images are near duplicate images. Content-based image signature data may also be generated for each of the images based upon the color and texture histogram descriptor data. The image signature data may then be compared to determine whether the corresponding images are near duplicate images.
US07860305B2	Color correction system and method thereof A color correction system and a method thereof are disclosed. A correction system according to the present invention includes an identification unit, a correction unit, and an adjustment module. The way of correction includes following steps: firstly the identification unit receives an image color data and identifies whether the image color data is a specific or a non-specific color data. Then the correction unit corrects the specific color data for display while the non-specific color data is adjusted by the adjustment module according to the color characteristics of the image output device. Therefore, the image data to be displayed is corrected and display quality of the image output device is improved.
US07860295B2	Measuring method and measuring unit for determining the spatial position of a wheel rim as well as a wheel alignment measuring system A method and a unit for determining the spatial position of a wheel rim with respect to a measuring unit having at least one camera, wherein the wheel rim lies in the viewing field of the camera, including making available of a model, that describes a model body of a localizable wheel rim geometry detail as well as the spatial position of the model body with respect to the measuring unit, through model parameters, capturing of a picture of the wheel rim geometry detail of the wheel rim with the camera, fitting the image of the model body resulting from the model parameters to the picture of the wheel rim geometry detail through changing the model parameters of the model, and tracking the changes of the model parameters upon the fitting, whereby the data related to the position of the model body of the wheel rim geometry detail reflect the spatial position of the wheel rim-geometry detail and, thereby, the wheel rim itself, when the image resulting from the model parameters, of the wheel rim-geometry detail fits to the captured picture of the wheel rim geometry detail within the asserted tolerance limits. The invention also relates to a wheel alignment measuring method and to a wheel alignment measuring system that uses said method and said unit.
US07860288B2	X-ray device having a dual energy mode and method to analyze projection images detected in the dual energy mode A sequence of groups of projection images shows an object under examination comprising a vascular system and its environment. A computer determines a 2-dimensional evaluation image having a plurality of pixels based on combination images determined from the projection images of a group. The combination images have a plurality of pixels with pixel values. The sequence of the combination images shows the time characteristic of the distribution of a contrast medium in the object. The pixels of the evaluation image correspond to those of the projection images. The computer assigns each pixel, at least in a part area of the evaluation image, a type that is characteristic of whether the respective pixel corresponds to a vessel of the vascular system, a perfusion area or a background. It performs the assignment of the type on the basis of the time characteristic of the pixel values of the combination images.
US07860278B2	Measuring color on a moving substrate An image processing apparatus for use with a printed image on a moving substrate is provided. The image processing apparatus includes a first imaging device configured to process spatial data which indicates a position of color patches printed along an edge portion of the printed image on the moving substrate. The image processing apparatus further includes a second imaging device configured to process at least one of densitometric data and colorimetric data of the color patches of the printed image. The first imaging device and second imaging device acquire image data from substantially the same position on the substrate at substantially the same time. The image processing apparatus further includes a processor configured to monitor a color of the printed image on the moving substrate based on the spatial data and the at least one of densitometric data and colorimetric data.
US07860274B2	Digital image processing using face detection information A method of processing a digital image using face detection within the image achieves one or more desired image processing parameters. A group of pixels is identified that correspond to an image of a face within the digital image. Default values are determined of one or more parameters of at least some portion of the digital image. Values are adjusted of the one or more parameters within the digitally-detected image based upon an analysis of the digital image including the image of the face and the default values.
US07860269B2	Auxilliary navigation system for use in urban areas The invention is a method for the extraction, identification and comparison of skylines from imagery data specifically, for the purpose of accurately locating the position of a mobile platform for navigation purposes. The invention is carried out by processing images obtained using a compact mobile electro-optic device that is designed to be mounted on any mobile platform, such that a clear circumferential view of the surroundings is available. The method allows the position of the mobile platform to be determined in three dimensional space, relative to any arbitrary coordinate system; the exact map coordinates of the platform to be determined; or allows the platform to follow a previously traversed track.
US07860261B2	Method for hearing aid identification and hearing aid with visual identification The invention relates to a hearing aid with an identification element (4) for visual identification of the hearing aid (1). According to the invention the hearing aid comprises a programmable signal processor (2), a battery (3) connectable to the signal processor (2), a light emitting element (4) and a switch (5) for controlling power supply to the light emitting element (4) controllable from the signal processor (2). The signal processor (2) is adapted to supply a power signal to the light emitting element (4) indicative of the identity of the hearing aid. The invention also relates to a method for indicating the identity of the hearing aid by the use of a visible light indicator.
US07860255B2	Content distribution server, key assignment method, content output apparatus, and key issuing center A content distribution system distributes contents. The content distribution system includes a key issuing center, a server, eight output apparatuses, and a communication path that connects them to each other. The key issuing center and each of the output apparatuses are previously given an individual key shared between them. For example, the key issuing center shares individual key IKa with an output apparatus, individual key IKb with an output apparatus, and individual key IKh with an output apparatus.
US07860239B2	Method and apparatus for metering usage of software products using multiple signatures A method and a corresponding apparatus for metering usage of software products on a computer are proposed. The solution of the invention is based on the idea of associating each product with an installation signature (indicative of the installation of the product on the computer) and with a running signature (indicative of the running of the product on the computer). The products that are installed on the computer are asynchronously determined according to their installation signatures; in this way, any ambiguities (for example, caused by different versions and/or configurations of a product sharing the same executable modules) can be resolved in advance. Therefore, when at run-time the invocation of an executable module is detected it is possible to use only the running signatures to identify the corresponding product uniquely (without the need of additional information about the executable module, such as its size).
US07860237B2	Information input device, and electronic apparatus using the same An information input device is provided which is to make input of information by operating a disk-shaped rotating member. The device includes the rotating member (36) which is rotatable with one main side thereof being operated, rotation detecting means (23, 32) for detecting a rotation of the rotating member (36), a central switch activator (26) provided at the center of rotation of the rotating member (36), a central switch (270) which is activated by operating the central switch activator (26), and a plurality of peripheral switches (27) which are turned on when a portion, apart from the center of rotation, of the rotating member (36) is pressed. Rotating the rotating member and pressing the apart portion makes input of information, and operating the central switch activator sets the information thus entered.
US07860229B2	Recursive identification of individuals for casual collaborative conferencing A method for real-time communication among two or more individuals separated in space. The method includes the steps of determining that a first individual is likely to be interested in communicating with a second individual via a first communications link; retrieving information via the first communications link about one or more additional individuals from electronic memory means associated with the second individual; and establishing communication with at least one of the additional individuals based on the retrieved information.
US07860211B1	Method of producing a laminography image with a rotating object, fixed x-ray source, and fixed detector columns A method of producing a laminography image of an object. The object is rotated on a platform in an object space between a fixed x-ray source and multiple columns of detector elements. Two samples of each voxel are taken at each detector column, one for each of the two alignments of the x-ray source, voxel, and detector column as the object rotates. It is generally possible to image the entire object in one rotation. Optionally, the platform axis can be offset from the system center line or the platform can be translated through the object space in the plane of the platform in order to make sure that each voxel traverses all of the detector columns to acquire maximum data. Once all of the data for all of the voxels is acquired, it is used with any appropriate laminography algorithm to produce images of the object.
US07860209B2	Method for imaging an organ, control device for a computed tomography system, computed tomography system and a computer program product A method is described for imaging an organ in a human or animal body via a computed tomography system having an X-ray radiation source which rotates around the body along a circumferential ring. In at least one embodiment, the circumferential ring in each case is fixed in one position for recording of an image data segment on one slice plane during one revolution of the X-ray radiation source relative to the body, and the X-ray radiation source is triggered by a cycle signal which represents a movement cycle of the organ and is activated for a limited measurement time interval. In at least one embodiment, the circumferential ring is moved sequentially to further positions relative to the body between each of the recordings, in order to record image data on further slice planes. In at least one embodiment, the timing and duration of the measurement time interval for an image data segment to be recorded are dynamically matched to a structure of the cycle signal. Furthermore, in at least one embodiment, a control device for a computed tomography system and/or a computed tomography system having a control device such as this are described.
US07860200B2	Communications system using adaptive filter that is selected based on output power A communications system receives a modulated signal that carries encoded communications data. An adaptive filter has an input, a plurality of non-adaptive and adaptive filter taps with weighted coefficients, and an output. The received signal is passed through the adaptive filter and around adaptive filter and a switch selects which signal to pass to demodulator based on measured output power of the adaptive filter and of the original received signal. A demodulator and decoder receive the filtered output signal and demodulate and decode the signal to obtain the communications data.
US07860199B2	Method and system for single antenna receiver system for HSDPA Aspects of a method and system for a single antenna receiver system for HSDPA are provided. Aspects of a method for processing RF signals, the method may comprise computing channel estimates based on a plurality of received individual distinct path signals, generating timing reference signals indicating a location of at least one of the plurality of received individual distinct path signals, combining at least a portion of the plurality of received individual distinct path signals as a signal cluster based on at least one of the computed channel estimates and said generated timing reference signals, and selecting at least one of combining and equalization processing based on at least one of the computed channel estimates and the generated timing reference signals. Aspects of a system for processing RF signals may comprise circuitry that selects at least one of combining and equalization processing based the computed channel estimates and/or generated timing reference signals.
US07860198B2	Combining signal-interference-ratio (SIR) estimates for improved SIR estimation An overall SIR estimate is based on a weighted-average of different SIR estimates, wherein the weights are chosen to minimize the mean-square-error (MSE) of the overall SIR estimate. Alternatively, the overall SIR estimate is based on a selection from among the different SIR estimates, based on the expected reliability of each SIR estimate. The expected reliability of each SIR estimate may be based on the current format of the transmitted signal and/or a prior estimated SIR level.
US07860197B2	Spectrum-sensing algorithms and methods Spectrum-sensing algorithms and methods may be provided for use in cognitive radios and other applications. The spectrum-sensing algorithms and methods may include receiving an input spectrum having a plurality of channels, performing a coarse scan of the plurality of channels of the input spectrum to determine one or more occupied candidate channels and vacant candidate channels, where the coarse scan is associated with a first resolution bandwidth and a first frequency sweep increment, performing a fine scan of the occupied candidate channels and the vacant candidate channels to determine actually occupied channels and actually vacant channels, where the fine scan is associated with a second resolution bandwidth and a second frequency sweep increment, and storing an indication of the actually occupied channels and the actually vacant channels.
US07860192B2	FSK demodulator, FM demodulator, and related method with a build-in band-pass filter A frequency shift keying (FSK) demodulator includes a band-pass filter, an auto-calibration loop, a phase comparator, and an analog-to-digital converter. The band-pass filter is used for shifting phase of an FSK signal to generate a revised FSK signal. The auto-calibration loop is coupled to the band-pass filter for adjusting a center frequency of the band-pass filter. The first input end of the phase comparator is coupled to an output end of the band-pass filter, and the second input end of the phase comparator is used for receiving the FSK signal. The phase comparator is used for comparing the FSK signal with the revised FSK signal and outputting a comparison result. The analog-to-digital converter is coupled to the phase comparator for converting the results of the phase comparator into digital data. Similarly, a frequency modulation (FM) demodulator includes a band-pass filter, an auto-calibration loop, and a phase comparator.
US07860190B2	Multi-channel timing recovery system The present invention, in particular embodiments, is directed to methods, apparatuses and systems that provide global timing error information derived from timing error information of each data channel. This is achieved, in part, by summing the timing error information from all the data channels and integrating and scaling the resulting sum. The integrated, scaled sum is then added to the proportional and integral timing information of each individual data channel. By doing so, incorrect timing error estimates are averaged out. Additionally, when severe noise and dropouts (loss of data signal) at an individual data channel occur, that channel may rely on the global timing error information. In some implementations, that individual data channel's timing error information contribution can be excluded from the global timing error information.
US07860189B2	Hybrid heterodyne transmitters and receivers Disclosed are hybrid heterodyne transmitters and receivers for use in communications systems, or other systems, and the corresponding methods for hybrid heterodyne transmitting and receiving. A heterodyne receiver for converting a continuous time modulated signal to a discrete time digital baseband signal includes a sigma-delta modulator. The sigma-delta modulator is a sigma-delta analog-to-digital converter constructed and arranged to receive a modulated signal at an RF carrier frequency and provide a quantized output at a first intermediate frequency. The heterodyne receiver may also include a digital mixer constructed and arranged to receive a data stream quantized by the sigma-delta analog-to-digital converter and receive a signal at a second mixing frequency. The digital mixer then provides digital signals representative of a baseband signal suitable for digital signal processing.
US07860165B2	Framework for fine-granular computational-complexity scalable motion estimation Motion-compensated video coding that employs fine-granular computational complexity scalable motion estimation is described. The scalable motion estimation technique adapts to varying computational limitations of the device performing the video coding technique. The scalable motion estimation technique calculates a predicted priority for each macroblock in a frame and identifies a set of macroblocks based on the predicted priority. A pass is then performed on each macroblock within the set. The pass checks a set of candidate motion vectors for each macroblock in the set and determines a new starting point for the next pass of the macroblocks during processing of the same frame. The predicted priority for each macroblock within the set of macroblocks is re-calculated and the process repeats by identifying another set of macroblocks and performing a pass on them. These repeats until a computation limit associated with the device performing the passes has been reached.
US07860161B2	Enhancement layer transcoding of fine-granular scalable video bitstreams Systems and methods for enhancement layer transcoding of fine-granular scalable video bitstreams are described. In one aspect, an enhancement layer bitstream is decoded from encoded video data. The encoded video data includes a base layer and one or more enhancement layers. The encoded video data is encoded according to a high HQRB (high quality reference bit-rate). Data throughput characteristics of a network coupled to a client computing device are determined. A new HQRB is calculated based on the data throughput characteristics. The decoded enhancement layer bitstream is then encoded based on the new HQRB to generate a transcoded enhancement layer for streaming to the client computing device. The base layer is not decoded for streaming to the client computing device.
US07860159B2	Quantization matrix for still and moving picture coding A quantization matrix used in inverse quantization is generated. A received bitstream includes a coded truncated quantization matrix. The coded truncated quantization matrix has first coded bits and second coded bits. The first coded bits include bits obtained by coding a transmitting part of quantization elements and the second coded bits includes bits obtained by coding an end code. The coded truncated quantization matrix is decoded until the second coded bits corresponding to the end code are read out, to obtain the transmitting part of quantization elements. At least one additional quantization element is obtained. A complete quantization matrix is generated, using the transmitting part of quantization elements and at least one additional quantization element, by ordering the transmitting part of quantization elements and at least one additional quantization element in a zig-zag scan.
US07860152B2	Wireless communications system with secondary synchronization code based on values in primary synchronization code A wireless communication system. The system comprises transmitter circuitry (BST1), the transmitter circuitry comprising encoder circuitry (50) for transmitting a plurality of frames (FR). Each of the plurality of frames comprises a primary synchronization code (PCS) and a secondary synchronization code (SSC). The encoder circuitry comprises of circuitry (501) for providing the primary synchronization code in response to a first sequence (32). The encoder circuitry further comprises circuitry (502) for providing the secondary synchronization code in response to a second sequence (54) and a third sequence (56). The second sequence is selected from a plurality of sequences. Each of the plurality of sequences is orthogonal with respect to all other sequences in the plurality of sequences. The third sequence comprises a subset of bits from the first sequence.
US07860149B2	Methods and apparatus for flexible hopping in a multiple-access communication network Techniques for efficiently designing random hopping patterns in a communications system are disclosed. The disclosed embodiments provide for methods and systems for generating random hopping patterns, updating the patterns frequently, generating different patterns for different cells/sectors, and generating patterns of nearby sub-carriers for block hopping.
US07860143B2	Metal-assisted DBRs for thermal management in VCSELs A VCSEL includes a substrate having a partially removed portion; a metal-assisted DBR having a metal layer and a first mirror stack, wherein the metal layer is located at the partially removed portion of the substrate; an active region having a plurality of quantum wells over the metal-assisted DBR; and a second mirror stack over the active region, wherein a number of alternating layers of the first mirror stack is substantially smaller than a number typically required for a VCSEL without the integrated metal reflector. Such a metal-assisted DBR is especially useful for a long-wavelength VCSEL on a InP substrate or a red-color VCSEL on a GaAs substrate.
US07860141B2	Photonic crystal laser One objective of the present invention is to provide a laser device which is capable of scanning beams of a laser light of high output power at a high speed without using mechanical scanning mechanisms. A plurality of the upper electrodes 33 is linearly arranged in the photonic crystal laser provided with an active layer 21 and a two-dimensional photonic crystal layer 23 which are held between upper electrodes 33 and a lower electrode 27. A current is introduced from one upper electrode 33 or the plurality of the upper electrodes 33 disposed adjacently. Therefore, the active layer 21 generates light and the light is intensified by diffraction in the two-dimensional photonic crystal layer 23, so that a stronger laser light is emitted to the outside from around the upper electrodes 33 into which a current is introduced. When the current-injected upper electrodes are sequentially switched, a laser light scan is performed in the direction of the array of the upper electrodes. Since this switching can be made electrically, a laser light scan can be achieved at a high speed without using the mechanical scanning mechanisms.
US07860136B2	Fault tolerant laser diode package A laser diode package (10) according to the present invention is tolerant of short-circuit and open-circuit failures. The laser diode package (10) includes a laser diode bar (12), a forward-biased diode (14), a heat sink (18), and a lid (16) which may have fusible links (86). The laser diode bar (12) and the forward-biased diode (14) are electrically connected in parallel between the heat sink (18) and the lid (16). The emitting region of the laser diode bar (12) is aligned to emit radiation away from the forward-biased diode (14). Several packages can be stacked together to form a laser diode array (42). The forward-biased diode (14) allows current to pass through it when an open-circuit failure has occurred in the corresponding laser diode bar (12), thus preventing an open-circuit failure from completely disabling the array (42). The fusible links (86), if used on the lid (16), prevent damaged active regions (90) in a laser diode bar (12) from short-circuiting and drawing more electrical current than the other active regions (90).
US07860135B2	Low loss crystal as a large aperture AO deflector An acousto-optic deflector includes a body of material through which a laser beam to be modulated passes. The material has an acoustic attenuation in the range of 0.15 to 1.0 dB/μs-GHz2 and operates in a UV range of about 150 to 400 nm. A transducer is bonded to the body of material to launch a wave. An electronic driver drives the transducer.
US07860129B2	Device, system and method for data transfer optimization Devices, systems and methods for data transfer optimization. A computing platform may, for example, modify a first property of a communication network in relation to an analysis of a second property of said communication network and a property of a data item. For example, a processor or a modem may dynamically modify a payload header suppression module to suppress a static portion of a data packet or an acknowledgment packet.
US07860120B1	Network interface supporting of virtual paths for quality of service with dynamic buffer allocation A plurality of virtual paths in a network interface between a host port and a network port are managed according to respective priorities using dynamic buffer allocation. Thus, multiple levels of quality of service are supported through a single physical network port. Variant processes are applied for handling packets which have been downloaded to a network interface, prior to transmission onto the network. The network interface also includes memory used as a transmit buffer, that stores data packets received from the host computer on the first port, and provides data to the second port for transmission on the network. A control circuit in the network interface manages the memory as a plurality of first-in-first-out FIFO queues having respective priorities. Logic places a packet received from the host processor into one of the plurality of FIFO queues according to a quality of service parameter associated with the packets. Logic transmits the packets in the plurality of FIFO queues according to respective priorities. Logic dynamically allocates the memory using a list of buffer descriptors for corresponding buffers in said memory. The list of buffer descriptors comprises a free buffer list and a used buffer list for each of the virtual paths served by the system. A used buffer descriptor is released from the used buffer list, after the data stored in the corresponding used buffer has been transmitted, to the free buffer list for a virtual path which has the largest amount traffic or which has the smallest number of free buffers in its free buffer list.
US07860116B2	Processing packets of a virtual interface associated with tunnels Packet switch operating methods and packet switches assign a packet to a virtual interface. The virtual interface is associated with a plurality of tunnels. One of the plurality is designated a primary tunnel configured to accept packets. Other tunnels of the plurality are designated as backup tunnels and are configured to reject packets. The methods and packet switches also determine which of the plurality of tunnels is the primary tunnel and determine a packet switch port associated with the primary tunnel. The methods and packet switches egress the packet via the primary tunnel on the packet switch port associated with the primary tunnel.
US07860110B2	Auto-addressing system and method A modular distributed I/O system that allows one or more modules of an island to be omitted without requiring reconfiguration of the system and a method for auto-addressing the system. The island includes a network interface module that is operably connected to a user interface. The user interface allows a user to indicate for each of the nodes of the island whether the node has an I/O module physically present or not physically present. This allows a constant process image in a system where the process image is dependent upon node ID's of modules, and modules are assigned addresses (i.e., ID's) automatically without using unique markers or signatures.
US07860100B2	Service path selection in a service network A service chain system is provided. The system includes a packet of data that is operable to pass through a network of service nodes as defined by a service chain; and a service classification device that is operable to change the service chain based on a system performance.
US07860096B2	Switching method and apparatus for use in a communications network One embodiment of the invention provides a method of operating a switch in a communications network. The method includes storing a set of routings for each port in the switch. When a packet is received at a port in the switch, the set of routings corresponding to the port at which the packet was received is accessed. A port from which to forward the packet from the switch is determined in accordance with the set of routings. The packet is then duly forwarded over the network from the port as determined by the routings.
US07860089B2	Method and system for network based call-pickup A method and system for network based call-pickup is provided. In one embodiment a first user agent communicates in a communication session with a second user agent in a network telephony system. The second user agent may request that a third user agent replace the second user agent in the communication. The third user agent may be a park server, and when it replaces the second user agent, the communication session may thereby be parked at the park server. A fourth user agent may then request that the third user agent (e.g., park server) initiate a communication session between the first user agent and the fourth user agent. The third user agent may then instruct the first user agent to communicate with the fourth user agent. The parked communication session may thereby be picked up by the fourth user agent.
US07860081B2	Optimization process and system for multiplexed gateway architecture Process and system for optimizing one of uploading and downloading of at least one file through at least one lender in multiplexed gateway architecture. The process includes identifying available lenders coupled to a multiplexed gateway within a vicinity of a borrower, selecting an optimization criterion, and selecting a number of the identified available lenders based upon the selected optimization criterion. The method also includes dividing at least one file to be one of uploaded and downloaded into parts corresponding to the number of selected lenders, and assigning a part of the at least one file to each selected lender.
US07860080B2	Service provisioning in telecommunications system comprising call control service capability servers This invention describes a method of service provisioning in a telecommunication system, which telecommunication system is comprised of configurations of service switching point (SSP), service capability server (SCS) and service provisioning equipment, which configurations are configured to provide services to users, wherein the provisioning of at least one of said services requires the involvement of more than one service capability server. To set up the service, a direct interaction between the service capability servers is provided.
US07860062B2	Method and device for determining a list of at least one first node of a telecommunication network to which a message has to be transferred The present invention concerns a method and device for determining a list of at least one first node of a telecommunication network to which, a message received by a second node of the telecommunication network from a third node of the telecommunication network, has to be transferred. It is obtained, for each node of a part of the nodes, a first list comprising information representative of at least one cell said node manages, it is obtained, for at least each node of said part of the nodes, a second list comprising information representative of the neighbor cells of the at least one cell said node manages and it is determined the list of at least one first node to which the message has to be transferred by checking if information comprised in the second list of the first nodes are comprised in the first and the second lists of the third node.
US07860031B2	Apparatus and method for processing control packet in spanning tree protocol When a control packet is transmitted/received among devices that support a spanning tree protocol (STP), a receiving side device temporarily stores a received control packet in a buffer. When the transmission of a control packet from a transmitting side device is stopped, the control packet stored in the buffer is transferred to a STP processing unit in a specific cycle. Alternatively, the transmitting side device autonomously transmits a control packet for a specific period at specific intervals from when the STP processing unit stops its operation until it restarts the operation according to an instruction to start an automatic transmission.
US07860028B2	Flexible ethernet bridge Flooding in an Ethernet bridge can be minimized by employing various techniques. In one embodiment using an address table containing a plurality of entries, each of said plurality of entries specifying one of said plurality of ports on which packets containing a corresponding destination address are to be forwarded. A priority field associated with a high priority first entry is maintained. A new entry creation situation is determined and a replacement approach which is less likely to replace said first entry than another entry which does not have associated high priority field is utilized.
US07860021B2	Apparatus, system and method for maintaining communication between an information processing device and a server An information processing device 1 includes a transmission judging section 11 for judging whether to transmit a repetition packet, a life judging section 12 for judging whether to set a life not reaching a server device 3 to the repetition packet, a life setting section 14 for setting the life of the repetition packet to the life not reaching the server device 3 when the life judging section 12 judges to set the life not reaching the server device 3, and setting the life of the repetition packet to the life reaching the server device 3 when the life judging section 12 judges to set the life reaching the server device, and a transmitting section 15 for transmitting a repetition packet having the life set by the life setting section 14, when the transmission judging section 11 judges to transmit the repetition packet. It is possible to reduce a processing burden on the server device in an information processing system provided with the information processing device for repetitively transmitting the packet and the server device for receiving the packet.
US07860014B2	Ranging system, transmitting terminal, receiving terminal, ranging method, and computer program A ranging system is disclosed which measures a distance between terminals operating on a multi-carrier transmission system. The ranging system includes a frequency domain data processing device that acquires impulse responses by subjecting data from transmitted and/or received packets to fast discrete Fourier transform for conversion into frequency domain data subject to a predetermined process and by applying a spectrum estimation algorithm to the processed frequency domain data.
US07860013B2	Methods and systems for using in-stream data within an on demand content delivery path An on demand content delivery platform for delivering on demand digital assets includes a network transport composed of network elements. A content delivery path extends from an application server, through the network transport, to a client. During content delivery, at a network element, data is inserted into the content delivery path to produce a content stream containing inserted in-stream data. In one implementation, the content is conditioned in accordance with instructions present in the in-stream data. In another implementation, the in-stream data represents session information and is utilized for stateless recovery of session information.
US07860012B2	Employing parallel processing for routing calls A least-cost path between a pair of nodes A and B of a network is realized by segmenting the network into three or more segments, with nodes A and B being in different ones of the segments, with the third or more other segments being interposed between the segments to which nodes A and B belong, concurrently process the different segment to identify paths and their associated costs, and processing results generated by the different processing units to compute the least-cost path. Advantageously, the segmenting is chosen to equalize the work load of the different processing units so that the units finish their task roughly at the same time.
US07860000B2	Apparatus, methods and computer program products providing estimation of activity factor and enhanced radio resource management In one non-limiting, exemplary embodiment, a method includes: estimating an activity factor for a priority class based at least in part on a provided bit rate for the priority class and a guaranteed bit rate of the priority class; and using the estimated activity factor to estimate at least one network-related parameter. In another non-limiting, exemplary embodiment, a method includes: obtaining a measurement for a priority class; and estimating an activity factor for the priority class based at least in part on the measurement and a quality of service attribute of the priority class. As a non-limiting example, exemplary embodiments of this invention employ a framework providing an estimation of effective activity factor per service priority indicator (SPI) class to provide, for example, enhanced quality of service awareness in radio resource management functionality, such as for estimation of the amount of power used per SPI class/group.
US07859998B2	System and method for managing pre-emption of quality of service (QoS) allocations in a network A system and method manages Quality-of-Service (QoS) in a network by allocating resources, such as available network bandwidth. The network devices transmit and receive data traffic streams, each of which includes QoS parameters, including a priority level and bandwidth allocation. The method includes choosing which existing QoS allocations are pre-empted, notifying original requesters of pre-empted allocations, and re-establishing pre-empted allocations with appropriate modifications. If a new QoS request cannot be accommodated due to the previous allocations to lower-priority requesters, the existing lower-priority allocations are released until enough allocations are released to accommodate the new request. Once the new request is allocated, the pre-empted configurations may be reallocated.
US07859990B2	Methods and systems for performing channels estimation in a wireless communication system The invention provides methods and systems for channel estimation. A method comprises receiving a plurality of signal frames, comprising at least a first zone and a second zone, from a plurality of base stations in the wireless communication system. Two or more first delay profiles corresponding to two or more base stations are determined using the first zone. The method further comprising detecting at least one aliased tap in a time domain channel response of the second zone using the two or more first delay profiles. Another method comprises receiving a signal frame, comprising at least a preamble symbol and a data part, from a base station. A first delay profile corresponding to the preamble symbol is determined and a second delay profile corresponding to the data part is obtained. The first delay profile is analyzed in conjunction with the second delay profile to detect one or more aliased taps in a time domain channel response of the data part. The detected one or more aliased taps are nulled/rectified.
US07859988B2	System for flexible cyclic prefix length for preamble symbols in an OFDM based communication system A system providing flexible cyclic prefix length in a preamble (i.e., superframe preamble) is disclosed. The preamble comprises a first section and a second section. The first section contains at least one broadcast channel and occupies the first number of OFDM symbols in the preamble. The second section contains acquisition pilots and occupies the remaining number of OFDM symbols in the preamble. A first cyclic prefix length is used in the first section. It is indicated by the first broadcast channel and is unknown to a mobile station before the mobile station decodes the first broadcast channel. The second cyclic prefix length is used in the second section. It is fixed and known to the mobile stations. The first broadcast channel is located at the last OFDM symbol in the first section and is next to the second section in time.
US07859987B2	Interleaver for IEEE 802.11n standard A MIMO wireless system includes a transmitter having a parser that parses a bit stream into multiple spatial data streams and multiple interleavers corresponding to the multiple spatial data streams, where each interleaver interleaves the bits in the corresponding spatial data stream by performing frequency rotation after an interleaving operation, to increase diversity of the wireless system. The MIMO wireless system also includes a receiver that has deinterleavers that deinterleaves spatial bit streams transmitted by the transmitter.
US07859985B2	Control on at least one frequency selecting data carrier frequencies System and method for signaling control information in a multi-carrier communications system to transmit data. A preferred embodiment comprises demodulating a first carrier that is used for transmitting a control channel transmission, determining a second carrier that is used for transmitting a data channel transmission based upon the demodulated control channel transmission, and demodulating the second carrier to obtain the data channel transmission. Additionally, designs for multi-carrier receivers are provided.
US07859976B2	Optical pickup device In a photo pickup device, an incident area 30 for a reflection light of a light spot is divided into four areas 30a˜30d by parting lines 31, 32 making axial-symmetrical angles with a direction Y of a projected track on an optical disc. In these areas, the so-divided areas 30a, 30c are formed so as to diffract the light in one or more directions in a range of 90 degrees±20 degrees to the direction Y and impress misalignment on each diffraction light. In each diffraction light, two focal lines produced due to the astigmatism make approx. 45 degrees with the direction Y of the projected track. Further, the divided areas 30b, 30d are characterized by diffracting the light in one or more directions in a range of 90 degrees±20 degrees to the direction Y.
US07859971B2	Directory hologram forming an anchor location of a pattern of stored holograms A method writes at least a group of holograms in a predetermined pattern in the holographic storage medium, and writes a directory hologram which relates to the holograms of the group to form an anchor location of the predetermined pattern. Further, a directory comprising the directory hologram is stored in a memory, and a read operation of at least one hologram of a group is initiated with an access for the directory hologram of the group at the anchor location; reading the accessed hologram, employing a matched filter to cross-correlate the read accessed hologram with an ideal version of the directory hologram derived from the directory stored in the memory; and determining whether the read accessed hologram is the directory hologram of the group.
US07859964B2	Method and apparatus of adjusting focusing servo in optical disc device The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus of adjusting a focusing servo in an optical disc device. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a focusing servo is coarsely adjusted using a tracking error signal for a blank disc, data is recorded in a predetermined area of the disc, and then the focusing servo is finely adjusted using the characteristics of a reproduced signal for the recorded data. In this case, the focusing servo is adjusted to adjust a focusing position of an objective lens, and the predetermined area is a region provided on the disc to detect optimum recording power. The characteristics of the reproduced signal include magnitude and/or jitter value of the reproduced RF signal. Therefore, the present invention can optimally adjust a focusing servo even for a blank disc, and can improve data recording quality.
US07859963B2	Method and apparatus for adjusting recording power for optical disk device A method and apparatus of controlling an optical disk apparatus determines a reference recording power at each of a plurality of recording speeds for an inserted optical disk, performs a power control procedure for a prescribed recording speed to determine a recording power at the prescribed recording speed in response to a recording request, and then computes a recording power at each of the recording speeds based on the reference recording power and the recording power determined at the prescribed recording speed. The power control procedure is performed only for an inner circumferential area of the disk, irrespective of whether a requested recording speed is less than or greater than the prescribed recording speed. As a result, the speed of the data recording operation may be substantially improved and/or other improvements may be realized.
US07859961B2	Optical disk recording method and optical disk recording apparatus An optical disk recording method for recording predetermined data on an optical disk on the basis of a first reference clock signal used for recording, the optical disk including a groove track having a wobble signal recorded thereon and a land track having a land pre-pit carrying track position information, the first reference clock signal being generated on the basis of the wobble signal reproduced from the optical disk, includes the steps of reproducing a pre-pit signal from the optical disk; generating a second reference clock signal from the pre-pit signal; detecting an amount of phase shift of the first reference clock signal using the second reference clock signal; and correcting the first reference clock signal on the basis of an average value of the detected amount of phase shift.
US07859958B2	Information-recording apparatus, information-recording method, program storage medium and program An information-recording apparatus is disclosed wherein FSes can be optimized. The information-recording apparatus includes an FS extraction section for extracting a plurality of FSes from a plurality of FS-recording areas on a recording medium; an FS synthesis section for synthesizing the FSes extracted by the FS extraction section into one FS; and an FS-recording section for recording the FS produced by the FS synthesis section as a result of synthesis into a new area on the recording medium.
US07859950B2	Large date calendar day mechanism for a timepiece The large date mechanism comprises three superposed indicator discs (1, 2, 3). The lower disc (3) bears eleven numerals (8) and the upper (1) and intermediate (2) discs each bear ten numerals (4, 6) and a window (5, 7). Each of the discs is integral to a star wheel (12, 13, 14) with cannon pinions (9, 10, 11). The cannon pinion star wheels are selectively driven by a control movement (15) comprising three toothed sectors (19, 18, 17) integral to a calendar day wheel (16) that advances one step per day. The mechanism can be supplemented by a safety device ensuring blocking of the star wheels when they should be stationary.
US07859949B2	Timepiece A timepiece includes a dial having a tens date display window for displaying the tens digit of the date, and a ones date display window for displaying the ones digit of the date; and a calendar mechanism having a tens indicator wheel to which a plurality of tens digit markers are disposed and a ones indicator wheel to which a plurality of ones digit markers are disposed, and which displays one of the plural tens digit markers disposed to the tens indicator wheel from the tens date display window, and displays one of the plural ones digit markers disposed to the ones indicator wheel from the ones date display window. The ones indicator wheel has a ones indicator plate on which the ones digit markers are disposed, and a ones indicator pinion affixed to the ones indicator plate. The tens indicator wheel has a tens indicator plate on which the tens digit markers are disposed, and a tens indicator pinion affixed to the tens indicator plate. The ones indicator pinion is a ring-shaped external tooth wheel having external teeth formed on the outside circumference surface. The tens indicator pinion and a tens intermediate wheel that meshes with and transfers drive power to the tens indicator pinion are disposed in the space on the inside circumference side of the ones indicator pinion.
US07859935B2	Memory system with low current consumption and method for the same A memory system includes: a high-voltage-supply booster circuit for driving an access control circuit from a low voltage for memory access to a high voltage for memory access by supplying electric charge that is stored in advance to an access control circuit in response to an access start request for a memory cell array; and a low-voltage-supply booster circuit for absorbing excess electric charge when the access control circuit is switched from the high voltage to the low voltage in response to an access end request for the memory cell array.
US07859933B2	Semiconductor memory device and operating method thereof A semiconductor memory device comprises an anti-fuse, a memory circuit including memory cells, and a peripheral circuit configured to access only an area of the memory circuit selected depending on a state of the anti-fuse.
US07859931B2	Refresh period signal generator with digital temperature information generation function A refresh period signal generator with a digital temperature information generation function includes a temperature information generating part configured to generate temperature information by using a first period signal and a second period signal, a refresh period signal generating part configured to output a refresh period signal by selecting one signal having a shorter period between the first period signal and the second period signal, and an operation timing control part operating the temperature information generating part and the refresh period signal generating part at a predetermined timing.
US07859926B2	Semiconductor memory device Disclosed is a semiconductor memory device including a discharge circuit that discharges bit lines to a ground potential, a sense amplifier of a single-ended input configuration, and a charging transistor connected between a power supply and an input node of the sense amplifier. The charging transistor charges a bit line from a side of the input node of the sense amplifier via the selected column select transistor which is set to an on state. When a current path to the ground from the bit line to which a selected memory cell is connected is turned off at a time of reading, the input node of the sense amplifier is charged by the charging transistor, and a potential at the input node of the sense amplifier is thereby raised. Then, after the input node of the sense amplifier has been further charged with the one of the column select transistors turned off, the reading operation is performed.
US07859921B2	Apparatus and method for low power sensing in a multi-port SRAM using pre-discharged bit lines A method for sensing the contents of a memory cell within a static random access memory (SRAM) includes holding a bit line associated with the memory cell at a zero voltage potential when the memory cell is not being accessed; energizing the bit line to a first voltage potential different than the zero voltage potential during an access of the memory cell; and sensing the memory cell contents when the associated bit line has reached the first voltage potential.
US07859920B2	Advanced bit line tracking in high performance memory compilers A method accurately tracks a bit line maturing time for compiler memory. The method includes enabling a dummy word line in response to an internal clock signal. The dummy word line is enabled prior to enabling a real word line. A dummy bit line is matured in response to enabling of the dummy word line. The dummy bit line matures at a same rate that a real bit line matures. The method also includes disabling the dummy word line in response to determining a threshold voltage differential based on monitoring maturation of the dummy bit line. The real word line is enabled a predefined delay after enabling of the dummy word line. Similarly, the word line is disabled the predefined delay after disabling of the dummy word line. In response to disabling the dummy word line, a sense enable signal is generated.
US07859900B2	Built-in self-repair method for NAND flash memory and system thereof A built-in self-test system applied to NAND flash memory comprises a built-in self-test circuit, a built-in redundancy-analysis circuit, a content addressable memory, a spare memory, a page-mode processor and an address generator. The built-in self-test circuit is configured to test for defective data in a NAND flash memory. The built-in redundancy-analysis circuit is connected to the built-in self-test circuit. The content addressable memory is connected to the built-in redundancy-analysis circuit for storing the address of the defective data. The spare memory is electrically connected to the content addressable memory. The page-mode processor is configured to generate a page address signal and a compensation signal according to an address signal of the NAND flash memory. The address generator is configured to generate a current address signal according to the page address signal and compensation signal to the content addressable memory.
US07859898B2	Nonvolatile semiconductor memory device including NAND-type flash memory and the like A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device is provided with a memory cell array, a judgment potential correction circuit, and a readout circuit. In the memory cell array, a plurality of memory cells are arranged in a matrix form, and the array includes a first memory cell as a readout object and a second memory cell disposed adjacent to the first memory cell. The judgment potential correction circuit corrects a judgment potential based on a threshold value of the second memory cell. The readout circuit reads the first memory cell as the readout object by use of the corrected judgment potential.
US07859891B2	Static source plane in stram A memory array includes a plurality of magnetic tunnel junction cells arranged in an array. Each magnetic tunnel junction cell is electrically coupled between a bit line and a source line. The magnetic tunnel junction cell is configured to switch between a high resistance state and a low resistance state by passing a write current passing though the magnetic tunnel junction cell. A word line is electrically coupled to a gate of the transistor. The source line is a common source line for the plurality of magnetic tunnel junctions.
US07859889B2	Semiconductor memory device In a two-transistor gain cell structure, a semiconductor memory device capable of stable reading without malfunction and having small-area memory cells is provided. In a two-transistor gain cell memory having a write transistor and a read transistor, a write word line, a read word line, a write bit line, and a read bit line are separately provided, and voltages to be applied are independently set. Furthermore, a memory cell is connected to the same read word line and write bit line as those of an adjacent memory cell.
US07859885B2	Phase changing memory device A phase change memory device includes a substrate, a plurality of cell arrays stacked above the substrate and each including a matrix layout of a plurality of memory cells, each the memory cell storing therein as data a resistance value determinable by a phase change, a write circuit configured to write a pair cell constituted by two neighboring memory cells within the plurality of cell arrays in such a manner as to write one of the pair cell into a high resistance value state and write the other into a low resistance value state, and a read circuit configured to read complementary resistance value states of the pair cell as a one bit of data.
US07859880B2	Semiconductor memory apparatus A semiconductor memory apparatus includes a first memory cell region including a plurality memory cells; a second memory cell region including a plurality memory cells, the second memory cell region positioned adjacent to the first memory cell region; a sub-local data bus coupled with some of the plurality of memory cells in each of the first and second memory cell regions, the sub-local data bus configured to execute data I/O operations of the first and second memory cell regions; a data bus region disposed between the first and second memory cell regions; a first local data bus disposed within the data bus region and configured to execute data I/O operations in conjunction with the sub-local data bus and a first data I/O sense amplifier; and a second local data bus also disposed within the data bus region and also configured to execute data I/O operations in conjunction with the sub-local data bus and a second data I/O sense amplifier.
US07859879B2	Memory module A memory module, includes a memory module board and a plurality of memory devices on the memory module board. The memory module board includes one or more first input terminals configured to receive first signals to individually control the memory devices, and one or more second input terminals configured to receive second signals to commonly control the memory devices. Each of the memory devices includes a plurality of first signal input units configured to receive the first signals through one or more first input pins, a plurality of second signal input units configured to receive the second signals through one or more second input pins, and a plurality of dummy units, the dummy units being respectively connected to the first signal input units in parallel, and being configured to receive the first signals through one or more third input pins and to compensate for a signal line load.
US07859869B2	Forward converter transformer saturation prevention A control circuit for use in a power converter in one aspect limits the magnetic flux in a transformer of a switching power converter. A first controlled current source has a first current that is substantially directly proportional to an input voltage to be applied to a winding of the transformer. A second controlled current source has a second current that is substantially directly proportional to a reset voltage to be applied to the winding of the transformer. A first switch is adapted to charge an integrating capacitor with the first current while the input voltage is applied to the winding of the transformer. A second switch is adapted to discharge the integrating capacitor with the second current when the reset voltage is applied to the winding of the transformer. A third switch is adapted to remove and to prevent application of the input voltage to the winding of the transformer.
US07859864B2	Switching power supply device A switching power supply device has lower correction circuit losses, and enables adjustments without affecting overcurrent limiting or other characteristics. An integrated circuit IC for power supply control generates a switching signal based on a feedback signal from a feedback circuit and a voltage signal from a current detection input terminal, and outputs the switching signal from an output terminal to a switching element. A voltage controlled oscillator is provided which, when the load is judged to be light based on the magnitude of the feedback signal, lowers the switching frequency. The correction circuit is connected between the output terminal of the integrated circuit and the signal input terminal for current detection, acts only when the switching element is on, and has the function of further lowering the switching frequency set in the integrated circuit.
US07859861B2	Insulated power transfer device An insulated transfer device with particular topology, comprising on the primary, a switched-mode voltage step-up circuit, with a step-up inductance (LB) and an active buffer stage (DT, MT, CT) supplying a peak voltage greater than the peak voltage supplied by the input voltage source (vE) and two pairs of controlled switches controlling the application of the voltage supplied by the switched-mode voltage step-up circuit, to the terminals (Ep1, Ep2) of the primary winding and to the secondary, a full-wave rectifier with diodes (Ds1, Ds2) and controlled switches (Ms1, Ms2). On the primary, the voltage at the terminals of the capacitor CT of the active buffer stage used to apply a controlled AC voltage between the terminals Ep1 and Ep2 is regulated by controlling the time for which the controlled switches of the pairs are simultaneously in the closed state. On the secondary, VS is regulated by controlling the time for which the secondary switches are simultaneously in the closed state.
US07859858B2	Locking hinge design In accordance with an example embodiment, there is disclosed herein an apparatus comprising a top case having a top surface and a side surface and a bottom case having a bottom surface and a side surface. The top case comprises a flange protruding from the side surface, the flange having at least one extended surface. The bottom case has an aperture having portions extending from the bottom surface to the side surface. The portion of the aperture extending along the bottom surface is configured to have sufficient width to allow the entire flange to pass through. The side surface of the bottom case has a vertical post such that the base section of the flange passes through the portion of the aperture on the side surface while vertical post retains the at least one extended surface.
US07859855B2	Module and mounted structure using the same A module that can not only achieve the reduction in size and manufacturing cost but also be impervious to noise due to electromagnetic waves, and a mounted structure using the same are provided. A module (1) includes a substrate (12) and a plurality of semiconductor packages (11a, 11b), each including a semiconductor chip (10), mounted on the substrate (12). Each of the plurality of semiconductor packages (11a, 11b) includes a first radio communication element (16) for transmitting and receiving a signal between the semiconductor chips (10) in the plurality of semiconductor packages (11a, 11b) by radio communication, and the first radio communication element (16) is constituted independently of the semiconductor chip (10).
US07859853B2	Hand-held diagnostic display unit including combination folding stand and hanger assembly A vehicle diagnostic display unit including a case, a display screen disposed within a front portion of the case, and a main support coupled to a side of the case and having a finger compartment for receiving a user's fingers to allow the user to lift the vehicle diagnostic display unit using one hand. A navigation pad is disposed on a front surface of the main support and the main support is configured to allow a user to simultaneously lift the diagnostic display unit and access the navigation pad with a thumb. The display unit also includes a combination folding stand and hanger assembly that allows the unit to be stood up for display, or hung for display, in a hands-free manner, such that a user is free to use both hands for other purposes while still being able to view the display screen.
US07859849B2	Modular heatsink mounting system In one example, a host system includes a PCB, a plurality of rails disposed on the PCB, and a connector disposed on the PCB. The PCB, rails and connector define a slot configured to receive an optoelectronic module. The host system further includes means for removably mounting a modular heatsink to the host system such that the host system directly contacts the optoelectronic module when the optoelectronic module is fully inserted into the slot. The means for removably mounting has a standardized arrangement such that any modular heatsink having a mounting arrangement that is complementary to the standardized arranged can be removably mounted to the host system.
US07859845B2	Phase change material cooling system A cooling system may comprise an array of plates, an array of channels, a conduit system, and a phase change material. The array of channels may have a number of a first type of channels alternating with a number of a second type of channels. The conduit system may be capable of circulating coolant through the number of the first type of channels. The phase change material may be located within the number of the second type of channels.
US07859839B2	Storage apparatus, fan device, and controller unit device The invention proposes a cooling structure of a storage apparatus in which cooling air in a chassis is stirred or evened out without affecting the layout in the chassis. The storage apparatus includes fan devices that introduce outside air to heat areas generated from heat generating members arranged on a logical substrate which constitutes a controller unit section for inputting and outputting a data to and from a hard disk drive in response to a data I/O request from a host system, cool the heat areas by stirring the cooling air therein or by causing the cooling air to blow evenly thereon, and discharge the outside air passed through the heat areas to the outside.
US07859833B2	Function expansion device and electronic device system A function expansion device has a housing containing an electronic component and a locking mechanism having a lock-releasing member attached to the housing and movable between a locking position in which the member contacts the housing and a lock-releasing position to which the member moves in response to a lock-releasing operation. The locking mechanism locks an electronic device so that it cannot be removed when the lock-releasing member is in the locking position and unlocks the electronic device in response to an operation of moving the lock-releasing member from the locking position to the lock-releasing position. The housing and the lock-releasing member have respective holes which communicate with each other when the lock-releasing member is in the locking position.
US07859829B2	Electrolytic capacitor and method of producing the same An electrolytic capacitor includes a cathode body. The cathode body includes a conductive solid layer having particles of conductive solid, formed using a dispersion including particles of conductive solid and a solvent. The particles of the conductive solid in the dispersion have a first particle size distribution peak and a second particle size distribution peak satisfying μ1>μ2, where μ1 and μ2 are the average particle size of the first and second particle size distribution peaks, respectively, in particle size distribution measurement. Accordingly, there is provided an electrolytic capacitor reduced in ESR, and further having high withstand voltage and low leakage current.
US07859826B2	Thermal interconnects for coupling energy storage devices A thermally fitted interconnect couples energy storage cells without the use of additional materials of fasteners. Variations of the interconnect can be used to facilitate fitting of multiple energy storage cell with multiple cell to cell spacings in a rapid and inexpensive manner.
US07859825B2	High yield, high density on-chip capacitor design A capacitance circuit assembly mounted on a semiconductor chip, and methods for forming the same, are provided. A plurality of divergent capacitors is provided in a parallel circuit connection between first and second ports, the plurality providing at least one Metal Oxide Silicon Capacitor and at least one Vertical Native Capacitor or Metal-Insulator-Metal Capacitor. An assembly has a vertical orientation, a Metal Oxide Silicon capacitor located at the bottom and defining a footprint, with a middle Vertical Native Capacitor having a plurality of horizontal metal layers, including a plurality of parallel positive plates alternating with a plurality of parallel negative plates. In another aspect, vertically asymmetric orientations provide a reduced total parasitic capacitance.
US07859822B2	Monolithic ceramic capacitor A capacitor body includes a capacitance-forming section including an alternately arranged plurality of internal electrodes and plurality of dielectric ceramic layers and outer layer sections disposed on the upper or lower face of the capacitance-forming section (28). The outer layer sections include an outermost layer and a second layer (31) inwardly located therefrom. The second layer has a thermal expansion coefficient greater than that of the outermost layer by 1×10−6/° C. to 3×10−6/° C. The outermost layer has a thickness of 50 to 80 μm. The second layer has a thickness of 20 to 50 μm. The arrangement prevents cracks from being formed in a monolithic ceramic capacitor when external electrodes are formed by baking and cooling, and cracks caused by fatigue failure due to low-stress cycles such as heat cycles are prevented from reaching internal electrodes.
US07859821B2	Multilayer ceramic electronic component A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes first internal electrodes extending to a first end surface of a ceramic element assembly, a plurality of second internal electrodes extending to a second end surface, floating internal electrodes arranged so as to overlap the first and second internal electrodes with ceramic layers disposed therebetween to define first and second effective regions, inner conductors that are elongated from the first end surface beyond a region that overlaps the first effective region in the direction of layering, and a relationship X1
US07859810B2	Photocoupler A photocoupler includes a light emitting device, a drive circuit; a clamp circuit and a light receiving section. For an input voltage to the input terminal being within a range between a first voltage and a second voltage, the photocoupler is allowed to enter an operation mode in which the drive circuit, in response to the digital signal inputted thereto, drives the light emitting device to convert the digital signal to the optical signal, and the electrical signal is externally outputted from the light receiving section. For an input voltage to the input terminal being outside the range between the first voltage and the second voltage, the photocoupler is allowed to enter an inspection mode in which the drive circuit stops driving the light emitting device, the first transistor of the clamp circuit is turned on, and a current generally equal or proportional to a clamp current of the clamp circuit is supplied to the light emitting device so that characteristics of the light emitting device can be measured.
US07859807B2	ESD protection circuit and method thereof An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit and method thereof is provided. The ESD protection circuit includes two clamping circuits, an inductor, a diode and a diode string. In addition to a voltage swing of an output voltage able to get rid of the influence of the ESD protection circuit, the invention reduces an ESD conduction path length and dissipates an ESD current swiftly by installing at least two clamping circuits, which significantly increases the effectiveness of the protection for large-signal circuits.
US07859795B2	Outer actuator arm constrained layer dampers Outer arm constrained layer dampers to improve actuator dynamics are disclosed. One embodiment provides a housing and disk pack mounted to the housing and having a plurality of disks that are rotatable relative to the housing. In addition, an actuator is coupled to the housing, the actuator having a plurality of suspensions arms for reaching over the plurality of disks. A first damper is coupled with an outside (or inside) portion of a top outside suspension arm of the plurality of suspensions arms. In addition, a second damper is coupled with an outside (or inside) portion of a bottom suspension arm of the plurality of suspensions arms. In so doing, vibration modes involving deformation of the top suspension arm and the bottom suspension arm are damped.
US07859794B2	Magnetic head slider and magnetic disk drive Embodiments of the present invention help to prevent, in a magnetic head slider adapted to be able to control flying height of a head element, the occurrence of excessive frictional force, even in case of contact with a magnetic disk, and suppress vibration of the slider. According to one embodiment, an air bearing surface of a magnetic head slider includes a deep groove, a shallow-trench rail about 100 nm higher than the deep groove, a rear end shoulder, two leading end pads about 1 μm higher than the deep groove, a trailing end pad about 970-995 nm higher than the deep groove, and an element pad about 5-30 nm higher than the trailing end pad and flush with the leading end pads. A head element includes a magnetic head element and a heater. The element pad has an area of 50-500 μm2, and the magnetic head element is disposed near a central section of the element pad.
US07859782B1	Selecting highest reliability sync mark in a sync mark window of a spiral servo track crossing A method is disclosed for demodulating a spiral servo track recorded on a disk of a disk drive. The spiral servo track comprises a high frequency signal interrupted by a sync mark at a sync mark interval. A demodulation window is enabled relative to a spiral servo track crossing, and a plurality of sync marks are detected in a sync mark window of the demodulation window. A reliability metric is generated for each of the detected sync marks, wherein the reliability metrics are evaluated to select one of the detected sync marks. A clock is synchronized in response to the selected sync mark.
US07859778B1	Deterministic phase mismatch correction in servo position estimation systems A method includes estimating a phase difference between components of a position signal in a servo position estimation system, and correcting the phase difference of the components of the position signal to provide a phase-compensated position signal.
US07859774B2	Objective lens actuator and a disc apparatus using the same therein An objective lens actuator which drives an objective lens in a focusing direction and a tracking direction, so as to focus lights on a recording surface of an optical disc, as a recording medium of information. The objective lens actuator includes a magnet, a lens holder which is configured to hold the objective lens thereon, and four pieces of tracking coils which are disposed in a line on a side surface of the lens holder for holding the objective lens thereon, facing to the magnet.
US07859767B2	Zoom lens and imaging device having the same A zoom lens including, in an order from an object side to an image side, a first lens group having a positive refracting power, a second lens group having a negative refracting power, and a rear group including at least one lens group, the zooming operation being performed by changing a spacing of the lens groups, wherein the zoom lens has an aperture stop and, when the second lens group is taken as a first focus group and a sub-lens group constituting a portion of one lens group of the rear group is taken as a second focus group, the lens structure and the movement amount of the first and second focus groups are set appropriately.
US07859763B2	Fixed-focus lens A fixed-focus lens includes a first, a second, and a third lens groups arranged in sequence from the enlarged side to the reduced side and having positive refractive powers. The first lens group includes a first, a second, and a third lenses from the enlarged side to the reduced side. The second lens group includes a fourth, a fifth, and a sixth lenses from the enlarged side to the reduced side. The third lens group includes a seventh lens. The lens of the first lens group closest to the enlarged side in the fixed-focus lens has a concave surface. The distance between the lens surface of the second lens group closest to the reduced side and the lens surface of the third lens group closest to the enlarged side is L1. The overall length of the fixed-focus lens is L. The fixed-focus lens satisfies 0.1
US07859745B2	Semiconductor optical amplifying device, semiconductor optical amplifying system and semiconductor optical integrated element A polarization-independent SOA having an InP substrate used as a semiconductor substrate, and an active layer taking an MQW structure formed of a barrier layer made of GaInAs with tensile strain applied thereto and a well layer made of GaInNAs with no strain applied thereto alternately laminated in a plurality of layers, here, four layers of the well layer and five layers of the barrier layer are alternately laminated, is proposed.
US07859743B2	Harmonics generating devices A harmonics generating device has a periodic domain inversion structure 18 for converting a wavelength of laser beam to generate higher harmonics. An angle θ formed by a domain inversion plane P of the periodic domain inversion structure 8 and a propagation direction L of the laser beam is from 80 degrees to 89 degrees.
US07859739B2	Interferometric modulator array with integrated MEMS electrical switches An interferometric modulator array is integrated with collapsible cavity MEMS electrical switches. The electrical switches may have similar physical geometry as the display elements. The switches may form row or column select functions for the display.
US07859737B2	Interior rearview mirror system for a vehicle An interior rearview mirror system includes an interior rearview mirror assembly including a reflective element having a transparent substrate and a multi-zone mirror reflector established at a surface thereof. The mirror reflector includes at least a first zone and a second zone, and wherein at least one metallic reflective layer is commonly established at the surface and across the first and second zones of the mirror reflector. A display device is disposed behind the second zone of the mirror reflector and, when the display device is operating to emit display information, emitted display information passes through the second zone of the mirror reflector for viewing by a driver operating the equipped vehicle. The second zone has a degree of transmissivity of light therethrough that is greater than a degree of transmissivity of light through the first zone of the mirror reflector.
US07859728B2	Two-side scanning apparatus and a method of controlling the same A two-side scanning apparatus and a method of controlling the two-side scanning apparatus including a sheet feeding roller train installed on a first side of a white roller to transfer a sheet to the white roller and including two rollers contacting each other, a sheet discharging roller train installed on a second side of the white roller opposite the sheet feeding roller train, a sheet reversing path surrounding a circumferential surface of the white roller to receive and guide the sheet being transferred from the sheet discharging roller train back between the white roller and an image sensor, and a sheet guide plate installed between the white roller and the sheet discharging roller train to pivot at a predetermined angle and to guide the sheet toward the sheet reversing path when the sheet is transferred from the sheet discharging roller train toward the white roller.
US07859723B2	Image processing to perform error diffusion with dots formed based color component values and their sum relative to a threshold Image processing apparatus and image processing method for formation of high quality image by high-speed error diffusion processing by execution of more complicated threshold condition processing in a simple manner. When error diffusion processing is performed on multivalued image data having plural density components and the result of processing is outputted, upon execution of error diffusion processing on a first density component among the plural density components, a threshold value used in the error diffusion processing is determined based on a density value of a second density component, then the error diffusion processing is performed on the first density component based on the determined threshold value, and the result of execution of the error diffusion processing is outputted. Further, upon execution of the error diffusion processing on the second density component among the plural density components, a threshold value used in the error diffusion processing is determined based on a density value of the first density component, then the error diffusion processing is performed on the second density component based on the determined threshold value, and the result of the error diffusion processing is outputted.
US07859715B2	Printing control device, printing control method, and medium recording printing control program A second printing control unit is provided. If the setting information is the information of setting for avoiding the use of Cl ink (uncolored ink), the second printing control unit refers to the same color conversion table as is used by a first printing control unit. Thereby the second printing control unit color-converts input image data into image data comprising gradation data corresponding to at least the amounts of colored inks in C, M, Y, R, V, and K consumed. The second printing control unit can carry out such control as to cause a printer (printing device) to use only the C, M, Y, R, V, and K colored ink and print a print image, using the image data.
US07859713B2	Printing control apparatus, method and printer driver Whether rendering instructions include designation of a logical operation is determined. If it is determined that the rendering instructions include designation of a logical operation, then the rendering instructions are developed into multivalued bitmap data every single line of the input rendering instructions and the multivalued bitmap data is subjected to color processing and binarization processing. When the rendering instructions do not include designation of a logical operation, color processing and binarization processing is executed for every color of the rendering instructions, whereby a brush is created and stored in advance. The brush is pasted into an applicable area of the rendering instructions to achieve development into binary bitmap data.
US07859711B2	Image tiling in ink jet printing systems A system or method of removing whitespace between tiled or repeated patterns generated during a printing operation. The system takes an initial image and determines if there exist extraneous bits of whitespace around the edge of actual image. Once this information is established, the printer application program uses that information to alter the tiled output accordingly to produce a seamless image with repeated or tiled patterns of the actual image.
US07859699B2	Method of generating E-mail message A method for generating a message that is intended to be sent to a destination is provided. The method comprises: (i) sending a page identity to a printer unit, the page identity being indicative of an address that corresponds to the destination; (ii) printing on a sheet of paper, using the printer unit, a position-coding pattern and the address; (iii) generating digital ink, comprising a sequence of strokes, by writing on the sheet of paper with an optically imaging pen, the pen being capable of detecting positions on the sheet of paper by reading the position-coding pattern; (iv) recording the page identity from the printed sheet using the pen; and (v) generating the message using the digital ink and the address obtained from the page identity.
US07859692B2	System and method for developing a configuration for a combination of two or more printshops A system is provided for forming a print shop configuration with a first set of equipment, the first set of equipment being derived from a second set of equipment from a first print shop and a third set of equipment from a second print shop. The system includes a manager and application, the manager and application working together to generate a list of at least some of all possible print shop configurations that could be formed with a selected number of cells. The cells are populated with selected pieces of equipment from the second and third sets of multiple pieces of equipment. A criterion is used to select, from the list of possible print shop configurations, the print shop configuration with the first set of equipment.
US07859691B2	Printer having Bi-level operational modes A process enables a user to alter all the operational modes of a printer through a single parameter selection. The process includes selecting a group of operational parameter sets for a print process, the group selection being made with reference to one of an operational mode and a characteristic parameter; and selecting a set of operational parameters from the selected group of operational parameter sets, the set selection being made with reference to the other of the operational mode and the characteristic parameter.
US07859680B2	Optical image measurement device An optical image measuring device forms an image of an object to be measured based on a result of light-receiving by a light-receiving part. This optical image measuring device comprises: a specifying part configured to specify the light irradiated state to the light-receiving surface of a light-receiving part via a light guiding part and a dispersion part; and an altering part configured to alter the relative position and/or direction between a light-receiving surface and the exit end of light from the light guiding part, based on the light irradiated state.
US07859679B2	System, method and arrangement which can use spectral encoding heterodyne interferometry techniques for imaging Systems, arrangements and methods for obtaining three-dimensional imaging data are provided. For example, a broadband light source can provide a particular radiation. A first electro-magnetic radiation can be focused and diffracted, and then provided to at least one sample to generate a spectrally-encoded line. A second electro-magnetic radiation may be provided to a reference, which may include a double-pass rapidly-scanning optical delay, where the first and second electro-magnetic radiations can be based on the particular radiation. An interference between a third electro-magnetic radiation (associated with the first electro-magnetic radiation) and a fourth electro-magnetic radiation (associated with the second electro-magnetic radiation) can be detected. The spectrally-encoded line may be scanned over the sample in a direction approximately perpendicular to the line. Image data containing three-dimensional information can then be obtained based on the interference. The exemplary imaging methods and systems can be used in a small fiber optic or endoscopic probe.
US07859676B2	Plasmon tomography Plasmon energy is produced by exciting a plasmon resonance at least one excitation position on a first surface of a first material, and the plasmon energy is detected at at least one measurement position on the first surface after the plasmon energy has propagated from the at least one excitation position to the at least one measurement position. An attenuation of plasmon energy is determined along a plurality of paths between the at least one excitation position and the at least one measurement position, and relative distances between the first surface and a second surface of a second material are determined at a plurality of points on at least one of the surfaces based on the determined attenuation of plasmon energy along the plurality of paths.
US07859671B2	Method for determining optical properties of turbid media There is provided a method for improving contrast and resolution of an optical image of an object obtained by time-resolved techniques such as Time Domain (TD) and Frequency Domain (FD). The method comprises obtaining a Temporal Point Spread Function (TPSF), and determining optical properties of volumes of interest (VOI), each volume being defined by an ensemble of equiprobable effective photon paths corresponding to a time point or time gate of the TPSF.
US07859670B2	System and method for detecting fluorescence in microfluidic chip A system and a method for detecting fluorescence in a microfluidic chip having a microchamber and measuring the amount of the fluorescence are disclosed. In the system and method, an optical device detects fluorescence generated by a fluorescent material. The position of the outer circumference of a microfluidic chip is identified based on the change of the amount of the detected fluorescence. Then, the position of a microchannel is calculated based on the position of the outer circumference of the microfluidic chip and the distance between the outer circumference and the microchamber. Hence, the amount of the fluorescence only generated from the microchamber of the microfluidic chip is automatically calculated. Further, a plurality of samples can be analyzed at the same time, thereby reducing analysis time and cost.
US07859667B2	Slide misload detection system and method A system and method for determining whether one or more slides are loaded properly within a cassette. Each slide includes one or more transparent regions and one or more non-transparent regions. The slides are between a light source and a sensor. The light source generates light that is directed towards the sensor through the slides. If the sensor is able to detect light from the light source, then the slides are properly loaded in the cassette. Slides are not properly loaded if the light is blocked by a non-transparent region before reaching the sensor. The sensor or a separate controller can generate a signal or data to provide an indication to a user or to processing equipment that the slides are or are not properly loaded. For example, a speaker or an indicator light can be used to provide an indication to the user. The signal or data can also be used for other functions, such as displaying a message on a screen indicating whether the slides are properly loaded.
US07859652B2	Sight-line end estimation device and driving assist device A sight-line end estimation device includes a sight-line direction detection portion that detects a sight-line direction of a driver of a vehicle, a target object detection portion that detects the positions of target objects existing around the vehicle, a relative position acquisition portion that acquires relative positional information between the driver and the target object detection portion, and a sight-line end estimation portion that estimates the driver's sight-line end by detecting a target object whose position detected by the target object detection portion lies substantially in the driver's sight-line direction detected by the sight-line direction detection portion, factoring in the relative positional information acquired by the relative position acquisition portion.
US07859650B2	Method, device, and computer program for determining a range to a target A method, device, and computer program for determining range to a target is disclosed. Specifically, the invention provides a method, device and computer program for determining a second range to a target based on a first range to the target and an angle to the target such that the parabolic trajectory of a projectile is accounted for in determining the second range. The device generally includes a range sensor for determining a first range to a target, a tilt sensor for determining an angle to the target, and a computing element for determining a second range to the target based on the first range and the determined angle.
US07859642B2	Apparatus and method for exposing edge of substrate An apparatus and method for exposing an edge of a substrate are disclosed, in which an exposure time period for exposing the edge of the substrate is reduced. The apparatus for exposing an edge of a substrate includes a loading unit loading the substrate, and an edge exposure unit exposing the edge of the substrate loaded by the loading unit using each of a long side exposure unit and a short side exposure unit. Therefore, since the edge of the substrate is exposed using each of the long side exposure unit and the short side exposure unit, it is possible to reduce the edge exposure time period, thereby improving productivity. In addition, since no rotation of the substrate is required, it is possible to reduce the size of the apparatus. Moreover, since the apparatus is provided in an in-line type, it is possible to easily draw the substrate using a conveyer.
US07859641B2	Optical element module An optical element module comprising a plurality of module components is provided. The module components comprise an optical element, an optical element holder and a contact element. The optical element has a first coefficient of thermal expansion. The optical element holder holds the optical element via the first contact element and has a second coefficient of thermal expansion, the second coefficient of thermal expansion being different from the first coefficient of thermal expansion. At least one of the module components is adapted to provide at least a reduction of forces introduced into the optical element upon a thermally induced position change in the relative position between the optical element and the optical element holder, the position change resulting from a temperature situation variation in a temperature situation of the plurality of module components.
US07859638B2	Method for driving liquid crystal light modulating device, and liquid crystal light modulating device The present invention provides a driving method using a liquid crystal light modulating device including transparent electrodes which each have a horizontally alignment film; and a liquid crystal composition which contains at least a chiral dopant, a dichroic dye and a host liquid crystal. The transparent electrodes face each other to have a cell gap having a width of 10 μm or less therebetween. The liquid crystal composition is filled into the cell gap, and has a positive dielectric constant anisotropy. The driving method attains display-switching by (a) applying a higher voltage than a threshold voltage of the liquid crystal composition into the device so as to be transparent and colorless, (b) applying a lower voltage than a threshold voltage so as to be light-scattered white, or (c) applying no voltage so as to be colored.
US07859635B2	Liquid crystal display panel and manufacturing method thereof A liquid crystal display panel includes two substrates fixed together by a seal member with their main surfaces opposed to each other, liquid crystal sealingly stored in a region surrounded by the two substrates and the seal member, and a plurality of columnar spacers arranged in a region surrounded by the two substrates and the seal member. A number density of the columnar spacers in a low-density region near the inner side of the seal member is smaller than that in a high-density region inside the low-density region. The substrate with the spacer has the substrate and the spacer formed on the substrate. The spacer has at least a first spacer portion, and a second spacer portion formed above the first spacer portion. An upper portion of the first spacer has a larger diameter than a bottom of the second spacer portion.
US07859633B2	Multi-layer flexible film package and liquid crystal display device including the same A multi-layer flexible film package which shields electromagnetic waves, prevents electrostatic discharge, and at the same time, performs a heat radiation function, and a liquid crystal display device having the same, include an insulating film having circuit patterns and internal ground wiring lines at a first side thereof, an insulating layer formed on the circuit patterns and the internal ground wiring lines, a driver integrated circuit (“IC”) electrically connected to the circuit patterns and the internal ground wiring lines, a ground layer formed on a second side opposite the first side of the insulating film and connected to the internal ground wiring lines, and via holes formed through the insulating film and electrically connecting the internal ground wiring lines and the ground layer.
US07859632B2	Display device with wide and narrow viewing angle modes A display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate facing the first substrate, first to third electrodes formed on the first substrate, and a fourth electrode formed on the second substrate, wherein the first and second substrates include a main display region and an assistance display region, wherein the first and second electrodes form a horizontal electric field that is substantially parallel to the surfaces of the first and the second insulating substrates, and the third and fourth electrodes form a vertical electric field that is substantially perpendicular to the surfaces of the first and second substrates.
US07859626B2	Semi-transmissive vertical alignment liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display includes: first and second substrates with a transmissive region and a reflective region defined thereon; a reflection layer formed at the reflective region of the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer formed between the first and second substrates; a common electrode formed on the second substrate; an alignment layer formed on the second substrate and rubbed in one direction; a pixel electrode formed on the first substrate to form an electric field together with the common electrode to drive the liquid crystal layer, and having at least one electric field controller to control the direction of the electric field; and a vertical alignment layer formed on the first substrate.
US07859624B2	Alignment films in a liquid crystal display device with polymer mixture and a method of manufacturing the same A liquid crystal display device including a pair of substrates in a spaced relationship with one another. A pair of alignment films are provided, one alignment film being formed on each substrate such that the alignment films face one another. A liquid crystal layer; including plural liquid crystals, is inserted between the pair of alignment films, wherein the alignment films impart a given pre-tilt angle to the liquid crystals. The alignment films are composed of a material containing at least two types of polymers having a prescribed initial alignment and different alignment variation rates in response to ultraviolet ray irradiation. The pre-tilt angle being adjusted, without rubbing the alignment films, through ultraviolet exposure of the alignment films.
US07859620B2	Liquid crystal display A liquid crystal display is furnished with: a liquid crystal display element having a pair of substrates, to which alignment members are provided to their respective opposing surfaces, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched by the pair of substrates; an alignment mechanism for providing at least two different director configurations simultaneously on different arbitrary regions used for display in the liquid crystal layer; and a reflection film provided to at least one of the different arbitrary regions showing different director configurations; wherein the different arbitrary regions showing different director configurations are used for a reflection display section for showing reflection display and a transmission display section for showing transmission display, respectively. Examples of the alignment mechanism include an alignment film to which the alignment treatment is applied in different orientations in the reflection display section and transmission display section, respectively, an insulation film having different film thicknesses in the reflection display section and transmission display section, and so forth.
US07859619B2	Liquid crystal display device A transflective liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel including first and second substrates and a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates, the liquid crystal panel including a plurality of pixel regions each including a pixel electrode; a polarizing plate on an outer surface of the second substrate and having a polarizing axis of a first direction; a selective reflection plate on an outer surface of the first substrate and having a polarizing axis of a second direction, the selective reflection plate reflecting a light having an optical axis different from the second direction; a backlight unit on an outer surface of the selective reflection plate; a gamma reference voltage generating circuit including first and second portions, the first portion generating first gamma reference voltages in a reflective mode, the second portion generating second gamma reference voltages in a transmissive mode; a data driving circuit supplying a data voltage to the pixel electrode using the first and second gamma reference voltages in the reflective and transmissive modes, respectively, wherein the pixel region is a reflective region in the reflective mode, and the pixel region is a transmissive region in the transmissive mode.
US07859617B2	Display with variable reflectivity A device may include a light source and a display. The display may include a switchable device configured to be in a transmissive state based on a first condition and be in a reflective state based on a second condition.
US07859615B2	Display device having ultraviolet ray transmitting small holes included in a wiring electrode disposed in the peripheral region of the display but not where a seal member is disposed In a display apparatus that has a polymer dispersed liquid crystal material 25 encapsulated in a gap between a completed first substrate 1 and a completed second substrate 11 by using a sealing member 26 and has a display region M and a peripheral region N in a region where the polymer dispersed liquid crystal material 25 is encapsulated, a wiring electrode 19 having light shielding properties is provided in at least a part of the peripheral region N of the completed second substrate 11, and an ultraviolet ray transmitting portion 19a that transmits an ultraviolet ray therethrough is provided in the peripheral region where the wiring electrode 19 is provided. An ultraviolet ray is applied from the substrate side where the ultraviolet ray transmitting portion 19a is provided to polymerize a monomer in the peripheral region N. The ultraviolet ray transmitting portion is formed of, e.g., a plurality of small holes, and the small holes are dispersedly arranged at equal intervals.
US07859614B2	Light emitting diode package having dual lens structure and backlight for liquid crystal display device implementing the same Disclosed is a liquid crystal display (LCD) device in which low power LEDs with a dual lens structure re configured for application in a backlight device to increase the optical efficiency at low power, thus enhancing the brightness, such LCD device including: a lower cover; PCBs (Printed Circuit Boards) disposed on the lower cover for receiving power from the exterior; a main body mounted on the PCBs; R, G and B LED (Light Emitting Diode) devices disposed on the main body for emitting light; a first lens having a first curvature and mounted on the main body and housing the R, G and B LED devices; a second lens covering the outside of the first lens and having an inner curved surface with a second curvature having a varying radius of curvature, and an outer curved surface with a third curvature, wherein the second curvature of the inner curved surface is gradually increased from an edge portion toward a central portion; and a liquid crystal panel spaced apart from the second lens by a certain interval and to which light is provided.
US07859613B2	Liquid crystal display device having a light source disposed on a lateral side of a light guide plate The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display device connecting between an inverter and a lamp without a solder, the liquid crystal display device comprising a liquid crystal display panel; a light source providing light to the rear of the liquid crystal display panel, and comprising a light source body in the shape of the column and a light source electrode disposed at the both ends of the light source body; an inverter providing power for the light source; a light source wire connecting between the inverter and the light source electrode, and having a connecting terminal ring-shaped at the one end; an electric conduction terminal having an electrode inserting cavity for accommodating the light source electrode at the one end and a coupling cavity for coupling with a coupling means passing through the connecting terminal ring-shaped at the other end; and a coupling member having a electric conduction terminal accommodating hole exposing the electrode inserting cavity and the coupling cavity of the electric conduction terminal by accommodating the electric conduction terminal. Thus, the present invention provides a liquid crystal display device enhanced the production and efficiency on the assembly process.
US07859604B2	Pad area and method of fabricating the same A pad area and a method of fabricating the same, wherein the pad area is formed on a substrate to contact a chip on glass (COG) or a chip on flexible printed circuit (COF) with the substrate. Changing a lower structure of the pad area increases contact points between conductive balls and an interconnection layer or reduces a step difference between an interconnection layer and a passivation layer to enhance and ensure electrical connection.
US07859588B2	Method and apparatus for operating a dual lens camera to augment an image An electronic camera for producing an output image of a scene from a captured image signal includes a first imaging stage comprising a first image sensor for generating a first sensor output and a first lens for forming a first image of the scene on the first image sensor, and a second imaging stage comprising a second image sensor for generating a second sensor output and a second lens for forming a second image of the scene on the second image sensor. The sensor output from the first imaging stage is used as a primary output image for forming the captured image signal and the sensor output from the second imaging stage is used as a secondary output image for modifying the primary output image, thereby generating an enhanced, captured image signal.
US07859587B2	Solid-state image pickup device In a solid-state image pickup device, it is difficult to match an optimum incidence angle corresponding to an image height of a pixel array region with light incidence characteristics of a camera lens, thereby causing image quality deterioration due to sensitivity shading. Respective microlenses are disposed in a two-dimensional manner, i.e., in a row and a column directions. In particular, the microlenses are disposed such that each side of a disposition region where the microlenses are disposed has a concave curve with respect to a line connecting adjacent vertexes of the disposition region. In other words, a distance AH (AV) between center points of a pair of facing sides of the disposition region is set to be smaller than a distance BH (BV) between neighboring vertexes of the disposition region.
US07859586B2	Solid-state imaging device, its production method, camera with the solid-state imaging device, and light receiving chip Provided is a light-receiving chip whose transparent protection plate has an area equal to or smaller than an area of the light-receiving chip, and which does not require a base portion for mounting. Provision of the light-receiving chip contributes to reduction in size and weight of cameras. In addition, provision of a solid-state imaging apparatus having excellent productivity contributes to reduction in price of cameras. A solid-state imaging apparatus (10) having: a solid-state imaging device (11) (a light-receiving chip) provided with a plurality of light-receiving cells arranged either one dimensionally or two dimensionally on one main surface of a base substrate; and a transparent protection plate (12) provided to cover a light-receiving area (18) (the plurality of light-receiving cells), where an area of the transparent protection plate is equal to or smaller than an area of the light-receiving chip, and a space (20) is formed between the light-receiving cells and the transparent protection plate.
US07859578B2	Recording apparatus and control method thereof A recording apparatus is able to suppress instances in which the user misses shutter opportunities or has to abort shooting due to insufficient remaining capacity on a recording medium. When the remaining capacity of the recording medium falls below a threshold, the user is allowed to set a desired recording duration. If it is determined that recording for the set desired recording duration at the target encoding data rate currently set is not possible, recording for the desired recording duration is enabled by automatically setting a recording mode that corresponds to a lower target encoding data rate, for example.
US07859573B2	Methods and apparatuses for image exposure correction Methods and apparatuses for image exposure include capturing a first image under a first illumination condition, determining a luminance of the first image at a plurality of sectors, capturing a second image under a second illumination condition employing an artificial light source, determining a luminance of the second image at the plurality of sectors, and determining if the artificial light source should be used to capture a final image using the luminances of the first and second images at the plurality of sectors. If the artificial light source is to be used, an output level of the light source is determined.
US07859572B2	Enhancing digital images using secondary optical systems Apparatuses and methods for enhancing a “primary” large format, digital, macro-image with “secondary” image data are provided. The secondary image data is collected utilizing one or more secondary optical systems having at least one electro-optical detector array (e.g., a CCD array) and a specific set of optical mirrors or optical prisms, arranged in such a way that the secondary optical systems extend the angular angle-of-view of the primary optical system and the resultant digital image in at least two opposing directions, for instance, in the left and right and/or fore and aft directions. The primary image data and the secondary image data may be distinct and/or may include portions that overlap with one another. Further, the primary image data and the secondary image data may be collected at the same or different resolutions. The collected primary image data and secondary image data are utilized to generate a single output image.
US07859568B2	Image capturing processing method and system for performing roll correction A roll correction section (21) performs correction to an image captured by a camera (11). A region limiting section (15) limits image data of an image in an upper region of the image and outputs the image data and a roll amount detection section (13) detects, from the limited and output image data, a roll amount of the image. A roll correction section (21) performs correction based on the detected roll amount.
US07859567B2	Arrangement for and method of projecting a color image by switching scan directions in alternate frames A lightweight, compact image projection module, especially for mounting in a housing having a light-transmissive window, is operative for causing selected pixels in a raster pattern of scan lines to be illuminated to produce an image of high resolution in color. The direction of scanning of the scan lines is switched between alternate frames, and the resulting image is the superposition of successive frames integrated for viewing by the human eye.
US07859566B2	Arrangement of a first and at least a second additional vehicle in a loosely couplable not track bound train A vehicle train assembly including a first vehicle and at least one further vehicle in a loosely coupleable not-track-bound train where, in particular, a combination of a manned master vehicle and an unmanned slave vehicle is provided, wherein the order that the master vehicle is in, either in front of or behind the slave vehicle, can be selected. Both vehicle types (i.e., master, slave) can be without functional impact whether manned or unmanned. The technical equipment of the vehicle can be so provided that it is selectable which vehicle can be used as master vehicle or slave vehicle. The application is, however, not limited to mine search and clearance vehicles.
US07859555B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus according to this invention prevents adverse effects on peripheral circuits and speeds up data transfer by preventing a mutual interference among signals. In the image forming apparatus, a transfer controller which converts into a differential serial data pair (data+/−) multiplex data td [6:0] multiplexed from head data vd [7:0], a head control signal vctl [3:0], a data enable signal dten, and a control enable signal cten, converts as well a clock signal clk into a differential clock signal pair (clk+/−), and transfers those differential serial data pair and differential clock signal pair to an LED head via a cable. The LED head receives both of the differential serial data pair and the differential clock signal pair to separate those pairs into head data hd [7:0], head control signal hctl [3:0], and data transfer clock hclk.
US07859541B2	Apparatus, system, and method for using page table entries in a graphics system to provide storage format information for address translation A graphics system utilizes page table entries to provide information on the storage format used to store graphics data. The page table entries, in turn, may be used for address translation. Exemplary kinds of storage format information include compression mode, a packing mode for storing Z data in tiles or color data in tiles, and a mode for allocating tile data among partitions in a partitioned memory.
US07859534B2	Measuring device, graphics generating method, program and recording medium There is provided a measuring device including an EVM measuring unit 32 which measures, in association with time, a physical quantity (EVM) of an RF signal, which uses different frequency bands according to time, a used band determining unit 36 which determines the type of the frequency band used by the RF signal in association with time, an EVM graph generating unit 42 which generates an EVM graph used to display an EVM on a display device 49 in association with a time axis, and a band graph generating unit 46 which generates a band graph used to display the type of the frequency band on the display device 49 in association with the time axis, where the band graph is a graphic having a predetermined height in a direction vertical to the time axis.
US07859525B2	Display apparatus Provided is a display apparatus capable of reducing the scale of a drive circuit and decreasing the frame. A display area in which pixels are provided in matrix, a scanning line drive circuit for driving scanning lines, and a signal line drive circuit for driving signal lines are provided on a support substrate. The pixel within the display area is constituted with a plurality of dots. Each dot corresponds to a color filter of a certain color. The dot is in a laterally long shape, i.e. in a shape extending in a direction along the scanning lines. In other words, each dot is in a shape extending in parallel with the longitudinal direction of the signal line drive circuit. The color filters are of lateral stripe type, for example.
US07859523B2	Direct navigation of two-dimensional control using a three-dimensional pointing device Direct and absolute pointing is provided for with respect to a two-dimensional information display surface, much like how one would point a laser pointer or flashlight at a desired point. The displayed control may be moved by manipulating the pointing device in three dimensions. The translational position of the pointing device may be measured in three dimensions. Also, the three-dimensional orientation of the pointing device may be measured. A computing device may receive this information from the pointing device and determine where the pointing device is pointing to. If the pointing device is pointing at a display, then the computing device may cause the control to be displayed at the position to which the pointing device is pointing. In addition, the control may be displayed at an orientation that depends upon the orientation of the pointing device.
US07859517B2	Computer input device for automatically scrolling A computer input device includes a body and a trace-detecting module coupled to the body. The body has a micro control unit (MCU), and the trace-detecting module has at least a light pervious area, and a trace-detecting unit. The trace-detecting unit further has at least a light source and a sensor. The sensor senses a reflected light beam caused by movement of a user's digit movement on the light pervious area at a velocity which can be sensed by the sensor. If the velocity exceeds a threshold stored in the MCU, the MCU executes automatically scrolling at a predetermined scrolling speed.
US07859510B2	Liquid crystal display device A first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, a fourth transistor are provided. In the first transistor, a first terminal is electrically connected to a first wiring; a second terminal is electrically connected to a gate terminal of the second transistor; a gate terminal is electrically connected to a fifth wiring. In the second transistor, a first terminal is electrically connected to a third wiring; a second terminal is electrically connected to a sixth wiring. In the third transistor, a first terminal is electrically connected to a second wiring; a second terminal is electrically connected to the gate terminal of the second transistor; a gate terminal is electrically connected to a fourth wiring. In the fourth transistor, a first terminal is electrically connected to the second wiring; a second terminal is electrically connected to the sixth wiring; a gate terminal is connected to the fourth wiring.
US07859505B2	Output buffer of a source driver in a liquid crystal display having a high slew rate and a method of controlling the output buffer Provided is an output buffer for a source driver of an LCD with a high slew rate, and a method of controlling the output buffer. The output buffer, which outputs a source line driving signal for driving a source line of the LCD, includes: an amplifier section amplifying an analog image signal; an output section outputting the source line driving signal in response to a signal amplified by the amplifier section; and a slew rate controller section, setting a capacitance of a capacitor section to a first capacitance, during a first charge sharing period in which the source line is precharged to a first precharge voltage, setting the capacitance of the capacitor section to a second capacitance smaller than the first capacitance during a second charge sharing period in which the source line driving signal is supplied to the source line, and setting the capacitance of the capacitor section to the first capacitance while the source line driving signal is maintained after the second charge sharing period.
US07859484B2	Three-dimensional display apparatus A three-dimensional display apparatus is provided that is suitable for displaying information or instruction relating to the work that the viewer is doing. The three-dimensional display apparatus has a display data generation unit for generating a plurality of display data each expressing a screen at a depth from a viewpoint of a viewer in a three-dimensional space and a lens driving unit for varying the focal length of the variable focal length lenses according to the depth of the display data generated by the display data generation unit. The display data generation unit generates the display data each expressing a different depth and causing a plurality of virtual images of the light emitting points appropriate to the depth to be perceived as being overlapped. The lens driving unit controls the focal length of the variable focal length lenses according to the depth of the display data generated by the display data generation unit in synchronization with displaying the display data on the display unit by the display driving unit.
US07859463B2	Method of detection in bistatic mode using non-cooperative passive radio transmissions The invention relates to the field of electromagnetic detection systems operating in bistatic mode, in particular to UHF/VHF bistatic radars. The method according to the invention consists in the simultaneous use of signals transmitted by one or more transmitting sources on separate frequency channels. The method includes a step of multichannel reception and separating channels. Additionally, the method includes a step of analysis of the signals received channel by channel, wherein the analysis is performed by correlation of the signals received with copies of the time and frequency shifted reference signals. The reference signals are constituted by the signals received from transmitting sources by direct transmission with a step of integration of the signals analysed, channel by channel, and a step of detection. The method according to the invention enables a signal to be used whose band-width is equal to the band covered by the set of channels used, which improves the contrast and distance resolution of the system implementing said method compared with the systems known from prior art.
US07859462B2	Locating a roving position receiver in a location network The system comprises a positioning-unit device (PUD) that receives, from other PUDs and other signal sources, one or more positioning signals, which each have carrier, code and data componcuts. In response to the received positioning signals and using their known locations, the PUD generates a unique positioning signal, which similarly has carrier, code and data components, all of which are respectively chronologically synchronized to the counterpart components of the received positioning signals. Once synchronized, other PUDs entering the network use the unique positioning signal as a reference, providing a time-coherent network of positioning signals that propagate a reference timebase over a geographical area. The invention also includes a roving position receiver that generates both code and carrier-based single point position determinations by making respective range measurements for each of the received chronologically synchronized code and carrier components, without the requirement for differential correction or absolute time accuracy within the network.
US07859461B2	Method for detecting navigation beacon signals using two antennas or equivalent thereof A method for detecting a plurality of navigation beacon signals by using either two antennas or a synthetic aperture antenna for receiving a plurality of distinct measurements, and combining the plurality of distinct measurements using a plurality of antenna weight components to form an interference cancellation beam. In one embodiment, the plurality of antenna weight components is determined by eigenvalue processing. In another embodiment, the plurality of antenna weight components is determined by simplified processing. In another aspect, a single antenna is used for receiving an originally received measurement. A copy of the originally received measurement is made and processed to achieve the proper time delay to emulate spatial diversity. The originally received measurement and the processed copy are combined to form an interference cancellation beam.
US07859460B2	Switched beam-forming apparatus and method using multi-beam combining scheme Provided is a switched beam-forming apparatus which includes a beam-forming unit forming a plurality of beams using an array antenna, a beam selection adjusting unit measuring Quality of Service (QoS) values of each of a plurality of signals received through the plurality of beams, a beam selecting unit selecting at least two beams with high QoS from among the plurality of beams according to the results of the QoS measuring, and a beam combining unit combining the at least two beams selected by the beam selecting unit.
US07859448B1	Terrain avoidance system and method using weather radar for terrain database generation An aircraft weather radar system can be used with a terrain avoidance system to provide a terrain database. The weather radar system includes a processor and/or other electronics coupled to an antenna. The processor determines terrain data based on weather radar returns received from the antenna. The processor can utilize a variety of techniques for determining terrain data or estimates.
US07859444B2	D-A converter and D-A converting method Provided is a DA converter that converts an input digital signal into an analog signal, comprising an integrator that outputs an integration value of the digital signal for each cycle of a constant period; a level comparing section that makes a comparison to detect whether the integration value output by the integrator is in an excessive state of being greater than a prescribed reference value; a feedback section that subtracts a predetermined value from the integration value, based on the comparison result from the level comparing section; a timing information generating section that generates, for each cycle, timing information of a change point, at which a transition to the excessive state occurs, with units of temporal resolution shorter than the constant period, based on the integration value output by the integrator for the cycle and the integration value output by the integrator for an immediately prior cycle; a timing generating section that generates a pulse signal with units of temporal resolution shorter than the constant period based on the timing information; and a signal processing section that generates the analog signal based on the pulse signal.
US07859432B2	Collision avoidance system based on detection of obstacles in blind spots of vehicle The present invention relates to a collision avoidance system based on the detection of obstacles (e.g., other vehicles and obstructive objects) in the blind spots of a vehicle. The collision avoidance system includes: a turn signal lamp detector for detecting an activation of a turn signal lamp of the vehicle; a charge-coupled device (CCD) camera for capturing an image for a road environment, outputting the captured image as road environment data, and measuring a winding or curvature degree of a current road; a steering angle detector for detecting a steering angle of the vehicle and outputting a resulting signal as a steering angle signal; an infrared sensor for transmitting or receiving infrared light to or from an obstacle present in a blind spot of the vehicle, and outputting an obstacle detection signal; a warning device configured to warn the possibility of collision between the obstacle and the vehicle to a driver; and a controller configured to operate the warning device upon detection of the activation of the turn signal lamp by the turn signal lamp detector, followed by activation of the infrared sensor to determine presence of an obstacle in the blind spot, the controller further configured to operate the warning device upon detection of a progress of lane change based on comparison between the road environment data and the steering angle signal output, followed by activation of the infrared sensor to determine presence of an obstacle in the blind spot.
US07859430B2	LED road traffic signal light An LED road traffic signal light equipped with symbol patterning by chromaticity where a color-blind person can distinguish between red and yellow LED signal lights even at a predetermined distance without causing entire mixture discoloring. A red LED signal light comprising a group of LED elements emitting red light, wherein the group of LED elements is mixed with an identification LED element having a chromaticity different from that of the red LED element, or mixed with an identification LED element having a different luminance, or mixed with an identification LED element combining different chromaticity and luminance, thus constituting an LED road traffic signal light which can be distinguished by both physically unimpaired person and color-blind person.
US07859418B2	Apparatus, system and method for sensing to locate persons in a building in the event of a disaster An apparatus, system and method that assesses the number and location of persons in a building. The invention may include none, one, two or more emitters, at least one sensor that senses reflected radiation indicative of a modification to the emitted radiation from multiple ones of the at least two emitters, and a communicative network, wherein sensing data from the at least one doppler sensor is forwarded to a remote central hub that manipulates the sensing data to an indication of the number and the location of the persons in the building. The sensors of the present invention may be, for example, doppler sensors, or any like sensor that senses biologically caused fluctuations within a monitored environment.
US07859416B2	Method and system of attaching a RFID tag to an object Methods and systems of attaching a RFID tag to an object. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are systems comprising a substrate having a pendant portion and an attachment portion, a radio frequency identification (RFID) circuit disposed on the substrate, and a tag antenna coupled to the RFID circuit and disposed on the substrate. The attachment portion of the substrate is configured to couple to an object and the pendant portion is configured to extend away from the object.
US07859414B2	Tag antenna and tag A tag antenna is composed of a dielectric spacer, and an antenna pattern which is formed on one of surfaces of the spacer and has a size smaller than one half of a wavelength at an operating frequency, and in which a slit pattern suitable for the resistance and the capacitive components of a chip to be mounted is formed.
US07859412B2	System and method of monitoring modules of printing machines utilizing RFID tags A module monitoring system and related method includes a plurality of nodes and a server component. Each node of the plurality of nodes is in operative communication with a network and with at least one RFID attached to a module. Each node of the plurality of nodes is a node type and at least two nodes of the plurality of nodes are different node types. A node of the at least two nodes is a printer-based node and is associated with a printing machine. The node associated with the printing machine is also in operative communication with a local RFID tag attached to a corresponding module. The server component includes a network interface and an analysis component. The network interface is in operative communication with the network and communicates with the at least two nodes utilizing the network. The analysis component utilizes the network interface to communicate with the node such that the analysis component is additionally in operative communication with the local RFID tag attached to the corresponding module. The node associated with the printing machine operatively interrogates the local RFID tag to retrieve information relating to the corresponding module and communicates the information to the server component.
US07859407B2	Wide exit/entrance electronic article surveillance antenna system An electronic article surveillance antenna system with wide interrogation zones has a number of core transceiver antennas with each connectable to a transmitter. The core transceiver antennas are adapted to be installed adjacent a ceiling of the wide interrogation zone and generate an interrogation signal into the wide interrogation zone. The core transceiver antennas each are connectable to a receiver to receive and detect a response signal from an electronic surveillance marker disposed in the wide interrogation zone. The system also has transceiver antenna coils with each connectable to the transmitter and adapted to be installed adjacent a floor of the wide interrogation zone. The transceiver antenna coils generate the interrogation signal into the wide interrogation zone and each is also connectable to the receiver to receive and detect the response signal from the electronic surveillance marker disposed in the wide interrogation zone.
US07859405B2	Wireless sensing device and wireless network sensing system A wireless sensing device includes a processing module, a wireless communication module, at least one sensing element, a power module and a power-monitoring module. The wireless communication module is electrically connected with the processing module to transmit or receive a wireless communication signal. The sensing element is electrically connected with the processing module to transmit a sensing signal to the processing module. The power module is electrically connected with and supplies a power to the processing module, the wireless communication module and the sensing element. The power-monitoring module is electrically connected with the processing module and the power module to transmit a power-monitoring signal to the processing module.
US07859401B2	Addressing scheme for smart wireless medical sensor networks A wireless body network (8) for monitoring a patient (16, 32), the wireless body network (8) includes at least one wireless unit (10, 12, 14, 34, 36, 38, 40) coupled to the patient (16, 32) configured to collect and transmit data to the wireless body network related to one physiological function of the patient. The wireless unit (10, 12, 14, 34, 36, 38, 40) employs an addressing scheme (80), including a patient identification field (82) that contains a patient identification number that is unique to the wireless body network; at least one of a service type field (84) that contains a service type and a point type field (86) that indicates whether the wireless unit (10, 12, 14, 34, 36, 38, 40) provides a service or consumes a service; and a point identification field (88) that distinguishes one wireless unit (10, 12, 14, 34, 36, 38, 40) from another when the patient identification field (82), the service type field (84) and the point type field (88) are identical. A physical device (22, 24, 26, 28) is configured to communicate with the wireless unit (10, 12, 14, 34, 36, 38, 40) utilizing the addressing scheme (80).
US07859394B1	Shift light system and method A shift light system and method are described. The shift light system has an RGB illumination device that has configurable illumination states with one or more illumination states coupled to a processing unit wherein the one or more illumination states having one of a different color and a different color sequence that correspond to one or more states of the vehicle as indicated by the at least two vehicle generated signals.
US07859393B2	Tire sensor system and tire used for the same Electromagnetic field transmissions between a sensor unit mounted on the inside surface of a tire and a sensor control unit mounted on the vehicle body are attenuated by the wall surface of a tire disposed between the units, and sensitivity is reduced. A booster antenna (18) is embedded in the tire wall surface between the sensor unit (6) and the sensor control unit (10). The booster antenna (18) is a coil antenna, and is configured so that the resonance frequency, which corresponds to the impedance and capacitance component of the booster antenna coil, corresponds to the frequency f0 of the transmission electromagnetic field of the sensor control unit (10). The booster antenna (18) is disposed in a position in which a magnetic coupling is formed with the coil antenna of the sensor unit (6), and transmissions via the electromagnetic field between the sensor unit (6) and the sensor control unit (10) are carried out through the booster antenna (18).
US07859392B2	System and method for monitoring and updating speed-by-street data System and method for identifying speeding violations, comprising determining a current speed and a current location of a vehicle, determining a posted speed limit for the current location from a speed-by-street database, comparing the current speed of the vehicle to the posted speed limit, and evaluating whether the current speed exceeds the posted speed limit. Errors are identified in the speed-by-street database by storing a plurality of speeding violation records, wherein the speeding violation records each include a speeding event location; analyzing the speeding violation records to identify one or more speeding event locations having multiple speeding violations; comparing a posted speed limit at the one or more speeding event locations having multiple speeding violations to corresponding speed limit data in the speed-by-street database; and identifying one or more speed limit entries in the speed-by-street database that do not match the posted speed limit.
US07859381B2	Autotransformer using printed wireboard An autotransformer for use in low frequency, high power applications that uses a stack of printed wire boards constructed of a top, inner, and bottom layer including electrical trace windings circumventing the transformer core and formed in the inner layer for direct thermal contact with a heat sink interface providing a uniform and consistent heat path down to the heat sink plate. The autotransformer further includes a board to board connection employing solder cups to electrically connect between predetermined printed wire board traces. The printed wire board autotransformer also may use a non-planar interface for thermal interface with a non-planar heat sink plate surface.
US07859370B2	Electrostatic actuator A switch with an actuator has two supporting columns on a substrate, and a rocking plate on the supporting columns. The rocking plate is pivoted by (pivotally mounted on) the two supporting columns. The rocking plate is made of conductive material, so that it can be subjected to electrostatic force of an adsorption electrode. In the switch, it is not necessary to provide a narrow beam to support the rocking plate, because the rocking plate is pivoted by the supporting columns. Therefore, the switch is a long-life microswitch.
US07859365B2	Low frequency process-variation-insensitive temperature-stable micromechanical resonators Disclosed are micromechanical resonators having features that compensate for process variations and provide improved inherent temperature stability. Exemplary resonators may comprise comb drive resonators or parallel-plate drive resonators. The resonators comprise a (silicon-on-insulator) substrate with resonator apparatus formed therein. The resonator apparatus has one or more anchors connected to the substrate, at least one excitation/sense port that is electrically insulated from the substrate, and a resonator. The resonator comprises one or more flexural members connected to the one or more anchors that are separated from the substrate and separated from the excitation/sense port by gaps. A mass is coupled to flexural members, is separated from the substrate, and comprises a grid. Process compensation is achieved using a resonator mass in the form of a grid of lines that form holes or lines through the mass, wherein widths of lines of the grid are approximately ⅓ the width of the flexural members. Temperature stability is provided using silicon dioxide on at least one of the surfaces of the flexural members.
US07859359B2	Method and system for a balun embedded in an integrated circuit package Methods and systems for a balun embedded in an integrated circuit package are disclosed and may include a multi-layer package bonded to an integrated circuit. The multi-layer package may include an integrated balun which may be enabled to process RF signals received from and/or communicated to an antenna. The integrated circuit may be flip-chip bonded to the multi-layer package. The balun may include ferromagnetic layers integrated in the multi-layer package, and may be bypassed via bypass switches integrated in the multi-layer package. The switches integrated in the multi-layer package may include MEMS switches. The balun may be bypassed via bypass switches in the integrated circuit. The switches in the integrated circuit may include CMOS switches. The balun may be impedance matched to the integrated circuit via surface mount devices, which may be coupled to the multi-layer package.
US07859349B2	Fully integrated tuneable spin torque device for generating an oscillating signal and method for tuning such apparatus The present invention is related to a device and corresponding methods for generating an oscillating signal. The device comprises a means for providing a current of spin polarised charge carriers, a magnetic, e.g. ferromagnetic, excitable layer adapted for receiving the generated current of spin polarised charge carriers thus generating an oscillating signal with a frequency Vosc and an integrated means for interacting with said magnetic, e.g. ferromagnetic, excitable layer such that a selection of said oscillation frequency is achieved. No external field needs to be applied to select or tune the frequency. Different types of integrated means can be used, such as e.g. means inducing mechanical stress in the magnetic, e.g. ferromagnetic, excitable layer, means inducing exchange bias interactions and means inducing magnetostatic interactions.
US07859347B2	Self refresh oscillator and oscillation signal generation method of the same A self refresh period signal generator includes: a voltage detection unit for detecting a voltage level of a power supply voltage in order to generate a plurality of period control signals according to the detected voltage level; and an oscillation unit for generating a ring oscillation signal having a constant period determined by a resistance of a period control resistor when a self refresh signal is activated, wherein the resistance of the period control resistor is controlled according to logic levels of the plurality of period control signals.
US07859343B2	High-resolution varactors, single-edge triggered digitally controlled oscillators, and all-digital phase-locked loops using the same A digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) includes a pulse generator for generating a pulse signal upon an edge of a trigger signal, and at least one delay circuit coupled to delay the pulse signal generated by the pulse generator. The pulse generator is coupled to receive one of the delayed pulse signal from the at least one delay circuit and an enable signal as the trigger signal. A digitally controlled varactor (DCV) includes a transistor having a gate, a source, a drain, and a substrate, wherein at least one of the gate, the source, the drain, and the substrate is coupled to receive one of two or more voltages, wherein at least one of the two or more voltages is not a power supply voltage or ground.
US07859336B2	Power supply providing ultrafast modulation of output voltage A circuit for use with a power amplifier that amplifies an input signal. The circuit may comprise an amplitude correction circuit and an open-loop switching regulator. The amplitude correction circuit may be configured to generate a corrected envelope signal from an input envelope signal that represents an envelope of the input signal. The open-loop switching regulator may be connected to the amplitude correction circuit and may be for powering the power amplifier based on the corrected envelope signal. According to various embodiments, the corrected envelope signal generated by the amplitude correction circuit is a function of the input envelope signal and an error voltage of the open-loop switching regulator.
US07859329B1	Configurable clock network for programmable logic device In a programmable logic device having high-speed serial interface channels, a clock distribution network for providing one or more high-speed clocks to dynamic phase alignment circuitry of those high-speed serial interfaces includes at least one bus that is segmentable (e.g. using tristatable buffers). This allows the bus to be divided into different portions that can be connected to different clock sources when the high-speed serial interfaces are running at different speeds. In one embodiment, the segmenting elements (e.g., the aforementioned buffers) are located between selected channels (e.g., every fourth channel), limiting the size of the different segments. In another embodiment, segmenting elements are located between each channel, allowing complete user freedom in selecting the sizes of the segments. Thus, instead of providing a bus for every clock source, multiple clocks can be made available to different channels by segmenting a single bus.
US07859327B2	Device for filtering a signal and corresponding method A device for filtering a signal delivered as output from a sensor installed in a motor vehicle includes a comparator (A) offering as output a first logic signal (SA) representative of the positive and negative transitions of the output signal (SM) from the sensor, a clock (G) delivering a signal (SG) serving as time base for the whole device, elements (E, D, F) making it possible to fix a filtering time (TFilt) of the output signal (SM) from the sensor, a suppression block (B) receiving as input the first logic signal (SA) and delivering as output a second logic signal (Sb) whose duration of holding (tn) in a logic state depends on the filtering time (TFilt), and a control block (C) managing the set of the signals of the device, and having as input signals the first and second logic signals (SA, Sb).
US07859326B2	Switching power supply device, semiconductor intergrated circuit device and power supply device A switching power supply device performs a stable operation with fast response for a semiconductor integrated circuit device. A capacitor is provided between the output side of an inductor and a ground potential. A first power MOSFET supplies an electric current from an input voltage to the input side of the inductor. A second power MOSFET turned on when the first power MOSFET is off allows the input side of the inductor to be of a predetermined potential. A first feedback signal corresponding to an output voltage obtained from the output side of the inductor and a second feedback signal corresponding to an electric current flowed to the first power MOSFET are used to form a PWM signal. The first power MOSFET has plural cells of a vertical type MOS-construction.
US07859325B2	CPU core voltage supply circuit A CPU core voltage supply circuit includes a reference voltage generator, a differential operation amplifier, a power element, a feedback circuit and a first capacitor. The reference voltage generator outputs a first reference voltage. The differential operation amplifier has a positive input end, a negative input end and an output end. The positive input end is connected to the reference voltage generator for receiving the first reference voltage. The power element has a receiving terminal and a current output terminal. The receiving terminal is connected to the output end of the differential operation amplifier. The feedback circuit is connected to the current output terminal and outputs a feedback voltage to the negative input end of the differential operation amplifier. The first capacitor has an end connected to the current output terminal of the power element and the other end receiving a first voltage, thereby providing a CPU core voltage.
US07859324B2	Power supply unit High-accuracy overcurrent detection is performed, while a loss resulting from the current detection is significantly reduced. A switch section outputs the voltage between the both terminals of a current detection resistor using an AND signal between an output signal from a hysteresis comparator and an output signal from a pre-driver. The voltage is filtered by an electrostatic capacitor element and a resistor, and inputted to a comparator. The comparator makes a comparison between the signals inputted to the two input terminals thereof, and outputs the result of the comparison to a digital filter. When an overcurrent begins to flow in a power supply unit, the levels of the voltages inputted to the two input terminals of the comparator are inverted so that the comparator outputs an inversion signal to the digital filter. The digital filter outputs a detection signal to an overcurrent detection circuit when an arbitrary time has elapsed.
US07859323B2	Negative output regulator circuit and electrical apparatus using same A negative output regulator circuit (24) is provided with clamp circuits CLP (X1, X2, Q1, Q2), which detect a current generated when the output of a negative voltage (VM) is stopped and fixing the voltage of an output end (T2) at a prescribed value. Generation of a positive voltage at an output terminal is suppressed without increasing chip size nor making the sequence complicated.
US07859322B2	Internal power-supply circuit An internal power-supply circuit generates an internal voltage based on a reference voltage, and has an external-power-supply terminal to which an external power-supply voltage having a first potential is applied during a normal operation and an external power-supply voltage having a second potential that is higher than the first potential is applied during a burn-in acceleration test, a reference-voltage generating unit for generating the reference voltage from the external power-supply voltage, and an internal-voltage generating unit for generating the internal voltage based on the reference voltage. The reference-voltage generating unit generates, during the normal operation, a normal reference voltage that is independent of the potential of the external power-supply voltage and generates, during the burn-in acceleration test, a first burn-in reference voltage that is dependent on the potential of the external power-supply voltage and a second burn-in reference voltage that has the same potential as the normal reference voltage.
US07859313B2	Edge-missing detector structure An edge-missing detector structure includes a first detector, a first delay unit, a first logic gate, a second detector, a second delay unit, and a second logic gate. After being input separately into the edge-missing detector structure, a first reference signal and a first clock signal are detected by the first and second detectors and then subjected to cycle suppression by the first and second logic gates, respectively, so as to generate a second reference signal and a second clock signal which present a phase difference less than 2π. Moreover, the edge-missing detector structure generates a compensative current corresponding to the number of occurrences of cycle suppression. Thus, a phase-locked loop (PLL) using the edge-missing detector structure can avoid cycle slip problems and achieve fast acquisition of phase lock.
US07859310B2	Semiconductor integrated circuit In a dynamic flip-flop circuit with a data selection function, for example, when data having an H value has been selected using a selection signal S0, a first node N1 is L and a second node N2 of a second dynamic circuit 1B is H, so that an output signal Q has an H level. In this case, when none of a plurality of pieces of data D0 to D2 is selected using selection signals S0 to S2, the first node N1 is H, so that the electric charge of the second node N2 is discharged and the output signal Q erroneously has an L level. However, in this case, an output node N3 is H and a fourth node N4 is L, so that an n-type transistor Tr6 of the second dynamic circuit 1B is turned OFF, thereby preventing the second node N2 from being discharged. Therefore, a normal operation is performed while securing a satisfactorily high-speed operation even when none of the pieces of data is selected. This circuit is used in a predetermined circuit, such as, for example, a forwarding path of a data path, a crossbar bus switch, or an input portion of a reconfigurable processing unit.
US07859307B2	High speed transient active pull-up I2C An I2C-bus compatible device when functioning as a clock master comprises a transient active pull-up I2C (“TAP-I2C”) logic module having high side driver transistors, e.g., P-channel field effect transistors (FETs), coupled between a positive supply voltage and respective serial data (“SDA”) and serial clock (“SCL”) lines on the I2C bus. The high side output driver transistors for the SDA and SCL lines are sequentially pulsed on by the TAP I2C logic module for brief periods to first precharge the capacitance of the SDA line and then precharge the capacitance of the SCL line during low to high logic level transitions thereof. Precharging the capacitances of the I2C bus lines will also accelerate bus transfer operations for all I2C compatible devices since the capacitances of the I2C bus lines will be charged much faster through the low impedance active pull-up driver transistors then through the passive pull-up resistors.
US07859305B2	Input/output circuit An input/output circuit, operable in an input mode and an output mode, for receiving data and an enable signal, the input/output circuit including an input/output terminal; a pull-up output transistor including a gate; a first logic circuit including an output node coupled to the gate of the pull-up output transistor; a pull-down output transistor including a gate; a second logic circuit coupled to the gate of the pull-down output transistor, and the second logic circuit inactivating the pull-down output transistor in the input mode; and a gate signal generation unit configured to generate a gate signal for inactivating the pull-up output transistor in accordance with the enable signal and an input signal provided from an external device to the input/output terminal in the input mode.
US07859303B2	Nonvolatile programmable logic circuit A nonvolatile programmable logic circuit using a ferroelectric memory performs a nonvolatile memory function and an operation function without additional memory devices, thereby reducing power consumption. Also, a nonvolatile ferroelectric memory is applied to a FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array), thereby preventing leakage of internal data and reducing the area of a chip.
US07859302B2	Programmable system on a chip for power-supply voltage and current monitoring and control A programmable system-on-a-chip integrated circuit device includes a programmable logic block, at least one user non-volatile memory block, and voltage-measuring and control analog and digital circuits on a single semiconductor integrated circuit chip or a flip chip, face-to-face, or other multiple die configuration. The programmable system-on-a-chip integrated circuit with voltage-measuring, current-measuring and control circuitry performs voltage measurement and control functions and can be used to control and monitor external power supplies connected to external loads.
US07859298B1	Method and system to facilitate configurable input/output (I/O) termination voltage reference A method and system to facilitate configurable input/output (I/O) termination voltage reference in a transmitter or receiver. In one embodiment of the invention, the transmitter and receiver, each has a termination circuit to select a suitable termination reference voltage based on the desired coupling type. In one embodiment of the invention, the transmitter has a termination circuit coupled with a transmission driver and the transmitter selects only one of a supply voltage, a ground voltage and a half supply voltage as a termination voltage reference of the transmission driver. The receiver has a termination circuit to select either a supply voltage or a ground voltage as a termination voltage reference of the receiver.
US07859296B2	Calibration circuit, on die termination device and semiconductor memory device using the same A calibration circuit includes a gain control device configured to adjust a reference voltage to a predetermined level according to a variable gain; and a calibration device configured to update a calibration code by comparing a voltage generated by resistors and the reference voltage adjusted to the predetermined level by the gain control device, wherein the resistors are individually controlled to be turned on by the calibration code.
US07859290B2	Apparatus and method for measuring effective channel An apparatus and a method for measuring an effective channel. The apparatus includes an automatic measurement system including a testing terminal for a substrate, a switching matrix disposed at one side of the automatic measurement system, a leakage current measuring device and a capacitance measuring device electrically connected to the switching matrix by a predetermined terminal, and a controller which controls the automatic measurement system, the leakage current measuring device, and the capacitance measuring device.
US07859287B2	Device power supply extension circuit, test system including the same and method of testing semiconductor devices A test system includes a controller, a power supply circuit and a device power supply (DPS) extension circuit. The controller controls a test operation for a plurality of devices under test (DUTs). The power supply circuit generates a common power voltage in response to a voltage control signal from the controller. The DPS extension circuit includes a plurality of control modules providing a plurality of source currents based on the common power voltage to the DUTs. Each control module blocks a corresponding source current in response to a magnitude of the corresponding source current.
US07859286B2	Electronic device test system When the number of DUTs carried on a loader buffer and scheduled to be held by contact arms at the next test is less than N, a DUT at a contact arm corresponding to a missing position at the loader buffer among the N number of DUTs being held for execution of a current test is held as it is without being ejected. While holding this DUT, the DUTs carried at the loader buffer for execution of the next test are picked up and the test is executed in that state.
US07859279B2	Charge eliminating apparatus and method, and program storage medium A charge eliminating apparatus eliminates, when an electrical characteristics test of a target object is performed by moving a mounting table mounting the target object thereon and a probe card relative to each other to bring the target object into electrical contact with the probe card, static electricity of the target object via the mounting table. The charge eliminating apparatus includes a grounding wiring for grounding the mounting table; a relay switch disposed on the grounding wiring; and a switch controller that controls the relay switch to be opened or closed.
US07859277B2	Apparatus, systems and methods for processing signals between a tester and a plurality of devices under test at high temperatures and with single touchdown of a probe array Apparatus is for processing signals between a tester and devices under test. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes at least one multichip module. Each multichip module has a plurality of micro-electromechanical switches between a set of connectors to the tester and a set of connectors to devices under test. At least one driver is provided to operate each of the micro-electromechanical switches. A method of processing signals between a tester and devices under test is disclosed. In an embodiment, the method includes connecting the tester and the devices under test with at least one multichip module. Each of the at least one multichip module has a plurality of micro-electromechanical switches between a set of connectors to the tester and a set of connectors to the devices under test. The method includes operating each of the micro-electromechanical switches. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
US07859271B2	Methods for propagating a non sinusoidal signal without distortion in dispersive lossy media Systems and methods are described for transmitting a waveform having a controllable attenuation and propagation velocity. An exemplary method comprises: generating an exponential waveform, the exponential waveform (a) being characterized by the equation Vin=De−ASD[x−vSDt], where D is a magnitude, Vin is a voltage, t is time, ASD is an attenuation coefficient, and vSD is a propagation velocity; and (b) being truncated at a maximum value. An exemplary apparatus comprises: an exponential waveform generator; an input recorder coupled to an output of the exponential waveform generator; a transmission line under test coupled to the output of the exponential waveform generator; an output recorder coupled to the transmission line under test; an additional transmission line coupled to the transmission line under test; and a termination impedance coupled to the additional transmission line and to a ground.
US07859270B2	Method for correcting differential output mismatch in a passive CMOS mixer circuit A passive CMOS differential mixer circuit with a mismatch correction circuit for balancing the electrical characteristics of the two output paths. Once the output paths of the differential circuit are balanced, or matched as closely as possible, second order intermodulation product generation can be inhibited or at least reduced to acceptable levels. The mismatch correction circuit receives a digital offset signal, and generates one or more voltage signals to be selectively applied to the signal paths of the passive differential mixer circuit. The voltage signals can be adjusted back gate bias voltages applied to the bulk terminals of selected transistors to adjust their threshold voltages, or the voltage signals can be adjusted common mode voltages applied directly to a selected signal path. Since the differential mixer circuit is passive, no DC current contribution to noise is generated. The switching transistors of the mixer circuit can be maintained at minimal dimensions to reduce switching signal drive loading, resulting in lower power consumption and higher operating frequencies than if larger switching transistors were use
US07859269B1	Pade' approximant based compensation for integrated sensor modules and the like Methods and systems using Pade' Approximant expansion ratios provide mappings between nonlinear sensors and a more linear output domain. The method includes (a) generating a variably amplified version of the input signal in accordance with a produced and variable gain defining signal; (b) generating an output signal that exhibits a substantially linear dependency from a sum of a supplied offset signal and the variably amplified version of the input signal; (c) multiplying the output signal by a supplied gain correction factor to produce a feedback gain correction signal; and (d) using the feedback gain correction signal to produce the variable gain defining signal.
US07859267B2	Testing device for lighting means A testing device (1) for a lamp (3) operated at a nominal voltage (Vn) and at a nominal frequency (fn), having a capacitive coupling of a test voltage (Vp) at a testing frequency of (fp) to the lamp (3), wherein a coupled test voltage (Vpa) corresponds to the nominal voltage (Vn), and a coupled test frequency (fpa) corresponds to the nominal frequency (fn). The testing device is capable of testing a gas-filled lamp having integrated upstream electronics between power supply connections and a gas filled portion.
US07859253B2	Magnetic structure for detecting a relative motion between the magnetic structure and a magnetic field sensor A magnetic structure for detecting a relative motion between the magnetic structure and a magnetic field sensor comprises at least two permanent magnets. The permanent magnets are arranged along a predetermined line which for example is a straight or circular line at a predetermined distance g from each other. The permanent magnets are magnetized in the direction of the line, adjacent permanent magnets having an opposite direction of magnetization.
US07859252B2	Rotational angle detecting devices A rotational angle detecting device has a pair of permanent magnets and an angle sensor. Electrical connecting terminals are connected to the angle sensor and further connected to conductors. The conductors have seconds ends opposite to the first ends and serving as connector terminals of the connector. In one embodiment, the rotational angle detecting device includes a first resin-molded portion and a second resin-molded portion. The first resin-molded portion includes at least the electrical connecting terminals, a part of the angle sensor and the first ends of the conductors embedded within a first resin. The second resin-molded portion includes portions of the conductors embedded within a second resin. In another embodiment, capacitors are connected to the connector conductors. The angle sensor has a magnetic detecting element positioned substantially perpendicularly to the rotational axis of the rotary section. The connector conductors have parallel portions extending substantially parallel to the rotational axis. A portion of the angle sensor assembly extending from the angle sensor to the parallel portions of the connector conductors has a substantially L-shaped configuration. The capacitor(s) is disposed on the same side as the magnetic detecting element with respect to the L-shaped portion.
US07859244B1	Self configuring voltage regulators Some of the embodiments of the present invention provide a voltage regulator comprising a first driver, a second driver, and a controller configured to control the first driver and the second driver to selectably operate in one of a plurality of operating modes, including an external driver mode and an internal driver mode, wherein which one of the plurality of operating modes is selected is based on presence or absence of one or more external drivers. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US07859238B1	Method and apparatus for multi-phase DC-DC converters using coupled inductors in discontinuous conduction mode A multi-phase, coupled-inductor, DC-DC voltage converter operates in discontinuous conduction mode (DCM) when the system is operated at low output power demand. An embodiment of the converter switches to operating in continuous conduction mode (CCM) when the system is operated at high output power demand. Operation in single-drive and rotating phase DCM operation at low power are described. An alternative embodiment operates in a multiple-drive, rotating-phase, discontinuous conduction mode during at least one condition of output power demand.
US07859234B2	Switch circuit to control on/off of a high voltage source A switch circuit to control a high voltage source is presented. It includes a JFET transistor, a resistive device, a first transistor and a second transistor. The JFET transistor is coupled to the high voltage source. The first transistor is connected in serial with the JFET transistor to output a voltage in response to the high voltage source. The second transistor is coupled to control the first transistor and the JFET transistor in response to a control signal. The resistive device is coupled to the JFET transistor and the first transistor to provide a bias voltage to turn on the JFET transistor and the first transistor when the second transistor is turned off. Once the second transistor is turned on, the first transistor is turned off and the JFET transistor is negative biased.
US07859230B2	Voltage regulation to reduce ripple in a power generation system Methods and systems are disclosed for reducing alternating current ripples in direct current electrical power generation systems with one or more regulated permanent magnet machines. Ripple suppression is achieved, in one aspect, by modulating the control current of a regulated permanent magnet machine.
US07859229B2	Discharge device A discharging device capable of realizing a proper PWM drive by accurately reflecting, as a strobe device, the secondary-side condition of a separately-excited strobe charging circuit being charged. A charging device which charges a main capacitor (2) via a separately-excited DC/DC converter and discharges the energy of the main capacitor, wherein a pulse width control circuit (1) for controlling a conduction pulse width on the primary side of the separately-excited DC/DC converter is provided, and this pulse width control circuit is configured such that a PWM soft start drive is performed that expands a conduction pulse width on the primary side of the separately-excited DC/DC converter stepwise up to a maximum pulse width.
US07859224B2	Charge control circuit for a vehicle vacuum cleaner battery Disclosed herein is a battery charger control circuit having a voltage detector to generate a signal indicative of a source voltage level to select one of a first charging mode and a second charging mode, and a charge controller coupled to the voltage detector to enable charging in accordance with one of the first charging mode and the second charging mode based on the signal from the voltage detector. The first and second charging modes establish charging at differing, non-zero rates. The source voltage level may be sampled at a sampling rate to minimize power consumed by monitoring the source voltage level.
US07859217B2	System and method for operating a soft starter in conjunction with a single to three phase static converter A motor controller system comprises solid state switches for connection between a single phase to three phase static converter and motor terminals for controlling application of three phase power to the motor. Sensors sense power from the static converter. A control is connected to the sensors and the solid state switches for controlling operation of the solid state switches to run the motor. The controller includes a three phase detection scheme for preventing operation of the solid state switches in the absence of desired three phase power from the static converter. A motor start scheme disables the three phase detection scheme for a select time after a motor run signal.
US07859214B2	Synchronous controller A synchronous controller capable of gently changing a synchronous multiplying factor and setting the gentleness of changing of the synchronous multiplying factor without shocking a machine. A block for gently changing the synchronous multiplying factor is added between blocks before and after the changing of the synchronous multiplying factor. Synchronous multiplying factors a and b before and after changing of the synchronous multiplying factor designated in the added block, a motion amount p of master axis, a motion amount of a slave axis, and a residual motion amount v of the master axis after the completion of changing the synchronous multiplying factor (or a preliminary motion amount u of the master axis from the start of motion of the block concerned to a position for the start of changing of the synchronous multiplying factor) are read out. A gradient of changing the synchronous multiplying factor and the preliminary motion amount u (or the residual motion amount v) are obtained based on these data. The slave axis is controlled based on the motion amounts u and v and the gradient of changing the synchronous multiplying factor. The synchronous multiplying factor is changed so gently that the machine cannot be shocked. The synchronous multiplying factor gradient can be settled depending on the designated data p, q and v (or u).
US07859206B2	Motor controller and electric power steering apparatus A microcomputer includes a calculating section calculating a d-axis electric current command value and a q-axis electric current command value and a signal generating section. The signal generating section generates a motor control signal through feedback control in a d-q coordinate system based on the d-axis electric current command value and the q-axis electric current command value. The microcomputer also has an anomaly determining section, which detects an anomaly if a failure of electric current flow has occurred in any one of phases of a motor. If the anomaly is detected, the microcomputer produces a motor control signal instructing to use, as electric current flowing phases, two phases other than the phase with the failed electric current flow. At this stage, the microcomputer calculates the d-axis electric current command value in such a manner as to produce the q-axis electric current value corresponding to the q-axis electric current command value except for values at angles corresponding to the phase with the failed electric current flow.
US07859200B2	Mutually cross-interlocked multiple asynchronous AC induction electrical machines For mutually cross-interlocked multiple asynchronous AC induction electrical machines of the present invention, wherein the applicable operating characteristic curves of the asynchronous AC induction electrical machines include the asynchronous AC induction electrical machine of various operating characteristics, wherein when they are provided for the individual operation in different loading conditions, it is characterized that the cross interlocked electrical machine can be used to increase or decrease the rotational speed of the individual operation.
US07859192B2	Method for operating high-pressure lamps without hotstarting and luminaire having two high-pressure discharge lamps High-pressure discharge lamps can only be restarted in the hot state at a very high starting voltage. In order to avoid hotstarting, a method for operating high-pressure discharge lamps without hotstarting comprises two high-pressure discharge lamps (12a, 12b) being provided in one luminaire. The two high-pressure discharge lamps are driven as follows: When the luminaire is switched off, the first lamp is switched off, and the second lamp is set to be in a standby state for the period of time for the recovery of the first lamp or remains in such a state, in which it is not switched off. When the luminaire is switched on again during this period of time, the second lamp can assume the operating state again immediately without being started. If the luminaire is not switched on again, the second lamp is likewise switched off once the period of time has elapsed.
US07859184B2	Electron beam apparatus and image display apparatus using the same There is provided a new electron beam apparatus which improves the instability of an electron emission characteristic and provides a high efficient electron emission characteristic. The electron beam apparatus includes: an insulating member having a recess on its surface; a cathode having a protruding portion extending over the outer surface of the insulating member and the inner surface of the recess; a gate positioned at the outer surface of the insulating member in opposition to the protruding portion; and an anode positioned in opposition to the protruding portion through the gate.
US07859171B2	Piezoelectric ultracapacitor A piezoelectric ultracapacitor is disclosed capable of converting the kinetic energy of ordinary motion into an electrical potential. Multiple piezoelectric ultracapacitors may be configured together to provide an increased output voltage and various materials may advantageously be used. The piezoelectric ultracapacitor of the present invention may be used in various contexts, including power generation, switching and control and memory. An elastomeric piezoelectric ultracapacitor, along with methods of making and operating such a device, is also disclosed. The elastomeric piezoelectric ultracapacitor utilizes the voltage generation capabilities of a piezoelectric ultracapacitor and the generator mode operation of an elastomer actuator, combined and cooperating in novel ways, to provide improved energy generation capabilities.
US07859170B2	Wide-bandwidth matrix transducer with polyethylene third matching layer A third matching layer (140) affording wide bandwidth for an ultrasound matrix probe is made of polyethylene, and may extend downwardly to surround the array (S360) and attach to the housing to seal the array (S370).
US07859165B2	Fuel pump and motor device for the same A fuel pump includes a pump portion for pumping fuel. The fuel pump further includes a magnet having magnetic poles circumferentially alternate with each other. The fuel pump further includes an armature on a radially inside of the magnet. The armature includes a rotor core provided with a coil formed of a wire. The armature is rotatable for driving the pump portion. A commutator, which is in a substantially disc shape, is provided to an axial end of the armature for rectifying electricity supplying to the coil. The rotor core has an axial end having an outer circumferential periphery defining a commutator-side collar portion extending toward the commutator. The coil is formed by winding the wire between an outer circumferential periphery of the commutator and the commutator-side collar portion.
US07859164B2	Armature laminations A DC motor, has a stator housing accommodating a permanent magnet stator; a rotor, rotatably mounted confronting the stator, the rotor having a shaft, a rotor core fitted to the shaft and having asymmetric laminations, a commutator fitted to the shaft adjacent one end of the rotor core, and windings wound about poles of the rotor core and terminated on the commutator; and brush gear comprising brushes in sliding contact with the commutator for transferring electrical power to the windings, wherein the cogging torque order for the motor is greater than twenty. Preferably, the cogging torque order is 28, 36 or 44.
US07859160B2	Electric machine with concentrated windings The electrical machine (1) has a stator (2), which has slots (6) distributed about the periphery, between which a tooth (7, 8) is placed, and in which a winding system (9) with at least one winding phase is placed. Each winding phase contains at least one coil group. Each coil group contains a first single coil (10) and at least one additional coil (11). All single coils (10, 11) of each coil group are electrically connected in series. Each of the additional single coils (11) is arranged in an offset manner with an offset angle (φmk,i) in relation to the first single coil (10). The respective offset angle (φmk,i) is calculated according to: formula (I) in which k ε {1, 2, . . . (n−I, i ε {0, 1, . . . (6−pN−1)}, n being a group coil number of all single coils (10, 11) of the respective coil group, k being a coil index of the additional single coils (11), i being a position index, and pN being an effective pole number. The teeth (7, 8) at least partially differ from one another in their respective shape or in their respective extension in the peripheral direction.
US07859155B2	Brushless motor and manufacturing method thereof A second ball bearing is installed from a first axial side toward a second axial side into an interior of a bearing holder of a rotor through an opening of the bearing holder, so that an outer race of the second ball bearing is press fitted to an inner peripheral portion of the interior of the bearing holder. A first ball bearing is inserted from the first axial side toward the second axial side into the interior of the bearing holder of the rotor through the opening of the bearing holder after the installing of the second ball bearing, so that an outer race of the first ball bearing is press fitted to the inner peripheral portion of the interior of the bearing holder and is axially spaced from the outer race of the second ball bearing.
US07859151B2	Hobby servo shaft attachment mechanism Embodiments of an apparatus for providing enhanced hobby servo motor operational capacity are disclosed. Embodiments include a hobby servo motor having a rotatable output shaft. The rotatable output shaft is splined in that it includes a plurality of circumferentially distributed splines. Embodiments also include a shaft attachment mechanism having a spline receiving portion that includes a plurality of circumferentially distributed protrusions sized and dispersed to support functional engagement of the shaft attachment mechanism to the rotatable shaft. The functional engagement is such that rotation of the rotatable shaft causes a corresponding rotation of the shaft attachment mechanism. The shaft attachment mechanism further includes an elongated shaft that is positioned inline with the rotatable output shaft when the shaft attachment is functionally engaged to the rotatable output shaft.
US07859144B1	Low frequency electromagnetic motor to create or cancel a low frequency vibration Electromagnetic motor with a piston that moves linearly with respect to the stator in either direction. Embodiments include a piston internal or external the stator. The piston includes one or more magnetic flux producing elements in all embodiments, with some embodiments having a ferro-magnetic plate on either side of the flux producing element. Further, in all embodiments the stator includes three magnetic flux producing elements with either two coils with one or more magnets therebetween or with the two coils and a coil magnet substitute therebetween. All embodiments provide positive piston return to a center at rest position. In all embodiments the piston is centered with respect to the stator resulting from either magnetic interaction between the piston and stator magnets, or between the piston magnet and the stator magnet substitute coil.
US07859139B2	Controlled motion system A controlled motion system with movers mounted on a hybrid track system comprised of at least one smart section and at least one dumb section. The smart sections control each mover independently, while the dumb sections drive all movers at the same speed. The transition between these sections is characterized by positive control of the movers at all points in the transition. A soft magnetic composite core for the smart sections is disclosed. Also, a single-sided mover for smart sections that is constrained against loads in all direction, except for the direction of motion, is disclosed.
US07859129B2	Vehicle antitheft device and control method of a vehicle When a remote start of an engine using a predetermined transmitter is performed, a security regarding theft of a vehicle can be prevented form being significantly deteriorated. The vehicle has a remote engine starter for remotely start an engine and a vehicle antitheft device for activating an alarm when there is a possibility of occurrence of vehicle theft. The remote engine starter and the vehicle antitheft device are connected to each other through a communication line. In a case where an engine start signal is supplied from the transmitter, the remote engine starter is caused to supply a start signal to the vehicle antitheft device through the communication line before causing a contact point closing signal to be supplied to an ignition relay. When the start signal is supplied to the vehicle antitheft device, preventing apparatus, only the security function regarding conditions of no-insertion of an ignition key and an ignition ON is cancelled to be an unvigilant state, and the security function regarding other conditions is maintained to be a vigilant state.
US07859127B2	Generating method and generating system utilizing combustion exhaust gas Gas pressure and exhaust heat of the combustion exhaust gas exhausted from the internal combustion engine is effectively utilized for generating electricity.Using a turbocharger (8) having a turbine (4) that is driven by gas pressure of the combustion exhaust gas and a compressor (6) that is driven by rotational force generated in the turbine, an air engine (12) generating rotational force by air pressure as a power source, and a generator (14) converting the rotational force generated by the air engine to electric power, the air inspired from outside is compressed by the compressor of the turbocharger and heated by the turbine heat at high temperature, and electricity is generated by the generator using the generated compressed air of high pressure and high temperature as a power source of the air engine. The compressed air thus generated in the turbocharger (8) is shared and distributed for combusting the internal combustion engine (2) and for driving the air engine (12).
US07859123B2	Wire bonding structure and manufacturing method thereof The present invention relates to a wire bonding structure, and more particularly to a manufacturing method for said wire bonding structure. The wire bonding structure comprises a die that connects with a lead via a bonding wire. At least one bond pad is positioned on an active surface of the die, and a gold bump is provided on the bond pad; furthermore, a ball bond can be positioned upon the gold bump. The bond pad and the gold bump can separate the ball bond and the die, which can avoid damaging the die during the bonding process.
US07859120B2	Package system incorporating a flip-chip assembly A package system including providing a first semiconductor die; mounting a second semiconductor die on the first semiconductor die using an inter-die interconnect to form a flip-chip assembly; and attaching the flip-chip assembly on a package substrate with a contact pad, a test connection, a z-bond pad, and a die receptacle, with the first semiconductor die in the flip-chip assembly fitting inside the die receptacle.
US07859096B2	Semiconductor device The present invention provides a semiconductor device and a fabrication method therefor, the semiconductor device including a first semiconductor chip disposed on a substrate, a first sealing resin sealing the first semiconductor chip, a built-in semiconductor device disposed on the first sealing resin, and a second sealing resin sealing the first sealing resin and the built-in semiconductor device and covering a side surface of the substrate. According to an aspect of the present invention, it is possible to provide a high-quality semiconductor device and a fabrication method therefor, in which downsizing and cost reduction can be realized.
US07859087B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor layer; at least one electrode formed on a semiconductor layer to be in contact with the semiconductor layer; and a passivation film covering the semiconductor layer and at least part of the top surface of the electrode to protect the semiconductor layer and formed of a plurality of sub-films. The passivation film includes a first sub-film made of aluminum nitride.
US07859083B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device is provided with Zener diodes which are formed by using a polysilicon gate layer(s) so as to be connected to each other in parallel. Parallel-connected rectangular Zener diodes are formed outside an active region or parallel-connected striped Zener diodes are formed inside the active region. The Zener diodes increase the ESD capability of the semiconductor device.
US07859082B2	Lateral bipolar transistor and method of production Emitter and collector regions of the bipolar transistor are formed by doped regions of the same type of conductivity, which are separated by doped semiconductor material of an opposite type of conductivity, the separate doped regions being arranged at a surface of a semiconductor body and being in electric contact with electrically conductive material that is introduced into trenches at the surface of the semiconductor body.
US07859063B2	Semiconductor device using SOI-substrate According to a feature of the present invention, a semiconductor device includes a SOI substrate, including a semiconductor substrate; an insulating layer formed on the semiconductor substrate and a silicon layer formed on the insulating layer. A drain region and a source region are formed in the silicon layer so that the source region is in contact with the insulating layer but the drain region is not in contact with the insulating layer.
US07859062B1	Systems and methods for integrated circuits comprising multiple body biasing domains Systems and methods for integrated circuits comprising multiple body biasing domains. In accordance with a first embodiment of the present invention, a semiconductor structure comprises a substrate of first type material. A first closed structure comprising walls of second type material extends from a surface of the substrate to a first depth. A planar deep well of said second type material underlying and coupled to the closed structure extends from the first depth to a second depth. The closed structure and the planar deep well of said second type material form an electrically isolated region of the first type material. A second-type semiconductor device is disposed to receive a first body biasing voltage from the electrically isolated region of the first type material. A well of the second-type material within the electrically isolated region of the first type material is formed and a first-type semiconductor device is disposed to receive a second body biasing voltage from the well of second-type material.
US07859057B2	Wide bandgap device in parallel with a device that has a lower avalanche breakdown voltage and a higher forward voltage drop than the wide bandgap device A method and device for protecting wide bandgap devices from failing during suppression of voltage transients. An improvement in avalanche capability is achieved by placing one or more diodes, or a PNP transistor, across the blocking junction of the wide bandgap device.
US07859056B2	Apparatus and methods for integrated circuit with devices with body contact and devices with electrostatic discharge protection An integrated circuit (IC) includes one or more silicon-on-insulator (SOI) transistors. Each SOI transistor includes a first source region, a second source region, a drain region, a body contact region, a gate, and first and second isolation regions. The body contact region couples electrically to a body of the SOI transistor. The gate controls current flow between the first and second source regions and a drain region of the transistor. The first isolation region is disposed between the first source region and the body contact region. The second isolation region is disposed between the second source region and the body contact region.
US07859054B2	Poly-Si thin film transistor and organic light-emitting display having the same A thin film transistor comprises an Si-based channel having a nonlinear electron-moving path, a source and a drain disposed at both sides of the channel, a gate disposed above the channel, an insulator interposed between the channel and the gate, and a substrate supporting the channel and the source and the drain disposed at either side of the channel respectively.
US07859053B2	Independently accessed double-gate and tri-gate transistors in same process flow A method for fabricating double-gate and tri-gate transistors in the same process flow is described. In one embodiment, a sacrificial layer is formed over stacks that include semiconductor bodies and insulative members. The sacrificial layer is planarized prior to forming gate-defining members. After forming the gate-defining members, remaining insulative member portions are removed from above the semiconductor body of the tri-gate device but not the I-gate device. This facilitates the formation of metallization on three sides of the tri-gate device, and the formation of independent gates for the I-gate device.
US07859050B2	Memory having a vertical access device Semiconductor memory devices having vertical access devices are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of forming the device includes providing a recess in a semiconductor substrate that includes a pair of opposed side walls and a floor extending between the opposed side walls. A dielectric layer may be deposited on the side walls and the floor of the recess. A conductive film may be formed on the dielectric layer and processed to selectively remove the film from the floor of the recess and to remove at least a portion of the conductive film from the opposed sidewalls.
US07859045B2	Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, which includes exposing a photoresist using an exposing mask provided with a light-shielding pattern having two or more narrow width portions, developing the photoresist to form a plurality of stripe-shaped resist patterns, selectively etching a first conductive film using the resist pattern as a mask, forming an intermediate insulating film on the first conductive film, forming a second conductive film on the intermediate insulating film, and forming, by patterning the first conductive film, the intermediate insulating film, and the second conductive film, a flash memory cell and a structure constructed by forming a lower conductor pattern, a segment of the intermediate insulating film, and a dummy gate electrode in this stacking order.
US07859042B2	Nonvolatile memory devices Methods of fabricating a nonvolatile memory device include forming a trench mask pattern on a semiconductor substrate including a first region and a second region. Substrate trenches defining active regions are formed in the semiconductor substrate in the first region and the second region using the trench mask pattern as a mask. Device isolation layer patterns are formed on the semiconductor substrate including the trench mask pattern and substrate trenches. The device isolation patterns fill the substrate trenches in the first region and in the second region. First and second openings are formed exposing top surfaces of the corresponding active regions in the first and second regions by removing the trench mask pattern. The second opening has a greater width than the first opening. A first lower conductive pattern is formed in the first opening and has a bottom portion in a lower region of the first opening and an extended portion extending from the bottom portion to an upper region of the first opening. The extended portion has a smaller width than the bottom portion. A second lower conductive pattern is formed filling the second opening.
US07859028B2	Independently controlled, double gate nanowire memory cell with self-aligned contacts A double gate, dynamic storage device and method of fabrication are disclosed. A back (bias gate) surrounds three sides of a semiconductor body with a front gate disposed on the remaining surface. Two different gate insulators and gate materials may be used.
US07859018B2	Semiconductor device having nitride semiconductor layer A semiconductor device having a GaN-based main semiconductor region formed on a silicon substrate via a buffer region. Source, drain and gate electrodes are formed on the main semiconductor region, and a back electrode on the back of the substrate. The substrate is constituted of two semiconductor regions of opposite conductivity types, with a pn junction therebetween which is conducive to a higher voltage-withstanding capability between the drain and back electrodes.
US07858998B2	Semiconductor light emitting devices including flexible silicone film having a lens therein Semiconductor light emitting devices include an alumina substrate, a light emitting diode on a face of the substrate and flexible silicone film that includes a silicone lens on the face of the substrate. The light emitting diode emits light through the silicone lens.
US07858996B2	Method for growth of semipolar (Al,In,Ga,B)N optoelectronic devices A method of fabricating an optoelectronic device, comprising growing an active layer of the device on an oblique surface of a suitable material, wherein the oblique surface comprises a facetted surface. The present invention also discloses a method of fabricating the facetted surfaces. One fabrication process comprises growing an epitaxial layer on a suitable material, etching the epitaxial layer through a mask to form the facets having a specific crystal orientation, and depositing one or more active layers on the facets. Another method comprises growing a layer of material using a lateral overgrowth technique to produce a facetted surface, and depositing one or more active layers on the facetted surfaces. The facetted surfaces are typically semipolar planes.
US07858992B2	Nitride semiconductor light-emitting device, method of fabricating it, and semiconductor optical apparatus A nitride semiconductor laser device has a nitride semiconductor substrate that includes a dislocation-concentrated region 102 and a wide low-dislocation region and that has the top surface thereof slanted at an angle in the range of 0.3° to 0.7° relative to the C plane and a nitride semiconductor layer laid on top thereof. The nitride semiconductor layer has a depression immediately above the dislocation-concentrated region, and has, in a region thereof other than the depression, a high-quality quantum well active layer with good flatness and without cracks, a layer that, as is grown, readily exhibits p-type conductivity, and a stripe-shaped laser light waveguide region. The laser light waveguide region is formed above the low-dislocation region. This helps realize a nitride semiconductor laser device that offers a longer life.
US07858989B2	Device and process of forming device with device structure formed in trench and graphene layer formed thereover A graphene-based device is formed with a substrate having a trench therein, a device structure on the substrate and within the trench, a graphene layer over the device structure, and a protective layer over the graphene layer. Fabrication techniques include forming a trench in a substrate, forming a device structure within the trench, forming a graphene layer over the device structure, and forming a protective layer over the graphene layer.
US07858982B2	Thin film transistor array panel and method for manufacturing the same The present invention provides a thin film transistor array panel comprising: an insulating substrate; a gate line formed on the insulating substrate and having a gate electrode; a gate insulating layer formed on the gate line; a semiconductor formed on the gate insulating layer and overlapping the gate electrode; diffusion barriers formed on the semiconductor and containing nitrogen; a data line crossing the gate line and having a source electrode partially contacting the diffusion barriers; a drain electrode partially contacting the diffusion barriers and facing the source electrode on the gate electrode; and a pixel electrode electrically connected to the drain electrode.
US07858975B2	Organic field effect transistor systems and methods An OFET includes a ferroelectric gate dielectric permitting electrical reprogramming, such as to implement an electrically re-programmable array logic (PAL) or a field-programmable gate array (FPGA). Methods of constructing such an OFET, PAL, or FPGA, can including roll printing. An OFET on a piezoelectric substrate provides local amplification in an active matrix. Methods of constructing such an OFET on a piezoelectric substrate can including rolling printing. Techniques permit direct measurement of trap distribution, such as across the channel length of an OFET device. Techniques permit direct measurement of the size and location of an electrically active grain structure in OFET devices. Techniques permit confirmation of the mechanism of operation of a number of OFET techniques, including use of silanes or thiols, or OFET operation or aging. Techniques provide an internal circuit probe, such as for a ferroelectric gate dielectric OFET or a piezoelectric substrate OFET, for example.
US07858971B2	Organic thin film transistor substrate and method of fabricating the same An organic TFT substrate includes a gate line on a substrate, a pixel electrode in a same plane of the gate line, a data line insulated from the gate line, an organic TFT including a gate electrode connected to the gate line, a source electrode connected to the data line and insulated from the gate line, a drain electrode connected to the pixel electrode and insulated from the gate electrode, and an organic semiconductor layer contacting each of the source and drain electrodes, and a gate-insulating layer on the gate line and the gate electrode.
US07858970B2	Heterocycloalkyl-substituted naphthalene-based tetracarboxylic diimide compounds as N-type semiconductor materials for thin film transistors A thin film transistor comprises a layer of organic semiconductor material comprising a tetracarboxylic diimide naphthalene-based compound having, attached to one or both of the imide nitrogen atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted heterocycloalkyl ring system. Such transistors can further comprise spaced apart first and second contacts or electrodes in contact with said material. Further disclosed is a process for fabricating an organic thin-film transistor device, preferably by sublimation deposition onto a substrate, wherein the substrate temperature is no more than 200° C.
US07858964B2	Semiconductor device formed in a recrystallized layer A semiconductor device includes a substrate that includes a first layer and a recrystallized layer on the first layer. The first layer has a first intrinsic stress and the recrystallized layer has a second intrinsic stress. A transistor is formed in the recrystallized layer. The transistor includes a source region, a drain region, and a charge carrier channel between the source and drain regions. The second intrinsic stress is aligned substantially parallel to the charge carrier channel.
US07858961B2	Phase change memory devices and methods for fabricating the same An exemplary phase change memory device is provided, including a substrate with a first electrode formed thereover. A first dielectric layer is formed over the first electrode and the substrate. A plurality of cup-shaped heating electrodes is respectively disposed in a portion of the first dielectric layer. A first insulating layer is formed over the first dielectric layer, partially covering the cup-shaped heating electrodes and the first dielectric layer therebetween. A second insulating layer is formed over the first dielectric layer, partially covering the cup-shaped heating electrodes and the first dielectric layer therebetween. A pair of phase change material layers is respectively disposed on opposing sidewalls of the second insulating layer and contacting with one of the cup-shaped heating electrodes. A pair of first conductive layers is formed on the second insulating layer along the second direction, respectively.
US07858953B2	Use of fluorescent nanoparticles to measure individual layer thicknesses or composition in multi-layer films and to calibrate secondary measurement devices Fluorescent nanoparticles such as quantum dots are incorporated into plastic, paper and other web layered products to achieve cross-direction and machine direction on-line analysis of the individual layers therein. Fluorescent nanoparticles markers are added in known proportions into product formulations. By detecting the fluorescence from the nanoparticles, the thickness and other physical characteristics of the web can be traced at various stages of production. In addition, by using different populations of fluorescent nanoparticles that emit radiation at different wavelengths, data from individual layers in a composite structure can be ascertained simultaneously with a single sensor. The technique is particularly suited for monitoring difficult-to-measure polymers in complex multilayer structures.
US07858944B2	Dedicated mobile high resolution prostate PET imager with an insertable transrectal probe A dedicated mobile PET imaging system to image the prostate and surrounding organs. The imaging system includes an outside high resolution PET imager placed close to the patient's torso and an insertable and compact transrectal probe that is placed in close proximity to the prostate and operates in conjunction with the outside imager. The two detector systems are spatially co-registered to each other. The outside imager is mounted on an open rotating gantry to provide torso-wide 3D images of the prostate and surrounding tissue and organs. The insertable probe provides closer imaging, high sensitivity, and very high resolution predominately 2D view of the prostate and immediate surroundings. The probe is operated in conjunction with the outside imager and a fast data acquisition system to provide very high resolution reconstruction of the prostate and surrounding tissue and organs.
US07858943B2	Methods of performing PET sinogram quality check A method for determining quality of sinograms produced by a medical imaging device. The method may include placing a uniform phantom object in the field of view of the medical imaging device; acquiring one or more phantom sinograms of the uniform phantom object; establish a set of parameters for the acquired one or more phantom sinograms; and determine, based on pre-set ranges of the parameters, the quality of sinograms produced by the medical imaging device. The parameters may be one or more parameters of a group of parameters consisting of block uniformity, block efficiency, randoms rate, scanner efficiency, and scatter ratio.
US07858940B2	Information acquisition apparatus and information aquisition method using terahertz wave for acquiring information on object An information acquisition apparatus includes a pulse generator 9, a detector 10, a first delay unit 15, a second delay unit 16 and a computation unit. The pulse generator 9 is excited by a first laser beam to generate a terahertz wave in the form of a pulse. The detector 10 is excited by a second laser beam coherent to the first laser beam to detect the terahertz wave from object 2 that is irradiated with the pulse of the terahertz wave. The first delay unit 15 changes the delay time in such a way that the detector 10 can detect the pulse signal of the terahertz wave from the object 2. The second delay unit 16 changes the delay time by not greater than the temporal width of the pulse signal detected by the detector 10. The computation unit computationally determines the information on the temporal position of the peak of the pulse signal of the terahertz wave from the object 2 according to the information of the signal detected by the detector 10 when the delay time is changed by the second delay unit within the delay time of the first delay unit.
US07858917B2	Digital photon-counting geiger-mode avalanche photodiode solid-state monolithic intensity imaging focal-plane with scalable readout circuitry A photon-counting Geiger-mode avalanche photodiode intensity imaging array includes an array of pixels, each having an avalanche photodiode. A pixel senses an avalanche event and stores, in response to the sensed avalanche event, a single bit digital value therein. An array of accumulators are provided such that each accumulator is associated with a pixel. A row decoder circuit addresses a pixel row within the array of pixels. A bit sensing circuit converts a precharged capacitance into a digital value during read operations.
US07858912B2	Ultra low voltage CMOS image sensor architecture An optical sensor has at least one pixel that generates an output voltage that changes at a rate dependent on the light intensity incident on the pixel. The time for the pixel output voltage to change from a first predefined level to a second predefined level is measured, so as to produce an output indicative of the incident light intensity.
US07858911B2	Confocal wafer inspection system and method A semiconductor wafer inspection system and method is provided which uses a multiple element arrangement, such as an offset fly lens array. The preferred embodiment uses a laser to transmit light energy toward a beam expander, which expands the light energy to create an illumination field. An offset fly lens array converts light energy from the illumination field into an offset pattern of illumination spots. A lensing arrangement, including a first lens, a transmitter/reflector, an objective, and a Mag tube imparts light energy onto the specimen and passes the light energy toward a pinhole mask. The pinhole mask is mechanically aligned with the offset fly lens array. Light energy passing through each pinhole in the pinhole mask is directed toward a relay lens, which guides light energy onto a sensor. The offset fly lens array corresponds to the pinhole mask. The offset pattern of the offset fly lens array is chosen such that spots produced can be recombined into a continuous image, and the system utilizes a time delay and integration charge coupled device for rapid sensing along with an autofocus system that measures and cancels topological features of the specimen.
US07858908B2	Methods for inductive heating of workpiece using coiled assemblies A method for inductively heating a workpiece using a heating coil that surrounds the sides and ends of the workpiece, wherein the heating coil comprises a first coil assembly that encloses a first portion of the workpiece and a second coil assembly that encloses a second portion of the workpiece. A power supply is operatively connected to the first coil assembly and the second coil assembly.
US07858895B2	Portable stud welder A portable weld stud system is disclosed. An embodiment of the system includes a housing with a power source, which may be four twelve-volt sealed lead-acid batteries with fifty-two amp-hours of capacity. The housing includes a user interface and a set of power terminals that are coupled to the power source via a control module and a control terminal. Leads couple the housing to a weld stud gun and a work surface. A trigger on the weld stud gun allows a user to generate a drawn-arc weld between a weld stud in the weld stud gun and the work surface. The housing may include an active thermal management system and an internal charging system. The housing may further include a recess that may be covered with a removable door and is configured to accept various components such as leads, power cords, weld studs, and/or weld stud guns.
US07858893B1	Sorting of agricultural process streams The present invention relates to an apparatus for automated sorting of objects comprising a population, and for methods of sorting using same.
US07858889B2	Apparatus for processing mail items and weighing module with settling section An apparatus is provided for processing mail items transported in a stream on a transport section. The apparatus includes a weighing system which is accessible via the transport section. The weighing system includes a distributor device which divides the stream of mail items into two paths, the paths being joined together again by way of a combining device. A weighing section is provided in the first of the two paths for the automatic weight determination of the mail items, and the second path is configured to bypass the weighing section, with no weighing taking place in the bypass. In other embodiments, a calming/settling section is provided immediately prior to or after the weighing section. The mail items are transported in a clamped manner on one edge over the weighing section, whereas in the settling section, the mail items are transported on one edge while leaning against one of the lateral guide belts.
US07858887B2	Broadband over power line loom A broadband over power line housing which allows coupling between power lines and a broadband signal system. Cables enter and exit from a first housing portion. Connection circuitry is housed in a second housing unit selectively connectable to the first housing unit. A latch provides the selective connection, and includes three positions: a first latched position wherein the circuitry within the first and second housing units is electrically connected; a second latched position wherein the circuitry is disconnected; and a disconnected position where the first and second housing portions can be separated from one another. In one embodiment, the latch is operated with a hook stick between the first and second positions, allowing an operator to engage or disengage the circuitry from the ground. A visual indicator may be provided to indicate to the operator when the housing is in the latched and electrically disconnected state.
US07858883B2	Methods and kits for covering electrical cables and connections A method for forming a connection assembly includes: forming an electrical connection between first and second electrical cables, the first cable including a first primary conductor and a first neutral conductor, the second cable including a second primary conductor and a second neutral conductor; and providing an integral, unitary cover assembly. The cover assembly includes: an inner elastomeric sleeve defining a cable passage to receive the electrical connection and the first and second primary conductors; and an outer elastomeric sleeve surrounding the inner sleeve. The method further includes: mounting the cover assembly on the cables such that the electrical connection and the first and second primary conductors extend through the cable passage; installing a first protective sleeve on a first neutral segment of the first neutral conductor; routing the first neutral segment and the first protective sleeve exteriorly of the outer sleeve to a second neutral segment of the second neutral conductor; and mechanically and electrically coupling the first and second neutral segments to thereby provide electrical continuity between the first neutral conductor and the second neutral conductor.
US07858876B2	Graphite-based photovoltaic cells The present invention uses lithographically patterned graphite stacks as the basic building elements of an efficient and economical photovoltaic cell. The basic design of the graphite-based photovoltaic cells includes a plurality of spatially separated graphite stacks, each comprising a plurality of vertically stacked, semiconducting graphene sheets (carbon nanoribbons) bridging electrically conductive contacts.
US07858867B2	Metadata-based song creation and editing Relating higher-level descriptive musical metadata to lower-level musical elements to enable creation of a song map, song model, backing track, or the like. The musical elements are queried based on input metadata to create a set of musical elements of varying types such as notes, chords, song structures, and the like. The set of musical elements is provided to a user for selection of particular musical elements The selected musical elements represent the song model.
US07858859B2	Stand for a drum and also relating thereto A drum stand with at least one leg, at least one support region, formed as a support, at least one foot region, formed as a foot element and at least one holding region formed as a holding element or an accommodation element for the drum. The foot region and/or the holding region essentially extend horizontally and are connected, particularly resiliently or vibratorily, to the support region via one bend.
US07858845B2	Sugar and lipid metabolism regulators in plants IV Isolated nucleic acids and proteins associated with lipid and sugar metabolism regulation are provided. In particular, lipid metabolism proteins (LMP) and encoding nucleic acids originating from Arabidopsis thaliana, Brassica napus, and Physcomitrella patens are provided. The nucleic acids and proteins are used in methods of producing trangenic plants and modulating levels of seed storage compounds. Preferably, the seed storage compounds are lipids, fatty acids, starches, or seed storage proteins.
US07858839B2	Colostomy alert device and method A method and apparatus for alerting a colostomate or medical attendant to the presence of fecal matter. The device includes a hollow plug detachably securable to a flexible port positioned about the stoma. The port carries an alarm circuit which is triggered when fecal matter enters the plug lumen which will alert the colostomate to an impending episode. The signal may be vibratory, audible or visible and may be transmitted to a remote location. The device includes an inflatable air cuff which, when inflated, presents a physical barrier to the passage of fecal matter. Gas may pass through filters in the tube. The method involves positioning the device in the stoma, inflating the cuff and generating an alarm when matter is sensed.
US07858832B2	Process for producing phenol and methyl ethyl ketone A process for producing sec-butylbenzene comprises contacting a feed comprising benzene and a C4 alkylating agent under alkylation conditions comprising a temperature of about 110° C. to about 150° C. with a catalyst comprising at least one molecular sieve having an X-ray diffraction pattern including d-spacing maxima at 12.4±0.25, 6.9±0.15, 3.57±0.07 and 3.42±0.07 Angstrom. The sec-butylbenzene can be then oxidized to produce a hydroperoxide and the hydroperoxide decomposed to produce phenol and methyl ethyl ketone.
US07858827B2	Process for synthesis of dialkoxyorganoboranes The invention relates to a process for the synthesis of dialkoxyorganoboranes, in particular to a process for the synthesis of dialkoxyorganoboranes by an ester exchange reaction. Moreover, the invention relates to a process for the synthesis of organo-oxazaborolidine catalysts (organo-CBS) and of trialkylboroxins. Furthermore, the invention relates to methods of using dialkoxyorganoboranes for the preparation of organo-CBS catalysts and in Suzuki-type coupling reactions.
US07858825B2	Acid and base stable diphenylmethanol derivatives and methods of use The invention provides compounds that are useful as linkers for solid phase synthesis and as protecting groups, and methods for producing and using the same.
US07858822B1	Polymerizable sulfonate ionic liquids and liquid polymers therefrom Disclosed is a new ionic liquid monomer salt and methods of is synthesis and polymerization. The ionic liquid monomer salt is prepared by mixing equimolar amounts of an amine, such as tris[2-(2-methoxyethoxy)-ethyl]amine and an acid functionalized polymerizable monomer, such as 2-acrylamido-2-methyl-1-propanesulfonic acid (AMPS), which is stirred at ambient temperature until salt formation is complete. Also disclosed is a new ionic liquid polymer salts and method for making the same. The synthesis of AMPS-ammonium salt polymer is accomplished by adding 2,2′-azobisisobutyronitrile (AIBN) to the ionic liquid monomer salt and heating the homogeneous melt at 70° C. for 18 hr.
US07858817B2	Metallocene-substituted pyridyl amines, their metal complexes, and processes for production and use thereof This invention relates to new transition metal complexes for use in olefin polymerization and oligomerization. The active complex is a pyridine amide having a metallocenyl substituent as part of the ligand structure. The invention also relates to novel precursors for the ligand systems of such complexes obtained from metallocenyl-substituted pyridine compounds through sequences involving addition-condensation or lithium-halogen exchange (with subsequent metathesis) reactions.
US07858809B2	Process for production of pyrazole-fused ring derivatives Intermediates useful for the synthesis of pyrazole-fused ring derivatives, such as 7-phenylpyrazolo [1,5-a]pyridine derivatives, and method for producing the same. Method for producing compound represented by the general formula (II), wherein Z1 and Z2 each independently represents a methine group or a nitrogen atom; Rl represents an ethyl group or the like; R5 represents a hydrogen atom or the like; R2 and R3 each independently represents a C1-6 alkyl group or the like, salts thereof, or solvates of both, comprising the step of: reacting a compound represented by the general formula (I), wherein Z1, Z2, R5, R1, R2 and R3 each has the same definition as described above, with an organometallic reagent; and then reacting the resulting product with pentafluoroiodobenzene.
US07858797B2	Biphenyl compounds useful as muscarinic receptor antagonists This invention provides compounds of formula I: wherein a, b, c, d, m, n, p, r, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, and W are as defined in the specification. The compounds of formula I are muscarinic receptor antagonists. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds, processes and intermediates for preparing such compounds and methods of using such compounds to treat pulmonary disorders.
US07858789B2	Derivatives of 4-aminopiperidine and their use as a medicament A subject of the present application is new derivatives of 4-aminopiperidines of formula in which R1, R2 and R3 represent various radical, and their preparation processes by synthetic methods in parallel in liquid and solid phase. These products having a good affinity with certain sub-types of somatostatin receptors, they are particularly useful for treating the pathological states or diseases in which one (or more) somatostatin receptors are involved.
US07858787B2	Process for producing olefins A process for converting an olefin having x carbon atoms into an olefin having x+1 carbon atoms wherein the process comprises the steps of: (i) reacting an olefin having x carbon atoms with carbon monoxide and hydrogen in the presence of a hydroformylation catalyst to produce an alcohol having x+1 carbon atoms, and (ii) dehydrating the alcohol produced in step (i) in the presence of a dehydration catalyst to produce an olefin having x+1 carbon atoms characterized in that the hydroformylation catalyst used in step (i) is based on: (a) a source of cobalt, and (b) a ligand which contains phosphorus and nitrogen.
US07858783B2	Metallic compound and organic electroluminescence device comprising the same The present invention relates to a light emitting metallic compound of Chemical Formula 1 and an organic electroluminescence device including the compound. In the Chemical Formula 1, M is selected from Ir, Pt, Rh, Re, and Os, and m is 2, provided that m is 1 when M is Pt.
US07858765B2	OX40R binding agents The present invention discloses peptides isolated from the extracellular domain of OX40 Ligand (OX40L) capable of binding OX40 Receptor (OX40R) and inhibiting OX40R-OX40L interaction. Such peptides, fusion proteins comprising them, as well as peptides and other molecules designed on their sequences, can be used as OX40R binding agents competing with natural OX40L for blocking OX40R-mediated cell signaling in the prophylaxis and/or treatment of diseases related to activated T cells.
US07858759B2	Anti-zB7H6 antibody-drug conjugates Disclosed is a newly identified B7 family member, zB7H6, which functions as a counter-receptor for the NK cell triggering receptor, NKp30. Methods and compositions for modulating NKp30-mediated NK cell activity based on the interaction of zB7H6 with NKp30, as well as related screening methods, are also disclosed. Further disclosed are anti-zB7H6 antibodies as well as antibody-drug conjugates comprising an anti-zB7H6 antibody conjugated to a therapeutic agent, including methods for using such antibodies and antibody-drug conjugates to exert therapeutic effects against zB7H6-expressing cells.
US07858741B2	Stabilization of the collagen triple helix by O-methylation of hydroxyproline residues This invention relates to a collagen polypeptide comprising a tripeptide motif having the formula (ProYaaGly)n, where Yaa is an O-methylated amino acid residue and “n” is the number of motif repeats. Preferred O-methylated amino acid residues at the Yaa position include (2S,4R)-4-methoxyproline. Other suitable amino acid residues at that position include O-mono or O-di-halogenated methylproline. Also, disclosed is a method of making a synthetic or a semi-synthetic collagen polypeptide molecule having increased stability relative to natural collagen. The strengthened collagen molecules are suitable for use in biomaterials for the medical field or in leather-related products prepared by the tanning industry.
US07858734B2	Polyimide material and preparation method thereof A polyimide material comprises a polyimide. The polyimide has repeating units of formula (I). The polyimide material further comprises a coupling agent-containing filler.A method for preparing a polyimide material comprises allowing a mixture comprising an aromatic tetracarboxylic dianhydride, an aromatic diamine, and a coupling agent-containing filler to react to produce a polyamic acid. The method further comprises contacting the polyamic acid with an aliphatic dicarboxylic acid of formula (II) to produce an intermediate, and imidizing the intermediate to produce the polyimide material.A polyimide comprises repeating units of formula (I).
US07858733B2	Highly functional, highly branched or hyperbranched polyesters, the production thereof and the use of the same High-functionality highly branched or hyperbranched polyesters based on di-, tri- or polycarboxylic acids and di-, tri- or polyols, processes for preparing them, and their use.
US07858727B2	Process for the preparation of polycarbonate The invention relates to a combined process for the preparation of polycarbonate by the phase boundary process and downstream electrolysis of sodium chloride-containing process wastewater.
US07858726B2	Process for producing low-molecular polyphenylene ether A process for producing a low-molecular polyphenylene ether having a content of components with molecular weights of 20,000 or more of 10 mass % or less and a number average molecular weight of 4,000 or less by a redistribution reaction which involves reacting a raw polyphenylene ether having a number average molecular weight of 10,000 or more with a polyphenol compound and a radical initiator, characterized in that the redistribution reaction step is a step conducted in a solvent; the ratio of the raw polyphenylene ether to the solvent (raw polyphenylene ether:solvent) (mass ratio) is provided at 0.4:100 to 40:100 (mass ratio); and the ratio of the radical initiator to the solvent (radical initiator:solvent) (mass ratio) is provided at 0.5:100 to 5:100 (mass ratio).
US07858720B2	Co-polymer films for sensors Embodiments include a sensor comprising a co-polymer, the co-polymer comprising a first monomer and a second monomer. For some embodiments, the first monomer is poly-4-vinyl pyridine, and the second monomer is poly-4-vinyl pyridinium propylamine chloride. For some embodiments, the first monomer is polystyrene and the second monomer is poly-2-vinyl pyridinium propylamine chloride. For some embodiments, the first monomer is poly-4-vinyl pyridine, and the second monomer is poly-4-vinyl pyridinium benzylamine chloride. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US07858715B2	Loop reactor for emulsion polymerisation Method of emulsion polymerization wherein a reactor comprising a closed reactor loop is continuously charged with fresh monomers and water phase at substantially the same rate as the rate of an overflow of reactor charge discharged into a secondary line section. The reactor charge is continuously recirculated within the reactor loop. The discharge rate and the circulation rate in the loop are balanced such as to result in a monomer content in the loop of less than 12 wt. %. The secondary line section has a volume of less than twice the volume of the reactor loop.
US07858711B2	Lead-free insulation compositions containing metallocene polymers Novel additive systems for lead-free filled cable insulation are disclosed. These systems provide improved electrical and mechanical properties. The base polymer may be metallocene based, non metallocene based or combinations thereof. The additives may contain one or more hindered amine light stabilizers, mercapto compounds, and optionally, amine antioxidants.
US07858709B2	Aqueous dispersion adhesive composition and adhesive film The aqueous dispersion adhesive composition contains an aqueous dispersion copolymer obtained by reacting of a reaction component containing alkyl (meth)acrylate whose linear or branched alkyl group has 4 to 18 carbon atoms, (meth)acrylic acid, a phosphoric acid group-containing vinyl monomer and an alkoxysilyl group-containing vinyl monomer to react; and a crosslinking agent having reactivity with a carboxyl group. In the aqueous dispersion adhesive composition, an amount of the crosslinking agent is from 0.07 to 4 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the aqueous dispersion copolymer, and in an adhesive layer made of the aqueous dispersion adhesive composition, an elongation at 90° C. is 200% or less.
US07858702B2	Enhanced ESCR bimodal HDPE for blow molding applications Bimodal polyethylene compositions and blow molded bottles made therefrom are provided. In at least one specific embodiment, the composition includes at least one high molecular weight polyethylene component having a molecular weight distribution (MWD) of about 6 to about 9, a short chain branch content of less than about 2 branches per 1,000 main chain carbons, and a Mz of about 1,100,000 or more. The composition also includes at least one low molecular weight polyethylene component where a ratio of weight average molecular weight of the high molecular weight polyethylene component to weight average molecular weight of the low molecular weight polyethylene component is about 20 or less. The polyethylene composition has a density of about 0.94 g/cc or more, an ESCR of about 600 hours or more, a percent die swell of about 70% or more, and may comprise at least 70% ethylene-derived units.
US07858700B2	Thermoplastic compositions, method of manufacture, and articles therefrom A thermoplastic composition comprising, based on the total weight of the thermoplastic composition, from 0.1 to 30 weight percent of an inorganic filler composition comprising an inorganic filler-polyorganosiloxane composite; up to 80 weight percent of a polycarbonate; and from 1 to 25 weight percent of an impact modifier. Methods of preparing the compositions and articles comprising the compositions are described.
US07858689B2	Thermoplastic vulcanizates with improved mechanical properties A thermoplastic vulcanizate comprising a dynamically-cured rubber, where the rubber is selected from the group consisting of ethylene-propylene-non-conjugated diene rubber, propylene-based rubbery copolymers with units derived from non-conjugated diene monomers, butyl rubber and styrene-butadiene rubber, where dynamic vulcanization is effected with a phenolic resin or a silicon-containing curative, and where the rubber is dynamically cured to an extent where greater than 94% by weight of the rubber is insoluble in cyclohexane at 23° C., and from about 25 to about 250 parts by weight of a thermoplastic polymer phase per 100 parts by weight rubber, where about 85% to about 50% by weight of the thermoplastic polymer phase includes a propylene-based polymer, and where from about 15% to about 50% by weight of the thermoplastic polymer phase includes a butene-1-based polymer.
US07858686B2	Stabilized polyolefin nanocomposites A heat stabilized polyolefin nanocomposite is disclosed, which contains metal scavengers to heat stabilize the nanocomposite.
US07858683B2	Interlayer film for laminated glass and laminated glass The invention provides an interlayer film for a laminated glass and a laminated glass, which are protected against a slump in TL value through attenuation of said coincidence effect and adapted to display an outstanding sound insulation performance over a broad temperature range. An interlayer film for a laminated glass comprising a plasticizer and a polyacetal resin, which is a blend of a polyacetal resin having an average polymerization degree of 1,000 to 3,000 and a polyacetal resin having an average polymerization degree of 3,000 to 5,000, and which has an acetalization degree of 60 to 85 mol % and an acetyl group content of 8 to 30 mol %. An interlayer film for a laminated glass which shows a temperature dependence of loss tangent in which the lowest-temperature side maximum of loss tangent appears at 30° C. or lower when examined for dynamic viscoelasticity.
US07858680B2	Thermoplastic polycarbonate compositions Disclosed herein is a thermoplastic composition comprising: a polycarbonate; an impact modifier; a polycarbonate-polysiloxane copolymer; a poly(arylene ether)-polysiloxane copolymer; and an organophosphate in an amount of 2 to 20 weight percent based on the combined weight of polycarbonate, impact modifier, polycarbonate-polysiloxane copolymer, and poly(arylene ether)-polysiloxane copolymer, wherein the composition has a notched Izod impact strength of greater than or equal to 4 kilojoules per square meter (kJ/m2) as determined according to ISO 180/A, a melt viscosity rate of less than or equal to 130 Pascal seconds (Pa·s) as determined according to ISO11443 at 1500 s−1 and 280° C., and a UL94 rating of V1 or better at 0.8 millimeter thickness.
US07858679B2	Polymeric compositions and related methods of use Methods for surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization, which can utilize a catecholic alkyl halide initiator.
US07858673B2	Method for sterilizing impression materials and impression material that can be sterilized A method for sterilizing medical single-component or multi-component impression materials that can harden, and a two-component impression material. In a first step of the method, the components of the impression materials that have not hardened are introduced into a primary packaging. In a second step, the primary packagings, with the components contained therein, are sterilized by heat sterilization. In a third step, the sterilized components in the primary packagings are introduced into a secondary packaging. In a fourth step, this secondary packaging is sterilized by means of a suitable gas sterilization, irradiation sterilization, and/or by means of sterilization in an autoclave, so that the activity and the viscosity of the components are not changed.
US07858668B2	Electrolyte membrane using polybenzoxazine based compound and method of manufacturing the same An electrolyte membrane includes a cross-linked reaction product of a benzoxazine monomer and a cross-linkable compound. The electrolyte membrane is impregnated with 300 to 600 parts by weight of phosphoric acid based on 100 parts by weight of the electrolyte membrane, and has a yield strain 0.5% or less, and a yield stress 0.3 Mpa or less. The cross-linked material has a strong acid trapping ability with respect to the benzoxazine compound and excellent mechanical properties due to a cross-linkage. Also, the solubility of the cross-linked material in polyphosphoric acid is low, thereby showing excellent chemical stability. Accordingly, when the cross-linked material is used, an electrolyte membrane having an excellent liquid supplementing ability and excellent mechanical and chemical stability at a high temperature can be obtained. The cross-linked material can be obtained by a simple polymerization process by combining a benzoxazine monomer and a crosslinkable compound and by using heat instead of using a polymerization initiator or a cross-linking agent.
US07858653B2	2-imidazoles The present invention relates to compounds of formula I, wherein X is —CH2— or —NH—; Y is —CH(lower alkoxy)-, —CH(lower alkyl)-, —O—, —S—, —S(O)—, —S(O)2— or —CH2—; and Ar is phenyl or naphthyl, which rings are optionally substituted by one or two substituents selected from the group consisting of halogen, lower alkoxy, lower alkyl and lower alkyl substituted by halogen; or a pharmaceutically-acceptable acid-addition salt thereof; with the proviso that, when X is —NH—, Y is —CH(lower alkyl)- or —CH2—; and the further proviso that the compound is not 2-phenethyl-1H-imidazole hydrochloride, 2-(3,4-dichloro-phenoxymethyl)-1H-imidazole hydrochloride, 2-(2-chloro-phenoxymethyl)-1H-imidazole hydrochloride, 2-(2,3-dichloro-phenoxymethyl)-1H-imidazole, benzyl-(1H-imidazol-2-yl)-amine, (4-chloro-benzyl)-(1H-imidazol-2-yl)-amine, or (2-chloro-benzyl)-(1H-imidazol-2-yl)-amine. The invention relates also to a pharmaceutically-acceptable acid-addition salt of such a compound, processes for making the compound, and a composition comprising such a compound.
US07858646B2	Potentiators of glutamate receptors The present invention provides compounds of formula (I); pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods of using the same, processes or preparing the same, and intermediates thereof.
US07858642B2	Substituted hydroxyethylamine aspartyl protease inhibitors The invention relates to novel compounds and also to methods of treating at least one disease, disorder, or condition associated with amyloidosis using such compounds. Amyloidosis refers to a collection of diseases, disorders, and conditions associated with abnormal deposition of A-beta protein.
US07858630B2	D3 and 5-HT2A receptor modulators The present invention provides compounds of the general formula (I) wherein X, n and R1 are as described herein, as well as pharmaceutically acceptable salts and esters thereof, methods for their manufacture, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use as medicaments. The active compounds of the present invention are dual modulators of the serotonin 5-HT2a and dopamine D3 receptors, useful in the treatment and/or the prevention of cognitive disorders, drug addiction, depression, anxiety, drug dependence, dementias, memory impairment, psychotic disorders comprising schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorders, bipolar disease, mania, psychotic depression, and psychoses comprising paranoia and delusions.
US07858617B2	2-oxy-benzoxazinone derivatives for the treatment of obesity The use of a compound comprising formula (I): or a salt, ester, amide or prodrug thereof in the inhibition of an enzyme whose preferred mode of action is to catalyse the hydrolysis of an ester functionality, e.g. in the control and inhibition of unwanted enzymes in products and processes. The compounds are also useful in medicine e.g. in the treatment of obesity and related conditions. The invention also relates to novel compounds within formula (I), to processes for preparing them and pharmaceutical compositions containing them. In formula (I) A is a 6-membered aromatic or heteroaromatic ring; andR1 is a branched or unbranched alkyl (optionally interrupted by one or more oxygen atoms), alkenyl, alkynyl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkenyl, aryl, arylalkyl, reduced arylalkyl, arylalkenyl, heteroaryl, heteroarylalkyl, heteroarylalkenyl, reduced aryl, reduced heteroaryl, reduced heteroarylalkyl or a substituted derivative of any of the foregoing groups.
US07858614B2	Therapeutic pyrazolonaphthyridine derivatives The invention provides a novel chemical series of formula I, as well as methods of use thereof for binding to the benzodiazepine site of the GABAA receptor and negatively modulating the α5 subtype of GABAA, and use of the compound of formula I for the treatment of GABAA receptor associated disorders. The general structure of formula I is shown below: The invention further provides a method of modulation of one or more GABAA subtypes in an animal comprising administering to the animal an effective amount of a compound of formula (I).
US07858600B2	7- and 9- carbamate, urea, thiourea, thiocarbamate, and heteroaryl-amino substituted tetracycline compounds Substituted tetracycline compounds, methods of synthesis, and methods of use are discussed. Tetracyclines useful for treating tetracycline related disorders are also discussed. Intermediates useful for synthesizing other tetracycline compounds are also included.
US07858598B2	Reagents for detection of hypochlorous acid Provided herein are compounds or hypochlorous acid probes which can be used as reagents for measuring, detecting and/or screening, directly or indirectly, hypochlorous acid or hypochlorite. Provided also herein are methods that can be used to measure, directly or indirectly, the amount of hypochlorous acid or hypochlorite in chemical samples and biological samples such as cells and tissues in living organisms. Specifically, the methods include the steps of contacting the hypochlorous acid probes disclosed herein with the samples to form one or more fluorescent compounds, and measuring fluorescence properties of the fluorescent compounds. Provided also herein are high-throughput screening fluorescent methods for detecting or screening hypochlorous acid or compounds that can increase or decrease, directly or indirectly, the level of hypochlorous acid or hypochlorite in chemical and biological samples.
US07858592B2	Interfering RNAs against the promoter region of P53 The present invention relates to the inhibition of p53 transcription by interfering with the activity of a p53 promoter using inhibitory double-stranded RNAs. Use of these inhibitory RNAs in the treatment of cancers also is disclosed.
US07858586B2	Method of treating condition in animal The invention relates to compositions comprising of SEQ NO: 1-244, 248-249, and any homologs, analogs, and fragments thereof. Such compositions can be used to treat, prevent, and modulate pain, inflammation, and metabolic processes in various organisms including plants and animals. Such compositions can be formulated with an acceptable pharmaceutical excipient for administration to a human or a plant. The compositions can be administered topically or for systemic use.
US07858582B2	Ophthalmic hGM-CSF preparation The present invention provides an external preparation and the method for produce the same, in which said external preparation comprises recombinant human growth hormone or recombinant human granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor and pharmaceutical acceptable carriers. The present invention also relates to application and usage method in preparing medicaments for treatment of various lesions and ulcers, especially corneal lesions and corneal ulcers.
US07858576B2	Method for targeting lysosomal enzymes Targeted therapeutics that localize to a specific subcellular compartment such as the lysosome are provided. The targeted therapeutics include a therapeutic agent and a targeting moiety that binds a receptor on an exterior surface of the cell, permitting proper subcellular localization of the targeted therapeutic upon internalization of the receptor. Nucleic acids, cells, and methods relating to the practice of the invention are also provided.
US07858570B2	Compositions and methods for removing urushiol and treating the resulting skin condition The present application is directed to various compositions to treat the itching and conditions that result from contracting poison ivy, poison oak, and poison sumac, as well as other plant and substances that contain substances that lead to a skin reaction but that upon removal alleviate the symptoms of the condition. In particular, the compositions described herein are useful for removing urushiol after it has contacted the skin. The compositions include granules or other scrubbing means to reach the urushiol in the skin, a mixture of surfactants to form a complex with the urushiol, counter-irritants to provide a soothing sensation to the irritated skin, and other functional ingredients to provide additional benefits to the individual who has contacted urushiol.
US07858565B2	Antioxidant additive for lubricant compositions, comprising organotungstate The invention relates an additive for improving antioxidant capabilities in a lubricating composition, where the lubricating composition is based on a major amount of a lubricating oil and 0.1-5.0 mass percent of an additive, the additive including a secondary diarlyamine and an organoammonium tungstate.
US07858563B2	Wellbore treatment with hydrocarbon-responsive fluid containing oligomeric viscoelastic surfactant A treatment of a subterranean formation which contains a hydrocarbon-bearing zone, is carried out using a hydrocarbon-responsive fluid thickened with an oligomeric surfactant consisting of from 2 to 8_linked surfactant monomer subunits. The process of treatment comprises (i) mixing a thickening amount of oligomeric surfactant with an aqueous liquid to make a viscoelastic treatment fluid, (ii) pumping said viscoelastic treatment fluid through a wellbore and into the subterranean formation, where (iii) contact with hydrocarbons within the formation dissipates the viscosity of the treatment fluid.
US07858559B2	In vitro methods of producing and identifying immunoglobulin molecules in eukaryotic cells The present invention relates to a high efficiency method of expressing immunoglobulin molecules in eukaryotic cells. The invention is further drawn to a method of producing immunoglobulin heavy and light chain libraries, particularly using the trimolecular recombination method, for expression in eukaryotic cells. The invention further provides methods of selecting and screening for antigen-specific immunoglobulin molecules, and antigen-specific fragments thereof. The invention also provides kits for producing, screening and selecting antigen-specific immunoglobulin molecules. Finally, the invention provides immunoglobulin molecules, and antigen-specific fragments thereof, produced by the methods provided herein.
US07858552B2	Composite catalytic material and process for manufacture of such material A composite catalytic material (and process for its manufacture) is provided which comprises a catalyst adhered to a polymeric support material. This composite catalytic material can be used to remove or degrade contaminants in water and to remove or degrade carbon monoxide or other airborne contaminants.
US07858547B2	Ceramic with improved high temperature electrical properties for use as a spark plug insulator An insulator including alumina in an amount between about 90 and about 99% by weight and an oxide mixture or glass mixture including Boron Oxide, Phosphorus Oxide, or both Boron and Phosphorus Oxide.
US07858545B2	Clear glass composition with high visible transmittance A high transmittance fairly clear/neutral colored glass composition is provided. An oxidizing agent(s) such as cerium oxide (e.g., CeO2) or the like is added to the glass batch in order to realize very oxidized conditions (i.e., to significantly lower the redox of the resulting glass). As a result of the oxidizing agent(s) used in the batch, the iron is oxidized to a very low FeO (ferrous state) content. For example, this may result in a glass having a glass redox value of no greater than 0.12 (more preferably <=0.10; even more preferably <=0.08; and most preferably <=0.05) and a % FeO (i.e., ferrous content) of from 0.0001 to 0.05%. In certain example embodiments, in order to compensate for yellow or yellow-green coloration a small amount of cobalt (Co) may be provided in the glass to enable it to realize a more neutral color.
US07858541B2	Back pad for abrasive disks and preparation thereof A back pad comprising a nonwoven fabric, and at least one carbon and polyester fiber textile layers stacked thereon has an improved flexibility and provides an improved working environment, and thus, it can be advantageously used in the manufacturing of an abrasive disk.
US07858534B2	Semiconductor device manufacturing method and substrate processing apparatus A semiconductor device manufacturing method comprises a process of forming a film on each of multiple substrates arrayed in a processing chamber by a thermal CVD method by supplying a film forming gas into the processing chamber while heating the interior of the processing chamber, wherein in the film forming process, a cycle is performed one time or multiple times with one cycle including a step of flowing the film forming gas from one end towards the other end along the substrate array direction, and a step of flowing the film forming gas from the other end towards the one end along the substrate array direction, without forming temperature gradient along the substrate array direction in the processing chamber.
US07858510B1	Interfacial layers for electromigration resistance improvement in damascene interconnects Protective caps residing at an interface between metal lines and dielectric diffusion barrier (or etch stop) layers are used to improve electromigration performance of interconnects. Protective caps are formed by depositing a first layer of aluminum-containing material over an exposed copper line by treating an oxide-free copper surface with an organoaluminum compound in an absence of plasma at a substrate temperature of at least about 350° C. The formed aluminum-containing layer is passivated either partially or completely in a chemical conversion which forms Al—N, Al—O or both Al—O and Al—N bonds in the layer. Passivation is performed in some embodiments by contacting the substrate having an exposed first layer with an oxygen-containing reactant and/or nitrogen-containing reactant in the absence of plasma. Protective caps can be formed on substrates comprising exposed ULK dielectric. The aluminum-containing layer residing on the dielectric portion will typically spontaneously form non-conductive layer comprising Al—O bonds.
US07858509B2	High-dielectric film substrate processing method A disclosed substrate processing method in a single wafer substrate processing device including a first process position for introducing nitrogen atoms to a high-dielectric film and a second process position for performing heat treatment on the high-dielectric film includes: successively conveying plural substrates to be processed to the first process position and the second process position one by one; and successively performing the introduction of nitrogen atoms and the heat treatment on the high-dielectric film on the substrates to be processed, wherein the treatment on the substrate to be processed is started within 30 seconds at the second process position after the process at the first position.
US07858508B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a trench is formed to have an upper quadrangular section and a lower circular section which is formed through a hydrogen annealing process, to extend in a depth direction of a semiconductor substrate. An insulating film is formed on a surface of the trench and a surface of the semiconductor substrate. A conductive film is formed to fill the trench whose surface is covered with the an insulating film. Source/drain regions are formed on both sides of the trench.
US07858507B2	Method and system for creating photosensitive array with integrated backplane A method of fabricating a photoactive array having an integrated backplane is provided. The layers of the device may be stamped or deposited on a planar or a curved substrate, such as a semispherical or ellipsoidal substrate. Each metal layer may be stamped using an elastomeric stamp and a vacuum mold. By depositing the patterned and full-surface layers in a single process, a photosensitive array with an integrated transistor backplane may be fabricated, resulting in improved sensitivity and performance.
US07858486B2	Methods of forming a plurality of capacitors The invention includes methods and integrated circuitry. Pillars project outwardly from openings in a first material over individual capacitor storage node locations. Insulative material is deposited over the first material laterally about sidewalls of the projecting pillars, and is anisotropically etched effective to expose underlying first material and leave electrically insulative material received laterally about the sidewalls of the projecting pillars. Openings are formed within a second material to the pillars. The pillars are etched from the substrate through the openings in the second material, and individual capacitor electrodes are formed within the openings in electrical connection with the storage node locations. The individual capacitor electrodes have the anisotropically etched insulative material received laterally about their outer sidewalls. The individual capacitor electrodes are incorporated into a plurality of capacitors. Other implementations and aspects are contemplated.
US07858472B2	Scalable self-aligned dual floating gate memory cell array and methods of forming the array An integrated non-volatile memory circuit is formed by first growing a thin dielectric layer on a semiconductor substrate surface, followed by depositing a layer of conductive material such as doped polysilicon on this dielectric layer, the conductive material then being separated into rows and columns of individual floating gates. Cell source and drain diffusions in the substrate are continuously elongated across the rows. Field dielectric deposited between the rows of floating gates provides electrical isolation between the rows. Shallow trenches may be included between rows without interrupting the conductivity of the diffusions along their lengths. A deep dielectric filled trench is formed in the substrate between the array and peripheral circuits as electrical isolation. Various techniques are included that increase the field coupling area between the floating gates and a control gate. Other techniques increase the thickness of dielectric between control gates in order to decrease the field coupling between them.
US07858468B2	Memory devices and formation methods A method includes forming an electrical insulator material over an integrated circuit having a metal-containing conductive interconnect and activating a dopant in a semiconductor material of a substrate to provide a doped region. The doped region provides a junction of opposite conductivity types. After activating the dopant, the substrate is bonded to the insulator material and at least some of the substrate is removed where bonded to the insulator material. After the removing, a memory cell is formed having a word line, an access diode, a state-changeable memory element containing chalcogenide phase change material, and a bit line all electrically connected in series, the access diode containing the junction as a p-n junction. A memory device includes an adhesion material over the insulator material and bonding the word line to the insulator material.
US07858453B2	Method of manufacturing semiconductor device and display device utilizing solution ejector A step of forming wiring using first solution ejection means for ejecting a conductive material, a step of forming a resist mask on the wiring using second solution ejection means, and a step of etching the wiring using an atmospheric-pressure plasma device having linear plasma generation means or an atmospheric-pressure plasma device having a plurality of linearly-arranged plasma-generation-means using the resist mask as a mask are included.
US07858440B2	Stacked semiconductor chips Stacked semiconductor chips are disclosed. One embodiment provides an array of first semiconductor chips, covering the array of the first semiconductor chips with a mold material, and placing an array of second semiconductor chips over the array of the first semiconductor chips. The thicknesses of the second semiconductor chips is reduced. The array of the first semiconductor chips are singulated by dividing the mold material.
US07858438B2	Semiconductor device, chip package and method of fabricating the same A semiconductor device has a chip, a first bump electrode, a conductive wire and a second bump electrode. The chip has at least one contact pad, and the first bump electrode is formed on the contact pad. The conductive wire is disposed on an active surface of the chip and electrically connected to the first bump electrode. The second bump electrode is formed on the conductive wire, and the second bump electrode is not disposed over any contact pad of the chip. In addition, a method for packaging a chip and an IC package are also disclosed.
US07858435B2	Organic electro-luminance device and method for fabricating the same Provided is an organic EL device and fabrication method thereof that can prevent the performance of the organic EL layer and the TFT from being lowered in forming the cathode using an E-beam heating evaporation process. The organic EL device includes a substrate, an anode, an organic EL layer, a cathode, and a transparent electrode connected with the cathode to extract the cathode to an outside, and further includes an interconnection line connected to the transparent electrode, for discharging charges accumulated on the cathode outside the organic EL device. According to the present invention, since the charges generated on the cathode can be removed through the interconnection line, the underlying organic EL layer and the TFT can be prevented from being damaged, so that the device reliability can be enhanced.
US07858431B2	Method of manufacturing photoelectric conversion device A fragile layer is formed in a region at a depth of less than 1000 nm from one surface of a single crystal semiconductor substrate, and a first impurity semiconductor layer and a first electrode are formed at the one surface side. After bonding the first electrode and a supporting substrate, the single crystal semiconductor substrate is separated using the fragile layer or the vicinity as a separation plane, thereby forming a first single crystal semiconductor layer over the supporting substrate. An amorphous semiconductor layer is formed on the first single crystal semiconductor layer, and a second single crystal semiconductor layer is formed by heat treatment for solid phase growth of the amorphous semiconductor layer. A second impurity semiconductor layer having a conductivity type opposite to that of the first impurity semiconductor layer and a second electrode are formed over the second single crystal semiconductor layer.
US07858427B2	Crystalline silicon solar cells on low purity substrate A method is provided for making a crystalline silicon solar cell on a low purity substrate by depositing p+-p-n+, or n+-n-p+ layers of amorphous silicon, depending on the type of wafer, on a crystalline silicon substrate, such as an upgraded metallurgical grade silicon substrate, with substrate vias of varying diameters formed thereon, annealing the stack of amorphous silicon layers to cause solid phase epitaxial crystallization, and metallizing the substrate assembly using standard metallization techniques. One embodiment of the present invention provides depositing a passivation layer onto the third deposited silicon layer subsequent to the crystallization. Another embodiment provides depositing a passivation layer on the back side of the substrate subsequent to crystallization and punching selected regions at the substrate vias prior to back metallization.
US07858424B2	Method for manufacturing a sensor array including a monolithically integrated circuit A method for producing a sensor array including a monolithically integrated circuit is described as well as a sensor array. This sensor array has a micromechanical sensor structure, in which a first partial structure which is associated with the sensor structure is produced at the same time as a second partial structure which is associated with the circuit, a process variation of the first partial structure being performed in order to adjust a structure property of the sensor structure while the second partial structure remains the same.
US07858416B2	LED package structure and method of packaging the same An LED package structure includes a first LED chip, a second LED chip arranged on the minor light-emitting surface of the first LED chip, a conductive unit connected between the electrode areas for parallel or serially connecting the two LED chips together, and two external electric conduction units for electrically connecting both the first and second electrode areas of the first LED chip with an external circuit.
US07858412B2	Thin-film transistor substrate and method of fabricating the same A thin-film transistor (“TFT”) substrate and a method of fabricating the same include: an insulating substrate; gate wiring which is disposed on the insulating substrate and includes a gate line and a gate electrode; a semiconductor pattern which is disposed on the gate electrode; data wiring which is disposed on the semiconductor pattern and includes a data line, a source electrode, and a drain electrode; a passivation layer which includes a first sub-passivation layer and a second sub-passivation layer deposited on the data wiring; and a pixel electrode which is electrically connected to the drain electrode through a contact hole disposed in the passivation layer, wherein the second sub-passivation layer has a lower density than the first sub-passivation layer.
US07858408B2	LED with phosphor tile and overmolded phosphor in lens Overmolded lenses and certain fabrication techniques are described for LED structures. In one embodiment, thin YAG phosphor plates are formed and affixed over blue LEDs mounted on a submount wafer. A clear lens is then molded over each LED structure during a single molding process. The LEDs are then separated from the wafer. The molded lens may include red phosphor to generate a warmer white light. In another embodiment, the phosphor plates are first temporarily mounted on a backplate, and a lens containing a red phosphor is molded over the phosphor plates. The plates with overmolded lenses are removed from the backplate and affixed to the top of an energizing LED. A clear lens is then molded over each LED structure. The shape of the molded phosphor-loaded lenses may be designed to improve the color vs. angle uniformity. Multiple dies may be encapsulated by a single lens. In another embodiment, a prefabricated collimating lens is glued to the flat top of an overmolded lens.
US07858405B2	Process condition evaluation method for liquid crystal display module A process condition evaluation method for a liquid crystal display module (LCM) includes: a first step of obtaining a threshold power measuring pattern, an analysis sample for a cell bonding status in an LCD fabrication process, and obtaining a lower substrate sample by separating an upper substrate from the threshold power measuring pattern; a second step of supplying voltages on a gate pad on the lower substrate sample with sequentially increasing a voltage level by a predetermined unit by using an electrical device, and obtaining a threshold current and a threshold voltage by measuring currents at a drain pad whenever voltage increased by a predetermined unit is applied to the gate pad; and a third step of obtaining threshold power based on the threshold current and the threshold voltage, and thereby evaluating process conditions of the LCM.
US07858391B2	Device and method for holding a cassette for laboratory samples A device for holding a laboratory sample cassette having a marking surface disposed at inclined angle to a main body of the cassette, has a platen with an aperture through which marking of the marking surface can occur. The device also has a receiving surface for receiving one of said cassette which surface is inclined relative to the platen, a step, and a clamp. A receiving cassette is slid down the inclined receiving surface until the cassette engages the stop and so that the marking surface substantially faces the platen and a recess behind the marking surface is aligned with the clamp. A plunger of the clamp is lowered toward the platen and into the recess so that the marking surface is pinned against the platen. The marking surface can then be marked by marking means via the platen aperture. The plunger is then moved away from the platen and the cassette is removed.
US07858384B2	Flow control technique for assay devices A method for controlling fluid flow in an assay device that employs a membrane is provided. Specifically, one or more recessed regions are formed in the membrane by applying a solvent treatment thereto. The solvent treatment is selected based on its particular dissolving capacity for the material used to form the membrane. For example, an alcohol-based solvent, such as methanol, may be used as a solvent for nitrocellulose membranes. Upon contact with the solvent treatment, a recessed region is formed that may serve a variety of different functions relating to flow control. In one particular embodiment, the recessed region may function as a metering channel that is capable of delivering a controlled volume of the test sample to a detection zone upon initiation of the assay.
US07858375B2	Air-stable supported lipid bilayer membranes The present invention relates to methods for fabricating air-stable supported lipid bilayer membranes. In one embodiment, the present invention relates to methods of producing supported lipid bilayer membranes stabilized by sterol groups that are covalently tethered to a solid surface. In a further embodiment, the present invention relates to air-stable supported lipid bilayer membranes produced by the methods of the present invention.
US07858371B2	Method of separating embryo suspension mass A method of separating an embryo suspension mass is provided. The method includes supplying an embryo suspension mass culture having a plurality of first particles of a first size and a plurality of second particles of a second size different at least in part from the first size of the first particles. The method also includes suspending the embryo suspension mass culture in a fluid to create a mixture and forcing the mixture through a filter while maintaining the mixture in the fluid to separate the first particles from the second particles.
US07858365B2	Sample block apparatus and method for maintaining a microcard on a sample block A thermal cycling device for thermally cycling samples of biological material contained in a microcard having a top and bottom surface. The thermal cycling device can include a sample block having an upper surface configured for engaging the bottom surface of a microcard, a vacuum device, and a temperature control system operatively connected with the sample block. The upper surface of the sample block may include a plurality of channels, the channels defining spaces between the sample block and the bottom surface of a microcard that may be positioned thereon. The vacuum device may be in fluid communication with the sample block for drawing gas out of the spaces defined by the channels in the sample block. The vacuum device may be configured for substantially maintaining a vacuum between the sample block and microcard so that a retention force is imparted on the microcard to urge the microcard toward the sample block. Methods of maintaining a microcard on a sample block of a thermal cycling device are also provided.
US07858363B2	Plasmid DNA isolation Apparatus, reagents, and methods for isolating plasmid DNA from bacteria by alkaline lysis using a solid or immobilized P2 and/or P3 reagent in combination with a DNA-binding matrix.
US07858362B2	Method of using endophytic fungi to decontaminate and decompose human and animal wastes A method of treating human and/or animal waste products comprising contacting the waste products with an effective amount of Fusarium culmorum and Muscodor albus, together with a buffering agent and starch. The treatment process covered by the present invention can be employed in connection with pit toilets, portal a toilets, disposable waste bags, or any other environment in which the treatment of human and/or animal wastes is desired. Both the Fusarium culmorum and the Muscodor albus can be stored on infested seed grains, including, but not limited to, barley, rye, rice, wheat, mustard and grass. A method or preparing Fusarium culmorum for use in the treatment of human and/or animal wastes. An isolated culture of Fusarium culmorum. A composition comprising the same four elements used in the treatment process. A method for controlling the pH of a mixture of human liquid and sold wastes.
US07858360B2	Use of fungal mutants for expression of antibodies The disclosure relates to a filamentous fungal cell in which an endogenous alkaline protease activity, an endogenous neutral metalloprotease activity, an endogenous serine protease activity, and an endogenous kexin maturase activity have been completely or partially inactivated. Particularly the endogenous alkaline protease activity, the endogenous.neutral metalloprotease activity, the endogenous serine protease activity, and the kexin maturase activity are encoded by the alp, npI, pepC and kexB genes respectively. The filamentous fungal cell is particularly suitable for production of heterologous proteins such as antibodies.
US07858357B2	Immunization with bacterial ghost-based vaccines Methods for improving binding of a proteinaceous substance to cell-wall material of a Gram-positive bacterium are disclosed. The proteinaceous substance includes an AcmA cell-wall binding domain, homolog or functional derivative thereof. The method includes treating the cell-wall material with a solution capable of removing a cell-wall component such as a protein, lipoteichoic acid or carbohydrate from the cell-wall material and contacting the proteinaceous substance with the cell-wall material.
US07858356B2	Mutant paramyxovirus and method for production thereof The present invention provides a modified paramyxovirus containing a reduced amount of receptor-binding protein compared with the wild type; a method of preparing a modified paramyxovirus, comprising the following steps: (1) a step for introducing a nucleic acid that suppresses the expression of a receptor-binding protein of a paramyxovirus into an animal cell, (2) a step for infecting the paramyxovirus to the cell, and (3) a step for isolating paramyxovirus particles replicated in the cell; and a modified paramyxovirus prepared by the method of preparation mentioned above.The present invention also provides a chimera protein wherein a fusion protein of a virus has been joined or bound to a peptide that binds specifically to a cell surface marker; a nucleic acid that encodes the chimera protein; an animal cell capable of expressing the chimera protein on the cell surface thereof; a modified paramyxovirus expressing the chimera protein on the virus particle surface thereof; and a method of preparing a tissue targeting paramyxovirus, comprising: (1) a step for supplying a nucleic acid that encodes a chimera protein wherein a fusion protein of a virus has been joined or bound to a peptide that binds specifically to a cell surface marker of the target cells, (2) a step for introducing the nucleic acid supplied in (1) into an animal cell in an expressible state, and expressing the same, (3) a step for infecting a paramyxovirus to the cell, and (4) a step for isolating paramyxovirus particles replicated in the cell.
US07858350B2	Microorganisms for the production of 1,4-butanediol The invention provides non-naturally occurring microbial organisms comprising a 1,4-butanediol (BDO) pathway comprising at least one exogenous nucleic acid encoding a BDO pathway enzyme expressed in a sufficient amount to produce BDO. The invention additionally provides methods of using such microbial organisms to produce BDO.
US07858347B2	Compositions and methods for determining the presence of Chlamydophila pneumoniae in a test sample Oligonucleotides for use in determining the presence of Chlamydophila pneumoniae in a test sample. The oligonucleotides are incorporated into detection probes, capture probes, and amplification oligonucleotides, and can be used in various combinations thereof.
US07858337B2	Process for the manufacture of a composite material The invention relates to a process for the manufacture of a composite materials comprising the steps of (a) providing a hydrophobic organic bulk material, and (b) applying a hydrophilic surface coating on the hydrophobic organic bulk material by first non-covalently attaching to the surface of the bulk material a water-soluble peptide comprising a hydrophobic moiety; and then chemically or enzymatically crosslinking the water-soluble peptide. The composite materials manufactured according to the process of the invention have desirable characteristics regarding adherence to the substrate, durability, hydrophilicity, wettability, biocompatibility and permeability and are thus particularly useful as ophthalmic devices.
US07858333B2	Method for screening candidate compounds for antitumor drug Investigation on the frequency of FLT3/ITD found in various blood cancers has revealed that the frequency is high in acute myeloblastic leukemia in particular. Studies on the effects of FLT3/ITD in the blood cell lines revealed that the tyrosine residues in FLT3/ITD is constitutively phosphorylated in these cell lines and that blood cells into which FLT3/ITD is introduced show IL-3 independent proliferation. Moreover, the blood cells into which FLT3/ITD is introduced are found to be capable of forming tumors and inhibit cell differentiation. The inventors have found that it is possible to screen for pharmaceutical compounds against tumors by using inhibition of these FLT3/ITD functions as an index.
US07858317B2	Aberrantly methylated genes as markers of breast malignancy The invention is directed to a method of diagnosing a cell proliferative disorder of breast tissue by determining the methylation status of nucleic acids obtained from a subject. Aberrant methylation of several genes including TWIST, HOXA5, NES-1, retinoic acid receptor beta (RARβ), estrogen receptor (ER), cyclin D2, WT-1, 14.3.3 sigma, HIN-1, RASSF1A, and combinations of such genes serve as markers of breast malignancy.
US07858313B2	Method of evaluating drug sensitivity by analyzing GIRK channel genes A method of evaluating drug sensitivity or disease vulnerability, includes linking a gene polymorphism in a GIRK channel gene or a haplotype comprising the gene polymorphism to individual drug sensitivity or individual disease vulnerability.
US07858309B2	Method for differentiating between multiple sclerosis subtypes Disclosed herein is a method for differentiating between multiple sclerosis subtypes in a patient. The method comprises a) determining an amount of an IAP gene expression level in a blood sample obtained from the patient; and b) correlating the amount of the IAP gene expression level in the blood sample with the presence of a multiple sclerosis subtype in the patient.
US07858304B2	Gene expression profiling in biopsied tumor tissues The invention concerns sensitive methods to measure mRNA levels in biopsied tumor tissues, including archived paraffin-embedded biopsy material. The invention also concerns breast cancer gene sets important in the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer, and methods for assigning the most optimal treatment options to breast cancer patient based upon knowledge derived from gene expression studies.
US07858300B2	Methods and compositions to evaluate antibody treatment response The present invention relates to methods and compositions to evaluate or assess the response of a subject to particular therapeutic treatment. More particularly, the invention provides methods to determine the response of subjects, or to adapt the treatment protocol of subjects treated with therapeutic antibodies. The invention is based on a determination of the FCGR3A genotype of a subject. The invention can be used for patients with malignancies, particularly lymphoma, and is suited to select best responders and/or adjust treatment condition or protocol for low responders.
US07858297B2	Chemokine-binding protein and methods of use Described herein are chemokine-binding domains of THAP-family polypeptides and pharmaceutical compositions which include a polypeptide comprising a chemokine-binding domain of a THAP-family polypeptide. Also disclosed are methods of binding chemokines, inhibiting the activity of chemokines, detecting chemokines, and reducing the symptoms associated with a chemokine mediated or influenced condition by contacting the chemokine with an agent that includes a polypeptide comprising a chemokine binding domain of a THAP-family polypeptide.
US07858293B2	Method for double imaging a developable anti-reflective coating A method for double patterning a thin film on a substrate is described. The method includes forming the thin film to be patterned on the substrate, forming a developable anti-reflective coating (ARC) layer on the thin film, and forming a layer of photo-resist on the ARC layer. Thereafter, the layer of photo-resist and the ARC layer are double imaged, and developed. Once the layer of photo-resist is optionally removed, a double patterned ARC layer remains for etching the underlying thin film.
US07858281B2	Acid-base property considerations for improved additive attachment on toner A developer comprised of a toner and at least one external surface additive, wherein an acid-base interaction has an Interaction Surface Parameter (ISP) of greater than 0, and wherein ISP is defined by the following equation: [(Ka)toner×(Kb)additive]+[(Kb)toner×(Ka)additive]−[(Ka)toner×(Ka)additive]−[(Kb)toner×(Kb)additive], wherein Ka is the Lewis acid value and Kb is the Lewis base value.
US07858279B2	Overprint compositions for xerographic prints Xerographic prints with a toner-based image and an overprint, said overprint based on radiation curable compositions containing a radiation curable oligomer/monomer, at least one photoinitiator and at least one surfactant, are disclosed. The overprints are particularly well-suited for wetting over substrates containing residual fuser oil and reducing or preventing document offset and for protecting xerographic images on substrates subjected to abrasives, heat, and/or sunlight since the compositions protect such images from cracking, fading, and smearing.
US07858276B2	Method for determining suitability of a resist in semiconductor wafer fabrication In one disclosed embodiment, the present method for determining resist suitability for semiconductor wafer fabrication comprises forming a layer of resist over a semiconductor wafer, exposing the layer of resist to patterned radiation, and determining resist suitability by using a scatterometry process prior to developing a lithographic pattern on the layer of resist. In one embodiment, the semiconductor wafer is heated in a post exposure bake process after scatterometry is performed. In one embodiment, the patterned radiation is provided by an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light source in a lithographic process. In other embodiments, patterned radiation is provided by an electron beam, or ion beam, for example. In one embodiment, the present method determines out-gassing of a layer of resist during exposure to patterned radiation.
US07858274B2	Method for manufacturing color filter In the present invention, a provision of a method for manufacturing a color filter capable of forming a highly sophisticated pattern, to be formed easily at a low cost is desired. The present invention achieves the above mentioned object by providing a method for manufacturing a color filter comprising: (1) forming a light shielding part on a transparent base material; (2) forming a wettability changeable layer which the wettability changes by the function of a photocatalyst, on the surface of the transparent base material on the side with the light shielding part formed; (3) placing the photocatalyst containing layer of the photocatalyst containing layer side substrate which is the photocatalyst containing layer containing a photocatalyst formed on the base member, and the wettability changeable layer with a gap of 200 μm or less, and irradiating an energy from a predetermined direction to form a pixel part forming part comprising a lyophilic area where the contact angle to a liquid is lowered compared with the state before the energy irradiation to the wettability changeable layer, in a pattern; and (4) coloring the pixel part forming part by the ink jet method so as to form a pixel part.
US07858269B2	Structure and method for sub-resolution dummy clear shapes for improved gate dimensional control A mask system for use by a lithographic system to project an image of a circuit design. The design includes at least one large feature and at least one nearby small feature. The mask comprises one or more shapes on a mask to project an image of the nearby small feature and, on the same mask or on a different mask, an opaque shape to project an image of the large feature. The opaque shape includes in a field thereof at least one dummy clear shape of size and configuration insufficient to be resolved. Light from the lithographic projection system may be projected through the opaque shape and the dummy clear shape to resolve an image of the large circuit feature on a resist layer of a wafer without resolving the clear shape on the resist layer, while simultaneously increasing optical flare on the resolved large circuit feature image.
US07858267B2	Fuel cell electrode, fuel cell, and manufacturing methods thereof A fuel cell electrode which can improve the catalyst utilization rate by having the catalyst component supported at a high density and high dispersion is provided. An aqueous solution containing chloroplatinic acid and aniline is prepared. For an electrode diffusion layer, a carbon paper is soaked in a Teflon® dispersion solution and then dried. One side of the electrode diffusion layer is placed in contact with the liquid surface of the solution, and a counter-electrode made of graphite is provided in the solution. A constant electrical current is applied between them, with the electrode diffusion layer side as the positive electrode. As a result, aniline is oxidatively polymerized by electrochemical means, and a uniform layer of platinum-containing polyaniline is formed on the electrode diffusion layer surface. The platinum in the polyaniline is reduced, and this is washed with pure water and dried to make the electrode. Two of these electrodes, with the catalytic layer of the platinum-containing polyaniline on the inside, are placed against both sides of Nafion® to create a small fuel cell.
US07858254B2	Electrochemical energy generating apparatus and method of driving the same An electrochemical energy generating apparatus with which the crossover of a fuel can be suppressed and a method of driving the apparatus are disclosed. The electrochemical energy generating apparatus (e.g., a fuel cell system) includes an electrochemical device (fuel cell) which has an electrolyte membrane 6 clamped between opposed electrodes and which generates electrochemical energy by a reaction of an alcohol with water at one (fuel electrode) of the electrodes and a fuel evaporating section by which a fuel including said alcohol and substantially not containing water is supplied in a gaseous state to the side of the one of the electrodes of the electrochemical device. The method of driving the electrochemical energy generating apparatus 1 includes supplying the fuel in the gaseous state to the one of the electrodes by the fuel evaporating section.
US07858253B2	Time-based fuel cell purge method A method of purging a fuel cell is disclosed. The method includes determining a running average current load on the fuel cell, a standard deviation of cell voltages of the fuel cell and/or a maximum change in cell voltage of the fuel cell. The fuel cell is purged if the running average current load exceeds an average current load standard, the standard deviation of cell voltages exceeds a standard deviation threshold value, or the maximum change in cell voltage exceeds a maximum allowed cell voltage change rate.
US07858247B2	Humidification system for fuel cell The present invention provides a humidification system with membranes of different species, in which a material having a high humidification performance and capable of being swollen with water is arranged in the center of a hollow fiber membrane bundle disposed in a hollow fiber membrane module and a material that is not swollen with water is disposed on the outside thereof. Accordingly, using the humidification system of the invention, it is possible to provide the same level of humidification performance as the existing humidification system, manufacture the humidification system at low cost, and solve various problems such as a flooding phenomenon of a fuel cell stack and an increase in load on an air blower.
US07858232B2	Non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery that has a high electrical capacity and exhibits excellent cycle characteristics even when the battery is rapidly charged and discharged at a large current includes: a positive electrode capable of reversibly absorbing and desorbing Li; a negative electrode; and a non-aqueous electrolyte. The negative electrode includes an alloying material that is capable of electrochemically absorbing and desorbing Li, and includes an A phase composed mainly of Si and a B phase including an intermetallic compound of at least one transition metal element and Si. The transition metal element is selected from the group consisting of Ti, Zr, Ni, Cu, and Fe. At least one of the A phase and the B phase includes a microcrystalline or amorphous region. The weight percent of the A phase relative to the total weight of the A phase and the B phase is greater than 40% and not greater than 95%.
US07858222B2	Separator-electrode unit for lithium-ion batteries, method for the production and use thereof in lithium batteries The present invention relates to separator-electrode units for lithium batteries and also to a process for their production.The separator-electrode units comprise a porous electrode which is useful as a positive electrode (cathode) or negative electrode (anode) in a lithium battery and a separator layer applied to this electrode and are characterized in that the separator-electrode units comprise a purely inorganic separator layer which comprises at least two fractions of metal oxide particles which differ from each other in their average particle size and/or in the metal. More particularly, the separator layer comprises metal oxide particles having an average particle size (Dg) which is greater than the average pore size (d) of the pores of the porous positive electrode that are bonded together by metal oxide particles having a particle size (Dk) which is smaller than the pores of the porous electrode.The separator-electrode unit of the invention has the advantage that it is simple to manufacture as one component and, since the step of laminating the separator onto the electrode can be omitted, that it can comprise a large variation of materials. In addition, a separator-electrode unit according to the invention possesses excellent mechanical stability and a very low separator thickness, which is why it can even be used in lithium high energy batteries.
US07858219B2	Locking mechanism of battery pack A locking mechanism of a battery pack A is provided with a hook 14 which can be locked to a mounting part B of an object equipment such as an electric tool in a state slid with respect to the mounting part, and operation parts 16 for releasing the lock which are linked to the hook 14, on a case which contains a battery. The hook 14 is urged to move upward by an elastic body in a direction of being locked to the mounting part B.The operation parts 16 are arranged in both side parts of the case within such a range that they can be grasped with a single hand from both sides of a backward end in the sliding direction of the case. When the operation parts 16 are operated from the both sides, the lock between the hook 14 and the mounting part B is released against the urge by the elastic body.
US07858205B2	Bimetallic bond layer for thermal barrier coating on superalloy A bimetallic bond layer (26, 28) for a thermal barrier coating or TBC (30) on a superalloy substrate (22) for a high temperature environment. An interlayer (26) is applied on the substrate. A bond coat (28) comprising a CoNiCrAlY or NiCoCrAlY alloy is applied on the interlayer. A ceramic TBC (30) such as 8YSZ is applied on the bond coat. The interlayer (26) is an alloy that is compatible with the substrate and the bond coat, and that blocks or delays diffusion of aluminum from the bond coat into the substrate at high operating temperatures. This preserves aluminum in the bond coat that maintains a beneficial alumina scale (29) between the bond coat and the TBC. This delays spalling of the TBC, and lengthens the coating and component life.
US07858200B2	Adhesive film and use thereof Disclosed in an adhesive film which enables to obtain a flexible metal clad laminate which is suppressed in dimensional change when produced by heat roll lamination. Such an adhesive film comprises a heat-resistant layer containing a highly heat resistant polyimide and an adhesive layer which is formed on at least one surface of the heat-resistant layer and contains a thermoplastic polyimide. In this adhesive film, the thermal shrinkage ratio in the TD direction is not less than +0.01%, and the thermal shrinkage ratio in the MD direction is not more than −0.02%. Consequently, when a metal layer and the adhesive film are bonded together by heat roll lamination and the resulting laminate is subjected to a treatment with heating, occurrence of dimensional changes can be sufficiently suppressed.
US07858198B2	Phosphor-containing adhesive silicone composition, composition sheet formed of the composition, and method of producing light emitting device using the sheet An addition curable adhesive silicone composition containing a phosphor dispersed uniformly therein is provided. The dispersive state of the phosphor remains stable over time. The composition, in an uncured state at room temperature, is either a solid or a semisolid, and is therefore easy to handle, and is suited to an adhesive silicone composition sheet which is able to be formed easily on an LED chip using a conventional assembly apparatus.

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