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US07917585B2	Apparatus, methods and articles of manufacture for intercepting, examining and controlling code, data and files and their transfer Apparatus, methods, and articles of manufacture are claimed for processing stored and forwarded code comprising the transferring of the stored and forwarded code from a storage area to a transfer component, wherein the code is passed to a proscribed code scanner. The proscribed code seamier indicates the presence or absence of proscribed code, which may be a virus, confidential material, harassing material, etc. and provides the indication back to the transfer component, wherein the code may be quarantined or otherwise intercepted depending upon the results of the scan. The especially preferred embodiments operate within a UNIX sendmail environment.
US07917583B2	Television integrated chat and presence systems and methods An enhanced television system which enables users to communicate using a television, both via messaging and telephone. Users or the system may create a buddy list. Users may send and receive program information to and from each other, and change programs based on received information. The system may maintain information regarding a user's presence on the system, availability for messaging, and television viewing.
US07917581B2	Call completion via instant communications client A system is disclosed for achieving completion of a telephone call by way of an instant communications client.
US07917580B2	Method for monitoring activities of a first user on any of a plurality of platforms There is provided a method for monitoring activities of a first user on any of a plurality of platforms, with the first user having access to a first computing device for use by the first user. The method may include two modes which allows a master user to monitor activities of the first user even when the master user is not connected to the world wide web (offline).
US07917578B1	Managing state information in a computing environment A software module operating within a router, such as an operating system, manages state information within a hierarchically ordered and temporally-linked data structure. The software module sends state change messages to other software modules within the router, referred to as consumers, in an order that corresponds to the hierarchical order and the temporal linking. The data structure may comprise a plurality of objects to store state information. The operating system may receive event messages that indicate a change to the state information. The objects may be hierarchically linked in accordance with a hierarchy representing relationships of event messages. The objects may be temporally linked in accordance with the order in which the operating system receives event messages. The operating system may traverse the data structure according to the temporal and hierarchical links to select state change messages to send to a consumer.
US07917574B2	Infrastructure for parallel programming of clusters of machines GridBatch provides an infrastructure framework that hides the complexities and burdens of developing logic and programming application that implement detail parallelized computations from programmers. A programmer may use GridBatch to implement parallelized computational operations that minimize network bandwidth requirements, and efficiently partition and coordinate computational processing in a multiprocessor configuration. GridBatch provides an effective and lightweight approach to rapidly build parallelized applications using economically viable multiprocessor configurations that achieve the highest performance results.
US07917572B2	Music composition data transmission recording method and music composition reproduction device A song in a music player is replaced by another song in a server in accordance with the user's estimated preferences and wishes and without requiring the user to become conscious of individual songs. A CPU (3) in the music player (30) or a CPU (11) in a server (10) detects or receives the size of a free space in a flash memory (34) and a playback history (a substantial playback count Kp, which denotes the number of times a song was continuously played for a duration not shorter than a predetermined one, or a skip count Ks, which denotes the number of times a song was played for a duration shorter than a predetermined one) of every song recording in the flash memory (34), and judges whether any song should be deleted from the flash memory (34) to permit a song to be downloaded into the music player (30) from the server (10). If any song should be deleted, the CPU selects a song having a small (minus) evaluation function K (e.g., K=2Kp−Ks) as the song to be deleted.
US07917567B1	Floating-point processing unit for successive floating-point operations A floating-point processing unit for a succession of floating-point operations. An exponent adjustor is coupled to receive numerical inputs and configured to generate first adjusted values from the numerical inputs. The first adjusted values have equivalent exponents as between corresponding first adjusted values. A first operation specific floating-point processing unit (OFPU) is coupled to receive the first adjusted values and includes first arithmetic circuitry configured for a first floating-point operation on the first adjusted values to provide first numerical results. The first numerical results are not normalized prior to a second floating-point operation.
US07917561B2	Partially complex modulated filter bank An apparatus for processing a plurality of real-valued subband signals using a first real-valued subband signal and a second real-valued subband signal to provide at least a complex-valued subband signal comprises a multiband filter for providing an intermediate real-valued subband signal and a calculator for providing the complex-valued subband signal by combining a real-valued subband signal from the plurality of real-valued subband signals and the intermediate subband signal.
US07917558B2	Easily graspable numerical expression display apparatus When a numerical expression (FIG. 6(a)) is inputted to a mathematical calculator (1) and then a rough display key (27) is depressed, calculation units composing the numerical expression are converted to display blocks, whereby the numerical expression is displayed in a natural expression form on a display (3) and a rough map (M) is also displayed in which the display blocks are disposed at positions corresponding to those of the calculation units of the numerical expression in the natural expression form (FIG. 6(b)). A calculation unit of the numerical expression to be edited is indicated by a cursor (30) and a corresponding display block of the rough map is displayed emphatically in the rough map (FIG. 6(c)).
US07917550B2	System and methods for enhanced metadata entry A system and methods for facilitation of enhanced user interactions with metadata corresponding to one or more media files. A number of user interface methods are described and may be used alone or in combination with one another to present an enhanced metadata entry and modification interface to a user. A method of providing for automated step through of media files for metadata entry is described, as well as a method for quickly presenting the user with the most appropriate media sample from which an appropriate metadata entry or modification can be made by the user.
US07917549B2	Database interface generator Enables a database generator interface configured to map complex constructs and semantics so internal complexities are hidden while providing efficient internal storage and speed. Extracts and analyzes complex relationships in database and exposes schema as XSD to allow for external interfacing. Presents a list of tables and fields that exist in database and accepts user input to determine which tables and fields to create an interface for. Lookup fields are listed which allow for user input for specifying which fields to create XSD enumeration lists for. The generated XSD file may be saved and utilized by other mapping tools to allow for interfacing with other databases. Mapping the schema of a extended SQL database allows for users with limited understanding of the internals of the extended SQL database to connect the database to other systems using commonly available tools. May be coupled with web services to provide universal access.
US07917547B2	Virtualizing objects within queries The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for virtualizing objects within queries. Embodiments of the invention virtualize data access for use with queries. Virtualization can be implemented within any portion of a syntax tree. For example, data can be virtualized for a property of an object that is itself another object. Data virtualization facilitates lazy evaluation of query expressions. That is, actual property values for properties within a data construction statement are virtualized until a query specifically requests the actual property values. Further, data virtualization also conserves resources and results in more efficient query evaluations.
US07917542B2	System and method for minimizing transmitted data between diverse institutions A system and method transmitting data in heterogeneous networks is described. A plurality of fillable forms is available to a user, each form having a name and metadata corresponding to the data fields that are displayable or retrievable by the form. The same form name is associated with the same metadata at another site, which may be another user or a central data base. When data values are filled in a form, the data values and the form name is transmitted over a network interface. At another location, the data values are received over a network interface, and a form having the same name as that of the received data is retrieved from a forms data base at the receiving location and used either to display the received data values in a form substantially the same as the transmitting form, or to formulate a query to a data base.
US07917537B2	System and method for providing link property types for content management In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for providing linked property types in a content management system. These mechanisms and methods for providing linked property types in a content management system can enable users to specify a new property definition type, which refers to another node instance in the content management system. By specifying a link property definition type on a type, the user can then relate a node instance of the modeled type (link source) to any other node instance (link target) in the system. For example, a user can create a type Article with property definitions such as title, body and authorLink. The authorLink property definition can be a link type property definition. Then the user could define an Author content type. When an instance of an Article is created (anArticle), the authorLink property associated with anArticle could refer to a node instance of an Author.
US07917535B1	Task membership and task masks Components are presented to users based on the components' assigned task memberships. The tasks represents the different activities performed by users within a digital production pipeline. Each stage of the digital production pipeline may be associated with a task. Additional user-defined tasks may be defined as needed to further distinguish components. Attributes of components are associated with one or more tasks when the component is authored. Task memberships may be inherited from parent components or overridden. A user interface includes a task selection menu to receive a selection of one or more tasks from the user. The task selection is used to filter components, so that the user interface presents only relevant information to users. Component attribute values and task associations can be expressed using layer data structures. Task restrictions of layers allow layers to only specify values of components that match the task associations of the layer.
US07917521B2	User/browser state information sharing between browser applications Provided are techniques for state information sharing. At least one of user information and browser information is stored in a first configuration file in a first file format associated with a first browser application. A change in at least one of the user information and the browser information in the first configuration file is recognized. The changed at least one of the user information and the browser information in the first file format is converted to a second file format associated with a second browser application. A second configuration file is updated with the changed at least one of the user information and the browser information in the second file format. In response to starting the second browser application, a user and browser state is set using the user information and the browser information in the second configuration file.
US07917519B2	Categorized document bases A method of managing information comprises generating a categorized document base. Generating the document base comprises providing a pre-existing classification of things other than documents, providing a source collection of documents, and automatically assessing the documents using Information Retrieval techniques to assign at least some of the documents to one or more taxa of the classification. For each taxon in the classification one or more numerical scores are assigned, based at least in part on a composition, makeup or constitution of the documents assigned to the taxon of the categorized document base.
US07917508B1	Image repository for human interaction proofs A method of populating an image repository is disclosed. The method includes identifying a keyword from a dictionary and querying an image source using the keyword, thereby yielding a set of images associated with the keyword. The method also includes performing a second query on the image source using a combination of the keyword and one or more additional terms, thereby yielding a plurality of images associated with the combination. Then the plurality of images associated with the combination is subtracted from the set of images associated with the keyword, thereby yielding a difference set of images which are added to the image repository if the difference set of images satisfies predefined criteria.
US07917502B2	Optimized collection of just-in-time statistics for database query optimization A system and method are provided for updating database statistics for use in generating query execution plans. A first query for a database is received, for example by a compiler, and the compiler accesses statistics associated with the first query for optimizing a query execution plan for the first query. The statistics may be accessed from a first cache. If the statistics retrieved from the first cache are determined to be stale, the system obtains updated statistics and may store them in a temporary cache. The stale statistics in the first cache are marked as invalid. Existing queries using the first cache may continue to use the first cache, while new queries may be provided with updated statistics.
US07917492B2	Method and subsystem for information acquisition and aggregation to facilitate ontology and language-model generation within a content-search-service system Various embodiments of the present invention include information-aggregation-and-classification components of content-search-service systems which acquire information from information sources, aggregate and normalize the acquired information, and classify the acquired information prior to storing the normalized and classified information for use by language-model-builder components and ontology-builder components of the content-search-service systems. Additional embodiments of the present invention include the ontology-builder components, which builds ontologies from the normalized and classified information for specific dates, date/times, date ranges, or date/time ranges and for specific categories.
US07917491B1	Click fraud prevention system and method A click fraud prevention system and method that analyzes click patterns across multiple search engines and integrates with a website advertising management system that manages advertisements and bids across multiple search engines.
US07917488B2	Cross-lingual search re-ranking Cross-lingual search re-ranking is performed during a cross-lingual search in which a search query of a first language is used to retrieve two sets of documents, a first set in the first language, and a second set in a second language. The two sets of documents are each first ranked by the search engine separately. Cross-lingual search re-ranking then aims to provide a uniform re-ranking of both sets of documents combined. Cross-lingual search re-ranking uses a unified ranking function to compute the ranking order of each document of the first set and the second set of documents. The unified ranking function is constructed using generative probabilities based on multiple features, and can be learned by optimizing weight parameters using a training corpus. Ranking SVM algorithms may be used for the optimization.
US07917486B1	Optimizing search trees by increasing failure size parameter A search tree embodying a plurality of signatures to be compared with an input string of characters and including a number of branches of sequential states originating at a root node, wherein each state comprises a state entry including a failure transition and one or more success transitions, is optimized by selecting a failure size parameter indicating a minimum number of characters to be traversed on the failure transitions and selectively modifying the search tree to create a modified search tree for which all failure transitions to non-root states are characterized by the selected failure size parameter.
US07917485B1	Rapid specification and electronic delivery of customized product information A sender, such as a sales representative, may create a customized product notice message directly from a web site that is then sent to one or more customers. The customized product notice message may contain information, such as URL links, that relate to the product. The product notice message may also be customized to include items such as the sender's company logo and the like. When the user opens the product notice message a tracking message is automatically sent to the user who created the message. The user's activity relating to the content of the message that may be tracked is stored within a data store. This activity data may then be delivered to the sender at predetermined times.
US07917482B1	Indexing of database queries Making data available from a database is disclosed. Making data available includes specifying a query function having a query function name, wherein the query function includes a structure and a member, determining the structure and the member included in the query function, wherein the query function has a query function name and includes the structure and the member, creating an index for the structure on the member, and compiling the query function to be available to a user by invoking the query function name without the user having to specify the structure and the member. Retrieving data from a database is disclosed. Retrieving includes invoking a query function that specifies a plurality of structures and a value, accessing a cross index of the plurality of structures, and using the cross index to access the data.
US07917479B2	Non-volatile memory devices, systems including same and associated methods A memory device, system and method of editing a file in a non-volatile memory device is described. The memory device includes a controller and a memory array configured to copy an existing first file into a second file during editing and to maintain the first file while applying edits to the second file. When editing is completed, a first cluster pointer of the first file is redirected to point at the first cluster of the second file that has been edited.
US07917478B2	System and method for quality control in healthcare settings to continuously monitor outcomes and undesirable outcomes such as infections, re-operations, excess mortality, and readmissions A method for inferring a probability of a first inference. The inference is related to identification of a cause of an outcome in a healthcare setting. A fact, related to the query, is related to the healthcare setting. The fact further relates to a network of interactions associated with the outcome. Each datum of the database conforms to the dimensions of the database. Each datum of the plurality of data has associated metadata and an associated key. The associated metadata includes data regarding cohorts associated with the corresponding datum, data regarding hierarchies associated with the corresponding datum, data regarding a corresponding source of the datum, and data regarding probabilities associated with integrity, reliability, and importance of each associated datum. The query establishes a frame of reference for the search. The database returns a probability of the correctness of the first inference based on the query and on the data.
US07917469B2	Fast primary cluster recovery A cluster recovery process is implemented across a set of distributed archives, where each individual archive is a storage cluster of preferably symmetric nodes. Each node of a cluster typically executes an instance of an application that provides object-based storage of fixed content data and associated metadata. According to the storage method, an association or “link” between a first cluster and a second cluster is first established to facilitate replication. The first cluster is sometimes referred to as a “primary” whereas the “second” cluster is sometimes referred to as a “replica.” Once the link is made, the first cluster's fixed content data and metadata are then replicated from the first cluster to the second cluster, preferably in a continuous manner. Upon a failure of the first cluster, however, a failover operation occurs, and clients of the first cluster are redirected to the second cluster. Upon repair or replacement of the first cluster (a “restore”), the repaired or replaced first cluster resumes authority for servicing the clients of the first cluster. This restore operation preferably occurs in two stages: a “fast recovery” stage that involves preferably “bulk” transfer of the first cluster metadata, following by a “fail back” stage that involves the transfer of the fixed content data. Upon receipt of the metadata from the second cluster, the repaired or replaced first cluster resumes authority for the clients irrespective of whether the fail back stage has completed or even begun.
US07917454B2	System and method for instant online postage metering A system and method for instantly printing PC postage before establishing a postage meter account. The method includes the steps of a meter vendor obtaining a first meter license from the Post for a first meter; loaning the use of a first meter licensed in the customer's zip code to a customer; requesting a second meter license for the customer; initializing the first meter for use by the customer; and transferring the first meter to the Customer's meter license when the second meter license is received. Alternatively, when the second meter license is received a second meter is assigned to the customer and the first meter is reassigned to the meter vendor.
US07917451B2	Methods, apparatus, and program products to optimize semiconductor product yield prediction for performance and leakage screens An apparatus, method, and program product are provided to predict yield loss associated with performance screens or leakage screens. A leakage model is correlated to an on-chip measurement. Current limited yields are determined from the leakage model. A database is formed relating performance sigma cut-points to the circuit limited yields. A product is quoted based on the circuit limited yield for one of the performance sigma cut-points taken from the database. The quote is tied to the product design and testing.
US07917444B1	Secure single-use transaction numbers Methods for producing and applications for single-use transaction numbers. The transaction numbers are single-use in that the numbers are only valid for a single transaction. The transaction numbers can be generated just prior to being used, minimizing the amount of time during which they can be lost or stolen. The transaction numbers can be generated using encryption technology such as dynamic password technology. The encryption technology makes it very difficult if not impossible to predict what the next transaction number generated will be. The transaction numbers are unique to the user and can be validated or authenticated by an issuing institution that maintains an ability to generate the same transaction numbers issued to the user.
US07917442B2	System and method for relaxing media access restrictions over time A disk bears a multimedia program and a player plays the program. The player is responsive to an image restraint token (IRT) to play the multimedia program only in a low resolution format and not in a high resolution format prior to an IRT expiration date. The player is then responsive to a key that is publicly available only on or after the expiration date and entered into the player to play the multimedia program in the high resolution format.
US07917434B2	Method for planning commercial financing payment A commercial financing payment planning system and associated method provide commercial financing customers the ability to retrieve and monitor account activity, track scheduled payment dates, and create/submit remittance instructions online. The system provides numerous functions to a customer, such as customer payment control, access to multiple payment sources by the customer, automatic funds transfer, customized user access, a customer dispute process for disputing supplier invoices, automatic dispute response, and credit tracking. With payment control, the customer specifies which and on what date the invoices will be paid, and the source of funds for the payments. The customer can make these payments from one or a combination of sources. By creating a remittance advice document, the customer can specify in advance payment details and give authorization for automatic payment by the system. The customer can also customize access to control features of the system of the invention for each of the customer's accounts/receivable employees. In the event that the customer has an issue with a supplier's delivery, product, or pricing, the customer can submit a dispute to a supplier. The customer, supplier, and finance company can view a payment dispute and dispute status through the entire dispute process. The system automatically e-mails the customer a response when the dispute is resolved, informing the customer of the result of the resolution. Both the finance company and the customer can track credits applied to the customer's account through the entire dispute process.
US07917430B2	Bankruptcy evaluation service and system A method for assigning a value to a debt is disclosed. The method includes entering, into a digital computer, bankruptcy data associated with a bankruptcy proceeding after a debtor has filed for bankruptcy. The bankruptcy data may include priority claim data associated with priority claims, non-precedence claim data associated with non-precedence claims, and bankruptcy plan data. After the bankruptcy data are obtained, the digital computer determines a present value associated with at least one non-precedence claim in the non-precedence claims.
US07917424B2	Systems and methods for providing financial instruments including contrary positions A market for trading hedged instruments is provided. The market includes at least one hedged instrument having a value based at least on a first position on a first tradable instrument and a second position on a second tradable instrument. The second position is contrary to the first position.
US07917423B2	Systems and methods for monitoring credit of trading counterparties Systems and methods are provided which monitor trades entered into and cleared by counterparties, track the net and gross positions of counterparties and the counterparties' parent entities, trigger warnings when counterparties or their parent entities exceed a warning limit, and shut-off counterparties' trading ability when counterparties exceed a credit limit. An operator of a credit system using these systems and methods is provided with a variety of interfaces through which the operator can set up new counterparties, search a list of counterparties, view and edit basic information for counterparties, view financial information for counterparties, view and edit notes regarding to counterparties, view and edit limits of counterparties, view position versus limit information for counterparties, view the current day's position information for counterparties, and view cumulative position information for counterparties.
US07917419B2	Method and system for simulating implied volatility surface for basket option pricing A volatility surface model having at least one surface parameter is provided along with a set of volatilities for a plurality of options on the underlying financial instrument. The set of volatilities is analyzed to determine an initial value for each surface parameter which in the surface model defines a surface approximating the set of volatilities. The values of the surface parameters are evolved using an appropriate evolution function and a volatility value for a particular option is extracted from the volatility surface. The extracted volatility value can be used in an option pricing model to provide a price of the particular option. The volatility of a basket options valued relative to the performance of multiple components can be simulated by determining the value of surface parameters for options on the component securities and combining the component surface parameters to determine surface parameters for a volatility surface of the basket.
US07917409B1	Method for monitoring and assembling equipment A method for monitoring shipments of a plurality of components and enabling assembly of the plurality of components. The method can include the steps of encoding a unique identifier and specification information on each component into a data storage of a GPS device; encoding assembly instructions for each component; attaching the GPS device to the component; actuating each GPS device to provide a longitude and latitude signal to a network; tracking the location of each component; shipping the components while tracking the location of the components until the components reach a designated location; and retrieving from each component assembly instructions, specification information, and inspection information. The method can include assembling the components using the assembly instructions at the designated location, and forming a record of each route used by each component.
US07917402B2	Methods for viral marketing with visual communications A method for developing a direct person-to-person multilevel direct affiliate marketing network using electronic communications makes a first person an affiliate member of an affiliate marketing program via an online registration process. An electronic communication is generated that has a unique hyperlink that, when selected, links to a source associated with the affiliate marketing program and identifies the first person so that a commission can be allocated to the first person based upon purchases made at the source as a result of access to the source via the link. The first person can forward the electronic communication to others who can use the link to access the source and purchase products or services and/or become an affiliate member. A person that becomes a new affiliate member as a result of accessing the source via the link is placed in a developing network organization of the first person. The process repeats by generating a unique hyperlink for the second person, thereby allowing the new affiliate member to forward electronic communications having his or her unique identifying link to others.
US07917395B2	Wireless network access prepayment systems and methods A method of providing network access includes entering network access information into a merchant device at a merchant location. The information relates to a request from a customer to obtain network access. The method also includes causing the information to be transmitted to a host computer system from the merchant device, receiving a payment from the customer, receiving activation confirmation from the host computer system at the merchant device, and providing a presentation instrument to the customer. The presentation instrument may be used by the customer to obtain network access. The method further includes using the presentation instrument to settle a transaction with the customer for merchandise.
US07917384B2	Analytic method and system for optimizing and accelerating sales The present invention generally relates to a system and method for analyzing sales opportunities, and more particularly, provides a seller of goods and/or services the ability to predict whether potential customers are suitable to engage in a particular transaction. The present invention also assists a seller in identifying and removing unsuitable customers early in the sales process. The present invention utilizes metrics to measure the suitability of potential customers and analyzes, among other things, potential conflicts that may arise among key decision makers of the potential customers, with the seller working with those customers to resolve any such conflicts. Moreover, the present invention analyzes whether the potential customer has characteristics which are acceptable and/or unacceptable to the seller. Moreover, the seller analyzes its own products and/or services to determine whether it could provide such customer with a unique competitive advantage.
US07917380B2	System and method for strategic budgeting of initial response for managing wildfires The present invention provides a system and method for strategic budgeting of initial response for managing wildfires. According to the present invention, stochastic-integer-programming-based constrained optimization techniques are employed to develop a strategic budget by optimally allocating disaster management resources to disaster events belonging to scenarios associated with occurrence probabilities. According to the invention, certain machine-readable data describing fires may be subjected to computerized data processing, ultimately producing a determination of valid disaster management resources for each fire event, which may be used for strategic budgeting of initial responses for managing wildfires.
US07917372B2	Pharmacy benefits management method and apparatus A pharmacy benefits management system and method. A processor server has claim information relating to pharmacy benefits claims, and information relating to a claims processing formularly stored therein. A provider server has pharmacy benefits plan structure information stored therein. A management server has price information relating drugs in various classes and a processing module for correlating the claim information with the benefits plan structure information and the formularly information to identify drugs dispensed to patients, expenses associated with the drugs in accordance with the pharmacy benefits plan structure information, alternative drugs in the same class as the drugs and expenses associated with the alternative drugs.
US07917369B2	Quality improvement techniques in an audio encoder An audio encoder implements multi-channel coding decision, band truncation, multi-channel rematrixing, and header reduction techniques to improve quality and coding efficiency. In the multi-channel coding decision technique, the audio encoder dynamically selects between joint and independent coding of a multi-channel audio signal via an open-loop decision based upon (a) energy separation between the coding channels, and (b) the disparity between excitation patterns of the separate input channels. In the band truncation technique, the audio encoder performs open-loop band truncation at a cut-off frequency based on a target perceptual quality measure. In multi-channel rematrixing technique, the audio encoder suppresses certain coefficients of a difference channel by scaling according to a scale factor, which is based on current average levels of perceptual quality, current rate control buffer fullness, coding mode, and the amount of channel separation in the source. In the header reduction technique, the audio encoder selectively modifies the quantization step size of zeroed quantization bands so as to encode in fewer frame header bits.
US07917364B2	System and method using multiple automated speech recognition engines A system comprises a computer system comprising a central processing unit coupled to a memory and resource management application. A plurality of different automatic speech recognition (ASR) engines is coupled to the computer system. The computer system is adapted to select ASR engines to analyze a speech utterance based on resources available on the system.
US07917359B2	Noise suppressor for removing irregular noise A noise suppressor detects a peak position in the frequency spectrum of an input speech signal, and masks frequency components in the spectrum as a function of the peak position. The masking process attenuates or removes frequency components near the peak position if their magnitudes are significantly lower than the magnitude of the spectrum at the peak position. This noise suppressor effectively removes irregular noise from the spectrum while leaving enough of the spectrum to reproduce the speech signal clearly.
US07917357B2	Real-time detection and preservation of speech onset in a signal A “speech onset detector” provides a variable length frame buffer in combination with either variable transmission rate or temporal speech compression for buffered signal frames. The variable length buffer buffers frames that are not clearly identified as either speech or non-speech frames during an initial analysis. Buffering of signal frames continues until a current frame is identified as either speech or non-speech. If the current frame is identified as non-speech, buffered frames are encoded as non-speech frames. However, if the current frame is identified as a speech frame, buffered frames are searched for the actual onset point of the speech. Once that onset point is identified, the signal is either transmitted in a burst, or a time-scale modification of the buffered signal is applied for compressing buffered frames beginning with the frame in which onset point is detected. The compressed frames are then encoded as one or more speech frames.
US07917356B2	Operating method for voice activity detection/silence suppression system A VAD/SS system is connected to a channel of a transmission pipe. The channel provides a pathway for the transmission of energy. A method for operating a VAD/SS system includes detecting the energy on the channel, and activating or suppressing activation of the VAD/SS system depending upon the nature of the energy detected on the channel.
US07917354B2	Conceptual world representation natural language understanding system and method A Natural Language Understanding system is provided for indexing of free text documents. The system according to the invention utilizes typographical and functional segmentation of text to identify those portions of free text that carry meaning. The system then uses words and multi-word terms and phrases identified in the free to text to identify concepts in the free text. The system uses a lexicon of terms linked to a formal ontology that is independent of a specific language to extract concepts from the free text based on the words and multi-word terms in the free text. The formal ontology contains both language independent domain knowledge concepts and language dependent linguistic concepts that govern the relationships between concepts and contain the rules about how language works. The system according to the current invention may preferably be used to index medical documents and assign codes from independent coding systems, such as, SNOMED, ICD-9 and ICD-10. The system according to the current invention may also preferably make use of syntactic parsing to improve the efficiency of the method.
US07917350B2	Word boundary probability estimating, probabilistic language model building, kana-kanji converting, and unknown word model building Calculates a word n-gram probability with high accuracy in a situation where a first corpus), which is a relatively small corpus containing manually segmented word information, and a second corpus, which is a relatively large corpus, are given as a training corpus that is storage containing vast quantities of sample sentences. Vocabulary including contextual information is expanded from words occurring in first corpus of relatively small size to words occurring in second corpus of relatively large size by using a word n-gram probability estimated from an unknown word model and the raw corpus. The first corpus (word-segmented) is used for calculating n-grams and the probability that the word boundary between two adjacent characters will be the boundary of two words (segmentation probability). The second corpus (word-unsegmented), in which probabilistic word boundaries are assigned based on information in the first corpus (word-segmented), is used for calculating a word n-grams.
US07917345B2	Multimedia train simulator A train simulator, including a microprocessor, a display and an input device for the microprocessor. A program drives the display with the track data during simulation, determines if an exception has occurred during the simulation; and provides a multimedia message if an exception has occurred.
US07917342B2	Computer aided design system and computer aided design program using a geometric surface model A computer aided design system and a computer aided design program which can greatly increase the utility of a computer aided design model, and can improve the efficiency of design and production processes, by adopting a curved surface theory which ensures the continuity of a free-form line or surface. A computer executes: a point sequence information extraction process for extracting a plurality of point sequences on a curved surface; a dividing process for generating a curved surface from the point sequences and dividing the curved surface into a predetermined number of mesh points; a first fundamental form computing process for computing coefficients of the first fundamental form; a second fundamental form computing process for computing coefficients of the second fundamental form; and a storage process for storing the point sequence information, the coefficients of the first fundamental form and the coefficients of the second fundamental form.
US07917341B2	Elevator system including multiple cars in a hoistway destination entry control and parking positions An elevator system includes multiple cars within a hoistway. Parking positions are provided outside the range of passenger service levels. A destination entry strategy is used by a controller for directing movement of the elevator cars. The inventive combination of multiple cars in a hoistway, parking positions outside of the normal passenger service level range and destination entry car movement control allows for reducing car travel speed, reducing car size or both while still meeting desired handling capacity needs or even exceeding the desired handling capacity associated with another elevator system that requires larger cars, higher speeds and more building space.
US07917338B2	Determining a window size for outlier detection A window size for outlier detection in a time series of a database system is determined. Strength values are calculated for data points using a set of window sizes, resulting at least in one set of strength values for each window size. The strength values increase as a distance between a value of a respective data point and a local mean value increases. For each set of strength values, a weighted sum is calculated based on the respective set of strength values. A weighting function is used to suppress the effect of largest strength values and a window size is selected based on the weighted sums.
US07917332B2	Sensor control A system and method of controlling a sensor to sense one target from a plurality of targets includes predicting states of the targets. A set of probability distributions is generated. Each probability distribution in the set represents a setting or settings of at least one control parameter of the sensor. An expected information gain value for each control parameter in the set is calculated. The information gain value represents an expected quality of a measurement of one of the targets taken by the sensor if controlled according to the control parameter, based on the predicted state of the target. Updating the set of probability distributions takes place to identify the sensor control parameters that maximise the expected information gain value. The sensor is then controlled in accordance with the maximising control parameters.
US07917324B2	Flow testing system for fluid networks An apparatus, system, method and kit for testing fluid flow and pressure is provided. The apparatus, system, method and kit include or include the use of a flow unit which is configured to measure flow rate and/or flow velocity when interfaced with a flow valve or hydrant and a pressure unit configured to measure at least residual pressure when interfaced with a test valve or hydrant. At least one of the units is configured to wirelessly send data transmissions to the other unit which is configured to receive such transmissions.
US07917323B2	Adjusting method and device of sensitivity of signal interpretation A method of adjusting sensitivity of signal interpretation includes the steps of: continuously receiving an input signal; setting a sampling parameter; sampling the input signal according to the sampling parameter to obtain a plurality of sampling signals; judging whether the sampling signals are the same or not; generating a first control signal according to the sampling signals if the sampling signals are the same; and generating a second control signal according to the input signal if the sampling signals are not the same. A device of adjusting the sensitivity of signal interpretation is also disclosed.
US07917322B2	Weight observer for mass metering and inventory management Improved methods and systems for estimating material weight, mass and volume in real-time are disclosed. The amount of material in the container is measured. An estimate of the amount of material in the container is then obtained using the measured amount of material in the container, a desired rate of change of material, and a container system model. The estimate of the amount of material in the container is then adjusted based on the difference between the estimated and measured amount of material in the container.
US07917320B2	Digital signal processing in optical systems used for ranging applications Methods and apparatuses for reducing the response time along with increasing the probability of ranging of optical rangefinders that digitize the signal waveforms obtained from the pulse echoes returned from various types of objects to be ranged, the pulse echoes being too weak to allow successful ranging from a single waveform or the objects being possibly in motion during the capture of the pulse echoes. In a first embodiment of the invention, the response time at close range of a digital optical rangefinder is reduced by using a signal averaging process wherein the number of data to be averaged varies with the distance according to a predetermined function. In a second embodiment of the invention, the probability of ranging objects in motion along the line of sight of a digital optical rangefinder is increased and the object velocity measured by performing a range shift of each acquired signal waveform prior to averaging. In a third embodiment of the invention, the signal waveforms acquired in the line of sight of a digital optical rangefinder are scanned over a predetermined zone and range shifted and averaged to allow for early detection and ranging of objects that enter in the zone.
US07917317B2	Ultrasonic inspection using acoustic modeling Configuration of an ultrasonic inspection system is facilitated using an ultrasound response predicted by a simulation tool. In one embodiment, estimated material properties of an object to be inspected are input to the simulation tool. Also input to the simulation tool is at least one estimated property of an ultrasonic transducer of the ultrasonic inspection. The simulation tool predicts the response of the object to ultrasound from the ultrasonic transducer. This response is dependent upon the estimated material properties of the object to be inspected and the at least one estimated property of the ultrasonic transducer. The ultrasonic inspection system is then configured dependent upon a feature of the predicted response. The system may be configured, for example, by setting the position of a time gate, selecting an appropriate ultrasonic transducer, selecting the position of the transducer to achieve good focus, or selecting parameters for signal processing.
US07917316B2	Test system and computer program for determining threshold voltage variation using a device array A test system and computer program for measuring threshold voltage variation using a device array provides accurate threshold voltage distribution values for process verification and improvement. The test system and computer program control a characterization array circuit that imposes a fixed drain-source voltage and a constant channel current at individual devices within the array. Another circuit senses the source voltage of the individual device within the array. The statistical distribution of the threshold voltage is determined directly from the source voltage distribution by offsetting each source voltage by a value determined by completely characterizing one or more devices within the array. The resulting methodology avoids the necessity of otherwise characterizing each device within the array, thus reducing measurement time dramatically.
US07917313B2	Method for monitoring a fluid transfer process The present invention relates to a method for monitoring a fluid transfer process, including the steps: providing an allowable pressure profile; detecting a pressure occurring in the course of the fluid transfer process; comparing detected pressure with the allowable pressure profile and signaling an error, if the detected pressure is not within the allowable pressure profile. The allowable pressure profile is defined by interpolation points, the interpolation points being based on a probability function representing a family of pressure courses of a plurality of fluid transfer processes. The allowable pressure profile can be divided into at least two distinct process sections, each section corresponding to a distinct process phase of the fluid transfer process. The probability function is calculated from a family of test pressure curves and reflects the statistical behavior of the pipette system. The present invention further relates to a computer readable medium for storing interpolation point information as well as to a kit-of-parts comprising a device implementing the inventive method, together with a computer readable medium for storing interpolation point information.
US07917306B2	Methods and systems for generating cell lineage tree of multiple cell samples A method of generating a cell lineage tree of a plurality of cells of an individual is provided. The method comprising: (a) determining at least one genotypic marker for each cell of the plurality of cells; and (b) computationally clustering data representing the at least one genotypic marker to thereby generate the cell lineage tree of the plurality of cells of the individual.
US07917304B2	Spotter provided with spot pattern encryption function and detection device coping with spot pattern encryption Plural probes spotted on a probe immobilization substrate are arranged such that the probes cannot be specified by a third party easily. When the plural probes are spotted on the probe immobilization substrate, a position where each probe is spotted is changed for each probe immobilization substrate to be prepared, whereby types of probes to be arranged in respective spot addresses are encrypted. The preset invention provides a spotter, a dispensing device to be used for the spotter, a probe immobilization substrate that is prepared using the spotter, and a detection device that decodes encrypted positions where the respective probes are spotted.
US07917301B1	Method and device for identifying a biological sample The method and system for identifying a biological sample generates a data set indicative of the composition of the biological sample. In a particular example, the data set is DNA spectrometry data received from a mass spectrometer. The data set is denoised, and a baseline is deleted. Since possible compositions of the biological sample may be known, expected peak areas may be determined. Using the expected peak areas, a residual baseline is generated to further correct the data set. Probable peaks are then identifiable in the corrected data set, which are used to identify the composition of the biological sample. In a disclosed example, statistical methods are employed to determine the probability that a probable peak is an actual peak, not an actual peak, or that the data are too inconclusive to call.
US07917294B2	Determination of irreducible water cut-off using two dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance data A method for estimating a distribution of pore sizes of a fluid filled rock formation penetrated by a borehole, the method including: processing nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) data to determine a distribution of diffusion coefficients and a distribution of relaxation time constants for at least one depth in the borehole; plotting the distribution of diffusion coefficients and the distribution of relaxation time constants as a cross-plot for the at least one depth; identifying a water line on the cross-plot, each point on the water line having substantially the same value for the diffusion coefficient; and estimating the distribution of pore sizes from the distribution of relaxation time constants plotted along the water line.
US07917282B2	Combustion chamber deactivation system The present invention relates to an internal combustion engine comprising: a plurality of combustion chambers (41,42,43,44); an air induction system (45,45A,45B,46,47) for delivering air to each combustion chamber (41,42,43,44); a fuel system for delivering fuel to each combustion chamber (41,42,43,44); an exhaust system (48,50) for relaying combusted gases from the combustion chambers (41,42,43,44) to atmosphere; and an exhaust recirculation system (49,51) to relay combusted gases from the exhaust system (48,50) to at least one of the combustion chambers (42,43). The engine has a chamber deactivation operating mode in which at least one combustion chamber (41,44) is active and receives fuel and air which are combusted therein and at least one other combustion chamber (42,43) is deactivated and is supplied with no fuel by the fuel system. In the chamber deactivation operating mode the exhaust gas recirculation system (49,51) supplies combusted gas to the (or each) deactivated combustion chamber (42,43).
US07917278B2	System and method for lean blowout protection in turbine engines A lean blowout protection system and method is provided that facilitates improved lean blowout protection while providing effective control of turbine engine speed. The lean blowout protection system and method selectively and gradually biases the lean blowout (LBO) schedule based on current engine data. This facilitates improved lean blowout protection while providing effective control of turbine engine speed and temperature.
US07917275B2	System and method for improved vehicle response during vehicle acceleration conditions A vehicle control method for a vehicle having an internal combustion engine coupled to a torque converter is described. In one embodiment, the engine air flow and spark are adjusted to control torque converter operation. The method can improve vehicle response to driver accelerator commands.
US07917273B2	Driving assistance function on following a queue of vehicles A process for assisting the driving of a vehicle in a situation of following a queue. The vehicle is provided with a braking system and a plurality of sensors measuring values of variables defining an instantaneous state of the vehicle. The process includes the steps of: comparing the state of the vehicle with an entry state by testing a plurality of entry conditions; when the entry conditions are simultaneously verified, comparing the state of the vehicle with an exit state by testing a plurality of exit conditions; while at least one exit condition is not verified, generating a braking force value (F); and transmitting the value of the braking force generated as the target braking force (Ftarget) to the braking system.
US07917270B2	Operation of electronic stability control systems using data from a plurality of sources A method for operating a vehicle electronic stability control (“ESC”) system utilizing values for a variable obtained from a primary source and a redundant source includes the steps of receiving a first value for the variable from the primary source, receiving a second value for the variable from the redundant source, generating a normalized value as a function of the first value and the second value, determining whether the primary source is operating correctly, utilizing the first value for operation of the vehicle ESC system if the primary source is operating correctly, and utilizing the second value for operation of the vehicle ESC system if the primary source is not operating correctly and the second value is not greater in absolute value than the normalized value.
US07917258B2	Ship of the type comprising a control bridge with a direct view of the environment and an operations control room Ship (1) of the type comprising a control bridge (2) with a direct view of the ship's environment, and an operations control room (3) receiving information in real time on the situation of the environment of the ship, prepared by analysis means (4) for analysing the environment of the ship, of which the operations control room (3) comprises means for the panoramic display of the ship's environment.
US07917257B2	Method for determining the rotational velocity of an axle and detecting a locked axle condition A method for detecting a rotational velocity of a traction motor in a vehicle comprising: obtaining a traction motor signal having at least one phase, wherein the traction motor signal is responsive to an operating condition of the traction motor in an electrically unexcited state. The method also includes processing the traction motor signal to create an indication result based on a frequency of the traction motor signal and determining rotational velocity of the traction motor based on the indication result.
US07917254B2	Aircraft guidance using localizer capture criteria for rectilinear displacement data Systems and methods for aircraft guidance using a localizer capture criteria for rectilinear displacement data are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes determining a rectilinear deviation D between a current aircraft location and a final defined path (FDP) of an aircraft and determining a location at which the aircraft should begin a reposition maneuver based on the rectilinear deviation D. The method starts a reposition maneuver of the aircraft at a location determined based on a relationship between D and characteristics of the aircraft during the reposition maneuver. In some embodiments, the characteristics of the aircraft may include a velocity of the aircraft with respect to ground, an aircraft track angle, a heading of the FDP of the aircraft, a maximum allowed bank angle of the aircraft during a reposition maneuver, and a time allowance for aircraft rollup and rollout.
US07917246B2	Lockable medicament dispensing apparatus with authentication mechanism Methods and apparatus for an electronically lockable dispensing apparatus with a patient authentication mechanism are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a medicament dispensing apparatus includes an electronic lock adapted to protect medicaments from theft or unauthorized dispensing. The medicament dispensing apparatus is adapted to unlock the electronic lock upon authenticating a patient. In one embodiment, a set of biometric data may be analyzed for the purpose of authenticating the patient. The biometric data may include, for example, fingerprint patterns, voice samples, retinal scans, and/or facial characteristics of a person requesting medicaments.
US07917233B2	Lead-lag filter arrangement for electro-pneumatic control loops A lead-lag input filter is connected ahead of a positioner feedback loop having one or more valve accessories, such as a volume booster or a QEV, to overcome slow dynamics experienced by the accessories when receiving low amplitude change control or set point signals. A user interface is connected to the lead-lag input filter and enables an operator or other control personnel to view and change the operating characteristics of the lead-lag input filter to thereby provide the control loop with any of a number of desired response characteristics.
US07917232B2	Building automation system data management A building automation system (BAS) comprising a plurality of end devices, at least one communication network, a protocol-independent server engine, and a graphical user interface (GUI). The end devices are each associated with at least one of a space, a system, or a subsystem for at least a portion of a building or a campus. The communication network supports a plurality of communication protocols and communicatively couples at least a portion of the plurality of end devices. The server engine is communicatively coupled to the at least one communication network and, in one embodiment, is adapted to selectively implement the dynamic extensibility capability to establish communications with, to receive and store data about, and to control the end devices and to selectively implement the automatic configuration capability to determine at least one characteristic of each of the end devices, wherein the at least one characteristic comprises a communication protocol compatible with the end device.
US07917226B2	Antenna arrangements for implantable therapy device Embodiments of an implantable medical device includes a loop antenna wound about an inner housing. The loop antenna may form a partial winding, a complete winding, or multiple windings about the inner housing. One or more additional antennae may be capacitively coupled to the loop antenna external to the inner housing to increase efficiency and decrease Return Loss Response of the implantable device. The additional antenna may be balanced or unbalanced antennae.
US07917223B2	Self powered osteogenesis and osseointegration promotion and maintenance device for endosseous implants Osteogenesis and osseointegration promotion and maintenance devices for osseous implants include an implant member having a first electrode, an inlaid second electrode positioned on the member so that it is electrically isolated from and substantially flush with the member surface, and an electrical stimulation mechanism preferably located at the member and operative to provide electrical stimulation signals to endosseous tissue surrounding the implant through the first and second electrodes. The first electrode may be the member itself or a second inlaid electrode. The implant is thus electrically functionalized for osteogenesis and osseointgration acceleration. The device is applicable to both non-dental and dental implants. In all embodiments, the use of inlaid electrode(s) enables the general appearance, external surface and mechanical integrity of the implant to be left essentially unchanged.
US07917222B1	Cerebral or organ interface system A cerebral and/or interface system has a housing mechanism configured to be at least partially spaced in a cavity formed in the subject's skull; an attaching mechanism for attaching the housing mechanism to the subject's skull; a sealing mechanism for providing a fluid-tight seal between the housing mechanism and the subject's skull; a control mechanism spaced within the housing mechanism; a communication mechanism with one or more sensors embedded in the subject's brain connecting the control mechanism to the subject's brain; and a power source spaced within the housing mechanism. Optional embodiments include a treatment portion for cooling or heating adjacent tissue, a medicament portion for administering medicament to adjacent tissue, a separate auxiliary compartment with a removable lid secured to or spaced apart from the housing mechanism, contacts extending outwardly from housing mechanism, and/or a supporting mechanism for precisely displacing the housing mechanism angularly or along x-, y-, and z-axes.
US07917218B2	Filtering capacitor feedthrough assembly A filtering capacitor feedthrough assembly for an implantable active medical device is disclosed. The filtering capacitor feedthrough assembly includes a capacitor having an aperture defined by an inner capacitor surface. The capacitor is electrically grounded to an electrically conductive feedthrough ferrule or housing of the implantable active medical device. A terminal pin extends into the aperture. An electrically conductive split ring sleeve is disposed within the aperture and between the terminal pin and the capacitor. The split ring sleeve includes a first end, a second end, a sleeve length therebetween. A longitudinal slit through the sleeve extends from the first end to the second end. The electrically conductive split ring sleeve mechanically securing and electrically coupling the terminal pin to the capacitor.
US07917214B1	Methods and systems for identifying a preferred pacing configuration for a multi-electrode implantable cardiac electrotherapy device Methods and systems of identifying an electrode or combination of electrodes of a multi-electrode device for pacing include selecting a first electrode or electrode combination as a first candidate; delivering a pacing pulse through the first candidate and determining a measurement based on sensed cardiac electrical activity resulting from the first candidate pacing; selecting a second candidate; delivering a pacing pulse through the second candidate and determining a measurement based on sensed cardiac electrical activity resulting from the second candidate pacing; comparing the measurement for the first and second candidates; and identifying the first or second candidate for pacing based on the comparison. The measurement may be one or more of activation time ΔTact, activation recovery interval (ARI), a fractioned electrogram width, and a standard deviation of a fractioned electrogram feature.
US07917205B2	Iontophoresis-based medical device An iontophoresis-based medical device includes a positive electrode section, a negative electrode section, a power source supplying an electric current to the positive electrode section and negative electrode section and a controller controlling the current value and conduction time of the electric current, wherein a writing brush is electrically connected to the positive electrode section, and a sponge is electrically connected to the negative electrode section, and the writing brush is formed of a large number of long soft hairs and a large number of short soft hairs such that the writing brush has a columnar shape at a base portion thereof and is gradually tapered toward a tip portion thereof from a middle portion thereof and the tip portion is made extremely fine to form an acute apex thus allowing the apex to touch an affected part in a pinpoint manner.
US07917193B2	Determining inserted catheter end location and orientation Catheterization device and method of using are provided for uniquely illuminating the distal end of the device in order to visualize the end-point location and orientation and to track the movement of the catheterization device within passageways in the body. Use of the present invention by tracking in real time with an imaging device sensitive to visible to near infrared light. The invention allows the insertion and tracking of substantially any catheterization type device, for substantially any procedure requiring vascular access, such as in the placement of a PICC line, for heart catheterization or angioplasty, or for urinary track catheterization, or other bodily access procedure. The invention permits a technician to determine placement, orientation and movement of the device noninvasive equipment, without subjecting the patient to the hazards associated with ionizing radiation, radio frequency energy or significant thermal energy.
US07917188B2	Method for using CEST contrast agents in MRI A method for mapping a physico-chemical parameter using a chemical exchange saturation transfer contrast agent in Magnetic Resonance Imaging is used with agents having only one exchangeable entity pool, e.g. proton pool, by applying two different RF frequencies for pre-saturation of the contrast agent.
US07917183B2	Method of controlling idle mode in broadband wireless access system A method of controlling an idle mode in a broadband wireless access system is disclosed, in which paging information is allocated to a mobile subscriber station to enter an idle mode via a base station belonging to at least two paging groups and in which the idle mode is efficiently controlled by improving a method of changing paging information of a mobile subscriber station in idle mode. The present invention includes the steps of receiving a message requesting a transition to the idle mode from a mobile subscriber station, transmitting paging information for the entire paging groups of the base station to the mobile subscriber station, and transmitting a paging message to the mobile subscriber station according to the paging information of each of the paging groups to which the base station belongs.
US07917182B2	Method for automatically switching scene mode and portable terminal using the same A method for automatically switching scene mode and a portable terminal are disclosed, the method comprises steps of setting life cycle and subsequent scene mode for each scene mode; judging whether the life cycle of current scene mode has ended; and switching the current scene mode to a subsequent scene mode if it is judged that the life cycle of the current scene mode has ended. With the present invention, a user can define desired scene modes at different moments during a day depending on his daily arrangement, and thus this brings great convenience to the user.
US07917173B2	Multimedia data communication method and system The present invention discloses a multimedia processing system for communicating data among a baseband module, an image sensor module, and at least one display module in a wireless mobile phone. The multimedia processing system further comprises a serial baseband interface, an image sensor interface, and a display interface which transmits and receives different kinds of data, including processing data, image data and display data, among each others. Several hardware implementations for the serial interface, including a serial peripheral interface and a universal asynchronous receiver and transmitter interface, are disclosed according to certain embodiments of the invention. Moreover, another embodiment comprises a bypass mechanism which bypasses signals to other components because under certain circumstances it is reasonable to bypass incoming data signals directly from one device to another. For example, to accelerate the image data transfer which has a changeless data structure, a direct bypass data transfer is preferable in order to improve the data transfer speed. Furthermore, the present invention also discloses another embodiment to provide a method for communicating among a baseband module, an image sensor module, and at least one display module in a wireless mobile phone. The method performs transmitting and receiving data among the mentioned modules and other components via at least one serial interface scheme.
US07917166B2	System and method for controlling power in a communication system A method for controlling power in a communication system. A base station allocates Channel Quality Information Channels to at least one mobile station, transmits the allocated Channel Quality Information Channel information, and transmits power control information to the mobile station to which the Channel Quality Information Channel is allocated. And a mobile station for receives Channel Quality Information Channel allocation information, receives power control information, and detects the power control information allocated to the mobile station by using the Channel Quality Information Channel allocation information.
US07917158B2	Method and system for location management and location information providing system In an information providing system, a user inputs desired mobile ID number to a client terminal. The client terminal transmits a request for location information on the mobile station including the mobile ID number to a location server via a location information server. The location server transmits a request for object movement information corresponding to the mobile station to an object information server. The location information server obtains the information from a traffic control device. Location information on the mobile station obtained by the location information server is transmitted to the terminal.
US07917155B2	Location of cooperative tags with personal electronic device The present disclosure relates to location and communication systems that can be utilized for locating people, pets and other objects with a software defined radio set. A personal electronic device (PED) such as a cellular telephone, personal data assistant (PDA) or other device that include a software defined radio set can be configured for operation as a locator device. The PED transmits a signal A transponder or micro-transponder (MT) that is tagged to an object is arranged to reply to a transmission received from the PED. The PED based locator is arranged to calculate a distance between the PED and the MT using the time-of-flight (TOF) between the transmission and the receipt of a reply. The absolute geographic position of the PED can be determined using satellite navigation information, while the position of the MT relative to the PED can be determined from the TOF information.
US07917150B2	Method and system for receiving broadcast service and unicast service A method for receiving a broadcast service and a unicast service by a UE is provided. The method includes calculating a candidate interval for receiving the unicast service by referring to scheduling information of the broadcast service by the UE, when the unicast service begins to be provided through another frequency band other than a dedicated frequency band for the broadcast service while the UE receives the broadcast service through the dedicated frequency band; notifying the scheduling information of the broadcast service and the calculated candidate interval to an ENB in charge of scheduling of the unicast service by the UE; and switching to said another frequency band and receiving the unicast service in the candidate interval, while switching to the dedicated frequency band and receiving the broadcast service in another interval other than the candidate interval, by the UE.
US07917146B2	Methods, apparatuses and systems facilitating client handoffs in wireless network systems Methods, apparatuses, and systems directed to facilitating roaming and client handoffs in wireless networks. In one implementation, the present invention is directed to a coordination mechanism facilitating handoffs of wireless clients in a wireless network infrastructure. In one implementation, the coordination mechanism minimizes the use of group- or multi-casting to provide a scalable wireless network roaming infrastructure.
US07917144B2	Methods, systems, and products for selective broadcast enhancement Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for selective broadcast enhancement. A registration request includes a randomly selected a generic access number (GAN) and a hardware serial number (HSN). A registration response comprising the randomly-selected generic access number (GAN), a broadcast access number (BAN), and an identification of a radio channel. A broadcast is sent or received over the radio channel with the broadcast including data associated with the BAN. The radio channel is then monitored for communications traffic.
US07917143B2	Method and apparatus for CDMA timer-based registration on a mobile device A method and apparatus for improved timer based registration for a mobile device with a network, the network having a standard slot cycle time for interrupts, the method comprising the steps of: receiving, at the mobile device, a system parameter message from the network, the message having a value indicating a frequency for periodic registration; setting a timer value on a timer at the mobile device, the timer value being greater than the standard slot cycle time; setting a counter to count expiration of the timer; starting the timer; upon expiration of the timer, decrementing the counter; upon the counter reaching zero, waiting for a paging slot to communicate with the network; and sending a registration message to the network on the paging slot.
US07917126B2	System and method of exchanging identification information for mobile stations A system is provided for allowing mobile stations to exchange identification information using a predetermined communication path for the purpose of obtaining identification information to use in establishing a different communication path for communicating.
US07917122B2	Method for sending a short message and debiting the recipient A method for sending short messages using a debiting service with debiting to a recipient by the following steps: 1) receiving a short message from a sending number addressed to a recipient's number, with the addition of a prefix, the prefix being associated with the debiting service; ii) checking an authorization of the sending number to debit a cost of the short message to the recipient; iii) checking if a credit of the recipient is greater than the cost; and iv) if outcomes of both checks ii and iii are positive, sending the short message to the recipient.
US07917121B2	Method of executing handover in broadband wireless access system The primitives between an upper management layer and the MAC layer within a mobile station and a base station are defined in order to specify and clarify the operations within the protocol stack layers in a broadband wireless access system to allow a mobile station to execute handover. Media Independent Handover (MIH) procedures can be achieved because the NCMS and MIH layer can communicate through use of these primitives.
US07917103B2	WLAN and wired mobile communication and location finding system Wired and mobile cascaded communication systems and processors used in wired and wireless local area network (WLAN) and mobile systems with touch screen generated communication and control signal and position finding signals. Systems with distinct modulators for wired, WLAN and mobile systems operated in separate network and systems. The WLAN includes use of orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) signal, the mobile communication system includes use of time division multiple access (TDMA) signal and Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) signal. Cascaded communication system includes receiving, processing and transmitting a Bluetooth signal. Communication system and WLAN has non-linearly amplified amplifier and linearly amplified amplifier for signal amplification and transmission and non-quadrature modulator and a quadrature modulator. Quadrature modulator is used for modulation of TDMA or CDMA filtered cross-correlated in-phase and quadrature-phase baseband signals. Position finding with processor for processing and providing processed location finding signals received from multiple GPS satellites and processed location finding signals received from land based cellular transmitters.
US07917102B2	Radio transmitting apparatus and radio transmission method A radio transmitting apparatus that has a plurality of antennas and changes the number of modulated signals transmitted simultaneously according to the propagation environment and so forth. A transmission power changing section 12 of a radio transmitting apparatus of the present invention adjusts the pilot symbol signal level so as to match the data symbol composite signal level according to the number of transmit modulated signals set by a modulated signal number setting section 11. By this means, the operating range of received pilot symbols and the operating range of received data symbols become approximately the same on the receiving side, enabling pilot symbol quantization error to be reduced. As a result, the precision of radio wave propagation environment estimation, time synchronization, and frequency offset estimation using pilot symbols improves, and consequently data reception quality improves.
US07917098B2	Configurable frequency band elimination for powerline network A communication device for use in adapting an appliance to a computer network consistent with certain embodiments has a data transmitter that receives data to be transmitted and generates output signals carrying the data at a plurality of carrier frequencies. A user configurable notch filter, receives the output signals from the data transmitter, for reducing the amplitude of a user selected range of frequencies, and producing a filtered output. A network communication medium interface receives the filtered output and transmitting the filtered output over a network communication medium. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract.
US07917097B2	Methods and apparatus for controlling a mobile device by using a pivoting input switch A mobile device that performs at least one computing application and at least one phone application. This mobile device includes a user-controllable pivoting input switch. This switch has a number of operational modes. Several of these operational modes direct the operation of the computing application. In additional, several operational modes direct the operation of the phone application.
US07917090B2	Portable terminal device and on-vehicle device A portable terminal device that is communicable with other devices includes a start record table, an application relation table, a device application correspondence table, an acquiring unit, and a sending unit. Upon receiving a predetermined signal from a communication device, the acquiring unit acquires first application information for specifying an application corresponding to the communication device from the device application correspondence table, and acquires, with respect to a combination of applications of which first application information is started second, second application information for specifying the first application of the combination from the application relation table. When the latest record stored in the start record table is equivalent to the second application information, the sending unit sends information representing that a priority level is high as a response to the predetermined signal that is received from the communication device.
US07917087B2	Wireless communication system and image forming device Tag attaching portions at cartridge parts which are loaded into different cartridge loading portions have common structures and configurations. A position of a wireless communication tag at the cartridge part is easily adjusted to a position suited for communication with a main body antenna. In a laser printer, accommodating chambers and accommodating portions are provided at plural regions of toner cartridges. The wireless communication tag is selectively inserted and fit into one of the accommodating chambers and accommodating portions, in accordance with a position of the cartridge loading portion in which the toner cartridge is loaded. In this way, in a state in which the toner cartridges are respectively loaded in the cartridge loading portions, the wireless communication tags are substantially parallel to and sufficiently close to the main body antennas of antenna units.
US07917075B2	Fixing device To provide a technique for preventing a temperature rise in a non-sheet passing areas in a fixing device. The fixing device includes: a heating rotational member that includes at least one roller and heats a toner transferred on a sheet; a pressing roller that nips and carries the sheet in cooperation with the heating rotational member; a heating device that heats the heating rotational member; and heat pipes arranged, on the inside of at least one of the roller of the heating rotational member and the pressing roller, in ranges on both the sides in an axial direction of the roller from positions closer to the center in the axial direction than both the ends of a minimum sheet passing range in the axial direction of the roller of the nipped and carried sheet to positions further on the outer sides in the axial direction than both the ends of a maximum sheet passing range.
US07917072B2	Image forming apparatus and belt transporting apparatus with moving member The image forming apparatus is provided with: an image carrier that holds an image; an endless transfer belt that is rotated while sandwiching a recording medium therebetween, and transfers the image on the image carrier to the recording medium; a first roll member that holds the transfer belt and brings that into contact with the image carrier; a second and third roll members that hold the transfer belt together with the first roll member; and a moving member that makes the second roll member movable so as to make a center distance between the first and second roll members on one end side of the transfer belt larger than one on the other end side, and makes the third roll member movable so as to make a center distance between the first and third roll members on the one end side smaller than one on the other end side.
US07917060B2	Image forming apparatus having a sensor blocking device An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form a toner image on an image bearing member, an endless belt configured to transfer and carry the toner image thereon, a transfer unit configured to transfer the toner image carried by the endless belt onto a recording sheet, a sensing unit configured to sense the toner image transferred onto the endless belt, a blocking unit mounted between the sensing unit and the endless belt and configured to block the sensing unit, a contact and separation unit configured to cause the transfer unit to reciprocally contact and separate from the endless belt. With this configuration, the blocking unit and the contact and separation unit are configured to be driven by an identical drive source.
US07917059B2	Developing device and image forming apparatus A developing device is detachably attached to an image forming apparatus. The developing device includes a first frame member; a second frame member disposed to face the first frame member; a shaft member for connecting the first frame member and the second frame member; a first engagement member disposed at one end portion of the shaft member for engaging the first frame member; a second engagement member disposed at the other end portion of the shaft member for engaging the second frame member; and a fixing member for fixing at least one of the first engagement member and the second engagement member.
US07917057B2	Image forming apparatus with a front cover having a release member disposed to avoid incorrect operation An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a sheet conveyor and a main body that houses the image forming unit and the sheet conveyor. An operating unit is mounted to a front cover that can move between a closed position to cover an anterior side of the main body and an open position to expose a part of the main body. A retention mechanism retains the front cover at the closed position. The retention mechanism has a lock and a release. The lock is supported by one of the apparatus main body and the front cover and is selectively engageable with and detachable from the other. The release releases engagement of the lock, and is installed posterior to the operating unit in a region facing a back surface as viewed from an opening and closing direction of the front cover.
US07917056B2	Systems and methods for remanufacturing imaging components Techniques for modifying an imaging cartridge includes providing the imaging cartridge including a body including a circuit holding structure sized to hold an electronic circuit and forming a modified circuit holding structure, with the modified circuit holding structure sized to hold a replacement electronic circuit. At least one dimension of the replacement electronic circuit may be greater than a corresponding dimension of the electronic circuit.
US07917052B2	Charging device and an image forming apparatus provided with the charging device A charging device has a stainless steel sheet electrode for charging an image bearing member, and a cleaner for cleaning the stainless steel sheet electrode. The stainless steel sheet electrode has a thickness within a range from 50 μm to 60 μm and comprises aligned triangular pins. Each of the triangular pins has a vertex angle within a range from 10 degrees to 30 degrees. The cleaner has two grinding members comprising abrasive grains having an average diameter within a range from 2 μm to 9 μm, and the two grinding members are in contact with, respectively, both main surfaces of the sheet electrode. The cleaner and the sheet electrode are moved relative to each other at a constant speed by a force equal to or less than 2N.
US07917048B2	Image forming apparatus and electromagnetic induction heating type fixing device having magnetic flux regulating section A fixing member having an outer peripheral surface brought in pressure contact with a sheet, an induction coil along the member, and a high frequency power source section that heats the heat generating layer of the fixing member by supplying an alternating current to the induction coil. A magnetic flux regulating section that restricts the generation of heat in a specified region of the fixing member in the widthwise direction of the sheet is provided. Image regions occupied by the image to be fixed are detected in the widthwise direction of the sheet. Control of specifying the region in which the generation of heat should be restricted for the magnetic flux regulating section is executed so that only regions corresponding to the image regions of the fixing member are substantially heated in the widthwise direction of the sheet, sheet-by-sheet according to the result of detection.
US07917034B2	Synchronization and processing of secure information via optically transmitted data A method and device enables data communication via optical pulses from a light source of an electronic device. A data transfer interface is provided to support processing of selected data by a processor of the electronic device. The electronic device comprises an illumination light source, which is selectively utilized for illuminating a component in the electronic device and for transmitting data via optical pulses. An optical receiver also receives optically transmitted data. The transmission and receiving of the data is provided on a bidirectional duplex communication link created with a second optical receiver and an optical data transmission mechanism of a second electronic device.
US07917029B2	Camera system and method for controlling the same An automatic-lens-connection-type camera system, which detects insertion of a lens unit into a mount part and automatically screws a mount connector to connect the lens unit with the mount part, and a method for controlling the camera system. The camera system includes a body, a lens module mounted to be attachable to and detachable from the body, a lens module insertion part mounted on a surface of the lens module that faces the body, and a mount part for detecting insertion of the lens module into the body to mount the lens module insertion part on the body.
US07917026B2	Shutter and camera module with same A shutter includes a first light-pervious electrode, a second light-pervious electrode, a light-shielding layer sandwiched between the first and second light-pervious electrodes and a voltage supplying system. The light-shielding layer is comprised of an electrostrictive material. The light-shielding layer has a fixed end positioned adjacent to one edge of the first light-pervious electrode, and a free end facing toward the opposite edge. The free end is extendable towards the opposite edge of the first light-pervious electrode to block light from in response to a voltage applied to the light-shielding layer. The voltage supplying system is electrically connected with the first and second light-pervious electrodes for supplying a voltage between the first and second light-pervious electrodes.
US07917025B2	Image pickup apparatus An image pickup apparatus is provided that can switch between an optical viewfinder mode for identifying an object using an optical viewfinder and a live view mode for identifying an image of an object using a monitor. The apparatus includes an auto-focus unit able to be configured in the optical viewfinder mode; and a control unit configured to switch, in a case where a mode for performing exposure control in association with an auto-focus result obtained by the auto-focus unit is set, when the optical viewfinder mode is switched to the live view mode, to a mode for performing exposure control not in association with the auto-focus result.
US07917023B2	Lens driving apparatus with anti-shake mechanism An exemplary lens driving apparatus includes a first retaining frame having first retaining portions, first coils of wire received in the first retaining portions, and a voice coil motor movably received in the first retaining frame. The voice coil motor includes a second retaining frame having second retaining portions, magnets received in the second retaining portions, and a core member having a second coil of wire wound around and being movably received in the second frame. The core member receives lens therein. The magnets generate magnetic fields which are capable of driving the core member to move along the lens optical axis when the second coil of wire is electrically powered; the magnets are applied reverse force of Ampere's force when the first coils of wire are electrically powered, such that the voice coil motor together with the lens is moved in a plane perpendicular to the lens optical axis.
US07917013B2	Information storage medium and information recording/playback system There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and control information, the control information (DA21 in FIG. 4; RTR_VMG in FIG. 30) includes information (VOBU entry in FIG. 31) for accessing a specific portion (VOBU) of the video data.
US07917011B2	Information storage medium and information recording/playback system There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and control information, the control information (DA21 in FIG. 4; RTR_VMG in FIG. 30) includes information (VOBU entry in FIG. 31) for accessing a specific portion (VOBU) of the video data.
US07917010B2	Information storage medium and information recording/playback system There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and control information, the control information (DA21 in FIG. 4; RTR_VMG in FIG. 30) includes information (VOBU entry in FIG. 31) for accessing a specific portion (VOBU) of the video data.
US07917001B2	Information storage medium and information recording/playback system There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and control information, the control information (DA21 in FIG. 4; RTR_VMG in FIG. 30) includes information (VOBU entry in FIG. 31) for accessing a specific portion (VOBU) of the video data.
US07916999B2	Information storage medium and information recording/playback system There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and control information, the control information (DA21 in FIG. 4; RTR_VMG in FIG. 30) includes information (VOBU entry in FIG. 31) for accessing a specific portion (VOBU) of the video data.
US07916998B2	Information storage medium and information recording/playback system There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and control information, the control information (DA21 in FIG. 4; RTR_VMG in FIG. 30) includes information (VOBU entry in FIG. 31) for accessing a specific portion (VOBU) of the video data.
US07916993B2	Method for producing elements comprising fiber optics, device for implementing said method, optical fibers element and optical arrangement comprising such an element A method for producing an optical fiber element provided with several optical fibers disposed in a matrix, including: a) placing and maintaining the several optical fibers in grooves formed in a mould plate, said grooves being in different planes, b) injecting a hardenable material adhering to the several optical fibers, c) solidifying the hardenable material to maintain the several optical fibers in a position set by the grooves, and d) removing at least the mould plate to p.
US07916989B2	Optical fiber assemblies having a powder or powder blend at least partially mechanically attached Disclosed are fiber optic assemblies having at least one optical fiber disposed within a tube and/or cavity along with a powder or powder blend that is at least partially mechanically attached thereto. In one embodiment, the powder or powder blend includes a water-swellable component that is mechanically attached to about 30 percent or less of the surface area of the tube wall while still effectively blocking the migration of water along the tube. Other embodiments may have the powder or power blend mechanically attached to the tube, cavity, or the like at relatively high percentage levels of the total powder or powder blend within the assembly, thereby inhibiting unintentional migration along the tube, cavity, or the like. Other embodiments may use powder or powder blends that may or may not include a water-swellable powder to provide other desired characteristics.
US07916986B2	Erbium-doped silicon nanocrystalline embedded silicon oxide waveguide An erbium (Er)-doped silicon (Si) nanocrystalline embedded silicon oxide (SiOx) waveguide and associated fabrication method are presented. The method provides a bottom layer, and forms an Er-doped Si nanocrystalline embedded SiOx film waveguide overlying the bottom layer, having a minimum optical attenuation at about 1540 nanometers (nm). Then, a top layer is formed overlying the Er-doped SiOx film. The Er-doped SiOx film is formed by depositing a silicon rich silicon oxide (SRSO) film using a high density plasma chemical vapor deposition (HDPCVD) process and annealing the SRSO film. After implanting Er+ ions, the Er-doped SiOx film is annealed again. The Er-doped Si nanocrystalline SiOx film includes has a first refractive index (n) in the range of 1.46 to 2.30. The top and bottom layers have a second refractive index, less than the first refractive index.
US07916983B2	Signal identifying apparatus for an optical fiber Provided is a signal identifying apparatus for an optical fiber that includes a detecting portion capable of detecting a signal originating from a first end of the optical fiber and a signal originating from a second end of the optical fiber. Additionally, the signal identifying apparatus includes an identifying portion that identifies a desired signal by separating the signal originating from the first end of the optical fiber from the signal originating from the second end of the optical fiber.
US07916977B2	Data processing apparatus, data processing method and recording medium A group of input image data is determined based on the distance between images of a number of representative faces, prepared from plural templates, and the input image data (correlative values C1 to C5). The number of representative faces is smaller than the number of the templates. An angle of the input image is calculated based on the so-determined group.
US07916976B1	Facial based image organization and retrieval method Embodiments of the invention include a system and set of processes for organizing image collections. The system detects individuals in each image uploaded into the system using facial recognition or similar methods. The user and viewers of the images may then view dynamic albums based on the interrelationships of individuals in images. Users and viewers may browse all images with an individual or see albums of images with two selected individuals or similar combinations based on the relationships between users.
US07916972B2	Landmark-based form reading with declarative language A form reader includes a landmarks extractor configured to select textboxes of a converted document as form landmarks based on textual characteristics. A set of positional constraints constrain the form entries relative to the identified form landmarks. A constraints solver selects textboxes of the converted document as form entries by solving the set of positional constraints respective to a set of facts including the selected form landmarks and converted document. In some embodiments, the constraints solver includes a query engine configured to (i) construct a query in a logic programming language setting forth the set of positional constraints and the set of facts and to (ii) input said query to a logic programming language query solving engine and to (iii) receive a response from the query solving engine responsive to the input.
US07916971B2	Image processing method and apparatus An image processing technique includes acquiring a main image of a scene and determining one or more facial regions in the main image. The facial regions are analysed to determine if any of the facial regions includes a defect. A sequence of relatively low resolution images nominally of the same scene is also acquired. One or more sets of low resolution facial regions in the sequence of low resolution images are determined and analysed for defects. Defect free facial regions of a set are combined to provide a high quality defect free facial region. At least a portion of any defective facial regions of the main image are corrected with image information from a corresponding high quality defect free facial region.
US07916968B2	Adjusting apparatus for enhancing the contrast of image and method therefor An adjusting apparatus for enhancing the contrast of an image and a method therefor are provided. The adjusting apparatus includes a mask processor, a brightness detecting unit, a brightness adjusting unit, a ratio calculating unit and a contrast enhancing unit. The mask processor retrieves a pixel matrix from an original image according to its mask dimension, and outputs a specific pixel corresponding to a specific position in the pixel matrix. Then, the brightness detecting unit, the brightness adjusting unit and the ratio calculating unit are coupled in series to process the image according to relations of each sub-pixel of the pixel matrix, so as to obtain an adjusting ratio. Thereby, the contrast enhancing unit multiplies the value of the adjusted specific pixel by the adjusting ratio to enhance the contrast of the image.
US07916954B2	Image encoding apparatus and control method thereof A lossless encoding processing unit lossless-encodes respective tiles, and stores the encoded data in a memory. A determination unit determines, according to attribute information of each tile, whether the tile of interest is to be lossless- or lossy-encoded, and appends the determination result at the head of lossless-encoded data as a flag. The determination unit counts, in variable CH, the number of tiles determined to be lossy-encoded, during the lossless encoding processing. Every time the CH exceeds one of a plurality of different thresholds, a lossy encoding processing unit decodes lossless-encoded data appended with a lossy flag, applies processing for decreasing the resolution to the decoded data, lossless-encodes the data that has undergone the processing again, and stores the lossless-encoded data in the memory. Upon completion of the lossless encoding processing for one page, the lossy encoding processing unit lossy-encodes the lossless-encoded data appended with the lossy flag.
US07916948B2	Character recognition device, mobile communication system, mobile terminal device, fixed station device, character recognition method and character recognition program Words possibly included in a scene image shot by a mobile camera can be efficiently extracted using a word dictionary or a map database. Positional information acquiring means 101 measures a current position of the device to acquire positional information. Directional information acquiring means 102 detects a direction of the device to acquire directional information. Character recognizing means 104 determines a range of shooting of a scene image based on the current positional information and the directional information. The character recognizing means 104 extracts from a map database 103 information such as store names, building names, and place names associated with positions in the shooting range. Then the character recognizing means 104 conducts character recognition using word knowledge such as the extracted store names, building names, and place names.
US07916947B2	False alarm recognition in hyperspectral gas plume identification According to one embodiment, a method for analyzing hyperspectral data includes collecting first hyperspectral data of a scene using a hyperspectral imager during a no-gas period and analyzing the first hyperspectral data using one or more gas plume detection logics. The gas plume detection logic is executed using a low detection threshold, and detects each occurrence of an observed hyperspectral signature. The method also includes generating a histogram for all occurrences of each observed hyperspectral signature which is detected using the gas plume detection logic, and determining a probability of false alarm (PFA) for all occurrences of each observed hyperspectral signature based on the histogram. Possibly at some other time, the method includes collecting second hyperspectral data, and analyzing the second hyperspectral data using the one or more gas plume detection logics and the PFA to determine if any gas is present. Other systems and methods are also included.
US07916944B2	System and method for feature level foreground segmentation Foreground segmentation in real world dynamic scenes, including under various lighting and shadow conditions, is disclosed. It may be used with one or multiple cameras for various automated tasks, such as classification of moving object, tracking moving objects, and event detection in various indoor or outdoor environments. Pixel to pixel subtraction is performed on each frame, followed by a feature-level based foreground segmentation to properly validate the foreground pixels. In this step, for each pixel in the image, a neighborhood of pixels is selected, and the aggregate change in the neighborhood image is used to classify foreground and background pixels. Normalized cross correlation is then applied to the neighborhood of each pixel that was confirmed to be foreground pixel.
US07916936B2	Image-processing method An image-processing method includes: subjecting original image data indicative of an original image to a selective noise reduction by reducing noise from pixel data that meets a prescribed condition among all the pixel data in the original image data; and performing a first calibration to calibrate contrast of a backlight region of the selectively-noise-reduced original image data to generate an output image by determining a first pixel component and a second pixel component for each pixel data in the selectively-noise-reduced image data, by increasing contrast of the second pixel component, and by recreating pixel data based on the first pixel component and the calibrated second pixel component.
US07916919B2	System and method for segmenting chambers of a heart in a three dimensional image A system and method for segmenting chambers of a heart in three dimensional images is disclosed. A set of three dimensional images of a heart is received. The shape of the heart in the three dimensional images is localized. Boundaries of the chambers of the heart in the localized shape are identified using steerable features.
US07916906B2	System and method for providing a real-time, online biometric signature A system is provided for generating an online biometrically accurate electronic signature. The system includes a computer interface module which records movement of a cursor on a computer screen and outputs the recorded data. A signature generation module which receives the recorded data and generates a graphical image based upon the recorded data.
US07916902B2	Album creating apparatus, album creating method, and album creating program An album creating apparatus which allows coloring parts other than a captured image in the album suited to a person included in the captured image and an album viewer based on an age of the person included in the captured image and an age of the album viewer. The album creating apparatus includes: an age identifying unit for identifying an age of a person included in a captured image composing the album or an age of a person viewing the album; a color selecting unit for selecting color used for parts other than the captured image in the album based on the age identified by the age identifying unit; and a coloring unit for coloring parts other than the captured image in the album using the color selected by the color selecting unit.
US07916901B2	Method and apparatus for searching biometric image data A method for matching biometric data is disclosed. A biometric information source is sensed to provide an image thereof. The image is then analysed to extract features thereform. A feature is selected as a first feature and a plurality of polygons are generated with a location of the first feature as a vertex of each. The polygons are then used to search a lookup table in order to determine an orientation and translation of the image relative to stored reference data.
US07916894B1	Summary of a video using faces A plurality of sets of face images associated with a video is obtained. Each set of face images corresponds to a particular person depicted in the video. Of the people associated with the plurality of sets of face images, one or more of those people are selected to be included in a facial summary by analyzing the plurality of sets of face images and/or the video. For each of the selected one or more people, a face image to use in the facial summary is selected. The facial summary is laid out using the selected face images.
US07916888B2	In-ear headphones An earphone includes a first acoustic chamber including a reactive element and a resistive element in parallel, a second acoustic chamber separated from the first acoustic chamber by an acoustic transducer, and a housing to support the apparatus from the concha of a wearer's ear and to extend the second acoustic chamber into the ear canal of the wearer's ear.A cushion includes a first material and a second material and is formed into a first region and a second region. The first region defines an exterior surface shaped to fit the concha of a human ear. The second region defines an exterior surface shaped to fit the ear canal of a human ear. The first and second regions together define an interior surface shaped to accommodate an earphone. The first material occupies a volume adjacent to the interior surface. The second material occupies a volume between the first material and the first and second outer surfaces. The first and second materials are of different hardnesses.
US07916887B2	Wind-shielded acoustic sensor A wind-shielded acoustic sensor, having a microphone and a housing of the microphone. The housing has a streamlined, continuous profile about a latitudinal axis and a longitudinal axis thereof, such that wind-induced noise can be reduced. A plurality of uniformly spaced sound ports are formed along a plurality of circumferences centered about a longitudinal axis thereof. At least one region of the housing is sufficiently thin and pliable such that deformation will occur while subjected to wind. Thereby, both acoustic signals and wind-related random-like pressure fluctuations are transmitted into the cavity enclosed by the housing.
US07916886B1	Microphone with low frequency noise shunt The present invention provides for a microphone. The microphone includes a housing, a port disposed in the housing leading to an interior chamber, and a diaphragm with a first side and a second side. The first side of the diaphragm faces the port. The microphone includes a shunt channel from the port to the second side of the diaphragm. The shunt channel receives a wind noise signal to reduce the effects of the wind noise signal on the diaphragm.
US07916885B2	Component for a hearing aid and a hearing aid A hearing aid (1) comprising a lid (31), an electronics module (4), and a microphone adapter (15), wherein the electronics module and the microphone adapter provides a groove (30) for sliding engagement with a pivot of the lid, the groove extending partially over the electronics module and partially over the adapter between a position where the lid is closed and a position where the lid is partially open.
US07916862B2	Stegotext encoder and decoder The invention comprises an encoder for encoding a stegotext and a decoder for decoding the encoded stegotext, the stegotext being generated by modulating the log power spectrogram of a covertext signal with at least one key, the or each key having been added or subtracted in the log domain to the covertext power spectrogram in accordance with the data of the watermark code with which the stegotext was generated, and the modulated power spectrogram having been returned into the original domain of the covertext. The decoder carries out Fast Fourier Transformation and rectangular polar conversion of the stegotext signal so as to transform the stegotext signal into the log power spectrogram domain; subtracts in the log power domain positive and negative multiples of the key or keys from blocks of the log power spectrogram and evaluates the probability of the results of such subtractions representing an unmodified block of covertext in accordance with a predetermined statistical model.
US07916849B2	Systems and methods for managing the gating of microphones in a multi-pod conference system This disclosure describes a method of gating a multi-pod conferencing system for local conference participants to communicate with remote conference participants that includes providing a plurality of pods where an individual pod connects to one or more plurality of pods through a data communication means. The individual pods further include: pod processor means, digital to analog converter means, analog to digital converting means, virtual microphone means, pod echo cancellation means, and microphone gating means. The disclosed method further includes providing a base unit that uses data communication means and base controller means. The disclosed method further includes the computed values of the pod gating means being distributed to other pods to gate the pods on and or off.
US07916842B2	Systems and methods for providing voicemail services including caller identification A method for providing voicemail services includes receiving a voicemail message from a calling party and intended for a called party. The method further includes identifying a name associated with the calling party and storing the name associated with the calling party with the voicemail message.
US07916841B2	Method and apparatus for joint detection A joint detection system and associated methods are provided. The joint detection system is configured to perform joint detection of received signals and includes a joint detector accelerator and a programmable digital signal processor (DSP). The joint detector accelerator is configured to perform front-end processing of first data inputted to the joint detector accelerator and output second data resulting from the front-end processing. The joint detector accelerator is further configured to perform back-end processing using at least third data inputted to the joint detector accelerator. The programmable DSP is coupled to the joint detector accelerator, and the programmable DSP is programmed to perform at least one intermediate processing operation using the second data outputted by the joint detector accelerator. The programmable DSP is further programmed to output the third data resulting from the intermediate processing operation to the joint detector accelerator.
US07916834B2	Small spot X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analyzer A hand-held, self-contained x-ray fluorescence (XRF) analyzer produces a small x-ray spot on a sample to interrogate the elemental composition of a sample region of millimeter-size characteristic dimension. The analyzer includes a collimator for aiming an x-ray beam toward a desired location on the sample and for determining the size of the spot produced on the sample. The analyzer may include a digital camera oriented toward the portion of the sample that is, or would be, interrogated by the x-ray spot to facilitate aiming the analyzer. The analyzer may generate a reticule in a displayed image to indicate the portion of the sample that is, or would be, illuminated by the x-ray beam. The analyzer may automatically annotate the image of the sample with text or graphics that contain information about the analyzed sample. The image may be stored in the hand -held analyzer or provided for external storage or display.
US07916829B2	Computed tomography method The invention relates to a computed tomography method. The airgap associated with a projection direction is determined by determining, in the projection images, edge pixels which map object edges on a detector. By back-projecting the edge pixels in an object image space it is possible to determine an envelope polygon for an outline contour of the examination object. The width of the airgap associated with a specific projection direction can then be determined on the basis of the envelope polygon. Exact knowledge of the current airgap serves to improve the scattered radiation correction.
US07916822B2	Method and apparatus for reducing latency in a clock and data recovery (CDR) circuit Disclosed is a system and method for a clock and data recovery (CDR) circuit. A phase selection circuit (PSC) generates a signal comprising frequency and phase. A voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) connected to the PSC generates a clock signal. The clock signal controls the frequency of the signal. The CDR circuit also includes a phase adjustment signal generator connected to the PSC for generating a phase adjustment signal. The phase adjustment signal controls the phase of the signal.
US07916821B2	Method and apparatus for output data synchronization with system clock in DDR A method and apparatus are provided for substantially reducing or eliminating the timing skew caused by delay elements in a delay locked loop. A method and apparatus are disclosed wherein a rising edge of a local timing signal is established and phase-locked to a rising edge of a system clock signal by delaying the system clock signal. A falling edge of the local timing signal is established and phase-locked to a falling edge of the system clock signal by further delaying only a portion of a signal representative of the delayed clock signal. By separately delaying different portions of the system clock signal and using the separately delayed portions to establish a local timing signal, a local timing signal may be established which is compensated for the varied effects of delay elements in a delay locked loop.
US07916813B2	Receiver device A frequency converter converts a high frequency signal transmitted in a frequency shift keying scheme into an intermediate frequency signal having a predetermined frequency, to output the intermediate frequency signal therefrom. An amplitude limiter limits an amplitude of an output signal from the frequency converter for output. An orthogonal demodulator includes: a first signal generator which generates a pair of first local oscillation signals of which frequencies are k multiple of the predetermined frequency and of which phases are orthogonal to each other, k being an odd integer equal to or greater than 3. I-side and Q-side mixers each mix an output signal from the amplitude limiter and each of the pair of first local oscillation signals to output a mixed signal therefrom. The orthogonal demodulator generates a demodulation signal based on output signals from the I-side and Q-side mixers.
US07916802B2	Multiuser allocation method for maximizing transmission capacity Disclosed is a method and computer-readable medium for bit and power allocation for modems sharing a common multi-carrier binder, including Discrete Multi-Tone (DMT) based Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) modems. In one preferred embodiment, the method includes the steps of initializing a modem by calculating loop-to-loop channel transfer functions and noise power spectral densities (PSDs) at a corresponding receiver, and taking into account cross-talk between loops in the process of allocation so as to maximize total data rates within the binder.
US07916798B2	Automatic gain control for frequency-hopped OFDM An automatic gain control method and system for use in signal processing of OFDM symbols at a receiver. Two stages of coarse and fine automatic gain control are implemented that adjust different gains in an analog RF processing stage of the receiver. Gain of a low noise amplifier and a mixer are adjusted during a first and coarse automatic gain control stage based on feedback from a digital baseband stage. During a subsequent fine gain control period, the gain of a programmable gain amplifier is adjusted separately for each frequency band used by the OFDM symbols based on a histogram bin that counts the number of output samples of an analog to digital converter whose magnitude falls within certain ranges. Coarse and fine gains are updated after each OFDM symbol.
US07916795B2	Method and system for vertical filtering using window descriptors Herein described is a method and system of vertically filtering a graphics image such that an enhanced image is provided to a display. Filtering of the graphics image may be accomplished by using one or more window descriptors. The method may be implemented by computing a weighted average of one or more pixel intensities. The system may comprise a memory, a processor, and a graphics engine. The graphics engine may comprise a graphics blender. The graphics blender may comprise one or more multipliers and one or more adders. The processor may execute software resident in the memory, such that the one or more window descriptors may be used to compute the weighted average.
US07916791B2	Method and system for non-linear motion estimation A method and system for extrapolating and interpolating a visual signal including determining a first motion vector between a first pixel position in a first image to a second pixel position in a second image, determining a second motion vector between the second pixel position in the second image and a third pixel position in a third image, determining a third motion vector between one of the first pixel position in the first image and the second pixel position in the second image, and the second pixel position in the second image and the third pixel position in the third image using a non-linear model, determining a position of the fourth pixel in a fourth image based upon the third motion vector.
US07916787B2	Method of processing a current field macroblock In one embodiment, the method includes determining reference picture index numbers in a reference picture list. The reference picture index numbers increase for reference pictures having a decreasing display order with respect to a picture including the macroblock. The reference picture index numbers increase for reference pictures having an increasing display order with respect to the picture including the macroblock. The reference picture index numbers of the reference pictures having a decreasing display order are less than the reference picture index numbers of the reference pictures having an increasing display order. A field reference picture index associated with the current field macroblock is obtained , and a frame reference picture index is determined based on the field reference picture index. The frame reference picture index is based on the field reference picture index divided by 2. The method further includes selecting a frame reference picture based on the frame reference picture index and the reference picture index number, selecting a field reference picture based on the selected frame reference picture and the field reference picture index, and decoding the current macroblock based on the motion vector information and the selected field reference picture.
US07916785B2	Image processing apparatus and method This invention provides a coding method and apparatus capable of increasing the coding efficiency. According to this invention, an image processing apparatus which performs predictive coding using image data of a different frame as a reference picture includes a prediction unit which performs motion compensated prediction for each reference picture in at least one reference list formed from a set of reference pictures for prediction, a reference list update unit which updates the reference list by adding or deleting the reference picture, a reference counter unit which measures, for each reference picture, a count at which the reference picture is used for motion compensation predictive coding, and an update picture determination unit which determines a reference picture to be updated in the reference list by using the measurement result of the reference counter unit.
US07916775B2	Encoding uplink acknowledgments to downlink transmissions A portable device, such as a mobile terminal or user equipment, for encoding uplink acknowledgments to downlink transmissions. The portable device includes a receiver configured to receive a plurality of data blocks, such that each of the data blocks include an associated cyclic redundancy check (CRC), and a processor configured to determine received status for each of the data blocks by checking the CRC of each of the data blocks. The portable device further includes a transmitter for transmitting a response sequence which indicates the received status of all of the data blocks.
US07916770B2	Method of generating spreading codes, CDMA transmission apparatus, and CDMA reception apparatus ej(2nπ/N) calculating section 101 generates a bth chip C(a,b) of an ath spreading code based on C(a,b)=ej(2nπ/N) where e is a base of natural logarithm and N is a length of the spreading code (i.e. spreading code length). It is assumed in the above equation that n=a×b, a=0˜N−1, and b=0˜N−1. It is thereby possible to generate orthogonal spreading codes with arbitrary lengths.
US07916764B2	Output power control for harmonic-generating laser In harmonic-generating laser apparatus, plane-polarized fundamental radiation of a laser is converted to harmonic radiation by an optically nonlinear crystal. The power of harmonic radiation generated by the apparatus is selectively varied by selectively rotating the plane of polarization of fundamental radiation entering the optically nonlinear crystal.
US07916763B2	Current driven frequency-stepped radiation source and methods thereof A wavelength tunable system including: a laser having a lasing cavity and an external cavity; a frequency-adjuster in the external cavity; and an adjustable current source to adjust the laser diode current, and a method of use as defined herein.
US07916760B2	Packet sending apparatus and packet transmission system A packet sending apparatus that improves packet transmission quality by preventing loss of packet information, while minimizing a reduction in transmission rate. A clock frequency deviation correction calculation section calculates a valid packet sending period in which valid packets packet information of which is not lost due to clock frequency deviation between the packet sending apparatus and a packet receiving apparatus are included and the number of valid packets included in the valid packet sending period. A packet sending section exercises priority control by determining whether a packet to be sent is a priority packet or a non-priority packet and by sending a priority packet in preference to a non-priority packet, and performs a packet sending process on a packet to be corrected other than the valid packets completely included in the valid packet sending period at the time of correcting the clock frequency deviation by inserting a packet gap corresponding to a sending stop period for which packet sending is stopped to prevent loss of packet information.
US07916751B2	Method and apparatus for efficient operation of an enhanced dedicated channel A method and apparatus for efficient operation of an enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH) are disclosed. A physical layer processing includes computation of various control parameters followed by actual processing of the data to be transmitted. In accordance with the present invention, the computation of the control parameters is performed asynchronously from the associated data operation. A medium access control (MAC) layer provides information needed for computation of the control parameters to the physical layer as early as possible, while the data is being processed in parallel. The provided data includes a hybrid automatic repeat request (H-ARQ) profile, a transport block size, power offset, or the like. By sending this data to the physical layer before MAC-e processing is complete, the latency constraint can be significantly relaxed.
US07916748B2	Method and system for initialization configuration of managed device A method for initialization configuration of a managed device, includes: predefining and storing initial configuration information of the managed device; detecting a message requesting for IP address assignment broadcasted from the managed device; searching in the initial configuration information for the message requesting for IP address assignment, to obtain an IP address of a Device Management (DM) interface of the managed device; sending the IP address to the managed device; upon determining that the managed device has configured its IP address as the IP address, sending an initial configuration command to the managed device; and performing automatically the initialization configuration of the managed device in accordance with the initial configuration information. A system for initialization configuration of a managed device is also provided.
US07916747B2	Redundant radio frequency network having a roaming terminal communication protocol Disclosed herein is a redundant network and communication protocol at least including host computers, RF base stations, and roaming terminals. The network may utilize a polling communication protocol such that under heavy traffic conditions, a roaming terminal wishing to initiate communication may be required to wait for at least a predetermined period and determine whether the channel is available for communication. When a hidden terminal is communicating, the roaming terminal may conclude that the communication is taking place upon receiving a polling frame directed to the hidden terminal from the normally silent base station. Inherent redundancy techniques may be used with a spanning tree approach for determining the most efficient pathways from a source to a destination and ensuring that the network adapts to spatial changes or breakdowns within the network.
US07916746B2	Media access control protocol with priority and contention-free intervals An access contention scheme is described for use by a station in a network of stations. Access contention by a station having a frame to be transmitted includes detecting contention control information for a contention period and determining from the contention control information if the station is permitted to contend for access to a transmission medium to which the stations are connected during the contention period. When a contention control indicator is detected for a contention period, a station having a frame to transmit determines from the contention control indicator if it is permitted to contend for access to the transmission medium during the contention period.
US07916745B2	Apparatus and method for automatic repeat request in multi input multi output system An apparatus and method for Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ) in a Multi Input Multi Output (MIMO) system. The method includes computing weights of erroneous packets and weights of transmitting antennas by using channel information; sorting the weights of the erroneous packets in descending order; sorting the weights of the transmitting antennas in ascending order; and assigning the transmitting antennas to the erroneous packets according to sorting results.
US07916738B2	Method for creating a dynamic address table for a switching node in a data network and a method for transmitting a data message The invention relates to a switching node comprising a dynamic address table in a data network, in addition to a method for creating a dynamic address table of this type for a switching node. The method comprises the following steps: receipt of a first data message with a source address at a port of the switching node; entry of the source address, details of the port and a counter initial value in a line of the address table that is assigned to the source address as the target address, whereby the current counter value indicates the validity of the entry and the current counter value is modified, if a second data message with the source address as the target address is received and the entry is valid.
US07916720B2	Slave network interface circuit for improving parallelism of on-chip network and system thereof There is provided a slave network interface circuit for improving the parallelism of an On-Chip network, including: a MUX for selecting one of a Write Address inputted from the On-Chip network and a Read Address to read data from a slave module, which is inputted from a slave network interface (SNI) controller, in response to the control of the SNI controller and inputs the selected address to the slave module; and the SNI controller for controlling writing and reading data at the slave module and generating a Read Address to store data read from the slave module and to transfer to the On-Chip network.
US07916716B1	System and method for providing local services within a consolidated network architecture A system and method for a next generation network service infrastructure to support VoIP services is disclosed. The services are partitioned between locally based services and nationally based services. Locally based services are handled in call processing systems in regional/local service centers based at the edge of the system. Nationally based services are handled by national service centers.
US07916714B2	Method of performing cell search in wireless communication system A method of performing cell search includes receiving a primary synchronization signal (PSS) comprising a primary synchronization code (PSC), and receiving a secondary synchronization signal (SSS) comprising a first secondary synchronization code (SSC) and a second SSC. The first SSC and the second SSC are respectively scrambled by using a first scrambling code and a second scrambling code, and the first scrambling code and the second scrambling code are associated with the PSC. Detection performance on synchronization signals can be improved, and cell search can be performed more reliably.
US07916701B1	Virtual addressing to support wireless access to data networks In a telephony communication system, a mobile device requests access to packet-based networks using network access requests that identify access point names associated with these networks. The mobile devices and gateways providing access to the networks support the use of virtual access point names within network access requests. These virtual access point names need not correspond to any existing networks. Rather, network access requests incorporating virtual access point names indicate actually requested access point names within other fields of the network access requests.
US07916696B2	Traffic handover control device and method of multi-mode mobile communication terminal Provided is a handover control device and method of a multi-mode mobile communication terminal. The device includes a first processing module; a second processing module connected in its inter-chip path with the first processing module; and an application processor for controlling the first processing module to transmit an IMSI (international mobile subscriber identity) to the second processing module when a traffic handover event from a first mode to a second mode occurs.
US07916695B2	Smart buffering for policy enforcement The present invention discloses a method for smart buffering for a policy resolution and policy enforcement system. The invention can be applied to a communication system with one or several available communication network(s). The trigger events and policy actions form input and output buffers to be processed in the invention. Causal relationships between the trigger events and policy actions are stored. Priorities can be set to the trigger events and policy actions. Sorting is made according to priorities. The buffer data can be scheduled, in other words delayed, in order to rationalize the policy management. The buffer data is combined if several trigger events affect the same target or quantity. The buffer data is filtered in the last step in order to simplify chained trigger events. The trigger events of filtered input buffer are sent to the policy resolution mechanism and the policy actions of filtered output buffer are sent to the policy action enforcement.
US07916693B2	System and method for selecting spectrum A system and method comprise a spectrum selector, an unlicensed transceiver, and a licensed transceiver. The spectrum selector determines whether communications will be transmitted over unlicensed spectrum or licensed spectrum. Based upon the determination, the spectrum selector transmits the communications to the unlicensed transceiver or the licensed transceiver. In addition, the spectrum selector may transmit a first portion of the communications to die unlicensed transceiver and a second portion of the communications to the licensed transceiver. On the receiving side, the spectrum selector monitors the unlicensed transceiver and the licensed transceiver, receives the communications from the licensed transceiver and/or the unlicensed transceiver, and transmits the communications to an access device. The unlicensed transceiver transmits and/or receives communications over unlicensed spectrum. The licensed transceiver transmits and/or receives communications over licensed spectrum.
US07916691B2	Arrangement and method relating to service provisioning control The present invention relates to an arrangement, in a communication network system supporting communication of packet data. It comprises/has access to mobile subscriber data and comprises means for handling subscriber identity information. It further comprises service level control means (61,62;6) for allocating service level profiles, e.g. QoS profiles, to subscribers. Said services level control means (61,62;6) comprises profile configuration means, for defining network service level profiles (7) and linking subscriber identity information entities to said network service profiles defining the highest allowed service levels at least for a number of different parameters at least for groups of subscribers identified by said subscriber identity information entities. It optionally comprises first validation means (8A) for validating the service level (profiles) requested by subscribers against operator defined subscriber profiles for said subscribers, and at least second validation means (8B) for validating (validated) subscriber profiles against corresponding defined network service profiles for the requesting subscribers as given by the subscriber identity information entities, such that the resource and/or service level profile allocated to a requesting subscriber (11;1) can be controlled.
US07916689B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving information using random access procedure in mobile communication system Disclosed is a method and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving additional information through a random access procedure by mapping at least one additional information element to random access codes to be used in a random access procedure between a UE and an ENB in a mobile communication system. According to the method, a random access code selected based on additional information to be transmitted and a triggering cause of the random access procedure is transmitted from the UE to the ENB. Each random access code is differently mapped to at least one additional information element according to a class of a cause for which a corresponding random access procedure is triggered, and the additional information elements are mapped to different ranges of random access codes according to the classes of the cause.
US07916685B2	Methods, systems, and computer program products for supporting database access in an internet protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS) network environment Methods, systems, and computer program products for supporting database access in an Internet protocol (IP) multimedia subsystem (IMS) network environment are disclosed. At least one call state control function (CSCF) entity generates subscriber-related queries according to an abstracted profile (AP) protocol. At an abstracted profile server (APS), a CSCF-generated, subscriber-related query is received, subscriber information is gathered related to the CSCF-generated, subscriber-related query from at least one subscriber information database using a native protocol of the subscriber information database, a reply message for the CSCF-generated, subscriber-related query is generated based on the gathered subscriber information and the reply message is forwarded to a respective CSCF that generated the CSCF-generated subscriber-related query, the reply message being forwarded according to the AP protocol.
US07916675B2	Method and system for providing interim discontinuous reception/transmission A method, terminal device, network element, system and computer program product for controlling discontinuous reception or transmission at a terminal device of a communication network are disclosed. A regular discontinuous reception or transmission cycle of a regular discontinuous reception or transmission scheme is set by using a first control layer, and in addition thereto a shorter temporary discontinuous reception or transmission cycle of an interim discontinuous reception or transmission scheme can be set by using a second control layer. This arrangement provides long discontinuous reception or transmission cycles for power consumption improvements while at the same time ensuring that the network can easily and flexibly shorten these cycles for increased data throughput, if needed.
US07916672B2	RF processor having internal calibration mode The present invention pertains to a method of calibrating reception properties of a radio frequency (RF) processor. The application describes two embodiments of the invention representing calibration of the properties using an auxiliary transmitter to generate a calibration signal internal to the RF processor.
US07916669B2	Method and system for STP-aware subscriber management A method and system for STP-aware subscriber management is disclosed for managing redundant access ports. The STP-aware system includes Access Loop Pairs which provide continuity of subscriber management information in the event of an access port failure. The STP-aware subscriber management system is particularly useful for overcoming the requirements for extra ports within Link Access Group configured access networks known in the art.
US07916668B2	Spanning tree protocol with burst avoidance An apparatus and method for controlling bridge protocol data unit bursts is disclosed. The invention in the preferred embodiment is a switching device with a port enabled with a link management protocol and a burst control state machine. The burst control state machine is adapted to receive BPDUs and, under certain conditions, delay responding with its own BPDU falsely advertising itself as the new root bridge. The delay is preferably long enough to enable another bridge to identity the true root bridge. The delay, e.g., a burst control delay, is preferably equal to or less than a Hello time timer value generally defined to be 2 seconds in a Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol standard, for example.
US07916662B2	Method and apparatus for determining data center resource availability using multiple time domain segments A method, an apparatus, and computer instructions are provided for determining data center resource availability using multiple time domain segments. A reservation class is provided that includes a start time, duration and the number of units required. A scheduled resource class is provided with an availability and an available method. The availability method creates a set of segments for a list of reservations and iterates each segment to determine whether there are enough resources for the required units. The availability method then combines all adjacent reservations and removes reservations that are too short for the duration. The available method provides a way for user to determine if resources are available at and for a given time. A composite resource class is also provided for more than one scheduled resource with an availability and available method.
US07916654B2	Communication terminal and method used therein A communication terminal which modulates and demodulates a packet for transmission and reception based on a communication parameter for modulation and demodulation determined according to a communication-medium characteristic. The communication terminal includes: an extracting unit which extracts, during every occurrence of a predetermined cycle, information indicative of either one of transmission efficiency and reception quality of the packet as an information element; a calculating unit which calculates a difference between a first information element extracted by the extracting unit and a second information element previously extracted by the extracting unit; and detecting-scheme performance determining unit which determines, based on the difference between the first information element and the second information element whether a scheme of detecting the communication-medium characteristic is to be performed.
US07916653B2	Measurement of round-trip delay over a network In one embodiment, a first audio waveform is produced at a first side of a network connection and then encoded and sent by a first endpoint device to a second endpoint device at a second side of the network connection. A second audio waveform is then detected after being played out by the first endpoint device, the second audio waveform having been produced at the second side of the network connection in response to the second endpoint device playing out the first audio waveform. A round-trip delay is then calculating based on a time period measured from output of the first audio waveform to detection of the second audio waveform. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure.
US07916644B2	Dynamic allocation of upstream channel resources among multiple RF domains In one embodiment, an “upstream resource pool” may be defined, such that certain upstream resources may be utilized, or not, depending on current traffic demands. Such a pool may include a specified number of available upstream channels. A universe of “eligible” RF domains may be associated with the pool. To provide additional capacity when traffic demands warrant it, an eligible RF domain may be enabled to request one or more upstream channels from the pool. A channel may be requested for a specified duration, or for an unspecified period of time.
US07916641B2	System and process for packet delineation An error management system and process can be used to identify an erroneous data packet in a data stream. In response to identifying the erroneous data packet, a subsequent valid data packet is located in the data stream. In one embodiment, a plurality of candidate locations of header checksum windows are searched and checked for a valid checksum. Multiple integrity checks of multiple header checksums can be used to reduce the probability of a false positive integrity check. In another embodiment, one or more information data fields can used for determining packet integrity by determining if the fields contain valid information bits.
US07916639B2	Method for data-flow quality control, a related receiver and a related transmitter The present invention relates to a method for data-flow quality control in a Digital Subscriber Line communications system comprising a transmitter, a receiver, and a Digital Subscriber Line intercoupling the transmitter and the receiver. The transmitter sends a data-flow to the receiver, where the data-flow is modulated onto data-carriers according to a bit allocation indicative for the number of bits to be modulated on each data-carrier. The method comprises the steps of the receiver measuring the data-flow quality and subsequently the receiver instructs the transmitter to decrease the bit allocation with a same amount for a plurality of data-carriers in case the data-flow quality is unsatisfactorily low. Then the transmitter decreases the bit allocation accordingly.
US07916620B2	Multi-user data transmission/reception system and mode determination method A multi-user data transmission/reception system includes at least one mobile station to receive a pilot signal, select a preferred mode, a preceding matrix index, a beamforming vector index, and a quantized capacity level using the pilot signal, and transmit the preferred mode, the precoding matrix index, the beamforming vector index, and the quantized capacity level; and a base station to transmit the pilot signal to the at least one mobile station, receive the preferred mode, the precoding matrix index, the beamforming vector index, and the quantized capacity level from the at least one mobile station, and determine an optimal mode, an optimal precoding matrix, and an optimal beamforming vector using a lookup table storing an expected capacity for each capacity quantization interval.
US07916614B2	Recording member cutting device and recording member cutting processing apparatus A recording member cutting device for cutting a continuous recording material along a side of a plurality of cutting areas defined in the continuous recording material includes a nick cutting mechanism, and an area cutting mechanism. The nick cutting mechanism includes a first cutting unit configured to form a hole-shaped nick for each cutting area. Each nick is located outside the plurality of the cutting areas, on a downstream side of the corresponding cutting area in the conveying direction and on a line extending along one side of the corresponding cutting area. The one side is along the conveying direction. The area cutting mechanism includes a second cutting unit configured to insert into the nick. The second cutting unit cuts, when the nick has been formed, the continuous recording material along the one side from a position of the nick.
US07916608B2	Recording apparatus A recording apparatus includes a recording/reproducing unit to record/reproduce information data on/from each of a plurality of first recording media; an outputting unit to output the information data reproduced from the first recording media to a recording device in order to record the information data recorded on the first recording media on a second recording medium by the recording device; an obtaining unit to obtain sizes of respective pieces of the information data recorded on the first recording media; a generating unit to generate association information including identification information to identify the first recording media associated with each other and order information indicating order of the first recording media; and a determination unit configured to determine addresses used to record the respective pieces of the information data recorded on the first recording media on the second recording medium based on the association information and the obtained data sizes.
US07916605B2	Joint DC minimization and bit detection The present techniques provide systems and methods for decoding a data signal with a control bit to improve bit estimation. The techniques in one embodiment involve using decoding algorithms to estimate the a posteriori state probabilities and the a posteriori transition probabilities of the data encoding, and estimating bit state probabilities. The techniques further involve using a control bit in the bit stream and comparing the estimation of the control bit state in the segment of the bit stream with a test control bit determined based on an average of bit states from the encoded segment of the bit stream. If the estimation of the control bit and the test control bit are not equal, the state of the bit estimate with the lowest confidence probability will be changed.
US07916597B2	Method for writing optical disc An optical disk writing method including determining a writing scheme for recording information on the optical disc based on received tracking error signals. The method also includes moving an optical pickup across tracks of the optical disc while the optical pickup emits a laser beam, counting a number of the tracking error signal, and determining a storage capacity of the optical disc based on the counted number of tracking error signals.
US07916584B2	Recording-and-reproducing apparatus and content-managing method A recording-and-reproducing apparatus for managing content data recorded on a removable recording medium includes: a device configured to acquire reproduction information required for reproducing the content data; a device configured to generate a first management file for individually managing the content data; a device configured to register control information for the content data in a second management file collectively managing the content data. Further, the apparatus includes a device configured to read out the control information in the second management file recorded on the recording medium; a memory in which the control information of the second management file read out by the read-out device is expanded; a device configured to compare the control information in the second management file expanded in the memory and the content data recorded on the recording medium; and a device configured to update the control information in the second management file expanded in the memory.
US07916583B2	Optical disk reproducing device having an intermittent reproducing unit An optical disk device includes an intermittent reproducing unit to perform an intermittent reproducing process to reproduce data recorded on an optical disk in a forward or reverse direction and at specific time intervals, each removing predetermined amount of data, an intermittent reproduction start instruction unit, upon receiving an instruction to start the intermittent reproducing process, to designate an intermittent reproduction start position and an intermittent reproducing direction, and to issue an instruction, and a storage unit to store the intermittent reproduction start position as information concerning a recording position for data skipped and unreproduced during a current intermittent reproducing process, when the instruction is issued. When an instruction is received to restart the intermittent reproducing process, the intermittent reproduction start instruction unit employs the information to start the intermittent reproducing process beginning at a head of data skipped and unreproduced during a preceding intermittent reproducing process.
US07916582B2	Optical recording medium, recording/reproducing apparatus and method, initialization method, and reinitialization method A recording/reproducing apparatus includes a writing/reading unit writing data to or reading data from an information recording medium having an access control area in which access control data is recorded, the access control data having common information set to allow the recording/reproducing apparatus that cannot recognize a predetermined function adapted to the information recording medium to control access to the information recording medium; and a control unit controlling the writing/reading unit to record access control data regarding a function recognizable by the recording/reproducing apparatus in the access control area when the information recording medium is initialized or reinitialized.
US07916580B2	Maintaining date and time with time zone rule changes A method and system for maintaining date and time information correctly across rule changes for time zones is provided. A time maintenance system provides rules for converting dates and times between various time zones and a common time zone. When the time maintenance system receives a date and time in a designated time zone, it converts the date and time to a date and time in the common time zone based on a provided rule. The time maintenance system then stores the converted date and time along with an identification of the rule used to convert the date and time to the common time zone. The time maintenance system may then receive an indication of an overriding rule that overrides an existing rule for converting a date and time between the designated time zone and the current time zone. The time maintenance system then updates the stored date and time when the rule has been overridden in such a way as to indicate that the original date and time is no longer correct and to indicate the new rule.
US07916568B2	Semiconductor memory device changing refresh interval depending on temperature A semiconductor memory device includes a memory core circuit having memory cells for storing data, a circuit configured to refresh the memory core circuit at a refresh interval, a temperature detecting unit configured to detect temperature, and a control circuit configured to shorten the refresh interval immediately in response to detection of a predetermined temperature rise by the temperature detecting unit and to elongate the refresh interval after refreshing every one of the memory cells at least once in response to detection of a temperature drop by the temperature detecting unit.
US07916558B2	Semiconductor memory device and method for reading/writing data thereof A semiconductor memory device is capable of writing data in phase with external data to a memory cell regardless of which memory cell the data is written to. The semiconductor memory device includes a scrambler, a write selector and a read selector. The scrambler is configured to output a control signal activated when an address for accessing a memory cell of a complementary bit line is inputted. The write selector is configured to selectively transmit data of a write path in response to the control signal. The read selector is configured to selectively transmit data of a read path in response to the control signal.
US07916552B2	Tracking cells for a memory system Tracking cells are used in a memory system to improve the read process. The tracking cells can provide an indication of the quality of the data and can be used as part of a data recovery operation if there is an error. The tracking cells provide a means to adjust the read parameters to optimum levels in order to reflect the current conditions of the memory system. Additionally, some memory systems that use multi-state memory cells will apply rotation data schemes to minimize wear. The rotation scheme can be encoded in the tracking cells based on the states of multiple tracking cells, which is decoded upon reading.
US07916550B2	Method and apparatus for operating nonvolatile memory with floating voltage at one of the source and drain regions Methods and apparatuses are discussed which operate a nonvolatile memory cell or at least one cell in an array of such cells, such that a drain region or a source region is floating while adding charge to the charge storage structure.
US07916536B2	Programming based on controller performance requirements Methods and solid state drives are disclosed, including a solid state drive that is adapted to receive and transmit analog data signals representative of bit patterns of three or more levels (such as to facilitate increases in data transfer rates relative to devices communicating data signals indicative of individual bits). Programming of the solid state drive, having an array of non-volatile memory cells, might include adjusting the level of each memory cell being programmed in response to a desired performance level of a controller circuit.
US07916535B2	Data encoding approach for implementing robust non-volatile memories Data encoding system and method for implementing robust non-volatile memories. A data bit is stored using two memory cells. The data bit is represented by setting a voltage level of a first memory cell to a first voltage level and setting a voltage level of a second memory cell to a second voltage level. In one embodiment, the first voltage level and the second voltage level are of opposite polarity. In one embodiment, to store a data bit having the value “0,” the first memory cell is set to a first voltage level and the second memory cell is set to a second voltage level of opposite polarity to the first voltage level, and to store a data bit having the value “1,” the first memory cell is set to a third voltage level and the second memory cell is set to a fourth voltage level of opposite polarity to the third voltage level. In an illustrative embodiment, the first voltage level is of substantially equal magnitude, and of opposite polarity, to the second voltage level, the third voltage level is of substantially equal magnitude, and of opposite polarity, to the fourth voltage level, the first voltage level is substantially equal to the fourth voltage level, and the second voltage level is substantially equal to the third voltage level. In one embodiment, the data stored according to the present invention is read out by comparing the relative voltages of the first and second memory cells with a differential sense amplifier.
US07916527B2	Read reference circuit for a sense amplifier within a chalcogenide memory device A read reference circuit for a sense amplifier within a chalcogenide memory device is disclosed. The read reference circuit provides a reference voltage level to the sense amplifier for distinguishing between a logical “0” state and a logical “1” state within a chalcogenide memory cell. In conjunction with a precharge circuit, the read reference circuit generates a selectable read reference current to the sense amplifier in order to detect the logical state of the chalcogenide memory cell. The precharge circuit precharges the bitlines of the chalcogenide memory cell before the sense amplifier detects the logical state of the chalcogenide memory cell.
US07916526B2	Protection register for a phase-change memory A memory device including a memory array comprising a set of phase change memory cells configured to store data. The memory device further includes a protection register including a set of protection cells configured to store protection information of the memory cells. The protection cells of the protection register are memory cells of the memory array.
US07916524B2	Program method with locally optimized write parameters A method of addressing a memory cell includes applying a plurality of pulses to the memory cell, wherein a subsequent pulse has an amplitude greater than an initial pulse. In addition, a memory includes a memory cell and a control circuit configured to address the memory cell by applying a plurality of pulses to the memory cell, wherein a subsequent pulse has an amplitude greater than an initial pulse.
US07916511B2	Semiconductor memory device including plurality of memory chips A semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of memory chips each including a chip identification (ID) generation circuit. The chip ID generation circuits of the respective memory chips are operatively connected together in a cascade configuration, and the chip ID generation circuits are activated in response to application of a power supply voltage the memory device to sequentially generate respective chip ID numbers of the plurality of device chips
US07916503B2	DC-DC converter, power supply voltage supplying method, and power supply voltage supplying system According to one aspect of the invention, a DC-DC converter including a soft-start function of a soft start in response to a soft-start signal, comprises: a detection circuit that detects whether the soft-start signal is active at an end of a soft-start operation; and an output voltage control circuit that controls an output voltage based on detection result of the detection circuit.
US07916499B2	Apparatus for holding printed circuit boards In one embodiment, a holder for holding printed circuit boards includes a base plate with a plurality of holding unit formed thereon. Each of the holding units includes a spring member, a securing member, and a blocking structure. The spring member includes a first end and a second end. The first end is attached to the base plate. The securing member is slideably mounted on the base plate. The securing member includes a connecting end and a securing end. The connecting end is connected with the second end of the spring member. The blocking structure is located on the base plate. The spring member is configured for pressing the securing member to move toward the blocking structure such that a printed circuit board is retainable between the securing end of the securing member and the blocking structure on the base plate. The holder is capable of holding printed circuit boards in batches.
US07916498B2	Communication device A communication device includes a first printed circuit board (PCB), a second PCB disposed parallel to the first PCB, a first shielding cage and a second shielding cage. The first and second shielding cages are fixed to the first and second PCBs and define at lease one first and second receiving space to receive at least one transceiver modules, respectively. The first and second shielding cages include at least one first and second retaining tabs, respectively. Each of the transceiver modules received in the first and second shielding cages includes a release mechanism configured with a release portion and a trigger. The release portions can match one corresponding first and second retaining tabs to release the corresponding transceiver module. The triggers are disposed on one side of the transceiver modules close to the first and the second PCBs.
US07916496B2	Printed circuit board and electronic apparatus having printed circuit board According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a printed circuit board including: a semiconductor package including a parallelepiped body, and solder balls provided on a face of the parallelepiped body; a printed wiring board including a mounting face, the mounting face configured to mount the plurality of solder balls; a first bonding member including a first glass transition temperature, the first bonding member disposed around the parallelepiped body and configured to bond the semiconductor package and the printed wiring board; an electronic component mounted on the mounting face on an opposite side to the semiconductor package with respect to the first bonding member; and a second bonding member including a second glass transition temperature that is higher than the first glass transition temperature, the second bonding member disposed onto the mounting face to cover the electronic component.
US07916495B2	Universal solder pad A universal solder pad is used with a plurality of SMD components having different sizes. Each SMD component includes a first conductive part and a second conductive part. The universal solder pad includes a first pad unit and a second pad unit. The first and second pad units are electrically connected to the first and second conductive parts of the SMD component, respectively. Each of the first and second pad units includes a main portion and a first extension portion. The first extension portion is extended from a first sidewall of the main portion and includes a first border, a second border and a third border. The second border and the third border of the first extension portion are parallel with each other for facilitating alignment of the first and second conductive parts of the SMD component with respect to the first pad unit and the second pad unit.
US07916493B2	Power semiconductor module A power semiconductor module has a controllable semiconductor chip (50), a first printed circuit board (1), a second printed circuit board (2), and also has one or a plurality of passive components (13, 18). The first printed circuit board (1) may have a conductor track structure (12, 13, 14), and the second printed circuit board (2) may have a conductor track structure (21, 22, 23, 24). Furthermore, an opening (19) in which the semiconductor chip (50) is arranged can be provided in the first printed circuit board (1). Furthermore, at least one passive component (13, 18) can be arranged on the first printed circuit board (1) or on the second printed circuit board (2).
US07916492B1	Multilayered printed circuit board The present invention is to provide a multilayered printed circuit board free from cracks attributed to thermal expansion difference between a solder resist layer and another part and a multilayered printed circuit board of the present invention comprises a conductor circuit and a resin insulating layer serially formed on a substrate in an alternate fashion and in repetition and a solder resist layer formed as an outermost layer, and the solder resist layer contains an inorganic filler.
US07916487B2	Method and apparatus for the enhanced disaster survivability of a networked computer server An apparatus for protecting a digital electronic data processor or stored digital data from damage includes a digital data unit comprising a data storage medium, a protective housing having side, top, and bottom walls defining a closed compartment which contains the digital data unit to shield the digital data therein from environmental damage. Active and passive protection from overheating and data encryption provides further data protection. The housing has at least one access port for supplying electrical power or for information transfer to or from the data unit therein. The port is sealed to prevent the introduction of environmental substances into the housing in the event of potential damage from an environmental disaster or other cause. The invention thus makes possible the safe storage of digital information in a computer data storage system which therefore has substantially increased capacity to survive disasters such as fires, floods, earthquakes, and theft, as well as more common computer problems such as disk drive failures. The invention can employ multiple computer network data access mechanisms that store digital data, including but not limited to Microsoft Windows File Sharing, Common Internet File Systems (CIFS), Network File Systems (NFS), Novell Netware File Systems, iSCSI, Storage Area Network Protocol, and Network SQL Database Mechanism or other data processing units.
US07916486B2	Circuit board, connection structure, and apparatus A circuit board is connected to a connector including a connection port and contact portions located at upper and lower positions of the connection port. The contact portions face each other in the vertical direction, and each contact portion is connected electrically to the opposite contact portion. The circuit board includes a base substrate, a first wiring layer, and a second wiring layer. First terminals connected to the first wiring layer are provided on one principal surface of the base substrate, and second terminals connected to the second wiring layer are provided on the other principal surface. The first terminals and the second terminals come into contact with the contact portions and are arranged so as not to overlap each other in the vertical direction.
US07916481B2	Electronic board and cold plate for said board The invention relates to an electronic board that comprises: a planar projection plate (42) provided between an intake opening (70) and a discharge opening (72); and a plurality of rectilinear nozzles (86-90) extending through said plate along a projection direction, the projection direction of each nozzle defining an angle relative to a direction perpendicular to a sole (78) of the electronic component (6) to be cooled, the angle α being comprised in a range of −30 and +30°.
US07916477B2	Battery cover latch mechanism and portable electronic device using same A battery cover latch mechanism (10) used in portable electronic device (100) is described including a cover member (11), a housing member (12), a latching assembly (13), and a return member (16). The latching assembly slides between a released position and a latched position. The return member is secured to the cover member including two elastic sheets (136) elastically resisting a same side of the latching assembly. The elastic sheets connect with each other. The elastic sheet is used to return the latching assembly towards the latched position.
US07916476B2	Securing apparatus for expansion cards A securing apparatus is provided for securing an expansion card with a shielding plate to an enclosure of an electronic device. The securing apparatus includes a panel, a limiting member, a locking member, and the latch member. The limiting member is pivotably mounted to the panel to abut the shielding plate in cooperation with the panel. A first locking portion is formed on the limiting member. The locking member is pivotably attached to the limiting member and overlaps on the limiting member. A second locking portion is formed on the locking member to engage with the first locking portion. The latch member is pivotably mounted to the locking member. A hook is formed on the panel to catch the latch member, thereby securing the expansion card to the enclosure.
US07916467B2	Methods and apparatuses for docking a portable electronic device that has a planar like configuration and that operates in multiple orientations A docking system is disclosed. The docking system includes a portable electronic device capable of operating in multiple orientations including vertical and horizontal. The docking system also includes a docking station configured to mechanically accept and operatively interface with the portable electronic device in any of its multiple orientations including vertical and horizontal.
US07916464B2	Fixture mechanism A fixture mechanism is adapted to secure a computer hardware device onto a base plate, and includes a first limiting member, a second limiting member, a positioning mechanism, and an interfering member provided on the computer hardware device. The first limiting member is adapted to be secured onto the base plate, and includes an upright wall provided with a slot. The second limiting member is adapted to be disposed on the base plate, is movable relative to the first limiting member between locking and released positions, and is provided with a limiting groove that cooperates with the slot. When the second limiting member is at the released position, the slot is communicated with the limiting groove to permit free sliding movement of the interfering member along the slot. When the second limiting member is at the locking position, the slot is partly communicated with the limiting groove to thereby limit the interfering member.
US07916448B2	Methods of forming a filtering capacitor feedthrough assembly A method of forming a filtering capacitor feedthrough assembly for an implantable active medical device includes inserting a terminal pin into an aperture of a capacitor, the capacitor configured to be electrically grounded to an electrically conductive feedthrough ferrule or housing of the implantable active medical device, then disposing an electrically conductive continuous coil within the aperture between the terminal pin and the capacitor and then fixing the continuous coil to the terminal pin or the capacitor. The continuous coil includes an inner diameter defined by a plurality of coils, the terminal pin extending through the inner diameter of the continuous coil so that the plurality of coils circumferentially surround the terminal pin. The electrically conductive continuous coil mechanically secures and electrically couples the terminal pin to the capacitor.
US07916446B2	Systems and methods for immobilization with variation of output signal power Locomotion by a target is inhibited by passing a current through the target according to various aspects of the present invention. For instance, a circuit having a processor and a signal generator controlled by the processor to provide the current may perform a method that includes: (a) providing the current for a first duration to interfere with the target's voluntary use of its skeletal muscles as a consequence of contractions of the muscles responsive to the current, the current for the first duration comprising a first series of pulses; and (b) providing the current for a second duration sufficient to cause, in the response to the current, contractions of skeletal muscles of the target or pain in the target, the current for the second duration comprising a second series of pulses. The first series of pulses delivers a first power through the target and the second series of pulses delivers a second power through the target less than the first power.
US07916445B2	Ion generating apparatus An ion generating apparatus includes an ion generating element having a positive ion discharger for generating positive ions, and a negative ion discharger for generating negative ions. The positive ion discharger and the negative ion discharger are arranged separately from and independently of each other on a base member with a distance securing insulation between the positive and negative dischargers. The ion generating apparatus also includes a blower for releasing the ions generated by the positive and negative ion dischargers into air and a voltage application circuit. The blower blows wind in a direction parallel to a surface of the base member.
US07916444B2	Arrangement for energy conditioning Circuit arrangement embodiments that use relative groupings of energy pathways that include shielding circuit arrangements that can sustain and condition electrically complementary energy confluences.
US07916440B2	Power interface circuit and electronic device using the same An electronic device includes an integrated circuit, a power interface, and an interface circuit connected between the integrated circuit and the power interface for protecting the integrated circuit from being damaged by electrostatic discharge. The interface circuit includes a current limit unit connected between the power interface and the integrated circuit for limiting an electrostatic discharge current and an electrostatic protection unit connected to a common node of the power interface and the current limit unit for clamping a voltage of the common node to a predetermined value. A related integrated circuit is also provided.
US07916439B2	Semiconductor switch arrangement and an electronic device A semiconductor switch arrangement comprises a bipolar transistor and a semiconductor power switch having an input node, an output node and a control node for allowing a current path to be formed between the input node and the output node. The bipolar transistor is coupled between the input node and the control node such that upon receiving an electro-static discharge pulse the bipolar transistor allows a current to flow from the input node to the control node upon a predetermined voltage being exceeded at the input node to allow the control node to cause a current to flow from the input node to the output node. Thus, the bipolar transistor device protects the semiconductor switch device, such as an LDMOS device, against ESD, namely protection against power surges of, say, several amperes in less than 1 usec.
US07916438B2	Residual current device A residual current device comprises a circuit (CT, 10, 12) for detecting a current imbalance in an AC supply to a load indicative of a residual current and providing a corresponding output. A relay RLA has contacts SW1 in the AC supply to the load. The relay contacts SW1 automatically close when a closing current is passed through the relay and is thereafter maintained closed so long as a holding current, less than the closing current, passes through the relay. A capacitor C1 is connected to the AC supply in parallel with the relay RLA such that, upon application of power from the AC supply, current flows to the charge storage device. An electronic switch SCR2 in series with the relay is turned on when the voltage on the capacitor exceeds the breakover voltage of a Zener diode ZD2 to allow discharge of the capacitor through the relay to provide a current exceeding the closing current, the AC supply thereafter providing a holding current for the relay at least when the supply is at a certain minimum voltage. An output from the current imbalance detecting circuit opens contacts SW3 in series with the relay to interrupt the current flow through the relay.
US07916436B2	Tunneling magnetic sensor including platinum layer and method for producing the same A tunneling magnetic sensor includes a platinum layer between a pinned magnetic layer and an insulating barrier layer. The platinum layer can probably vary the barrier height (potential height) and barrier width (potential width) of the insulating barrier layer to reduce the absolute value of VCR, thus providing higher operating stability than known tunneling magnetic sensors. In addition, the insulating barrier layer can achieve increased flatness at its bottom interface (where the insulating barrier layer starts to be formed). The tunneling magnetic sensor can therefore provide a higher rate of resistance change (ΔR/R) at low RA than known tunneling magnetic sensors.
US07916431B2	Magnetoresistive element including insulating film touching periphery of spacer layer An MR element includes a stack of layers including a first ferromagnetic layer, a second ferromagnetic layer, and a spacer layer disposed between the first and the second ferromagnetic layer. The stack of layers has an outer surface, and the spacer layer has a periphery located in the outer surface of the stack of layers. The magnetoresistive element further includes an insulating film that touches the periphery of the spacer layer. The spacer layer includes a layer made of an oxide semiconductor composed of an oxide of a first metal. The insulating film includes a contact film that touches the periphery of the spacer layer and that is made of an oxide of a second metal having a Pauling electronegativity lower than that of the first metal by 0.1 or more.
US07916421B1	Methods and structure for recovery of write fault errors in a dynamically mapped mass storage device Methods and structures for recovering from an off-track position error in a dynamically mapped storage device. In a dynamically mapped storage device data is dynamically mapped to a physical location on the recordable media. Thus, when a write fault occurs, such as an off-track position error, the data may be re-written and re-mapped at a different location on the recordable media. In a dynamically mapped storage device data may be reordered into a sequential stream of contiguous physical data blocks. Random host data blocks may be mapped into sequential physical data blocks on the recordable media. Further, the sequential reordering of the data blocks may ensure that no data is present in tracks or sectors directly ahead of the track of sector being written. Further, the system has the ability to store multiple revolutions of host supplied data within the disk drive memory buffer and maintain the information in memory while writing it to the recordable media. The multiple revolutions of host supplied data may be used to recover from the destruction of previously written physical blocks overwritten during an off-track position error.
US07916419B2	Posture adjustment method of magnetic head A posture adjustment method of a magnetic head is provided. A magnetic head initial position adjustment apparatus measures an initial position of the magnetic head and writes the initial position into an adjustment position information shared apparatus. A magnetic head posture adjustment apparatus reads from the adjustment position information shared apparatus, and information of an adjustment amount given to the magnetic head when the magnetic head is moved and adjusted to a final position is written in the adjustment position information shared apparatus. An adjustment position as a current position of the magnetic head is calculated using the initial position information and the adjustment amount information.
US07916414B2	Actuator for lens driving mechanism An actuator includes: a rotary shaft allowed to axially and including a threaded portion at a protruding portion thereof and two idle regions disposed respectively at both ends of the threaded portion; a movable structure adapted to travel along the rotary shaft; a stopper means facing the end of the protruding portion of the rotary shaft and configured to restrict the axial movement of the movable structure located at the idle region; an open space disposed between the stopper means and the end of the rotary shaft and configured to allow the rotary shaft to axially move; an urging means for urging the movable structure toward the motor; and a recovery means for urging the movable structure toward the threaded portion by a magnetic thrust force exerted by cutting off power supply to the motor when the movable structure is in contact with the stopper means.
US07916406B2	Magnifier with slidable cover A magnifying assembly, the magnifying assembly comprising a housing comprising a frame to which a magnifying lens is secured; and a battery compartment; a cover assembly slidable along the housing; wherein the cover is slidable relative to the housing in a first direction so as to cover at least part of the magnifying lens and slidable relative to the housing in a second direction so as to expose the magnifying lens; and wherein the distance between the battery compartment relative to the magnifying lens remains the same regardless of whether the cover slides relative to the housing in the first direction so as to cover at least part of the magnifying lens or slides relative to the housing in the second direction so as to expose the magnifying lens.
US07916393B2	Optical level control device, method for controlling same, and laser application device The optical level control device independently controls the intensities of two beams having different wavelengths that are emitted from a laser oscillator, and the optical level control device includes a wavelength-dependent wavelength plate and a polarization beam splitter. The wavelength-dependent wavelength plate functions as a half-wave plate with respect to the first light wave and as a full-wave plate with respect to the second light wave. Only the rotation angle of the polarization beam splitter about the optical axis is adjusted to set the intensity of the second light wave transmitted rectilinearly through the polarization beam splitter. The polarization beam splitter is then fixed at the adjusted angle, and the rotation angle of the wavelength plate about the optical axis is adjusted to set the intensity of the first light wave.
US07916388B2	Drive laser for EUV light source A device is described herein which may comprise an oscillator having an oscillator cavity length, Lo, and defining an oscillator path; and a multi-pass optical amplifier coupled with the oscillator to establish a combined optical cavity including the oscillator path, the combined cavity having a length, Lcombined, where Lcombined=(N+x)*Lo, where “N” is an integer and “x” is a number between 0.4 and 0.6.
US07916384B2	Feedback dynamic gain control for a WDM system employing multi wavelength pumped Raman fiber amplifiers An improved feedback-based dynamic gain control technique for a WDM system employing multi-wavelength-pumped Raman fiber amplifiers (RFAs) is proposed, in which only one feedback or feed-forward signal is required for the control of multiple Raman pumps. Compared to the traditional method requiring multiple feedback signals for multiple pumps, the proposed method results in substantial simplification of the control circuit and also exhibits faster control speed. Moreover, the proposed method allows use of the total signal gain as the feedback signal, which is more robust against polarization-related issues than the traditional method using signal powers at several different channels as the feedback signals. The improved technique has advantage for dynamic gain control in a backward-pumped distributed RFA because the feedback signal may be detected right after the RFA. For feed-forward, a telemetry channel may be used to send the feed-forward signal to a feed-forward control circuit for the multiple Raman pumps. In addition, the feed-forward control technique and the feedback control technique may be used together to achieve better performance than using each of them separately to control multiple Raman pumps. Polarization-related issues may be reduced by utilizing amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) noise as the feedback signal for a feedback-based gain control circuit for the RFA.
US07916383B2	Wavelength conversion device A wavelength conversion device includes a supporting body, a wavelength conversion substrate of a Z-plate of a ferroelectric single crystal with a periodic domain inversion structure formed therein and having a thickness “T” of 10 μm or more and 100 μm or less, a buffer layer provided on a bottom face of the wavelength conversion substrate, and an organic resin adhesive layer adhering the supporting body and buffer layer with a thickness of 0.6 μm or more and 2.0 μm or less.
US07916375B2	Optical scanning apparatus and method for adjusting the same An optical scanning apparatus includes a light source having a light-emitting point; a light-beam converting unit configured to convert a state of a light beam emitted from the light-emitting point of the light source into another state; a deflecting unit configured to deflect and scan the light beam emitted from the light-beam converting unit, the deflecting unit including a resonant deflecting element having a single deflecting surface that reciprocates around an axis; and an imaging optical unit configured to cause the light beam deflected and scanned by the deflecting surface of the deflecting unit to form an image on a surface to be scanned. The distance between the light-emitting point of the light source and the light-beam converting unit is adjusted based on information obtained by a detector that detects the light beam emitted from the light source and deflected by the deflecting surface of the deflecting unit.
US07916372B2	Movable body apparatus and optical deflector using the movable body apparatus A movable body apparatus includes a vibratory system, a vibration detecting portion, a driving portion, and a controlling portion. The vibratory system has a resonance frequency and a movable body capable of being reciprocally and rotatably vibrated. The vibration detecting portion detects a vibration condition of the movable body. The driving portion drives the vibratory system with a drive signal. The controlling portion regulates the drive signal supplied to the driving portion. The controlling portion regulates a driving frequency of the drive signal so that a delay phase difference between the drive phase of the drive signal and the vibration phase of the vibratory system obtained from detection result of the vibration detecting portion, both obtained when the vibratory system is vibrated at a predetermined frequency, is maintained.
US07916368B2	Image processing device and method for maintaining the color shade of low-chroma color regions of an image In an image processing device, from an object image, an area reproduced by K component only and having at least a prescribed density is extracted as a gray area to be replaced, and a color of an area neighboring the gray area is extracted. When the neighboring area contains a color other than the K component, a replacing color is calculated based on the amount of K component (luminance) of the gray area and the color of the neighboring area, and the color of the gray area is replaced by the replacing color.
US07916364B2	Image reading device An image reading device includes a clock generator, an image sensor, a plurality of switches having a first switch and a second switch, a reader, a first controller, and a second controller. The clock generator generates a first clock signal having a first cycle and a second clock signal having a second cycle shorter than the first cycle. The image sensor detects an image formed on a document to generate an image signal. The image signal is inputted into the first switch and the second switch by rotation. The first switch and the second switch is capable of switching to simultaneously or alternately output the image signal in synchronization with the first clock. The reader reads the image signal outputted from the first switch and the second switch. The first controller controls the first switch to output the image signal to the reader during a first period and to control the second switch to output the image signal to the reader during a second period. The second controller controls the clock generator to generate the first clock signal during the first period and the second period and to generate the second clock signal during a third period that is between the first period and the second period and that is longer than a predetermined period mT and shorter than (k×T1) The T1 is the first cycle. The k is a minimum integer that satisfies mT<(k×T1).
US07916362B2	Image sensor with improved light sensitivity An image sensor for capturing a color image is disclosed having a two-dimensional array having first and second groups of pixels wherein pixels from the first group of pixels have narrower spectral photoresponses than pixels from the second group of pixels and wherein the first group of pixels has individual pixels that have spectral photoresponses that correspond to a set of at least two colors, with the placement of the first and second groups of pixels defining a pattern that has a minimal repeating unit including at least six pixels with at least some rows or columns of the minimal repeating unit composed only of pixels from the second group of pixels, and including ways to combine similarly positioned pixels from at least two adjacent minimal repeating units.
US07916354B2	Hiding and detecting auxiliary data in media materials and signals The present technology relates to steganographically hiding messages in materials such as paper stock, plastic and film. The technology can also be used to encode auxiliary data in imagery, which may be separately marked (e.g., by altering values of digital image pixels), or may simply be formed on a marked material.
US07916351B2	Image processing apparatus and method, printer device, and computer readable recording medium An image information acquisition unit obtains first print image information that is binarized with the use of a first threshold matrix. A threshold matrix information acquisition unit obtains information representing the first threshold matrix. A determining unit divides the first print image information obtained by the image information acquisition unit into a plurality of portions, and determines whether each of the divided portions includes contour information, based on the first threshold matrix obtained by the threshold matrix information acquisition unit. A generating unit generates second print image information by performing a re-binarizing operation for each of the divided portions of the first print image information with the use of a second threshold matrix that is different from the first threshold matrix, based on the determination result of the determining unit.
US07916350B2	Minimizing visual artifacts in a brick-layer halftone structure What is disclosed is a novel system and method for minimizing visual artifacts, such as ROS skew and laserbeam bow, in a brick-layer halftone structure. The present method involves determining a line pattern from ROS skew and laserbeam bow profiles which traverses through successive halftone cells displacing pixels along scanlines in the process direction. The amount of displacement is varied as a function of the cross-process location as determined by the line pattern. Pixels along scanlines are shifted in a direction defined by the error profiles. In each halftone cell within which the line pattern traverses, extra pixels (empty pixel spaces created in the halftone cell by the shifting operation) are filled with lost pixels (pixels bumped from the halftone cell during the shifting operation) such that overall density of the halftone cell is maintained. The lost pixels are buffered such that lost pixels are preserved.
US07916345B2	Image processing with an adjustment to a binary image line There is described an image processing apparatus, which makes it possible to easily adjust a width of a line image without deteriorating the image quality of the line image. The apparatus includes a storage section to store a first template and a second template; a first determining section to determine whether or not a target pixel is the specific pixel, based on the first template; a second determining section to determine whether or not the target pixel is the edge pixel, based on the second template; and a line width adjusting section to adjust the width of the line image. When determining that the target pixel is the specific pixel, the target pixel is converted to a black pixel. When determining that the target pixel is not the specific pixel and the target pixel is the edge pixel, the target pixel is converted to a white pixel.
US07916338B2	Mobile telecommunication device for printing an interface surface in response to received data A mobile telecommunications device is disclosed. The mobile telecommunications device includes an image sensor for sensing coded data from a printed interface whilst the mobile telecommunications device is used to physically interact with the printed interface. The mobile telecommunications device also includes a processor configured to decode the sensed coded data. The data generated by the processor is then transmitted to a computer system via a mobile telecommunications network and using a transmitter of the mobile telecommunications device. A receiver of the mobile telecommunications device receives response data via the mobile telecommunications network in response to the data being transmitted. An integral printer mechanism of the mobile telecommunications device is configured to print another interface onto print media. The other interface also includes coded data, but is at least partially based on the response data.
US07916334B2	Print managing apparatus, print managing method, and computer program A print processing result can be more certainly obtained while reducing a processing load of a printer. A print server forms a job tracing ID for a print job whose processing result is to be confirmed and transmits to a network printer. Thereafter, when the print job is formed in the network printer, the print server obtains information of the print job from the network printer. The job tracing ID has been allocated to the information of the print job. If it is decided based on the job tracing ID included in the information of the print job that the obtained information of the print job is not the information of the print job which is being traced, the print server determines that the print job which is being traced has been extinguished. The print server inquires the processing result of the extinguished print job from the network printer by using the job tracing ID.
US07916328B2	Image reading apparatus and computer program product A recording unit records an operation log. A storing unit included in a temper-resistant chip stores therein a secret key unique to an image reading apparatus. An encrypting unit included in the temper-resistant chip encrypts recorded operation log with stored secret key. A transmitting unit transmits information including encrypted operation log to a server.
US07916315B2	Method and apparatus for executing load distributed printing There is disclosed a system which efficiently and effectively executes printing even when an error occurs in a printing apparatus. An apparatus according to the present invention is an information processing apparatus which includes a plurality of print queues corresponding to a plurality of printing apparatuses, comprising registration means for registering, in the plurality of print queues, job information including information which can link to print data, and means for excluding, from schedule-up targets, job information except job information scheduled up first in accordance with a vacant state of the print queues, and when interruption of printing has occurred in a printing apparatus which has output a print job based on the job information scheduled up, setting the job information excluded from the schedule-up targets as a schedule-up target.
US07916313B2	Information processing apparatus, control method thereof, and program Document data is stored including both permanent pages whose page contents are permanent and variable pages whose page contents vary depending on a plurality of types of records. Print data which includes the variable pages and is to be output to the first printing apparatus serving as a plateless printing apparatus, and plate data which does not include the variable pages and is used to make a press plate used in the second printing apparatus serving as a plate printing apparatus are generated from the document data.
US07916311B2	Method and system for inspecting blade tip clearance A method for inspecting blade tip clearance between at least one rotor blade and a case spaced radially outward from the rotor blade is provided. The method includes inserting a probe into an aperture defined in the case and emitting electromagnetic energy into the case using the probe. The method also includes detecting electromagnetic energy reflected from a blade tip portion of the rotor blade and determining a blade tip clearance defined between the blade tip and the case based on the detected electromagnetic energy.
US07916310B2	Measurement apparatus and method A measurement apparatus disclosed that has a radiation source configured to provide a measurement beam of radiation such that an individually controllable element of an array of individually controllable elements capable of modulating a beam of radiation, is illuminated by the measurement beam and redirects the measurement beam, and a detector arranged to receive the redirected measurement beam and determine the position at which the redirected measurement beam is incident upon the detector, the position at which the redirected measurement beam is incident upon the detector being indicative of a characteristic of the individually controllable element.
US07916308B2	Method and optical profiler An optical profiler for an ultra-smooth surface, such as a magnetic recording disk, provides for a normally incident beam deflection against the target surface to be profiled. A linearly polarized laser light of a first polarization is focused on the target surface in a normally incident direction. The beam is reflected back along its original path from the focal point. Optics are provided that change the polarization of the reflected beam to a second polarization. A reflected beam, with a second polarization, is directed onto a position sensitive detector for evaluation.
US07916298B2	Analyzer and analytic system This analyzer comprises a photoirradiation portion simultaneously photoirradiating a plurality of storage vessels storing a plurality of measurement samples respectively and a plurality of photodetection portions detecting a plurality of light components resulting from simultaneous photoirradiation on the plurality of storage vessels storing the plurality of measurement samples respectively. The photoirradiation portion includes a light source, a first light guide portion branching light emitted from the light source into a plurality of light components and guiding the plurality of light components to the plurality of measurement samples respectively and a second light guide portion branching light emitted from the light source into a plurality of light components and guiding the plurality of light components to the plurality of measurement samples respectively.
US07916291B2	Apparatus and method for spectroscopy Apparatuses and methods for performing spectroscopy and optical microscopy are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, a Raman spectrometer includes a vacuum ultraviolet light source configured to generate light having a wavelength within a window in the vacuum ultraviolet region of the electromagnetic spectrum within which a local minimum in the absorption coefficient of Oxygen occurs. The spectrometer also includes a lens device that receives a first portion of the generated light, directs at least some of the first portion of the generated light toward a target location, receives reflected light from the target location, and directs the reflected light toward a further location. The spectrometer further includes a dispersive device that receives at least some of the reflected light and outputs dispersed light produced based thereupon, and a camera module that is positioned at additional location, where the camera module receives at least some of the dispersed light.
US07916285B2	Refractometer Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a refractometer including: a housing having an immersion portion, the immersion portion having an opening; a light source for emitting a light; a light sensor for converting a received light into an electrical signal; a prism including faces, including: a first face proximal to the light source and the light sensor; a second face, at least a portion of the second face configured for contacting a sample liquid through the opening, and for forming an interface between the second face and the sample liquid; and a third face, wherein the light travels by: being directed towards the second face; being reflected at least in part by the interface towards the third face; and being reflected at least in part by the third face towards the light sensor. In an embodiment, the refractometer further includes a control portion for receiving the electrical signal, and for determining a refractive index of the sample liquid based at least in part on the electrical signal. In an embodiment, the control portion determines the refractive index in at least one of: a batch mode for detecting the electrical signal once; and a sequential mode for detecting the electrical signal at least twice. In an embodiment, the refractometer further includes a substrate at least partially positioned within the housing, the substrate supporting the light source and the light sensor. In an embodiment, the refractometer further includes a display portion connected to the control portion for displaying a representation of the refractive index.
US07916276B2	Lithographic apparatus and device manufacturing method with double exposure overlay control A device manufacturing method includes a transfer of a pattern from a patterning device onto a substrate. The device manufacturing method further includes transferring a pattern of a main mark to a base layer for forming an alignment mark; depositing a pattern receiving layer on the base layer; in a first lithographic process, aligning, by using the main mark, a first mask that includes a first pattern and a local mark pattern, and transferring the first pattern and the local mark pattern to the pattern receiving layer; aligning, by using the local mark pattern, a second mask including a second pattern relative to the pattern receiving layer; andin a second lithographic process, transferring the second pattern to the pattern receiving layer; the first and second patterns being configured to form an assembled pattern.
US07916275B2	Methods of characterizing similarity or consistency in a set of entities A method of characterizing the similarity between entities in a set of entities, wherein an entity is selected from substrate layers, substrate fields and substrates. Including determining positions at a plurality of measurement points per entity for providing position data; computing a correlation coefficient for each of a plurality of combinations of entities from the entity set, the correlation coefficients being based on the position data and being representative of the correlation between the associated combination of entities; comparing the correlation coefficients to a threshold amount to determine the extent of similarity between the entities. The invention also relates to a similar method incorporating determining an average value of the computed correlation coefficients, the average value providing a measure of the consistency.
US07916268B2	Substrate carrying device, substrate carrying method, and exposure device The present invention relates to a substrate carrying device that carries a substrate such as a reticle, a substrate carrying method, and an exposure device.The substrate carrying device includes a movable stage having a chuck and being movable in a horizontal direction, the chuck having a sucking surface which faces downward and sucking a substrate on the sucking surface; and a fixed blind disposed below the movable stage. The movable stage moves to a position apart from the fixed blind in a horizontal direction and attaches and detaches the substrate. In addition, the substrate carrying device also includes a lifting portion having a lifting table which is movable in a movable range of the movable stage and is capable of being positioned below the movable stage; and a carrying portion having a carrying arm which carries the substrate to the lifting portion.
US07916266B2	Method of adjusting amount of liquid crystal in a LCD device including reducing the thickness of a seal member to form a repair region by laser heating a metal pattern thereunder A method for adjusting an amount of liquid crystal in a liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes injecting a liquid crystal into a liquid crystal receiving space. The liquid crystal receiving space is disposed between a first substrate, a second substrate that faces the first substrate, and a sealing member interposed between the first and second substrates. The method for adjusting an amount of liquid crystal in a liquid crystal display (LCD) device further includes reducing a thickness of the sealing member at a predetermined portion of the sealing member to form a repair region, and pressurizing the liquid crystal to break the sealing member at the repair region to discharge some of the liquid crystal from the liquid crystal receiving space, so as to adjust the amount of the liquid crystal in the liquid crystal receiving space. The method for adjusting an amount of liquid crystal in a liquid crystal display (LCD) device also includes resealing the broken repair region of the sealing member.
US07916263B2	Display device It is an object to provide a highly reliable display device. It is a feature an IC is over a substrate and a material layer having the same height is thereover. An IC is provided on one side of the substrate, and a material layer having the same height as the IC is provided on at least another side. Further, an IC is provided on one side of the substrate, and material layers having the same height as the IC are provided on the other sides. Further, an IC is provided on one side of the substrate, and a material layer having the same height as the IC is provided at a corner of the substrate.
US07916250B2	Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal module and a touch panel section arranged in front of the liquid crystal module. There is a space between the liquid crystal module and the touch panel section, and a layer of air is present in the space. The liquid crystal module has a λ/4 plate on the front side. The touch panel section includes a polarization plate and λ/4 plate which are arranged on the front side of a touch panel in this order.
US07916240B2	Backlight module with elastic buckling structures and liquid crystal display device using same An exemplary backlight module (300) includes a frame (350) and a bottom plate (370). One of the frame and the bottom plate includes a plurality of elastically deformable buckling structures (358), and the other of the frame and the bottom plate includes a plurality of protrusions (204, 374) corresponding to the buckling structures. When the bottom plate is attached to the frame, the bottom plate and the frame are pressed together along a first axis, and the buckling structures elastically deform and then elastically rebound such that the buckling structures are engaged with the protrusions and the bottom plate is fixed to the frame.
US07916239B2	Liquid crystal display device To provide a liquid crystal display device where supports for fluorescent lamps can be prevented from vibrating without affecting the ease of attachment of the supports for fluorescent lamps to the frame for the backlight.A liquid crystal display device having: a liquid crystal display panel; and a backlight having a light source for illuminating the liquid crystal display panel is characterized in that said backlight comprises at least a number of fluorescent lamps in rod form aligned in a plane facing said liquid crystal display panel, supports for fluorescent lamps for supporting the fluorescent lamps in rod form, and a frame to which the supports for fluorescent lamps are secured, and said supports for fluorescent lamps have an engaging portion for insertion into a hole created in said frame and the surface of said supports for fluorescent lamps where said engaging portion is formed has protrusions.
US07916234B2	Liquid crystal display having first and second thin film transistors and first and second sub-pixel electrodes A liquid crystal display (LCD) capable of preventing light leakage includes first and second gate lines which extend in a horizontal direction, a data line which is insulated from the first and second gate lines and crosses the first and second gate lines, first and second thin film transistors (TFTs) which are respectively connected to the first and second gate lines and are connected to the data line, and a pixel electrode which extends in zigzag fashion at an inclination to the first and second gate lines and is divided into a first area and a second area in a direction in which the pixel electrode extends. The pixel electrode includes a first sub-pixel electrode which is connected to the first TFT and has the first area and upper and lower portions of the second area, and a second sub-pixel electrode which is connected to the second TFT, has a middle portion of the second area, and has a lateral side adjoining a first portion of the first sub-pixel electrode, an upper side adjoining a lower side of an upper second portion of the first sub-pixel electrode, and a lower side adjoining an upper side of a lower second portion of the first sub-pixel electrode, the first and second areas being connected by a plurality of connection electrodes, and at least one of the connection electrodes overlapping the second gate line.
US07916230B2	Thin film transistor-liquid crystal display having an insulating layer exposing portions of a gate island A pixel unit of TFT-LCD array substrate and a manufacturing method thereof is disclosed. In the manufacturing method, besides a first insulating layer and a passivation layer, a second insulating layer is adopted to cover the gate island, and forms an opening on the gate island to expose the channel region, the source region and the drain region of the TFT. A gray tone mask and a photoresist lifting-off process are utilized to perform patterning, so that the TFT-LCD array substrate can be achieved with just three masks.
US07916225B2	Liquid crystal display forming a coupling capacitor between a proximate and parallel portion of a drain electrode and a data line Provided is a liquid crystal display (LCD) with enhanced display qualities. The LCD includes a first insulating substrate; a gate line disposed on the first insulating substrate and extending in a first direction; first and second data lines insulated from and crossing the gate line, separated from each other, and extending in a second direction; first and second thin film transistors (TFTs) connected to the gate line and the first and second data lines, respectively; first and second subpixel electrodes connected to the first and second TFTs, respectively; and first and second drain electrode connection portions connecting the first and second TFTs to the first and second subpixel electrodes, respectively. The first and second drain electrode connection portions are electrically insulated from each other and together form a substantially rectangular band.
US07916218B2	Image display apparatus and method An image display apparatus and method are provided. The image display apparatus includes an external light detection module which detects an intensity of external illumination; a storage module which stores a plurality of light emitting unit control values; and a control module which selectively performs, according to a result of a determination, a lightness compensation operation for compensating a lightness of a light emitting unit and a visibility adjustment operation for adjusting the visibility of the original input image. The method includes detecting an intensity of external illumination; determining whether a visibility of an original input image can be ensured according to an input light emitting control value and the detected external illumination intensity; and selectively performing, according to the determination, a lightness compensation operation for compensating a lightness of a light emitting unit and a visibility adjustment operation for adjusting the visibility of the original input image.
US07916210B2	Driving device and image stabilizing system An art of a driving device for appropriately improving a response of an SMA actuator will be provided. A portable telephone 1 has an image stabilization system 10 for driving an image pickup unit 9 by a pair of driving members 15a and 15b functioning as actuators, thereby performing image stabilization. Driving members 15a and 15b are formed as a wire of shape memory alloy (SMA) and when a voltage is applied to both ends and a current is supplied, driving force is generated in the contraction direction. With respect to the wire diameter of the SMAs, the wire diameter of the SMAs is set between 10 μm and 80 μm, thus the mountability and response are improved appropriately.
US07916208B2	Image processor, digital camera, and method for processing image data An image processor including an object extracting device extracting an object region from original image data; an object separating device separating the object region from the other region; a first filter subjecting the object region to out-of-focus filtering processing to output first image data; a second filter subjecting the other region to out-of-focus filtering processing to output second image data; an image synthesizing device synthesizing the first and second image data; a displaying device displaying the synthesized image data and original image data; a region splitting device splitting the synthesized image data into plural regions; a high-frequency component obtaining device obtaining high-frequency components in each of the plural regions; a high-frequency component analyzing device analyzing the high-frequency components; and a zooming device zooming a region among the plural regions having higher frequency components.
US07916204B2	Multiple microlens system for image sensors or display An imager or display system with multiple lenses, which are formed, patterned and shaped over one or more pixels in an imager or display array. The multiple lenses provide for an improved concentration of light being refracted onto a photosensitive area or light diffused from a display pixel.
US07916195B2	Solid-state imaging device, imaging apparatus and camera A solid-state imaging device includes: multiple pixels making up a slanted grid array inclined to a scanning direction, which include a photoelectric conversion unit configured to convert incident light quantity into an electric signal; and a charge-to-voltage conversion unit configured to convert signal charge read out from the photoelectric conversion unit disposed between two pixels adjacent to each other in the diagonal direction of the pixels of the multiple pixels into voltage; wherein the charge-to-voltage conversion unit is shared with the two pixels; and wherein a set of transistor group are disposed in a sharing block, which is configured of a pixel pair made up of the two pixels adjacent to each other in the diagonal direction, and a pixel pair adjacent to that pixel pair, including wiring to which the charge-to-voltage conversion unit of each pixel pair is connected.
US07916186B2	Anti-eclipse circuitry with tracking of floating diffusion reset level An anti-eclipse circuit for an imager is formed from pixel circuitry over the same semiconductor substrate as the imaging pixels. More specifically, two adjacent pixel circuits are modified to form an amplifier. One input of the amplifier is adapted to receive a reset signal from one of the pixel circuits while another input is adapted to be set at a predetermined offset voltage from the output of the amplifier. The amplifier is preferably a unity gain amplifier, so that the output of the amplifier set to a voltage level equal to the predetermined offset from the voltage level of the reset signal. Accordingly, the anti-eclipse circuit outputs a reference voltage at predetermined level from the reset voltage of a pixel and does not need to be calibrated for fabrication related variances in reset voltages.
US07916172B2	Image pickup apparatus with object tracking capability The present invention provides an image pickup apparatus for automatically tracking an object to pick up an image of the object, and the image apparatus comprises; a lens apparatus including a zoom lens and a focus lens, the lens apparatus picking up an image of the object; a camera device for picking up an image of the object acquired by the lens apparatus; a universal head for driving pan and tilt of the camera device; a memory for recording trace data of the universal head and image information picked up in synchronization with the trace data; an object recognizing circuit for recognizing the object; a shift amount detection unit for detecting a shift amount between the object and the trace data; and a control device for controlling the driving operation of the universal head based on the trace data and the shift amount.
US07916167B2	Display device having image pickup function and two-way communication system A compact and lightweight display device having an image pickup function and a two-way communication system which can shoot an image of a user as an object and display an image at the same time without degrading image quality by disposing a semi-transmitting mirror or the like which blocks an image on the display screen (display plane). The display device having the image pickup function includes a display panel capable of transmitting visible light at least and arranging display elements which can be controlled by voltage or current, and an image pickup device disposed around the display panel. The image pickup device is input with data of an image of a user or the like by a reflector, or equipped with a fiberscope bundling optical fibers.
US07916165B2	Systems and method for enhancing teleconferencing collaboration An advanced video teleconferencing (AVTC) system uniquely combines a number of features to promote a realistic “same room” experience for meeting participants. These features include an autodirector to select audio and video sources and to compose shots, a collaboration interface for each participant to communicate nonverbal information, directional LEDs to privately alert participants, audio reflected from the main display, and a collaborative table to share a view of objects or papers on a table. When implemented with sufficient bandwidth for take advantage of these features and to keep latency time low, this AVTC system results in a highly realistic and productive teleconferencing experience.
US07916161B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus is provided with a light scanning device that directs laser beams emitted from a plurality of laser light sources on to a plurality of photoconductive members via focusing device which includes optical elements and a deflecting device that deflects the beams in a main scanning direction; an image forming device which forms visible images of different colors from images written onto the photoconductive members by the light scanning device; and an intermediate transfer member or a recording sheet transport member capable of carrying the visible images formed on the photoconductive members. When in detection mode, a control device controls the correction of color registration errors between each color forms patterns on an intermediate belt by an image forming device, detects the patterns by a color registration error detection sensor, and stores the color registration error correction values obtained from the detection output of the sensor in a memory device. When forming images, the control device reads the color registration error correction values stored in the memory device, and carries out correction in accordance with the correction values via a writing start position correction device which deflects the laser position in the sub scanning direction.
US07916142B2	Systems and methods for generating user specified information from a map An embodiment relates generally to a method of generating user-specified information. The method includes receiving a plurality of points selected on a map to form a first continuous line having one or more vertices. The method also includes generating a closed polygon having a plurality of edges, where at least one edge forms a second continuous line substantially parallel to and spaced apart at a distance from the first continuous line. The method also includes determining a plurality of coordinate pairs each associated with a point on the plurality of edges of the closed polygon and retrieving user specified information for an area enclosed by the plurality of coordinate pairs.
US07916139B2	Imaging volume data A method and apparatus for generating a two-dimensional output image of a slab multi-planar reformatting (MPR) volume data set from a selectable view point and view direction is described. The method comprises factorizing a view transform matrix into an intermediate transform matrix and a warp transform matrix. The intermediate transform matrix is such that voxels in the volume data set map to pixels in an intermediate image in which neighboring voxels in a plane of the volume data set which is most parallel to tie plane of the output image are separated by an integer number of pixel along each of tie axes of the intermediate image. The intermediate transform matrix is applied to the data set to provide an intermediate data set. A projection of the intermediate data set along the view direction is performed according to a desired projection algorithm to provide the intermediate image. The wrap transform matrix is then applied to the intermediate image to provide the output image.
US07916134B2	Power supply method and power supply circuit A power supply method of supplying a high-potential drive power voltage to a data line driver circuit which drives a plurality of data lines in a display panel which has a plurality of pixels and a plurality of scanning lines in addition to the data lines. An output from the data line driver circuit to the data lines is set to a high-impedance state, and a charge corresponding to a charge discharged from the data lines is accumulated in a parasitic capacitor of a power line of a regulator which outputs a drive power voltage to be supplied to the data line driver circuit, within a given period. After the period, a voltage generated by the charge accumulated in the parasitic capacitor is output to the power line, and a voltage generated by the regulator is supplied to the data line driver circuit as the high-potential drive power voltage for the data line driver circuit.
US07916131B2	Process for monitor to operate in DPMS mode A process for a monitor working in a DPMS mode applies when a monitor ends a working mode and enters the DPMS mode. In the DPMS mode, when the signal processor of the monitor detects there is no signal input to the connecting interface, the signal processor will be off and inform the micro-controller to open the signal detecting function to find whether there is a signal input to the connecting interface. When the micro-controller detects there is no signal input for a certain of time, the micro-controller will enter the sleep status. As a result, the purpose of saving the electricity can be achieved.
US07916126B2	Bottom-up watershed dataflow method and region-specific segmentation based on historic data to identify patches on a touch sensor panel The application of a watershed algorithm to pixels and their touch values obtained from a scan of a touch sensor panel to determine patches corresponding to images of touch is disclosed. Prior to applying the watershed algorithm, background pixels having little or no touch values can be eliminated. A primary merge algorithm can then merge adjacent patches together when the saddle point between them is shallow as compared to the peak represented by the patches. However, if two candidate patches for merging have a total number of pixels below a certain threshold, these two patches may not be merged under the assumption that the patches might have been caused by different fingertips. Conversely, if two candidate patches for merging have a total number of pixels above a certain threshold, these two patches can be merged under the assumption that the patches were caused by a single thumb or palm.
US07916122B2	Roller mechanism for multiple directions control The present invention relates to a roller mechanism for generating a plurality of control signals, for example to scroll an image on a computer display in multiple directions. The roller mechanism has a carriage, and a roller rotatable within the carrier. The roller can drive an encoding unit to output the control signal. The carriage has a coupling portion, and the coupling portion is pivoted to a bottom support. Thus the roller and the carriage are turnable relative to the coupling portion in a fan-shaped movement while the roller is also being rotated within the carriage.
US07916112B2	Systems for controlling pixels Systems for controlling pixels are provided. A representative system comprises a scan driver comprises: a data signal line operative to provide data to the pixel; and a scan driver operative to control illumination of the pixel during sequential time periods such that, if data provided by the data signal line is different between a first time period and a second time period, brightness of the pixel differs during a third time period and a sequential fourth time period. The pixel is illuminated during the third time period and the fourth time period.
US07916110B2	Data driving apparatus and method for liquid crystal display A method of driving a data driving apparatus for a liquid crystal display panel, the method including converting at least two pixel data into analog pixel signals, outputting the converted pixel signals to one of at least two output buffer integrated circuits based on a time division of the pixel data, and applying the buffered pixel signals from each of the output buffer integrated circuits sequentially to a plurality of data lines.
US07916097B2	Enhanced band multiple polarization antenna assembly An antenna assembly is provided for receiving and transmitting radio frequency signals over an enhanced frequency band. A first radiative element has a first end, a second end, and an associated length, and is comprised of an electrically conductive material. The first end of the first radiative element is electrically connected to an antenna feed at an apex and at least a portion of the first radiative element is disposed outwardly away from the apex at an acute angle relative to, and on a first side of, an imaginary plane intersecting the apex. A second radiative element has a first end and a second end and is comprised of an electrically conductive material. The first end of the second radiative element is electrically connected to the antenna feed and the first radiative element at the apex. The second end of the second radiative element has an associated height above the imaginary plane that is less than the product of the length of the first element and the sine of the acute angle at which the first element is disposed outwardly from the apex. The assembly further comprises an electrically conductive ground reference.
US07916096B2	Communication system having configurable 3-D antenna grid and method for configuring the communication system A system and a method for configuring a communication system are provided. The communication system has an antenna system with a 3-D antenna grid. The configurable 3-D antenna grid has a plurality of antenna elements operably coupled to a plurality of switching elements. The method includes selecting a first 3-D antenna configuration associated with the configurable 3-D antenna grid from a plurality of antenna configurations. The method further includes controlling a memory device to output first data corresponding to the first 3-D antenna configuration. The method further includes closing selected ones of the plurality of switching elements to obtain the first 3-D antenna configuration in the configurable 3-D antenna grid in response to the first data. The first 3-D antenna configuration is one of the plurality of antenna configurations wherein at least a portion of the plurality of antenna elements are electrically coupled together.
US07916094B2	Double structure broadband leaky wave antenna A leaky wave antenna contains a first and a second leaky wave antenna structure back to back against each other. Each antenna structure comprises a dielectric body and an elongated wave carrying structure, such as a slot in a conductive ground plane. In each leaky wave antenna structure the body and wave carrying structure are mutually arranged to radiate a leaky wave from the wave carrying structure through the dielectric body, the leaky wave radiating at a respective angle to the wave carrying structure. The dielectric bodies of the first and second wave antenna structure adjoin each other in a common plane that is at said respective angles to the wave carrying structures of the first and second wave antenna structure respectively, so that the ground planes are at an angle with respect to each other. The respective wave carrying structures run over into each other at said common plane, the antenna comprising a feed arranged to excite waves in both the respective wave carrying structures together. In this way bandwidth limitations due to the feed structure are reduced.
US07916088B2	Wireless transceiver A wireless transceiver is provided. The wireless transceiver includes an antenna unit, a connection port and an integrated circuit. The antenna unit detects an electromagnetic signal in the space. The connection port provides a connective path to a transmission line. The integrated circuit is coupled to the antenna unit and the connection port. The integrated circuit receives the electromagnetic signal through the antenna unit. When the transmission line is coupled to the connection port, the integrated circuit enhances and restores the electromagnetic signal through an auxiliary electromagnetic signal received by the transmission line.
US07916080B2	Antenna system for communicating with mobile devices Systems and methods for providing network access to mobile devices that travel with a vehicle, such as a train, a bus, a boat, etc. along or adjacent to a relatively fixed path that may extend over a large geographic area. Mobile devices access the network through stationary access points arranged along or adjacent to the path and communicate with a communication network. The communication network may be arranged as an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) local area network emulation (LANE) network. One of the mobile devices may be a mobile access point which can couple other mobile devices to the network and record authentication information of other mobile devices so that fast transitions can be made from one stationary access point to another as the vehicle moves along the path.
US07916078B2	Signal acquisition/tracking method and correlator for the same A Doppler frequency searching method and correlator are disclosed. In the present invention, before Doppler frequency removal, a received signal is converted into digital form having a first sampling rate. Then the signal is down-sampled to have a low sampling rate. The Doppler frequency searching is done by stages. Each stage is in charge of a portion of the Doppler frequency to be removed. The sampling rate can be further reduced in each stage. Each stage can have at least one Doppler frequency removal unit sharing the portion of Doppler frequency that the stage is to remove. Power consumption is reduced since Doppler frequency removal is executed with low sampling rate.
US07916077B2	Method for obtaining correct phase inversion points in signal of GPS A method for obtaining correct phase inversion points in a signal of global positioning system (GPS) includes the following steps. A satellite signal from one of a plurality of satellites is received continuously. A plurality of phase inversion points in the received satellite signal is interpreted. Each time difference between each two adjacent phase inversion points among the plurality of phase inversion points is calculated. It is determined whether each of the time differences is an integral multiple of 20 milliseconds. A data is retrieved every 20 milliseconds from the satellite signal by using a first phase inversion point in the plurality of phase inversion points as a starting point when each of the time differences is an integral multiple of 20 milliseconds. By finding out a plurality of correct phase inversion points in the satellite signal, the positioning speed is increased, and thus a positioning time required is reduced.
US07916076B2	Method for calculating current position coordinate A method for calculating current position coordinate is applied to a global positioning system (GPS) receiver. When positioning at a current time point, the GPS receiver directly calculates a code delay and a carrier frequency of each satellite and position coordinate of the GPS receiver at a current positioning time point by utilizing an ephemeris data of each satellite and position coordinate of the GPS receiver at a last positioning time point, thereby greatly lowering an operation amount, so as to reduce the power consumption.
US07916074B2	System and method for positioning in configured environments The present invention relates to a system and method for providing location determination in a configured environment in which Global Navigation Satellite System Signals may not be available. In this regard, local beacon systems generate spread spectrum CDMA signals that are received by spectral compression units that derive physically meaningful observations without a requirement for correlation of the intercepted energy by means of the known spreading codes. The invention can coexist with communication assets already in place, and the design allows for self calibration, which simplifies installation and usage. The invention has utility in applications in which GNSS signals are unavailable or limited, for example, in warehouse inventory management, in search and rescue operations and in asset tracking in indoor environments.
US07916070B2	Tight coupling of GPS and navigation estimates with reducer or eliminated inertial measurement unit data A system and method for generating a navigation solution in high interference and dynamic environments using Global Positioning System (GPS) and navigation such as dead reckoning is described. The system configuration is a multi-satellite tracking loop structure obtained by closing each satellite's tracking loop through a multi-state navigation filter. This generates a robust navigation solution that can track GPS signals in a lower signal to noise ratio than can the standard GPS tightly coupled tracking loops. The system contains an Advanced Tightly Coupled (ATC) tracking processor which accepts early, late, and on-time I and Q data from the GPS signal tracker and outputs vehicle to satellite range, range rate and range acceleration residual measurements to a navigation Kalman filter. The ATC includes nonlinear discriminators which transform I and Q data into residual measurements corrupted by unbiased, additive, and white noise. It also includes an amplitude estimator configured to operate in rapidly changing, high power noise; a measurement noise variance estimator; and a linear residual smoothing filter for input to the navigation filter.
US07916067B2	Removing clutter from radar cross section measurements using spectral tagging A system for performing radar cross section measurements of a target may include a radar system and an antenna associated with the radar system to transmit signals and to receive reflected signals from the target and a clutter source. An EM tagging device is locatable proximate to the clutter source to spectrally tag the clutter source by causing changes in an electromagnetic signal reflected by the clutter source when a predetermined radar signal transmitted by the radar system is incident on the target, the clutter source and the EM tagging device. A module may identify a spectrally tagged component of reflected signals received by the radar system from the target, the clutter source and the EM tagging device. The module monitors the spectrally tagged component, compensates for variations in an un-tagged component of the reflected signals caused by the clutter source and EM tagging device, and subtracts contamination caused by the clutter source and EM tagging device and their interactions with the target, to provide a radar cross section of the target with reflected signals from the clutter source removed.
US07916064B2	Voltage-to-time converter, and voltage-to-digital converting device having the same A voltage-to-digital converting device includes a first voltage-to-time converter outputting a first delay clock having a first time delay relative to a reference clock in response to an input voltage, and a second voltage-to-time converter outputting a second delay clock having a second time delay relative to the reference clock in response to a feedback voltage. The first and second time delays correspond respectively to the input and feedback voltages. A time-to-digital converting circuit receives the first and second delay clocks from the first and second voltage-to-time converters, compares phases of the first and second delay clocks, generates the feedback voltage based on result of phase comparison made thereby, and outputs a digital signal upon detecting that the phases of the first and second delay clocks are in-phase.
US07916062B2	Pin-sharing analog front-end processing apparatus and method for pin-sharing thereof An analog front-end processing apparatus capable of sharing pins includes a plurality of positive pins, a negative pin, a plurality of positive clamping circuits, a negative clamping circuit, a plurality of sample and hold circuits and a plurality of adjusting circuits. The positive clamping circuits have positive signals fixed at their corresponding target positive voltages. The negative clamping circuit has a negative signal fixed at a first reference voltage. Each sample and hold circuit has a positive input terminal and a negative input terminal, wherein a voltage difference between the two input terminals is substantially equal to a voltage difference between the corresponding target positive voltage and the first reference voltage during a sample period, and a voltage difference between the two input terminals is equal to a voltage difference between the corresponding target negative voltage and a second reference voltage during a hold period.
US07916060B2	Intelligent electronic device having circuitry for noise reduction for analog-to-digital converters An intelligent electronic device (IED), e.g., an electrical power meter, having circuitry for an input structure of an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) that reduces noise of a signal from a sensor in the device, resulting in a highly accurate power measurement, is provided. The circuitry includes a first single-ended analog-to-digital converter with an input from a voltage signal and a second single-ended analog-to-digital converter with an input that is the reference voltage used by the voltage signal. A programmable device subtracts the digital output of the second single-ended analog-to-digital converter from the digital output of the first single-ended analog-to-digital converter to produce a digital result of the voltage signal that is free from common-mode noise.
US07916055B2	Sigma-delta modulator and method thereof A sigma-delta modulator includes an adder, a filter, a quantizer, and a clock rate controller. The adder receives an input signal and an output signal to generate a summation signal. The filter is coupled to the adder and filters the summation signal to generate a filtered signal. The quantizer is coupled to the filter as well as the adder and quantizes the filtered signal to generate the output signal according to a first clock signal. The clock rate controller is coupled to the quantizer and generates the first clock signal, wherein a frequency of the first clock signal is variable.
US07916049B2	Group delay characteristic correcting device and group delay characteristic correcting method A disclosed group delay characteristic correcting device corrects group delay characteristics of an analog low-pass filter used to remove aliasing of a digital-analog converter or an analog-digital converter. The group delay characteristic correcting device includes a digital signal processing unit configured to have an all-pass phase circuit at a stage previous to the digital-analog converter or at a stage subsequent to the analog-digital converter so as to correct the group delay characteristics of the analog low-pass filter.
US07916043B2	Vehicle communication system A wireless communication system for a vehicle includes a global positioning system operable to determine a current geographical location of the vehicle and a current directional heading of the vehicle. Data useful to the driver of the vehicle that is relevant to at least one of the current geographical location of the vehicle and the current directional heading of the vehicle is carried from an external provider to the vehicle via a wireless communication link. The data is wirelessly communicated from the external provider to the vehicle responsive to at least one of (a) location of the vehicle, (b) identity of the vehicle and (c) directional heading of the vehicle. The data is at least in part customized to at least one of the current geographic location of the vehicle and the current directional heading of the vehicle.
US07916038B2	Monitoring systems and methods for monitoring the condition of one or more components of an electrical device Methods and systems for monitoring a component of an electrical device and/or a brush of a brush holder assembly are disclosed. One method includes receiving data from a plurality of remote monitoring locations at a central control unit, where the data may be evaluated in order to monitor states of brushes or other components of an electrical device at a plurality of remote electrical facilities. For example, multiple images of a component of an electrical device may be acquired. A comparison of the images, for example, a comparative imaging technique, such as pixel-by-pixel comparison or visual observation, may then be performed in order to evaluate a condition of the brush or other component, such as a threshold and/or anomalous condition of the brush or other component.
US07916035B2	Device for a bed alarm The invention relates to a device (1) for an alarm (2) intended for beds (3) and similar locations that, e.g., old people, demented or handicapped persons are arranged to stay on and that is formed of a sensor (7) distributed on the bed and coupled to a monitoring unit (6) that is arranged to provide alarming. The sensor (7) is arranged to co-operate with a radio receiver (9), positioned remotely from the sensor (7), via radio communication, and is formed of a unit that is arranged to measure the difference of the capacitance of a medium in a compressed and in a free state, respectively. The sensor (7) is formed of a compressible plastic core having a conductive gel applied on at least one side thereof and that is covered, on each side, by an electrode each.
US07916016B2	Smart container monitoring system A remotely monitorable shipping container including a shipping container body having associated therewith at least one door and at least one door latch having a latch locking element arranged for locking engagement with a door mounted locking element, at least one wireless communicator mounted in a secure location within the shipping container and being operative to wirelessly transmit information to a remote monitor regarding the status of an electronic seal mounted onto the locking element for confirming locking of the at least one door, and at least one wireless antenna mounted within a protected enclosure on the outside of the shipping container for transmitting the information from the at least one wireless communicator.
US07916012B2	Hybrid resonant structure to verify parameters of a tire Control of running conditions, and particularly physical parameters of tires are recommended to increase automobile safety. A sensor according to the invention is used to determine various factors such as the temperature or pressure of tires. The sensor is a hybrid resonant passive structure that may be integrated in the vehicle ground connection, and particularly in the rubber of the tire when it is manufactured.
US07916011B2	Tire monitor system having tire valve antenna A tire monitor system includes a tire monitor sensor unit that has a tire pressure detector, a coupler and a tire valve. The tire valve operates as an antenna to transmit tire data from the tire pressure detector. The coupler provides a capacitive coupling that removably couples the tire pressure detector and the tire valve. The coupler includes two metal layers separated by a dielectric layer. The two metal layers may be formed by the tire valve and a connection tube.
US07916008B2	RFID systems for vehicular applications An indication system (10) for a vehicle (11) includes a radio frequency circuit (12) with a transponder (84) and an in-vehicle RF tagged element (18). The transponder (84) transmits a status request signal. A first radio frequency identification tag (84) is coupled to the in-vehicle RF tagged element (18). The tag (84) inductively generates a current status signal associated with the in-vehicle element (18) and in response to the status request signal. A method of tracking, identifying, and determining the presence and status of an in-vehicle RF tagged element (18) includes transmitting a status request signal. The status request signal is inductively received via multiple radio frequency identification tags (84, 86) that are associated with the in-vehicle RF tagged element (18). A current status signal is transmitted from the radio frequency identification tags (84, 86). An in-vehicle task is performed in response to the current status signal.
US07916003B2	Protective cover assembly A protective cover assembly is provided. The protective cover assembly includes a flexible cover and an alarm assembly. The flexible cover includes an outer layer of flexible material, an inner layer of flexible material, and at least one layer of tear resistant material positioned between the outer and inner layers. The alarm assembly includes a pair of conductor plates positioned between the outer layer of flexible material and the inner layer of flexible material, a power source, and an alarm system electrically connected to the power source and at least one of the first and second conductor plates such that upon an electrical conducting implement piercing the first conductor plate and contacting the second conductor plate an electrical connection is established between the first conductor plate and the second conductor plate thereby causing the alarm system to emit an alerting signal.
US07916000B2	Automatic antenna tuner system for RFID An automatic antenna tuner system for radio frequency identification system includes a pulse width modulator, a microprocessor for controlling the generation of a source signal from the modulator, capacitors for receiving the source signal from amplifiers and transmitting it to an inductor, a gate communicating with the capacitors for transmitting a resonating signal from the inductor and capacitors as a carrier signal and means for gating the carrier signal with the source signal to produce a compared signal to produce a string of pulses and means for varying capacitance to increase or decrease the count of the string of pulses.
US07915993B2	Inductor An inductor includes a first core, a second core, a protruding structure, at least two gaps and a conducting wire. The first core has a protruding portion. The second core is disposed opposite to the first core. The protruding structure protrudes from the protruding portion of the first core and toward the second core. The at least two gaps are between the protruding portion of the first core and the second core. The conducting wire winds around at least one of the first and second cores. The conducting wire has a specific resistance value of 1.42 μΩm or lower.
US07915991B2	Fractional turns transformers with ferrite polymer core Conventional transformers with fractional turns have pre-manufactured cores usually with a complicated structure. According to the present invention, a method is provided of manufacturing a planar transformer where a ferrite polymer compound is laminated to a PCB for forming the core of the transformer. Advantageously, this may allow for the provision of a cheap and robust transformer.
US07915990B2	Wiring assembly and method for positioning conductor in a channel having a flat surface portion A conductor assembly and method for constructing an assembly of the type which, when conducting current, generates a magnetic field or which, in the presence of a changing magnetic field, induces a voltage. In one embodiment the method includes providing a first insulative layer having a curved surface along which a conductor segment may be positioned, and forming a channel in the insulative layer, which defines a first conductor path. The channel includes first and second opposing channel surfaces each extending from the surface of the insulative layer into the insulative layer and a third channel surface extending between the first and second channel surfaces. Each of the first and second channel surfaces includes a substantially flat surface portion with the surface portion of the first channel surface parallel with the surface portion of the second channel surface. A first segment of conductor is placed in the channel.
US07915980B2	Coax core insulator waveguide A communication device consistent with certain implementations has a coaxial cable having length and first and second ends. The coaxial cable further has a central conductor, a dielectric insulator surrounding the central conductor, and an electric shield conductor surrounding the dielectric insulator. The dielectric insulator serves as a dielectric waveguide having a characteristic impedance Z at an operating frequency range. A termination for electrical energy coupled into or out of the dielectric insulator at approximately the characteristic impedance Z at the operating frequency range to utilize the dielectric insulator as a waveguide for transmission of signals along the length of the coaxial cable, and wherein the center conductor is further used to communicate an electrical signal between the first and second ends. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract.
US07915978B2	Compact tunable dual band stop filter Various exemplary embodiments include a technique for tuning a filter to have two stop bands. This technique may involve combination of signals from a plurality of high-band notch resonators and low-band notch resonators. Loop wires may couple both high-band and low-band notch resonators to a central conductor, thereby enabling the central conductor to transmit a signal having dual stop bands.
US07915972B2	Balance filter and duplexer A balance filter includes a first filter having first multimode surface acoustic wave (SAW) filters connected in parallel, a second filter that is connected to the first filter and includes a second multimode SAW filter, a first terminal connected to the first filter, and second terminals connected to the second filter. An input terminal of the balance filter is one of the first and second terminals, and an output terminal thereof is the other. Electric signals transmitted from the first to second filters or vice versa are in opposite phase. Electric signals are input or output via the second terminals in opposite phase.
US07915969B2	Distortion compensating circuit A distortion compensating circuit is provided in which, in the polar modulation system, while suppressing increase of compensation data and increase of the circuit scale, a modulated signal can be correctly expressed, or low-distortion characteristics of a power amplifier can be realized. Based on a steady characteristic compensating circuit 11 which stores an output signal amplitude and output phase characteristics with respect to a control voltage in a steady state, amplitude adjustment is executed on amplitude information r11(t) on which amplitude correction is performed, by a first amplitude information adjusting portion 13, whereby the output-response characteristics of an output signal amplitude of an amplifier with respect to a change of the control voltage can be improved.
US07915955B2	Bias balancing circuit The invention discloses a bias balancing circuit. The bias balancing circuit is used for balancing an output voltage outputted by an amplifier module. The amplifier module has a variable gain. The bias balancing circuit comprises a comparator and a voltage selector. The comparator is used for comparing the output voltage and a reference voltage, to generate a comparison signal. The voltage selector is used for generating a selected voltage according to the comparison signal. When the variable gain is changed to result in an offset from the output voltage to the reference voltage, the bias balancing circuit is capable of balancing the output voltage toward the reference voltage by the selected voltage.
US07915954B2	Amplifier predistortion and autocalibration method and apparatus Methods and apparatus for amplifier AM and PM predistortion and autocalibration. AM and PM amplifier distortion can be corrected using predistortion. The AM and PM distortion characteristics of the amplifier are determined using an autocalibration technique. The amplifier characteristics can be stored in distinct look up tables. Alternatively, the inverse of the amplifier characteristics can be stored in distinct look up tables. Signals that are to be amplified are characterized in polar format having a phase component with a normalized magnitude and a magnitude component. The phase component can be predistorted by applying the inverse of the PM distortion characteristics to the signal. Similarly, the magnitude component can be predistorted by applying the inverse of the AM distortion characteristics to the signal. The predistorted phase component can be amplified using the previously characterized amplifier. The predistorted magnitude component can be used to set the gain of the previously characterized amplifier.
US07915950B2	Method and algorithm of high precision on-chip global biasing using integrated resistor calibration circuits Systems and methods for providing bias currents to multiple analog circuits are disclosed. An integrated circuit comprises a calibration circuit which compares a high tolerance external component to a plurality of internal components manufactured to span the variability of the process, voltage and temperature. The best fitting internal component is communicated to bias circuits which can select an internal component from a local plurality of internal components with matching desired characteristics. In this manner, analog circuits can be locally biased with the tolerance usually associated with a high tolerance external reference component, without the necessity for a local external reference component.
US07915944B2	Gate drive circuitry for non-isolated gate semiconductor devices One embodiment is a gate drive circuitry for switching a semiconductor device having a non-isolated input, the gate drive circuitry having a first circuitry configured to turn-on the semiconductor device by imposing a current on a gate of the semiconductor device so as to forward bias an inherent parasitic diode of the semiconductor device. There is a second circuitry configured to turn-off the semiconductor device by imposing a current on the gate of the semiconductor device so as to reverse bias the parasitic diode of the semiconductor device wherein the first circuitry and the second circuitry are coupled to the semiconductor device respectively through a first switch and a second switch.
US07915939B2	Duty cycle correction apparatus and semiconductor integrated circuit having the same A duty cycle correction apparatus includes a fixed delay unit configured to set a fixed delay time to a DLL clock signal and generate a delay rising clock signal; a variable delay unit configured to delay the DLL clock signal in response to a control signal and generate a delay falling clock signal; a duty cycle correction unit configured to generate a correction rising clock signal and a correction falling clock signal that are toggled in conformity with edge timing of the delay rising clock signal and the delay falling clock signal; and a delay control unit configured to detect duty cycles of the correction rising clock signal and the correction falling clock signal and generate the control signal.
US07915938B2	Multi-channel digital pulse width modulator (DPWM) A multiple channel Digital Pulse Width Modulator (DPWM) can include a single delay locked loop with a delay line, the delay line producing a number of outputs. Circuitry can use a delay line mask to mask a portion of the delay line outputs to produce a modified outputs so as to prevent premature pulse width reset. Jitter tolerance look ahead circuits can prevent jitter from causing premature reset of pulse width modulated signals. The pulse width modulators can include multiple alternately used multiplexers so that the operation of the pulse width modulators is not affected by the load time of the multiplexers.
US07915928B2	High linearity voltage to current conversion A system and method for performing voltage to current conversion, the system comprising of a first set of devices that senses the input voltage signal through its input terminal and replicates said input voltage across a second set of devices which then converts said replicated input voltage signal to an output current signal; a third set of devices that transfers the output current signal to output terminals; a differential feedback loop comprising an amplifier positioned between a first one of the first set of devices and a first one of the third set of devices; and a common mode feedback loop that regulates the output average voltage to a reference voltage.
US07915921B1	Circuits and methods for level shifting a signal In one embodiment, the present disclosure includes a level shift circuit. The level shift circuit includes a clocked latch to receive a digital data signal and a complement of the digital data signal. Outputs of the clocked latch are coupled to inputs of a second latch through capacitors. The clocked latch is powered by first and second power supply voltages that are different than third and fourth power supply voltages used for powering the second latch. Latch output signals from the second latch have high and low voltage values at the third and fourth power supply voltages. In one embodiment, transistors in circuitry driven by the level shift circuit may receive output signals from the level shift circuit that have high and low voltage values within a safe operating range of the transistor receiving the output signal.
US07915920B2	Low latency, power-down safe level shifter In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a circuit supplied by a first supply voltage during use, the circuit having at least a first input signal; and a level shifter supplied by the first supply voltage during use and coupled to provide the first input signal to the circuit. The level shifter is coupled to receive a second input signal sourced from circuitry supplied by a second supply voltage during use, and is configured to generate the first input signal by level shifting the second input signal. Coupled to receive a power control signal indicating, when asserted, that the second supply voltage is to be powered down, the level shifter is configured to assert a predetermined level on the first input signal independent of the second input signal and responsive to an assertion of the power control signal.
US07915914B1	2×VDD-tolerant logic circuits and a related 2×VDD-tolerant I/O buffer with PVT compensation A 2×VDD-tolerant input/output (I/O) buffer circuit with process, voltage, and temperature (PVT) compensation suitable for CMOS technology is disclosed. A 2×VDD-tolerant I/O buffer with a PVT compensation circuit is implemented with novel 2×VDD-tolerant logic gates. Output slew rate variations can be kept within smaller ranges to match maximum and minimum timing specifications. A 2×VDD tolerant logic circuit for implementing the I/O buffer is also disclosed.
US07915910B2	Dynamic voltage and frequency management In one embodiment, an integrated circuit includes a self calibration unit configured to iterate a test on a logic circuit in the integrated circuit at respectively lower supply voltage magnitudes until the test fails. A lowest supply voltage magnitude at which the test passes is used to generate a requested supply voltage magnitude for the integrated circuit. In an embodiment, an integrated circuit includes a series connection of logic gates physically distributed over an area of the integrated circuit, and a measurement unit configured to launch a logical transition into the series and detect a corresponding transition at the output of the series. The amount of time between the launch and the detection is used to request a supply voltage magnitude for the integrated circuit.
US07915906B2	Test circuit for liquid crystal display device, LCD device including test circuit, and testing method for LCD device A test device for detecting malfunction of a liquid crystal display device, and also provide a liquid crystal display device incorporated with such test device. The test device comprising a comparator circuit for detecting which of the rows or columns of the lines is selected, an encoder circuit receiving the detection result from the comparator circuit, a plurality of bus lines and a read-out circuit reading the voltage level of the bus lines from the encoder circuit to determine if the encoded number is identical with the number of the selected row or column line, wherein the comparator circuit, the encoder circuit, and the read-out circuit being built in the same substrate as the liquid crystal display elements.
US07915903B2	Batch-test method using a chip tray A chip test method is disclosed and includes: loading chips on a chip tray and fastening a cover plate on the chip tray; loading the chip tray with the cover plate in a chip test device; aligning a probe card of the chip test device with a test unit of the chip tray; testing chips in the chip tray; sorting the passed chips from the failed chips.
US07915901B2	Low-profile electrical resistance corrosion sensor A thin and narrow electrical resistance corrosion sensor defines measurement, reference and check resistors as abutting serially disposed portions of a thin strip-like metal resistance element, such as a carbon steel or ductile iron element, having metallurgical properties which match those of a corrodible structure of interest such as a pipeline buried in the ground. The resistance element is bonded to a thin, long and narrow nonconductive structural substrate to which is also bonded a flat wire harness which includes conductors connected to the ends of the resistance element and to selected locations of the element between its ends. The resistance element, the substrate, and the wire harness and its connections to the resistance element are encapsulated by a nonconductive protective coating except over the area of the measurement resistor so that such resistor can be exposed to the adjacent environment. The sensor can be used with conventional corrosion measurement instruments. Arrangements for use of plural sensors to measure corrosion due to direct current in a structure of interest, and to measure corrosion due to alternating currents in that structure, also are described.
US07915898B1	Integrated cable/connector shielding surveillance system A system determining whether the shielding on a shielded signal or power cable has been compromised without the need of detaching the cable. A special-made cable is used with a dedicated shielding surveillance conductor and a process for injecting a known current on the shield of the cable and monitoring a voltage on the shielding surveillance conductor.
US07915897B2	Foil-leaf electrometer for static field detection with permanently separating leaves An apparatus for detecting a static field includes two surfaces of conductive material that are (i) electrically coupled to each other, and adjacent to each other. The two surfaces repel each other in the presence of a static field. The conductive material has a deformation property such that stress caused by repulsion of the two surfaces from each other by at least a predetermined distance causes at least one of the surfaces to permanently deform.
US07915888B2	Systems and methods for detecting angular position Methods and systems for detecting an angular position of an electric motor are disclosed, including sending an electrical pulse through a stator coil of the electric motor, determining an approximate angular position of a rotor of the electric motor in response to detecting an timing of a returning electrical pulse from the stator coil, the timing of the returning electrical pulse being indicative of the angular position of the rotor; and determining an accurate position of the rotor in response to sensing a transition of a digital sensor in response to the rotor rotating relative to the stator, the transition being indicative of the accurate position.
US07915887B2	Device for generating a magnetic field in a goal area for taking a goal decision A device for generating a magnetic field in a goal area with at least two coils arranged in parallel to a goal area defined and bounded by a goal, wherein a first coil is attached in an area behind the goal and a second coil is attached closer to the goal than the first coil or identical to the goal, wherein the first coil and the second coil respectively have a coil impedance, wherein the coil impedance of the second coil is set so that a magnetic field of the second coil generated due to a magnetic field of the first coil reduces the magnetic field of the first coil at a location within the second coil by at least 20%.
US07915885B2	Sensor system and method A sensing system includes a conductor with a current flow path therethrough. A first location of the conductor defines a first cross-sectional area and a second location defines a second cross-sectional area, wherein a current flowing through the conductor establishes magnetic field lines having strengths that vary according the conductor cross-sectional area. A plurality of sensors include a first and second sensors situated proximate the first and second locations, respectively, and configured to measure the magnetic field lines at their respective locations.
US07915883B2	Constant current circuit, light emitting apparatus and power supply apparatus using that constant current circuit In a constant current circuit that supplies a constant current Ic to a circuit connected to a current output terminal, the first transistor M1 is disposed on a current path of the constant current Ic. The second transistor and the first transistor have commonly connected gate terminals which are control terminals. The first current-voltage converting unit converts the current Im2 flowing through the second transistor into a voltage. A constant current source generates a reference current Iref. The second current-voltage converting unit converts the reference current into a voltage. Into the first error amplifier, voltages Vx1, Vx2 are input, so as to adjust the gate voltage of the first and second transistors. A voltage adjusting unit adjusts the voltage at the gate terminal of the third transistor so that the voltage at one end of the second transistor will be approximated to a predetermined reference voltage.
US07915880B2	Step-up DC-DC converter A step-up DC-DC converter is disclosed that is capable of high efficiency power conversion under both a heavy load condition and a light load condition. The step-up DC-DC converter includes a direct current power source, an inductor, a first switching element, a second switching element, a smoothing capacitor, a driver controller for controlling switching ON or switching OFF the first switching element and the second switching element, and a control changing unit for changing a control operation of the driver controller according to a load current. According to an output from the control changing unit, the driver controller performs one of an operation of switching OFF the second switching element and an operation of switching ON or switching OFF the second switching element.
US07915874B1	Step-down converter having a resonant inductor, a resonant capacitor and a hybrid transformer Unlike buck converter and tapped-inductor buck converters, which use only inductive energy transfer, the present invention employs the capacitive energy transfer in addition to inductive energy transfer. The hybrid transformer performs the double duty simultaneously: transfers the input inductive energy storage to the load through a taped-inductor turns ratio n but also transfers the resonant capacitor discharge current to the load during OFF-time interval amplified by turns ratio m of the hybrid transformer.Despite the presence of the resonant inductor current during the OFF-time interval, the output voltage is neither dependent on resonant component values nor on the load current as in conventional resonant converters but depends on duty ratio D and turns ratio n of the hybrid transformer. Hence a simple regulation of output voltage is achieved using duty ratio control.
US07915867B1	Synchronous control for generator output Synchronous control for an output of a generator is disclosed. A desired output level at the output of the generator is received. An off time to achieve the desired output level is determined. A timing for the off time is determined. One or more coil outputs are caused to switch off for the off time at the determined timing for the off time. The one or more coil outputs contribute to the output of the generator in the event that the one or more coil outputs are switched on.
US07915859B2	Apparatus and method for controlling power An apparatus for controlling a power source, and which includes a power source unit including a plurality of power cells connected in parallel, a balancing unit coupled to the plurality of power cells of the power source unit, and a controller configured to control the balancing unit to balance operational characteristics of the plurality of power cells.
US07915858B2	Localized charging, load identification and bi-directional communication methods for a planar inductive battery charging system Methods and principles are described for systematizing localized charging, load identification and bi-directional communication in a planar battery charging system. Also described is control circuitry for selectively energizing a primary winding when a load is placed on the platform. The optimization of the size of the receiver winding compared to the transmitter winding is discussed, while the associated communication methods include techniques for load identification, compatibility checks, hand-shaking and communication of charging status.
US07915855B2	Portable terminal and power supply control method A portable terminal and power supply control method are provided. The portable terminal having a power supply control feature includes a main battery for supplying power to the portable terminal, an auxiliary battery for supplying power to the portable terminal independently of the main battery, a switch module for controlling the power supply of the main battery and auxiliary battery, and a power unit controller for controlling on-off settings of the switch module and for disconnecting, when a battery level of the main battery is higher than that of the auxiliary battery, the auxiliary battery from the main battery. The battery levels of the main battery and auxiliary battery are measured and are controlled to prevent charging of the auxiliary battery with a charge current from the main battery through switch settings.
US07915853B2	Motor driving apparatus A system for driving a motor includes first and second rectifier circuits, a direct current (DC) link circuit, an inverter circuit, a voltage booster circuit, and a switch control circuit. When the motor is at a deceleration state, a micro control unit (MCU) outputs a first charging signal to turn on a switch of a first relay and turn off a switch of a second relay, a regenerative current from the motor is charged into a storage capacitor. Before the motor is in an acceleration state, the MCU outputs a second charging signal to turn on the switch of the second relay and turn off the switch of the first relay, and turn on a boosting switch, an increased voltage of the storage capacitor is charged into another storage capacitor. When a voltage at the DC link circuit reaches a predetermined value, the MCU controls the inverter circuit to accelerate the motor.
US07915850B2	Apparatus and method for controlling servomotor of electric injection molding machine An apparatus and method for servomotors of an electric injection molding machine includes a motion controlling unit, two driving amplifying units, and two servomotors respectively connected to the driving amplifying units. The motion controlling unit includes two servomotor position controllers both for receiving a first position command, and the driving amplifying units are respectively connected to the servomotor position controllers for receiving a second and third position command. Two position detectors are respectively received in the two screw caps that are mounted to the servomotors for detecting absolute positions of the corresponding screw caps. The screw caps are respectively connected to inputs of the first and second servomotor position controllers to form two screw cap position feedback circuits. The values of the screw cap position feedback circuits are compared to the first position command for being input into the driving amplifying units to drive the corresponding servomotors to act synchronously.
US07915849B2	Method and system for low speed control of a video surveillance system motor The present invention provides a method and system that improve the low-speed control stability of a video camera assembly, including a video camera, a tilt motor operable to tilt the video camera and a pan motor operable to pan the video camera. A first encoder is coupled to one of the tilt motor and pan motor. The first encoder outputs a plurality of signals having corresponding signal edges, based on a rotation speed of the one of the tilt motor and pan motor. A first controller is in electrical communication with the first encoder. The first controller determines a speed of the one of the tilt motor and pan motor at least in part by correlating a time period between detection of the first edge and detection of the second edge to the speed of the at least one tilt motor and pan motor.
US07915848B2	Servo control apparatus that performs dual-position feedback control A servo control apparatus that performs dual-position feedback control and thereby achieves a reduction in position error according to the purpose of machining. The servo control apparatus includes: a first position detector for detecting the position of a motor; a second position detector for detecting the position of a driven load; a first position error calculator for calculating a first position error based on a position command and motor position feedback; a second position error calculator for calculating a second position error based on the position command and driven load position feedback; a third position error calculator for calculating a third position error to be used for position control, by adding to the first position error a difference taken between the first position error and the second position error and passed through a time constant circuit; a selector for selecting either the second position error or the third position error for output; and a learning controller for learning an output of the selector, and for outputting an amount of compensation to be applied to the third position error.
US07915846B2	Current inducing circuit Various example embodiments are disclosed. According to one example embodiment, a charging probe may include an alternating current (AC) input configured to receive current from an AC source, a rectifier circuit configured to rectify the current received from the AC source, a primary coil, and a control circuit configured to convert the rectified current into a regulated voltage across a primary coil. The primary coil may be configured to induce a magnetic field from the regulated voltage.
US07915845B2	Motor control method and device thereof A motor control method and a motor control device are provided. The control method includes the steps of receiving a current feedback signal from a coil switching circuit, while the motor is rotating, for generating a separate signal, and comparing the current feedback signal and the separate signal for generating a motor control signal so as to control the operation of the motor.
US07915842B2	Actuator drive control device An active vibration isolation support system includes an electronic control unit which supplies a target electric current to an actuator to periodically drive the actuator in an expansion and contraction manner with a target vibration waveform. The controller sets the target electric current by synthesizing a driving primary electric current waveform corresponding to the target vibration waveform for the actuator with higher-order (driving secondary and/or tertiary) electric current waveforms which eliminate higher-order vibration components of the actuator corresponding to the driving primary electric current waveform. It is possible to alleviate a calculating load in the electronic control unit by ignoring the quaternary and still higher-order vibration components which less affect the target vibration waveform for the actuator.
US07915840B1	RF power recovery feedback circulator A device and method for improving the efficiency of RF systems having a Reflective Load. In the preferred embodiment, Reflected Energy from a superconducting resonator of a particle accelerator is reintroduced to the resonator after the phase of the Reflected Energy is aligned with the phase of the Supply Energy from a RF Energy Source. In one embodiment, a Circulator is used to transfer Reflected Energy from the Reflective Load into a Phase Adjuster which aligns the phase of the Reflected Energy with that of the Supply Energy. The phase-aligned energy is then combined with the Supply Energy, and reintroduced into the Reflective Load. In systems having a constant phase shift, the Phase Adjuster may be designed to shift the phase of the Reflected Energy by a constant amount using a Phase Shifter. In systems having a variety (variable) phase shifts, a Phase Shifter controlled by a phase feedback loop comprising a Phase Detector and a Feedback Controller to account for the various phase shifts is preferable.
US07915835B2	Imaging apparatus, strobe device, and charging-control method An imaging apparatus including a strobe device having a charging circuit of a separately excited oscillation type is provided. The apparatus includes a main capacitor in which charge is accumulated to supply power to a strobe-light-flashing unit, a step-up transformer including at least primary and secondary coils, a switching element that performs a switching operation to control a current supplied to the primary coil, a rectifier diode that rectifies a flyback pulse generated in the secondary coil to supply a charging voltage to the main capacitor, a power-supply-interrupting circuit that selectively interrupts power supplied from the power supply, a full-charge detection unit that detects whether the main capacitor reaches a fully charged state, and a power-supply-control unit that controls the power-supply-interrupting circuit so as to set the power-supply-interrupting circuit to be in an interrupting state.
US07915826B2	Electric lamp with inner assembly and outer bulb and method for manufacturing An electric lamp comprises an inner assembly including a light source and a control gear circuit. An outer envelope encloses the light source and at least a part of the control gear and has a predetermined wall thickness and an end portion. The outer envelope is comprised of two parts separated along a circumferential line. The two parts of the envelope are connectable and sealable to form a uniform outer envelope with a seal region. The seal region has a wall thickness and is merged in a surface portion of the two parts of the envelope so that the surface unevenness of the seal region is not greater than 0.5 millimeters, and the maximum difference of the wall thickness of the seal region with respect to the wall thickness of the outer envelope is not greater than 0.3 millimeters.A method for manufacturing an electric lamp as described above is also disclosed. During connecting, and sealing the two parts of the envelope by a welding process, the two parts are brought into a contacting position and compressed further by a first axial distance; and then the two parts are pulled apart from each other by a second axial distance in order to merge the seal region in a surface portion of the two parts, wherein the second axial distance is larger than the first axial distance.
US07915818B2	Light emitting device and manufacturing method thereof and light emitting display and manufacturing method thereof The present invention provides a light emitting device comprising a substrate comprising a thin film transistor, a first electrode formed on the substrate and electrically connected to the thin film transistor, a light emitting part formed on the first electrode;a second electrode formed on the light emitting part, and an auxiliary common electrode formed on a partial area of the second electrode, the partial area including a part of a non-emitting area.
US07915816B2	Organic electroluminescence display device comprising auxiliary wiring An organic electroluminescence display device is provided. The organic electroluminescence display device includes plural organic electroluminescence elements. Each organic electroluminescence element includes: (A) a lower electrode; (B) an insulating layer having an opening, in which a lower electrode is exposed at the bottom of the opening; (C) an auxiliary wiring; (D) a stacked structure provided from a portion over the lower electrode exposed at the bottom of the opening to a portion of the insulating layer surrounding the opening, including a light emitting layer made of an organic light-emitting material; and (E) an upper electrode. At least one layer of the stacked structure partially contacts the auxiliary wiring. The insulating layer and the auxiliary wiring are provided in common to the plurality of organic EL elements. The upper electrode covers the whole surface of the stacked structures and the auxiliary wiring.
US07915814B2	Organic electro-luminescent display device A top-emission-type organic EL display device which exhibits uniform screen brightness is realized by preventing a voltage drop of an upper electrode formed of a transparent conductive film. Pixels each of which is sandwiched between an upper electrode and a lower electrode are arranged in a matrix array to form a display region. An auxiliary electrode extends in the lateral direction between the pixels and the pixels for preventing a voltage drop of the upper electrode. A current supply line which supplies an electric current to the upper electrode and the auxiliary electrodes are made conductive with each other by forming a through hole in an insulation layer. To ensure reliability of connection at the through hole, a contact electrode made of metal which overlaps with the auxiliary electrode is formed on the through hole by vapor deposition.
US07915810B2	Display device, and method for repairing a defective pixel A display device 10 including a supporting substrate 12, pixels arranged over the supporting substrate, and a member which is arranged on the light extraction side of a defective pixel 22b, the defective pixel being in a constantly non-lit state, the member being imparted with a light scattering property by the selective application of external energy. Preferably, disposed is a thermosensitive layer 24 which changes from a transparent state to a light scattering state when the layer is heated to a specified temperature or higher. An examination is performed for specifying the constantly non-lit defective pixel from among the pixels arranged over the supporting substrate. An external energy is selectively applied to at least one member arranged on the light extraction side of the defective pixel specified by the examination, thereby imparting the light scattering property to the member.
US07915808B2	Light emitting device including EL elements for emitting lights of different colors There is provided a light emitting device which enables a color display with good color balance. A triplet compound is used for a light emitting layer of an EL element that emits red color, and a singlet compound is used for a light emitting layer of an EL element that emits green color and a light emitting layer of an EL element that emits blue color. Thus, an operation voltage of the EL element emitting red color may be made the same as the EL element emitting green color and the EL element emitting blue color. Accordingly, the color display with good color balance can be realized.
US07915805B2	Organic electroluminescent display and method of manufacture An organic electroluminescent display having better photoluminescence efficiency includes a first electrode, an organic light-emitting layer, and a second electrode sequentially disposed on a first surface of an insulating substrate, and a plurality of convex patterns disposed on a second surface of the insulating substrate opposite to the first surface and spaced apart from each other, and which are formed of a transparent sealant having a viscosity of 5,000 to 150,000 cp and comprised of an epoxy- or acrylate-based resin, together with a plurality of concave patterns interposed between the convex patterns.
US07915784B2	Surface acoustic wave resonator and surface acoustic wave device in which spurious responses that occur when a SiO2 protective film is provided are suppressed A surface acoustic wave resonator includes a rotated Y-cut quartz substrate with a cut angle θ of about −53° to about −52° and an IDT electrode made of aluminum or an alloy primarily including aluminum provided on the quartz substrate. The propagation direction of surface acoustic waves is within a range of about 90°±5° with respect to the X axis. A SiO2 film is arranged to cover the quartz substrate and the IDT electrode. The thickness of the IDT electrode is in a range of about 6.0% to about 6.5% of λ, where λ is the wavelength of surface acoustic waves, and the duty ratio of the IDT electrode is in a range of about 0.62 to about 0.66.
US07915778B2	Electric motor An electric motor comprising a rotor having plural magnetic poles in the circumferential direction; and a stator whose teeth are disposed opposite to the periphery of the rotor, with an air gap interposed between the rotor and the stator, wherein the coil conductors are wound on the stator so that two stator magnetic poles may be formed by two coil units of a phase wound around stator teeth within the range of 360 electrical degrees subtended by the magnetic poles of the rotor; each of the two coil units forming the stator magnetic poles spans an electrical angle less than 180 electrical degrees; the two coil turns forming the two stator magnetic poles are laid out so that they may not overlap each other; and the coil conductors are so wound that the adjacent stator magnetic poles exhibit opposite magnetic polarities.
US07915772B2	Motor for vehicle door lock A motor of a door lock for a vehicle comprises: a motor housing; an end cap fixed to the motor housing; and a rotation detector. The motor housing accommodates an armature including a motor shaft and a commutator. A sensor magnet is fixed to the motor shaft and the rotation detector comprises a rotation sensor fixed to a circuit board fixed to an inner part of the end cap and disposed adjacent the sensor magnet for sensing rotation of the magnet to produce a corresponding signal. A sensor connector fixed to the circuit board and electrically connected with the rotation sensor; connects to signal wires which transfer the signal to a microprocessor of the vehicle.
US07915771B2	Salient-pole machine comprising at least one field coil The invention relates to a salient-pole machine comprising at least one field coil that extends in an axial direction of the salient-pole machine and is located below a pole shoe on a rotor body. Said machine is characterized in that the field coil is pressed against the pole shoe by means of at least one spring that is provided between the field coil and the rotor body and that an axial cooling channel is created in the gap between the field coil and the rotor body that is formed by the spring. The spring is configured in particular as a bent plate spring.
US07915769B2	Primary part and linear electrical machine with force ripple compensation A primary part of a linear electrical machine includes a first member for production of a first magnetic field, a second member for production of a second magnetic field. The first member and the second member are arranged to realize a superimposition of the first magnetic field with the second magnetic field. Arranged on at least one end face of the primary part is a flux-guiding element to reduce a force ripple. The flux-guiding element is constructed in the form of an end tooth module having at least one permanent magnet.
US07915766B2	Preventive maintenance tapping and duty cycle monitor for voltage regulator The life of load tap changer contacts is monitored by detecting an arcing event; identifying arcing surfaces involved in the arcing event; calculating a per-unit loss of life for the identified arcing surfaces as a result of the arcing event; updating estimates of cumulative erosion for the arcing surfaces; comparing the updated estimates of cumulative erosion to a first threshold value; and signaling for action when at least one of the updated estimates of cumulative erosion exceeds the first threshold value.
US07915765B2	Dual reference capacitive sensing user interface A module for controlling power supply to a load in a product which includes a microchip, and an electromechanical switch and a proximity/touch sensor connected to the microchip, preferably to the same input. The switch is primarily used to activate or deactivate the load and the proximity/touch sensor to vary the effect of operating the switch, or to control additional functions such as the activation of a signal, typically a light signal, which helps to locate the product, particularly in the dark, and to vary the duration of an automatic time-out period at the end of which the load is deactivated.
US07915764B1	Relay circuitry and switching circuitry for power-over-network devices Relay circuitry for a power-over-network device is provided. The relay circuitry allows power-supplying network devices to identify and subsequently to supply power across a network connection to the power-over-network device, thereby eliminating the need for external power sources. The relay circuitry is operative using only the signals transmitted along a data line across the network connection. The relay circuitry is integrated together with switching circuitry on-chip on the power-over-network device. The relay circuitry and switching circuitry are further designed to propagate both the test signals and the subsequent data signals prior to and after the turning on of the power-over-network device, respectively, with minimal signal degradation.
US07915761B1	Power injector detection In one embodiment, a signal detector is coupled to an external power source. The signal detector is configured to ascertain whether a predetermined signal was received from the external power source. Control logic is coupled to the signal detector and to the external power source. The control logic is responsive to the signal detector to determine a characteristic of the external power source based on whether the signal detector detected the predetermined signal. The characteristics of the external power supply can be determined based on the frequency, amplitude and duration of a signal received from the power injector. This enables the control logic to determine the power available from an unknown power supply and to configure a device to operate accordingly.
US07915759B2	Micro-power source module A power source IC and noise absorption capacitors (decoupling capacitors) are formed on an inductor in such a manner that the noise absorption capacitors are provided on the input side and the output side, respectively. A micro-power source module can thus be provided which is small in occupied area and height and can reduce conduction noise due to ground lines.
US07915756B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device including a redundant circuit which can operate even when power source in a circuit in part of the redundant circuit is short-circuited. A power source circuit, a power source control circuit to which a power source potential is input from the power source circuit, and a first functional circuit and a second functional circuit connected to the power source control circuit are provided for a semiconductor device. The power source control circuit selects one of the first functional circuit and the second functional circuit and judges whether power source is short-circuited or not. When power source is short-circuited, power source supply stops and other functional circuits are supplied with power source.
US07915755B2	System and method for enabling power applications over a single communication wire pair A system and method for enabling power applications over a single communication wire pair. In one embodiment, a data transformer is provided that has three separate windings. Two of the windings are tied to each other via high frequency pass DC-blocking capacitors, or another suitable element that creates an AC path while providing a DC block, such that the voltage forms on either ends of the DC-blocking capacitors and the signal is sent on the outer legs of each winding. A circuit measures the current draw (I) and injects a current proportional to, but smaller than, I into a third bias cancellation winding.
US07915752B2	Apparatus for enabling an aerial lift including a self-disabling interlock The present invention provides a control circuit for enabling an aerial boom on an aerial lift truck having stabilizing members. The control circuit includes a selector switch to enable the auxiliary member and an interlock portion preventing the auxiliary member from being enabled if each of the stabilizing members is not in an operative position. The control circuit further includes an interlock over ride. The interlock over ride may be activated when the selector switch is attempting to enable the auxiliary member and remains activated until the selector switch disables the auxiliary member. Thus, the interlock over ride permits an operator to bypass the interlock during a single operation of the auxiliary member and prevents bypass from remaining active during subsequent operations of the auxiliary member.
US07915750B1	Methods and apparatus for generating electrical energy with a submerged tank Generation of electrical energy from water is performed by submerging a tank having an inlet and an outlet in a body of water so that the water inlet is located under a water surface and covered by water, and water flows thereby into an interior of the tank, evacuating water from the tank through the outlet to maintain in the interior of the tank a space for flowing water through the inlet into the interior of the tank; and arranging a converting unit which converts energy of the water flowing into the interior of the tank into an electrical energy.
US07915744B2	Bond pad structures and semiconductor devices using the same A semiconductor device comprises a first semiconductor die and a second semiconductor die. The first semiconductor die comprises a at least one first bond pads formed on a peripheral region of the first semiconductor die, a at least one re-distributed layer (RDL) pads formed on a center region of the first semiconductor die, and a at least one wire routes interconnecting the first bond pads and the RDL pads. The second semiconductor die is disposed over the first semiconductor die, wherein the second semiconductor die has a at least one second bond pads electrically connecting to the RDL pads via bonding wires; wherein the RDL pad is supported by at least a buffer layer.
US07915733B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device which includes a first wiring with a via connected to the first wiring, a second wiring connected to the via and a dummy via disposed adjacent to the via at a distance of 100 nm or less and formed on the same layer as the via.
US07915730B2	Packaging conductive structure and method for manufacturing the same A packaging conductive structure for a semiconductor substrate and a method for manufacturing the structure are provided. The structure comprises an under bump metal (UBM) that overlays a pad of the semiconductor substrate. At least one auxiliary component is disposed on the UBM. Then, a bump conductive layer is disposed thereon and a bump is subsequently formed on the bump conductive layer. Thus, the bump can electrically connect to the pad of the semiconductor substrate through the UBM and the bump conductive layer and can provide better junction buffer capabilities and conductivity.
US07915728B2	Subassembly that includes a power semiconductor die and a heat sink having an exposed surface portion thereof The semiconductor assembly includes a first subassembly having a heat sink. Solder material is disposed on the exposed portion of a first surface of heat sink. A power semiconductor die is located on the first surface of the heat sink and is thermally coupled thereto by the solder material. A packaging patterned polymer layer is disposed on a second surface of the heat sink opposing the first surface and defines an interior surface portion of the heat sink. A semiconductor package is provided in which the first subassembly, solder material and die are located such that the interior surface portion of the second surface of the heat sink is not enclosed by the semiconductor package.
US07915724B2	Integrated circuit packaging system with base structure device An integrated circuit packaging system including: forming a base structure, having an opening; mounting a base structure device in the opening; attaching an integrated circuit device over the base structure device; and molding an encapsulant on the base structure, the base structure device, and the integrated circuit device.
US07915723B2	Transistor array, manufacturing method thereof and image processor An image processor by way of a transistor array in which a plurality of transistors are formed on a substrate comprising a plurality of polysilicon thin-film transistors using a first semiconductor layer composed of polysilicon formed on the substrate and functional devices having a plurality of amorphous silicon thin-film transistors using a second semiconductor layer composed of amorphous silicon which are formed in an upper layer more superior than the first semiconductor layer. The polysilicon thin-film transistors and functional devices include a plurality of electrode layers composed of a conductor layer, for instance, the functional devices at least of any one of the electrode layers are formed in the same layer as any one the electrode layers of the polysilicon thin-film transistors.
US07915717B2	Plastic image sensor packaging for image sensors A package for an image sensor includes a lead frame having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface; an image sensor mounted on the first surface of the lead frame; an optical cover spanning the first surface; and a plastic, optically transparent window in the optical cover and aligned with the image sensor.
US07915702B2	Reduced pixel area image sensor An image sensor that includes a plurality of pixels disposed on a substrate, each pixel includes at least one photosensitive region that collects charges in response to incident light; a charge-to-voltage conversion node for sensing the charge from the at least one photosensitive region and converting the charge to a voltage; an amplifier transistor having a source connected to an output node, having a gate connected to the charge-to-voltage conversion node and having a drain connected to at least a portion of a power supply node; and a reset transistor connecting the output node and the charge-to-voltage conversion node.
US07915697B2	Sensor device and fabrication method for the same The sensor device includes: a converter body made of silicon in the shape of a rhombus in plan, the converter body having an opening in the shape of a hexagon in plan; a substrate for holding the converter body; a movable film formed on the opening; a converter electrode formed on the converter body; and a substrate electrode formed on the substrate, the substrate electrode being electrically connected with the converter electrode. The opening is placed so that four of the six sides of the hexagon extend along the four sides of the rhombus of the converter body.
US07915680B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method of the same A semiconductor device comprises: a channel region of a transistor formed in a predetermined region of silicon layer formed on insulation film; a gate electrode formed on the channel region via gate insulation film; and source/drain regions formed in the silicon layer thicker than said channel region located out of the channel region, wherein the transistor is a memory element constituting the channel region as a floating body cell.
US07915673B2	Recessed channel negative differential resistance-based memory cell Disclosed herein is an improved recessed thyristor-based memory cell. The disclosed cell comprises in one embodiment a conductive plug recessed into the bulk of the substrate, which is coupled to or comprises the enable gate of the cell. Vertically disposed around this recessed gate is a thyristor, whose anode (source; p-type region) is connected to the bit line and cathode (drain; n-type region) is connected to the word line. Aside from the recessed enable gate, the disclosed cell comprises no other gate, such as an access transistor, and hence is essentially a one-transistor device. As a result, and as facilitated by the vertical disposition of the thyristor, the disclosed cell takes up a small amount of area on an integrated circuit when compared to a traditional DRAM cell. Moreover, the disclosed cell is simple to manufacture in its various embodiments, and is easy to configure into an array of cells. Isolation underneath the cell, while not required in all useful embodiments, assists in improving the data retention of the cell and extends the time needed between cell refresh.
US07915660B2	Junction-free NAND flash memory and fabricating method thereof A junction-free NAND flash memory is described, including a substrate, memory cells, source/drain inducing (SDI) gates electrically connected with each other, and a dielectric material layer. The memory cells are disposed on the substrate, wherein each memory cell includes a charge storage layer. Each SDI gate is disposed between two neighboring memory cells. The dielectric material layer is disposed between the memory cells and the SDI gates and between the SDI gates and the substrate.
US07915656B2	Nonvolatile semiconductor memory apparatus and manufacturing method thereof A nonvolatile semiconductor memory apparatus (10) of the present invention comprises a semiconductor substrate (11), an active element forming region provided on the semiconductor substrate (11) and including a plurality of active elements (12), a wire forming region which is provided on the active element forming region to electrically connect the active elements (12) and includes plural layers of semiconductor electrode wires (15, 16), a memory portion forming region (100) which is provided above the wire forming region and provided with memory portions (26) arranged in matrix, a resistance value of each of the memory portions changing according to electric pulses applied, and an oxygen barrier layer (17) which is provided between the memory portion forming region (100) and the wire forming region so as to extend continuously over at least an entire of the memory portion forming region (100).
US07915651B2	Transparent double-injection field-effect transistor A double-injection field-effect transistor has an anode, a cathode, a substantially transparent channel, a substantially transparent gate insulator, and at least one substantially transparent gate electrode. The transistor may also have a substantially transparent anode and/or cathode. The transistor may also be formed on a substantially transparent substrate. Electrode contacts and electrical interconnection leads may also be substantially transparent. Methods for making and using such double-injection field-effect transistors are also disclosed.
US07915641B2	Terahertz electromagnetic wave radiation element and its manufacturing method The present invention improves the efficiency of conversion from a non-radiation two-dimensional electron plasmon wave into a radiation electromagnetic wave, and realizes a wide-band characteristic. A terahertz electromagnetic wave radiation element of the present invention comprises a semiinsulating semiconductor bulk layer, a two-dimensional electron layer formed directly above the semiconductor bulk layer by a semiconductor heterojunction structure, source and drain electrodes electrically connected to two opposed sides of the two-dimensional electron layer, a double gate electrode grating which is provided in the vicinity of and parallel to the upper surface of the two-dimensional electron layer and for which two different dc bias potentials can be alternately set, and a transparent metal mirror provided in contact with the lower surface of the semiconductor bulk layer, formed into a film shape, functioning as a reflecting mirror in the terahertz band, and being transparent in the light wave band. Two light waves are caused to enter from the lower surface of the transparent metal mirror, and two different dc bias potentials are alternately applied to the double gate electrode grating so as to periodically modulate the electron density of the two-dimensional electron layer in accordance with the configuration of the double gate electrode grating.
US07915635B2	Semiconductor light-emitting element and substrate used in formation of the same For a semiconductor laser, a stacked member comprising an active layer is formed on the surface of a GaN single-crystal substrate, a defect aggregation portion is formed on the rear face of the GaN single-crystal substrate, and an electrode is formed so as to be electrically connected to the defect aggregation portion on the rear face. The defect aggregation portion of this semiconductor laser has numerous crystal defects, and so the carrier concentration is high, and the electrical resistivity is lowered significantly. For this reason, in a semiconductor laser of this invention in which an electrode is formed on this defect aggregation portion, an Ohmic contact can easily be obtained between the GaN single-crystal substrate and the electrode, and by this means a lowered driving voltage is realized.
US07915613B2	Organic light emitting display device and method of manufacturing the same Disclosed is an organic light emitting display device including a substrate having a plurality of sub-pixel areas, a switching thin film transistor formed on each of the sub-pixel areas, a driving thin film transistor connected to the switching thin film transistor, a color filter formed on at least one of sub-pixel areas, an insulating layer formed on the switching thin film transistor, the driving thin film transistor and the color filter, a pixel electrode connected to the driving thin film transistor, an organic light emitting member formed on the pixel electrode, and a common electrode formed on the organic light emitting member. The insulating layer has a groove. The groove is formed along a boundary of the pixel electrode. The groove has a width of about 0.2 to about 4 μm. The groove has a depth of about 0.2 to about 4 μm. The pixel electrode has an edge declined in the groove.
US07915607B2	Nitride semiconductor device A nitride semiconductor device include an n-type nitride semiconductor layer; a p-type nitride semiconductor layer; and an active layer formed between the n-type and p-type nitride semiconductor layers. The active layer has an alternately-layered structure of a plurality of quantum well layers and a plurality of quantum barrier layers, each alternately stacked on each of the quantum well layers. The alternately-layered structure includes a unit multi-layer structure and a thick quantum barrier well. The unit multi-layer structure includes a first quantum well layer, a second quantum well layer formed, a tunneling quantum barrier layer and a crystal quality-improving layer. The thick quantum barrier well may be formed adjacent to the first and second quantum well layers, with a thickness thereof greater than that of the first and second quantum well layers.
US07915596B2	Integrated neutron-gamma radiation detector with optical waveguide and neutron scintillating material A radiation detector includes a neutron sensing element having a neutron scintillating material at least partially surrounded by an optical waveguide material; and a photosensing element optically coupled to the neutron sensing element. The photons emitted from the neutron sensing element are collected and channeled through the optical waveguide material and into the photosensing element.
US07915588B2	Arrangement and method for detecting an object which is arranged on a body, in particular for carrying out a security check The invention relates to an arrangement (10) and a method for detecting an object (18) arranged on a body (14). The arrangement comprises a vibration device (12), which sets the body (14) in a mechanical vibration of predetermined vibration frequency and predetermined vibration phase, an emission device (20) which emits in the direction of the body (14) a coherent electromagnetic detection radiation (26), the radiation frequency of which is selected such that it is reflected at least in part by the body (14) and the object (18) to be detected, a receiver device (30), which receives the radiation (28) reflected by the body (14) and the object (18), and an evaluation device (32) which filters out of the radiation (28) received the portions having the predetermined vibration frequency and evaluates them with respect to their vibration phase difference from the predetermined vibration phase.
US07915585B2	Microbolometer pixel and fabrication method utilizing ion implantation A microbolometer pixel and a reduced-step process for manufacturing it comprising the step of ion implantation of vanadium oxide whereby VOx is converted to a low resistivity mixed phase vanadium oxide (VOx/V2O3/VO/V) in the leg, metallized support post, and detector contact areas. Masking maintains high temperature coefficient of resistance (TCR) VOx in the sensing portion of the pixel bridge region. The implanted area resistivity and TCR can be controlled by ion implantation dose and energy.
US07915584B2	TEM with aberration corrector and phase plate The invention relates to a TEM with a corrector (330) to improve the image quality and a phase plate (340) to improve contrast. The improved TEM comprises a correction system completely placed between the objective lens and the phase plate, and uses the lenses of the corrector to form a magnified image of the diffraction plane on the phase plate.
US07915583B2	Method and system for ultrafast photoelectron microscope An ultrafast system (and methods) for characterizing one or more samples. The system includes a stage assembly, which has a sample to be characterized. The system has a laser source that is capable of emitting an optical pulse of less than 1 ps in duration. The system has a cathode coupled to the laser source. In a specific embodiment, the cathode is capable of emitting an electron pulse less than 1 ps in duration. The system has an electron lens assembly adapted to focus the electron pulse onto the sample disposed on the stage. The system has a detector adapted to capture one or more electrons passing through the sample. The one or more electrons passing through the sample is representative of the structure of the sample. The detector provides a signal (e.g., data signal) associated with the one or more electrons passing through the sample that represents the structure of the sample. The system has a processor coupled to the detector. The processor is adapted to process the data signal associated with the one or more electrons passing through the sample to output information associated with the structure of the sample. The system has an output device coupled to the processor. The output device is adapted to output the information associated with the structure of the sample.
US07915579B2	Method and apparatus of liquid sample-desorption electrospray ionization-mass specrometry (LS-DESI-MS) An apparatus and method for direct analysis of continuous-flow liquid samples by desorption electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry (DESI-MS) including a sample stage that is adapted to receive a liquid sample and a nebulizing ionizer that is configured to generate a charged, nebulized solvent and thereby desorb at least a portion of the liquid sample from the sample stage.
US07915578B2	Method and apparatus for correcting scattering in SPECT imaging A method and apparatus for correcting scattering in SPECT I-123 imaging. The method generally includes: accessing list mode data for a plurality of pixels corresponding to a first SPECT I-123 image generated using a gamma camera; generating a raw energy spectrum for at least some of the pixels utilizing the acquired list mode data; acquiring a gamma camera model corresponding to the gamma camera; utilizing the gamma camera model and an iterative algorithm to apply a first scattering correction to the raw energy spectrum; utilizing a Compton window to apply a second scattering correction to the raw energy spectrum; and generating a correction table with the corrected raw energy spectrum.
US07915570B2	Smart camera with an integrated lighting controller A smart camera includes an integrated lighting current controller and can couple to one or more external light sources. The integrated lighting current controller can control and power the one or more external light sources using a current pulse. The one or more external light sources can provide illumination for the smart camera to acquire the image of an object under test.
US07915555B2	Rotary drive for an electrical switch with toggle-lever actuation A rotary drive for a switch actuated by a toggle lever includes an operative connection which swivels, a first catch element on the operative connection, coupled to the toggle lever, and a second catch element on the operative connection. A mounting plate parallel to the switch base and a rotatable shaft are provided, the rotatable shaft disposed through the mounting plate. The rotary drive further includes a swivel arm on the shaft, a rotary knob coupled to the shaft configured to rotate the shaft. A mechanical connection couples the swivel arm to the second catch element, converting movement of the shaft into a movement of the operative connection. A swivel movement of the toggle lever is transferred to the second catch element, and the swivel arm enables the operative connection to swivel through a rotation of the shaft to move the toggle lever.
US07915551B2	Switching device having a coupling element A switching device is disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the switching device includes a coupling element for non-contacting communication, and a first enclosure part. According to at least one embodiment, the switching device includes an at least partially spherical holder, in which case the partially spherical holder can rotate by virtue of its shape about at least two axes with respect to the first enclosure part. Further, the partially spherical holder is provided in order to retain and to hold the coupling element.
US07915545B1	Split protective bushing A split protective bushing is provided herein in two embodiments. According to the first embodiment, a first half ring is formed with dovetail protrusions on each end and a second half ring is formed with mating dovetail sockets on each end. Interlocking the dovetail protrusions and the dovetail sockets forms a circular bushing. According to the second embodiment, a first segment and a second segment are pivotally connected at one end of each. A second end of each segment has a tongue and latch respectively for being locked together to form a complete ring. Both embodiments include an internal thread and a lip for engaging a connector in an electric installation.
US07915540B2	Tamper-proof structures for protecting electronic modules A tamper-proof structure for protecting an electronic module, comprising a pattern of signal lines having a highly unpredictable layout, which is an approximation of a space-filling curve obtained by the replication of at least one elementary space element having an inscribed base curve inscribed therein. The base curve is adapted, by replication of the elementary space element, to generate an approximation of an at least two-dimensional space-filling curve, the replication being such that an end of the base curve in one elementary space element is connected to the end of the base curve in another, adjacent elementary space element of the replication.
US07915536B1	Easy snap insulator One embodiment of a poly prophelene. It's unique design allows it to slide over and to fit snugly onto a vinyl or wood rail fence. It requires no mechanical fasteners such as screws or nails. It holds onto the rail by gravity pressure, and the return clip on the bottom end and utilizes the structure and strength of the rail to support it. It is injection molded in one piece, with a living hinge at the top to hold the electric fence wire, rope, or ribbon up to 1½ inches wide. It is made of poly prophelene with a Ultra Violet blocker. Each unit weighs about one ounce and are very durable and safe as they will bend rather than break. As with most vinyl based material they have a memory and will return to there manufactured shape if you bend them. We can produce them in a variety of colors to meet the customer's needs.
US07915529B2	Wall plate assembly with integral universal serial bus module A wall plate assembly including a wall plate with an integrated USB module. The assembly includes a USB connector and printed circuit board formed together on the wall plate as an integral whole. By placing USB extender circuitry directly on the printed circuit board, rather than in a separate housing, the present assembly can maintain its bus-powered attributes without the bulk of a separate extender housing. A quick-connect coupling enables fast electrical connection and disconnection with a complementary quick-connect coupling on a USB wire.
US07915528B2	Face slide weatherproof electric enclosure A weatherproof outlet enclosure is provided for connections between a number of electrical outlets and various electric loads comprising: at least one rectangular slider plate for replacing existing receptacle face plate in a gentle sliding way; a base plate for mating with a predetermined number of the slider plates which lock into place by a single click stop, and a cover having a hinged attachment to one of the side walls of the base plate and a latching connection with an opposite location of the side walls from the hinged attachment, the cover in its a lower latched position enclosing the electrical outlets leaving passages for up to four cords leading from the electric loads connected.
US07915526B2	Coaxial cable comprising dielectric material The present invention relates to a coaxial cable comprising a dielectric layer which comprises as a component (A) a propylene homo- or copolymer having strain hardening behaviour and to the use of propylene homo- or copolymer having strain hardening behaviour for the production of a dielectric layer of a coaxial or triaxial cable.
US07915521B2	Type II quantum dot solar cells A device comprises a plurality of fence layers of a semiconductor material and a plurality of alternating layers of quantum dots of a second semiconductor material embedded between and in direct contact with a third semiconductor material disposed in a stack between a p-type and n-type semiconductor material. Each quantum dot of the second semiconductor material and the third semiconductor material form a heterojunction having a type II band alignment. A method for fabricating such a device is also provided.
US07915514B1	Advanced MIDI and audio processing system and method An advanced MIDI/audio processing system with virtual key-switches. The virtual key-switches are mapped to different musical concepts. As a user presses a key-switch in real time with the playing of musical notes, the musical concept mapped to the key-switch that was pressed is applied. The instrument then switches to a new playing state based on the particular musical concept that was applied. Furthermore, the system is configured to provide a smooth transition between dynamic levels when applying crescendo or diminuendo effects via a modulation wheel. The system also configured to provide enhanced cycling of alternate samples by providing an individual alternate cycle for each note of each articulation in each dynamic level. Furthermore, the system is configured to allow a user to store and recall specific cycle positions, and override an existing cycle to choose a specific alternate sample for a specific note.
US07915512B2	Method and apparatus for adjusting the cadence of music on a personal audio device Disclosed is an audio device that adjusts the cadence of played songs. A user sensor determines cadence data based on movement of the user. A desired cadence is determined based on the cadence data received from the sensor. The cadence of songs is determined by low pass filtering digital representations of the songs and determining the period (T) of the back beat of the songs. An adjustment of the period (T) of the songs is then determined such that the adjustment of the period (T) of the songs results in the songs having the desired cadence. The period (T) of the back beat of the subsequent songs are then adjusted.
US07915505B2	Musical instrument A musical instrument is provided. The instrument is light weight and portable. The instrument includes electrical pickup capabilities but also has the feel of an acoustic instrument. The instrument can be folded to an arrangement that is easy for transport. The folding instrument has maximum similarity to an acoustic cello, including the feel and size when unfolded. The instrument includes a floating soundboard to provide maximum acoustic feel. The instrument further includes an acoustic pickup.
US07915501B1	Inbred sunflower line CN2343 An inbred sunflower line, designated CN2343, the plants and seeds of the inbred sunflower line CN2343, methods for producing a sunflower plant, either inbred or hybrid, produced by crossing the inbred sunflower line CN2343 with itself or with another sunflower plant, and hybrid sunflower seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line CN2343 with another sunflower line or plant and to methods for producing a sunflower plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic sunflower plants produced by that method. This invention also relates to inbred sunflower lines derived from inbred sunflower line CN2343, to methods for producing other inbred sunflower lines derived from inbred sunflower line CN2343 and to the inbred sunflower lines derived by the use of those methods.
US07915496B2	Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH619141 According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH619141. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH619141, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH619141 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH619141.
US07915495B2	Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH811484 According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH811484. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH811484, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH811484 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH811484.
US07915494B2	Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH361230 According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH361230. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH361230, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH361230 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH361230.
US07915493B2	Soybean cultivar 89146110 A soybean cultivar designated 89146110 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 89146110, to the plants of soybean 89146110, to plant parts of soybean cultivar 89146110 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar 89146110 with itself or with another soybean variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from soybean variety 89146110, to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 89146110 and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants and plant parts produced by crossing the cultivar 89146110 with another soybean cultivar.
US07915490B1	Soybean variety XB18E08 According to the invention, there is provided a novel soybean variety designated XB18E08. This invention thus relates to the seeds of soybean variety XB18E08, to the plants of soybean XB18E08 to plant parts of soybean variety XB18E08 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing plants of the soybean variety XB18E08 with another soybean plant, using XB18E08 as either the male or the female parent.
US07915483B2	C-terminally truncated interferon The invention described herein provides a C-terminally truncated interferon having a deletion of 7, 8, or 9 amino acids and having enhanced biological activity, and the polynucleotides encoding such an interferon. Also provided are methods for producing and using such truncated interferon. In some embodiments, the truncated interferon is produced in a plant.
US07915482B2	Anther specific promoters and uses thereof The present invention provides an expression cassette comprising a functional anther specific promoter nucleic acid molecule, homologous to the Ta39 promoter of tobacco, as well as functional homologues, orthologues and fragments of said functional anther specific promoter nucleic acid molecule. Also contemplated, are recombinant plasmids, plant cells and cell lines, transgenic plants and propagating material comprising the functional anther specific promoter nucleic acid molecule.
US07915480B2	F-box protein targeted plant oil production Disclosed are genetic constructs, transgenic plant cells and transgenic plants, as well as associated methods, for increasing oil production in a plant using F-box gene sequences.
US07915476B2	Absorbent article for interactive toilet training In a method of a caregiver interactively toilet training a wearer of a disposable absorbent article, in response to liquid insult of the article a tactile signal is perceptible from within the article, a corresponding similar tactile signal is perceptible from an exterior of the article, and an active graphic is visually perceptible at the exterior of the article which relates to both the tactile signal and the corresponding tactile signal to thereby communicate the insult event to the caregiver and provide an interactive toilet training opportunity. An absorbent article of the present invention generally has a tactile signal tactilely perceptible from the inner surface of the article and a corresponding tactile signal tactilely perceptible from the exterior of the article. An active graphic is located adjacent the outer cover and is externally visually perceptible and relates to both tactile signals to provide an interactive toilet training opportunity.
US07915474B2	Aqueous phase oxidation process An improved oxidization process may be used to oxidize a wide variety of feedstocks. Oxidation takes place in a reactor where the feedstock is mixed with an oxidizing acid, such as nitric acid. The reaction mixture may also include a secondary oxidizing acid such as sulfuric acid as well as water and/or dissolved and mechanically mixed oxygen gas. The reactor may be maintained at an elevated pressure such as at least approximately 2070 kPa or desirably at least approximately 2800 kPa. The temperature of the reaction mixture may be maintained at no more than 210° C. In the various embodiments described herein, the process may include: combining recycled effluent from the reactor with the feedstock, combining one or more oxidizing acids with the feedstock, comminuting the feedstock to reduce the size of the particles, feeding the feedstock into the high pressure reactor at an approximately constant feed rate, dispersing oxygen gas from the headspace of the reactor into the reaction mixture, and/or removing all or almost all of the gas from the reactor through the liquid effluent.
US07915471B2	Method for producing paraxylene comprising an adsortion step and two isomerization steps A process for producing para-xylene from a hydrocarbon feed is described in which an adsorption column operating as a simulated moving bed with at least five zones delivers an extract, a 2-raffinate and an intermediate raffinate.The extract is distilled and the distillate is optionally re-crystallized to recover para-xylene with a purity of at least 99.7%. The 2-raffinate is distilled then isomerized in a reactor preferably operating in the liquid phase and at a low temperature. The intermediate raffinate with an enriched ethylbenzene content is distilled then isomerized in the vapour phase.
US07915468B2	Isomerization of butene in the ionic liquid-catalyzed alkylation of light isoparaffins and olefins A process for producing alkylate comprising contacting a first hydrocarbon stream comprising at least one olefin having from 2 to 6 carbon atoms which contains 1-butene with an isomerization catalyst under conditions favoring the isomerization of 1-butene to 2-butene so the isomerized stream contains a greater concentration of 2-butene than the first hydrocarbon stream and contacting the isomerized stream and a second hydrocarbon stream comprising at least one isoparaffin having from 3 to 6 carbon atoms with an acidic ionic liquid catalyst under alkylation conditions to produce an alkylate stream is disclosed.
US07915456B2	Salts of styphnic acid The invention relates to the salts of styphnic acid, to methods for producing the same and to their use.
US07915451B2	Crystalline levosalbutamol sulphate and polymorphic forms thereof The invention provides three polymorphic forms of crystalline levosalbutamol sulphate designated herein as Forms I, II and III.Crystalline levosalbutamol sulphate Form I is characterised by a powder XRD pattern with peaks at 10.8, 11.9, 13.0, 18.3, 28.5±0.2 degrees 2 theta.Crystalline levosalbutamol sulphate Form II is characterised by a powder XRD pattern with peaks at 8.7, 9.6, 15.2, 15.7, 19.1, 27.2, 30.7±0.2 degrees 2 theta.Crystalline levosalbutamol sulphate Form III is characterised by a powder XRD pattern with peaks at 5.5, 6.9, 7.3, 18.7±0.2 degrees 2 theta.Processes for making the new polymorphic forms and pharmaceutical compositions comprising them are also provided.
US07915436B2	Phosphorus-containing silsesquioxane derivatives as flame retardants A phosphorus-containing silsesquioxane is represented by the formula [R13SiO1/2]m[R2SiO3/2]n[R3SiO3/2]p[(R4O)2PO(CH2)xSiO3/2]q wherein each of R1, R2, R3, and R4 independently represents a hydrocarbyl group; x represents an integer of from 1 to 8; m is a positive number less than 1.5; n and q are positive numbers greater than 0 and less than 1; and p is a number greater than or equal to 0 and less than 1. Further, (n+p)/q is in a range of from 0.5 to 99, and (n+p+q)=1. Curable and cured compositions comprising the phosphorus-containing silsesquioxane are disclosed.
US07915427B2	Process for producing aminoacetyl pyrrolidine carbonitrile derivative and intermediate for production thereof Novel intermediates for the production of aminoacetyl pyrrolidine carbonitrile derivatives ensure the safe and efficient production of the compounds. Specifically, the present invention provides a sulfonyloxyacetyl pyrrolidine derivative, represented by the following formula:(Chemical Formula 1) (wherein R1 is a substituted or unsubstituted C1-C6 alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted C3-C6 cycloalkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted arylmethyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbon, a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic heterocyclic ring or a substituted or unsubstituted aliphatic heterocyclic ring; R2 is CONH2 or CN; and X is CH2, CHF or CF2.)
US07915417B2	Amino methylated 2-pyridinones Novel amino methylated 2-pyridinones, precursors, intermediates, and derivatives; the methods for the preparation of the same; uses of the same for inhibiting pili formation in bacteria; and pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds are described in this application. The present compounds may be employed to inhibit biofilm formation and thereby inhibit adherence of bacteria to a host cell.
US07915411B2	Anti-viral compounds Compounds effective in inhibiting replication of Hepatitis C virus (“HCV”) or other viruses are disclosed. This invention is also directed to compositions comprising such compounds, co-formulation or co-administration of such compounds with other anti-viral or therapeutic agents, processes and intermediates for the syntheses of such compounds, and methods of using such compounds for the treatment of HCV or other viral infections.
US07915410B2	Acyclic IKur inhibitors A compound of formula I wherein R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 are described herein.
US07915386B2	Method of producing an interferon-β complex A method for producing an interferon-β complex includes binding interferon-β to polyethylene glycol in the presence of at least one additive selected from the group consisting of oligosaccharides having 5 or less sugar units, monosaccharides, sugar alcohols thereof, and C2-6 polyhydric alcohols.
US07915375B2	Metathesis interpolymers having terminal functional group(s) The disclosure relates to unsaturated metathesis interpolymers having at least one or more specified terminal functional groups. The interpolymers are prepared by metathesis polymerization, and are selected from 1,5-cyclooctadiene and cyclopentene, 1,5-cyclooctadiene and cyclooctene, and cyclooctene and cyclopentene interpolymers.
US07915374B2	Copolyesters having improved thermal stability and methods for making them Processes for producing polyethylene terephthalate copolyesters are disclosed, that include the steps of: esterifying a mixture of at least terephthalic acid, from 20 mole percent to 45 mole percent 1,4-cyclohexanedimethanol, and ethylene glycol, optionally in the presence of one or more alkaline earth metals or alkali metals, to form an oligomer; polycondensing the oligomer in the melt phase in the presence of aluminum and one or more alkaline earth metals or alkali metals, to obtain a copolyester having an intrinsic viscosity of at least 0.5 dL/g; and thereafter adding to the copolyester a phosphorus-containing compound.
US07915371B2	Method and composition for sealing components and components sealed thereby The present invention is directed to a method for applying to a substrate, in the form of a seal, a polysiloxane-containing coating, preferably a polysiloxane(amide-ureide) coating capable of inhibiting corrosion as well as the accumulation of ice. One embodiment of the present invention is directed to a polysiloxane(amide-ureide) that forms a durable, long lasting, anti-corrosive and anti-ice coating when applied to a substrate as a seal.
US07915367B2	Process for the manufacture of branched polypropylene A process for manufacturing a branched polypropylene, said branched polypropylene having a branching index g′ of less than 1.00, the process comprising the step of polymerizing propylene and optionally one or more other comonomers under non-supercritical conditions in a reaction vessel, wherein: c. the pressure during the polymerization of propylene and optionally one or more other comonomers in said reaction vessel is at least 45.4 bar; d. the temperature during the polymerization of propylene and optionally one or more other comonomers in said reaction vessel is below 90° C.; and c. the polymerization of propylene and optionally one or more other comonomers is conducted in said reaction vessel in the presence of a catalyst system having a surface area of not more than 350 m2/g, measured according to ISO 9277, and said catalyst system comprises a metallocene catalyst having zirconium as the transition metal.
US07915348B2	Method for making ionomers using amine compounds comprising salt functional groups, ionomers made by the method and sports equipment comprising such ionomers Ionomeric reaction products are disclosed that are made by combining a monomer, oligomer or polymer having at least one reactive carboxyl group and/or isocyanate group, or functional group or groups equivalent thereto or derived therefrom, with an amine compound having both an amine and an anionic functional group and a formula [RHN—(R1)m—(X−)n]o-Ma+p where R is hydrogen, aliphatic, alicyclic, arylaliphatic or aromatic, R1 is a linking group that links the amine and salt functional groups and is aliphatic, alicyclic, arylaliphatic or aromatic, X is an anionic group, M is a positively charged species, a is 1-4, m is 0 or greater, n is 1-4, o is 1-4 and p is 0-4, more typically 1-4. An amount of the amine compound is used to react with at least a portion of the reactive functional groups. A method for making a golf ball also is disclosed, as are golf balls comprising disclosed ionomers. At least one component of a golf ball, such as a cover layer, is made comprising disclosed ionomers. The golf ball can have any construction suitable for a golf ball, including multi-layered balls, such as a 3- or 4-piece ball.
US07915347B2	Block polymers and cosmetic compositions and processes comprising them The present invention relates to novel block polymers comprising at least one first block and at least one second block that are incompatible with each other, have different glass transition temperatures (Tg), and are linked together via an intermediate segment comprising at least one constituent monomer of the at least one first block and at least one constituent monomer of the at least one second block. The block polymer has a polydispersity index I of greater than 2. The invention also relates to cosmetic compositions comprising the block polymers and processes for their use.
US07915346B2	Impact modified acrylics having a bimodal distribution of impact modifier sizes The invention relates to an impact modified acrylic sheet composition having a bimodal distribution of impact modifier particle sizes. The composition provides an optimal balance of impact performance and appearance after melt processing.
US07915344B2	Ester pre-extended epoxy-terminated viscosifiers and method for producing the same Viscosifiers, especially terminated polymers that have functional terminal groups, the polymers being pre-extended by polyols and being reacted to give polymers that are terminated by other functional groups, are produced. The viscosifiers have a low content in educts or educt descendants that deteriorate the properties of compositions. The formation of high-molecular addition products is considerably reduced or even excluded so that the products obtained have low viscosity and good storage stability. The epoxy-terminated polymer of formula (I) is especially preferred.
US07915340B2	Cationic starch graft copolymers and novel process for the preparation of cationic starch graft copolymers A cationic starch graft copolymer is prepared by polymerization of monomers a) to d) a) 20-80% by weight of acrylamide, methacrylamide or mixtures thereof, b) 3-20% by weight of at least one basic or cationic vinyl monomer; c) 0.005-1.5% by weight of at least one bifunctional or higher-functional crosslinking agent, d) 0-10% by weight of at least one nonionic or anionic vinyl monomer which differs from the monomers mentioned under a) to c) in the presence of a grafting base e) e) 15˜70% by weight of at least one starch or one starch derivative, the sum of a) to e) being 100% by weight.
US07915330B2	Photostabilizing silicone fluids A silicone fluid comprising a chromophore-substituted polyorganosiloxane having a formula (2): wherein x is an integer in the range of 60 to 2000; y is an integer in the range of 5 to 100; a ratio x:y is in a range of about 10:1 to about 20:1; and X is a photostabilizing chromophore.
US07915327B2	Spherical silica core-shell particles A process of preparing spherical nano-sized core/shell silica particles, including providing a latex polymer dispersion comprising particles of a liquid dispersible starting polymer in a dispersion liquid, adding at least one functionalized monomer to the latex polymer dispersion and polymerizing the at least one functionalized monomer on the particles, and growing an outer silicate shell on the particles through addition and reaction of at least one silane monomer.
US07915319B2	Visible light curing systems, methods for reducing health risks to individuals exposed to systems designed to cure curable compositions by exposure to radiation, methods for bonding substrates and visible light curing compositions The present invention provides visible light curing systems, methods for reducing health risks to individuals exposed to radiation curing systems, methods for bonding substrates and visible light curing compositions.
US07915311B2	Approach to anti-microbial host defense with molecular shields with lipoxin compounds Methods to cause tissue, such as mucosal cells, to express increased amounts of bactericidal permeability increasing protein (BPI) are described. The BPI inducing agents include, for example, lipoxin compounds.
US07915308B2	Therapeutic methods and compositions involving isoflavones Therapeutic methods of treatment, compositions and foodstuffs are described which contain isoflavone compounds described by general formula (1), in which Z is H, R1 is H, or RACO where RA is C1-10alkyl or an amino acid, R2 is H, OH, or ORB where RB is an amino acid, or CORA where RA is as previously defined, W is H, A is H or OH, and B is selected from (a), (b), (c), or W is H, and A and B taken together form a six-membered ring selected from (d), or W, A and B taken with the groups with which they are associated comprise (e), or W and A taken together with the groups with which they are associated comprise (f) and B is (g) wherein R3 is H, CORA where RA is as previously defined, CO2RC where RC is C1-10alkyl, or CORB where RB is as previously defined, R4 is H, CORD where RD is H, OH, C1-10alkyl or an amino acid, CO2RC where RC is as previously defined, CORE where RE is H, C1-10alkyl or an amino acid, COOH, CORC where RC is as previously defined, or CONHRE where RE is as previously defined, R5 is H, CO2RC where RC is as previously defined, or CORCORE where RC and RE are as previously defined, and where the two R5 groups are attached to the same group they are the same or different, R6 is H or hydroxy C1-10alkyl, X is preferably O, but may be N or S, and Y is (h) where R7 is H, or C1-10alkyl.
US07915307B2	Methods of improving the pharmacokinetics of doxepin Methods of improving the pharmacokinetics of doxepin in a patient.
US07915302B2	Crystal forms of pyrrolylheptanoic acid derivatives The present invention provides novel crystalline forms D1 and D2 of [R—(R,R)]-2-(4-fluorophenyl)-β,δ-dihydroxy-5-(1-methylethyl)-3-phenyl-4-[(phenylamino)carbonyl]-1H-pyrrole-1-heptanoic acid hemicalcium salt, and hydrates thereof. The crystalline forms D1 and D2 have X-ray powder diffraction peaks described in FIGS. 1 and 3, respectively. Further, the present invention provides processes for preparing the crystalline forms and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the crystalline forms. The crystalline forms can be produced on a commercial scale and exhibit excellent stability.
US07915295B2	Non-nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitors Compounds of the formula Z: where; A is CH or N; R1 is a substituent to a carbon atom in the ring containing A selected from —S(═O)pRa, where Ra is —C1-C4 alkyl, —ORx, —NRxRx, —NHNRxRx, —NHNHC(═O)ORx, —NRxOH; —C(═O)—Rb, where Rb is —CT-C4-alkyl, ORx, —NRxRx, —NHNRxRx, —NHC1-C3-alkyl-C(═O)Orx —NRxRc, where Rc is H, C1-C4 alkyl, —NRxRx; —C(=0)Rd, —CN, S(═O)pRx, where Rd is Rd is C1-C4-alkyl, —ORx, —NRxRx C1-C3-alkyl-O—C1-C3-alkylC(═O)ORx, —C1-C3-alkyl-COORx; —C1-C3alkyl-OH or C1-C4 alkyl ethers or esters thereof (O—C1-C3alkyl)q-O—Rx a 5 or 6 membered aromatic ring having 1-3 hetero atoms p is 1 or 2; Rx is independently selected from H, C1-C4 alkyl or acetyl; or a pair of Rx can together with the adjacent N atom form a ring; L is -0-, —S(═O)—, or —CH2—, where r is 0, 1 or 2; R3-R7 are substituents as defined in the specification; X is —(CR8R8′)n-D-(CR8R8′)m-; D is a bond, —NR9—, -0-, —S—, —S(=0)- or —S(=0)2-; and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and prodrugs thereof, have utility as HIV antivirals.
US07915288B2	1-aryl-4-substituted isoquinolines 1-aryl-4-substituted isoquinoline or 1-aryl-3,4-disubstituted isoquinoline analogues of Formula I and Formula II, as follows: wherein R1, R2, R3, R8, R9, A and Ar are defined herein. Such compounds are ligands of C5a receptors. Preferred compounds of Formula I and II bind to C5a receptors with high affinity and exhibit neutral antagonist or inverse agonist activity at C5a receptors. The present invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds, and to the use of such compounds in treating a variety of inflammatory, cardiovascular, and immune system disorders. In addition, the present invention provides labeled 1-aryl-4-substituted isoquinolines or 1-aryl-3,4-disubstituted isoquinolines, which are useful as probes for the localization of C5a receptors.
US07915286B2	Substituted pyrazolo [3,4-b] pyridines as phosphodiesterase inhibitors The present invention relates to phosphodiesterase (PDE) type IV selective inhibitors. Processes for the preparation of disclosed compounds, pharmaceutical compositions containing the disclosed compounds and their use as PDE type IV selective inhibitors are provided. Prepared compounds correspond to structure XIV Formula (XIV).
US07915284B2	2-aryl-6-phenylimidazo[1,2-a]pyridine derivatives, preparation thereof and therapeutic use thereof The present invention is related to a compound of formula (I) wherein R1, R2, R3 and R4 are as defined herein, or an addition salt of an acid thereof, the pharmaceutical composition and preparation thereof, and the therapeutic use thereof in the treatment or the prevention of diseases involving Nurr-1 nuclear receptors, also known as NR4A2, NOT, TINUR, RNR-1 and HZF3.
US07915282B2	C2-phenyl-substituted cyclic keto-enols used as pesticides and herbicides The present invention relates to novel C2-phenyl-substituted cyclic ketoenols of the formula (I) in which W, X, Y, Z and CKE are as defined in the description, to processes for their preparation and to their use as pesticides and herbicides.
US07915279B2	Method of treating mollescum contagiosum Pharmaceutical formulations and methods including an immune response modifier (IRM) compound and an oleic acid component are provided where stability is improved by using oleic acid have low polar impurities such as peroxides.
US07915276B2	Berberrubine derivatives having antifungal activities The present invention relates to a berberrubine derivative having superior antifungal activity, more particularly to a berberrubine derivative having activity against chitin synthase, which participates in the synthesis of chitin and is essential in the growth of fungi, and having a potent antifungal activity against human pathogenic fungi.
US07915273B2	Compositions and methods for inhibition of the JAK pathway The invention encompasses compounds having formula I and the compositions and methods using these compounds in the treatment of conditions in which modulation of the JAK pathway or inhibition of JAK kinases, particularly JAK3, are therapeutically useful.
US07915271B2	1,3-oxazolidin-2-one derivatives useful as CETP inhibitors Compounds having the structure of Formula I, including pharmaceutically acceptable salts of the compounds, are CETP inhibitors, and are useful for raising HDL-cholesterol, reducing LDL-cholesterol, and for treating or preventing atherosclerosis. The compounds have 3 cyclic groups connected by single bonds, as for example triphenyl, which are attached directly to the ring of formula I or attached at the position B.
US07915268B2	8-substituted 2-(benzimidazolyl)purine derivatives for immunosuppression The present invention provides novel purines useful for the prevention and treatment of autoimmune diseases, inflammatory diseases, mast cell mediated disease and transplant rejection. The compounds of the general formula I shown below, in which Q is selected from the group consisting of CX and nitrogen; and A is chosen from the group consisting of alkyl, heterocyclyl, aryl, substituted alkyl, substituted heterocyclyl, substituted aryl, and halogen:
US07915261B2	Pyridyl non-aromatic nitrogen-containing heterocyclic-1-carboxylate compound A novel pyridyl non-aromatic nitrogen-containing heterocyclic-1-carboxylate compound or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt has a potent FAAH-inhibitory activity. Further, the pyridyl non-aromatic nitrogen-containing heterocyclic-1-carboxylate compound of the present disclosure is also useful in the treatment of urinary frequency and urinary incontinence, overactive bladder and/or pain.
US07915259B2	Diazabicyclononene derivatives and use thereof The invention relates to a novel 3,9-diazabicyclo[3.3.1]nonene derivative of formula (I), enantiomers thereof, and their use thereof as active ingredients in the preparation of pharmaceutical compositions. The invention also concerns related aspects including processes for the preparation of the compounds, pharmaceutical compositions containing at least one compound of formula (I): or (I′): and especially their use as inhibitors of renin.
US07915256B2	Triazolopyrazine compounds useful for the treatment of degenerative and inflammatory diseases Novel [1.2.4]triazolo[1,5-a]pyrazine compounds are disclosed that have a formula represented by the following: The compounds may be prepared as pharmaceutical compositions, and may be used for the prevention and treatment of a variety of conditions in mammals including humans, including by way of non-limiting example, pain, inflammation, and others.
US07915247B1	Methods of use of fenofibric acid Fenofibric acid formulations comprising 105 mg of fenofibric acid are described as well as methods of use thereof. Dosage forms include, for example, immediate-release dosage forms.
US07915245B2	Methods and compositions of trail-death receptor agonists/activators This invention describes a series of methods and compositions for prevention and treatment of diseases such as cancer. One aspect of the invention describes small molecule-based drugs that can be used to bind to death receptors TRAIL-R1/DR4 and/or TRAIL-R2/DR5 and induce apoptosis in cancer cells, while sparing normal cells. The invention also describes TRAIL Death Receptor Agonists/Activators (DRAs) and their uses, such as the induction of apoptosis through caspase-8 and caspase-3 activation. The present invention also describes the methods of treating cancers, such as breast, prostate, colon, pancreatic, ovarian, lung, and brain cancers, leukemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma, and mesothelioma, using DRAs either as single-agent treatments, or in combination with other therapies.
US07915221B2	Methods for construction and screening of libraries of chemokine variants The present invention provides a method for the design and/or the selection of agonist or antagonist chemokine variants combining a phage display technology and a screening on living cells expressing the receptor of the corresponding native chemokine. It also provides RANTES variants having agonist properties towards said receptor, and methods for preventing and/or curing viral diseases, as well as clues for preventing and/or curing inflammatory or malignant diseases.
US07915216B2	Anti-viral and anti-bacterial cleaning composition A composition comprising at least one alcohol, at least one long-chain alkyl polyamine, and at least one halogen which is suitably for application to a surface and substantially microbial contamination.
US07915214B2	Compositions containing benefit agent composites pre-emulsified using colloidal cationic particles A cleansing or a surface-conditioning composition comprising a mixture of (i) and (ii) in water: i) a surfactant selected from the group consisting of anionic, non-ionic, zwitterionic, cationic, and mixtures thereof, and ii) a hydrophobic benefit agent in a particulate form having a mean particle size in the range of 1-1,000 micron, and a specific gravity of ≧1, not encapsulated within a film or a capsule-like enclosure, the particulate hydrophobic benefit agent comprising: a) a physically-modified form of the hydrophobic benefit agent; and b) a deposition-aid material bonded to the surface of the physically-modified benefit agent material, wherein the bonding between the two said materials is achieved prior to addition to i), wherein said deposition-aid material is not a surfactant having a weight average molecular weight of less than 5,000 Dalton.
US07915204B2	Scale squeeze treatment systems and methods An aqueous composition for treating hydrocarbon wells contains (a) a scale inhibitor and (b) a viscoelastic surfactant, and further contains from 0 to less than 1% by weight of acid selected from the group consisting of hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid, phosphoric acid, formic acid, acetic acid, citric acid, maleic acid, hydrofluoric acid, and mixtures thereof.
US07915196B2	Attrition resistant fluidizable reforming catalyst A method of preparing a steam reforming catalyst characterized by improved resistance to attrition loss when used for cracking, reforming, water gas shift and gasification reactions on feedstock in a fluidized bed reactor, comprising: fabricating the ceramic support particle, coating a ceramic support by adding an aqueous solution of a precursor salt of a metal selected from the group consisting of Ni, Pt, Pd, Ru, Rh, Cr, Co, Mn, Mg, K, La and Fe and mixtures thereof to the ceramic support and calcining the coated ceramic in air to convert the metal salts to metal oxides.
US07915185B2	Flame retardant textile fabric A high performance flame retardant textile fabric is provided which is suitable for use in producing close-fitting garments, such as undergarments, that come into direct contact with the skin of the wearer and provide a protective function, as well as in non-apparel applications. The fabric is formed of yarns of rayon continuous filaments, the yarns having outer filaments along the periphery of the yarn and inner filaments in the interior of the yarn. A cured phosphorus-based flame retardant compound is durably affixed to the filaments and imparts flame retardant properties to the fabric. The outer filaments of the yarns have a phosphorus content at least 25% greater than the inner filaments of the yarn.
US07915184B2	Anti-microbial nonwoven wipe The present invention is directed to a nonwoven anti-microbial hard surface wipe, and more specifically to an anti-microbial hard surface wipe that more readily releases a disinfectant or anti-microbial agent. In a first embodiment, the nonwoven substrate of the present invention is comprised of a non-ionic binder, as well as a cationic disinfectant. The wipe is introduced into a water source and the disinfectant is readily released from the wipe so as to form a disinfectant solution. In a second embodiment, the nonwoven substrate of the present invention is comprised of a non-ionic binder and used along with a separate commercially available disinfecting or sanitizing solution. The disinfecting solution is preferably a cationic disinfecting solution, such as a cationic dual quaternary sanitizing system.
US07915173B2	Shallow trench isolation structure having reduced dislocation density A method for manufacturing a shallow trench isolation structure comprises etching a plurality of trenches into a silicon substrate. The trenches have an upright wall portion, a bottom floor portion, and a corner portion connecting the upright wall portion and the bottom floor portion. The method further comprises conformally depositing a dielectric layer into the trenches. The dielectric layer covers at least part of the upright wall portion, at least part of the bottom floor portion, and at least part of the corner portion. The method further comprises oxidizing the dielectric layer. A portion of the dielectric layer deposited over the corner portion is oxidized at a first oxidization rate, and a portion of the dielectric layer deposited over the upright wall portion is oxidized at a second oxidization rate. The first oxidization rate is less than the second oxidization rate. The method further comprises depositing an electrically insulating material into the trenches over the dielectric layer.
US07915169B2	Processes for forming electronic devices including polishing metal-containing layers A process of forming an electronic device can include providing a workpiece. The workpiece can include a substrate, an interlevel dielectric overlying the substrate, a refractory-metal-containing layer over the interlevel dielectric, and a first metal-containing layer over the refractory-metal-containing layer. The first metal-containing layer can include a metal element other than a refractory metal element. The process further includes polishing the first metal-containing layer and the refractory-metal-containing layer as a continuous action to expose the interlevel dielectric. In one embodiment, the metal element can include copper, nickel, or a noble metal. In another embodiment, polishing can be performed using a selectivity agent to reduce the amount of the interlevel dielectric removed.
US07915160B1	Methods for forming small contacts Methods are provided for forming contacts for a semiconductor device. The methods may include depositing various materials, such as polysilicon, nitride, oxide, and/or carbon materials, over the semiconductor device. The methods may also include forming a contact hole and filling the contact hole to form the contact for the semiconductor device.
US07915153B2	Passivation film and method of forming the same A passivation film and a method of forming the same are provided, the passivation film being used in a plasma display panel etc. In the passivation film, a first MgO layer, an intervening layer, and a second MgO layer are laminated and a laser is then irradiated to oxidize the intervening layer. Simultaneously, defects are formed at the interfaces of the first and second MgO layers. Accordingly, a plasma discharge firing voltage greatly decreases, and the total power consumption of the plasma display panel is significantly reduced.
US07915150B2	Method of manufacturing nitride semiconductor substrate using epitaxial growth A method of manufacturing a nitride semiconductor substrate according to example embodiments may include forming a buffer layer on a (100) plane of a silicon (Si) substrate. The buffer layer may have a hexagonal crystal system and a (1010) plane. A nitride semiconductor layer may be epitaxially grown on the buffer layer. The nitride semiconductor layer may have a (1010) plane. Accordingly, because example embodiments enable the use of a relatively inexpensive Si substrate, a more economical nitride semiconductor substrate having a relatively large diameter may be achieved.
US07915146B2	Controlled doping of semiconductor nanowires A catalyst particle on a substrate is exposed to reactants containing a semiconductor material in a reactor. An intrinsic semiconductor nanowire having constant lateral dimensions is grown at a low enough temperature so that pyrolysis of the reactant is suppressed on the sidewalls of the intrinsic semiconductor nanowire. Once the intrinsic semiconductor nanowire grows to a desired length, the temperature of the reactor is raised to enable pyrolysis on the sidewalls of the semiconductor nanowire, and thereafter dopants are supplied into the reactor with the reactant. A composite semiconductor nanowire having an intrinsic inner semiconductor nanowire and a doped semiconductor shell is formed. The catalyst particle is removed, followed by an anneal that distributes the dopants uniformly within the volume of the composite semiconductor nanowire, forming a semiconductor nanowire having constant lateral dimensions and a substantially uniform doping.
US07915139B1	CVD flowable gap fill The present invention meets these needs by providing improved methods of filling gaps. In certain embodiments, the methods involve placing a substrate into a reaction chamber and introducing a vapor phase silicon-containing compound and oxidant into the chamber. Reactor conditions are controlled so that the silicon-containing compound and the oxidant are made to react and condense onto the substrate. The chemical reaction causes the formation of a flowable film, in some instances containing Si—OH, Si—H and Si—O bonds. The flowable film fills gaps on the substrates. The flowable film is then converted into a silicon oxide film, for example by plasma or thermal annealing. The methods of this invention may be used to fill high aspect ratio gaps, including gaps having aspect ratios ranging from 3:1 to 10:1.
US07915133B2	Method of forming a trench capacitor A method of forming a ring-type capacitor is provided. The method includes providing a substrate; forming a patterned mask layer on the substrate, the patterned mask layer defining a ring pattern; removing the substrate by using the patterned mask layer as a mask to form a ring-type trench in the substrate; the ring-type trench including an inner wall and an outer wall; and forming a capacitor structure on the inner wall and the outer wall of the ring-type trench.
US07915120B2	Method of fabricating non-volatile memory device Provided is a method of fabricating a non-volatile semiconductor device. The method includes: forming a first hard mask layer over a substrate; etching the first hard mask layer and the substrate to form a plurality of isolation trenches extending in parallel to one another in a first direction; burying a dielectric layer in the isolation trenches to form a isolation layer; forming a plurality of floating gate mask patterns extending in parallel to one another in a second direction intersecting with the first direction over a resulting structure where the isolation layer is formed; etching the first hard mask layer by using the floating gate mask patterns as an etch barrier to form a plurality of island-shaped floating gate electrode trenches; and burying a conductive layer in the floating gate electrode trenches to form a plurality of island-shaped floating gate electrodes.
US07915113B2	Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device including a vertical cell transistor structure may include forming a vertical cell transistor structure over a semiconductor substrate of a cell region; forming an insulating film over the vertical cell transistor structure; planarizing the insulating film to expose a hard mask film disposed at a top portion of the vertical cell transistor structure; and forming a storage node contact by removing the hard mask film.
US07915100B2	Hybrid orientation CMOS with partial insulation process The present invention provides a method of integrated semiconductor devices such that different types of devices are formed upon a specific crystallographic orientation of a hybrid substrate. In accordance with the present invention, junction capacitance of one of the devices is improved in the present invention by forming the source/drain diffusion regions of the device in an epitiaxial semiconductor material such that they are situated on a buried insulating layer that extends partially underneath the body of the second semiconductor device. The second semiconductor device, together with the first semiconductor device, is both located atop the buried insulating layer. Unlike the first semiconductor device in which the body thereof is floating, the second semiconductor device is not floating. Rather, it is in contact with an underlying first semiconducting layer.
US07915099B2	Beam irradiation apparatus, beam irradiation method, and method for manufacturing semiconductor device The speed of the laser scanned by the scanning means such as a galvanometer mirror or a polygon mirror is not constant in the center portion and in the end portion of the scanning width. As a result, the object, for example an amorphous semiconductor film, is irradiated with the excessive energy and therefore there is a risk that the amorphous semiconductor film is peeled. In the present invention, in the case where the laser spot of the energy beam output continuously on the irradiated object is scanned by moving it back and forth with the use of the scanning means or the like, the beam is irradiated to the outside of the element-forming region when the scanning speed of the spot is not the predetermined value, for example when the speed is not constant, and accelerates, decelerates, or is zero, for example in the positions where the scanning direction changes, or where the scanning starts or ends.
US07915079B1	Method of manufacturing layered chip package A layered chip package includes a main body, and wiring disposed on at least one side surface of the main body. The main body includes a plurality of layer portions stacked. In a method of manufacturing the layered chip package, a plurality of structures are initially formed. Each structure includes at least one main-body-forming portion that is to be the main body and that has a pre-wiring surface. Next, the plurality of structures are surrounded with a jig and thereby aligned so that their pre-wiring surfaces face upward. The jig has a top surface that is lower in level than the pre-wiring surfaces. Next, a resin layer covering the jig and the structures is formed using a resin film. Next, the resin layer is polished until the pre-wiring surfaces are exposed. Next, the wiring is formed on the pre-wiring surfaces simultaneously. Next, the main-body-forming portions are separated from each other.
US07915076B2	Hybrid module and method of manufacturing the same A hybrid module includes a silicon substrate having a plurality of part mounting openings formed therein, the plurality of part mounting openings composed of through holes, a plurality of mounted parts that are mounted in the part mounting openings such that input/output portion forming surfaces are substantially flush with a first main surface of the silicon substrate, a sealing layer that is formed of a sealing material filled into the part mounting openings and covers the mounted parts, with the input/output portion forming surfaces exposed from the first main surface of the silicon substrate, to fix the mounted parts in the part mounting openings, and a wiring layer that is formed on the first main surface of the silicon substrate, and has a wiring pattern connected to input/output portions that are provided on the input/output portion forming surfaces of the mounted parts exposed from the first main surface.
US07915070B2	Method for fabricating organic light emitting display device A fabricating method of an organic light emitting display device including performing a sheet test as a sheet unit on a mother board formed with panels and sheet wires for supplying test signals to the panels on the mother board, the method including: forming drive elements for driving the panels in each of the panels and forming sheet wires electrically coupled to at least a portion of the drive elements and shorting bar electrically coupling all of the sheet wires; forming organic light emitting diodes in each of the panels and isolating the sheet wires from each other by etching open regions of the shorting bar apart from contact regions of the shorting bar for coupling the shorting bar to the sheet wires; performing the sheet test on the plurality of panels by supplying the test signals to the sheet wires; and separating the panels by scribing the mother board.
US07915065B2	Wafer level sensing package and manufacturing process thereof A wafer level sensing package and manufacturing process thereof are described. The process includes providing a wafer having sensing chips, in which each sensing chip has a sensing area and pads; forming a stress release layer on a wafer surface; cladding a photoresist layer on the stress release layer; patterning the photoresist layer to expose the pads and a portion of the stress release layer, without exposing opening areas of the sensing areas; forming a conductive metal layer of re-distributed pads on the portion of the stress release layer exposed by the photoresist layer; removing the photoresist layer; forming a re-cladding photoresist layer on the stress release layer and the conductive metal layer; forming holes in the re-cladding photoresist layer above the re-distributed pad area; and forming conductive bumps in the holes to electrically connect to the conductive metal layer.
US07915062B2	Method of manufacturing a TFT array substrate A TFT array substrate includes a TFT having an ohmic contact film and a source electrode and a drain electrode formed on the ohmic contact film. It also includes a pixel electrode electrically connected with the drain electrode. The source electrode and the drain electrode are made of an Al alloy containing Ni as an additive.
US07915059B2	Method for fabricating organic light emitting diode with fluorine-ion-doped electrode An exemplary organic light emitting diode (20) includes a substrate (21), a first electrode (22) with a plurality of fluorinions therein, an organic emission stack (29), and a second electrode (28) sequentially stacked in that order. A related method for fabricating the organic emitting diode is also provided.
US07915058B2	Substrate having pattern and method for manufacturing the same, and semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a substrate having a pattern that is capable of controlling the distance between adjacent film patterns, and also provides a method for manufacturing a substrate, particularly, having a pattern with a narrow width and a thickness that is capable of controlling the width between the film patterns. The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a substrate having a conductive film that serves as an antenna with a little variation in inductance and has a large electromotive force, and provides a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device with high yield. After forming a film in which silicon and oxygen are combined and an inactive group is combined with the silicon over a substrate, an insulating film, or a conductive film, a composition is printed by the printing method thereover, and is baked to form a film pattern.
US07915057B2	Manufacturing method of a tray, a socket for inspection, and a semiconductor device The yield of semiconductor devices is to be enhanced. A tray is provided with a plurality of pockets each capable of accommodating a wafer level CSP, and each of the pockets is provided with a base for supporting a plurality of bumps of the wafer level CSP and side walls formed around the base. In the step-to-step carriage in the post-production process of the manufacture of wafer level CSPs and on like occasions, the base supports not the organic film but the plurality of solder bumps. For this reason, it is made possible to prevent the organic film from being flawed or coming off and adhering to the product as foreign matter, and as a result the quality and yield of the wafer level CSPs (semiconductor devices) can be improved.
US07915051B2	Biosensor and blood component analytical method According to the biosensor and the blood component analytical method of the present invention, in a biosensor that is made of a single layer or plural layers of a porous material as shown in FIG. 1, having a reagent holding part and utilizing chromatography, a cell shrinkage reagent is carried on at least part of the reagent holding part, or at least part of a chromatographically developed part that is upstream of the reagent holding part. According to the biosensor having the above-mentioned structure and the blood component analytical method, even when whole blood is a sample, a high-accuracy blood component analysis cart be performed easily and quickly with less cost.
US07915050B2	Regulatory genes for plant differentiation and growth, and use of the same An objective of the present invention is to provide gibberellin-binding proteins, genes encoding such proteins, and applications therefor. The proteins of the present invention function as cytoplasmic receptors for gibberellin and mediate gibberellin response in plants. Plants overexpressing such genes exhibited gibberellin-hypersensitive phenotypes, such as increased plant height. In contrast, plants in which the genes were mutated exhibited gibberellin-insensitive phenotypes, and thus became dwarfed. Accordingly, plant differentiation and growth can be regulated by introducing the gibberellin-binding genes of the present invention or by suppressing the expression of same.
US07915048B2	Method for marking hydrocarbons with substituted anthraquinones A method for marking a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon. The method comprises adding to the liquid petroleum hydrocarbon at least one substituted anthraquinone dry having formula (I) wherein X is O or S; Y is O, NR7 or S; R1 and R2 independently are hydrogen, alkyl, aryl, aralkyl, heteroalkyl, heterocyclic or alkanoyl; R3 and R5 independently are alkyl, aryl, aralkyl, heteroalkyl or heterocyclic; R4 and R6 independently are hydrogen or alkyl; R7 is hydrogen or alkyl; and wherein the substituted anthraquinone dye(s) has an absorption maximum in the range from 600 nm to 750 nm.

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