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US07983684B2	Methods and apparatus for determining RF transmitter placement via local coverage optimization Systems and methods are provided for optimizing the placement of RF components within an environment. The system operates by defining a spatial model associated with the environment, determining a first placement location of the RF device within the spatial model, defining a localized reference area, determining a coverage area associated with the RF device, identifying a set of gaps associated with the coverage area within the reference area, determining a second placement location of the RF device within the spatial model based on the set of gaps, and placing the AP in the second placement location within the environment.
US07983683B2	Communication method, communication apparatus and communication system A communication method enabling communication on a predetermined mobile communication network and communication on a predetermined wireless communication network different from the predetermined mobile communication network, includes the step of: switching, means for carrying out predetermined data transfer while maintaining a communication channel on the predetermined mobile communication network, between communication on the predetermined mobile communication network and communication on the predetermined wireless communication network, or activating or deactivating a part concerning the predetermined wireless communication included in a mobile terminal.
US07983679B2	Method and apparatus for inter-system active handoff of a hybrid subscriber unit A communication system provides for an active handoff of a voice call between a packet switched network and a circuit switched network. An active handoff from the packet switched network to the circuit switched network is accomplished by multicasting the call over forward links of both networks during the handoff. An active handoff from the circuit switched network to the packet switched network is accomplished by multicasting the call over reverse links of both networks during the handoff. The former handoff further may be facilitated by routing the call for each network through a same packet data control switch, and the latter handoff further may be facilitated by routing the call for each network through a same mobile switching center. In order for a subscriber unit to operate concurrently in both networks, the subscriber unit may comprise multiple transceivers or a single transceiver that is rapidly switched between the networks.
US07983678B2	3G and Wi-Fi connected mobile systems Method for receiving, demodulating and processing a Global Positioning System (GPS), a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) and an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed (OFDM) modulated signal into a GPS, a CDMA and an OFDM processed baseband signal and providing processed signals to an interface unit of a mobile device. Further processing said received CDMA signal into a second OFDM processed signal and connecting said second OFDM processed signal to a modulator and transmitter for modulation and transmission. Processing an OFDM processed signal into a second CDMA processed signal, connecting and transmitting the second CDMA processed signal. Storing a received camera generated CDMA signal and processing it into a Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) processed signal. Processing a touch screen generated signal into a touch screen generated control signal for control of a mobile device. Generating and processing a motion detector generated signal into a motion detector generated control signal for control of operation of one or more units of a mobile device. Method for receiving and processing a smoke detector generated signal and for providing processed smoke detector signal to a transmitter for transmission.
US07983675B2	System and method for providing intelligent cell reselection for delay sensitive data applications A mobile station for receiving delay-sensitive data from a wireless communications network is provided with a data buffer and cell reselection controller. The data buffer receives data from the network and stores the data for communication to a delay-sensitive data application. The cell reselection controller selectively inhibits cell reselection in order to meet requirements of the delay-sensitive data application. By intelligently controlling cell reselection, delay sensitive data may be received in a more reliable fashion, thereby increasing performance of the data application.
US07983671B2	Methods and apparatus to perform wireless peering in communication systems Methods and apparatus to route communications at an interexchange carrier are disclosed. One method of routing communications may include receiving a communication at the interexchange carrier, determining a destination at which the communication is to terminate, and routing the communication from the interexchange carrier through a terminating access charge free line to a terminating mobile telephone switching office.
US07983669B2	Method for verifying plotting results A method is provided for verifying plotting results when multiple signals of the same frequency have been detected from different directions. Signal characteristics of the signals detected from different directions are compared so that, on the basis of the signal comparison, a decision may be made as to whether a reflection from the same transmitter is occurring, or different transmitters are involved.
US07983667B2	Radio frequency coverage map generation in wireless networks In one embodiment, a method for generating a radio-frequency coverage map. The method includes receiving coverage map data comprising a plurality of locations within a region, and an identification of a location in the plurality of locations corresponding to a radio transceiver, wherein the locations within the region are represented by at least corresponding x- and y-terms of a Cartesian coordinate system. The method further includes receiving calibration data comprising a plurality of observed signal strength values at corresponding ones of the plurality of locations, converting the x- and y-terms of the locations of the coverage map data to corresponding first and second warped coordinate terms of a warped coordinate system, and computing, using linear interpolation and the first and second warped coordinate terms, predicted received signal strength values at one or more locations in the coverage map based on the calibration data.
US07983664B2	Transmission method, wireless base station, and wireless communication method A transmission method that can implement efficient communication control. A transmission block sends a signal of a first frequency band allocated to each zone, by a first directive beam which covers the entire zone, in a first time slot of a predetermined period and sends a signal of a second frequency band which contains the first frequency band and has a greater width than the first frequency band, by a second directive beam which covers a part of the zone and has a smaller beam width than the first directive beam, in a second time slot of the predetermined period.
US07983663B2	Special phone book entries When an incoming call is received or an outgoing call is placed, a phone number associated with the call is identified. The phone number is compared to a set of phone book entries corresponding to subscriber-designated phone entries and special phone book entries. If the phone number is identified as corresponding to a special phone book entry, call processing continues according to a field type designated by the selected phone book entry.
US07983661B2	Method and means for controlling the availability of mobile agents in a call centre environment Method and apparatus for controlling the ability of mobile agents to receive customer service calls to their mobile phone from a call center. A mobile station is installed with a client application featuring an agent profile and call processing rules that are updated from the call center. The mobile agent uses the mobile station for work by turning on a “work profile”, and the client application registers the mobile agent to the call center. With the work profile on, the client application will block personal calls, or any other calls originating elsewhere than the call center. Significant advantages are accrued as the companies running the call centers will gain greater control of their mobile agent workforce and can prioritize tasks better within the organization, without having to construct complex solutions that consult different network elements within the cellular radio network.
US07983659B2	Information delivery apparatus and information delivery system An information delivery system of the present invention includes mobile communication terminals and an information delivery apparatus. The information delivery apparatus selectively delivers information to the mobile communication terminals via a communication network, and includes delivery information memory means, location history information memory means, delivery information selecting means, and information transmitting means. The location history information memory means memorizes location history information showing locations where a mobile communication terminal was located in the past. The delivery information selecting means selects delivery information to be transmitted to the mobile communication terminal according to predetermined selection conditions based on the location history information read out from the location history information memory means. The information transmitting means transmits the delivery information selected by the delivery information selecting means to the mobile communication terminal.
US07983657B2	Presence and session handling information The invention proposes a method for controlling a network comprising the steps of providing presence information to a user, wherein the presence information includes information regarding the presence of at least one other user in a network, and providing session handling information, wherein the session handling information includes information about how a session, which can be initiated to the other user, will be handled. The invention also proposes a corresponding network control device.
US07983653B2	Alert system and personal apparatus An alert system and apparatus for an emergency alert system is provided to disseminate emergency information to the public utilizing a universal paging system through a personal alert device such as a cellular telephone, pager, PDA or E-FOB. The alert system utilizes an emergency alert system signal from the NOAA alert system to broadcast the alert message to cellular devices in a specified alert area. The broadcast message provides information related to the alert level. The E-FOB may be a passive device which is activated by a NOAA alert signal and then listens for a cellular message. If the E-FOB is within the alert area, the E-FOB provides information to the user. If the E-FOB is not within the alert area, the E-FOB returns to a passive state.
US07983651B2	Communication apparatus, communication method and communication system A communication apparatus includes an image information acquisition unit configured to acquire new image information to be transmitted to a display terminal through a wireless access point, a storage unit configured to temporarily store the image information, a decision unit configured to decide to change a state of a wireless communication processing unit of the display terminal from a power save state to a normal state when an amount of the image information stored in the storage unit is not less than a predetermined threshold value, a message generation unit configured to generate a change instruction message in response to decision of the decision unit, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the change instruction message to the display terminal through the wireless access point to instruct the display terminal to change the state of the wireless communication processing unit from the power save state to the normal state.
US07983647B2	Method and apparatus for determining scaling factor in a communication system A method for determining a scaling factor in a communication system. The method includes calculating an average power for each of an input signal and an output signal of a channel predictor; calculating a noise variance using the calculated average power; normalizing the noise variance with an average power of the channel predictor's output signal; and determining a scaling factor using the normalized noise variance.
US07983645B2	Method and device for radio reception using a plurality of antennas The invention relates to a method for radio reception using a plurality of antennas and to a receiver for radio transmission using a plurality of antennas. In a receiver for radio transmission with multiple antennas of the invention, 3 antennas are connected to the input ports of a device for transmission which transmits the electrical signals stemming from the 3 antennas to the input terminals of a multiple-input-port and multiple-output-port amplifier having 3 input ports and 3 output ports. Each output port of the multiple-input-port and multiple-output-port amplifier is connected to the input of an analog processing and conversion circuit which outputs digital signals. The output of each analog processing and conversion circuit is connected to an input of a multiple-input signal processing device, whose output is connected to the destination.
US07983639B2	RF filter and digital broadcast receiving tuner and RF signal processing device using RF filter A radio frequency (RF) filter is provided which includes a band pass filter unit and an amplifying unit. If a signal having a frequency in a first band is input, the RF filter performs band pass filtering, and if a signal having a frequency in a second band is input, the RF filter performs an amplifying process. The RF filter can be used for various RF signal processing devices, such as digital broadcast receiving tuners.
US07983636B2	Amplifier control device A bias control signal generation unit detects ON and OFF of a transmission signal input to an amplifier and having a property of a burst according to burst information. The bias control signal generation unit controls a bias voltage to be applied to an amplifier such that an idle current flowing through the amplifier can be flowing in a larger amount in a transmission OFF period, and can return to a normal level in a transmission ON period.
US07983627B2	Circuit arrangement with improved decoupling A circuit arrangement includes a component having a closed signal path, that closed signal path connected to a first port, a second port and at least a third port. The component has a directed signal flow of a signal applied to one of that ports. Such a coupling device can be connected to a transmitter and to a receiver path, respectively.
US07983621B2	Sleep-mode statistics apparatus, systems, and methods Embodiments of sleep-mode statistics apparatus, systems, and methods are described generally herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US07983619B2	Signal strength guided intra-cell upstream data forwarding Intra-cell upstream data forwarding is utilized in a wireless network such as a wireless local area network. A network forwarding path is determined based on the signal strength of an access point signal received at client stations within the network, referred to as the OASS. In particular embodiments, a station that is either originating or forwarding a frame inserts its own OASS into the frame before transmitting it and a client station that receives a frame forwards it only if its own OASS exceeds the frame-enclosed OASS, illustratively by at least a predetermined amount.
US07983617B2	Method and system for transmitting multiple channels on FM bands Aspects of a method and system for transmitting multiple channels on FM bands may include generating from one or more baseband signals, a plurality of radio frequency transmission signals each at a different radio frequency, wherein the one or more baseband signals comprise an in-phase signal component and/or a quadrature signal component. Suitable combinations of the one or more baseband signals may be modulated in a radio frequency transmission chain that may comprise intermediate frequency modulation and radio frequency modulation. The suitable combinations of the one or more baseband signals may be weighted sums. The plurality of radio frequency signals may each carry distinct information. One of the plurality of radio frequency signals may be centered at a frequency f1+f2 and another one of said plurality of radio frequency signals may be centered at a frequency f1−f2, where f1 and f2 are frequencies.
US07983606B2	Transfer belt driving control method and transfer belt driving control apparatus for color registration correction A transfer belt driving control method and transfer belt driving control apparatus for color registration correction. The color registration correction method and apparatus performs the color registration correction by setting a pattern forming section, in which patterns for the color registration correction are able to be formed, and a non-pattern forming section, in which the patterns are not able to be formed, on a transfer belt in which the patterns are formed, performing the color registration correction by driving the transfer belt at a first speed in the pattern forming section, and driving the transfer belt at a second speed, which is faster than the first speed, in the non-pattern forming section.
US07983604B2	Magnetic scavenger for an electrostatographic printer An apparatus and method for managing magnetic carrier in an electrostatographic printer including an apparatus for directing magnetic carrier from a photoconductor, back toward a feed apparatus wherein the apparatus includes a magnetic carrier scavenger such that there is more magnetic carrier volume in the direction of the feed apparatus as well as a well to collect any magnetic carrier that does not move toward the feed apparatus.
US07983593B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus including: a cylindrical photoconductor; a laser scanning section for forming an electrostatic latent image on a peripheral surface of the photoconductor; an image development section for developing the electrostatic latent image by using a toner; a toner storage section for storing the toner to be supplied; and a transfer section for transferring the visualized image with use of the toner onto a printing sheet, wherein the image development section is disposed upstream of a rotation direction of the photoconductor from the transfer section, the toner storage section is disposed above the image development section while having a predetermined distance from the image development section so as to form a space therebetween for releasing heat, and the laser scanning section emits the scanning beam obliquely upwardly with respect to a horizontal direction so that the emitted scanning beam passes through the space and exposes the peripheral surface.
US07983588B2	Image forming apparatus with cleaning device that does not cause excessive cutting and cleaning method In an image forming apparatus including a cleaning device having a cleaning blade arranged so as to make contact with and separate from a cleaned surface, an occurrence of excessive cutting when the cleaning blade makes contact with the cleaned surface is prevented. The image forming apparatus includes the cleaning blade for making contact with and separating from the cleaned surface and scraping off toner adhered onto the cleaned surface and a regulation member for regulating a movement of the cleaning blade in the direction of contact with the cleaned surface up to a position where a pressing force to the cleaned surface by the cleaning blade does not exceed a predetermined pressing force.
US07983582B2	Image forming apparatus and control method therefor An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a developing unit, a transfer unit, and a fixer to fix an image formed on a sheet and includes a rotary heat generator including a heat generation layer, a pressure member to form a nip with the rotary heat generator to sandwich the sheet therebetween, an excitation coil disposed facing the rotary heat generator, to inductively heat the heat generation layer, a demagnetization coil disposed facing the heat generation layer, to generate magnetic flux that partly counteracts magnetic flux generated by the excitation coil and a fixer controller to control activation of the excitation coil as well as the demagnetization coil before a second image formation job after completion of a first image formation job in which an image is formed on a sheet of recording media whose width is smaller than a maximum sheet width usable in the fixer.
US07983581B2	Fixing method and fixing device with specified temperature relationships for recording medium A fixing method and a fixing device is provided in which an unfixed toner image formed on a recording medium is heat-pressure-fixed by using a fixing unit, wherein the unfixed toner image is fixed when the recording medium passes through at least two fixing units arranged in series in a conveying direction of the recording medium. Specific relations are satisfied between a maximum temperature on the recording medium when the recording medium passes through a first fixing unit, a maximum temperature on the recording medium when the recording medium passes through a second fixing unit, a minimum temperature on the recording medium during a time period commencing on ejection of the recording medium from the first fixing unit and ending on entry of the recording medium into the second fixing unit and properties of the toner.
US07983575B1	Apparatus and method for determining photoreceptor charge transport layer thickness of apparatus using a scorotron charge device A photoreceptor charge transport layer thickness determining apparatus for a photoreceptor including a scorotron charge device having coronode wires and a scorotron grid positioned between the corona wires and the photoreceptor charge transport layer, the scorotron charge device being configured to charge the photoreceptor layer using corona discharge to generate ions directed to a surface of the photoreceptor charge transport layer. A first current measuring device measures a current supplied to the coronode wires and outputs a first current value, a second current measuring device measures a current being delivered to the scorotron grid and outputs a second current value, and a processor receives the first and second current values and determines a current delivered to the photoreceptor charge transport layer by subtracting the second current value from the first current value, and determines a thickness of the photoreceptor charge transport layer using the current value.
US07983574B2	Abnormal usage detection A method and system compare actual consumable usage (e.g., toner usage) with expected consumable usage in a xerographic machine, such as a printer or copier. Expected toner usage may be predicted from pixel count (area coverage) and actual usage is obtained from monitoring of consumable usage, such as from toner dispense data or toner bottle replacements. If the actual toner usage differs significantly from the expected toner usage (e.g., ±40%), the system may take some action, such as scheduling of a service call. Early detection of abnormal consumable usage in a xerographic machine may allow early correction before any noticeable image defects occur, such as images that are too light or too dark.
US07983569B2	High-speed transmission system for optical channels A method and apparatus for transmission of data on bandwidth limited fiber optic channels. A multilevel signaling alphabet having multiple levels of optical intensity are used to transmit signals on optical channels. In order to counteract the decrease in signal to noise ratio resulting from the use of a multilevel signaling alphabet over a bilevel signaling alphabet trellis encoding of the data to be transmitted is employed. To counteract intersymbol interference due to signaling faster than the Nyquist Rate, equalization methods such as Tomlinson-Harashima precoding and decision feedback equalization are employed.
US07983565B2	Integrated optical communication and range finding system and application thereof The present invention is directed toward systems for conducting laser range and enabling optical communication between a plurality of entities and to the application of such systems in a secure covert combat identification system. In one embodiment, the present invention uses a novel laser system that generates high pulse rates, as required for optical communications, while concurrently generating sufficiently high power levels, as required by laser range finding operations. One application of the present invention is in enabling secure covert communications between a plurality of parties. Another application of the present invention is in tracking and identifying the movement of objects.
US07983554B2	Electronic device and camera having a fuel cell and opening linking cell compartment with outside In a camera, air orifices for linking the space inside a cell compartment with the outside of a casing are disposed in a position other than the grip portion which is held by a user, in the vicinity of the center of the front surface of the casing, that is, in the vicinity of a lens-barrel. A concave-convex portion serving as an air orifice guard is formed at the side opposite to that where the lens-barrel is disposed with respect to the air orifices. As a result, even when the user takes a picture of an object by holding the camera with his/her own hand, the air orifices are prevented from being closed by the user's hand. Oxygen (air) can be constantly supplied to the fuel cell accommodated inside the cell compartment, and the fuel cell can continuously generate a sufficient quantity of electricity.
US07983548B2	Systems and methods of generating Z-buffers in cameras Systems and methods for implementing Z-buffer generation in a camera are disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment the method may comprise actuating a light sensor after various delays to receive a plurality of modulated light signals reflected from different regions of a scene adjacent a camera. The method may also include determining distance information for the different regions of the scene based on brightness values for the plurality of modulated light signals reflected from the scene for the various delays. The method may also include storing the distance information in a Z-buffer at the camera.
US07983538B2	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.
US07983535B2	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.
US07983533B2	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.
US07983530B2	Recording and playback apparatus and recording and playback method, recording apparatus and recording method, playback apparatus and playback method, and program A recording and playback apparatus includes a first obtaining unit configured to obtain one or more moving parameters regarding motion from a first image; a converter configured to convert the first image into a second image composed of a lesser amount of data than the first image; a recording controller configured to record moving parameter information and the second image on a recording medium, the moving parameter information relating to the moving parameters of the first image; a reading controller configured to read the moving parameter information and the second image from the recording medium; and an image processor configured to execute image processing on the second image read from the recording medium using the moving parameters of the first image, the moving parameters of the first image being obtained from the moving parameter information read from the recording medium.
US07983527B2	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.
US07983521B2	Fiber optic termination system with retention mechanism A fiber optic telecommunications frame is provided including termination modules positioned on left and right sides of the frame. The frame further includes left and right vertical cable guides. The frame includes a horizontal passage linking the left and right panels and the cable guides. The termination modules hold fiber optic modules with front termination locations. The fiber optic modules can house couplers, such as splitters, combiners, and wave length division multiplexers. A retention mechanism retains each fiber optic module in a partially removed position from the termination module.
US07983509B1	Estimating a point spread function of an image capture device In a method for estimating a point spread function of an image capture device, a first function representing a captured version of a first test image is obtained, where the first test image containing a substantially ideal vertical transition. A second function representing a captured version of a second test image is also obtained, where the second test image contains a substantially ideal horizontal transition. In addition, the point spread function is estimated from the first function and the second function. Also disclosed herein is a method for image degradation compensation that employs the method for estimating a point spread function.
US07983496B2	Inverse tone mapping for bit-depth scalable image coding adapted to variable block sizes A method performs inverse tone mapping of an image in a decoder. For each block of each color channel of the image a scaling factor is determined by adding a predicted scaling factor for the current block to a difference between the predicted scaling factor and the scaling factor of an adjacent block. An offset value for the current block is determined by adding a predicted offset for the current block to a difference between the predicted offset value and the offset value of the adjacent block. The scaling factor and the offset value are applied to pixel intensity values of the current block to produce a mapped block. The inverse tone mapping can also be applied to blocks of different sizes.
US07983492B2	System and method for generating cluster spine groupings for display A system and method for generating cluster spine groupings for display is provided. A set of spines is obtained. Each spine in the set includes a grouping of clusters that share a common concept and are arranged linearly along a vector. Those spines that are unique from each other spine are identified. At least one remaining spine from the set of spines is selected. The remaining spine is compared to the unique spines. At least one spine group is formed by grafting the remaining spine onto the unique spine that is most similar. The spine group is displayed.
US07983468B2	Method and system for extracting information from documents by document segregation A method (and system) for extracting information from a document, includes segregating a set of documents from a plurality of documents based on a likelihood that at least one document in the set of documents carries an instance of a preset information.
US07983465B2	Image reconstruction methods based on block circulant system matrices An iterative image reconstruction method used with an imaging system that generates projection data, the method comprises: collecting the projection data; choosing a polar or cylindrical image definition comprising a polar or cylindrical grid representation and a number of basis functions positioned according to the polar or cylindrical grid so that the number of basis functions at different radius positions of the polar or cylindrical image grid is a factor of a number of in-plane symmetries between lines of response along which the projection data are measured by the imaging system; obtaining a system probability matrix that relates each of the projection data to each basis function of the polar or cylindrical image definition; restructuring the system probability matrix into a block circulant matrix and converting the system probability matrix in the Fourier domain; storing the projection data into a measurement data vector; providing an initial polar or cylindrical image estimate; for each iteration; recalculating the polar or cylindrical image estimate according to an iterative solver based on forward and back projection operations with the system probability matrix in the Fourier domain; and converting the polar or cylindrical image estimate into a Cartesian image representation to thereby obtain a reconstructed image.
US07983461B2	Method and system for extracting distal radius metaphysis Provided is a method and an apparatus for extracting an edge of a distal radius metaphysis. The method includes: setting a region of interest including a distal radius in an X-ray image; setting a potential energy distribution of the region of interest by using a gradient of gray levels; setting a temporary edge adjacent to both sides of a distal radius metaphysis and a side of an epiphysis in the region of interest; and extracting a detailed edge of the distal radius metaphysis having minimum energy by adjusting the set temporary edge using a metropolis annealing technique.
US07983454B2	Image processing apparatus and image processing method for processing a flesh-colored area According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes a detection module configured to detect a specific color area included in image data, an image processing control module configured to generate an image processing control signal for controlling an image process for the specific color area among image processes including a sharpening process for the image data, and an image processing module configured to subject the image data to the image process on the basis of the image processing control signal.
US07983452B2	Using a surface based computing device for verification of an identification document The current invention discloses a solution for using a surface based computing device for verification of an identification document, such as a driver's license. A surface based computing device can be a device capable of scanning an identification document, comparing the scanned document against a set of conditions for a valid document, and reporting comparison results. A secured resource can be granted based at least in part upon identity verifications conducted by the surface based computing device. The surface based computing device can include a MICROSOFT SURFACE device or any other computing device able to scan an identification document and to process scanned results. In one embodiment, the surface based computing device can be used in conjunction with a human agent for added security.
US07983442B2	Method and apparatus for determining highlight segments of sport video In a method for determining highlight segments of a sport video, the sport video having a plurality of image frames is analyzed to recognize a scoreboard image and a plurality of scoreboard characteristics thereof. The scoreboard image comprises at least one of the scoreboard characteristics. Then, a request message showing at least one recognized scoreboard characteristic is displayed on a user interface to receive a user response, wherein the user response includes a recognized result of one of the scoreboard characteristics. Finally, variations in the recognized scoreboard image among image frames can be monitored according to the user response. Therefore, the highlight segments of the sport video can be determined according to the variations.
US07983441B2	Methods for watermarking media data Methods are provided for encoding watermark information into media data containing a series of digital samples in a sample domain. The method involves: dividing the series of digital samples into a plurality of sections in the sample domain, each section comprising a corresponding plurality of samples; processing the corresponding plurality of samples in each section to obtain a single energy value associated with each section; grouping the sections into groups, each group containing three or more sections; assigning a nominal bit value to each group according to a bit assignment rule, the bit assignment rule based on the energy values of the sections in the group; and assigning a watermark bit value to each group. The methods also involve, for each group, comparing the watermark bit value to the nominal bit value and, if the nominal bit value and the watermark bit value of the watermark information bit do not match, modifying one or more energy values of one or more corresponding sections in the group such that re-application of the bit assignment rule would assign the watermark bit value to the group. The bit assignment rule may comprise: a categorization rule for categorizing each group into one of a plurality of categories; and for each category, a unique category bit assignment rule for assigning a nominal zero bit value or a nominal one bit value to each group.
US07983436B2	Baffle vibration reducing An apparatus for reducing baffle vibration includes a baffle that is subject to vibration. A first transducer that is seated in the baffle includes a first diaphragm that is acoustically coupled to a listening area in a vehicle and also acoustically coupled to a cavity in the vehicle. A first input signal applied to the first transducer causes the first diaphragm to move in a first direction, thereby generating an acoustic output. A second transducer is mechanically coupled to the first transducer. The second transducer includes a second diaphragm that is acoustically coupled to the first diaphragm and also acoustically coupled to the listening area. A second input signal applied to the second transducer causes the second diaphragm to move in a second direction that is substantially opposite to the first direction to reduce a vibration imparted to the baffle while substantially maintaining the acoustic output.
US07983435B2	Implantable hearing aid The present invention generally relates to assistive hearing devices. In one aspect, an apparatus for use in amplifying certain frequencies and canceling other frequencies is provided. The apparatus is insertable at least partially through a tympanic membrane of a user. The apparatus includes an actuator for stimulating an eardrum. The apparatus further includes an acoustic sensor for measuring a level of acoustic energy transmitted to an ear canal and/or the ear drum of the user. Additionally, the apparatus includes an electronics package for controlling the actuator and the acoustic sensor, wherein the electronics package is configured to transmit amplified selected sound waves while canceling out other sound waves having a particular frequency or frequencies. In another aspect, an apparatus for use in measuring a parameter in a body is provided. In a further aspect, a method of selectively transmitting sound waves having a predetermined frequency or frequencies is provided.
US07983433B2	Earset assembly Disclosed is an earset assembly that has a housing having a microphone port and a speaker port. A microphone is enclosed by the housing and has first and second input ports. The first input port is acoustically coupled to the microphone port to detect air pressure changes of the ear of a user. A speaker is enclosed by the housing and has an output port acoustically coupled to the speaker port to broadcast sounds to the user. The output port is acoustically coupled to the second input port of the microphone so that the microphone cancels at least a portion of feedback from the sounds broadcast by the speaker and detected at the first input port of the microphone.
US07983422B2	Quantum cryptography A method of establishing a shared secret random cryptographic key between a sender and a recipient using a quantum communications channel is described. The method comprises: generating a plurality of random quantum states of a quantum entity, each random state being defined by a randomly selected one of a first plurality of bases in Hilbert space, transmitting the plurality of random quantum states of the quantum entity via the quantum channel to a recipient, measuring the quantum state of each of the received quantum states of the quantum entity with respect to a randomly selected one of a second plurality of bases in Hilbert space, transmitting to the recipient composition information describing a subset of the plurality of random quantum states, analysing the received composition information and the measured quantum states corresponding to the subset to derive a first statistical distribution describing the subset of transmitted quantum states and a second statistical distribution describing the corresponding measured quantum states, establishing the level of confidence in the validity of the plurality of transmitted random quantum states by verifying that the first and second statistical distributions are sufficiently similar, deriving a first binary sting and a second binary string, correlated to the first binary string, respectively from the transmitted and received plurality of quantum states not in the subset, and carrying out a reconciliation of the second binary string to the first binary string by using error correction techniques to establish the shared secret random cryptographic key from the first and second binary strings.
US07983418B2	AAA support for DHCP A basic idea is to use the AAA infrastructure to assign (S3) an appropriate DHCP server to DHCP client for the DHCP service, and transferring DHCP-related information over the AAA infrastructure for authenticating (S1) and authorizing (S4) the DHCP client for DHCP service with the assigned DHCP server. Instead of the more complex DHCP server discovery process known from the prior art, the AAA infrastructure, and more particularly a suitable AAA server or equivalent AAA component, is used for assigning an appropriate DHCP server to the DHCP client. Consequently, there is no longer any mandatory dependency on the DHCP discovery-related messages. The invention preferably provides AAA protocol support for facilitating assignment of appropriate DHCP servers and providing an out-of-band key agreement protocol for DHCP clients and servers by carrying DHCP related information facilitating the bootstrapping of DHCP authentication extension (RFC3118).
US07983415B2	Method for performing iterative scalar multiplication which is protected against address bit attack The system and method for performing iterative scalar multiplication which is protected against address bit attack is provides a methodology, and system for implementing the methodology, for performing an iterative scalar multiplication process utilizing the Takagi algorithm, the most-to-least binary algorithm, or the least-to-most binary algorithm, modified with either a simultaneous register access operation (SRA) or a general simultaneous register access operation (GSRA). Further, a level-based randomization scheme may be added to provide further security to the algorithms.
US07983413B2	VoIP accessory An accessory for electronic equipment includes an interface for exchanging data between the accessory and the electronic equipment, and a voice over internet protocol (VOIP) circuit. The VoIP circuit is operatively configured to implement at least a portion of VoIP in the electronic equipment or the accessory.
US07983409B2	Geographical call routing for a non-emergency calling service A method for location-based communicating includes defining a first service area and a second service area for a service provider. The method also includes associating, at a memory apparatus accessible to a networked data processing apparatus, the first service area with multiple addresses within the first service area and the second service area with multiple addresses within the second service area.
US07983402B2	System and program for controlling electronic devices A controlling system for an electronic peripheral device is provided. The controlling system comprises an electronic peripheral device having a plurality of communication interfaces and a plurality of functions, at least one terminal device connectable to one of the communication interfaces of the electronic peripheral device via one of communication networks so that the terminal device can use one of the plurality of functions based on as to through which communication interface an instruction from the terminal device is received when the at least one of the plurality of functions is determined to be available, a function availability setting system, by which availability of at least one of the plurality of functions to the terminal device is set, and a function execution controlling system which controls execution of the at least one of the plurality of functions based on as to through which communication interface the instruction is received.
US07983393B2	Circular accelerator with adjustable electron final energy A betatron is provided for producing pulses of accelerated electrons, particularly in an x-ray testing device, comprising at least one main field coil, one expansion coil for transferring the accelerated electrons to a target, and one electronic control system of the expansion coil for applying an expansion pulse to the expansion coil. The electronic control system of the expansion coil is designed such that the time of the expansion pulse for adjusting the final energy of the electrons is variable relative to the main field.
US07983378B2	Extended multi-modulus prescaler Embodiments of apparatuses, articles, methods, and systems for a synthesizer with an extended multi-modulus prescaler are generally described herein. Described embodiments include an offset controller that provides an offset to a first counter value and a multi-modulus prescaler to implement a first modulated division number based on the first counter value and a second counter value. The offset controller may compensate for the offset to provide a second modulated division number based on the first modulated division number. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US07983376B2	Boiling water nuclear reactor and emergency core cooling system of the same A boiling water nuclear reactor comprises: a reactor containment vessel including a dry well and a wet well; a vent pipe connecting the dry well and the pressure suppression pool; a gravity-driven water injection pool to hold boric acid aqueous solution; an emergency core water-injection piping system for causing the boric acid aqueous solution in the gravity-driven water injection pool to fall so as to be injected into the reactor pressure vessel in case of reactor accident; a static containment vessel cooling system pool; a static containment vessel cooling system heat exchanger; a dry well connection pipe connecting an upper part of the static containment vessel cooling system heat exchanger and the dry well; and a gas vent pipe for discharging noncondensible gas in the static containment vessel cooling system heat exchanger into the inside of the pressure suppression pool.
US07983374B2	Methods and systems for providing variable clock rates and data rates for a SERDES A method and apparatus for varying an output clock signal frequency to match the frequency of an output data signal frequency for a SERDES circuit while maintaining a constant input clock frequency is shown. According to this method and apparatus, a PMA rate signal may control the frequency of the output clock while a datastrobe signal may be used to control the frequency of the data signal. Accordingly, the apparatus and methods may be used to produce an output data signal and a clock signal having frequencies that may be lower than the frequency of the input clock signal.
US07983366B2	Transmission signaling techniques to enhance receiver interference mitigation performance Techniques are described that can be used to maximize the interference suppression capability of space-time coded systems by managing synchronous transmission signaling. To enhance the probability of the occurrence synchronous interference and accordingly increase interference cancellation capability at a receiver, a network of at least two transmitters in a network may utilize similar structured coding schemes and coordinate transmission so that the receiver receives co-channel signals synchronously.
US07983364B2	Wireless receiver supporting multiple algorithms and algorithm selection method thereof Provided is a method of selecting an algorithm in a wireless receiver which supports a plurality of algorithms, more particularly, a method of selecting a suitable algorithm which is adaptive to changes in channel environment and satisfies requirements of applications, using information which is available in the wireless receiver. The algorithm selection method includes: calculating a measure value for selecting an algorithm on the basis of information obtained from the wireless receiver; comparing the measure value with at least one threshold value, and selecting an algorithm that is to be applied to a received packet, from among the plurality of algorithms, according to the result of the comparison; and decoding the received packet using the selected algorithm, wherein the at least one threshold value is adaptively updated on the basis of the information obtained from the wireless receiver.
US07983361B2	Clock data recovery circuit A clock data recovery circuit. The clock data recovery circuit comprises a transmission line, a phase locked loop, a voltage controlled oscillator, a phase selector, and a D flip-flop. The transmission line receives an input signal. The phase locked loop receives the input signal via the transmission line and a reference clock and generates a first clock signal. The voltage controlled oscillator receives the input signal via the transmission line and a control voltage from an internal node of the phase locked loop, and generates a clock signal. The phase selector receives the input signal via the transmission line and the clock signal from the voltage controlled oscillator, and generates a clock output signal. The D flip-flop receives the input signal via the transmission line and the clock output signal, and generates a data output signal.
US07983353B2	Code power estimation for MIMO signals Methods and apparatus for estimating code-reuse interference associated with a received multi-stream multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) signal are disclosed. An estimate for the data-to-pilot power ratio, ΓD/P, may be obtained as a by-product of parametric estimation of impairment covariance associated with the received MIMO signal. In an exemplary method, a parametric impairment model is constructed for a received MIMO signal, the parametric model omitting code-reuse interference. Impairment covariance is measured, using, in one or more embodiments, received pilot symbol data. The parametric impairment model is fitted to the measured impairment covariance to obtain one or more scaling parameter values. A per-code energy value for a first data stream is then calculated from the one or more scaling parameter values. In some embodiments, the data-to-pilot power ratio for the received signal is first calculated from the one or more scaling parameters, and the per-code energy value calculated from the data-to-pilot power ratio.
US07983348B2	System and method for signal transmission A system and method for signal transmission, a signal modulation and a signal demodulation device, and a method for signal transmission are disclosed. One embodiment includes transmitting a first pulse signal via a first line; and transmitting a second pulse signal complementary to the first pulse signal via a second line, wherein the point in time of the transmitting of the second signal relative to the point in time of the transmitting of the first signal is varied as a function of the respective digital data to be transmitted.
US07983347B2	Multiple differential transmission system including signal transmitter and signal receiver connected via three signal lines In a signal transmitter for a multiple differential transmission system including the signal transmitter, a signal receiver, and a signal transmission path including first to third signal lines, first to third differential driver transmit first to third output signals and inverted first to third output signals from the first to third output signals responsive to first to third bit information signals, the first output signal and the inverted third output signal are combined and transmitted to the first signal line, the second output signal and the inverted first output signal are combined and transmitted to the second signal line, and the third output signal and the inverted third output signal are combined and transmitted to the first signal line. The first to third differential drivers of the signal receiver detect polarities of terminal voltages generated across terminal resistances connected between adjacent signal lines and output bit information signals.
US07983341B2	Statistical content block matching scheme for pre-processing in encoding and transcoding Statistical content block matching for video pre-processing, for example in fast motion estimation, uses a second-order distortion criterion for processing steps such as identifying a best reference image portion for comparison with a current image portion. The second-order distortion criterion is a Lagrange-optimized combination of a mean squared error criterion with an entropy criterion. Then a fast motion estimation search advantageously includes performing a diamond search using the second-order distortion criterion to identify a candidate best reference image portion, and performing a nearest neighbor search starting using said second-order distortion criterion to identify the best reference image portion within a search range limited by an adaptive search range cap. A better motion vector can then be calculated.
US07983335B2	AVC I—PCM data handling and inverse transform in a video decoder An Inverse Transform (IT) conforming to MPEG AVC I_PCM that offers better video image quality than the MPEG-2/H.263 based video decoders and real time motion picture processing at 30 frames/seconds is described. The IT module performs 4×4 Inverse Integer transform for AVC for MPEG-2 operations on a given macro block (MB) and all its sub blocks. The IT is the third module in the data flow pipeline of a video decoder, the first two being a variable length decoder (VLD) and an inverse quantizer (IQ). The IT module gets its inputs from IQ module and feeds its processed output to a Motion compensation unit/intra-prediction (MCU-IP) module, thus reconstructing the video picture.
US07983332B2	Eye violation and excess jitter trigger An eye violation and excess jitter trigger for a digital signal uses a mask within a unit interval of the digital signal, such as a rectangular mask having corners defined by a high threshold, a low threshold, an early clock and a late clock, the early and late clocks being derived from a reference clock. The reference clock may be a recovered clock derived from the digital signal or from high and low threshold comparator outputs, or may be an external clock. For the excess jitter trigger, which is a special case of the eye violation trigger, the high and low thresholds are essentially equal. A status of the digital signal with respect to the mask is determined using the high and low thresholds and the early and late clocks, and a violation signal is output when the status indicates that a portion of the digital signal crossed into the mask. The violation signal may then be used to trigger data acquisition or for other purposes.
US07983327B2	Method and system for providing digital adaptive predistortion in a subscriber station A method for providing digital adaptive predistortion in a subscriber station is provided that includes applying predistortion, based on a set of predistortion characteristics, to a transmit signal to generate a predistorted signal. An amplifier input signal is generated based on the predistorted signal. The amplifier input signal is amplified to generate an amplified signal. The amplified signal is sampled to generate a sampled signal. The sampled signal is processed through a receive channel of the subscriber station to generate a processed signal. A determination is made regarding whether to adjust the set of predistortion characteristics based on the processed signal.
US07983318B2	Optical semiconductor device An optical semiconductor device includes a semiconductor laser, a first optical waveguide, an optical coupler for branching light guided from the semiconductor laser through the first optical waveguide into two lights, two second optical waveguides, diffraction gratings provided individually on the two second optical waveguides, and an optical detector for detecting light guided through one of the two diffraction gratings, and the components are provided on the same substrate. The optical semiconductor device is configured such that reflection returning lights from the diffraction gratings side to the semiconductor laser side interfere with each other and thereby extinguish each other at the optical coupler and the phases of the reflection returning lights from the diffraction gratings side are displaced from each other by π at the optical coupler portion.
US07983317B2	MQW laser structure comprising plural MQW regions Multi-quantum well laser structures are provided comprising active and/or passive MQW regions. Each of the MQW regions comprises a plurality of quantum wells and intervening barrier layers. Adjacent MQW regions are separated by a spacer layer that is thicker than the intervening barrier layers. The bandgap of the quantum wells is lower than the bandgap of the intervening barrier layers and the spacer layer. The active region may comprise active and passive MQWs and be configured for electrically-pumped stimulated emission of photons or it may comprises active MQW regions configured for optically-pumped stimulated emission of photons.
US07983313B2	System and method for coupling multiple beams to an active fiber A system and a method for coupling multiple pump light beams to an active fiber. The system including an inverted conical disk, concave lens or glass wedge, an active fiber placed in a center of the inverted conical disk (or concave lens) or at a bottom facet of the glass wedge and a plurality of pump light sources. The system further includes a plurality of lenses for focusing pump light beams from pump light sources towards a side of the inverted conical disk, concave lens or glass wedge, wherein the inverted conical disk, concave lens or glass wedge, couples the pump light beams into the active fiber.A method for coupling multiple pump light beams to an active fiber. The method includes providing an inverted conical disk, concave lens or glass wedge. The method further includes providing an active fiber in approximately the center of the inverted conical disk (or concave lens) or at a bottom facet of the glass wedge. The method further includes pump light sources for emitting pump light beams and focusing lenses for focusing pump light beams toward the axis of the active fiber. Pump light beams are emitted towards the side of the inverted conical disk, concave lens, or glass wedge and coupled to the active fiber.
US07983311B2	Signal detection device and signal detection method A correlation unit (32) sequentially obtains correlation values between a baseband signal and a reference signal and outputs the obtained reference signal to a section division unit (33). The output of the correlation unit (32) is divided into symbol time periods by the section division unit (33). A section position detection unit (34) detects a largest correlation value in each of sections resulting from the division by the correlation unit (32) and outputs, to a synchronization judgment unit (35), first position information that indicates a relative position of each detected largest correlation value. The synchronization judgment unit (35) detects an arrival of a packet signal and estimates a symbol timing based on the first position information of the sections.
US07983310B2	Methods for in-band signaling through enhanced variable-rate codecs Improvements are disclosed for in-band signaling, i.e., transmission of data in a voice channel of a digital wireless network during a voice call session. A family of narrow-band signaling methods is disclosed to successfully pass data-carrying signals through the low-bit rate modes of the EVRC-B vocoder commonly used in CDMA wireless channels. Some embodiments generate a tapered signaling waveform in tandem with another waveform using FSK-modulation. These features can be used in cell phones or other wireless communication devices, including automotive applications.
US07983307B2	Communication apparatus and communication method A hybrid terminal of a mobile phone and a digital broadcast receiver allows calling on the mobile phone while at the same time receiving a digital broadcast itself even in the event of receiving a call while at the same time receiving the digital broadcast. Upon receiving a call while at the same time receiving a digital broadcast, a caption within the digital broadcast is decoded and displayed. When the user presses a call start/end button, an analog path is switched to an audio telephone path so as to start a call and the broadcast caption is also decoded and displayed. When the user presses the call start/end button to end a call, the audio path is switched to a digital broadcast audio path, and decoding and display of the broadcast caption is stopped.
US07983298B2	Multiple frequency band operation in wireless networks Embodiments for bandwidth allocation methods, detecting interference with other systems, and/or redeploying in alternate bandwidth are described. Higher bandwidth channels may be deployed at channel boundaries, which are a subset of those for lower bandwidth channels, and may be restricted from overlapping. Interference may be detected on primary, secondary, or a combination of channels, and may be detected in response to energy measurements of the various channels. When interference is detected, a higher bandwidth Basic Service Set (BSS) may be relocated to an alternate channel, or may have its bandwidth reduced to avoid interference. Interference may be detected based on energy measured on the primary or secondary channel, and/or a difference between the two. An FFT may be used in energy measurement in either or both of the primary and secondary channels. Stations may also monitor messages from alternate systems to make channel allocation decisions. Various other aspects are also presented.
US07983297B2	Method and apparatus for the efficient use of available communications network bandwidth A communications network gateway receives a stream of information formatted to be compatible with a first sub-network and it receives a stream of information formatted to be compatible with a second sub-network. The frames in the second stream are extracted and modified to be compatible with the transmission format of the first sub-network. The two streams of information are then aggregated for transmission over a logical network link in a manner that optimizes the bandwidth utilization of the overall communications network.
US07983295B2	Optimizing packet queues for channel bonding over a plurality of downstream channels of a communications management system A plurality of downstream channels enables communications between a CMTS and a plurality of legacy and non-legacy cable modems. A dispersion mechanism optimizes channel bonding, such that the downstream channels are interoperable with DOCSIS™-compliant, legacy cable modems. A program identifier field distinguishes between bonded and non-bonded flows. For bonded flows, a bonding group is defined to bond a set of downstream channels. The packets for each bonding group are classified into channel queues at or near a MPEG level or a packet level. To mitigate congestion and multiplexing inefficiencies, the dispersion mechanism collects real-time information to determine which channel receives the bonded packets. The dispersion mechanism includes a queue manager and a priority manager. The queue manager dynamically creates queues and allocates queue memory. The priority manager spools the appropriate bytes to an MPEG encapsulation engine for the appropriate outgoing modulator.
US07983291B2	Flexible packet modification engine for a network device A network device for processing data on a data network includes a port interface, in communication with a plurality of ports, configured to receive data packets from a data network and to send processed data packets to the data network, a memory management unit, in communication with and controlling memory, configured store data on and retrieve data from the memory and a parser, in communication with the port interface and the memory management unit, configured to parse the received data packets to determine attributes of the data packets and to modify data packets retrieved from the memory, based on the determined attributes, to produce the processed data packets. The parser is configured to modify the data packet on a cell basis, through addition, subtraction and substitution of cells of the data packets, where each cell of the cells has a predetermined bit-length.
US07983289B2	Communication apparatus and recording medium A packet is transmitted such that jitter of a packet transmission time period is suppressed. A transmission apparatus includes a stream data obtaining unit obtaining stream data from a source outside of the transmission apparatus, a coding unit compressing and coding the stream data, a packet generation unit generating a packet, a transmission buffer unit temporarily storing data, a transmission method selection unit selecting any one of “jitter suppressed transmission” and “normal transmission” as a transmission mode, a communication I/F unit transmitting the packetized stream data with a transmission method selected by the transmission method selection unit, a communication medium detection unit obtaining data for controlling communication via the communication I/F unit by identifying a communication medium, a time keeping unit generating time information, an input unit accepting manipulation input, and a storage unit storing data in a non-volatile manner.
US07983284B2	Virtual private network based upon multi-protocol label switching adapted to measure the traffic flowing between single rate zones Virtual Private Network (VPN) dedicated to a customer using a physical transmission network based upon Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) technology including a plurality of Provider (P) devices and a plurality of Provider Edge (PE) devices, the customer owning at least two specific Customer Edge (CE) devices amongst a plurality of CE devices, a specific CE device being attached to a specific PE device and enabling the customer to gain access to any other CE device belonging to the same VPN, by the intermediary of PE devices to which are attached the CE devices. The VPN comprises several billing zones (10, 12, 14) being each defined by the application of a single flat rate. A PE device (18) belonging to each billing zone includes a virtual router (58, 60, 62) associated with each billing zone, two virtual routers being interconnected by a virtual circuit (38, 40, 42) transmitting all the traffic exchanged between the two associated billing zones so that the traffic flowing between the two billing zones can be measured and therefore precisely billed to the customer.
US07983280B2	Method and system for distributing session key across gatekeeper zones in a direct-routing mode A method for distributing a session key across GateKeeper (GK) zones in a direct-routing mode, including the following steps: a caller's GK and a callee's GK determine a session key distributing mode for a caller and a callee to distribute the session key according to information contained in a received message and pre-configured rules for selecting the session key distribution mode. An embodiment of the present invention also provides a system for distributing a session key across GK zones in a direct-routing mode. The method and the system make it possible for the caller's GK and the callee's GK to select the session key distribution mode, and improves the flexibility of the session key distribution for the GKs.
US07983279B2	Method for configuring IP network resource and IP network A method for configuring IP network resource and an IP network are disclosed. The method includes: configuring a Plane A and a Plane B to have a reciprocal master-slave relation and to carry services individually, wherein the Planes A and B are connected with each other in a carrying network; configuring two interfaces of an access device with a reciprocal master-slave relation and assigning IP addresses to the Planes A and B respectively, to connect the Plane A with the Plane B; and distributing services to the IP addresses of the two interfaces in turn in the case that the IP address of a peer access device of the access device is unknown. The presently described technology can be easily implemented and can improve the network quality of service effectively, which can solve one or more problems in the conventional master-slave bi-planes networking, such as insufficient usage of the network resource, complex network policy configuration, etc.
US07983278B1	Redirect checking in a network device A network device includes an input device configured to receive a data packet, where the input device includes a number of interfaces and the data packet includes a source address and a destination address. The network device also includes processing logic configured to generate forwarding information identifying a next hop for the data packet and determine whether an interface on which the data packet was received is a same interface on which the data packet is to be forwarded to the next hop. The processing logic is also configured to determine whether the data packet originated from a device that is part of a same subnet as the next hop.
US07983276B2	Timing source A timing source is provided for sending timing information via a packet network. The source comprises a clock for generating the timing information and a packet-forming section for forming a sequence of packets for transporting the timing information to a destination node. A time-stamping section inserts into each packet of the sequence a transmission time derived from the clock and acts as an output section for forwarding the packets to the network at the respective transmission times. In one mode, the packet forming section forms all of the packets of the sequence with the largest size which the packet network is capable of transporting. In another mode, the packets of the sequence have a distribution of sizes which may be fixed or which may vary in response to traffic conditions.
US07983272B2	Apparatus and methods for incorporating bandwidth forecasting and dynamic bandwidth allocation into a broadband communication system A method for providing network access to a shared access communications medium for a plurality of users includes the steps of conducting predictive admission control by arbitrating user requests for access to the shared medium based on predicted aggregate demands, conducting lookahead scheduling for use in making user channel assignments by forecasting schedule transmission opportunities one or more channels of the shared medium, and balancing load by making channel assignments such that a plurality users are each assigned a respective channel of the shared medium based upon a predicted need. Congestion parameters can predicted for each channel of the shared medium and mapped to a congestion measure using a mathematical function that takes into account packet loss rate, packet delay, packet delay jitter, and available capacity.
US07983259B1	Reduced pin gigabit media independent interface A medium access control (MAC) device includes a first set of transmit pins, a second set of transmit pins, and a first encoder. The first set receives (i) first transmit data signals and (ii) first transmit control signals from a host. The first transmit data signals are received on a first subset of the first set. The second set outputs (i) second transmit data signals and (ii) second transmit control signals to a physical layer (PHY) device. The second transmit data signals are output on a second subset of the second set. The second subset includes fewer transmit pins than the first subset. The first encoder encodes two of the first transmit control signals received on two of the first set of transmit pins to generate one of the second transmit control signals output on one of the second set of transmit pins.
US07983247B2	Metadata collection A method and system for collecting and communicating contextual information relating to a VoIP conversation is provided. Structured hierarchies are utilized for efficient communications of various amounts and types of contextual information relating to a VoIP conversation. Information identifying at least one structured hierarchy, which will be used to carry the contextual information, is transmitted during establishment of a conversation between two VoIP enhanced devices. The structured hierarchy is selected from a set of predefined and declared structured hierarchies. Subsequently transmitted contextual information exchanged between two VoIP enhanced devices is represented in accordance with the identified structural hierarchy. VoIP clients, network infrastructure, and various service providers can collect the contextual information based on the identified structured hierarchy, update the contextual information by adding, deleting and/or modifying the contextual data. The updated contextual information will be transmitted to other clients, network infrastructure, and service providers.
US07983242B2	Packet data service with circuit-switched call notification Systems and techniques are disclosed relating to wireless communications. The systems and techniques involve wireless communications wherein a packet data session may be established between a wireless communications device and a packet data serving node to support a network connection to a packet-switched network. The wireless communications device may be configured to receive a notification of an incoming call from a circuit-switched network even when the network connection is active.
US07983229B2	Fast context establishment for interworking in heterogeneous network The invention relates to a method for configuring connection parameters of a connection between a mobile terminal and a target wireless access network in a handover between heterogeneous wireless access networks, wherein the mobile terminal is handed over from an originating wireless access network to a target wireless access network. Moreover, the invention provides a packet data gateway and an authentication server which are adapted to participate and execute a part of the steps of the configuration method. To provide a solution for establishing connection to a wireless access network, as for example a WLAN, as fast as possible, in particular in a handover, the invention proposed to pre-configure a tunnel to be established between a packet data gateway and the mobile terminal for packet data service provision via the target wireless access network based on context information already maintained for the packet data service.
US07983227B2	Communication terminal apparatus, communication connection apparatus, and communication method using them In the conventional network using the PPP stipulated by RFC1661, the LCP phase to establish an LCP link, the authentication phase, and the NCP phase such as address assignment processing of the NCP are sequentially conducted each time the line connection is performed, and hence the connection takes a certain period of time. Particular, in the case of the mobile communication, there is often performed operation in which connection and disconnection are frequently conducted in a short period of time, and hence when the operation up to the connection takes a long period of time, the usability is deteriorated. Therefore, a need exists for a configuration of an apparatus and a communication method to reduce the connection time. In the configuration, control information such as authentication policy and protocols for use beforehand determined in the communication system are set to each apparatus to conduct communication such that the respective processing phases of the LCP, authentication, and NCP processing phases are executed in parallel according to the values set as above. Also, in the configuration, the communication between the apparatuses is conducted using a combined PPP packet created by combining with each other the respective packets of the LCP, authentication, and NCP packets as the PPP packets to be communicated in the respective phases to thereby perform the PPP connection.
US07983224B2	Method for delivering 1X network paging in high rate packet data network The present invention discloses a method for delivering paging from 1X network in HRPD (High Rate Packet Data) network, and the Secondary Color Code scheme is applied in the present invention, which enables the AN in which a MS/AT is registered to send an A13-paging request message to other adjacent ANs which are together therewith used for paging a mobile phone. For a MS/AT at multiple AN boundary, with the present invention, it enhances the possibility of receiving the paging through HRPD air interface control channel due to the service originated from 1X network, and can ensure the double network operation ability.
US07983218B2	Techniques to support seamless mobility of electronic devices engaged in a session initiation protocol (SIP) session Embodiments of the invention relate to techniques to allow a wireless device engaged in a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) communication session to move between heterogeneous wireless networks without terminating the SIP session.
US07983203B2	System and method for improved power efficiency in a shared resource network A system and method for including aggregation control information in an aggregate frame that facilitates enhanced power efficiency is provided. Aggregation control information may include lengths of frames addressed to different stations and/or transmission opportunities to different stations. A receiving station is then able to calculate an offset within the aggregate frame that identifies the position of frames addressed to the receiving station and/or offset when it can use the medium to transmit it's data. The receiving station may then enter a sleep mode and awaken at a proper time for using the medium to either receive, or transmit data on the medium. Additionally, aggregation control information may include rate information to facilitate aggregation of multi-rate data in an aggregate frame.
US07983202B2	Telecommunications network The present invention relates generally to a cellular telecommunications network. Each cell has at least one base station for sending messages on a downlink of a Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) to end user equipments within the cell and for receiving messages on an uplink from end user equipments within the cell. Other end user equipment located within the cell which have no or only poor communication directly with the base station over the FDD communicate with the base station indirectly via an intermediate end user equipment, such as a mobile telephone. The intermediate end user equipment includes an FDD transceiver and a Time Division Duplex (TDD) transceiver and an FDD/TDD interface. The intermediate end user equipment receives signals from the base station over the FDD using the FDD transceiver and relays them via the FDD/TDD Interface and the TDD transceiver towards a relevant one of the other end user equipments over a TDD and receives signals from the other end user equipment over the TDD using the TDD transceiver and relays them via the FDD/TDD interface and the FDD transceiver to the base station over the FDD.
US07983200B2	Apparatus and method for packet-based media communications The performance of a voice conference using a packet-based conference bridge can be improved with a number of modifications. In one modification, the conference bridge receives speech indication signals from the individual packet-based terminals within the voice conference, these speech indication signals then being used by the conference bridge to select the talkers within the voice conference. This removes the need for speech detection techniques within the conference bridge, hence decreasing the required processing power and the latency within the conference bridge. In another modification, the conference bridge sends addressing control signals to the individual packet-based terminals selected as talkers, these addressing control signals directing the terminals selected as talkers to directly transmit their voice data packets to the other terminals within the voice conference. This direct transmission of voice data packets can reduce transcoding and latency within the network. These two modifications could further be combined, resulting in a conference bridge that receives speech indication signals, selects the talkers for the voice conference and outputs addressing control signal to the talkers. In this case, the advantages of the two modifications are gained as well as additional capacity advantages resulting from no voice signals actually traversing the conference bridge.
US07983190B2	Network system, layer 3 communication device, layer 2 communication device, and route selection method In a layer 2 communication device included in multiple layer 2 networks, an identifying unit identifies a layer 3 control packet from among packets passing through, and an embedding unit embeds routing control information for the layer 2 network in the layer 3 control packet. In a layer 3 communication device connected to the multiple layer 2 networks, a selecting unit selects from the multiple layer 2 networks, an optimum L2 network, that is a layer 2 network forming an optimum communication route, based on a communication destination, and a setting unit sets a packet to be transmitted to the optimum L2 network.
US07983186B2	Defining lost event talley tag packets when PET count rates exceed available acquisition bandwidth A system identifies when received packets are lost at a node in a multi-node processing chain. The system processing chain may include a gantry interface module for receiving coincident event data from a PET (Positron Emission Tomography) detector array, a DMA (direct memory access) rebinner card, and a transmission line coupled between the gantry interface module and the DMA card. FPGA and FIFO elements in each processing portion receive packets that may be lost if there is insufficient FIFO capacity. Lost packets are marked, discarded, and counted. At specified intervals, set in accordance with a threshold number of packets received a lost tally data packet is generated that includes count information for lost packets. The lost tally data packet is forwarded downstream when sufficient storage capacity exists.
US07983182B2	Methods and apparatus for exchanging network connectivity and capability information A method for managing transport node capability information includes discovering a link end of a local transport node, modelling the local transport node's capability information as a first set of information structures, discovering a neighbor transport node, establishing a control adjacency link between control elements of the local transport node and neighbor transport node, modelling the neighbor transport node's capability information as a second set of information structures, exchanging the first and second sets of information structures between the control elements and identifying potential network layer links between the local and neighbor transport nodes, based on correlations in the first and second sets of information structures.
US07983179B2	Network monitoring by customer premises equipment A system for collecting data from a communications network includes customer premises equipment (“CPE”) for monitoring and storing response data. A CPE data collection module uses a Web-based service to collect information from the CPE and process the information to determine line quality and any errors that may exist on either the WAN side or the LAN side of the communications network, and further determine the root cause based on built-in business rules for trouble shooting customer service. The CPE conducts per-tone diagnostics on the WAN side of the communications network and obtains WAN side data. The CPE obtains response data from devices on the LAN side. Both WAN side data and LAN data may be transmitted substantially in real-time or stored and transmitted periodically to the CPE data collection module upon requests originated from the CPE data collection module.
US07983174B1	Method and apparatus for diagnosing a fault in a network path A method of diagnosing a fault in a network path comprises the steps, performed at a diagnosing node, of initiating a path discovery test. The diagnosing node receives at least one path discovery test response and identifies the diagnosable node on the network path from a path discovery test response. The diagnosing node remotely accesses said diagnosable node and performs a diagnostic routine at said diagnosable node.
US07983162B1	Aggregate maximum throughput for groups of service flows A network device has a port to allow the device to communicate with user devices. The network device also has a processor to assign any user devices in communication with the device to a group. The processor also monitors traffic of the user devices so as to control a traffic rate of the group.
US07983154B2	Method for increasing/reducing band data rate of ring-based network and node apparatus of the ring-based network The present invention discloses a method including the steps of a) confirming the status of a path corresponding to each node apparatus in the ring network by using a predetermined control information that includes a function of adding/deleting a predetermined path on a physical layer, b) instructing each node apparatus to add/delete the predetermined path by using the predetermined control information when the status of the path corresponding to each node apparatus is confirmed to be normal, c) reporting completion of the addition/deletion of the predetermined path to each node apparatus by using the predetermined control information when the addition/deletion of the predetermined path is adequately performed by each node apparatus, and d) reporting the addition/deletion of the predetermined path to a ring application function included in the ring application of the data link layer when the completion of the addition/deletion of the predetermined path is adequately reported by each node apparatus.
US07983150B2	VPLS failure protection in ring networks A method for communication over a bi-directional ring network includes provisioning a virtual private local area network service (VPLS) over the bi-directional ring network. The VPLS includes connection termination points provisioned respectively on a plurality of the nodes so as to connect each of the plurality of the nodes to a second network external to the ring network. As long as the nodes and spans are fully operational, one or more of the connection termination points are maintained in a deactivated state, so that no more than one of the connection termination points to the second network is active. The nodes exchange messages indicative of a failure associated with the bi-directional ring network, causing at least one of the deactivated connection termination points to be activated so as to maintain connectivity among the users of the VPLS without creating a loop in the VPLS via the second network.
US07983149B2	Line accommodation device and control method thereof The present invention provides a line accommodation device comprising at least one first communication control unit for controlling information transmission/reception to/from a first communication system, at least one second communication control unit for controlling information transmission/reception to/from a second communication system using the first communication system as a communication medium and a route control unit for controlling the switching of an information transfer route between the first and second communication unit.
US07983147B2	Method of setting and changing receive channel set of cable modem A method of effectively setting and changing a Receive Channel Set (RCS) of a cable modem (CM) is provided. The method includes: receiving, by a Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS), a Receive Channel Profile (RCP) with respect to a downstream physical layer of a CM; composing, by the CMTS, a plurality of channel configuration information required for setting the RCS of the CM with reference to the RCP; encoding, by the CMTS, the plurality of channel configuration information, and transmitting the encoded plurality of channel configuration information to the CM; transmitting, by the CM, an RCP with respect to a downstream physical layer to a CMTS; receiving, by the CM, a plurality of channel configuration information being composed with reference to the RCP and being required for setting the RCS; and setting, by the CM, the RCS using the plurality of channel configuration information.
US07983143B2	Method and apparatus for initial acquisition and cell search for an OFDMA system A method and apparatus is provided for transmitting an orthogonal frequency domain multiple access (OFDMA) signal including a synchronization channel signal transmitted within a localized portion of a bandwidth of the OFDMA signal (818), the synchronization channel signal having predetermined time domain symmetry within the localized portion of the bandwidth (816) and including information for providing at least partial cell identification information (812). The synchronization channel signal enables an initial acquisition and cell search method with low computational load which provides OFDMA symbol timing detection and frequency error detection (1112) and frame boundary detection and cell specific information detection (1114) in an OFDMA system supporting multiple system bandwidths, both synchronized and un-synchronized systems, a large cell index and an OFDMA symbol structure with both short and long cyclic prefix length.
US07983134B2	Method and apparatus for recording/reproducing data on/from a recording medium A method and apparatus for recording/reproducing data is disclosed. The apparatus for recording/reproducing data comprises a diffraction element splitting light diffracted or reflected from a recording medium into a main beam and first and second sub beams, the main beam and the first and second sub beams having no interference from one another; a light-receiving part detecting the main beam and the first and second sub beams; and a controller controlling a position of the diffraction element based on at least one light capacity of the detected beams or the detected position.
US07983126B2	Optical-information recording apparatus and method and signal processing circuit A recording condition approximate to the optimal is obtainable for a media even if unknown to the drive. A technique is provided that is effective for improving the signal quality, particularly, at a Wobble and Lpp. By regulating an intermediate pulse condition PWD, Tmp of a recording pulse configured with a top pulse, an intermediate pulse and a last pulse, the pit width W in a saturation code is controlled. The pit length and phase in the saturation code is controlled based on a front phase correction amount Ttop and rear phase correction amount Tlast.
US07983125B2	Table-driven power utilization metrics An apparatus and method for determining the power consumption of one or more disk arrays are described. Power consumption information for various hardware components of the array, especially that for the disk drives since these consume more than 90% of the required power, are stored in a static data table in a database which may be controller firmware. Through inspection of this table and the chosen state of the individual disk drives as directed by a controller, one may determine the power use of the array.
US07983123B2	Methods of defect management and reproduction, program and recording medium, and apparatuses for information recording and information reproduction A method of defect management for managing on a block-by-block basis a defective area in an information-recording medium is disclosed. The medium has a user-data area, a sparing area, and a defect-management information are. The block is of a predetermined size. The method includes the steps of, when a defective block in which the defective area is included is set to be replaced with a sparing block of the sparing area: dividing the sparing block into multiple subblocks so as to set identifying information, for identifying a sparing subblock in which data are replaced and a non-sparing subblock in which data are not replaced, as defect-management information; and setting block-management information, including information regarding the defective block and the sparing block, and information regarding an area in which non-sparing data not replaced with the sparing block are stored, as defect-management information.
US07983122B2	Defocus detection device, defocus detection method and optical disk unit using the same Defocus detection device and method capable of detecting a defocus accurately during recording of information to an optical disk having a plurality of recording layers and an optical disk unit using the device and method are provided. A temporal restriction is imposed on defocus detection and besides, in comparison with a level for detection of a first change of a focus error signal developing during a defocus, a level for detection of a successively occurring second change of a polarity inverse to that of the first change is made to be smaller. When the first level is exceeded and thereafter the second level is exceeded within a restricted time, a defocus is detected.
US07983115B2	System and method for managing time in automatic control equipment A time management system that includes a first clock having a first counter operating on a first timebase, a second clock having a second counter operating on a second timebase identical to the first timebase and a third counter operating on a third timebase less than the second timebase. The time management system performs a resynchronization of the second clock after the main electrical power supply has been restored, this resynchronization including, on a modification of the first counter, loading the first counter into the second counter and in zeroing the third counter.
US07983114B2	Vertical-axis transmitting sonar antenna that can be wound onto a winch Embodiments of the present invention relate to a linear submersible body including a plurality of rigid segments that are articulated and can adopt relative to one another an orientation making it possible to form a rectilinear body, or a curved body of which the radius of curvature is adapted to the drum of the winch onto which it is wound. The segments are associated with couplers and configured so that a vertical rectilinear posture is naturally obtained when the device is totally submerged and towed by the ship, while the curved posture is obtained naturally by the winding of the device onto the winch. Embodiments of the invention apply to the production of linear and vertical transmitting acoustic antennas.
US07983112B2	Semiconductor device which transmits or receives a signal to or from an external memory by a DDR system A semiconductor device in the present invention includes a DLL circuit which determines a phase shift amount, an arithmetic circuit which shifts the phase shift amount by a predetermined phase at test mode time, registers which set the phase shift amount, and a transmission circuit which shifts a phase to the set phase to transmit or receive a signal. The transmission circuit has a first phase shifter which shifts a first signal to the set phase, a first bidirectional buffer which loops back the first signal at the test mode time, a second phase shifter which phase-shifts the signal outputted from the first bidirectional buffer, a third phase shifter which phase-shifts a third signal, a second bidirectional buffer which loops back the third signal at the test mode time, a fourth phase shifter which phase-shifts the signal outputted from the second bidirectional buffer, and a FIFO which takes out an output signal of the second phase shifter or the fourth phase shifter.
US07983103B2	Semiconductor memory device suitable for mounting on portable terminal A trigger producing circuit provides a trigger signal. A delay circuit receives the trigger signal, and provides a delay signal produced by delaying the trigger signal. A clock counter receives clocks, counts the received clocks for a period from reception of the trigger signal to reception of the delay signal, and provides a result of the counting. A determining circuit stores a relationship between the number of clocks and a latency, and determines the latency corresponding to the result of counting provided from the clock counter. A latency register holds the determined latency. A WAIT control circuit externally provides a WAIT signal based on the latency held in the latency register.
US07983097B2	Wordline driving circuit of semiconductor memory device Wordline driving circuit of semiconductor memory device includes a bias generator configured to generate a threshold bias voltage for accessing data, an over-driver configured to increase the threshold bias voltage at an initial stage of a data accessing operation and a wordline driver configured to activate a wordline in response to the threshold bias voltage and a signal output from the over-driver.
US07983088B2	Programming in a memory device Methods for programming a memory device, memory devices, and a memory systems are provided. According to at least one such method, a selected memory cell is programmed by a series of programming pulses. The series of programming pulses are configured in sets of programming pulses where each set has the same quantity of pulses and each programming pulse in the set has substantially the same amplitude (i.e., programming voltage). The amplitude of the programming pulses of subsequent sets is increased by a step voltage from the previous amplitude.
US07983075B2	Nonvolatile memory device Ferromagnetic layers have magnetizations oriented to such directions as to cancel each other, so that the net magnetization of the ferromagnetic layers is substantially zero. That is, the ferromagnetic layers are exchange-coupled with a nonmagnetic layer interposed therebetween, thereby forming an SAF structure. Since the net magnetization of the ferromagnetic layers forming the SAF structure is substantially zero, the magnetization of a recording layer is determined by the magnetization of a ferromagnetic layer. Therefore, the ferromagnetic layer is made of a CoFeB alloy having high uniaxial magnetic anisotropy, and the ferromagnetic layers are made of a CoFe alloy having a high exchange-coupling force.
US07983074B2	Ferromagnetic nanorings, mediums embodying same including devices and methods related thereto Featured is a magnetic ring structure including at least a vortex magnetic state such as symmetrically and asymmetrically shaped nanorings (FIG. 7C), having small diameters (e.g., on the order of 100 run). In particular embodiments, the width and thickness of the maxima and minima thereof are located on opposite sides of the nanoring. Also featured are methods for fabricating such symmetrically and asymmetrically shaped nanorings (FIG. 1). Also featured are methods for controlling the reversal process so as to thereby create vortex states in such asymmetric nanorings by controlling the field angle (FIG. 9).
US07983065B2	Three-dimensional array of re-programmable non-volatile memory elements having vertical bit lines A three-dimensional array especially adapted for memory elements that reversibly change a level of electrical conductance in response to a voltage difference being applied across them. Memory elements are formed across a plurality of planes positioned different distances above a semiconductor substrate. Bit lines to which the memory elements of all planes are connected are oriented vertically from the substrate and through the plurality of planes.
US07983055B2	Printed circuit board with embedded cavity capacitor A printed circuit board having an embedded cavity capacitor is disclosed. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the printed circuit board having the embedded cavity capacitor, the printed circuit board can include two conductive layers to be used as a power layer and a ground layer, respectively; and a first dielectric layer, placed between the two conductive layers, wherein at least one cavity capacitor is arranged in a noise-transferable path between a noise source and a noise prevented destination which are placed on the printed circuit board, the cavity capacitor being formed to allow a second dielectric layer to have a lower stepped region than the first dielectric layer, the second dielectric layer using the two conductive layers as a first electrode and a second electrode, respectively, and placed between the first electrode and the second electrode.
US07983053B2	Electronic plug-in module for accommodation in a module rack An electronic plug-in module for accommodation in a module rack with a mounting rail, wherein the plug-in module includes a circuit board, a front plate and a mounting device, the mounting device comprises a bearing part, a tensioning part and a fixation element, the bearing part is fixed on front plate, and the tensioning part is connected frictionally to the fixation element and the bearing part in such a manner that a force, by means of which the plug-in module is held with its front plate in a defined position relative to the module rack, is exerted onto the plug-in module transversely to the insertion direction of the plug-in module.
US07983048B2	Structure for mounting semiconductor package A mounting structure, in which semiconductor package 1 and heat sink 8 for dissipating heat generated from semiconductor package 1 are mounted on mounting board 3. The rear surface of semiconductor package 1 is bonded to the front surface of mounting board 3 facing the rear surface. Heat sink 8 is brought into contact with the rear surface of semiconductor package 1 via through-ole 5 formed on mounting board 3. Semiconductor package 1 and heat sink 8 are pressed to each other by the elastic force of clip 6.
US07983039B1	Reversible airflow fan tray design for electronic device in a data center A reversible airflow fan tray assembly is provided for an electronic device. The fan tray assembly includes a face plate to be removably mounted to the electronic device and a fan tray cassette to be removably mounted to the face plate in multiple orientations. The fan tray cassette includes a fan unit to provide airflow through the electronic device, and an interconnection board to provide an electrical connection between the fan unit and the electronic device, where the interconnection board mates with a connector on the electronic device when the fan tray cassette is in any of the multiple orientations. The interconnection board provides an airflow direction indication to the electronic device for a current orientation of the multiple orientations.
US07983029B2	Support device for display unit and display unit having the same A support device for a display unit is provided, in which supports for supporting the display unit are hidden so as to improve the beauty of a room, and a display unit having the same. The support device includes at least one support connected to the display unit; a base connected to the lower part of the support; and a transparent member installed in front of the support, wherein the transparent member includes at least one refractively transmitting portion for refracting light, incident from the front of the transparent member to the support, toward external regions of the support.
US07983027B2	Notebook computer protection device and saddle bag A notebook computer protection device forming a protective sleeve adapted to securely receive a notebook computer. The protection device is formed of a semi-rigid translucent material having a plurality of access openings permitting both a physical and visual inspection of the notebook computer lateral portions when secured therewithin. The protection device protects the notebook computer when subject to the examination process at airports and other transportation hubs, particularly when subject to the x-ray process at security checkpoints. The notebook computer protection device is light weight, inexpensive, and effectively protects a notebook computer during the inspection process, without requiring the removal of the notebook computer therefrom during the inspection process.
US07983019B2	Capacitor based transformer A device for generating a voltage comprises first and second plates spaced apart from each other, for being charged at respective different potentials. A third plate is placed at a first distance from the first plate so as to form a first capacitor, and a first semiconductor element is connected between the third plate and the second plate. This voltage generating device produces an output voltage having an amplitude that is dependent upon the first distance and taken between the third and second plates.
US07983018B2	Plasma processing system ESC high voltage control and methods thereof An arrangement for securing a wafer during substrate processing is provided. The arrangement includes a power supply and an electrostatic chuck (ESC). The ESC supports the wafer and includes a positive and a negative terminal. A positive high voltage is provided to the positive terminal through an RF filter and a negative high voltage is provided to the negative terminal through the RF filter. The arrangement also includes a first and a second trans-impedance amplifiers (TIAs) that measure a first set of voltages for determining a value of a positive load current applied to the positive terminal and a third and fourth TIAs that measure a second set of voltages for determining a value of a negative load current applied to the negative terminal. The arrangement yet also includes a program to adjust a bias voltage using the values of the positive load current and the negative load current.
US07983016B2	Electrostatically atomizing device An electrostatically atomizing device comprises an emitter electrode, an opposed electrode, cooling means for condensing water on the emitter electrode, and a high voltage source; and high voltage is applied to the condensed water so that minute water particles are discharged from a discharge end at a tip of the emitter electrode. The device comprises a controller for causing the charged minute water particles to be discharged stably. The controller has an initial control mode and a normal control mode. In the initial mode, the cooling means is controlled so as to cool the emitter electrode at a predetermined cooling rate. Once discharge current reaches into a predetermined target discharge current range, the cooling means is controlled by feedback control, on the basis of the value of the discharge current, in such a manner that the discharge current is kept within the target discharge current range.
US07983011B2	AP1 layer for TMR device A TMR read head with improved voltage breakdown is formed by laying down the AP1 layer as two or more layers. Each AP1 sub-layer is exposed to a low energy plasma for a short time before the next layer is deposited. This results in a smooth surface, onto which to deposit the tunneling barrier layer, with no disruption of the surface crystal structure of the completed AP1 layer.
US07982992B2	Dual gain control for magnetic data storage system A system according to one embodiment includes an analog input for receiving an analog signal; a variable gain amplifier coupled to the analog input; a first gain control circuit coupled to the variable gain amplifier for controlling the gain of the analog signal; an analog to digital converter for converting the analog signal to a digital signal; a first gain error generation circuit for generating a first gain error signal based on an output of the analog to digital converter, the first gain error signal or derivative thereof being received by the first gain control circuit; and a second gain error generation circuit for generating a second gain error signal based on the digital signal, the second gain error signal or derivative thereof being received by the first gain control circuit, wherein the first gain control circuit uses at least one of the gain error signals to control the gain of the analog signals.
US07982991B2	Method and apparatus for determining set value of write current of magnetic head Embodiments of the present invention help to efficiently determine the appropriate setting of the write current of a magnetic head relative to temperature. According to one embodiment, a test computer determines the set value of a write current as a function of temperature for each head device portion from the relationship between a write current and an error rate. A test execution controller sets a selected head device portion and a write current to an AE, and writes data on a magnetic disk using the components in a HDD. The test execution controller reads the written data, and the error rate of the data from an error correcting section. The test execution controller repeats the same process with the write current varied. Upon completion of the measurement at the preset write currents, the test execution controller transfers the measurement data to the test computer.
US07982989B1	Method and system for measuring magnetic interference width A method for measuring a magnetic interference width for a magnetic recording head is described. The method includes writing a first track at a first frequency on a magnetic disk, writing a second track at the first frequency on the magnetic disk, and writing a third track at a second frequency on the magnetic disk between the first track and the second track. The third track partially overlaps both the first track and the second track and the second frequency is different from the first frequency. The method further includes measuring a readback profile across the first, second and third tracks on the magnetic disk.
US07982988B2	Combining information from parallel servo channels A weighted combining scheme exploits information from two servo channels operating in parallel. A timing-based servo module servo module comprises two servo channels coupled respectively to receive two digital servo signals read from a data tape. Both channels have outputs for an unweighted metric and for a measure of the channel reliability. A weight computation module provides first and second weight signals using the measures of channel reliability from the servo channels. A first multiplying node receives a first unweighted metric and a first weight signal and is operable to output a first weighted metric. A second multiplying node receives a second unweighted metric and a second weight signal and outputs a second weighted metric. A summing node receives the first and second weighted metrics and outputs a combined weighted metric to an LPOS word decoder.
US07982987B2	Methods and apparatus to detect surface characteristics on magnetic read/write heads A method and apparatus for detecting predetermined surface characteristics in head gimbal assemblies to improve hard disk drive reliability. The predetermined surface characteristics include head slider protrusions such as scratches or contamination that can cause damage to the head or disk in hard drives. By detecting these protrusions, those drives with an increased chance of failure can be removed from a test group, thereby increasing the quality and reliability of the remaining disk drives. The invention provides a method of detecting these protrusions that is a more practical option than using a scanning electron microscope (SEM) to inspect each head slider.
US07982979B2	Lens module A lens module includes a lens and an opaque plate. The lens is received in the main body, and includes an imaging portion and a non-imaging portion surrounding the imaging portion. An annular flange is extended upward from the image-side surface of the non-imaging portion. The flange and the image-side surface defines a receiving groove. The opaque plate includes a circular opening corresponding to the imaging portion and a lightproof solid body surrounding the opening. The opaque plate is disposed on the image-side surface of non-imaging portion of the lens with the lightproof solid body received in the receiving groove.
US07982974B2	Image pickup apparatus An image pickup apparatus having a lens unit configured to include a plurality of lenses and a variable aperture mechanism capable of varying an aperture opening diameter, the image pickup apparatus including: in the lens unit, a variable aperture unit configured by integrating the variable aperture mechanism and the single lenses of the lens unit using a fixing portion.
US07982963B2	Liquid-based optical device and electronic device The present invention discloses an optical device comprising a container enclosing an insulating liquid (A) and a liquid responsive to an electric field (B), the insulating liquid (A) and the liquid responsive to an electric field (B) being immiscible and being in contact with each other via an interface (14), at least one of the liquids (A; B) being at least partially placed in a light path through the container. The optical device further comprises an electrode arrangement (2; 12) for controlling the shape of the interface (14) by means of a voltage; and means (100) for preventing the interface from an exposure to an external electric field. Consequently, the build-up of electrostatic charge on a surface of the optical device is avoided, which prevents the unwanted distortion of the interface (14) caused by the interaction of the liquid responsive to an electric field (B) and the electrostatic charge.
US07982961B2	Dry-type microscope objective lens The present invention offers a dry-type microscope objective lens which has a high NA in the range from low magnification to middle magnification and is lightweight and by which a high-resolution image can be obtained without taking a user time and trouble in observation.A dry-type microscope objective lens according to the present invention comprises, in order from the object side, a first lens group, a second lens group, and a third lens group, the first lens group comprises a meniscus lens which is arranged on the most object side and which turns its concave surface to the object side and the first lens group has positive refracting power as a whole, the second lens group comprises plural cemented lens units and has positive refracting power as a whole, the third lens group comprises air contact surfaces which are concave surfaces adjoining each other and facing toward each other and the third lens group has negative refracting power as a whole, and the dry-type microscope objective lens satisfies the following conditions: 6≦D/f≦8 5≦f 0.8≦NA<1.0 where D is a distance from an object surface to the last surface of the objective lens, f is a focal length of the objective lens, and NA is an object-side numerical aperture.
US07982950B2	Measuring system for structures on a substrate for semiconductor manufacture A measuring system is disclosed with enhanced resolution for periodic structures on a substrate for semiconductor manufacture. Aperture structures of varying geometries are provided in the illumination beam path. The aperture structures differ regarding the transmission characteristics of light, and which adjust the intensity distribution of the diffraction orders in the imaging pupil of the optical system.
US07982949B2	Operation microscope having assistant's microscope An operation microscope includes a microscope body having an illumination optical system which illuminates a subject, a lens barrel, and a main observation optical system which observes the subject, an assistant's microscope unit attached to the microscope body, and a guide rail which is disposed in the lens barrel of the microscope body, and extends in a circumferential direction about a center of an optical axis of an objective lens of the microscope body. The assistant's microscope unit is disposed in the guide rail to be movable between a usage position and a non-usage position in a circumferential direction of the lens barrel.
US07982947B2	Regenerative laser amplifier A laser amplifier system is presented including a pump regenerative amplifier. The amplifier generally has a cavity defined by a pair of end cavity mirrors between which an amplified pump pulse oscillates. The amplifier also includes an interaction cell with a tunable gain medium amplifies laser pulses (e.g., Raman gain). The interaction cell may be positioned within the pump amplifier cavity and an input pulse may be injected into the cavity of the amplifier to transit through the tunable gain medium of the interaction cell. A pump pulse transfers energy via interaction with the input pulse (e.g., Raman interaction) as the pulses counter-propagate through the gain medium of the interaction cell. Amplification of output laser pulses, however, is generally achieved according to the wavelength of the pump laser pulses thereby providing a wavelength dependent, or “tunable”, means for amplifying laser pulses.
US07982941B2	Color display devices The color display of the present invention involves a two particle system and is capable of displaying multiple colors with high quality black and white states. The color states are suitable for highlighting function. The color display does not require alignment between the electrodes and the display cells in which a display fluid is filled, which significantly reduces the complexity of the design and also lowers the manufacturing costs.
US07982940B2	Particle for display medium and information display panel utilizing the same The present invention provides particles for display media constituting the display media used for an information display panel, in which the display media are sealed between two substrates, at least one of two substrates being transparent, and, in which the display media, to which an electrostatic field is applied, are made to move so as to display information, comprising: the particles having a substantially spherical shape, which are made by polymerizing raw materials including monomers, which include (acrylic or methacrylic) resin-hydrocarbon resin copolymer in the particles, in which a part of or all of the monomers are a multifunctional monomer having a plurality of polymerization reactive groups in one molecule, and which have minute irregularities on their surface evenly. By such a construction, the particles for display media can obtain irregularities firmly fixed on their surface. Poor display can be solved by using the same.
US07982934B2	Scanned beam display with parallelogram distortion correction A scanning assembly (400) for use in a scanning display includes a reflective scanning surface, such as a scanning mirror (412). The reflected scanning surface can be mounted on a scan plate (409). The scanning assembly (400) is configured to pivot about a first axis (403) and a second axis (404) to form an image. To correct parallelogram distortion, the first axis (403) and second axis (404) are non-orthogonal relative to each other. Torsion arms (407,408) facilitating rotation of the scanning mirror (412) along one axis (403) can be oriented non-orthogonally relative to other torsion arms (413,414) by an amount sufficient to correct parallelogram distortion.
US07982932B2	Hologram decoding apparatus, hologram decoding method and computer readable medium A hologram decoding apparatus includes: an imaging device that receives a reproduced image obtained by reading an encoded image from a hologram recording medium in which a Fourier transform image of the encoded image with n pixels representing digital information is recorded, n being an integer of 2 or more, and that outputs the reproduced image with k resolution pixel numbers, k being an integer more than n; a storing unit that stores decoding patterns and digital information corresponding to the decoding patterns, wherein a decoding pattern from among the decoding patterns corresponds to the reproduced image, which is encoded with m pixels of k≧m>n; and a decoding unit that refers to the decoding patterns to specify the decoding pattern; and that carries out a decoding process to set the digital information corresponding to the specified decoding pattern as digital information of the reproduced image.
US07982928B2	Method, system and device for colour quality control A colour quality control device adapted for use in a system for colour correction of an image to be reproduced on at least one reproduction device that is calibrated by a reproduction forward transform. The system also comprises a colour correction device adapted to correct at least one colour in the image. The colour quality control device comprises a false contour detection unit that uses information from the reproduction forward transform to decide if a contour in the image is a false contour introduced by the transform. This facilitates the operator's work during colour correction. A system and a method are also provided.
US07982927B2	Color processing apparatus, color processing method and computer readable medium The color processing apparatus includes: a first color signal obtaining unit that obtains a first color signal in a first color space; a color conversion unit that converts the first color signal in the first color space into a second color signal in a second color space according to a color conversion characteristic associating a color signal in the first color space with a color signal in the second color space; a calculation unit that calculates a distance of the first color signal to an outer boundary of a color gamut in the first color space; and a color conversion characteristic generation unit that generates the color conversion characteristic to be used by the color conversion unit to make the conversion. The color conversion characteristic generation unit changes a generation condition of the color conversion characteristic according to the distance of the first color signal.
US07982922B2	Image processing apparatus and image processing method for confirming electronic data character quality, and computer program therefor According to the present invention, an image processing apparatus comprises scanning unit that converts a original image into image data; extraction unit that extracts an area that contains characters of every character size from the image data scanned by the scanning unit; and display unit that displays images of the area that contains characters extracted by the extraction unit at a plurality of resolutions.
US07982912B2	Color signal conversion method and apparatus, and method and apparatus for generating mapping parameters A color signal conversion apparatus for converting a color signal of an input gamut to a color signal of an output gamut is provided. First, a target gamut for gamut mapping carried out on the input gamut is set, after which an evaluation function is determined for evaluating the difference between the target gamut and the results of gamut mapping performed on the input gamut using initialized mapping parameters. Then, the mapping parameters are determined based on the evaluation function so that the difference is minimum. The color signal of the input gamut is then mapped to the output gamut based on the determined mapping parameters and constraining conditions. This makes it possible to achieve favorable gamut mapping based on optimal mapping parameters that have been determined automatically.
US07982911B2	Color conversion coefficient creating device, color conversion coefficient creating method, and computer readable medium storing a program for color conversion coefficient creation A color conversion coefficient creating device including: a setting unit that sets a ratio between plural color rendering intents; an evaluating unit that evaluates characteristics of an input device and an output device; and a creating unit that creates a color conversion coefficient. The creating unit creates a color conversion coefficient for converting a first image signal in a first color space input from the input device into a second image signal for the output device in a second color space different from the first color space, according to the ratio between the color rendering intents and the evaluation result of the evaluating unit.
US07982910B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method, image output apparatus, and image processing system The present invention is provided with a storage section that holds characteristic data, a predicted output value calculating section that calculates predicted PCS values (XP, YP, ZP) in a predetermined designated color space, an error calculating section that calculates an error from the difference between the PCS values (X, Y, Z) and the predicted PCS values, a differential coefficient matrix creating section that creates a differential coefficient matrix, an inverse matrix calculating section, a primary-color intensity correction amount calculating section that calculates a corrected primary-color intensity by performing a primary conversion to the difference between the PCS values and the predicted PCS values with an inverse matrix defined as a conversion matrix, and a primary-color intensity correction section that calculates the output primary-color intensity by adding or subtracting to or from a temporal primary-color intensity (IR, IG, IB) the corrected primary-color intensity calculated at the primary-color intensity corrected amount calculating section.
US07982908B2	Color image forming apparatus and control method therefor Patches of black and a mixture of color coloring materials are formed on a recording medium, and the chromaticities of the patches are detected (S11). Black tonality data serving as reference lightnesses corresponding to respective tonality data are acquired from pieces of lightness information contained in the detected chromaticities corresponding to the respective tonalities of the black patches. Pieces of black lightness information are corrected on the basis of the acquired black tonality data and the detection results of the black patches. Chromaticities corresponding to the black tonality data are defined as target chromaticities, and the mixture rates of the color coloring materials are corrected on the basis of the target chromaticities and the chromaticities obtained by detecting the patches using the color coloring materials.
US07982904B2	Mobile telecommunications device for printing a competition form A mobile telecommunications device is shown for printing a competition entry form on print media with coded data encoding a print media identifier. The mobile telecommunications device has an inbuilt printer module to print the competition entry form on the print medium such that the print medium displays at least one entry form detail, a media feed path along which the print media moves during printing by the inbuilt printer module, an interface to a remote server, and a sensor module adjacent the media feed path for reading the print media identifier on one of the print media whilst in the feed path and generating an association between the print media identifier and the at least one entry for detail. During use, the sensor module transmits the association and the user interaction to the remote server via the interface such that user interaction with the at least one entry form detail and subsequent submission of the interaction and the print media identifier to the remote server is a competition entry.
US07982903B2	Method and set of instructions for the dosed supply of printing instructions to a printer, and system for practicing the method In the printing and finishing of sheet-like objects, printing instructions are outputted to a printer. In accordance therewith, sheet-like objects are printed by the printer and are subsequently delivered by the printer directly to the finishing apparatus and then finished by the finishing apparatus. Output data concerning the printing instructions sent to the printer which are at least indicative of the printer capacity required for the printer to process the printing instructions outputted to the printer are registered. Sheet-like objects displaced by the printer are detected and signaled by the detector. At least periodically, production data in accordance with the signals received from the detector are generated. These data are at least indicative of a production quantity realized by the printer in response to the printing instructions sent to the printer. Depending on the production data, the output of next ones of the printing instructions to the printer is dosed.
US07982901B2	Image processing apparatus, method for managing storage area, and computer program product An image processing apparatus (2) capable of providing a box for each user is provided. The image processing apparatus (2) includes a user grouping process portion (205) that determines a total of an amount of a box of a first user that has been used by a second user and an amount of a box of the second user that has been used by the first user, determines whether or not the total is equal to or greater than a predetermined amount, and groups both the users when the total is equal to or greater than the predetermined amount, and a box reset process portion (207) that performs a reset process for providing again the boxes of the grouped first user and the grouped second user in an identical image processing apparatus if the boxes are provided in different image processing apparatuses.
US07982899B2	Integrated document delivery method and apparatus A document delivery network server having a set of integrated functions including sending, receiving, routing and filing of FAXes and e-mails to other users which achieves numerous advantages over the prior art. The document delivery system is based on a client/server model having both analog and digital Fax line capabilities. The server side provides very highly integrated systems functionality based on industry standard, commercially available hardware and a mix of industry standard and proprietary software components including integrated FAX/modem modules, an embedded OS, embedded plug-and-play driver sets, embedded e-mail gateways, an embedded FAX archive, embedded back-up/restore, proprietary high efficiency line utilization and highly efficient load balancing.
US07982894B2	Digital multiple apparatus In a digital multiple apparatus, at least two different jobs are processed by at least two job processing units, and while job processing by one job processing unit, if there is an interruption by job processing by the other job processing unit, an end time of the job processing by the one job processing unit is predicted on the basis of job processing time required for the job processing by the other job processing unit.
US07982883B2	On-chip phase microscope/beam profiler based on differential interference contrast and/or surface plasmon assisted interference A differential interference contrast (DIC) determination device and method utilizes an illumination source, a layer having a pair of two apertures that receive illumination from the illumination source, and a photodetector to receive Young's interference from the illumination passing through the pair of two apertures. In addition, a surface wave assisted optofluidic microscope and method utilize an illumination source, a fluid channel having a layer with at least one aperture as a surface, and a photodetector that receives a signal based on the illumination passing through the aperture. The layer is corrugated (e.g., via fabrication) and parameters of the corrugation optimize the signal received on the photodetector.
US07982872B2	Residual chemical monitoring system using surface enhanced raman spectroscopy Target chemicals are monitored at very low concentrations in pipelines or vessels such as storage tanks using surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy analysis of a sample. A liquid sample having a target chemical such as biocides, corrosion inhibitors, scale inhibitors, anti-foaming agents, emulsion breakers, and hydrate inhibitors are tested while exposed to a prepared and charged surface of a coupon so as to draw the target material to the prepared and charged surface. The charged surface is fairly precisely charged using two other electrodes to calibrate the charge on the surface of the coupon. With the target substance presumably drawn to the coupon, the molecules on the surface of the coupon are excited by monochromatic light such as from a laser to induce vibrations within the molecules. The vibrations of the molecules reflect and scatter the monochromatic light in distinctive manners such that the collected light from the surface provides an indication of the presence of the target substance in the sample and a quantitative indication of the concentration of the target material in the sample. With the ability at lower power and reasonable cost to sense the presence well down below one percent and into the ppm range provides the opportunity to more precisely and efficiently add such chemicals to operating pipelines and storage tanks.
US07982871B2	Sensor for identifying at least one particle by means of raman-spectroscopy A sensor for identifying at least one particle by means of Raman-spectroscopy, comprising an optical trapping system for the at least one particle, including a laser-beam source, acting further as a Raman excitation source for the at least one particle, and a Raman-spectrometer for measuring the spectrally modified light scattered by the at least one particle and for identifying same, wherein the optical trapping system comprises a photonic crystal directly linked with the laser-beam source, which photonic crystal has multiple cavities at predetermined positions, and wherein the laser-beam source in use resonantly excites one or more predetermined electromagnetic modes of the cavities at said positions for trapping and Raman-exciting the at least one particle.
US07982853B2	Lithographic method for maskless pattern transfer onto a photosensitive substrate The invention proposes a Subpixel Scroll method, which optically shifts the position of the mirror elements to the projection axis by one subpixel size each, with an additional 45° mirror between DMD and projection optics. The 45° mirror is shifted by ¼ mirror element width by means of a controllable actuator. The size of this change of position and the time are synchronized in such a way by the position indicator signals of the scan sled that the mirror element seems to stand relative to the substrate surface element. This resetting is however not bound to the DMD-switching speed of 10 kHz. Among other advantages, the invention reduces the blur at the edge transition by the higher resolution and facilitates a higher scan velocity, whereby the scan velocity depends on the dynamics of the actuator, the effective UV-power of the UV-source and the sensitivity of the photosensitive polymer.
US07982848B2	Variable transmission light quantity element with dielectric layers and projection display A variable light transmission device and projection display apparatus which does not generate vibrations and noises but is superior in light blocking property to a variable aperture using polymer-dispersed liquid crystal and can reduce a color change of a projected image as compared with a conventional variable aperture using liquid crystal. A variable light transmission device having: a pair of transparent substrates placed in parallel to each other; a multi-layer grating member disposed on one of opposing surfaces of the pair of transparent substrates, and transparent members having a multi-layer structure periodically placed to form a diffraction grating with a convex and concave section shape; liquid crystal interposed between the transparent substrates to bury the multi-layer grating member; and transparent electrodes for applying electric field to the liquid crystal.
US07982840B2	Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device includes a substrate, an insulating layer, an upper electrode layer, and a lower electrode layer. The upper electrode layer and the lower electrode layer are formed on the same the substrate via the insulating layer. A plurality of openings are formed in the upper electrode layer and arranged parallel to each other so that an electric field is passed therethrough. Liquid crystal molecules are driven by applying voltage between the upper electrode layer and the lower electrode layer. A minor axis of each of the openings has a width in a range in which a V-T curve, which represents a relationship between voltage and transmittance ratio, does not shift with variation in the width of the minor axis.
US07982823B1	Area active backlight with steerable backlight A liquid crystal display includes a backlight that provides light and selectively modifies the transmission of light from the backlight to the front of the display. The backlight includes a plurality of spaced apart light waveguides and a plurality of selection elements associated with the light waveguides that change the characteristics of the material of the light waveguides to selectively direct the transmission of light toward the liquid crystal layer. The combination of the waveguides and the selection elements provide light to the front of the display in a temporal manner during a frame.
US07982814B2	Inverter, backlight assembly and image display device having the same A DC/AC inverter for a backlight can include a support, a printed circuit board (PCB) on the support, a transformer on the PCB, and a blocking member formed on at least a portion of at least one side of the transformer. The blocking member can be formed of a ferrite material.
US07982810B2	Panel-type image display device and liquid crystal television A panel-type television whose colors and image qualities of OSD portions are kept intact and the qualities of images other than the OSD portions are adjusted is provided. The panel-type television includes an image quality adjustment circuit 30a that performs a specified image quality adjustment processing on input image signals; a delay circuit 30b that delays input image signals by the time needed for the image quality adjustment circuit 30a to perform image quality adjustment processing; and a switching 30c that switches between the image quality adjustment circuit 30a and the delay circuit 30b so that image signals are input to either of the circuits according to the control of a microcomputer 60, wherein the microcomputer 60 inputs image signals for OSD display areas to the delay circuit 30c and image signals other than those for OSD display areas to the image quality adjustment circuit 30a.
US07982808B2	Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data in digital broadcasting system A digital broadcast receiving system and a method for controlling the same are disclosed. The method includes the steps of receiving a broadcast signal having mobile service data and main service data multiplexed therein, extracting transmission parameter channel (TPC) signaling information and fast information channel (FIC) signaling information from a data group within the received mobile service data, wherein the FIC signaling information includes a current/next (C/N) indicator, and wherein the TPC signaling information includes FIC version information, and detecting ensemble configuration information of a current MH frame.
US07982805B2	Detecting video format information in a sequence of video pictures Gradient analysis may be utilized to determine frame and field repeat patterns in input video data. Those frame and field repeat patterns may then be analyzed to match them with characteristic patterns associated with telecine 3:2 and 2:2 pulldown video data, for example. In addition, a progressive detector may use combing analysis to determine whether or not a particular field is progressive or interlaced data. Then, this information, together with a field flag which indicates whether field or frame analysis is appropriate, may be utilized to distinguish telecine 2:2 or 3:2 pulldowns and interlaced and progressive data in some embodiments.
US07982804B2	Image processing apparatus and image processing method Image quality adjustment of an inputted image signal is performed with higher accuracy to display a more preferable image to the user. An attribute information determining unit obtains first attribute information indicating the format of the inputted image signal and second attribute information indicating transmission characteristics of the image signal. An image quality adjustment value calculating unit calculates optimal image quality adjustment values for the image signal from the obtained first and second attribute information. An image processing unit adjusts the image quality of the image signal based on the optimal image quality adjustment values and then outputs the image to an image display. The second attribute information includes the bit rate, resolution, and frame rate of the image signal.
US07982800B2	Video de-interlacer using motion residue compensation A method of de-interlacing input video information including averaging odd lines and averaging even lines of the input video information to determine first and second in-field information, determining differences between even and odd lines of the input video information to provide residue information, measuring a motion metric of the residue information, filtering the residue information based on the motion metric to provide filtered residue information, and combining the first and second in-field information with the filtered residue information to provide progressive information. The combining may be an average of the in-field information added to a weighted portion of the filtered residue information as determined by the motion metric. The motion metric may be determined by an infinite impulse response filter. Finite impulse response filters may be used to filter the residue information.
US07982798B2	Edge detection A technique for deinterlacing an interlaced video stream is disclosed. A method according to the technique can involve calculating a gradient of image intensity and identifying an edge. A bin can be selected that encompasses the edge. An unknown pixel can be calculated by blending known pixel values along the bin boundaries.
US07982789B2	Image sensing apparatus driving method, image sensing apparatus, and image sensing system Since pixel signals are not only added in the row direction but also averaged in the column direction, it is possible to sufficiently increase the frame rate even when the number of pixels increases. Additionally, since the spatial centers of gravity of the added or averaged signals are arranged at equal intervals in a Bayer array, it is possible to reduce false color (moiré) generation and suppress the decrease in the spatial resolution.
US07982778B2	Imaging apparatus usable as either a master apparatus or a slave apparatus and a method usable therewith An imaging apparatus contains a signal-producing unit that produces an image signal on an image of an imaged subject, a data-superimposing unit that superimposes ancillary data over the image signal produced in the signal-producing unit, and a control unit that controls the signal-producing unit to set the operation of the signal-producing unit. The control unit supplies the data-superimposing unit with the ancillary data including information that indicates setting condition of the signal-producing unit. The data-superimposing unit receives the ancillary data from the control unit and superimposes the ancillary data over the image signal.
US07982776B2	SBI motion artifact removal apparatus and method A system, method and apparatus for eliminating image tearing effects and other visual artifacts perceived when scanning moving subject matter with a scanned beam imaging device. The system, method and apparatus uses a motion detection means in conjunction with an image processor to alter the native image to one without image tearing or other visual artifacts. The image processor monitors the motion detection means and reduces the image resolution or translates portions of the imaged subject matter in response to the detected motion.
US07982771B2	Method of emendation for attention trajectory in video content analysis A method for emendation of attention trajectory in video content analysis is disclosed. The method includes steps of extracting attention area for each frame in a video sequence, each attention area of a frame selectively being a reference for the other frames, projecting the attention area of the reference to a current frame, and determining an enhanced attention area of the current frame by collecting and merging all the projected attention areas together with the original attention area of the current frame to emend the attention trajectory of the video sequence so as to make the attention trajectory smooth. Advantageously, short-life attention or noise is omitted, and the attention area is also enriched, therefore, the smooth of the attention trajectory improves subjective viewing experience of human being.
US07982770B1	Method and apparatus to provide improved image quality in a camera A method and apparatus for providing improved images utilizing acceleration data is described. In one embodiment, the method utilizes the accelerometer data to time the taking of the image to minimize motion effects.
US07982767B2	System and method for mounting sensors and cleaning sensor apertures for out-the-window displays Multiple sensors capture images representing scenery outside an aircraft or other type of vehicle for use within a visual display system. A protective housing encloses the sensors. This protective housing includes a transparent aperture through which the sensor captures images. A cleaning mechanism removes obstructions from the transparent aperture in order to provide continuous images representing scenery outside the aircraft through an operator display.
US07982765B2	Apparatus, system, and method for capturing an image with a scanned beam of light According to an embodiment, an image capture apparatus comprises a light emitter, a beam scanner aligned to receive emitted light and operable to scan the light in a two-dimensional pattern, imaging optics aligned to receive the scanned two-dimensional pattern and image the pattern onto an object, and to collect light scattered from the object, a detector to receive scattered light from the imaging optics, an electronic controller c operable to receive an electrical signal from the detector corresponding to the received scattered light, and an actuator operable to modify the relative alignment between the beam scanner and the imaging optics to change an imaged location on the object. According to an embodiment, a method for capturing an image comprises scanning a beam of light through imaging optics onto a location on a surface, detecting light scattered by the surface, and steering the beam scanner relative to the imaging optics to change the trajectory of the scanned pattern. According to an embodiment, a system for scanning a field of view comprises a light source, an optical fiber, a MEMs scanner aligned to receive the light from the optical fiber and operable to scan the light through a partially-reflective imaging optic in a pattern, and a photo-detector aligned to receive light scattered from the field of view.
US07982764B2	Apparatus for monitoring a package handling system A monitoring apparatus for sensing conditions associated with a package handling system. The monitoring apparatus includes a test package configured for being handled by the package handling system with non-test packages handled by the package handling system. The test package has a housing defining a test package interior and has at least one sensor positioned within the interior for sensing conditions associated with the package handling system. The sensor produces an output signal corresponding to the conditions that it senses. The test package further includes a support positioned within the test package interior and connecting the sensor to the housing so that the sensor is directed generally toward an outside of the test package for sensing conditions associated with the package handling system.
US07982760B2	Optical scanning apparatus and technique for correcting optical characteristics in an image forming apparatus that employs an electrostatic recording method or an electrophotographic recording method An optical scanning apparatus controls an output of a light source for forming an electrostatic latent image on an image carrier. The optical scanning apparatus includes a correction amount control unit configured to variably control a light quantity correction amount of the light source according to a scanning position on the image carrier during one scanning operation with a beam generated from the light source, an output signal level changing unit configured to change a level of an output signal from the correction amount control unit, and a light quantity control unit configured to control a light quantity of the light source according to the scanning position based on a signal from the output signal level changing unit.
US07982753B2	Information display apparatus An information display apparatus connected to a display unit for visually presenting information to a user is disclosed. The information display apparatus displays a frame within a display region of the display unit, information to be displayed in the frame, and an operation guide at the outer peripheral edge of the frame, and updates information displayed in the frame.
US07982751B2	Methods and systems for controlling a computer using a video image and for combining the video image with a computer desktop The methods described herein for controlling a computer using a video image and for combining the video image with a computer desktop may be implemented in hardware, software, firmware, or any combination thereof. In one exemplary implementation, the methods described herein may be implemented as computer executable instructions embodied in a computer readable medium. Exemplary computer-readable media suitable for use with the implementations described herein include disk storage devices and chip memory devices.
US07982750B2	Test-wearing image producing method for personal products A method for test-wearing image producing method for a personal product includes the steps of: posting a base image layer which contains an image of a wearer; defining a display area and a masking area on the base image layer in responsive to the personal product being physically worn by the wearer; selecting a product image layer containing an image of the personal product to locate on the base image layer; and creating a test-wearing image, wherein a portion of the image of the personal product within the display area is visibly shown on the image of the wearer while a portion of the image of the personal product within the masking area is invisibly hidden, such that the test-wearing image contains a virtual appearance of the wearer physically wearing the personal product.
US07982749B2	Server-based rasterization of vector graphics Technologies are described herein for high-performance rasterization of a vector graphic on a server computer. A vector graphic loader receives the vector graphic and generates an intermediate data structure from the vector graphic. A vector graphic renderer receives the intermediate data structure and renders the intermediate data structure to a render surface. An imaging component encodes the contents of the render surface to a raster image in a standard image format. The vector graphic loader and the vector graphic renderer are configured for multi-threaded and multi-processor execution on a server computer, which provides high performance.
US07982748B2	Vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus A vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus is provided herein which is capable of determining an object type, particularly capable of determining an animal other than a human being among objects. The vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus which monitors the surroundings of a vehicle by using an image captured by a camera (2R, 2L) mounted on the vehicle, including an object extraction process unit which extracts an image area of the object from the captured image (steps 1 to 6) and an object type determination process unit which determines the object type according to whether the image area of the object extracted by the object extraction process unit includes a first object area of an inverse triangular shape and a second object area located below the first object area and within a predetermined range from the first object area (steps 31 to 36).
US07982742B2	System and method for an information handling system having an external graphics processor system for operating multiple monitors Methods and systems are disclosed for an information handling system comprising an internal graphics system and an external graphics system, wherein both the internal and external graphics systems may operate simultaneously to support multiple monitors. The internal graphics system may be provided, for example, from a notebook computer. The external graphics system may comprise a pass thru port providing graphics from the internal graphics to a first monitor simultaneously with a graphics card of the external graphics system supporting a second monitor. The external graphics system can support two monitors, as well. HDTV can be supported instead of one of the monitors supported by the external graphics system. The system which contains internal graphics capabilities may include an Express card socket, wherein an external graphics processor unit of the external graphics system is coupled to Express card socket.
US07982741B2	Shared graphics infrastructure Systems and methods that provide for a common device enumeration point to a class of software objects, which represent hardware and can emit 2D bitmaps, via a presentation interface component. Such presentation interface component can further include a factory component that centralizes enumeration and creation for any components that control or communicate with the frame buffer of the graphics display subsystems. Accordingly, a smooth transition can be supplied between full screen and window models, within desktop composition systems, wherein applications can readily support such transitions.
US07982737B2	System and method for independent font substitution of string characters Various embodiments of a system and method for independent font substitution of string characters are described. The system and method for independent font substitution may include a font substitution component configured to receive a descriptor item that may include a text string that includes multiple characters, metrics associated with characters of the text string, and/or a preferred font for one or more of the characters. For a particular character, if the preferred font is available, the font substitution component may use a glyph from the preferred font to render a particular character. In other cases, if a font of the set of safe fonts includes a glyph that matches the particular character, the font substitution component may use that glyph to resolve the particular character. The font substitution component may generate a resolved text string includes such glyphs and scale the size of the glyphs according to the aforementioned metrics.
US07982735B2	Method, apparatus, and medium for three-dimensionally transforming and visualizing two-dimensional flyover data in three-dimensional graphics environment An apparatus for three-dimensionally visualizing two-dimensional flyover data in a three-dimensional graphics environment includes an overlapped region separation unit, a triangulation unit, a height coordinate addition unit, and a visualization unit. The division lines are selectively applied to a polygon to separate overlapped regions from the polygon, an ear cutting algorithm is applied to triangulate the polygon, and various different visualization processes are performed on different portions of the flyover data.
US07982734B2	Spatially-varying convolutions for rendering soft shadow effects Soft shadows may include areas that are less clear (more blurry) than other regions. For instance, an area of shadow that is closer to the shadow caster may be clearer than a region that is farther from the shadow caster. When generating a soft shadow, the total amount of light reaching each point on the shadow receiving surface is calculated according to a spatially-varying convolution kernel of the occluder's transparency information. Ray-tracing, traditionally used to determine a spatially varying convolution, can be very CPU intensive. Instead of using ray-tracing, data structures, such as MIP-maps and summed-area tables, or separable linear filters may be used to compute the spatially-varying convolution. For example, a two-dimensional convolution may be computed as two spatially-varying, separable, linear convolution filters—one computing a horizontal component and the other a vertical component of the final 2D convolution.
US07982732B2	Evolutionary design optimization using extended direct manipulation of free form deformations An improved optimization of a design, based on direct manipulations of the object points of a design where the number and modifications of control points is kept as minimal as possible while the targeted movement of object points is realized.
US07982728B2	Display device In a display device that provides a first observation region with a first picture and provides a second observation region with a second picture, a double image made of the first picture and the second picture is suppressed. First columns of pixels that display the first picture and second columns of pixels that display the second picture are disposed alternately with a black matrix interposed between each neighboring pair of them. A light-shielding plate having light-shielding portions and openings is disposed above the panel. When a distance between the first observation region and the second observation region is denoted by V, a distance between the first observation region or the second observation region and the light-shielding plate is denoted by D, a distance between the light-shielding plate and the display panel is denoted by G, an interval of the first columns of pixels or the second columns of pixels is denoted by P, and the width of the black matrix is denoted by Q, an equation K≦Q×D/(D+G) is satisfied. The openings are disposed on lines connecting between a position directly above a center of the display panel and the black matrix.
US07982721B2	Video signal output device and operation input processing method A video signal output device is disclosed. The device includes: a video signal generation section that generates an output video signal for screen display; an operation input section that detects a physical touch position and a pressure with respect to an input surface, and in accordance with a detection result, generates information about the touch position and information about the pressure for use each as an operation signal; and a control section that controls, in accordance with the operation signals coming from the operation input section, the video signal generation section to change display contents of the output video signal. In the device, while the output video signal for list display of a plurality of images is being generated, the information about the touch position and the information about the pressure are processed as the operation signal for image selection and the operation signal related to the images, respectively.
US07982720B2	Haptic feedback for touchpads and other touch controls A haptic feedback planar touch control used to provide input to a computer. A touch input device includes a planar touch surface that inputs a position signal to a processor of the computer based on a location of user contact on the touch surface. The computer can position a cursor in a displayed graphical environment based at least in part on the position signal, or perform a different function. At least one actuator is also coupled to the touch input device and outputs a force to provide a haptic sensation to the user contacting the touch surface. The touch input device can be a touchpad separate from the computer's display screen, or can be a touch screen. Output haptic sensations on the touch input device can include pulses, vibrations, and spatial textures. The touch input device can include multiple different regions to control different computer functions.
US07982717B2	Method for gesture detection on a touchpad In a gesture detection method for a touchpad, according to the present invention, various gestures such as tap, drag and double tap are determined by operating an object to touch on the touchpad, leave from the touchpad, and move on the touchpad.
US07982716B2	Switch with depth and lateral articulation detection A key switch to sense and give feedback to a computer of depth, acceleration, velocity, and lateral or vibrato movement. The key switch is suitable for computer keyboards, musical keyboards, foot pedals and the like. Lateral or sideward key movements can be for mouse functions or multi code output from multi directional key movement from one key outputting a single key code or key sequences.
US07982705B2	Display device, control device of display drive circuit, and driving method of display device In a display device of the present invention, during a period until the start of outputting display data from a source driver, a timing control ASIC generates a gate start pulse signal GSP and a first pulse CK1 of a gate clock signal GCK, with reference to the timing of inputting a data enable signal ENAB. The signals having been generated are supplied to the gate driver, so that a dummy line G0 is driven.
US07982696B2	Semiconductor device, display device, and electronic device A pixel includes a load, a transistor which controls a current supplied to the load, a storage capacitor, and first to fourth switches. By inputting a potential in accordance with a video signal into the pixel after the threshold voltage of the transistor is held in the storage capacitor, and holding a voltage of the sum of the threshold voltage and the potential, variations of a current value caused by variations of threshold voltage of a transistor can be suppressed. Consequently, a predetermined current can be supplied to the load such as a light-emitting element. Further, by changing the potential of a power supply line, a display device with a high duty ratio can be provided.
US07982691B2	Data driver, light emitting display device using the same, and method of driving the light emitting display device A data driver adapted to display an image with substantially uniform brightness is provided. The data driver includes a holding latch unit including holding latches for storing data, a signal generator including digital-analog converters for receiving the data to generate data signals, a first switching unit provided between the holding latch unit and the signal generator, and a second switching unit coupled to the signal generator to transmit the data signals to data lines. The first switching unit couples the holding latches to the digital-analog converters during a horizontal period in a manner different from the manner in which the holding latches and the digital-analog converters are coupled to each other during a previous horizontal period. Therefore, errors of the digital-analog converters are diffused so that it is possible to display an image with substantially uniform brightness.
US07982690B2	Deformable micromirror device A micromirror device, which makes an image display with digital image data, comprises pixel elements each of which makes pulse width modulation for incident light depending on the deflection state of light and which are arranged in the form of an array. The array of the pixel elements is composed of B subsets each including pixel elements of Ms (COLUMNs)×Ns (ROWs) (Ms, Ns, and B are natural numbers). Each of the pixel elements has a mirror, and at least one memory cell. The memory cell has a transistor of an input gate capacity Ct[F]. Each memory cell is connected by a ROW line having a wiring resistance R[Ω], and a wiring capacity C[F]. When a gray scale display of 10 [bits] or more for each color is made with a color sequential display of C0 colors, Ms, Ns, B, Ct, R, C, and C0 have a relationship of R(Ct+C)<(1.6310−5B)/[CoMsNs(Ms+1)].
US07982689B2	Image display device To provide an image display device of the type that presents ages in a certain part of the field of vision in which the image display device can be used for prolonged periods of time.An image display device 1 includes a main body having a shape of a glasses frame, a right-eye display device 20R and a left-eye display device 20L. Each of the right-eye display device 20R and the left-eye display device 20L is for displaying a predetermined image and is provided in such a manner that it is not very clearly visible for a user when the user wearing the main body 10 on his or her head looks straight ahead and that it becomes clearly visible for the user only when the user moves his or her forward-looking eyes away. The user can get a forward field of vision and can see the images displayed on the right-eye display device 20R and the left-eye display device 20L when he or she looks at 45 degrees down. The right-eye display device 20R and the left-eye display device 20L may be fixed to the main body 10 at a spacing corresponding to the distance between the eyes of the user.
US07982688B2	Device for representing optical information by means of a virtual image, in particular in a motor vehicle The invention relates to a device for representing optical information by means of a virtual image (P), in particular in a motor vehicle. The optical information is in the form of light beams extending from an image generating device (1), over at least one optical element to a surface and the virtual image is visible in front of, behind or in said surface. The light beams produce a beam path. Said invention is characterised in that an optical element (4), which influences beams, is arranged in the beam path between the image generating device (1, 2, 3) and the surface (WS), and that the optical element (4), which influences the beams, is arranged in the position thereof such that it can be modified by means of an adjusting device (5).
US07982683B2	Antenna design for FM radio receivers An apparatus includes first and second speakers, and an antenna including a first pair of wires connected to the first speaker, a second pair of wires connected to the second speaker, and a conductive sleeve surrounding portions of the first and second pairs of wires, the sleeve forming a coaxial capacitor with the first and second pairs of wires. The apparatus can further include an inductor connected between the first and second pairs of wires and the sleeve, to form a resonant circuit with the coaxial capacitor.
US07982681B2	Leaky-wave dual-antenna system The invention discloses a leaky-wave dual-antenna system comprising a transmitting antenna array and a receiving antenna array. The transmitting antenna array comprises plural first microstrips and plural corresponding first differential circuits, and each of the first differential circuit matches the corresponding first microstrip by a L-type matching network; the receiving antenna array comprises plural second microstrips and plural corresponding second differential circuits, and each of the second differential circuit matches the corresponding second microstrip by a L-type matching network. A first end and a second end of each of the first differential circuits are respectively connected to the corresponding first microstrip; a third end and a fourth end of each of the second differential circuits are respectively connected to the corresponding second microstrip.
US07982680B1	Antennas providing near-spherical coverage with right-hand circular polarization for differential GPS use Accuracy of derivation of local corrections to GPS signals for use for aircraft landing guidance is subject to effects of reflected multipath signals. Antennas with a near-spherical antenna pattern of right-hand circular polarization, except within a downward cone, provide suppression of reflected multipath GPS signals incident from all azimuth angles and all relevant elevation angles. For such an antenna a cylindrical top assembly may include spaced conductive disks with intermediate exciter members excited at increments of 90 degree phase and surrounded by a dielectric ring. A cylindrical base assembly may include signal absorbent top and side wall portions and a bottom conductive disk and may alternatively include a signal absorbent inner wall portion.
US07982676B2	Antenna structure for a mobile phone An antenna structure for a mobile phone to improve its hearing aid compatibility (HAC) character by metal obscuring, the antenna structure mainly is composed of an antenna base board and a copper foil; the antenna base board is provided in a housing of the mobile phone near a sound outputting hole, and a metallic thin layer is made in the housing of the mobile phone in corresponding by position with the antenna base board, the ground surface between the metallic thin layer and a circuit board in the housing of the mobile phone will form an electrically conductive connection. With this structure, distribution of the strength of the electric field of the antenna structure will be improved; thereby the test results for HAC near the sound outputting hole can be evidently improved.
US07982669B2	Adaptive beam-steering methods to maximize wireless link budget and reduce delay-spread using multiple transmit and receive antennas A method and apparatus for adaptive beam-steering are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises performing adaptive beam steering using multiple transmit and receive antennas, including iteratively performing a pair of training sequences, wherein the pair of training sequences includes estimating a transmitter antenna-array weight vector and a receiver antenna-array weight vector.
US07982668B2	Method for processing combined navigation signals The subject matter disclosed herein relates to a system and method for processing multiple navigation signal components received from multiple global navigation satellite systems (GNSS′). In a particular implementation, a code phase in a first navigation signal component may be detected based, at least in part, on information in a second navigation signal component.
US07982664B1	Radar calibration structure and method A radar system with an array antenna includes various signal paths, including beamformers, extending between an exciter, a receiver, and the array antenna. The signal paths are calibrated by a method that includes frequency modulation of the exciter signals that reach the “antenna” and additional amplitude modulation of signals just as they enter the receiver. Leakage paths directly from the exciter to the receiver are unmodulated, those extending from the exciter through the beamformer are amplitude modulated, and only those reaching the “antenna” and returning to the receiver are both amplitude and frequency modulated. The receiver is tuned to receive only the “doubly-modulated” signals, which tends to reject leakage signals.
US07982663B2	Digital signal processor The digital signal processor is for correcting a DC output at an output terminal of an internal circuit of an analog circuit device. The digital signal processor includes a digital register for storing a digital value, a D/A converter for converting the digital value stored in the digital register into an analog voltage and applying the converted analog voltage to the output terminal as the DC output, a polarity determining circuit which outputs a first signal when an analog DC voltage at a reference correction point different from the output terminal in the internal circuit is higher than a predetermined threshold value and otherwise outputs a second signal, and an updating function configured to monotonously increase or decrease the digital value stored in the digital register while a predetermined one of the first and second signals is outputted from the polarity determining circuit.
US07982658B2	Systems and methods for assessing weather in proximity to an airborne aircraft Dynamic weather model systems and methods are operable to assess weather in proximity to an airborne aircraft. An exemplary embodiment receives a radar return from the weather, determines reflectivity information from the received radar return, retrieves a weather model from a weather model data base, compares the weather with the retrieved weather model and the determined reflectivity information, predicts a characteristic of the weather based upon the comparison of the weather and the weather model, and determines if the predicted characteristic is potentially hazardous to the airborne aircraft. The weather model is defined by at least one weather modeling algorithm, and is defined by at least one of a parameter and a variable parameter range residing in a weather characteristics database.
US07982657B2	Ultra-wideband radar waveform calibration for measurements of a heterogeneous material Embodiments of the disclosed technology comprise a ground penetrating radio device and methods of use for obtaining greater resolution. This is achieved by measuring the composition/reflection off a homogeneous material (e.g., metal plate), determining coefficients to correct the measured/reflection in order to make the measurements look like an idealized reference signal, and then using these coefficients in a digital filter to correct measurements/a reflection off a heterogeneous material, such as a road surface. In this manner, the composition of the heterogeneous material is determined with greater accuracy.
US07982656B2	Imaging apparatus and method A millimeter wave imaging apparatus and method capable of identifying the presence of relatively thin dielectric materials is disclosed. The method involves taking a plurality of millimeter wave images of a scene at different frequencies and analyzing the images at different frequencies to look for frequency dependent effects in the scene. Relatively thin dielectric materials can lead to interference effects which can be detected. In one embodiment the imaging apparatus comprises a millimeter wave imager (2) connected to a processor (16) and at least one variable frequency illumination source (22a . . . d, 24a . . . d). The or each illumination source sweeps the illumination frequency across a reasonably wide bandwidth and the imager captures radiation returned from the scene at a number of different illuminating frequencies.
US07982653B1	Radar disruption device According to one embodiment, a radar disruption device includes an electro-magnetic sensitive fluid encased in a shell. The electro-magnetic sensitive fluid is operable to modify the phase or amplitude of electro-magnetic signals. The shell is operable to rupture upon impact with a radar and spread the electro-magnetic sensitive fluid over a portion of the radar.
US07982648B2	Dynamic element matching digital/analog conversion system and sigma-delta modulator using the same A dynamic element matching sigma-delta modulator includes an adder to receive an analog input signal and a feedback signal to generate an error signal; a loop filter to generate a filtered signal according to the error signal; a quantizer to change the filtered signal into a quantized output signal; a digital/analog converter (DAC) having a plurality of digital/analog elements to generate the feedback signal corresponding to the quantized output signal; and a dynamic element matching device to receive the quantized output signal to accordingly set an element of the DAC to be a previous non-participant element and the other elements to be previous participant elements, and reselects participant elements according to the quantized output signal and the previous participant elements for further generating the feedback signal corresponding to the quantized output signal.
US07982647B2	Delta-sigma A/D converter An object of the present invention is to provide a highly accurate delta sigma A/D converter. Disclosed is a delta sigma A/D converter including: a first integration circuit to generate a first signal on the basis of an input signal and a first feedback signal from an output side; a first signal conversion circuit to convert the first signal into a first converted signal; a loop delay compensation circuit to generate a compensation signal and then to output the compensation signal in response to a second feedback signal fed back from the output side at a timing earlier than that of the first feedback signal; an adder circuit to add the first converted signal and the compensation signal; and a comparator to generate a digital signal on the basis of an output signal from the adder circuit. The loop delay compensation circuit includes a compensation signal conversion circuit to generate the compensation signal. The compensation signal conversion circuit and the first signal conversion circuit have the approximately same rate of change in conversion coefficient depending on a temperature.
US07982626B2	Proper grounding detection and alarm circuit for electronic device A detection and alarm circuit includes a transformer, a rectifier, and an alarm. A first input terminal of the transformer is connected to a ground terminal of an electronic device, and a second terminal of the transformer is grounded. A first output terminal of the transformer is connected to a first input terminal of the rectifier, and a second output terminal of the transformer is connected to a second input terminal of the rectifier. A first output terminal of the rectifier is connected to a first terminal of the alarm. A second output terminal of the rectifier is connected to a second terminal of the alarm.
US07982619B2	Hand cleanliness Among other things, an entry monitor has circuitry to detect when a person enters a monitored space and an indicator perceptible to other people in the space to indicate a cleanliness state of the hands of the person who has entered the space.
US07982617B2	Game betting device Antennas 21 generate electromagnetic waves that cause an RFID tag to generate electricity, the RFID tag being provided in a game chip placed on an upper surface of a betting board 4. A plurality of the antennas 21 are provided in association with each bet portion 3 on the betting board 4. Antennas 31 receive a signal from the RFID tag. Each of the antennas 31 is provided in association with the plurality of antennas 21. A set of the plurality of antennas 21 associated with the respective antennas 31 is driven while successively being changed over among the antennas 21, for each set of the antennas 21 associated with each antenna 31. Further, each antenna 31 is driven at least while any of the plurality of antennas 21 associated with this antenna 31 generates electromagnetic waves.
US07982613B2	Interactive clothing system An interactive clothing system includes a control unit having a processor and an antenna, and an item of clothing having a controller and a antenna. The antenna at the item of clothing communicates signals to the antenna at the control unit, the signals containing information about the item of clothing.
US07982612B2	Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for monitoring a volume of fluid in a flexible fluid bag A method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided for monitoring a volume of fluid in a flexible fluid bag. A flexible fluid bag according to the invention may include a first and second side wall opposing each other, an outlet through which fluid contained in the fluid bag is evacuated, a signaling tag carried by the first side wall, and an inducer carried by the second side wall. The signaling tag and inducer may be positioned such that when a volume of fluid in the fluid bag is less than a predefined threshold, the signaling tag and inducer come into sufficient proximity due to flexation of at least a portion of the sidewalls of the fluid bag as fluid is evacuated from the fluid bag to trigger a state of a signal emitted by the signaling tag to change.
US07982610B1	Content-based prioritizing of deposits As deposit bags containing monetary packages arrive at a cash handling facility contents of the deposit bags are inspected and assigned to a teller for processing. An automatic identification system may detect the presence of the deposit bag, the monetary packages, and/or the personnel handling the cash at various custody points at the cash handling facility. Such information may be used to determine the priority at which the monetary package may be processed. Further, a plurality of tellers may be assigned to process the monetary package in the cash handling facility. Each teller's workflow may be tracked based on the presence of monetary packages that are already being processed at the teller's station. Therefore, the monetary packages may be prioritized and may be assigned to a teller that is capable of handling the processing of the monetary package.
US07982602B2	Testing for interference within a wireless sensor system A low cost, robust, wireless sensor that provides an extended period of operability without maintenance is described. The wireless sensors are configured to communicate with a base unit or repeater. When the sensor unit detects an anomalous ambient condition (e.g., smoke, fire, water, etc.) the sensor communicates with the base unit and provides data regarding the anomalous condition. The sensor unit receives instructions to change operating parameters and/or control external devices.
US07982600B2	Hybrid communication terminal-alarm system A hybrid communication terminal-alarm system is described, for individual use or for use in public facilities. A communication terminal, such as cellular telephone, personal digital assistant (PDA), fixed or mobile phone, etc, has one or more built-in alarm sensors. The sensors are capable of identifying various hazards and/or potentially dangerous events and appropriately warning the person(s) that may be affected, by the respective event. The alarm may be acoustic (e.g. a sound or a voice message) or optic (flashing light). The system also transmits automatically a distress message to a third party for help, as/if needed. The distress message may be transmitted over the public wireless or wireline network, or over a private network.
US07982594B2	Automotive brake lighting A method and an apparatus are provided for controllably illuminating automotive brake lights. In one embodiment, an automotive brake lighting system comprises a brake light including first and second light sources, a sensor to sense a level of an operating condition associated with at least one of a brake assembly or a brake pedal of a motor vehicle for illuminating the brake light, and a controller configured to monitor information provided by the sensor. The controller, in response to the level of the operating condition, selectively powers the at least one of the first or second light sources of the brake light based at least in part on the monitored information to generate a variable visual indication relating to braking of the motor vehicle from the brake light over a range of at least two different visual indications that indicate a variable braking rate of the motor vehicle over a corresponding range of at least two different braking rates.
US07982593B2	Alarm device of vehicle battery for monitoring voltage ranges in charging and discharging processes of vehicle battery An alarm device of a vehicle battery for monitoring voltage ranges in charging and discharging processes of the vehicle battery uses a sampling circuit to monitor the charging and discharging voltages real time of a battery, and prompts alert through a light or a buzzer of an alert unit in accordance with the preset voltage stage in a charging and discharging process of the battery. Moreover, a connection port compatible to an external electric device for accessing and examining the defect of a malfunction battery as a reference for maintaining and updating a malfunctioned battery.
US07982588B2	Method and apparatus for sensory stimulation An apparatus for producing an electrosensory sensation to a body member (120). The apparatus comprises one or more conducting electrodes (106), each of which is provided with an insulator (108). When the body member (120) is proximate to the conducting electrode, the insulator prevents flow of direct current from the conducting electrode to the body member. A capacitive coupling over the insulator (108) is formed between the conducting electrode (106) and the body member (120). The conducting electrodes are driven by an electrical input which comprises a low-frequency component (114) in a frequency range between 10 Hz and 500 Hz. The capacitive coupling and electrical input are dimensioned to produce an electrosensory sensation. The apparatus is capable of producing the electrosensory sensation independently of any mechanical vibration of the one or more conducting electrodes (106) or insulators (108).
US07982584B2	Mobile RFID reader and control method thereof Provided are a mobile RFID reader and a control method thereof. The mobile RFID reader includes: a reader controller for beginning a reader operation to communicate with a tag in response to a command of a terminal controller of the wireless communication terminal; an anti-collision state machine for controlling collision among a plurality of tags, and transferring the result of communication with the tag to the reader controller; a reader transmitter for generating a reader command message decided at the anti-collision state machine, and coding and modulating the generated reader command message; a reader receiver for demodulating and decoding a tag signal received through an antenna, and reporting a tag response state to the anti-collision state machine; and a channel controller for selecting a channel to use to communicate with a tag in response to a command of the reader controller.
US07982582B2	Sulfuration resistant chip resistor and method for making same A chip resistor includes an insulating substrate 11, top terminal electrodes 12 formed on top surface of the substrate using silver-based cermet, bottom electrodes 13, resistive element 14 that is situated between the top terminal electrodes 12 and overlaps them partially, an optional internal protective coating 15 that covers resistive element 14 completely or partially, an external protective coating 16 that covers completely the internal protection coating 15 and partially covers top terminal electrodes 12, a plated layer of nickel 17 that covers face sides of the substrate, top 12 and bottom 13 electrodes, and overlaps partially external protective coating 16, finishing plated layer 18 that covers nickel layer 17. The overlap of nickel layer 17 and external protective layer 16 possesses a sealing property because of metallization of the edges of external protective layer 16 prior to the nickel plating process.
US07982578B2	Switch disconnector The present invention relates to a switch disconnector comprising a housing portion, in which several pairs of blade receiving contacts assigned to each other or the like are arranged, which can be bridged by means of fuses, possibly comprising shock protection covers at least partially covering contact blades, and comprising a lid for receiving said fuses, which is provided in a manner hinged to the housing portion, wherein several receiving means in the form of slots, grooves or the like are formed at the inside of the lid, wherein one bearing cage is provided per fuse, and each bearing cage comprises a cage portion for inserting a fuse, wherein the cage portion is fit to the shape of the fuse to be inserted, and each bearing cage is provided with fasteners, which can be inserted in and snapped into predetermined receiving means for fastening the bearing cage to the lid respectively.
US07982575B2	Insulating member An ignition coil, which includes a primary coil and a secondary coil, has an electrical insulating member. The electrical insulating member includes an insulating material being a base material. The electrical insulating member further includes a reactive agent being an additive added to the insulating material for causing dehydration-decomposition, so as to enhance durability when being applied with high voltage. Alternatively, a reactive agent is coated on a surface of the electrical insulating body for causing dehydration-decomposition, so as to enhance durability when being applied with high voltage.
US07982571B2	Inductance with a small surface area and with a midpoint which is simple to determine An inductance formed in a stack of insulating layers, the inductance comprising first and second access terminals and first and second half-loops distributed in the stack of insulating layers on a number of distinct levels greater than or equal to four. For each level, each first half-loop is at least partly symmetrical to one of the second half-loops. All the first half-loops are series-connected according to a first succession of first half-loops to form first loops between the first access terminal and a midpoint and all the second half-loops are series-connected according to a second succession of second half-loops to form second loops between the second output terminal and the midpoint.
US07982570B2	High performance low volume inductor and method of making same An inductor includes an electrical conductor wound in a magnetic flux concentrating pattern, the electrical conductor comprises a plurality of carbon nanotubes that are substantially aligned with an axis along a center of the electrical conductor.
US07982559B2	Stripline filter A stripline filter with wide-band filter characteristics having an attenuation pole on a high frequency side of frequency characteristics. The stripline filter includes at least three resonant lines, and two of the resonant lines include parallel line parts and bent parts. The third resonant line has a U shape in which both ends thereof are open and interdigitally coupled to the two resonant lines located on both sides thereof. The parallel line parts extend from base ends connected to a ground electrode via side surface lines that are parallel to respective line parts of the third resonant line. The bent parts extend so as to be bent from ends of the parallel line parts, and face each other at an interval.
US07982550B1	Highly accurate temperature stable clock based on differential frequency discrimination of oscillators An apparatus and a method for compensating for a mismatch in temperature coefficients of two oscillator frequencies to match a desired frequency ratio between the two oscillator frequencies over a temperature range. In one embodiment of a temperature sensor, first and second oscillators of different temperature characteristics are coupled to a differential frequency discriminator (DFD) circuit. The DFD circuit compensates for the different characteristics in order to match a frequency difference between the first and second frequencies over a temperature range.
US07982548B2	Resonant oscillator with oscillation-startup circuitry Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system that implements a resonant oscillator circuit. This system includes a first inductor with a constant potential terminal coupled to an input voltage, and a time-varying potential terminal coupled to a first phase output. The system also includes a second inductor with a constant potential terminal coupled to the input voltage, and a time-varying potential terminal coupled to a second phase output. The system additionally includes a first n-type transistor with a source terminal coupled to a base voltage, a drain terminal coupled to the first phase output, and a gate terminal coupled to the second phase output. The system also includes a second n-type transistor with a source terminal coupled to the base voltage, a drain terminal coupled to the second phase output, and a gate terminal coupled to the first phase output. Finally, the system includes a startup circuit configured to commence oscillations in the resonant oscillator circuit by energizing the first inductor before energizing the second inductor.
US07982546B1	Quadrature local oscillator generation for direct conversion radio transceiver A method of generating a quadrature local oscillator (LO) frequencies is provided. In this method, a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) frequency can be mixed with a divided version of the VCO frequency to generate mixed signals. A lower sideband of the mixed signals can be selected for the quadrature LO frequencies to minimize the occurrence of spurs. Notably, the divided version is 1/N of the VCO frequency and the VCO frequency is a radio frequency (RF) channel frequency times a ratio N/(N−1).
US07982545B2	Transmission apparatus and method of switching phase lock reference frequency signal thereof An optical transmission apparatus according to the present invention connects a terminal apparatus side in which a transmission line is formed by, for example, SONET/SDH, and a WDM side in which a transmission line is formed by, for example, OTU3. The optical transmission apparatus according to the present invention includes a selector that, when an input signal is interrupted or switched, controls a PLL unit so as to switch and obtain a clock signal of a predetermined frequency oscillated by an OSC, corresponding to a frequency of a clock signal of the input signal before being divided to input into the PLL unit, as a clock signal to generate a PLL reference frequency.
US07982536B2	Single ended class-D amplifier with dual feedback loop scheme A single-ended class-D amplifier with dual feedback loop scheme has a gain adjusting circuit, a second-order integrator, two comparators, a logic circuit, an output driver and an inverter. The output driver cooperates with the inverter to produce a differential signal. The differential signal is input to the second-order integrator to construct a dual feedback differential loop to eliminate noise of output signals of the class-D amplifier, and offer enhanced signal to noise and distortion ratio (SNDR).
US07982524B2	Level shift circuit and semiconductor device thereof A level shift circuit and a semiconductor device are configured to prevent failure and malfunction even when an excessive negative voltage or ESD surge are applied to a high-voltage power supply terminal. The level shift circuit includes a level shift resistor, a current-limiting resistor connected in series to the level shift resistor, and an n-channel MOSFET, with its drain connected to the current-limiting resistor. An output of the level-up circuit is obtained from the positioned between the level shift resistor and the current-limiting resistor. By providing the current-limiting resistor, the current that flows due to an excessive negative voltage or ESD surge is suppressed to prevent the level shift circuit from failing or malfunctioning.
US07982501B2	Low-power routing multiplexers Low-power routing multiplexers that reduce static and dynamic power consumption are provided. A variety of different techniques are used to reduce power consumption of the routing multiplexers without significantly increasing their size. For example, power consumption of the routing multiplexers may be reduced by reducing short-circuit currents, reducing leakage currents, limiting voltage swing, and recycling charge within the multiplexer. Multiple power reduction techniques may be combined into a single routing multiplexer design. Low-power routing multiplexers may also be designed to operate in selectable modes, such as, a high-speed, high-power mode and a low-speed, low-power mode.
US07982495B2	Configurable logic device The configurable logic device comprises a plurality of configurable logic cells (2). A configurable logic cell comprises a plurality of multi-bit registers (20a, 20b, 20c, 20d). At least one is accessible both in a parallel and in a serial fashion. A functional unit (30) therein is coupled to two or more of the registers and comprises a chain of functional unit segments (31, 31′) that each comprise an AND gate (33) and a 1-bit full adder (32) receiving an output of the AND-gate. An output selection facility (50) provides an output signal of the configurable logic cell selected from two or more input signals. At least one of the input signals is provided by one of the multi-bit registers, and another by the functional unit.
US07982493B1	Semiconductor integrated circuit for controlling output driving force A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a pre driver unit configured to receive a pre drive signal and a driving force control signal and output a main drive signal; a main driver unit configured to receive the main drive signal and output output data to an output terminal; a terminal connecting unit configured to receive a determination signal and connect to or disconnect from the output terminal in response to the determination signal; a terminal sensing unit configured to sense the output terminal and output a terminal state signal; and a driving force determining unit configured to receive a reset signal and the terminal state signal and output the driving force control signal.
US07982488B2	Phase-change memory security device A semiconductor chip having a subcircuit formed in a substrate; and a phase-change memory cell located on the subcircuit, and configured to directly detect an attack on the subcircuit, or to form a shield to prevent physical access to the subcircuit.
US07982482B2	Probe card, method of manufacturing the probe card and alignment method A probe card for a wafer level test of electrical characteristics of a plurality of semiconductor integrated circuit devices formed on a semiconductor wafer. The card has a thin film with bumps on which a plurality of bumps to be respectively brought into contact with all of inspection electrodes of the semiconductor integrated circuit devices are formed, and which is held on a rigid ceramic ring. An alignment mark constituted by a bump formed simultaneously with the bumps for contact is added to the thin film with bumps. The desired position of the alignment mark relative to the bumps for contact is maintained. Therefore, a change in position accuracy of the bumps for contact can be easily measured by an image processor with reference to the alignment mark. An optimum position for contact between the wafer to be inspected and the inspection electrodes on the wafer can be computed from the measurement result.
US07982480B2	Calibrated wideband high frequency passive impedance probe A calibrated passive impedance probe has a wide bandwidth operating range for impedance and performance measurements of RF and microwave components, devices, and circuits in 50Ω and 75Ω environments. The probe is calibrated at the probe tip, thus allowing accurate impedance and performance measurements of in-circuit functions and on-board components. The calibrated probe can be used to eliminate RF connectors and provide input and output connections to a circuit board for prototype design and quick performance verification thus realizing cost savings on RF connectors. The probe includes a semi-rigid coaxial cable assembly filled with dielectric material, a silver plated center conductor, and silver plated ground outer conductor having an SMA male connector on one end and exposed center conductor at the opposite end and having uniform characteristic impedance of 50Ω or 75Ω along the cable length; a hexagonal shaped body made of anodized aluminum having raised texture on the surface for sure handling; a probe tip of gold plated aluminum with two spring loaded ground pins; a four-finger threaded cable catch for locking semi-rigid coaxial cable assembly inside the tip and for ground continuity from cable to spring loaded pins; an interface RF connector-adapter including SMA female-SMA female, BNC-SMA female, or Type N-SMA female; a locking nut to hold and lock cable assembly and connector-adapter inside the probe body; and 50Ω and 75Ω precision loads for probe calibration.
US07982472B2	Resistance measurement method and component inspection process In a first step, two conductive plates such as two zinc galvanized (electroplated) steel plates with films formed on surfaces thereof, are prepared; a flexible conductive material is held between these two zinc galvanized (electroplated) steel plates. A spacer is also held between the two zinc galvanized (electroplated) steel plates to regulate the space therebetween and a measurement object such as a conductive cloth is held between the flexible conductive material and at least one of the zinc galvanized (electroplated) steel plates. In a second step, the electric resistance between the two zinc galvanized (electroplated) steel plates is measured while the flexible conductive material is held together with the measurement object between the two conductive plates.
US07982469B2	Method and measuring device for radio wave measuring A generator generates radio-frequency electromagnetic radiation to a resonator whose resonance frequency is affected by a characteristic to be measured of an object to be measured. A receiver receives radio-frequency electromagnetic radiation from the resonator and a signal processing unit searches for a resonance frequency of the resonator for measuring the characteristic to be measured. The generator comprises a digital frequency synthesizer for scanning a frequency of radio-frequency electromagnetic radiation to be applied to the resonator over a desired frequency band by using discrete measuring frequencies.
US07982458B2	Wire-rope flaw detector There is obtained a wire-rope flaw detector capable of realizing a high signal-to-noise ratio even in the case where only one detection coil is disposed. In the wire-rope flaw detector, there are provided a magnetizer that forms main magnetic flux in a predetermined section located along an axis direction of a wire rope (1) and a detection coil (8) that detects, in the predetermined section, leakage magnetic flux (13) emitted from a flaw portion (10) of the wire rope (1); a magnetic circuit member (7) made of a ferromagnetic material intervenes in a magnetic circuit for leakage magnetic flux that is interlinked with a detection coil (8); and in a space where at least one of the end portions, of the magnetic circuit member (7), that serve as the inflow port and the outflow port for the leakage magnetic flux is inserted between the detection coil (8) and a wire rope (1), an opening portion extends in such a way as to intervene between the foregoing end portion and the other end portion and is inserted between the detection coil (8) and the wire rope (1).
US07982457B2	Method and eddy current system for non-contact determination of interface resistance The present invention is a method and an eddy current system for non-contact determination of the resistance between the current lead stripe and the coating during continuous fabrication of chemical power sources such as batteries, supercapacitors, photovoltaic modules and the like. Both the method and the non-destructive test system for practicing the method are described. The method includes placing of an integrated measuring transducer containing two strap-type eddy current probes above the surface of the coating applied to the metallic current lead stripe in the region of the shaft guiding the stripe movement, so that all the points of the operating surface of the transducer being at an equal distance from the stripe surface coating so that the two probes would take measurements on the same area of the coating.
US07982448B1	Circuit and method for reducing overshoots in adaptively biased voltage regulators Disclosed are a circuit and a method for adaptively biasing a voltage regulator with minimal output overshoot. The circuit includes an adaptive bias current mirror circuit further including a first transistor and a second transistor, the first transistor and the second transistor having source nodes coupled to a drain node of the first transistor. The circuit includes a common node coupled to the source node of the first transistor and the source node of the second transistor, wherein a source degenerate resistor is coupled to the adaptive bias current mirror circuit and is coupled to the common node and wherein the source degenerate resistor is configured to limit an output peak current of the voltage regulator circuit.
US07982446B2	Power supply circuit with dynamic control of a driver circuit voltage rail According to one configuration, a monitor circuit monitors a delivery of power supplied by one or more switch devices to a dynamic load. Based on an amount of power delivered to the load as measured by the monitor circuit, a control circuit produces a voltage control signal. A gate bias voltage generator circuit utilizes the voltage control signal to generate a switch activation voltage or bias voltage. A switch drive circuit uses the switch activation voltage as generated by the bias voltage generator to activate each of the one or more switch devices during a portion of a switching cycle when a respective switch device is in an ON state, and the respective switch device conducts current from a voltage source through the switch device to the load. The control circuit adjusts the voltage control signal to modify a level of the switch activation voltage depending on the dynamic load.
US07982437B2	Automotive power supply system and method of operating same A battery control module monitors discharge voltages associated with a traction battery of an automotive vehicle. The battery control module cycles the traction battery at a discharge-voltage dependent charge/discharge profile to generate heat within the traction battery.
US07982436B2	Battery cover with contact-type power receiver for electrically powered device An electronic system includes a power delivery support structure having a power delivery surface with first and second conductive regions. An electronic device includes a plurality of contacts arranged so at least one of them engages the first conductive region and at least another of them engages the second conductive region independently of the orientation of the device relative to the power delivery surface.
US07982432B2	Method and system for monitoring an electrical energy storage device An electrical energy storage device is monitored by cyclically applying an electrical load thereto and monitoring voltage and current at transient portions of the cyclically applied electrical load.
US07982418B2	Rheostatic safety braking device having a bipolar resistive assembly with permanent magnet motor This device is an electric safety brake which is intended for an electric traction vehicle, in particular a rail vehicle comprising: a rotating electromechanical machine (10) having permanent magnets having at least one coil with electric terminals (13, 14, 15), a resistive braking torque production device (22), an electromechanical commutator (20) which is capable of reliably connecting the electric terminals (13, 14, 15) of the machine (10) to the braking torque production device (22).It is characterized in that the braking torque production device (22) comprises, on the one hand, a bipolar assembly (122) of at least one dissipative resistor, the assembly having two single connection terminals and forming a common terminal bipolar electric output load for all the terminals (13, 14, 15) of the mechanism and, on the other hand, means (120) for converting the currents from all the terminals (13, 14, 15) into a single current which is supplied to the two single terminals of the assembly of at least one dissipative resistor, the conversion means (120) having no active power switches.
US07982412B2	LED circuit with high dimming frequency A LED circuit comprises: an inductor, a group of LEDs, a capacitor, a power MOS and a switching circuit. The inductor is connected to a voltage supply and a first node; the group of LEDs is connected to the first node and a ground potential; the capacitor is connected to the first node and a ground potential; the power MOS is connected to the first node and a ground potential, wherein the gate of the power MOS receives a switching signal such that the capacitor is charged when the power MOS is turn on to further turn on the LEDs and the capacitor is discharged when the power MOS is turn off to turn off the LEDs. The switching circuit is to generate the switching signal.
US07982410B2	Electronic dimmer circuit An electrical dimmer circuit comprising the electrical dimmer circuit for dimming the electrical power of a plurality of lighting means having at least one digital input channel, at which digital low-voltage input signals for specifying the light power of the various lighting means can be received, and having at least two output channels, on which output signals for dimming the electrical power of the respectively assigned lighting means can be output by pulse width modulation of a high alternating voltage.
US07982408B2	Cold-cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL) current control circuit A circuit to control an AC lamp current provided by an input AC voltage supply to a cold-cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL). The circuit includes a capacitor connected in series between the AC voltage supply and one terminal of the CCFL, the capacitor biasing the CCFL with the AC lamp current; a switch having first, second, and control terminals, the first terminal being connected to the CCFL and the second terminal being connected to the other side of the supply; a diode connected in parallel to the switch; and a resistor connected in parallel to the diode, wherein the AC lamp current is controlled by controlling the switch to add and remove resistance in series with the CCFL.
US07982389B2	Light-emitting device incorporating an inorganic insulating layer between a reflective layer and corresponding pixel electrode A light-emitting device includes an organic insulating layer lying above a face of a substrate, reflective layers arranged on a face of the organic insulating layer, an inorganic insulating layer extending over the reflective layers, pixel electrodes arranged on the inorganic insulating layer, and light-emitting sections arranged on the respective pixel electrodes. The inorganic insulating layer has openings and regions in which no pixel electrodes are arranged when viewed from above. The openings extend through the respective regions to the organic insulating layer. A method for manufacturing such a light-emitting device includes forming openings in regions of the inorganic insulating layer in advance of the formation of the light-emitting sections such that the openings extend through the regions to the organic insulating layer, the regions having no pixel electrodes thereon when viewed from above.
US07982388B2	Light emitting element and display device This light emitting device includes a pair of electrodes at least one of which is transparent or translucent, and a phosphor layer that is sandwiched between the electrodes and has a polycrystalline structure made of a first semiconductor material, and in this structure, a second semiconductor material different from the first semiconductor material is segregated on a grain boundary of the polycrystalline structure. The first semiconductor material and the second semiconductor material preferably have semiconductor structures of conduction types that are different from each other. Moreover, the first semiconductor material preferably has an n-type semiconductor structure, and the second semiconductor material preferably has a p-type semiconductor structure. Furthermore, in the case where the first semiconductor material is a zinc-based material containing zinc, at least one of the paired electrodes is preferably made of a material containing zinc.
US07982384B2	Image display device and light emission device An image display device including a light emission section which emits light to an intensity adjusting section and a wavelength conversion section which change the intensity and wavelength of the emitted light. Phosphors and phosphor like materials are employed in wavelength conversion and a liquid crystal is employed for the light adjustment. The light emission device may include plural semiconductor light emitting elements having a different wavelength ranges such as diodes stacked in a compact and predetermined order such that wavelengths of light from each diode are emitted from the light emitting elements.
US07982377B2	High-pressure gas discharge lamp A high-pressure gas discharge lamp includes at least a lamp tube and two electrodes. The two electrodes are each attached to the lamp tube by a sealed area and, outside the sealed area, each electrode has a perpendicular minimum distance, with respect to its longitudinal axis, from the lamp tube.
US07982376B2	Apparatus and method for removing heat from high intensity light bulbs Water or air is directed through a hood or double cylinder cooling device for providing cooling to one or more light bulbs used in growing plants in greenhouses, aquarium, and hydroponic applications. A water recirculation system with a reservoir and a pump may provide a flow of cooling water through tubing to the hood. The hood provides a housing and a tube which contains one or more light bulbs which can be accessed or replaced through an end of the tube which projects through the housing. The light holder includes an enclosed electric box and a plurality of curved fins which expand against the inside glass tube. Various reflector housing shapes and reflectors direct light to plants. The end cap is bolted to a split ring flange attached to the outer tube.
US07982374B2	Piezoelectric vibrating piece with extended supporting arms Piezoelectric vibrating pieces are disclosed made of a piezoelectric material to be mounted in a package. A representative piece includes a base formed of a piezoelectric material, having first and second ends, extending between the ends in a length direction, and having a designated width. The piece includes at least a pair of vibrating arms extending in the length direction from one end of the base, and a pair of supporting arms extending partially in a width direction from between the first and second ends of the base. The supporting arms further extend in the length direction outboard of the base and vibrating arms, and include an adhesive region at the tips of the supporting arms. The adhesive regions are used for mounting the piece to a package. Whereas the tips of the supporting arms do not extend beyond the tips of the vibrating arms, the axial length of supporting arms is greater than the length of the vibrating arms.
US07982364B2	Surface acoustic wave device and method for manufacturing the same A surface acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate and a lid spaced apart from each other oppositely by a specific interval. A comb electrode and a pad electrode are provided to the piezoelectric substrate on a main surface on the lid side, and an external terminal is provided to the lid on a surface on the opposite side to the piezoelectric substrate. Further, the surface acoustic wave device includes a connection electrode that electrically connects the pad electrode and the external terminal, and an insulator interposed between at least one of the main surface of the piezoelectric substrate and the pad electrode and the lid.
US07982359B2	High efficiency salient pole machine and method of forming the same A salient pole machine and method of forming the same comprising a rotating field assembly and at least one inter-pole cap connected to the rotating field assembly and/or at least end coil cap connected to the rotating field assembly. Each inter-pole cap preferably includes a top surface that has a curvature and/or at least one cavity. Each end coil cap may include at least one support. The salient pole machine may also include at least one fan assembly independent of the rotating field assembly. In a preferred embodiment, the salient pole machine includes at least one mounting plate, wherein each fan assembly is mounted on the mounting plate. The inter-pole caps and the end coil caps preferably comprise composites, polymers, alloys, ceramics, or naturally occurring materials.
US07982352B2	Electrical motor/generator having a number of stator pole cores being larger than a number of rotor pole shoes An axial magnetic flux electrical machine having a rotor attached to a shaft, the rotor comprising magnets and pole shoes; and a stator, the stator has a separate pole cores having corresponding separate coils, and the number of poles cores is larger than the number of pole shoes.
US07982348B2	Electric wire holding structure for electric compressor and electric wire holding method for electric compressor A structure and method for holding an electric wire connected to the inside of an electric compressor incorporating a motor. The structure has a holding member for holding an electric wire present between a connection terminal section for connection to the outside and a built-in electric device. The structure and method can reliably eliminate possibility of adverse affection to an input electric wire caused by vibration, etc. while preventing a reduction in efficiency of assembly work and an increase in size of the compressor.
US07982340B1	Telecommunications megasite with backup power system The present invention is an energy generating system for a telecommunications megasite which uses fuel cells and capacitors to backup a commercially available primary source of power.
US07982337B2	DC-DC converter control circuit There is provided a DC-DC converter control circuit, wherein a reference feedback signal related to a supply voltage to a load is compared to a reference oscillation signal to generate a result of comparison. The result of comparison is used as a switching control signal to control the supply voltage to the load. The result of comparison is frequency divided to generate a frequency divided signal; and the switching control signal is generated in response to the frequency divided signal.
US07982336B2	Power sharing with stackable switches Power is automatically allocated among a plurality of network switches, such as a plurality of stackable switches. In one embodiment, one device in the network is designated as a “master” device which controls the power allocation for all of the switches. In another embodiment, a distributed algorithm is used, in which each device uses power allocation decision logic to formulate a mutually agreed-upon power allocation. Power from multiple power-granting devices may be consolidated to provide aggregated power to one or more power-needing devices.
US07982335B2	Adaptive power strip An adaptive power strip has a power rail. A power entry module and one or more receptacle modules having plug receptacles are mounted on the power rail. The power entry module has a power inlet to which a source of power can be coupled. The power entry module distribute power from the power source to the power rail. The receptacle modules distribute power from the power rail tot the respective plug receptacles. In an aspect, the power entry module has a communications module that discovers receptacle modules on the power rail having data communications capability and if a receptacle module does not have a unique identifier assigned to it, assigns a unique identifier to the receptacle module that the receptacle module stores in a memory. The communications modules also retrieves from each receptacle module having data communications capability, information about the characteristics of the receptacle module that the communications module stores in a memory. The communications module maintains an inventory in memory of the receptacle modules on the power rail that includes information about the characteristics of the receptacle modules. In an aspect, receptacle modules determine their locations on the power rail and send information to the communications module that the communications module uses to determine the location of the receptacle modules on the power rail. In an aspect, the power entry module determines the type of power service provided to it at its power inlet.
US07982334B2	Motor-driven steering lock apparatus The invention provides a motor-driven steering lock apparatus which can improve a reliability of locking and unlocking operations, with a simple circuit structure. A power supply line from a battery and a driving means are connected by a switching means only at a time when a feed signal from a host first control means to a drive control means (CPU), a power supply-enabling signal from the host first control means and a power supply-enabling signal from a host second control means are input to the switching means.
US07982329B2	Vertical axis wind generator structure A vertical axis wind generator structure includes a tower, a windmill assembly, a bearing assembly, a lubrication assembly, and a generator. The windmill assembly is installed on the bearing assembly. The windmill assembly and the bearing assembly are rotatably sleeved on a shaft lever of the tower. The bearing assembly provides for thermal expansion compensation and axial and radial loading. The lubrication assembly supplies lubricating oil based on the operating conditions of the windmill assembly so as to prolong the lifespan and improve the electricity generation effect of the wind generator.
US07982328B2	Emergency supply unit with a ram-air turbine adapted to be driven by an air stream and with an energy converter for aircraft An emergency supply unit is provided with a ram-air turbine surrounded substantially concentrically by a casing forming a flow channel and driven by an air stream; an energy converter, driven by means of the ram-air turbine directly coupled via a drive shaft, for at least partly maintaining the functioning of a hydraulic system and/or electrical system on board an aircraft in an emergency situation; means for installing the ram-air turbine in its position within the casing such that the spatial position of the ram-air turbine remains unchanged when the emergency supply unit is selectively brought into a standby mode or into an operating mode; at least one air inlet through which the air stream can be delivered to the ram-air turbine, and which is adapted to be closed by a shut-off member; and an air outlet adapted to be closed by a shut-off member.
US07982317B2	Semiconductor device, semiconductor device module, and method for manufacturing the semiconductor device module A semiconductor device can include a plurality of semiconductor elements. The characteristics of each of the semiconductor elements can be easily tested during the production of the semiconductor device or when a failure occurs after the semiconductor device is mounted on a substrate, so that the quality can be well managed and a failure can be reliably analyzed. When not mounted on the substrate, the semiconductor device can have a connection structure in which the plurality of semiconductor elements are electrically independent of each other, so that their characteristics can be tested and analyzed by independently energizing the semiconductor elements. In a semiconductor device module having the semiconductor device mounted thereon, the connection structure can include a parallel circuit of the plurality of semiconductor elements. Therefore, all the semiconductor elements can be driven by applying a voltage between a pair of solder-bonding electrode pads disposed on the semiconductor device-mounting substrate.
US07982314B2	Semiconductor integrated circuit device Circuit elements and wirings constituting a circuit, and first electrodes electrically connected to such a circuit are provided on one main surface of a semiconductor substrate. An organic insulating film is formed on the circuit except for openings on the surfaces of the first electrodes. First and second external connecting electrodes are provided on the organic insulating film. At least one conductive layer for electrically connecting the first and second external connecting electrodes and the first electrodes is placed on the organic insulating film.
US07982313B2	Semiconductor device including stress relaxation gaps for enhancing chip package interaction stability By dividing a single chip area into individual sub-areas, a thermally induced stress in each of the sub-areas may be reduced during operation of complex integrated circuits, thereby enhancing the overall reliability of complex metallization systems comprising low-k dielectric materials or ULK material. Consequently, a high number of stacked metallization layers in combination with increased lateral dimensions of the semiconductor chip may be used compared to conventional strategies.
US07982305B1	Integrated circuit package including a three-dimensional fan-out / fan-in signal routing An integrated circuit (IC) package is disclosed comprising a substrate including a plurality of substrate contacts; a semiconductor die including a plurality of die contacts; and a plurality of conductors for providing direct connections between substrate contacts and die contacts, respectively. By having the conductors directly route the connections between the die contacts and substrate contacts, many improvements may be realized including, but not limited to, improved package routing capabilities, reduced die and/or package size, improved package reliability, improved current handling capacity, improved speed, improved thermal performance, and lower costs.
US07982303B2	Semiconductor device and communication method A semiconductor chip is disposed on a first surface of a mounting board with its active surface upward. An inductor is provided at the active surface side, that is, at the surface side of the semiconductor chip not facing the mounting board in order to perform communication between the semiconductor chip and the outside. A sealing resin layer is formed on the first surface of the mounting board in order to seal the semiconductor chip. In addition, a recess or an opening (in the present embodiment, a recess) is provided in the sealing resin layer. The recess includes the inductor thereinside when seen in a plan view.
US07982301B2	Semiconductor device A miniaturized semiconductor device has a package substrate, a semiconductor chip mounted on the main surface of the package substrate and having plural LNAs each for amplifying a signal, an RF VCO for converting the frequency of the signal supplied from each LNA, and an IF VCO for converting the frequency of a signal supplied from a baseband. A plurality of ball electrodes are provided on the back surface of the package substrate. The package substrate is provided with a first common GND wire for supplying a GND potential to each of the LNAs, with a second common GND wire for supplying the GND potential to the RF VCO, and with a third common GND wire for supplying the GND potential to the IF VCO. The first, second, and third common GND wires are separated from each other.
US07982299B2	Power semiconductor module Included are a semiconductor package, a first bus bar, a second bus bar and a soldering control unit. The semiconductor package includes a power semiconductor element, a first electrode plate and a second electrode plate. The first bus bar is a conductive member which is soldered onto the main surface of the first electrode plate through a first solder member. The second bus bar is a conductive member which is soldered onto the main surface of the second electrode plate through a second solder member. The soldering control unit is provided on each of the main surface of the first bus bar to which the first electrode plate is soldered and the main surface of the second bus bar to which the second electrode plate is soldered, and controls the solder joint thickness.
US07982296B2	Methods and devices for fabricating and assembling printable semiconductor elements The invention provides methods and devices for fabricating printable semiconductor elements and assembling printable semiconductor elements onto substrate surfaces. Methods, devices and device components of the present invention are capable of generating a wide range of flexible electronic and optoelectronic devices and arrays of devices on substrates comprising polymeric materials. The present invention also provides stretchable semiconductor structures and stretchable electronic devices capable of good performance in stretched configurations.
US07982292B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a carrier, a chip coupled to the carrier, a dielectric layer coupled to the carrier and the chip, and conducting elements connected to both the carrier and contacts of the chip. The chip includes a first face with a first contact spaced apart from a second contact. The dielectric layer includes a photoinitiator that configures the dielectric layer to be selectively opened to expose the first and second contacts and the carrier. A first conducting element is connected to the first contact, a second conducting element is connected to the second contact, and a third conducting element is connected to the carrier.
US07982291B2	Method for manufacturing a microelectromechanical component, and a microelectromechanical component The invention relates to microelectromechanical components, like microelectromechanical gauges used in measuring e.g. acceleration, angular acceleration, angular velocity, or other physical quantities. The microelectromechanical component, according to the invention, comprises a microelectromechanical chip part, sealed by means of a cover part, and an electronic circuit part, suitably bonded to each other. The aim of the invention is to provide an improved method of manufacturing a microelectromechanical component, and to provide a microelectromechanical component, which is applicable for use particularly in small microelectromechanical sensor solutions.
US07982287B1	System and method for faceting the corners of a resistor protect layer to reduce vertical step height A system and method is disclosed for providing a resistor protect layer to protect a thin film resistor in a semiconductor device. A thin film resistor is formed on a dielectric layer and a resistor protect layer is placed over the thin film resistor. An etch procedure is employed to facet the corners of the resistor protect layer. The faceted corners of the resistor protect layer reduce the step height of the resistor protect layer. Then a conductor is deposited over the resistor protect layer and the dielectric layer. When portions of the conductor are subsequently etched away, the resistor protect layer protects the underlying thin film resistor from being exposed to the etch process.
US07982282B2	High efficiency amplifier with reduced parasitic capacitance A semiconductor amplifier is provided comprising, a substrate and one or more unit amplifying cells (UACs) formed on the substrate, wherein each UAC is laterally surrounded by a first lateral dielectric filled trench (DFT) isolation wall extending at least to the substrate and multiple UACs are surrounded by a second lateral DFT isolation wall of similar depth outside the first isolation walls, and further semiconductor regions lying between the first isolation walls when two or more unit cells are present, and/or lying between the first and second isolation walls, are electrically floating with respect to the substrate. This reduces the parasitic capacitance of the amplifying cells and improves the power added efficiency. Excessive leakage between buried layer contacts when using high resistivity substrates is avoided by providing a further semiconductor layer of intermediate doping between the substrate and the buried layer contacts.
US07982274B2	Device comprising doped nano-component A device comprising a doped semiconductor nano-component and a method of forming the device are disclosed. The nano-component is one of a nanotube, nanowire or a nanocrystal film, which may be doped by exposure to an organic amine-containing dopant. Illustrative examples are given for field effect transistors with channels comprising a lead selenide nanowire or nanocrystal film and methods of forming these devices.
US07982271B2	Semiconductor device There is provided a technology which allows improvements in manufacturing yield and product reliability in a semiconductor device having a triple well structure. A shallow p-type well is formed in a region different from respective regions in a p-type substrate where a deep n-type well, a shallow p-type well, and a shallow n-type well are formed. A p-type diffusion tap formed in the shallow p-type well is wired to a p-type diffusion tap formed in a shallow n-type well in the deep n-type well using an interconnection in a second layer. The respective gate electrodes of an nMIS and a pMIS each formed in the deep n-type well are coupled to the respective drain electrodes of an nMIS and a pMIS each formed in the substrate using an interconnection in a second or higher order layer.
US07982270B2	Semiconductor device including memory cell and anti-fuse element A semiconductor device includes an anti-fuse portion and a memory cell portion each including a MOSFET structure having a gate insulating film formed on a semiconductor substrate and a gate electrode formed on the gate insulating film; wherein a depletion ratio in the gate electrode of the anti-fuse portion is different from the depletion ratio in the gate electrode of the memory cell portion, and the depletion ratio in the gate electrode of the anti-fuse portion is lower than the depletion ratio in the gate electrode of the memory cell portion.
US07982268B2	Dual-gate transistor and pixel structure using the same A dual-gate transistor includes a first gate formed on a substrate, a first dielectric layer covering the first gate and the substrate, a semiconductor layer formed on the first dielectric layer, first and second electrodes formed on the semiconductor layer and spaced with an interval in order to separate each other, a second dielectric layer covering the first and second electrodes, and a second gate formed on the second dielectric layer, in which at least one of the first and second gates is non-overlapped with the second electrode.
US07982264B2	Semiconductor device The semiconductor device according to the present invention includes a semiconductor substrate, an insulating layer laminated on the semiconductor substrate, a semiconductor layer laminated on the insulating layer, an annular deep trench having a depth reaching the insulating layer from the surface of the semiconductor layer, a source region formed on the surface layer of the semiconductor layer in a transistor forming region enclosed with the deep trench, a drain region formed on the surface layer of the semiconductor layer in the transistor forming region, an isolation region formed between the source region and the drain region for electrically isolating the source region and the drain region from each other, and a current path formed on the transistor forming region for guiding a current from the drain region to a position opposite to the source region in the vertical direction perpendicular to the surface of the semiconductor device.
US07982258B2	Flash memory device and method for manufacturing the device A flash memory device and a method for manufacturing the device includes forming a device isolation layer in a semiconductor substrate defining active regions, forming a control gate layer over the entire upper surface of the semiconductor substrate, forming a gate mask over the control gate layer, the gate mask being used to provide gate lines on the device isolation layer with grooves at positions opposite each other, and forming the grooves by etching the control gate layer using the gate mask as an etching mask, and forming the gate lines on the device isolation layer. A common source line can be more easily defined during a SAS process including photography and etching processes, and a reduced source resistance can be accomplished, resulting in an improvement in characteristics of the flash memory device.
US07982257B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor device according to an embodiment of the present invention has a bit line and a word line. The device includes a substrate which is provided with first trenches extending in a bit-line direction and has side surfaces forming sidewalls of the first trenches, the substrate being provided with bird's beaks at upper edges of the side surfaces, a first gate insulator formed on the substrate between the first trenches, a floating gate formed on the first gate insulator between the first trenches and located between second trenches extending in a word-line direction, the floating gate not being provided with bird's beaks at lower edges of side surfaces facing the first trenches, a second gate insulator formed on the floating gate between the second trenches, and a control gate formed on the second gate insulator between the second trenches.
US07982250B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device is demonstrated in which a plurality of field-effect transistors is stacked with an interlayer insulating layer interposed therebetween over a substrate having an insulating surface. Each of the plurality of filed-effect transistors has a semiconductor layer which is prepared by a process including separation of the semiconductor layer from a semiconductor substrate followed by bonding thereof over the substrate. Each of the plurality of field-effect transistors is covered with an insulating film which provides distortion of the semiconductor layer. Furthermore, the crystal axis of the semiconductor layer, which is parallel to the crystal plane thereof, is set to a channel length direction of the semiconductor layer, which enables production of the semiconductor device with high performance and low power consumption having an SOI structure.
US07982245B2	Circuit with fuse/anti-fuse transistor with selectively damaged gate insulating layer A semiconductor integrated circuit is disclosed which includes a main transistor and at least one of a fuse transistor or an anti-fuse transistor (“fuse/anti-fuse transistor”). Each transistor type includes an active region formed in a semiconductor substrate, a gate stack comprising a gate insulation layer and a gate electrode sequentially formed on the active region, and source/drain regions separated across the gate stack, but the gate insulation layer of the fuse/anti-fuse transistor is selectively damaged during fabrication.
US07982242B2	Warp-free semiconductor wafer, and devices using the same A semiconductor wafer to be diced into individual SBDs, HEMTs or MESFETs has a substrate with a main semiconductor region and counter semiconductor region formed on its opposite surfaces. The main semiconductor region is configured to provide the desired semiconductor devices. In order to counterbalance the warping effect of the main semiconductor region on the substrate, as well as to enhance the voltage strength of the devices made from the wafer, the counter semiconductor region is made similar in configuration to the main semiconductor region. The main semiconductor region and counter semiconductor region are arranged in bilateral symmetry as viewed in a cross-sectional plane at right angles with the substrate surfaces.
US07982239B2	Power switching transistors In an embodiment, a integrated semiconductor device includes a first Vertical Junction Field Effect Transistor (VJFET) having a source, and a gate disposed on each side of the first VJFET source, and a second VJFET transistor having a source, and a gate disposed on each side of the second VJFET source. At least one gate of the first VJFET is separated from at least one gate of the second VJFET by a channel. The integrated semiconductor device also includes a Junction Barrier Schottky (JBS) diode positioned between the first and second VJFETs. The JBS diode comprises a metal contact that forms a rectifying contact to the channel and a non-rectifying contact to at least one gate of the first and second VJFETs, and the metal contact is an anode of the JBS diode. A first electrical connection ties the gates of the first VJFET, the gates of the second VJFET, and the anode of the JBS diode to a common gate electrode and a second electrical connection ties the source of the first VJFET and the source of the second VJFET to a common source electrode.
US07982237B2	Light emitting device package including a semiconductor substrate having at least one surface Disclosed is a light emitting device package. The light emitting device package includes a semiconductor substrate including a first surface at a first depth from an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate and a second surface at a second depth from the first surface; and a light emitting part on the second surface of the semiconductor substrate.
US07982233B2	Optoelectronic semiconductor chip comprising a wavelength conversion substance, and optoelectronic semiconductor component comprising such a semiconductor chip, and method for producing the optoelectronic semiconductor chip A semiconductor chip comprises: a semiconductor body which comprises a semiconductor layer sequence suitable for emitting electromagnetic radiation of a first wavelength range from its front side; and a first wavelength-converting layer on at least one first partial region of the front side of the semiconductor body with a first wavelength conversion substance, which converts radiation of the first wavelength range into radiation of a second wavelength range, which is different from the first wavelength range, wherein at least one second partial region of the front side is free of the first wavelength-converting layer. An optoelectronic component comprising such a semiconductor chip and a method for producing the semiconductor chip are furthermore described.
US07982229B2	Light emitting device with conversion structure The invention relates to a light-emitting device comprising a conversion structure and one or several LEDs (40), which emit light into the conversion structure. The light is then converted and emitted with a high radiant flux.
US07982227B2	Light emitting diode package A base apparatus includes a base and two finger devices. The base has a first surface and two opposite sides. The finger devices are respectively mounted on the sides of the base, are made of conductive material, and each of the finger devices has multiple fingers. The fingers are extended on the first surface of the base, wherein the fingers of a first finger device are arranged respectively corresponding to the fingers of a second finger device whereby each pair of corresponding fingers supports an illuminating device. The base has a height, each of the fingers has a width and the width is smaller than the height. When the LED is mounted onto a substrate, the LED can be mounted on the substrate by its side so that an entire assembly height of the LED is reduced and is equal to the width of the LED.
US07982226B2	Reflection type optical sensor device Provided is a reflection type optical sensor device including: a semiconductor light source being formed by providing a light emitting region on a predetermined region of a substrate; and a photo-detection element being integrated on the same substrate as the substrate where the semiconductor light source is formed to surround an outer circumferential surface of the semiconductor light source, and including a light receiving region. When the light emitted from the semiconductor light source is reflected by an external object, the photo-detection element may detect the light to sense the object. Through this, it is possible to reduce cost and ensure a small size. Also, the photo-detection element is constructed to surround the outer circumferential surface of the semiconductor light source, and thus more accurately detect the light.
US07982213B2	Phenanthroline compound and organic light emitting device using same A novel phenanthroline compound is provided which is represented by the general formula [I]: (wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and R6 are the same or different and each is selected from a hydrogen atom, an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl group, an unsubstituted or substituted aralkyl group, an unsubstituted or substituted aryl group, an unsubstituted or substituted heterocyclic group, and a halogen atom; and Ar1 and Ar2 are the same or different and each is selected from an unsubstituted or substituted fluorenyl group, an unsubstituted or substituted fluoranthenyl group, an unsubstituted or substituted perylenyl group, and an unsubstituted or substituted carbazolyl group). An organic light emitting device using the phenanthroline compound is also provided that has a light output with a high efficiency and a high luminance and has a high long-term durability.
US07982211B2	Organic based device and method for manufacture thereof A device comprising a first transparent and electrically conductive layer (102), a second electrically conductive layer (104), and a functional layer (103) comprising at least one organic layer, sandwiched between said first and second conductive layers and to form a functional organic stack. At least one via (110) is arranged to electrically interconnect said first layer (102) and at least one segment (112) of said second layer (104), the segment being electrically insulated from the reminder of the second layer. The present invention makes it possible to uniformly supply the first transparent layer with electrical power. The vias and segments are preferably formed by laser applied through the transparent conductive layer.
US07982203B2	CMOS-process-compatible programmable via device Programmable via devices and methods for the fabrication thereof are provided. In one aspect, a programmable via device is provided comprising a substrate; a dielectric layer on the substrate; a heater on at least a portion of a side of the dielectric layer opposite the substrate; a first oxide layer over the side of the dielectric layer opposite the substrate and surrounding at least a portion of the heater; a first capping layer over a side of the first oxide layer opposite the dielectric layer; at least one programmable via extending through the first capping layer and the first oxide layer and in contact with the heater, the programmable via comprising at least one phase change material; a second capping layer over the programmable via; a second oxide layer over a side of the first capping layer opposite the first oxide layer; a pair of first conductive vias, each extending through the first and second oxide layers and the first capping layer, and in contact with the heater; and a second conductive via, located between the pair of first conductive vias, extending through the second oxide layer and in contact with the second capping layer.
US07982202B2	Enhanced light detector for computed radiography A scanning apparatus for obtaining an image from a phosphor sheet has a cylindrical drum having an inner axis and having an inner surface that is concave with respect to the axis. A light collector is coupled to a transport mechanism that is actuable to translate the light collector along a direction parallel to the axis. The light collector has a beam generator with a light source and a rotatable beam deflector that is actuable to provide a rotating scanning beam. There are first and second cylindrical hoops circumferentially disposed about the axis and spaced apart from each other along the direction of the axis to define a slot aligned with the rotating scanning beam as it scans the phosphor sheet. At least one light detector is disposed to detect light stimulated from the phosphor sheet by the scanning beam.
US07982201B2	System and method for detection of liquid level in a vessel A system and method for identifying the levels of one or more liquids in a vessel using an optical imager and one or more appropriately positioned light sources and an optical imager for capturing digital images of the illuminated vessel. A laser line generator is positioned oppositely from the imager and oriented to project a laser line through the vessel so that it may be imaged by the imager. A second light source, such as an LED, may be positioned above or below the vessel and oriented to project light downwardly or upwardly through the vessel and its contents. Captured images of the vessel are then processed by a programmable device, such as a microcontroller, to determine the levels of materials in the vessel based on the optical characteristics revealed in the captured image.
US07982191B2	Plasma panel based ionizing radiation detector A radiation detector is formed from a plasma panel that includes a front substrate, and a back substrate that forms a generally parallel gap with the front substrate. X (column) and Y (row) electrodes are coupled by gas discharge events to define one or more pixels. Impedances are coupled to the X and Y electrodes, and a power supply is coupled to one or both types of electrodes. Discharge event detectors are coupled to the impedances.
US07982178B2	Phototransistor with source layer between barrier layer and photosensitive semiconductor layer A photo transistor has an active region spaced from a source by barrier. A drain is laterally spaced from the active region. Light incident on the active region creates electron-hole pairs. Holes accumulate at the barrier and modulate the effective barrier height to electrons. A gate reset voltage then is applied to gate which lower the barrier allowing the holes to escape.
US07982166B2	Ceramic heater and method for manufacturing the same A ceramic heater is provided that has a heat generating resistor and a lead member which supplies electric power to the heat generating resistor buried in a ceramic body, and exhibits excellent durability by controlling the cross sectional shape and plan configuration of the heat generating resistor.
US07982159B2	Plasma arc ignition using a unipolar pulse A starting circuit for use with a plasma torch is provided including circuitry for initiating a pilot arc using a unipolar voltage impulse. A transformer is selectively coupled to a DC source so that an impulse is introduced using the same DC source used to maintain an established pilot arc. A method is provided wherein an arc can be initiated while at the same time the DC source is pre-loaded so that surge injection circuitry is not needed to sustain the arc while ramping to the full pilot arc current level.
US07982154B2	Sorting device and method for sorting RFID tags sorting device for RFID tags, comprising a dispensing unit for supplying RFID tags which are applied to a transport belt to a dispensing area, in which the RFID tags are detached from the transport belt; a pick-up unit having a plurality of transport units for respectively picking up the RFID tags in a respective pick-up area onto a corresponding transport belt of the transport units and a positioning device for positioning the dispensing area and a selected pick-up area with respect to one another so that the RFID tags detached from the transport belt in the dispensing area are picked up by the pick-up area of the selected transport unit.
US07982151B2	Electrical switch with lateral operation and assembly comprising such a switch mounted on a plate An electrical switch may include a support bearing contacts, at least one elastically deformable release element for establishing an electrical connection between two contacts, an actuation pusher that is configured to be movable relative to the support along an overall horizontal path in the plane of the plate bearing electronic components and a lever that is configured to be mounted in a hinged manner relative to the support about a horizontal axis and which converts the horizontal actuation force exerted on the pusher into a vertical release force applied to the release element. The lever may be elastically deformable to allow a movement of the pusher beyond the actuation position.
US07982145B2	Inserting connector, receiving connector, and connector unit An inserting connector connected to a receiving connector, the receiving connector being configured to electrically connect an electric power source and an electric apparatus receiving an electric power supply from the electric power source, the inserting connector being connected to the electric apparatus, the inserting connector includes two electric power plug terminals made of a conductor, the conductor being configured to receive the electric power supply; and a control plug terminal configured to be extended and retracted in an inserting direction.
US07982144B2	Inserting connector, receiving connector, and connector unit An inserting connector connected to a receiving connector, the receiving connector being configured to electrically connect an electric power source and an electric apparatus receiving an electric power supply from the electric power source, the inserting connector being connected to the electric apparatus, the inserting connector includes two electric power plug terminals made of a conductor, the conductor being configured to receive the electric power supply; and a control plug terminal configured to be extended and retracted in an inserting direction.
US07982141B2	Coordinate detecting device, writing instrument, and coordinate inputting system A pen includes a first speaker that outputs a first signal and a second speaker that outputs a second signal. The first and second speakers are located away from a tip of the pen at respectively different locations. The second signal is delayed with respect to the first signal by a time shorter than a cycle of the first signal. An interpolation time is set between the times of generation of the first and second signals. Interpolated positions of the first and second speakers at the interpolation time are estimated, and position of the tip of the pen is calculated from the interpolated positions of the first and second speakers.
US07982132B2	Reduced size in twisted pair cabling A twisted pair cable and a method of making the twisted pair cable are described. First and second insulated conductors are twisted about each other to form a twisted pair. A first insulating material surrounds a first conductor to form the first insulated conductor. In a first alternative or supplemental embodiment, the first insulating material directly abuts a circumference of the first conductor and has a first area with a first radial thickness and a second area with a thinner radial thickness. In a second alternative or supplemental embodiment, the first insulating material has a first area with a first radial thickness and a second area with a thinner radial thickness and the first area resides along a portion of the first insulated conductor which is abutting the second insulated conductor.
US07982129B2	Photovoltaic cells with interconnects to external circuit Photovoltaic cells with interconnects to an external circuit, as well as related components, systems, and methods, are disclosed.
US07982126B2	Photovoltaic module with improved heat transfer and recovery potential A photovoltaic module with improved thermal properties, a method of making same and a structural, thermally improved photovoltaic panel are provided. A plurality of perforations are formed substantially entirely through the module which form a ventilation mechanism allowing heat to be transferred from the front side of the module to the rear side of the module. The perforations may be formed at a number of different stages in the manufacture of the module. Tubular reinforcements such as eyelets may be placed within the holes, preferably when the encapsulating material is only partially cured. The photovoltaic module may be attached to a structural and thermally conductive substrate, with sufficient strength for module to be utilized as stand-alone panel or building-integrated façade panel, simultaneously containing a large heat exchange surface area and provision for turbulent air flow.
US07982123B2	Passive electromagnetic string isolating pickup A passive pickup that utilizes electromagnetic coils comprising circuits that are connected in series and placed underneath and parallel to the strings of the electrical instrument. Each circuit within the passive pickup can be run through separate amplifiers in stereo or combined with standard guitar pickup signals and run through one or more amplifiers. The passive string isolating pickup is directed at allowing utilization of signal processing (guitar effects) in a string-isolated mono or stereo manner and the adjustment the volume and tone of isolated strings when wired in conjunction with volume and tone potentiometers.
US07982122B2	Device and method for analyzing an audio datum A device and a method for analyzing an audio datum is described, having a semitone analyzer which is implemented to analyze the audio datum with regard to a volume information distribution over an amount of semitones, and a vector calculator which is implemented to calculate a sum vector over two-dimensional intermediate vectors for each semitone or each element of the definition amount and output an analysis signal based on the sum vector, based on the volume information distribution or a distribution derived from the volume information distribution, which includes a definition amount based on the amount of semitones.
US07982112B2	Ligature for woodwind instruments A ligature is provided for use in a mouthpiece system for attaching a reed to a mouthpiece of a woodwind musical instrument. The ligature is constructed from a single layer of flexible strap, having two ends to which rigid bars are fixedly secured. The ends of the straps and rigid bars are brought together to form a loop that is placed over the mouthpiece and reed. A threaded closure mechanism is used to tighten the ligature around the mouthpiece. The ends of the strap are crimped into slots in the rigid bars to secure the flexible strap to the rigid bars. Slots or slits run along substantially the entire length of the flexible strap. Removable masses are attached to the ligature in contact with the rigid bars.
US07982110B2	Echinacea purpurea G0052Y The present invention relates to an Echinacea plant, seed, variety and hybrid. More specifically, the invention relates to an Echinacea plant having a compact, well-branched plant, having bright, deep rose-colored flowers. The invention relates to the seeds of Echinacea purpurea G0052Y, to the plants of Echinacea purpurea G0052Y, to plant parts of Echinacea purpurea G0052Y and to methods for producing an Echinacea plant produced by crossing Echinacea purpurea G0052Y with itself or with another Echinacea variety or hybrid. The invention also relates to methods for producing an Echinacea plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic Echinacea plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to Echinacea cultivars or hybrids and plant parts derived from Echinacea purpurea G0052Y, to methods for producing other Echinacea cultivars, lines, hybrids or plant parts derived from Echinacea purpurea G0052Y and to the Echinacea plants, varieties, hybrids and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid Echinacea seeds, plants and plant parts produced by crossing plants of Echinacea purpurea G0052Y with another Echinacea plant.
US07982103B1	Soybean variety XB18S09 According to the invention, there is provided a novel soybean variety designated XB18S09. This invention thus relates to the seeds of soybean variety XB18S09, to the plants of soybean XB18S09 to plant parts of soybean variety XB18S09 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing plants of the soybean variety XB18S09 with another soybean plant, using XB18S09 as either the male or the female parent.
US07982099B2	Canola line GB083 A canola line designated GB083 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of canola line GB083, to the plants of canola GB083, to plant parts of canola line GB083 and to methods for producing a canola plant produced by crossing canola line GB083 with itself or with another canola line. The invention also relates to methods for producing a canola plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic canola plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to canola lines or breeding lines and plant parts derived from canola line GB083, to methods for producing other canola lines, lines or plant parts derived from canola line GB083 and to the canola plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid canola seeds, plants and plant parts produced by crossing the line GB083 with another canola line.
US07982097B2	Promoter molecules for use in plants The present invention relates to polynucleotide molecules for regulating gene expression in plants. In particular, the invention relates to promoters that are useful for regulating gene expression of heterologous polynucleotide molecules in plants. The invention also relates to expression constructs and transgenic plants containing the heterologous polynucleotide molecules.
US07982096B2	Root specific promoters Promoters and genes involved in avenacin production in oats are cloned and characterized. Promoters for oxidosqualene cyclase and a cytochrome P450 are shown to be useful in root-specific expression of genes operatively linked to these promoters when introduced into plants. Sequences operably linked to the promoters are expressed in root epidermal cells.
US07982088B2	Disposable article having a biosensor A disposable article to be fitted to a wearer comprising a biosensor including at least one bio-recognition element. The biosensor is adapted to detect a target biological analyte in bodily waste or on the wearer's skin.
US07982087B2	Wound dressing A wound dressing includes a substantially transparent upper layer, an absorbent layer comprising a plurality of apertures arranged in a lattice pattern, and a low-adherent wound contact layer provided with a plurality of apertures arranged in a lattice pattern such the apertures of this layer are congruent with the apertures of the absorbent layer.
US07982084B1	Processes using UZM-37 aluminosilicate zeolite A new family of crystalline aluminosilicate zeolites has been synthesized. These zeolites are represented by the empirical formula. Mmn+Rr+Al(1-x)ExSiyOz where M represents a combination of potassium and sodium exchangeable cations, R is a singly charged organoammonium cation such as the propyltrimethylammonium cation and E is a framework element such as gallium. These zeolites are similar to MWW but are characterized by unique x-ray diffraction patterns and compositions and have catalytic properties for carrying out various hydrocarbon conversion processes.
US07982078B2	Production of diesel fuel from biorenewable feedstocks with selective separation of converted oxygen A process has been developed for producing diesel boiling range fuel from renewable feedstocks such as plant and animal fats and oils, the process providing for sulfur management. The process involves catalytically treating a renewable feedstock by hydrogenating and deoxygenating to provide a hydrocarbon fraction useful as a diesel boiling range fuel. The hydrocarbon fraction is isomerized to improve cold flow properties. A selective separation such as a hot high pressure hydrogen stripper is used to remove at least the carbon oxides from the first zone effluent before entering the isomerization zone, and to provide liquid recycle to the treating zone at pressure and temperature. A vapor stream is separated from the isomerization effluent and at least carbon dioxide is removed using at least one selective or flexible amine solution absorber. The resulting hydrogen-rich stream is recycled to the deoxygenation reaction zone.
US07982076B2	Production of diesel fuel from biorenewable feedstocks A process has been developed for producing diesel boiling range fuel from renewable feedstocks such as plant oils, animal fats and oils, and greases. The process involves treating a renewable feedstock by hydrogenating and deoxygenating to provide a diesel boiling range fuel hydrocarbon product. If desired, the hydrocarbon product can be isomerized to improve cold flow properties. A portion of the hydrocarbon product is recycled to the treatment zone to increase the hydrogen solubility of the reaction mixture.
US07982058B2	Chiral intermediate, process for producing the same and its use in the manufacture of tolterodine, fesoterodine, or the active metabolite thereof The compound of formula (I): is provided. It may be produced by subjecting a compound of formula (IV) to a reduction reaction wherein R represents hydrogen, straight or branched C1-C6 alkyl. This compound is a valuable intermediate which may be used in the synthesis of fesoterodine, tolterodine, its active metabolite, and related compounds.
US07982049B2	α-form or β-form crystal of acetanilide derivative To provide novel crystals useful as an ingredient for the production of a diabetes remedy. The invention is concerned with α-form crystal and β-form crystal of (R)-2-(2-aminothiazol-4-yl)-4′-[2-[(2-hydroxy-2-phenylethyl)amino]ethyl]acetanilide. The α-form crystal does not exhibit hygroscopicity and has stability such that it can be used as a medicine, and is useful for mass synthesis in the industrial production. The β-form crystal does not relatively exhibit hygroscopicity and is also useful as a production intermediate of the α-form crystal.
US07982047B2	Derivatives of 1,3-diones having a herbicidal activity A description follows of 1,3-diones having general formula (I): together with their use as herbicides for the control of weeds in agricultural crops.
US07982046B2	Method for the production of functionalized five-ring heterocycles, and use thereof A method for producing functionalized CH-acidic five-ring heterocycles, the resultant five-ring heterocycles and the use thereof for producing pharmaceuticals and crop protection preparations.
US07982040B2	Thienopyridinone compounds and methods of treatment The invention relates to 5-HT receptor agonists and partial agonists. Novel thienopyridinone compounds represented by Formula I, and synthesis and uses thereof for treating diseases mediated directly or indirectly by 5-HT receptors, are disclosed. Such conditions include Alzheimer's disease, cognition disorders, irritable bowel syndrome, nausea, emesis, vomiting, prokinesia, gastroesophageal reflux disease, nonulcer dyspepsia, depression, anxiety, urinary incontinence, migraine, arrhythmia, atrial fibrillation, ischemic stroke, gastritis, gastric emptying disorders, feeding disorders, gastrointestinal disorders, constipation, erectile dysfunction, and respiratory depression. Methods of preparation and novel intermediates and pharmaceutical salts thereof are also included.
US07982034B2	Prodrugs of heteroaryl compounds The present invention provides hydrophobic prodrugs of bases, nucleosides, and nucleotides as well as methods of using the prodrugs as antiviral and anti-cancer chemotherapeutic agents.
US07982033B2	Pyrrolotriazine kinase inhibitors The invention provides compounds of formula I and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The formula I compounds inhibit tyrosine kinase activity of Trk receptors such as TrkA, TrkB, TrkC or Flt-3 thereby making them useful as anticancer agents.
US07982023B2	Bag proteins and nucleic acid molecules encoding them The present invention provides a family of BAG-1 related proteins from humans (BAG-1L, BAG-1, BAG-2, BAG-3, BAG-4 and BAG-5), the invertebrate C. elegans (BAG-1, BAG-2) and the fission yeast S. pombe (BAG-1A, BAG-1B) and the nucleic acid molecules that encode them.
US07982022B2	System for monitoring the location of transgenes A novel strategy for monitoring the location of a transgene in a mammal is disclosed. A sodium iodide symporter is genetically fused to either the N-terminus or C-terminus of the product of a transgene through a linker peptide which bears the recognition sequence of a host cell protease. Expression of the transgene confers the activity of the sodium iodide symporter (NIS) to a host cell which expresses the transgene. Subsequent administration of labeled iodine results in transport of the labeled iodine into the cell bearing the NIS, which can then be localized and measured using standard imaging techniques. The system is particularly useful for monitoring the location of therapeutic transgenes and tissue-specific distribution of the therapeutic gene product.
US07982016B2	Antigen binding proteins capable of binding thymic stromal lymphopoietin The present disclosure provides compositions and methods relating to antigen binding proteins which bind to human thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP), including antibodies. In particular embodiments, the disclosure provides fully human, humanized and chimeric anti-TSLP antibodies and derivatives of such antibodies. The disclosure further provides nucleic acids encoding such antibodies and antibody fragments and derivatives, and methods of making and using such antibodies including methods of treating and preventing TSLP-related inflammatory and fibrotic disorders.
US07982013B2	Frizzled-binding agents and uses thereof Novel anti-cancer agents, including, but not limited to, antibodies, that bind to human frizzled receptors are provided. Novel epitopes within the human frizzled receptors which are suitable as targets for anti-cancer agents are also identified. Methods of using the agents or antibodies, such as methods of using the agents or antibodies to inhibit Wnt signaling and/or inhibit tumor growth are further provided.
US07982009B2	Maize cellulose synthases and uses thereof The invention provides isolated cellulose synthase nucleic acids and their encoded proteins. The present invention provides methods and compositions relating to altering cellulose synthase levels in plants. The invention further provides recombinant expression cassettes, host cells, and transgenic plants comprising said nucleic acids.
US07982006B2	Clostridium perfringens alpha toxin proteins This invention pertains in part to the development of a vaccine for poultry against necrotic enteritis (NE). The vaccine utilizes a protective antigen that is a mutated, full-length, non-toxic Clostridium perfringens (Cp) α-toxin protein (Mcpa). Utility of this vaccine was demonstrated by reduction of lesion severity in NE challenge trails, for example. Also disclosed herein are novel approaches for producing this vaccine in significant quantities. One exemplified approach involves producing NE vaccine (mutated alpha toxin) in bacterial expression systems, preferably utilizing the Pseudomonas fluorescens system, for commercial use in controlling NE in the poultry industry. The subject vaccines can be administered preferably to chickens in several different ways. A novel, Type VI alpha toxin from chicken isolates of Cp is also disclosed.
US07982005B2	Recombinant IL-5 antagonists useful in treatment of IL-5 mediated disorders Chimeric, humanized and other IL-5 mAbs, derived from high affinity neutralizing mAbs, pharmaceutical compositions containing same, methods of treatment and diagnostics are provided.
US07982003B2	Creating designer antimicrobials; peptidoglycan hydrolase module shuffling The invention concerns a nucleic acid encoding a recombinant bifunctional fusion peptidoglycan hydrolase protein formed from a nucleic acid encoding a peptidoglycan hydrolase module and a nucleic acid encoding a second peptidoglycan hydrolase module. The fusion, dual (or multiples thereof) peptidoglycan hydrolase modules can be used to treat disease caused by the bacteria for which the individual modules of the fusion protein are specific.
US07982001B2	Milk protein fractions and use thereof for preventing or treating chronic inflammatory diseases The invention concerns TGF-β-enriched milk protein fractions, a method for preparing same and use thereof for preparing a medicine and/or a food composition for preventing and/or treating chronic inflammatory diseases, and in particular psoriasis.
US07981992B2	Catalyst composition comprising shuttling agent for regio-irregular multi-block copolymer formation Copolymers, especially multi-block copolymer containing therein two or more segments or blocks, are prepared by polymerizing propylene, 4-methyl-1-pentene, or another C4-8 α-olefin in the presence of a composition comprising the admixture or reaction product resulting from combining: (A) a first metal complex olefin polymerization catalyst, (B) a second metal complex olefin polymerization catalyst capable of preparing polymers having increased incidence of regio-irregular branching compared to the polymer prepared by catalyst (A) under equivalent polymerization conditions, and (C) a chain shuttling agent.
US07981991B2	Separation of polymer slurries Methods for producing elastomers or elastomeric compositions are provided. One or more C4 to C7 isoolefins and one or more comonomers can be polymerized in the presence of a diluent comprising one or more hydrofluorocarbons to provide a slurry comprising polymer product, unreacted monomer and the diluent. The slurry can be extruded to separate at least a portion of the diluent from the polymer product. The separated diluent can be recycled for polymerizing the one or more C4 to C7 isoolefins.
US07981984B2	Polymerization process This invention relates to a process to polymerize olefins comprising contacting a catalyst or catalyst system with olefin(s) in the presence of a fluorocarbon at a temperature above the onset melting point of the polymer.This invention also relates to a solution process to polymerize olefins comprising contacting a catalyst or catalyst system with olefin(s) in the presence of a fluorocarbon at a temperature above the onset melting point of the polymer.
US07981981B2	Flexible, hydrocarbon-resistant polyarylenesulfide compounds and articles Disclosed are polyarylene sulfide compounds and melt-processed shapes therefrom in the form of extruded profiles, tubings, pipes, fibers, monofilaments and films. Embodiments especially adapted from the invention are elongated spooled tubings exhibiting a smooth surface texture, spoolability and chemical resistance. The compounds contain polyarylene sulfide, a highly saturated, hydrogenated (if applicable) nitrile copolymer; and an organofunctional silane. The compounds exhibit spherical microdomains of the nitrile copolymer in diameters ranging from 0.1 μm-100 μm.
US07981971B2	Compounding agent for rubber vulcanization containing amino alcohol salt compound of carboxylic acid group-containing disulfide and method of production of the same and rubber composition containing the same A compounding agent for rubber vulcanization containing an amino alcohol salt of a carboxylic acid group-containing disulfide, obtained by a reaction of a dithiocarboxylic acid and an amino alcohol, having the formula (i):
US07981970B2	Sulfonated block copolymers having acrylic esterand methacrylic ester interior blocks, and various uses for such blocks, and various uses for such block copolymers A sulfonated block copolymer which is solid and non-dispersible in water having at least two polymer end blocks A and at least one interior block B wherein each A block is a polymer block resistant to sulfonation and each B block is a polymer block susceptible to sulfonation, wherein the A and B blocks do not contain any significant levels of olefinic unsaturation. Each A block having one or more segments selected from (i) acrylic esters, (ii) methacrylic esters, and (viii) mixtures thereof; and each B block comprising segments of one or more polymerized vinyl aromatic monomers selected from (i) unsubstituted styrene monomers, (ii) ortho-substituted styrene monomers, (iii) meta-substituted styrene monomers, (iv) alpha-methylstyrene, (v) 1,1-diphenylethylene, (vi) 1,2-diphenylethylene and (vii) mixtures thereof.
US07981951B2	Process for producing epoxides from olefinic compounds A process for producing an epoxide such as a cycloaliphatic diepoxide by the reaction of an olefin such as a cycloaliphatic diene with hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) as an oxidant in the presence of a catalytic system under pH control for example at a pH of less than about 5. The present invention is advantageously used for the epoxidation of olefinic compounds such as olefins and aliphatic or aromatic dienes.
US07981947B2	Aqueous ink composition and method of manufacturing the same An aqueous ink composition comprising: a pigment, having a particle diameter as determined by the light scattering method of no less than 20 nm and no more than 200 nm; and a water dispersible polymer, having a styrene-equivalent number average molecular weight of as determined by gel permeation chromatography no less than 5000 and no more than 200000, having a surface tension of no less than 20 mN/m and no more than 40 mN/m, and wherein the abovementioned pigment is a polymer-coated pigment that is coated with the abovementioned water dispersible polymer, is provided. The water-dispersible polymer may be a copolymer of monomers, mainly comprising acrylic acid and/or methacrylic acid and an acrylate and/or methacrylate. With this ink composition, the printing quality can be improved.
US07981943B2	Material comprising polyrotaxane and polymer and process for producing the same A material which comprises a polyrotaxane and a polymer and is crosslinked by irradiation with light. In the material, which comprises a first polyrotaxane and a polymer, the first polyrotaxane comprises a first cyclic molecules, a first linear molecule with which the first cyclic molecules are clathrated in a splitted state, and first blocking groups disposed respectively at both ends of the first linear molecule so as to prevent the first cyclic molecules from being released from the first linear molecule. The first polyrotaxane combines with at least part of the polymer through the first cyclic molecules by photocrosslinking reaction.
US07981935B2	Stem cell differentiating agents and uses therefor The present invention relates to screens for compounds that can induce stem cell differentiation. In addition, isoxazoles and sulfonyl hydrazones are identified as general classes of compounds that can induce differentiation of stem cells into cells of neuronal and cardiac fate, respectively.
US07981931B2	Pharmaceutical compositions of short-acting sedative hypnotic agent The invention provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising a phenylacetic acid ester compound useful for inducing or maintaining general anesthesia or sedation in mammals, methods for preparing such compositions, and methods for inducing or maintaining anesthesia or sedation using such compositions.
US07981928B2	Chemotherapy method using x-rays A method of treating cancer in a human uses x-rays to disrupt a linkage in a complex of a chemotherapeutic agent and a carrier compound comprising a pre-selected element. The complex is administered to the human and then a localized region of cells which contains the cancerous cells is irradiated with line emission x-rays of an energy selected to cause emission of Auger electrons from the pre-selected element of the carrier compound to disrupt the linkage and release the chemotherapeutic agent near the cancer cells. A kit useful for the treatment comprises an x-ray tube capable of emitting monochromatic line emission x-rays and the complex compound. A transfer compound useful in the method comprises a chemotherapeutic agent linked to a carrier compound.
US07981923B2	Tetralin and indane derivatives and uses thereof Compounds of the formula I, II or III: or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein m, n, q, Ar, R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 are as defined herein. Also provided are methods for preparing, compositions comprising, and methods for using compounds of formulas I-III.
US07981920B2	Addition salts of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors with no donor acids, a process for their preparation and pharmaceutical compositions containing them Compounds of formula (I): (A)m·(B)n (I) wherein A represents an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor compound containing at least one salt-forming basic function, B represents a compound containing at least one salt-forming acid function and at least one NO donor group, m represents the number of acid functions of B that have been converted to a salt and n represents the number of basic functions of A that have been converted to a salt, the bond or bonds between A and B being of the ionic type. Medicinal products containing the same which are useful in treating cardiovascular pathologies.
US07981917B2	Methods and compositions for including apoptosis by stimulating ER stress The present invention provides a method for inducing apoptosis in selected cells by aggravating ER-stress. The aggravation of ER-stress is achieved in a specific manner by inhibiting SERCA (sarcoplasmic/endoplasmic reticulum calcium ATPase), leading to elevated level of cytoplasmic calcium concentration, yet without inhibiting the activity of COX-2 (cyclooxygenase-2) or triggering the release of histamine. Induction of apoptosis may be enhanced by first inducing or further aggravating ER-stress through inhibition of proteasome or proteases. Also provided are compounds and compositions useful as ER-stress aggravating agents, methods for screening, selecting, identifying and designing the same and methods for treating diseased conditions by inducing apoptosis through specific and selective aggravation of ER-stress.
US07981913B2	Isophthalates as beta-secretase inhibitors There is provided a series of substituted isophthalates of formula (I) or a stereoisomer thereof; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein W, R3, R5 and R6 as defined herein, their pharmaceutical compositions and methods of use. These novel compounds inhibit the processing of amyloid precursor protein (APP) by β-secretase and, more specifically, inhibit the production of Aβ-peptide. The present disclosure is directed to compounds useful in the treatment of neurological disorders related to β-amyloid production, such as Alzheimer's disease and other conditions affected by anti-amyloid activity.
US07981911B2	Pharmaceutical formulations Improved pharmaceutical compositions are provided comprising one or more solubilized HIV protease inhibiting compounds having improved solubility properties in a medium and/or long chain fatty acid, or mixtures thereof, a pharmaceutically acceptable alcohol, and water.
US07981897B2	Crystal form of (3-cyano-1H-Indo1-7-yl)-[4-(4-fluorophenethyl)piperazin-1-yl]methanone, hydrochloride The present invention relates to a hitherto unknown crystal form B of (3-cyano-1H-indol-7-yl)-[4-(4-fluorophenethyl)-piperazin-1-yl]methanone, hydrochloride, to a process for the preparation thereof, and to the use thereof for the preparation of a medicament.
US07981888B2	1-oxyalkyl-2-carboxyl-7-nonsubstituted indole derivatives Compounds of Formula I wherein A1, B1, C1, D1, E1, F1 and L1 are as defined herein, which inhibit the activity of anti-apoptotic Mcl-1 protein, compositions containing the compounds, and methods of treating diseases involving overexpressed or unregulated Mcl-1 protein, such as leukemia and lymphoma, are disclosed.
US07981887B2	Therapeutic compounds Compounds comprising Formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, are disclosed, wherein J1, J2, U1, B, Y, and A are as described. Methods, compositions, and medicaments related thereto are also disclosed, for treating glaucoma, inflammatory bowel disease and baldness.
US07981882B2	6-N-linked heterocycle-substituted 2,3,4,5-tetrahydro-1H-benzo[d]azepines as 5-HT2C receptor agonists The present invention provides 6-substituted 2,3,4,5-tetrahydro-1H-benzo[d]azepines of Formula I as selective 5-HT2C receptor agonists for the treatment of 5-HT2C associated disorders including obesity, obsessive/compulsive disorder, depression, and anxiety: Formula (I) where: R6 is selected from the group consisting of (a, b, c, d, e) and other substituents are as defined in the specification.
US07981881B2	Fused heterocyclic compounds and use thereof Fused heterocylic compounds of the following Formula wherein R1, R2, R5, Z, J1 and J2 are described herein, and analogs thereof are provided which are useful in treating leukocyte activation-associated disorders.
US07981877B2	Stabilized steroid composition and method for its preparation Stabilized, 17-substituted hydrocortisone containing compositions and methods of manufacture are disclosed. Isomerization of the hydrocortisone component of topical steroid compositions is markedly reduced by including an omega-6 acid component in the form of a free acid or as a compound such as an ester. Specifically disclosed are methods for preventing the isomerization of hydrocortisone 17-butyrate into hydrocortisone 21-butyrate through the use of safflower oil.
US07981868B2	Antisense modulation of p38 mitogen activated protein kinase expression Compositions and methods for the treatment and diagnosis of diseases or conditions amenable to treatment through modulation of expression of a gene encoding a p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (p38 MAPK) are provided. Methods for decreasing airway hyperresponsiveness or airway inflammation in an animal are also provided.
US07981858B1	Methods of using zinc containing compounds to improve ocular health The present invention provides zinc complexes for use in methods of providing zinc to subjects in need of treatment. The invention further provides improved dietary supplement formulations for improving and maintaining ocular nutrition. In particular, the improved dietary supplement formulations comprise the zinc complexes described herein, antioxidant vitamins, minerals and excipients.
US07981855B1	Liquid surfactant compositions structured with fibrous polymer and citrus fibers having no flow instability or shear banding The invention relates to surfactant structured liquids structured with fibrous polymer and which additionally contain citrus fibers to eliminate flow instability.
US07981850B2	Detergent composition Provided is a detergent composition that contains the following components (A), (B), and (C). Component (A) is at least one selected from the group consisting of cationic polymers and amphoteric polymers. Component (B) is a compound represented by the following formula (1): R1O-(AO)n-R2 wherein R1 represents a linear or branched alkyl or alkenyl group having from 8 to 10 carbon atoms, AO represents an alkyleneoxy group having from 2 to 4 carbon atoms, n means an average number of moles and stands for from 0.5 to 4, and R2 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group. Component (C) is at least one selected from the group consisting of amphoteric surfactants and cationic surfactants. The detergent composition has a content of Component (A) from 5 to 40 wt. % and has Component (B) and Component (C) at a weight ratio (B)/(C) of from 0.5 to 2.5.
US07981842B2	Method for detecting transcription factor-protein interactions A method is provided for identifying complexes between a transcription factor and another protein, such as another different transcription factor. The method includes the steps of isolating from a biological sample transcription factor complexes based on whether the transcription factor complexes include a particular type of transcription factor; and identifying which of the multiple different proteins are present in the isolated transcription factor complexes.
US07981834B2	Adsorbent for hydrocarbons, catalyst for exhaust gas purification and method for exhaust gas purification An object of the present invention is to improve hydrocarbon adsorbing property when zeolite is used as an adsorbent for hydrocarbons. The present invention provides an adsorbent for hydrocarbons characterized by comprising A Type of β-zeolite having a SiO2/Al2O3 ratio (molar ratio) in a range of 10 or more and less than 200 and B Type of β-zeolite having a SiO2/Al2O3 ratio (molar ratio) in a range from 200 to 1,000, and a catalyst for exhaust gas purification containing said adsorbent for hydrocarbons.
US07981832B2	Methods of activating chromium catalysts New methods for activating chromium catalysts for polymerization processes decrease the amount of time required for activation and increase catalyst activity. Rapid heating to a first temperature is followed by a first hold period before heating to a higher second temperature and maintaining the second temperature for a second hold period. In one aspect, the overall activation process takes less than 10 hours.
US07981829B2	Exhaust gas purifying catalyst An exhaust gas purifying catalyst includes: a composite oxide represented by: (Aa-w-xMwM′x) (Si6-yNy)O27-z. A is a cation of at least one of La and Pr; M is a cation of at least one of Ba, Ca, and Sr; M′ is a cation of at least one of Nd, Y, Al, Pr, Ce, Sr, Li, and Ca; N is a cation of at least one of Fe, Cu, and Al. The following are satisfied: 6≦a≦10, 0
US07981827B2	Chiral phosphanes for use in asymmetric syntheses The present invention relates to biarylbisphosphines and intermediates thereof. Furthermore, the scope of the invention encompasses catalysts which can be prepared from the bisarylphosphines and their use in asymmetric syntheses.
US07981824B2	Quartz glass blank and method for producing said blank The present invention relates to a quartz glass blank for an optical component for transmitting radiation of a wavelength of 15 nm and shorter, the blank consisting of highly pure quartz glass, doped with titanium and/or fluorine, which is distinguished by an extremely high homogeneity. The homogeneity relates to the following features: a) micro-inhomogeneities caused by a local variance of the TiO2 distribution (<0.05% TiO2, averaged over a volume element of (5 μm)3 in relation to the mean value of the TiO2 content), b) an absolute maximum inhomogeneity in the thermal expansion coefficient Δα in the main functional direction (<5 ppb/K), c) a radial variance of the thermal expansion coefficient over the usable surface of the quartz glass blank of not more than 0.4 ppb/(K.cm); d) a maximum stress birefringence (SDB) at 633 nm in the main functional direction of 2 nm/cm with a specific progression; and e) a specific progression of the Δα, averaged according to (b) on the optical surface. Said quartz glass blank can only be obtained in that a doped quartz glass obtained by flame hydrolysis of a compound containing silicon, titanium and/or fluorine is formed as a large volume rod-shaped starting body into a homogeneous quartz glass blank using several forming steps and is homogenized.
US07981820B2	Press fabric for a machine for the production of web material and method to produce said press fabric A press fabric for a machine for the production of web material, especially paper or cardboard, includes a carrying structure and at least one layer of fibrous material on one web material contact side of the carrying structure, whereby at least some of the fibers of the at least one layer of fibrous material are coated at least partially with a film of a first polymeric material and whereby a permeable composite structure is formed by a second polymeric material in the at least one fibrous layer, in that the hollow spaces which are formed between fibers of the at least one fibrous layer are filled partially with the second polymeric material.
US07981811B2	Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing same A base layer is formed on an insulating substrate, and a semiconductor layer is formed in localized fashion thereon. A gate insulating film is then formed so as to cover the semiconductor layer, and a gate electrode is formed on a portion of the gate insulating film. An impurity is then implanted into the semiconductor layer via the gate insulating film, and a source region, a drain region, and an LDD region are formed. The gate insulating film is etched with dilute hydrofluoric acid. An electrode-protecting insulating film is then formed so as to cover the gate electrode, and the entire surface of the surface layer portion of the electrode-protecting insulating film is etched away using dilute hydrofluoric acid. Carrier traps introduced into the electrode-protecting insulating film and the gate insulating film are thereby removed.
US07981806B2	Method for forming trench and method for fabricating semiconductor device using the same A method for forming a trench includes providing a substrate, and forming the trench in the substrate using a gas containing chlorine (Cl2) gas as a main etch gas and SiFX gas as an additive gas, wherein a sidewall of the trench has a substantially vertical profile by virtue of reaction of the Cl2 gas and the SiFX gas.
US07981802B2	Method for manufacturing shallow trench isolation layer of semiconductor device An electrical device, such as a semiconductor device, and methods of manufacturing the same. A semiconductor device having a shallow trench isolation (STI) layer may include a pad oxide layer formed over a semiconductor substrate, a trench formed over the substrate, a liner insulating layer formed over the trench, a gap-fill insulating layer formed over the liner insulating layer and a gate layer formed over the substrate. The gap-fill insulating layer may have a relatively and/or substantially planar polished surface. Methods of fabricating a semiconductor device having a shallow trench isolation (STI) layer may include performing a first chemical mechanical polishing over a gap-fill insulating layer to expose and/or target a portion of a liner insulating layer and performing a second chemical mechanical polishing over a gap-fill insulating layer to remove a portion of a liner insulating layer.
US07981799B2	Room temperature-operating single-electron device and the fabrication method thereof The present invention relates to a room temperature-operating single-electron device and a fabrication method thereof, and more particularly, to a room temperature-operating single-electron device in which a plurality of metal silicide dots formed serially is used as multiple quantum dots, and a fabrication method thereof.
US07981785B2	Method for manufacturing semiconductor device and plasma oxidation method A polysilicon electrode layer (103) (a first electrode layer) is formed by forming a polysilicon film on a gate oxide film (102) on a silicon wafer (101). A tungsten layer (105) (a second electrode layer) is formed on this polysilicon electrode layer (103). In addition, a barrier layer (104) is formed on the polysilicon electrode layer (103) before the formation of the tungsten layer (105). Etching is then conducted using a silicon nitride layer (106) as the etching mask. Next, an oxide insulating film (107) is formed on an exposed surface of the polysilicon layer (103) by plasma oxidation wherein a process gas containing oxygen gas and hydrogen gas is used at a process temperature not less than 300° C. With this method, a selective oxidation of the polysilicon electrode layer (103) can be carried out without oxidizing the tungsten layer (105).
US07981767B2	Methods for relaxation and transfer of strained layers and structures fabricated thereby The present invention provides methods for forming at least partially relaxed strained material layers on a target substrate. The methods include forming islands of the strained material layer on an intermediate substrate, at least partially relaxing the strained material islands by a first heat treatment, and transferring the at least partially relaxed strained material islands to the target substrate. The at least partial relaxation is facilitated by the presence of low-viscosity or compliant layers adjacent to the strained material layer. The invention also provides semiconductor structures having an at least partially relaxed strained material layer, and semiconductor devices fabricated using an at least partially relaxed strained material layer.
US07981762B2	Method of forming pre-metal dielectric layer of semiconductor device A method of forming a pre-metal dielectric (PMD) layer of a semiconductor device using a chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) process which can be suitable for easily recognizing an alignment key. Such a method can reduce or otherwise eliminate alignment key erosion due to CMP by previously forming an alignment key pattern of polysilicon in an active region of a semiconductor scribe lane.
US07981761B2	Method of manufacturing semiconductor device having MIM capacitor In this invention, the film thicknesses of an upper barrier film of a lower electrode of a capacitive element and an upper barrier film of a metallic interconnect layer formed in the same layer as this is made thicker than the film thicknesses of upper barrier films of other metallic interconnect layers. Moreover, in this invention, the film thickness of the upper barrier film of the lower electrode of the capacitive element is controlled to be 110 nm or more, more preferably, 160 nm or more. A decrease in the dielectric voltage of the capacitive dielectric film due to cracks in the upper barrier film does not occur and the deposition temperature of the capacitive dielectric film can be made higher, so that a semiconductor device having a MIM capacitor with high performance and high capacitance can be achieved, where the dielectric voltage of the capacitive dielectric film is improved.
US07981747B2	Semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same A technology is provided to reduce ON-resistance, and the prevention of punch through is achieved with respect to a trench gate type power MISFET. Input capacitance and a feedback capacitance are reduced by forming a groove in which a gate electrode is formed so as to have a depth as shallow as about 1 μm or less, a p−type semiconductor region is formed to a depth so as not to cover the bottom of the groove, and a p-type semiconductor region higher in impurity concentration than the p−type semiconductor region is formed under a n+type semiconductor region serving as a source region of the trench gate type power MISFET, causing the p-type semiconductor region to serve as a punch-through stopper layer of the trench gate type power MISFET.
US07981741B2	High-capacitance density thin film dielectrics having columnar grains formed on base-metal foils Deposited thin-film dielectrics having columnar grains and high dielectric constants are formed on heat treated and polished metal foil. The sputtered dielectrics are annealed at low oxygen partial pressures.
US07981735B2	Method of manufacturing a Schottky barrier tunnel transistor Provided are a Schottky barrier tunnel transistor and a method of manufacturing the same that are capable of minimizing leakage current caused by damage to a gate sidewall of the Schottky barrier tunnel transistor using a Schottky tunnel barrier naturally formed at a semiconductor-metal junction as a tunnel barrier. The method includes the steps of: forming a semiconductor channel layer on an insulating substrate; forming a dummy gate on the semiconductor channel layer; forming a source and a drain at both sides of the dummy gate on the insulating substrate; removing the dummy gate; forming an insulating layer on a sidewall from which the dummy gate is removed; and forming an actual gate in a space from which the dummy gate is removed. In manufacturing the Schottky barrier tunnel transistor using the dummy gate, it is possible to form a high-k dielectric gate insulating layer and a metal gate, and stable characteristics in silicidation of the metal layer having very strong reactivity can be obtained.
US07981731B2	Method of forming a high impedance antifuse A programmable element that has a first diode having an electrode and a first insulator disposed between the substrate and said electrode of said first device, said first insulator having a first value of a given characteristic, and an FET having an electrode and a second insulator disposed between the substrate and said electrode of said second device, said second insulator having a second value of said given characteristic that is different from said first value. The electrodes of the diode and the FET are coupled to one another, and a source of programming energy is coupled to the diode to cause it to permanently decrease in resistivity when programmed. The programmed state of the diode is indicated by a current in the FET, which is read by a sense latch. Thus a small resistance change in the diode translates to a large signal gain/change in the latch. This allows the diode to be programmed at lower voltages.
US07981730B2	Integrated conformal shielding method and process using redistributed chip packaging An integrated conformal electromagnetic interference (EMI) and/or electromagnetic radiation shield is formed on a plurality of encapsulated modules by attaching a plurality of modules (30-33) to a process carrier (1) using a double side adhesive tape (2), and then sequentially depositing an insulating layer (15) and a conductive shielding layer (16) before encapsulating the modules with a molding compound (17). After removing the adhesive tape (2) to expose a surface of the encapsulated modules, a multi-layer circuit substrate (100) is formed over the exposed surface, where the circuit substrate includes shielding via structures (101-112) that are aligned with and electrically connected to the conductive shielding layer (16), thereby encircling and shielding the circuit module(s).
US07981726B2	Copper plating connection for multi-die stack in substrate package An embodiment of the present invention is a technique to construct a multi-die package. A stack of dice is formed from a base substrate in a package. The dice are positioned one on top of another and have copper plated segments for die interconnection. The dice are interconnected using copper plating to connect the copper plated segments.
US07981725B2	Fabricating process of a chip package structure A fabricating process of a chip package structure is provided. First, a first substrate having a plurality of first bonding pads and a second substrate having a plurality of second bonding pads are provided, wherein bumps are formed on the first bonding pads of the first substrate. A first two-stage adhesive layer is formed on the first substrate and is B-stagized to form a first B-staged adhesive layer. A second two-stage adhesive layer is formed on the second substrate and is B-stagized to form a second B-staged adhesive layer. Then, the first substrate and the second substrate are bonded via the first and second B-staged adhesive layer such that the bumps pierce through the second B-staged adhesive layer and are electrically connected to the second bonding pads, wherein each of the first bonding pads is respectively electrically connected to one of the second bonding pads via one of the bumps.
US07981724B2	Manufacturing method for semiconductor device embedded substrate A manufacturing method for a semiconductor device embedded substrate, includes: a first step of preparing a semiconductor device having a first insulating layer; a second step of arranging the semiconductor device on one surface of a support body; a third step of forming a second insulating layer on the one surface of the support body; a fourth step of removing the support body; a fifth step of forming a third insulating layer on a surface of each of the semiconductor device and the second insulating layer; a sixth step of mounting a wiring substrate on a surface of each of the semiconductor device and the second insulating layer; a seventh step of forming a via-hole in the second insulating layer and the third insulating layer; and an eighth step of forming a second wiring pattern on a surface of each of the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer.
US07981723B2	Capped wafer method and apparatus A capped wafer includes a device wafer and an opposing cap wafer with an annular glass frit disposed between the device wafer and the cap wafer. The glass frit and the opposing wafers define a sealed volume that encloses the capped devices, and the glass frit may support the wafer cap during removal of excess wafer cap material from the capped wafer. A method of fabricating a capped wafer includes fabricating an annular intermediate layer between a device wafer and a cap wafer. In an alternate embodiment, a plurality of unsingulated dice each contains bond pads along a single edge and are arranged on a device wafer in an alternating order so that the bond pads of a first die are adjacent to the bond pads of a second die. Removing excess cap wafer material involves making a first cut in the cap wafer near a first row of bond pads and a second cut near the adjacent row of bond pads, such that a strip of wafer cap material is suspended from portions of an underlying supporting member near the edge of the capped wafer, and then removing the wafer cap material suspended from the portions of the supporting glass frit using an adhesive tape.
US07981719B2	N,N′-di(arylalkyl)-substituted naphthalene-based tetracarboxylic diimide compounds as n-type semiconductor materials for thin film transistors A thin film transistor comprises a layer of organic semiconductor material comprising a tetracarboxylic diimide naphthalene-based compound having, attached to each of the imide nitrogen atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted arylalkyl moiety. Such transistors can further comprise spaced apart first and second contact means or electrodes in contact with said material. Further disclosed is a process for fabricating an organic thin-film transistor device, preferably by sublimation deposition onto a substrate, wherein the substrate temperature is no more than 100° C.
US07981712B2	Method for producing an optoelectronic semiconductor chip, and optoelectronic semiconductor chip A method for producing an optoelectronic semiconductor chip based on a nitride semiconductor system is specified. The method comprises the steps of: forming a semiconductor section with at least one p-doped region; and forming a covering layer disposed downstream of the semiconductor section in a growth direction of the semiconductor chip, said covering layer having at least one n-doped semiconductor layer. An activation step suitable for electrically activating the p-doped region is effected before or during the formation of the covering layer. An optoelectronic semiconductor chip which can be produced by the method is additionally specified.
US07981694B2	Solid phase isolation of proteins, nucleic acids and other macromolecules The invention is a method for the isolation of molecules of interest using tubes in which at least a portion of the inner walls of the tube are coated with microbeads that are coated with a capture reagent to bind the molecule of interest. The microbeads may be glass or polymer beads. The invention is a method and apparatus for preparation of the tubes for use in the method of the invention. The invention is a method for determining ratios of guanine nucleotides bound to guanine-nucleotide binding proteins.
US07981693B2	Combined measurement of anti-CCP and serum amyloid A to assess rheumatoid arthritis The present invention relates to a method aiding in the assessment of rheumatoid arthritis. The method especially is used in assessing the absence or presence of rheumatoid arthritis in vitro. It can be best practiced by analyzing biochemical markers, comprising measuring in a sample the concentration of anti-CCP and serum amyloid A and correlating the concentrations determined to the absence or presence of rheumatoid arthritis. To further improve the assessment of RA in a method of this invention the level of one or more additional marker may be determined together with anti-CCP and serum amyloid A and be correlated to the absence or presence of RA. The invention also relates to the use of a marker panel comprising anti-CCP and serum amyloid A in the diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis and it teaches a kit for performing the method of the invention.
US07981684B2	Methods and biomarkers for diagnosing and monitoring psychotic disorders A method of diagnosing or monitoring a psychotic disorder, or predisposition thereto, comprises measuring, in a sample taken from a subject, the level of a biomarker selected from clusterin precursor, inter α-trypsin inhibitor, IgM, apolipoprotein A2 and α2 H5 glycoprotein.
US07981679B2	Method of monitoring bulk (total) microbiological activity in process streams An apparatus and method for monitoring and controlling microbiological activity in a process stream by measuring dissolved oxygen is disclosed.
US07981678B2	System and method for automatic calibration A device includes a sensor array and a processor is automatically calibrated. The sensor array collects data from a pattern using at least one of a capacitive measurement and a radio frequency measurement. The pattern is included on a calibration storage device. The processor receives the data from the sensor array and calibrates the device in accordance with the data.
US07981673B2	Process for the maturation of dendritic cells and a vaccine The invention proves a method of producing mature dendritic cells in vitro, which comprises the step of culturing the immature dendritic cells in the presence of a specifically configured high molecular weight double stranded RNA (dsRNA) polymer. The specifically configured high molecular weight dsRNA polymer is typically selected from the group comprising poly[I]:poly [CxU]; poly [I]:poly [GxU]; poly [A]: poly [UxC]; poly [A]:poly [UxG]; poly [U]:poly [AxC]; poly [U]:poly [IxU]; poly [C]:poly [GxA]; poly [C]:poly [GxU]; poly [G]:poly [CxA]; poly [G]:poly [CxU] and AMPLIGEN® (poly[I]:poly[C12U]), where x is on average a number from 3 to 40. The immature dendritic cells may be exposed to an antigen before they are matured, and a vaccine including the antigen-presenting mature dendritic cells can then be prepared. A method of treating cancer, a virus, parasite and microorganism is also disclosed.
US07981660B2	Methods for producing modified glycoproteins Cell lines having genetically modified glycosylation pathways that allow them to carry out a sequence of enzymatic reactions, which mimic the processing of glycoproteins in humans, have been developed. Recombinant proteins expressed in these engineered hosts yield glycoproteins more similar, if not substantially identical, to their human counterparts. The lower eukaryotes, which ordinarily produce high-mannose containing N-glycans, including unicellular and multicellular fungi are modified to produce N-glycans such as Man5GlcNAc2 or other structures along human glycosylation pathways. This is achieved using a combination of engineering and/or selection of strains which: do not express certain enzymes which create the undesirable complex structures characteristic of the fungal glycoproteins, which express exogenous enzymes selected either to have optimal activity under the conditions present in the fungi where activity is desired, or which are targeted to an organelle where optimal activity is achieved, and combinations thereof wherein the genetically engineered eukaryote expresses multiple exogenous enzymes required to produce “human-like” glycoproteins.
US07981651B2	Lactobacillus acidophilus nucleic acids and uses thereof Lactobacillus acidophilus NCFM nucleic acid molecules, polypeptides, fragments and variants thereof are provided in the current invention. In addition, fusion proteins, antigenic peptides, and antibodies are encompassed. The invention also provides recombinant expression vectors containing a nucleic acid molecule of the invention and cells comprising the expression vectors. Methods for producing the polypeptides of the invention and methods for their use are further provided.
US07981648B2	Microalga and process for producing hydrocarbon An object of the present invention is to provide a novel microalga that produces hydrocarbons available as an alternative fuel to a diesel fuel (light oil).The present invention relates to a novel microalga Pseudochoricystis ellipsoidea having the ability to produce hydrocarbons, and to a process for producing hydrocarbons, characterized by culturing a microalga belonging to the genus Pseudochoricystis or the genus Choricystis having the ability to produce hydrocarbons, and collecting the hydrocarbon from the resulting cultured product.
US07981645B2	Enzymatic asymmetric decarboxylation of disubstituted malonic acids A process for the stereoselective decarboxylation of malonic acid derivatives with mutated decarboxylases is disclosed.
US07981644B2	Perhydrolase providing improved peracid stability An acetyl xylan esterase variant having perhydrolytic activity is provided for producing peroxycarboxylic acids from carboxylic acid esters and a source of peroxygen. More specifically, a Thermotoga maritima acetyl xylan esterase gene was modified using error-prone PCR and site-directed mutagenesis to create an enzyme catalyst characterized by an increase in the ratio of peracetic acid formation to peracetic acid hydrolysis specific activities (PAAF/PAAH ratio). The variant acetyl xylan esterase may be used to produce peroxycarboxylic acids suitable for use in a variety of applications such as cleaning, disinfecting, sanitizing, bleaching, wood pulp processing, and paper pulp processing applications.
US07981640B2	L-lysine-producing corynebacteria and process for the preparation of L-lysine L-lysine-producing strains of corynebacteria with enhanced lysE gene (lysine export carrier gene), in which strains additional genes chosen from the group comprising the dapA gene (dihydrodipicolinate synthase gene), the lysC gene (aspartate kinase gene), the dapB gene (dihydrodipicolinate reductase gene) and the pyc gene, but especially the dapA gene and the lysC gene (aspartate kinase gene), are enhanced and, in particular, over-expressed, and a process for the preparation of L-lysine.
US07981636B2	Enzymes for use in enzymatic bleaching of food products The present invention relates to novel polypeptides according to caroase 01-05 or any functional equivalents of any of them, suitable for use in a method for preparing a food products having increased whiteness, the use of the enzyme to increase whiteness of at least part of a food product, a process for preparing a food product wherein the enzyme is used and the food product obtained.
US07981630B2	CBARA1 and LHX6 cell markers for embryonic stem cells Polynucleotides associated with differentiation states of stem cells are provided. Also provided are methods and kits for detecting, identifying and/or discriminating differentiated stem cells from undifferentiated ones by measuring an expression level of one or more genes, such as CBARA1 and LHX 6, in the stem cells.
US07981628B2	Monoclonal antibodies and their use Isolated monoclonal antibodies are disclosed herein that specifically bind a cell surface antigen expressed on the human pancreatic endocrine cells or a subset thereof, and/or a precursor thereof. Isolated monoclonal antibodies are also disclosed herein that specifically bind a cell surface antigen expressed on human pancreatic exocrine cells or human ductal cells. Humanized forms of these antibodies, and functional fragments of these antibodies, are also disclosed. The antibodies can be conjugated to an effector molecule, such as a detectable marker, a therapeutic agent, or a toxin. These antibodies are of use to detect and isolate pancreatic cells or a subset thereof. The antibodies can be used for in vitro or in vivo detection and/or isolation of pancreatic endocrine cells. Methods of treating a pancreatic tumor are also disclosed. In several examples, the isolated monoclonal antibodies bind pancreatic endocrine cells and can be used to detect diabetes or a pancreatic endocrine cell tumor.
US07981626B2	Method of detecting endometriosis in human subjects using SEQ ID No. 9 or an epitope thereof A method for diagnosing endometriosis in a human subject comprising the steps of detecting a test amount of an antibody that specifically binds to SEQ ID NO:9 polypeptide or a truncated peptide comprising an epitope of SEQ ID NO: 9, in a sample from the subject; and comparing the test amount with a normal range of the antibody in a control sample from a subject who does not suffer from endometriosis, whereby a test amount above the normal range provides a positive indication in the diagnosis of endometriosis.
US07981617B2	Transcription template for cell-free protein synthesis and method using the same Methods to construct a transcription template for cell-free protein synthesis that has a high translation template activity, using a 3′-side primer and a 5′-side primer for PCR are provided. The 5′-side primer for PCR has a sequence complementary to a base sequence containing at least a part of a promoter functional site from the 5′-end of a promoter and has a base sequence that does not contain a base sequence complementary to at least a part of a RNA polymerase-recognizing site of the 3′-end of the promoter. The other primer has a base sequence complementary to at least a part of the RNA polymerase-recognizing site of the 3′-end of the promoter and has a sequence that does not contain a base sequence complementary to at least a part of a promoter functional site from the 5′-end of the promoter.
US07981613B2	Diagnosis kits and method for detecting cancer using polymorphic minisatellite The present invention relates to a kit and a method for diagnosing cancer using polymorphic minisatellites (MS), more specifically, relates to a primer set for detecting polymorphic minisatellites MUC2-MS6 or MUC2-MS7 in the MUC2 gene, a DNA typing kit comprising said primer set, and a kit and a method for diagnosing cancer using a primer set for detecting polymorphic minisatellites MUC2-MS6, MUC2-MS7 or hTERT-VNTR 2-2. According to the present invention, DNA typing of MUC2-MS6 and MUC2-MS7 can effectively achieve the parentage identification, kinship identification or medicolegal examination, because the polymorphic minisatellites MUC2-MS6 and MUC2-MS7 are inherited through meiosis according to Mendelian genetics. In addition, the polymorphic minisatellites MUC2-MS6, MUC2-MS7 and hTERT-VNTR 2-2 can be used to predict and diagnose various cancers; such as gastric cancer, colon cancer, rectal cancer and prostate cancer etc.
US07981610B2	ZAP-70 expression as a marker for chronic lymphocytic leukemia / small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL) It has been surprisingly found that ZAP-70 expression, both at the protein and mRNA levels, is indicative of clinical subgroups of CLL/SLL patients. In particular, high ZAP-70 expression is indicative of Ig-unmutated CLL/SLL. Methods are provided for discriminating between clinical subgroups of CLL/SLL, by determining whether subjects overexpress ZAP-70 mRNA or protein.
US07981606B2	Control for nucleic acid testing The present invention is related to a method for detecting a target biomolecule in test sample by adding an internal control biomolecule to the test sample; to a negative control sample, to a positive control sample and to a reagent control sample or adding an internal control biomolecule to the test sample, to a negative control sample, to a positive control sample comprising the target biomolecule and providing a reagent control sample comprising the target biomolecule, determining in each sample a signal, and verifying the signal thereby detecting the target biomolecule. The invention is also related to a method for verifying the determination of a signal indicating the presence of a target biomolecule. The invention is further related to a method for detecting the presence or the absence of a member of a group of target nucleic acids in a sample and a method for verifying the determination of a signal indicating the presence of a member of a group of target nucleic acids.
US07981602B2	Photoproteins with enhanced bioluminescence and assays using the same The present invention relates to photoproteins with enhanced bioluminescence obtained by mutagenesis of clytin, to their use as intracellular calcium indicators and in cell-based assays.
US07981593B2	Toner, developer including the toner, and image forming method and apparatus using the toner A toner including toner particles including a resin, a colorant, a wax, and a charge controlling agent, and an external additive, wherein the toner satisfies the relationships (1) 0.15×Q−2≦T≦0.15×Q−0.15, and (2) 1.0≦T≦2.5, wherein Q represents the charge of the toner in units of μC/g, and T represents the torque of the toner in units of mN·m determined by a method using a cone-shaped rotor while controlling a space ratio of the toner at 58%. A developer including the toner and a carrier. An image forming apparatus including an image bearing member, a transfer device, a fixing device and a double side image forming unit, and using the toner, wherein the receiving material includes moisture in an amount of not greater than 5% by weight after the toner image on the first side is fixed.
US07981592B2	Double patterning method A method of making a device includes forming a first photoresist layer over an underlying layer, patterning the first photoresist layer to form a first photoresist pattern comprising a first grid, rendering the first photoresist pattern insoluble to a solvent, forming a second photoresist layer over the first photoresist pattern, patterning the second photoresist layer to form a second photoresist pattern over the underlying layer, where the second photoresist pattern is a second grid which overlaps the first grid to form a photoresist web, and etching the underlying layer using the photoresist web as a mask.
US07981580B2	Tris and bis(enylaryl)arylamine mixtures containing photoconductors A photoconductor that includes, for example, a supporting substrate, a photogenerating layer, and a charge transport layer that includes a charge transport component, and a mixture of a bis(enylaryl)arylamine and a tris(enylaryl)amine.
US07981575B2	Method for optical proximity correction of a reticle to be manufactured using variable shaped beam lithography A method for optical proximity correction (OPC) of a desired pattern for a substrate is disclosed in which a plurality of variable shaped beam (VSB) shots are determined which can form on a surface an OPC-corrected version of the desired substrate pattern. Shots within the plurality of VSB shots are allowed to overlap each other. Dosages of the shots may also be allowed to vary with respect to each other. The union of the plurality of shots may deviate from the OPC-corrected version of the desired pattern for the substrate. In some embodiments, optimization may be used to minimize shot count. In other embodiments, the plurality of shots may be optionally selected from one or more pre-computed VSB shots or groups of VSB shots, that is, glyphs. A method for creating glyphs is also disclosed, in which patterns that would result on a surface from one or a group of VSB shots are pre-calculated.
US07981570B2	Fuel cell The present invention provides a fuel cell having a layered structure, including: a membrane electrode assembly having a fuel electrode, an oxidation electrode, and an electrolyte membrane held between the fuel electrode and the oxidation electrode; and stainless steel separators holding the membrane electrode assembly therebetween. The stainless steel separator contains Cr and Fe; the Cr concentration by mass % by mass ratio of Cr to Fe at the separator surface facing the fuel electrode is from 0.7 to 1.3; and the Cr concentration by mass % by mass ratio of Cr to Fe at the separator surface facing the oxidation electrode is less than 0.7.
US07981568B2	Ion conductive composite membrane using inorganic conductor An ion-conductive composite membrane and a method of manufacturing the same, the membrane including phosphate platelets, a silicon compound, and a Keggin-type oxometalate and/or Keggin-type heteropoly acid, wherein the phosphate platelets are three-dimensionally connected to each other via the silicon compound. An electrolyte membrane having an ion-conductive inorganic membrane or an ion-conductive organic/inorganic composite membrane effectively prevents crossover of liquid fuel without the reduction of ion conductivity in a liquid fuel cell, thereby allowing for the production of fuel cells having excellent performance.
US07981565B2	Solid oxide fuel cell device and system The invention provides a fuel cell including an elongate substrate the length of which is the greatest dimension such that the elongate substrate exhibits thermal expansion along a dominant axis that is coextensive with the length. A reaction zone is provided along a first portion of the length for heating to an operating reaction temperature, and at least one cold zone is provided along a second portion of the length that remains at a low temperature below the operating reaction temperature when the reaction zone is heated. An electrolyte is disposed between an anode and a cathode in the reaction zone and the electrolyte is monolithic with an interior ceramic support structure of the elongate substrate. The anode and cathode each have an electrical pathway extending to an exterior surface of the at least one cold zone for electrical connection at low temperature.
US07981562B2	Fuel cell stack with heat sink element A fuel cell stack includes an electricity generating element, which generates electrical energy through a reaction of a fuel and oxygen. The electricity generating element includes a membrane-electrode assembly (MEA), a first separator positioned at a first side of the MEA and having a heat sink element positioned therein for dissipating heat generated through the reaction of the fuel and oxygen, and a second separator positioned at a second, opposite side of the MEA.
US07981560B2	Fuel cell with integral manifold and laterally spaced electrodes A MEMS-based fuel cell has a substrate, an electrolyte in contact with the substrate, a cathode in contact with the electrolyte, an anode spaced apart from the cathode and in contact with the electrolyte, and an integral manifold for supplying either a fuel or an oxidant or both together, the integral manifold extending over at least a portion of the electrolyte and over at least one of the anode and cathode. Methods for making and using arrays of the fuel cells are disclosed.
US07981543B2	Electrode with enhanced performance and electrochemical device comprising the same Disclosed is an electrode slurry comprising: (a) an electrode active material capable of lithium intercalation/deintercalation; and (b) monomers capable of forming a polymer via polymerization. An electrode having a binder polymer formed by applying the electrode slurry onto a current collector and carrying out in situ polymerization of the monomers, and an electrochemical device comprising the electrode are also disclosed. The electrode uses monomers capable of forming a binder polymer via polymerization under heat or light upon drying of the electrode, instead of the conventional PVdF or SBR-based binders. Therefore, it is possible to simplify a process for manufacturing an electrode, to provide an eco-friendly electrode by virtue of the use of an aqueous solvent as a dispersion medium, to improve the ion conductivity of a binder by virtue of the use of a solvent for a battery electrolyte as a dispersion medium, and thus to improve the quality of an electrochemical device.
US07981542B2	Rechargeable battery A rechargeable battery including: an electrode assembly; a can to house the electrode assembly; and a cap assembly to seal an opening of the can. The cap assembly includes: a cap plate; an insulation plate disposed upon a lower surface of the cap plate; a terminal plate disposed upon a lower surface of the insulation plate; and an electrode terminal extending through the cap plate, the insulation plate and the terminal plate, and which is electrically coupled to the electrode assembly. The cap plate includes a seat part defined therein, which has a thickness that is less than an overall thickness of the cap plate. The insulation plate is seated in the seat part, which has a width is the same as an overall width of the cap plate.
US07981539B2	Battery connector including a housing, a plurality of electric terminals, and a stopping element A battery connector includes a housing having a bottom wall, two sides of the bottom wall extend upward to form two sidewalls, and the back end of the bottom wall extends upward to form a back wall. At least one partition wall is set between the two sidewalls and connects with the bottom wall and the back wall. A plurality of terminal recesses are defined in the housing and separated by the partition wall for receiving a plurality of electric terminals. Each electric terminal has a soldering portion extending forward to connect with a printed circuit board and a contacting portion protruding upward out of the housing for contacting a battery. Between the housing and the printed circuit board a stopping element is set. The stopping element can stop the contacting portion moving forward to contact the printed circuit board or lose resilience if improper installation of the battery occurs.
US07981536B2	Microporous membrane, battery separator and battery Disclosed herein is multi-layer, microporous polyolefin membrane comprising a first porous layer comprising primarily a polyethylene, and a second porous layer comprising a polyethylene resin and polypropylene, the polypropylene having a weight-average molecular weight of 6×105 or more and a heat of fusion (measured by a differential scanning calorimeter) of 90 J/g or more, a fraction of the polypropylene having a molecular weight of 5×104 or less being 5% or less by mass.
US07981534B2	Rechargeable battery with flexibly connected vent plugs A rechargeable battery includes a housing, a plurality of cells within the housing, and a cover which closes the housing. The battery also includes a plurality of filling openings arranged in the cover separated from one another by a distance and a plurality of plugs. Each of the plurality of plugs is configured to close one of the plurality of filling openings. A flexible connecting element connects at least two of the plugs. The flexible connecting element is configured such that the distance between the plugs which are connected to one another can be variably matched to the distance between their associated filling openings by rotating at least one of the plugs connected by the flexible connecting element.
US07981499B2	Methods of forming sheeting with a composite image that floats and sheeting with a composite image that floats Microlens sheetings with composite images are disclosed, in which the composite image floats above or below the sheeting, or both. The composite image may be two-dimensional or three-dimensional. Methods for providing such an imaged sheeting are also disclosed.
US07981498B2	Honeycomb body with internal cavities A honeycomb body, especially a particulate filter, particularly for motor vehicle exhaust purification, includes inner walls defining passages with an entry and exit. Cavities free of walls in at least one subregion contain at least one spherical free space having a largest cross-sectional area at least 10 times a cross-sectional area of the passages in the subregion. The honeycomb body is wound, twisted or layered from at least one metal sheet having layers with a structuring forming the passages, at least in the subregion. The sheet-metal layers have holes with an area greater than 10 times the cross-sectional area of the passages in the subregion. The holes form cavities in at least 5 successive layers overlapping with an area at least 10 times the cross-sectional area of the passages in the subregion. The holes are double or more than triple the hydraulic diameter of the passages opening into the cavity.
US07981497B2	Honeycomb structure and method of producing the same The present invention provides a honeycomb structure in which a coating layer is firmly secured to an outer wall forming a cell structure so that separation of the coating layer is effectively prevented. A honeycomb structure according to the present invention includes a cell structure having a porous partition wall partitioning a plurality of cells serving as fluid channels and an outer wall integrally formed with the partition wall, and a coating layer disposed on the surface of the outer wall forming the cell structure, a depression/protrusion portion and/or a cut portion formed by partially removing the surface of the outer wall being formed on the surface of the outer wall, and the coating layer being disposed to cover the surface of the outer wall.
US07981494B2	Optical informaton recording medium In a write-once optical information recording medium including a substrate, a groove-shaped track such as a guiding groove, and an optical recording layer containing an organic dye material and disposed on the guiding groove, wherein information is recorded by irradiating a short-wavelength laser beam from a surface of the optical recording layer opposite the substrate, and the information can be reproduced by reading a change in the reflected light of a short-wavelength laser beam after the information recording, an unrecorded portion of the optical recording layer has a lower reflectance than a pit portion formed after recording to a portion of the optical recording layer, the optical recording layer has a refractive index n in the range of about 1.2 to about 2.1 before recording and an extinction coefficient k in the range of about 0.01 to about 0.7 before recording, and n+k is in the range of about 1.4 to about 2.1.
US07981491B2	Package for ink jet recording medium The invention provides an ink jet recording medium package comprising a main body, a flap, and a self-adhesive layer, wherein the main body accommodates an ink jet recording medium and has an opening through which the ink jet recording medium is taken out, the flap closes the opening, the self-adhesive layer allows repeated adhesion of the main body to the flap, and the self-adhesive layer is composed of an olefin-based elastomer.
US07981488B2	Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device comprising a liquid crystal cell and two polarizing plates disposed on the both sides thereof, wherein a protective film satisfying the specific conditions of retardation is sandwitched each between the liquid crystal cell and the polarizing plates. The liquid crystal display device can be easily produced at low costs and has a low viewing angle dependency of color.
US07981483B2	Method to improve electrical leakage performance and to minimize electromigration in semiconductor devices Embodiments of methods for improving electrical leakage performance and minimizing electromigration in semiconductor devices are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US07981482B1	Methods of forming a doped semiconductor thin film, doped semiconductor thin film structures, doped silane compositions, and methods of making such compositions Methods for forming doped silane and/or semiconductor thin films, doped liquid phase silane compositions useful in such methods, and doped semiconductor thin films and structures. The composition is generally liquid at ambient temperatures and includes a Group IVA atom source and a dopant source. By irradiating a doped liquid silane during at least part of its deposition, a thin, substantially uniform doped oligomerized/polymerized silane film may be formed on a substrate. Such irradiation is believed to convert the doped silane film into a relatively high-molecular weight species with relatively high viscosity and relatively low volatility, typically by cross-linking, isomerization, oligomerization and/or polymerization. A film formed by the irradiation of doped liquid silanes can later be converted (generally by heating and annealing/recrystallization) into a doped, hydrogenated, amorphous silicon film or a doped, at least partially polycrystalline silicon film suitable for electronic devices. Thus, the present invention enables use of high throughput, low cost equipment and techniques for making doped semiconductor films of commercial quality and quantity from doped “liquid silicon.”
US07981479B2	Multi-station rotation system for use in spray operations A system and method for use in applying a coating of a desired material onto one or more medical implant components. The system may include one or more thermal sprayers and a rotatable holding fixture having a plurality of mounting stations each operable to hold at least one medical implant component. The fixture may be operable to rotate about a central axis and each mounting station may be operable to rotate about a respective mounting station axis. The fixture may be arranged adjacent to one or more thermal sprayers so that during operation one or more desired materials may be sprayed by the one or more thermal sprayers upon an outer surface of each of the medical implant components while the fixture rotates about the central axis and while simultaneously therewith each of mounting stations having a respective medical implant component rotates about the respective mounting station axis.
US07981476B2	Apparatus for coating outer peripheral surface of pillar structure and method for coating outer peripheral surface of pillar structure An apparatus for coating the outer peripheral surface 1a of a pillar structure 1 comprising a smoothing means 10 having a smoothing plate 10a and an elastic body 10b; the elastic body 10 being disposed to be contacted with the outer peripheral surface 1a of the pillar structure 1 to be coated. The coating surface of a coating material supplied to the outer peripheral surface 1a is smoothed between the outer peripheral surface 1a and the elastic body 10b. A method for coating the outer peripheral surface of a pillar structure is also provided. According to the method by using the apparatus, the occurrence of partial uncoating or peeling of the coating and occurrence of cracks in the coating portion during drying after coating can be inhibited since the coating material can be applied thinly and uniformly on the outer peripheral surface, thereby the coating surface is smoothed.
US07981474B2	Fluoropolymer containing laminates The multilayer film serves as a laminate. The film is a multilayered structure that, in its base form, encompasses an intermediate layer with first and second outer layer affixed to opposing sides of the intermediate layer. The first outer layer is a semi-crystalline fluoropolymer. The intermediate layer includes a polyester and the second outer layer is an olefinic polymer. The layers are bonded together in the noted order to provide the multilayer film.
US07981471B2	Processes for producing thin films and optical members A process for producing a thin film and an optical member which are free from discoloration of a lens and exhibit a good antistatic property and a good water repellency. The thin film is formed by a vacuum deposition of a water repellent solution which contains (a) a water repellent having a perfluoroalkyl group, (b) a mixture of a silane coupling agent, a modified silicone oil introduced with an organic group into its side chain and/or both terminal ends, and a perfluoroether compound, and (c) at least one conductive substance selected from the group consisting of fullerenes, carbon nanotubes and graphite compounds.
US07981467B2	Web-reinforced separator and continuous method for producing the same A process for preparing an ion-permeable web-reinforced separator membrane includes the steps of: providing a web (2A) and a suitable paste (5), guiding the web (2A) in a vertical position, equally coating both sides of the web with the paste to produce a paste coated web (2B), and applying a symmetrical surface pore formation step and a symmetrical coagulation step to the paste coated web to produce a web-reinforced separator membrane.
US07981463B2	Hot-dip Sn-Zn coated steel sheet having excellent corrosion resistance An exemplary embodiment of manufacturing a hot-dip Sn—Zn coated steel sheet is provided which can include pre-coating a Fe—Ni alloy containing between about 10 to 80 mass % of Ni, and a remainder being Fe on a steel sheet, immersing the steel sheet into a Sn—Zn hot-dip coating bath so as to form a hot-dip coating layer on the steel sheet, cooling the hot-dip coating layer at a cooling rate of about 10° C./sec to about 30° C./sec so as to obtain a hot-dip Sn—Zn coated steel sheet, measuring a differential scanning calorimetric curve of the hot-dip Sn—Zn coated steel sheet by a differential scanning calorimetry, and distinguishing whether the hot-dip Sn—Zn coated steel sheet has an objective microstructure by the measured differential scanning calorimetric curve.
US07981456B2	Solid alcohol product and process A solid, edible ethanol containing product which may be either a rubbery solid or a hard solid that is frozen about 24.8° F. (−4° C.). The product contains gelatin and the ethanol may be provided in the form of selected alcoholic beverages.
US07981450B2	Canola protein isolate A novel canola protein isolate consisting predominantly of 2S canola protein and having equal to better solubility properties and improved clarity properties, has an increased proportion of 2S canola protein and a decreased proportion of 7S canola protein. The novel canola protein isolate is formed by heat treatment or isoelectric precipitation of aqueous supernatant from canola protein micelle formation and precipitation, to effect precipitation of 7S protein which is sedimented and removed. Alternatively, the novel canola protein isolate may be derived from a selective membrane procedure in which an aqueous canola protein solution containing 12S, 7S and 2S canola proteins is subjected to a first selective membrane technique to retain 12S and 7S canola proteins in a retentate, which is dried to provide a canola protein isolate consisting predominantly of 7S canola protein, and to permit 2S canola protein to pass through the membrane. The permeate is subjected to a second selective membrane technique to retain 2S canola protein and to permit low molecular weight contaminants to pass through the membrane, and the retentate from the latter membrane technique is dried.
US07981449B2	Production process of purified green tea extract Provided is a process for producing a purified green tea extract of high quality by readily and efficiently purifying a green tea extract in a simple manner. A process for producing a purified product of green tea extract, which includes subjecting an aqueous solution of green tea extract to solid-liquid separation by filtration and/or centrifugal separation to obtain another aqueous solution of green tea extract, said another aqueous solution having a turbidity of from 0.2 to 2.0 as measured with a concentration of non-polymer catechins in it adjusted to 1 wt %, and then allowing the another aqueous solution of green tea extract to pass through a polymer membrane having a membrane pore size of from 0.05 to 0.8 μm such that the turbidity of the another aqueous solution of green tea extract is reduced to lower than 0.2 as measured with a concentration of non-polymer catechins in it adjusted to 1 wt %.
US07981447B2	Particulate-soluble glucan preparation Particulate β-glucan is solubilized at elevated pressure and temperature to form particulate-soluble β-glucan. The particulate-soluble β-glucan is capable of being dried to a powder form and subsequently re-solubilized.
US07981443B2	Method of treating sleep disordered breathing using topiramate A method for treating snoring, sleep apnoea and other forms of sleep disordered breathing involves administration to a patient of a therapeutically effective amount of topiramate over an appropriate period of time, such as a period substantially coinciding with the sleep period of a patient. A useful route of administration is per os. Also disclosed is the use of topiramate for the diagnosis of snoring, sleep apnoea and other forms of sleep disordered breathing.
US07981441B2	Drug delivery systems using mesoporous oxide films Sustained-release drug-delivery devices employing a mesoporous oxide coating that functions as a drug reservoir, and the use of mesoporous oxide coatings for improved adhesion of organic polymers to inorganic substrates.
US07981435B2	Spill resistant formulations containing clays The invention relates to novel spill resistant formulations comprising either a weak base or a weak acid as the pharmaceutical ingredient, a liquid base, a clay and a water soluble cellulose ether. The clay and cellulose ether allow for a broader pH range into which the pharmaceutically active agent may be dispersed or dissolved, and therefore allows for easier preparation and formulation of the pharmaceutical composition.
US07981429B2	Influenza hemagglutinin and neuraminidase variants Polypeptides, polynucleotides, methods, compositions, and vaccines comprising (avian pandemic) influenza hemagglutinin and neuraminidase variants are provided.
US07981426B2	Method for stimulating wound healing The present invention relates to a method for stimulating wound healing, and more particularly to a method for stimulating wound healing in a subject in need thereof, comprising administering to a wound of the subject an effective amount for stimulating wound healing of a composition, wherein the composition comprises p43 having an amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1 or functional equivalents thereof. The composition used in the method of the present invention can be efficiently utilized for the wound healing, since p43, an effective ingredient of the composition, has an excellent effect on the wound healing by its action including the induction of macrophage/monocyte and endothelial cell re-epithelization, proliferation of fibroblasts or angiogenesis.
US07981416B2	Humanized immunomodulatory monoclonal antibodies for the treatment of immunodeficiency The present invention provides to a humanized monoclonal antibody having immunostimulatory effects. This antibody binds specifically to B lymphoblastoid cells, induces proliferation and activation of peripheral blood lymphocytes, particularly T cells, and is capable of eliciting an anti-tumor effect upon administration to subjects suffering from an immune deficiency.
US07981415B2	Humanized PAI-1 antibodies The present application relates to compositions of humanized anti-PAI-1 antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof which convert PAI-1 to its latent form. One aspect relates to antibodies having one or more modifications in at least one amino acid residue of at least one of the framework regions of the variable heavy chain, the variable light chain or both. Another aspect relates to antibodies which bind and neutralize PAI-1 by converting PAI-1 to its latent form or increasing proteolytic cleavage. Another aspect relates to the use of humanized antibodies which inhibit or neutralize PAI-1 for the detection, diagnosis or treatment of a disease or condition associated with PAI-1 or a combination thereof.
US07981414B2	Anti-inflammatory dAb The present invention provides a recombinant domain antibody (dAb) which binds to human TNF-α, the dAb comprising an immunoglobulin heavy or light chain variable domain, wherein the variable domain comprises at least one complementarity determining region (CDR) having a sequence derived from a New World primate.
US07981405B2	Cosmetic hair preparation A leave-on hair cosmetic composition contains (a) malic acid or its salt, (b) lactic acid or its, and (c) an organic solvent selected from the group consisting of aromatic alcohols, N-alkylpyrrolidones, alkylene carbonates, polypropylene glycol, lactones and cyclic ketones.This hair cosmetic composition is excellent in the effect of substantially modifying the hair property to improve its sleekness, styling ease and touch feel.
US07981403B2	Artificial hair color removal compositions and methods The invention relates to methods for removing artificial color from hair comprising combining a first composition comprising a sulfur reducing agent with a second composition comprising an oxidizing agent to form a color removing composition, and using the color removing composition to remove artificial color from the hair, as well as to compositions and kits containing such compositions which are useful in such methods.
US07981402B2	Alkyl benzene sulfonyl urea photostabilizers and UV-absorbers Polymers containing one or more novel photoactive moieties, sunscreen compositions including a mixture of a photoactive compound and a polymer containing one or more photoactive moieties are described herein.Polymer of formula (I): wherein the variables are as claimed. Also disclosed are methods for stabilizing a sunscreen composition, methods of filtering out ultra-violet light from a substrate by the addition of one or more of the foregoing polymers, methods accepting the triplet excited state energy with one or more of the foregoing polymer, and methods of increasing the UV-A Protective Value are described herein.
US07981397B2	Partial oxidation of hydrocarbons A process of catalytic partial oxidation of hydrocarbons, particularly methane and/or natural gas to form a product containing hydrogen and carbon monoxide where the first catalyst at the inlet has a higher thermal conductivity than that of a second catalyst closer to the outlet. The second catalyst closer to the outlet has a higher surface area than that of the first catalyst at the inlet.
US07981394B2	Method for treating tungsten carbide particles A method for the treatment of tungsten carbide is provided. The starting material contains tungsten carbide particles of a W—C system represented on a phase diagram showing a monophasic domain of a γ phase having a face-centered cubic structure, upwardly delimited by a liquidus line. The particles are subjected to a homogenization treatment in the monophasic domain, and may be subsequently melted to be spheroidized. They are then quenched to freeze at ambient temperature the monophased structure. Optionally, at least one alloying element may be added to the starting material to enlarge the monophasic domain, thereby increasing the hardenability of the monophased particles.
US07981393B2	Method of producing salts of dinitramidic acid A method of preparing salt of dinitramidic acid, comprising nitration of an initial compound with a nitrating acid mixture to form dinitramidic acid in a reaction mixture. A positive ion is added to the reaction mixture and forms with the dinitramide ion an ion pair complex which precipitates in the acidic reaction mixture, and the precipitate is separated from the mixture. The remaining spent acid can be reprocessed for recovery of acid for preparation of a new nitrating acid mixture. The preferred positive ion is the guanylurea ion which gives a precipitate of guanylurea dinitramide. The precipitate can be used as starting material for preparation of other dinitramide salts, such as KDN and ADN. The guanylurea ion can be formed in situ in the process by cyanoguanidine being reacted with the reaction mixture.
US07981381B2	Medical fluid access device with antiseptic indicator A medical device, such as a vascular access device, is disclosed for providing access to a medical fluid flow path for the introduction or withdrawal of medical fluids to and from the flow path. The access device includes an indicator for providing a visual indication when the access device has been exposed to an antiseptic agent.
US07981372B2	Oxidative autothermal reformer and oxidative autothermal reforming method using the same An oxidative autothermal reformer including a reforming layer at least partially filled with a reforming catalyst for producing a reformed gas composed mainly of hydrogen through a reforming reaction by contacting a mixture of a hydrocarbon or an aliphatic alcohol and steam with the reforming catalyst; and an oxidative exothermic layer at least partially filled with an oxidation catalyst for generating heat by oxidizing a part of the reformed gas, in which the reforming layer is disposed at an upstream side of the oxidative exothermic layer; the reforming layer and the oxidative exothermic layer are in the form of a cylinder and have a triple circular tube structure formed by disposing an inner reforming layer, an oxidative exothermic layer and an outer reforming layer from the inside in a radial direction in this order; and at least a part of the reforming catalyst filled in the inner reforming layer and the outer reforming layer contains Ru metal.
US07981365B2	Electrospray coating of aerosols for labeling and identification A device having an air sampler, an electrospray apparatus, and a fluorescence excitation and detection system. The air sampler is capable of moving air suspected of containing a biological or chemical aerosol particle into a chamber. The electrospray apparatus is capable of spraying a charged solution into the chamber to coat the aerosol particles with a coating. The solution has a fluorescent-labeled biological or chemical marker capable of specific binding to the aerosol particle. The fluorescence system is capable of detecting fluorescence of the fluorescent label in the coating. A method of detecting the aerosol particle by: moving air suspected of containing the aerosol particle into a chamber; spraying the charged solution into the chamber with an electrospray apparatus, such that a coating of the solution is formed around the particle; exciting the fluorescent label; and detecting fluorescence of the fluorescent label.
US07981355B2	Mat-forming wheel A mat-forming wheel for forming air-laid absorbent cores for sanitary absorbent articles, such as diapers, sanitary napkins, incontinence protectors and the like, said wheel having a series of moulds along its peripheral surface, each mould having up-standing walls and a bottom. The up-standing walls of the mould are formed in an element of a flexible material, which element is releasably attached to a foraminous substrate of rigid material, which runs along the whole circumference of the mat-forming wheel.
US07981352B2	Method and apparatus for quality surveillance during the manufacture of tablets A method for quality surveillance in manufacturing tablets in a rotary tablet press which, in a compression chamber, has a rotor with upper and lower rams, a die-plate, a cam system for the rams, at least one compressing station, and a charging system for the powdered material requiring compression wherein the tablets are checked for chemical and/or mechanical properties, wherein at least some chemical and/or mechanical data of the tablets is obtained by means of a NIR or LIF sensor in the compression chamber after the upper rams have left the dies, after a measuring procedure has been initiated by a machine computer in response to the die positions determined by a position generator relative to the NIR or LIF sensor.
US07981349B2	Production of UHMWPE sheet materials UHMWPE panels of large width may be ram extruded from a slit die in a stable process, by restraining a panel which exits the die below the crystalline melt temperature against movement away from the die by a back pressure device, so as to exert a back pressure between the back pressure device and the die, the back pressure device preferably constructed of a plurality of differentially adjustable elements so as to be able to compensate for changes in processing characteristics over time. Vertically restraining UHMWPE panels as they further cool also greatly improves product characteristics.
US07981348B2	Method of making elastomeric pad for a compressible elastomeric spring A method of making a compressible elastomeric pad from a preselected polymer material includes the steps of providing a preform including a substantially solid body having a predetermined cross-section disposed normal to a central axis of the preform and a pair of axial ends, each having a substantially flat surface disposed normal to the central axis and a central socket formed within at least one substantially flat surface. Next, providing a pair of forming plates, at least one of the pair of forming plates having a raised annular ring and an axially aligned cavity provided on one surface thereof. Then, positioning the preform between the pair of forming plates and axially aligning the exterior peripheral edge of the annular ring with a peripheral edge of a respective central socket. Finally, forming the pad and removing the pad from engagement with the pair of forming plates.
US07981343B2	Method and apparatus for welding plastic bodies A method and apparatus for welding two or more subcomponents together is described. The subcomponents may be welded to one another along seams, whereby sections of the seam that comprise similar materials are heated to a degree suitable for joining together those particular portions of the seam. Other sections of the seam may be heated to a different degree depending upon the material characteristics employed in that section of the seam. Embodiments of the apparatus include features for holding the subcomponents, simultaneously heating seams of each component, positioning the mating subcomponents together, and applying pressure between mating subcomponents to join them together.
US07981325B2	Electronic device for voltage switchable dielectric material having high aspect ratio particles One or more embodiments provide for a device that utilizes voltage switchable dielectric material having semi-conductive or conductive materials that have a relatively high aspect ratio for purpose of enhancing mechanical and electrical characteristics of the VSD material on the device.
US07981308B2	Method of etching a device using a hard mask and etch stop layer A method of etching a device in one embodiment includes providing a silicon carbide substrate, forming a silicon nitride layer on a surface of the silicon carbide substrate, forming a silicon carbide layer on a surface of the silicon nitride layer, forming a silicon dioxide layer on a surface of the silicon carbide layer, forming a photoresist mask on a surface of the silicon dioxide layer, and etching the silicon dioxide layer through the photoresist mask.
US07981307B2	Method and apparatus for shaping gas profile near bevel edge A method for etching a bevel edge of a substrate in a processing chamber is provided. The method includes flowing an inert gas into a center region of the processing chamber defined above a center region of the substrate and flowing a mixture of an inert gas and a processing gas over an edge region of the substrate. The method further includes striking a plasma in the edge region, wherein the flow of the inert gas and the flow of the mixture maintain a mass fraction of the processing gas substantially constant. A processing chamber configured to clean a bevel edge of a substrate is also provided.
US07981306B2	Supplying RF power to a plasma process Generating drive signals of at least two RF power generators which supply RF power to a plasma process, in which at least two drive signals, each driving one RF power generator, are generated in an RF generator driver. Each drive signal is generated by a respective function generator, such as a digital sine generator, of the generator driver.
US07981305B2	High-density field emission elements and a method for forming said emission elements A method for forming high density emission elements and field emission displays formed according to the method. Oxygen and a silicon etchant are introduced into a plasma etching chamber containing a silicon substrate. The oxygen reacts with the silicon surface to form regions of silicon dioxide, while the silicon etchant etches the silicon to form the emission elements. The silicon dioxide regions mask the underlying silicon during the silicon etch process. High density and high aspect ratio emission elements are formed without using photolithographic processes. The emission elements formed according to the present invention provide a more uniform emission of electrons. Further, a display incorporating emission elements formed according to the present invention provides increased brightness. The reliability of the display is increased due to the use of a plurality of emission elements to supply electrons for stimulating the phosphor substrate material to produce the image.
US07981304B2	Process for producing a chip using a mold A mold capable of a highly accurate alignment with a member to be processed in such a state that a photocurable resin material is disposed between the mold and the member to be processed, and is constituted by a substrate 2010 formed of a first material and an alignment mark 2102 formed of a second material different from the first material. The first material and the second material have transmissivities to light in a part of an ultraviolet wavelength range. The second material has a refractive index of not less than 1.7.
US07981298B2	Process for removal of contaminants from industrial streams A method and system for removing from an aqueous system which is contaminated therewith: (1) mercury present as colloids, ions and/or organically bound compounds, and (2) hydrocarbons solubilized, dispersed, and/or emulsified in the said system. Pursuant to the invention the aqueous system to be treated (such as “produced water”) is passed successively through three filtration stages. The first filtration stage is provided with absorption media which effects reduction/removal of dispersed organically bound mercury species and of the dispersed and partially dissolved hydrocarbon phases, as well as of some colloidal mercury and other dissolved metallic species. The second filtration stage utilizes a salt modified reticulated granular filtration media for reduction/removal of slightly dissolved hydrocarbon phases, mercury in colloidal and ionic form and other dissolved metals. The third filtration stage is a polishing stage, which serves to further reduce by electroless or voltaic reduction residual elemental mercury and/or residual colloidal and ionic mercury. At this third stage metallic mercury is incorporated into a metallic matrix from which the mercury may preferably be recovered.
US07981297B2	Wastewater treatment method comprising decantation and fine screening stages A method for removing helminth egg and other suspended solids from a wastewater stream includes directing the wastewater to a ballasted flocculation system and adding a coagulation agent, flocculation agent and a ballast into the wastewater. Sludge is settled from the wastewater in a settling tank at a rate of at least 10 meters per hour. The method further includes removing helminth egg by filtering the effluent through a fine screen having a mesh diameter of approximately 5 micrometers to approximately 25 micrometers. After passing through the fine screen, the filtered effluent has less than one helminth egg per liter.
US07981288B2	Pulse resonating device A fluid treatment device including a source of electrical voltage having a first and second terminal, a pulse generator connected to the first terminal and the second terminal and outputting a pulsed voltage wave signal between a third terminal and a fourth terminal, at least one coil positioned adjacent at least one fluid conduit, being electrically connected to the third and fourth terminals and at least one capacitor also being electrically connected to the third and fourth terminals to form a first circuit with an inductance L, a capacitance C and a resonant frequency. The pulse generator is arranged to generate a pulsed voltage wave with a frequency approximately equal to the resonant frequency. A further circuit element is arranged to cause the voltage pulse reaching the coil to repeatedly, alternate between a period of pulsed voltage at the frequency and a period of zero voltage, with each period extending for a time in a range of approximately 2 to 33 milliseconds.
US07981287B2	Self contained dissolved air flotation system A dissolved air flotation system and method for purifying fresh water. The system is self-contained within a standard shipping container, with all components disposed in-line within the shipping container. Float is removed from the flotation tank with a skimmer that drives float downstream onto a conveyor belt, and the conveyor belt conveys float away from the flotation tank, in the downstream direction, and deposits the float in a collection tank. Clean water may be drawn from the flotation tank continuously, while float may be removed periodically.
US07981278B2	Gasoline-ethanol separation apparatus This present invention provides a gasoline-ethanol separation apparatus which is used for an internal combustion engine, and can separate a mixture fuel formed of mixed gasoline and ethanol into gasoline and ethanol. The gasoline-ethanol separation apparatus 1 includes a fuel tank 2 for accommodating a mixture fuel, a separation tank 4 for separating the mixture fuel supplied from the fuel tank 2 into the gasoline (A) and an ethanol-water mixture liquid (B), by mixing water supplied by water-supply means 3 with the mixture fuel, and storing the separated mixture liquid (B); pressurizing means 5 for pressurizing the mixture liquid (B) to be supplied into the separation tank 4; gasoline-taking-out means 6 for taking the gasoline (A) out of the tank from an upper part of the interface between the gasoline (A) and the ethanol-water mixture liquid (B) first valve 62; and ethanol-taking-out means 7 for taking the ethanol-water mixture liquid (B) out of the separation tank 4 through a second valve 72.
US07981276B2	Desulfurization of petroleum streams utilizing a multi-ring aromatic alkali metal complex The present invention relates to a process for removing sulfur from sulfur-containing hydrocarbon streams utilizing a multi-ring aromatic hydrocarbon complex containing an alkali metal ion. Preferably, the sulfur-containing hydrocarbon stream is comprised of high molecular weight hydrocarbons, such as a low API gravity, high viscosity crude, tar sands bitumen, an oil derived from shale, or heavy refinery intermediate stocks such as atmospheric resids or vacuum resids which are typically difficult to desulfurize and contain relatively high amounts of sulfur. However, intermediate refinery streams and refinery product streams may also be treated by the process of the current invention to achieve very low sulfur concentrations to meet environmental specification for fuels sulfur content.
US07981267B2	Capillary electrophoresis device An object of the present invention is to prevent a variation in heat dissipating effect of a capillary between a holder part and an oven, to improve reproducibility of migration time, and to reduce a variation of migration time among capillaries in a single electrophoresis run. A cylindrical wall is formed in an upper part of a septa that covers a container holding a solution, and the cylindrical wall surrounds a capillary hole through which a capillary penetrates. Accordingly, the capillary is prevented from being directly affected by wind generated between the septa and the oven.
US07981265B2	Gas concentration measuring apparatus designed to enhance measurement accuracy in desired range A gas concentration measuring apparatus for use in air-fuel ratio control of automotive engines is designed to determine the concentration of oxygen within a wide and a narrow range using a sensor current flowing through a sensor element. The apparatus includes an amplifier circuit equipped with an operational amplifier and a plurality of amplifying resistors and a switch. The switch is responsive to a request signal to switch a relation in electrical connection between an operational amplifier and the amplifying resistors to distribute the amplifying resistors into an input resistor and a feedback resistor for the operational amplifier to change an amplification factor of the amplifier circuit. This results in a change in resolution of measurement of the concentration of oxygen, thereby ensuring enhanced accuracy in determining the concentration of oxygen in a selected one of the narrow and wide ranges.
US07981259B2	Electrolytic capacitor for electric field modulation A method and apparatus for adjusting an electric field of an electrochemical processing cell are provided. In one embodiment, a capacitive element is disposed in the processing solution. The strength, shape, or direction of the electric field in the processing solution may be modulated by charging and discharging the capacitive element in a controlled manner. Because the electric field is modulated with out passing a current from the capacitive element to the processing solution, electrochemical reactions do not occur on the interface of the capacitive element and the processing solution, thus, reduces complications caused by unwanted electrochemical reactions.

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