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US08025842B2	Apparatus and method for preparing sliced specimen Sliced specimens can be automatically and continuously prepared and burdens of an operator can be reduced while accuracy required for the sliced specimen is maintained. The sliced specimen is prepared by relatively moving a specimen block transfer section and a cutter, and when a slicing operation to adjust the height position of the specimen block is continuously performed so that the cutting surface of the specimen block is located at a sliceable position, the cutter is moved so that a contacting area of a blade edge of the cutter that firstly contacts the specimen block after the height position adjustment is sequentially changed, every time previously set number of times of slicing operation is completed. Thereafter, the height position of the blade edge of the cutter after the change is measured by a detector, and based on the measurement information of the detector, the sliceable position is corrected and the slicing operation is resumed.
US08025841B2	Method of sterilizing an orthopaedic implant A pre-assembled orthopaedic implant adapted for improved gas sterilization. The implant includes a first component adapted for assembly with a second component such that a mating surface of the first component is in close proximity with a mating surface of the second component. At least one gas conduit associated with the mating surface of the first component facilitates a sterilizing gas to penetrate into and dissipate from the interface defined by the mating surfaces.
US08025833B2	Curable composition for nanoimprint, and patterning method A curable composition for nanoimprints which comprises a polycyclic aromatic structure-having polymerizable monomer and a photopolymerization initiator is excellent in mold releasability, etching resistance and solvent resistance and capable of forming patterns.
US08025831B2	Imprinting of supported and free-standing 3-D micro- or nano-structures The present invention is directed to micro- and nano-scale imprinting methods and the use of such methods to fabricate supported and/or free-standing 3-D micro- and/or nano-structures of polymeric, ceramic, and/or metallic materials. In some embodiments, a duo-mold approach is employed in the fabrication of these structures. In such methods, surface treatments are employed to impart differential surface energies to different molds and/or different parts of the mold(s). Such surface treatments permit the formation of three-dimensional (3-D) structures through imprinting and the transfer of such structures to a substrate. In some or other embodiments, such surface treatments and variation in glass transition temperature of the polymers used can facilitate separation of the 3-D structures from the molds to form free-standing micro- and/or nano-structures individually and/or in a film. In some or other embodiments, a “latch-on” assembly technique is utilized to form supported and/or free-standing stacked micro- and/or nano-structures that enable the assembly of polymers without a glass transition temperature and eliminate the heating required to assemble thermoplastic polymers.
US08025830B2	UV nanoimprint lithography process and apparatus A UV nanoimprint lithography process and its apparatus that are able to repeatedly fabricates nanostructures on a substrate (wafer, UV-transparent plate) by using a stamp that is as large as or smaller than the substrate in size are provided. The apparatus includes a substrate chuck for mounting the substrate; a stamp made of UV-transparent materials and having more than two element stamps, wherein nanostructures are formed on the surface of each element stamp; a stamp chuck for mounting the stamp; a UV lamp unit for providing UV light to cure resist applied between the element stamps and the substrate; a moving unit for moving the substrate chuck or the stamp chuck to press the resist with the element stamps and substrate; and a pressure supply unit for applying pressurized gas to some selected regions of the substrate to help complete some incompletely filled element stamps.
US08025826B2	Glass/polyvinylbutyral laminates having directional surface patterns and a process for preparing same De-airing of PVB/glass laminates can be improved, while haze in the pre-press is minimized and sleep time reduced as a result using a PVB sheet having a roughened surface with directionality. A roughened surface with a washboard pattern that is useful in this regard can be obtained by varying certain conditions of a melt-fracture extrusion process.
US08025824B2	Process for producing refractory particles To provide a process for producing high-purity highly oxidized refractory particles easily with good productivity by treating a spent refractory containing ZrO2 and Al2O3 to reduce components other than ZrO2 and Al2O3 to levels unproblematic for practical use as raw material for electrofused refractories and to increase the content of the ZrO2 and/or Al2O3 component.A process for producing refractory particles, which comprises introducing to and melting in a melting furnace both a spent refractory which contains, by mass % as chemical components, from 75 to 97% of ZrO2 and/or Al2O3, from 2 to 25% of SiO2, from 0.4 to 7% in total of Na2O, K2O and Li2O(Na2O+K2O+Li2O), at most 2% of CaO and at most 2% of MgO, and carbon particles in an amount of from 1 to 8% by outer mass percentage based on the spent refractory, and after the melting, tapping the melt while blowing compressed air against the melt to form refractory particles having the content of ZrO2 and/or Al2O3 increased.
US08025823B2	Single-piece accommodating intraocular lens system There is disclosed an accommodating intraocular lens for implantation in an eye having an optical axis. The lens comprises an anterior portion which in turn comprises an anterior viewing element and an anterior biasing element. The lens further comprises a posterior portion which in turn comprises a posterior viewing element in spaced relationship to the anterior viewing element and a posterior biasing element. The anterior portion and posterior portion meet at first and second apices of the intraocular lens. The anterior portion and the posterior portion and/or the apices are responsive to force thereon to cause the separation between the viewing elements to change. Additional embodiments and methods are also disclosed.
US08025817B2	Fluorescent ceramic and fabrication method thereof The present invention relates to a fluorescent ceramic having the general formula Gd2O2S doped with M, whereby M represents at least one element selected form the group Ce, Pr, Eu, Tb, Yb, Dy, Sm and/or Ho, whereby said fluorescent ceramic comprises a single phase in its volume; to a method for manufacturing a fluorescent ceramic using single-axis hot pressing; a detector for detecting ionizing radiation and to a use of said detector for detecting ionizing radiation. The method for manufacture of a fluorescent ceramic material using a single-axis hot pressing, comprises the steps: a) selecting a pigment powder of Gd2O2S doped with M, and M represents at least one element selected from the group of Eu, Tb, Yb, Dy, Sm, Ho, Ce and/or Pr, whereby the grain size of said powder used for hot-pressing is of 1 μm, and said hot-pressing is carried out at—a temperature of 1000° C. to 1400° C.; and/or—a pressure of 100 Mpa to 300 MPa; air annealing at a temperature of 700° C. to 1200° for a time period of 0.5 hours to 30 hours.
US08025807B2	Method for treating rinse water in decontamination devices A processor for decontaminating devices is comprised of a chamber for holding devices and a circulation system to circulate a microbial decontamination fluid through the chamber. A water filtration system filters water used in the processor. The water filtration system has a water line connectable to a source of pressurized water. A water decontamination system fluidly communicates with the source of water and the processor. The water decontamination system has a water circulation path and a tank located within the water circulation path. Means are provided to circulate water along the water circulation path through the tank. A gas circulation path fluidly communicates with the tank. Conveying means is provided to convey gas along the gas circulation path through the tank. An ozone producing device is located along the gas circulation path to introduce ozone into gas flowing along the gas circulation path and through the tank.
US08025803B2	Use of a chromatography substrate for reducing the amount of ADAMTS13 in a solution derived from plasma An ion-exchange chromatography support for reducing the ADAMTS13 amount present in a plasma-derived solution containing human von Willebrand factor. The support includes a large-pore, vinyl polymer-type resin bearing DEAE groups, and a buffer including trisodium citrate, sodium chloride, calcium chloride, glycine and lysine.
US08025801B2	Radial counterflow inductive desalination Simultaneous source-sink flow, or radial counterflow, is driven by a centrifugal pump disposed within a casing. Radially outward source flow of brine goes into a shrouding tank and concentrates while a radially inward sink flow of fresh water flows back over the pump to axial extraction. An axial pump drives sink flow and axial extraction. Convergent sink flow passes under an inductor to an axial exhaust port. Induced viscosity and inductive repulsion hinder the passage of brine in sink flow, so only fresh water can reach the axial exhaust port. Crystallization of scale-forming salts is aided by Joule heating from the inductor. Solvent and gases are continuously axially extracted in sink flow, favoring crystallization. Sodium chloride is cooled and crystallized in the shrouding tank. Brine comprising other salts flows out of the tank to treatment by suitable means. Thus brine is separated into fresh water, crystallized salt, and concentrated brine.
US08025795B2	Ballast water treatment system A ballast water treatment system for treating ballast water for a vessel has a pathway for navigable raw water to the tank and a discharge for discharging water back to the body of navigable raw water. A back washable filter in the pathway receives the raw water and screens sediment from the raw water to produce initially processed water which contains at least some marine organisms. A UV or other biocidal device is connected between the filter and the ballast tank, for disabling or killing the marine organisms in the initially processed water to produce treated ballast water for the main outlet to the ballast tank.
US08025779B2	Water quality analyzer A water quality analyzer comprises: sensor electrodes 1a, 1b made of different metals from each other, the electrodes in a liquid of inspecting object generating a sense voltage in proportion to the liquid's impurities concentration; an operational amplifier OP1 amplifying the sense voltage without inverting to provide for a CPU 3; a resistor R0 whose one end is connected to the electrode 1a; and a voltage divider 2 applying a voltage obtained by dividing the sense voltage by a prescribed division ratio to R0's another end. The CPU 3 calculates input signal from OP1 to obtain chlorine concentration and displays the calculated result on a LCD 4 in a measurement mode, and sets the division ratio of the divider 2 so that sense voltage across electrodes 1a, 1b soaked in a liquid including prescribed concentration chloride approximately agrees with a reference voltage of prescribed concentration in a sense-voltage calibration mode.
US08025772B2	Method for degassing and supplying a fibrous suspension to a headbox or a filter device and degassing device Degassing device that includes a housing, a rotor having a rotatable interior arranged within the housing, an inlet for adding a liquid to be degassed, the inlet being structured to open into the interior of the rotor, and an outflow for a degassed liquid. A degassing tube is centrally arranged with respect to the interior to remove gas escaping from the liquid. The rotor includes at least one opening structured and arranged to produce an hydraulic connection with the outflow.
US08025767B2	Wet strength enhancers for paper They are mixtures of (a) from 1 to 99.9% by weight of a water-soluble epihalohydrin-crosslinked polyamidoamine and (b) from 0.1 to 20% by weight of at least one other cationic polymer.
US08025764B2	Multi-ply paper product with moisture strike through resistance and method of making the same A paper product with absorbency and moisture strike through resistance is disclosed. More particularly, a multi-ply paper product with improved strike through resistance is disclosed, wherein at least one ply is a wetting resistant ply comprising at least one wetting resistant compound and at least one ply is an absorbent ply possessing greater absorbency than the wetting resistant ply. In addition, a two-ply paper napkin with improved moisture strike through resistance is disclosed, wherein the wetting resistant ply comprises alkyl ketene dimer and the two plies are separately microembossed, glue laminated together in a point to point configuration, and macroembossed with coin edging. Furthermore, a multi-ply paper product with improved strike through resistance is disclosed, wherein a first ply comprises at least one wetting resistant compound and a second ply possesses greater absorbency than the first ply. Methods of making paper products with absorbency and moisture strike through resistance are also described.
US08025763B2	Method for coating dry finish paperboard A method for coating paperboard including the steps of preparing a web of cellulosic fibers, the web having a basis weight of at least about 85 pounds per 3000 ft2, calendering the web at least once to form a paperboard substrate, wherein each of the calendering steps is performed without substantially introducing moisture to the web, and applying a basecoat to at least one surface of the paperboard substrate to form a coated paperboard structure, the basecoat including at least one pigment, the pigment having a sediment void volume of at least about 45 percent, wherein the coated paperboard structure has a Parker Print Surf smoothness of at most about 3 microns.
US08025755B2	Process for producing GM-siding with wood grain Disclosed is a process for producing composite board, and the said board is glass fiber reinforced magnesium cement board with wood grain. The process comprises two steps of preparing a mold with wood grain and preparing glass fiber reinforced magnesium cement board using the mold. The first step comprises forming film bearing wood grain, copying the wood grain onto mill rolls, and rolling the formwork with the mill rolls. The second step comprises steps of preparing MgCl2 solution, agitating the mixed raw materials to obtain slurry, conveying the molds, scratching the slurry, disposing the raw materials, rolling, separating, shelving, curing, impregnating the board into water to remove free MgCl2, cutting, spraying protecting-paint, and so on. The process can produce the board with three-dimensional appeal, wood grain similar to that of log, and beautiful appearance. The board produced by the process has advantages of fire proof, water proof, vermin proof, light weight, compression and bending resistant, high strength, no moss growing, and so on.
US08025750B2	Retreaded tire and method for producing same A retreaded tire capable of improving unbalance of the tire is efficiently produced.Retread rubber has the largest thickness in a joint part F on the circumference. Such a joint part F is arranged in a minimal location S (corresponding to a light location of static unbalance), in which a rubber gauge G as measured in a radial direction of the tire from a buffed surface K of a base tire D to an outer surface of an outermost belt cord L embedded in an outermost belt layer disposed in a radially outermost side among belt layers constituting a belt is minimal on the circumference in an equatorial plane of the tire in attaching so that the total rubber gauge of the retread rubber T at the joint part F surely approaches total rubber gauges at other locations on the circumference to effectively reduce unbalance.
US08025744B2	Rare earth permanent magnet and its preparation A rare earth permanent magnet is prepared by disposing a powdered metal alloy containing at least 70 vol % of an intermetallic compound phase on a sintered body of R—Fe—B system, and heating the sintered body having the powder disposed on its surface below the sintering temperature of the sintered body in vacuum or in an inert gas for diffusion treatment. The advantages include efficient productivity, excellent magnetic performance, a minimal or zero amount of Tb or Dy used, an increased coercive force, and a minimized decline of remanence.
US08025743B2	Safety arrangement for a dishwasher, and associated apparatus A safety arrangement for a dishwashing appliance and an associated apparatus are provided. The dishwashing appliance has a door covering a forward access opening of a tub in a closed position. A sump assembly about a lower end of the tub receives washing fluid therein, and a lower spray arm is rotatable about an axis about the lower end. The lower spray arm is configured to spray washing fluid from the sump assembly toward the tub. A control device actuates the lower spray arm to spray the washing fluid. A detection device interacts with the lower spray arm, and directs the control device to prevent actuation of the lower spray arm in response to the detection device detecting an abnormal displacement of the lower spray arm and/or a force applied to the lower spray arm, both with respect to the axis, with the door in the closed position.
US08025736B2	Semiconductor device fabrication equipment for performing PEOX process and method including cleaning the equipment with remotely produced plasma Semiconductor device fabrication equipment performs a PEOX (physical enhanced oxidation) process, and includes a remote plasma generator for cleaning a process chamber of the equipment. After a PEOX process has been preformed, a purging gas is supplied into the process chamber to purge the process chamber, and the remote plasma generator produces plasma using a first cleaning gas. Accordingly, a reactor of the remote plasma generator is cleaned by the first cleaning gas plasma. Subsequently, the purging gas is supplied to purge the process chamber, and the remote plasma generator produces plasma using a second cleaning gas to remove the first cleaning gas plasma from the remote plasma generator and the process chamber. Finally, full flush operations are performed to remove any gases remaining in the process chamber.
US08025735B2	Multiple vacuum evaporation coating device and method for controlling the same A multiple vacuum evaporation coating device and a method for controlling the same. The vacuum evaporation coating device includes a plurality of evaporation sources, a rotating part adapted to rotate the plurality of evaporation sources and a coating block plate adapted to block all but one of said plurality of evaporation sources at any time, each of the plurality of evaporation sources comprise a case, a melting pot arranged within said case, an evaporation material arranged within the melting pot, a heating device arranged outside the melting pot and adapted to heat and evaporate the evaporation material, and a cooling device adapted to block heat generated by the heating device from transferring to an outside.
US08025731B2	Gas injection system for plasma processing A plasma processing system for plasma processing of substrates such as semiconductor wafers. The system includes a plasma processing chamber, a substrate support for supporting a substrate within the processing chamber, a dielectric member having an interior surface facing the substrate support, the dielectric member forming a wall of the processing chamber, a gas injector fixed to, part of or removably mounted in an opening in the dielectric window, the gas injector including a plurality of gas outlets supplying process gas into the chamber, and an RF energy source such as a planar or non-planar spiral coil which inductively couples RF energy through the dielectric member and into the chamber to energize the process gas into a plasma state. The arrangement permits modification of gas delivery arrangements to meet the needs of a particular processing regime. In addition, compared to consumable showerhead arrangements, the use of a removably mounted gas injector can be replaced more easily and economically.
US08025725B2	Temperature-sensitive aluminum phosphate solution, a process for producing the same and the use thereof According to the present invention, there is provided a temperature-sensitive aluminum phosphate solution, characterized in that, composition of the aluminum phosphate is within such ranges that 3Al2O3/P2O5 (molar ratio) is from 1.2 to 1.5, M2O/P2O5 (molar ratio) (M is an alkali metal) is from 0.02 to 0.15 and concentration of Al2O3 is from 2 to 8% by mass and the sensing temperature is within a temperature range of from 20 to 100° C. The solution is particularly useful as an antioxidant for carbon materials.
US08025724B2	Sulphur pellet comprising H2S-suppressant The invention provides a sulphur pellet comprising at least one H2S-suppressant, comprising in the range of from 60 to 100 wt % elemental sulphur, based on the total weight of the pellet. The invention further provides a process for the manufacture of sulphur pellets comprising at least one H2S-suppressant, comprising the steps of: (a) mixing elemental sulphur, one or more H2S-suppressants and optionally a filler in a mixing unit to obtain a mixture; (b) shaping and/or palletizing the mixture obtained in step (a) in a palletizing unit to obtain H2S-suppressant-comprising sulphur pellets. The invention further provides a process for the manufacture of a sulphur-comprising asphalt paving mixture comprising the steps of: (i) preheating bitumen at a temperature of between 140 and 180° C.; (ii) preheating aggregate at a temperature of between 140 and 180° C.; (iii) mixing the hot bitumen with the hot aggregate in a mixing unit, wherein sulphur pellets comprising H2S-suppressant according to the invention are added in at least one of the steps (i), (ii) or (iii). The invention also provides the use of a sulphur-comprising asphalt paving mixture comprising H2S-suppressant in the paving of roads.
US08025715B2	Process for separating carbon dioxide from flue gas using parallel carbon dioxide capture and sweep-based membrane separation steps A gas separation process for treating flue gases from combustion processes, and combustion processes including such gas separation. The invention involves routing a first portion of the flue gas stream to be treated to a carbon dioxide capture step, while simultaneously flowing a second portion of the flue gas across the feed side of a membrane, flowing a sweep gas stream, usually air, across the permeate side, then passing the permeate/sweep gas to the combustor.
US08025714B2	Dialysis systems and methods having vibration-aided air removal A dialysis system includes a dialysis fluid disposable configured to hold and transport a dialysis fluid; an air separation chamber in fluid communication with the dialysis fluid disposable; and a dialysis instrument operable to pump dialysis fluid through the dialysis fluid disposable, the instrument including a vibrator configured to vibrate the air separation chamber to separate air from the dialysis fluid traveling through the chamber.
US08025711B2	System and method for producing metallic iron A battery of stationary hearth furnaces, and method for using, for producing metallic iron nodules having a furnace having a stationary hearth, an inlet and an outlet; a heating chamber beneath the stationary hearth having heated fluids circulated thereto and heating reducible material on the stationary hearth; passageways circulating fluids, through ports from the furnace housing above the reducible material to the heating chamber beneath; burners and air inlets in the furnace and optionally in at least one passageway and a heating chamber for drying and heating the reducible material, driving off and burning volatile material, and forming metallic iron nodules; a loading device for loading reducible material and optionally hearth material onto the stationary hearth through the inlet; and a discharging device capable of discharging metallic iron nodules and optionally related material from the stationary hearth through the outlet.
US08025695B2	Biologically implantable heart valve system A biologically implantable prosthesis is disclosed. The prosthesis can have a circumferentially expandable wall and elements that prevent the wall from collapsing once the wall is expanded. Methods of making and using the prosthesis are also disclosed.
US08025687B2	Low level light therapy for enhancement of neurologic function A method for treating a subject having Parkinson's disease or Alzheimer's disease is provided. The method includes noninvasively delivering light energy having a wavelength of about 630 nanometers to about 904 nanometers to the brain of the subject. Delivering the light energy can include (i) irradiating the scalp with light energy having an incident power density between about 10 mW/cm2 to about 10 W/cm2 and (ii) transmitting a portion of the light energy through the scalp and the skull to the brain, wherein the transmitted light energy has a power density of at least about 0.01 mW/cm2 at a depth of approximately 2 centimeters below the dura.
US08025686B2	Light conductor and treatment for ailments involving the throat A device and method for treating a throat includes inserting a device into the mouth and throat of a user where the device has a curved light-collecting face, a first side wall attached to the light-collecting face, a second side wall opposing the first side wall, attached to and extending away from the light-collecting face and converging toward the first side wall, an upper wall attached to the light-collecting face, a lower wall opposing the upper wall and attached to the light-collecting face, where the lower wall includes a first portion converging toward a first portion of the upper wall and a light emitter coupled to the first side wall, the second side wall, the upper wall, and the lower wall.
US08025681B2	Dynamic motion spinal stabilization system Provided is a system for dynamically stabilizing a spine. In one example, the system includes a first bone anchor coupled to a first polyaxial head and a second bone anchor coupled to a second polyaxial head. An axis passing through a center of each polyaxial head is aligned with a center of rotation. A first member has a first end movably coupled to the first polyaxial head and a second end. A second member has a third end coupled to the second polyaxial head and a fourth end moveably coupled to the second end. The first and second members are configured to maintain the alignment of the axes with the center of rotation during three dimensional movement of the first member relative to the second member.
US08025664B2	System and method for providing surgical access to a spine A system for accessing a spine from a curved postero-lateral approach may include a curved cannula positioned along a curved path from an opening in the skin to a location proximate the spine. A guide member may be first inserted to establish the path between the tissues and fascia, and one or more intermediate cannulas may be temporarily inserted over the guide member to dilate the tissues prior to insertion of the main cannula. An interbody device may be implanted in an intervertebral space through the cannula. The system may include a guide bar removably coupled to a targeting post. The targeting post may be inserted adjacent the spine to provide a target, and the guide bar may be removably attached to the guide member, to guide it along the path to the target location. An external support arm may be secured to any other component of the system.
US08025661B2	Coaxial catheter instruments for ablation with radiant energy A cardiac ablation instrument includes a catheter body and a tear-shaped balloon that is connected to the catheter body. The instrument further includes a radiant energy emitter that is axially movable within a central lumen of the catheter body. A radiant energy transparent body surrounds the energy emitter and includes a plurality of illumination fibers disposed circumferentially about the energy emitter. A detector communicates with a contact sensing element and is configured to determine an amount of at least one color component of the reflected light The amount of the at least one color component being indicative of contact between the balloon and a target tissue site.
US08025656B2	Methods, systems and devices for performing gynecological procedures Methods, systems and devices for performing gynecological procedures. According to one embodiment, there is provided a device for accessing the peritoneal cavity of a patient by inserting the device through the vaginal cavity, the cervix, and the uterus and past the fimbria.
US08025642B2	Powered variable seal diameter trocar employing a longitudinal displacement mechanism An apparatus for sealing a passageway through an access assembly includes a variable seal member having an orifice for reception of an instrument therethrough. Each of a pair of compression members has a pressure face for contacting the variable seal member, each pressure face opposing the variable seal member from an opposite longitudinal side, and each compression member moveable with respect to the other compression member in a longitudinal direction transverse to the pressure faces. The compression members may be moved in the longitudinal direction to adjust the degree of compressive force exerted on the portal seal member and thus adjust a diameter of the orifice to effectively interface with the instrument to form a fluid tight relation therewith.
US08025640B2	Pressurized surgical valve A surgical access assembly for use during the course of a minimally invasive procedure includes a pump assembly to selectively communicate to and from the seal member such that the seal may transition from a first condition to at least one subsequent condition. In the first condition, the seal member is configured to allow a surgical object to pass therethrough with little resistance, and in the at least one subsequent condition, the seal member forms a substantially fluid tight seal with the surgical object.
US08025634B1	Method and system for controlled infusion of therapeutic substances Programmable infusion systems and method for controlled infusion of diagnostic or therapeutic substances (e.g., drugs, biologics, fluids, cell preparations, etc.) into the bodies of human or animal subjects.
US08025627B2	Reusable biopsy forceps Reusable biopsy forceps having a handle located at the proximal end and an end jaw assembly located at the distal end. The handle and jaw assembly are connected by a flexible catheter tube. The handle includes a handle body, fluid inlet assembly, and catheter tube coupling. The jaw assembly consists of a housing composed of a first and second portion, which holds a pair of opposed jaws and a distal actuator. The distal actuator is connected to the handle by an operating cable located inside the catheter tube. The handle controls the jaws and contains a flush port to sterilize the interior of the catheter tube and the end jaw assembly. The reusable biopsy forceps may contain a locking mechanism that is attached to the arms of the biopsy forceps handle in order to aid in taking tissue samples.
US08025625B2	Sensor with electromagnetically coupled hermetic pressure reference An electromagnetically coupled hermetic chamber includes a body defining a hermetic chamber. A first conductive structure is disposed within the hermetic chamber, and a second conductive structure is attached to the body outside of the hermetic chamber. The first conductive structure is electromagnetically coupled to the second conductive structure without direct electrical paths connecting the first and second conductive structures. Thus the first conductive structure can be coupled to external electronics without the need for electrical feedthroughs or vias that could compromise the integrity of the hermetic chamber.
US08025605B2	Multi-speed transmission for a front wheel drive vehicle A front wheel drive transmission is provided having an input member, an output member, four planetary gear sets, a plurality of coupling members and a plurality of torque transmitting devices. Each of the planetary gear sets includes a sun gear member, a planet carrier member, and a ring gear member. The torque transmitting devices include clutches and a brake arranged within a housing.
US08025604B2	Gear and clutch arrangement for multi-speed transmission A transmission is provided having an input member, an output member, three planetary gear sets, a plurality of coupling members and a plurality of torque transmitting devices. Each of the planetary gear sets includes a sun gear member, a planet carrier member, and a ring gear member. The torque transmitting devices include five clutches and one brake arranged within a transmission housing.
US08025596B2	Micro vane and arrow with micro vane A vane, that can be mounted to a projectile to provide stability of flight, without substantially degrading speed due to added weight and/or causing clearance concerns. The vane is approximately one inch long and 0.4 inches high with a front-edge and a back-edge that meet at a point. The back-edge arcs down towards the base of the vane while the front edge degrades in a substantially linear fashion to the base of the vane.
US08025595B2	Baseball area protection system and method This invention relates to an integrally weighted baseball cover and system, method and apparatus for quickly delivering the cover and placing it onto an area of a baseball field, such as one or more of the infield areas, such as home base area, first base area, second base area, third base area, pitcher's mound area and/or bullpen areas.
US08025588B2	Sports training device A sports training device is provided that conveys a perceptible cue to a user indicative of a weight transfer event for evaluating timing correctness of such weight transfer event. The device includes an enclosure having a base chamber defined therein and top wall upon which a user stands or places a foot during use. The enclosure flexes or deforms during use, while an amount of user weight supported by the enclosure changes. As the enclosure flexes or deforms, the device conveys the perceptible cue as an audible and/or visual indication of, e.g., the initiate of the weight transfer event.
US08025570B2	Massively multiplayer game method and system The invention describes a method of implementing a massively multiplayer game. The method has the following steps: firstly, three or more players select an item from an ordered set of three or more items. Secondly, an item from the set is designated based on the number of players who selected that item. Lastly, whether each player's selected item wins over the designated item is determined based on a rule-set (examples of rule-sets are given in FIGS. 3 and 4). The method may be implemented using a client/server architecture such as that shown in FIG. 5. Alternatively, the server may be decentralized across all the devices such as shown in FIG. 6. The client devices may be wireless devices. A system and software for implementing the method are also disclosed.
US08025560B2	Game control program, game control method, and game device A game apparatus controls a game in which a user-controlled character and an opponent character hit a ball. When the user gives an instruction for hitting the ball with a button of a controller, a hit control unit determines on the basis of the type of the button which is pressed by the user a shot when the character hits the ball, calculates the trajectory of the ball hit based on the shot, and displays the flying ball on a screen. A shot display control unit displays the figure marked on the button close to the ball on the screen, as information for specifying the shot.
US08025557B2	Sanding clay A flexible sanding composite in accordance with the principles of the invention includes about 10% to about 70% by weight liquid component, such as polybutene and/or oleic acid; about 30% to about 80% by weight abrasive material including calcium carbonate and aluminum oxide; and about 0% to about 5% by weight synthetic rubber. The invention also includes a method of removing dirt or contamination from a surface, or flattening surface irregularities, which includes rubbing the flexible sanding composite against the surface repeatedly until the dirt or contamination is diminished.
US08025553B2	Back grinding method for wafer A back grinding method for a wafer includes covering a face-side surface of the wafer with a resin film, and cutting the surface of the resin film to form a flat surface parallel to the face-side surface of the wafer. The wafer is held with the surface of the resin film in contact with a suction surface of a chuck table in a grinding apparatus, and the exposed back-side surface of the wafer is ground. Unevenness in thickness of the resin film is suppressed, whereby the thickness of the wafer subjected to back grinding is made to be uniform.
US08025546B2	Ducted fan assembly for radio-controlled model A ducted fan assembly includes a housing unit, a motor, and a propeller. The housing unit includes a duct member, and a hollow seat member disposed in the duct member. The motor is mounted to an exterior of the seat member, and includes a power cord extending through the seat member. The propeller is mounted to the motor and is driven thereby to generate an airflow that flows through the duct member and that acts on the motor.
US08025538B2	Joint connector and wiring harness A joint connector has a housing (20) and cavities (21) penetrate the housing (20) in forward and backward directions. Female terminals (11) connected to ends of wires (10) are insertable into the cavities (21) from behind and locking lances (22) in the respective cavities (21) retain the female terminals (11). Jig insertion grooves (30) are formed in the front surface of the housing (20) and can receive a jig (80) to displace the locking lance (22) in an unlocking direction. A joint terminal (50) to be mounted in the housing (20) and formed such that a bracket (52) to be mounted on a grounding portion is connected with the rear edge of a male terminal (51) in which male terminals (55) insertable into the respective cavities (21) from front are connected side by side.
US08025535B1	Audio socket connector and switch module A socket connector includes an insulating housing, at least one terminal set and a switch module. The insulating housing defines an inserting hole. The terminal set and the switch module are respectively received in the insulating housing. The switch module includes a fixed terminal, a movable terminal and an insulating guider. The insulating guider is connected to the moveable terminal and electronically insulated from the moveable terminal for preventing signal transmitted by the socket connector from influence. Because the movable terminal is molded with the insulating guider, the strength of the switch module of the audio socket connector will be improved. Since, the audio socket connector has strong structure and high reliability.
US08025520B1	Cable immobilizing device and electronic device having the same A cable immobilizing device for an electronic device. The cable immobilizing device includes a buckle and a sleeve. The buckle is fixed on a shell of the electronic device. The buckle includes two juts facing to each other. The two juts define a slot therebetween to receive a cable of the electronic device. The sleeve is configured to enclose the cable, the outer diameter of the sleeve is lager than the width of the slot.
US08025519B2	Electro-optical reader with cable connector release A cable release accessory releases an electrical cable that is connected to an electrical device, such as a handheld moving beam reader or a handheld imaging reader for electro-optically reading symbols. The cable is terminated by a male connector that engages a female socket in the housing during reading. The male connector has a movable locking clip that releases the cable when moved. The accessory includes a holder mounted on the cable exteriorly of the device, and an elongated actuator supported by the holder and extending into the device into an overlying relationship with the locking clip. The actuator is movable against the locking clip for depressing the locking clip to release the cable.
US08025513B2	Lever-type connector with a housing with plurality of projections for engaging a retaining portion of a lever A lever type connector includes a lever which includes a pair of parallel plates and a grip portion connecting parallel plates each other and is attached to a connector housing. Each of the parallel plates is formed with a reception hole into which one of shafts is inserted and a cam groove. First and second retaining projections which retain the lever by engaging with a retaining portion provided on the lever are provided at opposite ends of the opposite sides of the connector housing. The lever is retained by the first retaining projection so as to be located at a position where a rear face is exposed so that a terminal connected with a wire can be inserted through the rear face, and is retained by the second retaining projection so as to dispose the cam groove at a position where the cam groove can receive a cam pin of a mating connector.
US08025502B2	Light guide for dentistry applications The present invention relates to a light guide for a lamp for dentistry procedures. The light guide provides an optical channel between a light source and a dental substrate. The light guide may be a one-patient use light guide including a recording medium to record the time used. The light guide further provides protection for a patient's soft tissues during treatment.
US08025494B2	Tire vulcanizer A tire vulcanization apparatus includes an upper container moving in a tire vulcanization position and a lower container moving between the tire vulcanization position and a shaping position, the lower container is provided with a bladder expanded/shrunk by supplying/discharging pressurized fluid from a fluid supplying apparatus, in the shaping position, a green tire is mounted on the lower container, and shaped by supplying pressurized fluid, and in the tire vulcanization position, the shaped green tire is held between the upper and lower containers and is vulcanized by supplying pressurized fluid to the bladder, a flow channel for supplying/discharging pressurized fluid from the fluid supplying apparatus to the bladder is comprised of a downstream side movable tube connected to the bladder and moving accompanied with the lower container, an upstream side fixed tube connected to the fluid supplying apparatus, and a tube for shaping made of a flexible tube to which the fluid supplying apparatus and the bladder are normally connected, and the upstream side fixed tube is so arranged that the downstream side movable tube is connected via a first joint portion in a state that the lower container has moved to the tire vulcanization position.
US08025492B2	Scroll machine A compressor may include a shell, a compression mechanism, and a seal assembly. The shell may define a first discharge passage. The compression mechanism may be supported within the shell and may include first and second scroll members. The first scroll member may include a second discharge passage. The seal assembly may extend between the first scroll member and the shell and may form a sealed discharge path between the first and second discharge passages. The seal assembly may include a first seal member axially displaceable relative to the shell and the first scroll member. The first seal member may axially abut the first scroll member when in a first position and may be free from axial contact with the first scroll member when in a second position. The seal assembly may maintain the sealed discharge path when the first seal member is in the first position.
US08025489B2	Portable, remote electromagnetic power system A portable electromagnetic power system used as a remote alternate power source includes a water tank having an oil reservoir mounted on top of the tank with four cylinders extending through the tank and the two outer cylinders denoted the pressure cylinders and the two inner cylinders serving as accumulators with electromagnets mounted at the ends of each pressure cylinder for reciprocating an internal floating piston and each inner cylinder having a permanent magnet mounted at one end for actuating a magnetized floating piston disposed therein and each magnetized floating piston dividing the inner cylinder into an air chamber portion and a fluid chamber portion with the oil reservoir and the cylinders all in fluid flow registration with each other and the inner cylinders connected to a working pressure line that connects to a device, such as a hydraulic motor, so that the outer cylinder develop working pressure concomitant with the flow of oil therein that is directed to the inner (accumulator) cylinders for providing working pressure to power a device such as a hydraulic motor.
US08025485B2	Wind turbine blade attachment configuration with flattened bolts A wind turbine includes a plurality of turbine blades, with each of the blades having a root flange that attaches to a flange of a rotor hub by a plurality of circumferentially spaced blade bolts. The blade bolts have opposite cylindrical end sections engaged within the rotor hub flange and blade root flange, respectively, and a non-cylindrical shank extending between the cylindrical end sections. At least one flattened side is defined in the shank along a longitudinal axis of the bolt.
US08025478B2	Centrifugal pump An impeller plate of an impeller of a centrifugal pump, particularly a channel impeller pump, for pumping liquids with solid or gaseous admixtures, is provided with at least one wide vane that is displaced toward the impeller drive by a distance D so that the impeller chamber is enlarged by a rearward portion thereof. In addition, the impeller comprises at least one auxiliary vane having a center width at between 25%-75% of the width of the wide vane. This arrangement improves particularly the gas transporting ability of the pump.
US08025476B2	System and methods for controlling a wind turbine A method for controlling operation of a wind turbine is described. The wind turbine includes a rotor having a plurality of rotor blades and an upwind wind condition measurement device. The method includes measuring a wind condition upwind from the rotor using the upwind wind condition measurement device and providing the measured wind condition to a processor. The method also includes determining a control algorithm parameter, based at least partially on the measured wind condition, that controls at least one of a wind turbine response bandwidth, a wind turbine response speed, and a wind turbine control error range. The method also includes determining a wind turbine operating command based at least partially on the control algorithm parameter and applying the wind turbine operating command to operation of the wind turbine.
US08025469B2	Intelligent logistics goods binding system The present invention discloses an intelligent logistics goods binding system in the field of control technology. The problems of the conventional intelligent logistics goods binding systems, such as inconvenience in operation of the intelligent logistics goods binding system, low operation efficiency and complicated adjusting of control parameters, are addressed by the system of the invention. The intelligent logistics goods binding system of the invention includes an upper controller and a lower controller connected thereto. A sensor and a power mechanism are connected to the lower controller, which are respectively provided on the pay-out and take-up device. An upper input means is connected with the upper controller and a lower input means is connected to the lower controller. The activation or deactivation of the power mechanism is controlled by the upper controller through the lower controller or directly controlled by the lower controller based on the pressure signal of the sensor. According to the invention, one or more lower controllers could be controlled or set through one upper controller to form a system in which each tightener could work separately and be controlled in a centralized manner. The system of the invention further has the benefits of convenient operation, moderate tensioning force of the binding strip and high operation efficiency and safety.
US08025468B2	Metal coil securing apparatus and method A metal coil securing device is disclosed including a coil cover adapted to encompass a metal coil and a plurality of tie down straps affixed to the coil cover, with each tie down secured along a portion of its length to the coil cover such that each tie down has two free ends extending outward from the periphery of the coil cover. In one embodiment, the tie down straps are secured to a circular coil cover to intersect at an approximate center of the coil cover and extend radially outward therefrom. A method of securing a metal coil to a transport trailer is also disclosed generally including associating and securing the coil cover with the metal coil, loading the metal coil with the secured coil cover onto the transport trailer, and using the free ends of the tie down straps to secure the metal coil to the transport trailer.
US08025453B2	Multi-functional cleaning and neatening tool A multi-functional cleaning and neatening tool includes a body which is easy to carry and operate. Below the body is connected with a wipe board. In a normal day, a bottom lid is covered on the wipe board and can be removed when cleaning or neatening an automobile. In collaboration with different cleaning solution in the body and the wipe board of a variety of material, scratches on a body or glass of the automobile can be dealt with, the automobile can be waxed or washed with bubbles.
US08025449B2	Image pickup apparatus An image pickup apparatus includes: a shutter device; an image pickup element adapted to sequentially acquire time-series images regarding object images passing through an exposure opening of the shutter device; and control section configured to control operation of the shutter device and operation of the image pickup element.
US08025444B2	Optical module and fabrication method of the same Disclosed is an optical module comprising, an optical waveguide on the upper side of a substrate; a cutout with at least two slant surfaces, passing at least the core of the optical waveguide; and a film-filter above the cutout. Constructions of bi-directional multi-wavelength optical transmitter-receiver assembly using the optical module as a unit element are also provided in variety on a planar substrate. According to this invention, a bi-directional multi-wavelength transmitter-receiver, which is compact, reliable, excellent in the optical performance and simple in the alignments between the composing elements, can be produced.
US08025442B2	Apparatus and method for presenting information on transparent resealable storage bags An apparatus and method for presenting information on transparent resealable storage bags. Embodiments allow for the presentation of graphic images such as numbers, letters, cartoon characters (such as Disney® characters, e.g., Mickey Mouse®), colors, animals, dinosaurs, flowers, trains, cars, planes, hearts, marketing logos, puzzles (including puzzles that are complete when the sides of the bag are next to one another and incomplete when the sides of the bag are separated) or any other information such as instructional information such as questions and answers or information that changes color based on temperature.
US08025440B2	Carriage with pivoted brace for a cable connection A carriage that can be attached to and move on a rail is provided. The carriage has a contact area that supports a cable connection, for example, for a power supply. An end section of the contact area is designed so as to fold down on removal of a pressure exerted by a section of the cable connection lying thereon, so that as a result the carriage is contracted.
US08025439B2	Radiation detector attaching and detaching device A radiation detector attaching and detaching device, for a radiation detecting apparatus having a plurality of radiation detectors for detecting radiation and a radiation detector stand for respectively maintaining the radiation detectors in trenches arranged with a predetermined interval. The radiation detector attaching and detaching device has a pair of rotational jigs abutting against projections provided at both sides of each of the radiation detectors maintained in the radiation detector stand; and a pair of rotational members configured to be freely rotatable, the rotational members comprising the rotational jigs.
US08025433B2	Stroller light A stroller light that can be easily attached to any standard baby stroller. The stroller light is comprised of a hollow housing that holds a battery pack, electric circuit, and on-off switch. A plurality of LEDs are mounted through apertures on the front and sides of the housing and can sequentially turn on and off. A hollow flag pole can be attached to the housing and wires run from the housing, through the flag pole interior to an electroluminescent wire that is sewn onto the perimeter of the flag and to an amiable light that can be used to help navigate during the evening hours. A photovoltaic solar cell is attached to the outside of the housing and can charge the battery pack during daylight hours.
US08025432B2	Helmet LED lighting system This invention relates to a miniature, battery operated, air tight light emitting module having a LED/LEDS that projects at least two different frequencies of light energy. The LEDs are mounted in a protective air-tight shell. The LEDs are activated by a magnetic field of associated magnetic rings. The attachment mechanism to hold the module(s) to safety hard hats and helmets consists of an elastic band allowing a module or series of modules to be attached to the exterior surface of various types of helmets.
US08025419B2	Weather resistant road light A weather resistant road light comprises a top cover and a ballast mounting surface disposed on a top surface of the top cover. The ballast mounting surface defines a ballast compartment lower surface. At least one wire aperture seat is disposed on the ballast mounting surface. A ballast is mounted to the at least one wire aperture seat. Wires from the ballast pass through the wire aperture seat. A ballast compartment cover covers the ballast compartment. The ballast compartment cover fits over the top of the ballast mounting surface disposed on the top cover. At least one securing member secures the ballast to the ballast mounting surface. A bottom tray mates with the top cover, and the bottom tray has a lens opening. A reflector assembly has a socket for receiving a bulb. The reflector assembly is mounted on the bottom tray.
US08025418B2	Electrical component, such as a lighting unit and battery charger assembly An apparatus includes a housing including an AC power input and a power tool battery port adapted to receive a power tool battery pack. A light body includes an illumination portion operable to emit light. The illumination portion is movably coupled to the housing such that the illumination portion is movable between an open position and a closed position in which the housing blocks the emitted light. A circuit includes a battery charger portion. The circuit is operable when AC power is available at the AC power input to direct AC power from the AC power input to the battery charger portion and from the battery charger portion to the power tool battery port to charge the power tool battery pack and to direct AC power to the illumination portion to emit the light. When AC power is not available, the circuit directs power from the power tool battery pack to the illumination portion to emit the light.
US08025416B2	Integrated optical polarization combining prism for projection displays In an embodiment, an optical component is provided. The optical component includes a first polarizing prism having a first face, a second face and a third face. The light beam may be received incident on the first face. Light having a first polarization may be output through a second face and light having a second polarization may be output through a third face. The optical component further includes a half-wave plate fastened to the second face of the first polarizing prism. The optical component further includes a first reflecting prism connected to the third face of the first polarizing prism. The first reflecting prism has a first face and a second face, the first face connected to the third face of the first polarizing prism. The optical component further includes a second reflecting prism connected to the half-wave plate and to the second face of the first reflecting prism. The second reflecting prism has a first face, a second face and a third face. The first face of the second reflecting prism connected to the half-wave plate and the second face of the first reflecting prism. The optical component may be used in a projector, among other potential applications in some embodiments.
US08025411B2	Liquid crystal panel and projector using the same A liquid crystal panel includes a liquid crystal display element, a micro-lens array, an adjustable lens array, and a lens control unit electrically connected to the adjustable lens array. The liquid crystal display element has a light input surface and a light output surface opposite to the light input surface. The micro-lens array has a plurality of micro-lenses disposed on the light input surface of the liquid crystal display element). The adjustable lens array has a plurality of adjustable lenses disposed on the light output surface of the liquid crystal display element. The lens control unit is capable of controlling focal lengths of the plurality of adjustable lenses.
US08025403B2	Ophthalmologic apparatus for imaging an eye by optical coherence tomography An OCT appliance (optical coherence tomography appliance) comprises an OCT module and a camera for observing the fundus of an eye. By recognizing characteristic features (biometric features), the means defining the region observed by the OCT module, in particular the scanner of the OCT module, is adjusted so that a predefined region of interest is imaged by the OCT module. In preferred embodiments, the apparatus is apt to be operated by a patient himself, and the data are transferred to a clinical server so that a more frequent, hence closer observation of the eyes of the patient is possible.
US08025396B1	Magnetic eyewear latch mechanism The present eyewear includes a pair of lenses, a pair of releasable connectors connected to respective inner ends of the lenses, a pair of temples pivotally connected to respective outer ends of the lenses and a rigid strap connected between rear ends of the temples. The strap is generally U-shaped having substantially parallel legs connected to an arc-shaped base, the substantially parallel legs being connected to rear ends of the temples and when worn, the arc-shaped base extends along the back of a user's head. A tab is permanently secured to one of the inner ends of the lenses or frames and upon joining the releasable connectors, extends to the other of the inner ends of the lenses or frames in order to stabilize the releasable connectors.
US08025394B2	Image recording apparatus An image recording apparatus includes a recording head that records an image on a recording medium, and a conveyor having an adhesive area and a charged area, that is charged by a charging unit. The adhesive area and the charged area are formed on the outer circumferential surface of the conveyor and convey the recording medium supported on the outer circumferential surface of the conveyor in a conveying direction. A medium feeder supplies the recording medium to the conveyor.
US08025383B2	Fluidically damped printhead A printhead for an inkjet printer that has a printhead integrated circuit with nozzles for ejecting ink, and a support structure for supporting the printhead IC. The support structure has ink conduits for supplying the nozzles with ink and a fluidic damper containing gas for compression by pressure pulses in the ink within the ink conduits to dissipate the pressure pulse. Damping pressure pulses using gas compression can be achieved with small volumes of gas. This preserves a compact design while avoiding any nozzle flooding from transient spikes in the ink pressure.
US08025380B2	Pagewidth inkjet printer cartridge with a refill port A printer cartridge for an inkjet printer includes a body configured for user insertion in, and removal from, a cradle of the inkjet printer; a pagewidth printhead incorporated with the body, the pagewidth printhead having an array of nozzles for ejecting printing fluids onto a media substrate; a flexible membrane attached within the body and defining a plurality of pockets each serving as a printing fluid reservoir, each pocket of the flexible membrane being adapted to expand and contract with a volume of printing fluid stored therein; a cover molding for covering the body and sealing the flexible membrane within the body; and a refill port provided on the cover molding and having a plurality of inlets each respectively in fluid communication with one of the pockets, the refill port being configured to removably receive therein a refill cartridge.
US08025378B2	Ink cartridges An ink cartridge includes a case including a front face and a rear face opposite the front face, in which the case has an ink chamber defined therein, and the ink chamber is configured to store ink. The ink cartridge also includes an extension portion extending from the from the front face of the case in a predetermined direction, and the extension portion includes a first end which is coupled to the front face of the case, and a second end opposite the first end. The extension portion also includes an opaque first portion, an opaque second portion positioned adjacent to the first end of the extension portion, and a translucent third portion positioned between the opaque first portion and the opaque second portion in the predetermined direction.
US08025377B2	Ink cartridge An ink cartridge is provided with a body, a channel module attached to the body, a plurality of first engaging parts, and a plurality of second engaging parts. The first engaging parts are arranged on one of the body and the channel module, while the second engaging parts corresponding to the first engaging parts are arranged on the other of the body and the channel module. The relative position of the body and the channel module on a two-dimension plane is substantially fixed by the engagement of the first engaging parts and the second engaging parts.
US08025373B2	Printer system, main printer and sub printer to be used therefor, and ink supply method A printer system includes a main printer which has a first tank and a first head, a sub printer which has a second tank having a volume smaller than the first tank and a second head and which is provided detachably with respect to the main printer, and a supply mechanism which supplies the ink from the first tank to the second tank when the sub printer is installed to the main printer. Accordingly, it is possible to provide the printer system, which is not provided with any exclusive station that finds no way of use except for the ink supplement and requires any excessive installation space, while the sub printer is of the ink supplement type.
US08025365B2	MEMS integrated circuit with polymerized siloxane layer A MEMS integrated circuit comprises: a silicon substrate having a passivated CMOS layer, a MEMS layer disposed on the passivated CMOS layer, and a polymer layer disposed on the MEMS layer. The CMOS layer comprises drive circuitry for actuating actuator devices in the MEMS layer and the polymer layer comprises a polymerized siloxane.
US08025359B2	Protector for ink cartridge container A protector for an ink cartridge container including a containing case body, an ink inlet for a recording head, a cartridge containing part into which an ink cartridge is removably insertable, and a door body capable of opening and closing an opening opposed to the ink inlet with the cartridge containing part sandwiched therebetween, the protector includes a protective cap unit including: a main body; a supporting rod protruded toward the ink inlet from the main body; a guiding funnel formed at a front edge of the supporting rod; and an elastic cap provided at an inner diametrical portion of the guiding funnel and capable of coming into close contact with the ink inlet, wherein: the protective cap unit is removable from and insertable into a containing case body; and the protective cap unit is formed as a different shape than that of the ink cartridge.
US08025358B2	Recording head protective cap, inkjet recording apparatus using the same, and method of producing the same A protective cap for an inkjet recording apparatus includes a recording head having an ejection surface in which open ends of nozzles are arranged in a row. The cap includes a mainbody and an elastic lip portion. The mainbody is formed of a first material mainly composed of thermoplastic elastomer and containing butyl rubber. The first material has a hardness of a first degree. The mainbody includes a base portion, and a protruding portion formed integrally with the base portion to protrude from the base portion. The lip portion is formed of a second material mainly composed of thermoplastic elastomer and containing butyl rubber. The second material has a hardness of a second degree lower than the first degree. The lip portion is disposed on at least the protruding portion to cover at least an end portion of the protruding portion.
US08025356B2	Image forming apparatus having liquid droplet detection unit A liquid ejection head unit has plural liquid ejection heads and a liquid droplet detection device that detects liquid droplets ejected from the heads. The liquid droplet detection device has LD arrays that are provided at one side surface in the longitudinal direction of the head unit and serve to emit light beams; photo diodes that are provided at the other side surface in the longitudinal direction of the head unit and serve to receive the light beams emitted from the LD arrays; and a light path forming unit that causes the light beams emitted from the LD arrays to pass through along a head surface as detection light beams from the outer side of an area capped by a cap of a maintenance and recovery mechanism of an image forming apparatus and that causes the emitted light beams to be incident on the light-receiving unit provided at the outer side of the area.
US08025355B2	Printer system for providing pre-heat signal to printhead A printer system for providing a pre-heat signal to a printhead. The system includes a printhead having a plurality of nozzles and a print engine controller for generating drive signals in accordance with print data defining a print job for the printhead. The system is configured for selectively providing nozzles actuators with a pre-heat signal derived from a combination of signals. One of the signals in the combination is the drive signal from the print engine controller.
US08025352B2	Ink jet printing apparatus and ink jet printing method An ink jet printing apparatus is provided which is capable of producing an image with a good balance between image quality and printing speed, without unduly shortening a longevity of a print head, even when an odd-numbered-pass bidirectional printing is performed. To this end, during a bidirectional multi-pass printing with a relatively small number of passes, a stepping mask is used to eliminate image problems caused by a difference in print permitted ratio between forward scan and backward scan. During a bidirectional multi-pass printing with a relatively large number of passes, a flat mask is used to give priority to suppressing density unevenness resulting from nozzle characteristic variations. As a result, the printing apparatus as a whole can produce an image with a good balance between image quality and printing speed, without unduly shortening a longevity of the print head.
US08025343B1	Wheel which produces an eccentric visual effect A metal wheel which produces an unusual visual effect when rotated employs a disc member extending between a center hub and outermost rim in angular relationship to the wheel's axis of rotation. The rim is provided with a continuously varied weighting feature to neutralize the centrifugal imbalance that would otherwise be produced.
US08025342B2	Close proximity grinder A close proximity pavement grinder is utilized for grinding close to a raised structure such as a lower surface of curbs close to the curb wall. The grinding apparatus utilizes a wide grinding head with grinding blades mounted along the length of an arbor to grind the lower surface of the curb in a single pass. The grinder includes a narrow bearing and support at the outer end of the arbor and is driven at the inner end so that the grinding may be conducted within close proximity of the curb wall. The grinder has a pivoting grinding head that can be locked at various angles relative to the grinder to match the relative angles between the pavement and the lower surface of the curb.
US08025333B2	Vehicle seats and detachable cover therefor A seat may includes a seat base, a seat cover that is capable of being detachably attached to the seat base, a first engagement member that is attached to a circumferential surface of the seat base, a second engagement member that is attached to the seat cover, and a third engagement member that is attached to the circumferential surface of the seat base. The first engagement member is capable of engaging the second engagement member when the seat cover is attached to the seat base, so as to fix the seat cover to the seat. The first engagement member is capable of engaging the third engagement member when the first engagement member does not engage the second engagement member.
US08025332B2	Item of transformable furniture The invention relates to an item of transformable furniture, more particularly to an item of furniture transformable from a chair into a desk and vice versa, from a desk into a chair. The item of transformable furniture comprises a first plate (5) and a second plate (6), linked to each other by a hinge joint (4), where said two plates can rotate respectively round first and second horizontal (2, 3) axes so that the plates can be moved from a first position as seat and back, respectively, to a second position as front panel (17) and worktop (18), respectively, and vice versa. Said plates are linked by said first and second horizontal axes to a supporting construction, which consists of at least three interconnected folding elements (1, 1′, 19).
US08025330B2	Vehicle fairing structure A fairing structure for a vehicle having a front vehicular component and a rear vehicular component in tandem and separated by a gap, comprising a top fairing surface adapted to be attached to the rear vehicular component, a first side surface adapted to be attached to a first side of the rear vehicular component, joining a first end of the top surface and generally perpendicular to the top surface, and a second side surface adapted to be attached to a second side of the rear vehicular component, joining a second end of the top surface opposite the first end and generally perpendicular to the top surface. Each of the top and first and second side surfaces has a proximal edge adapted to be positioned adjacent a vehicle, as well as a distal edge adapted to be positioned away from the vehicle with respect to the respective proximal edge. The proximal edges of the top and side surfaces attach to the leading top and side edges, respectively, of the front surface of the trailer box, so that an approximately uninterrupted surface is formed from the fairing structure to top and sides of the rear vehicular component. The area bounded by the distal edges of the surfaces is smaller than an area bounded by the proximal edges.
US08025326B2	Adjustable seating assemblies for vehicles A vehicle having an adjustable seating assembly and related method. One member of the seating assembly may be adjusted to provide a backrest to a straddle type seat of the vehicle. As such, when a carrier bed having an accessory platform is located rearward of the straddle type seat, the one member may optionally be used to provide a wall portion of the carrier bed. The one member may also be adjusted to provide an extension to the straddle type seat. As such, when an accessory platform is located rearward of the straddle type seat, the one member may optionally be used to at least partially cover a segment of the accessory platform. When an accessory platform is located rearward of the straddle type seat, an additional member of the seating assembly may be adjusted to provide a backrest to one or more of the straddle type seat or an extended straddle type seat. The additional member may also be adjusted to form a segment of the accessory platform.
US08025321B2	Device for actuating a lock integrated in a door, hatch, or similar, especially in a vehicle A device for actuating a lock mounted in a door includes a handle with a bearing extension at one end, which can be installed from the exterior of the door in a bracket mounted in the interior of the door. A two-part electrical control unit has one control unit located in the handle and a second control unit in the vehicle. Electrical wiring with two sections, which are connected to each other by an electrical coupling part and a mating coupling part, extends between the two parts of the control unit. A receptacle for the electrical coupling part is provided in the bearing extension of the handle. The mating coupling part at the end of one section of wiring projects out through the opening in the exterior panel of the door and is fitted into the coupling part of the handle before the handle is installed. When the handle is to be installed, a common structural unit is available, composed of the handle, the coupling part, and the mating coupling part. When the handle is actuated as intended after installation, its pivot axis serves simultaneously as the axis of rotation for the coupling part and the mating coupling part, which are connected to each other.
US08025319B2	Motor vehicle door lock The object of the present invention is a vehicle door latch with a locking mechanism (1, 2) comprising mainly a catch (1) and pawl (2). In addition, the vehicle door latch contains at least one sensor (4) for detecting the position of the catch (1). The invention provides an intermediate element (5) that transfers the movements of the catch (1) onto the sensor (4).
US08025318B1	Push to connect fitting with formed gripper teeth A push to connect fitting which includes a body portion and a tubular collet at least partially disposed within the body portion, wherein a section of tubing is receivable within the collet. A thread is formed on an inner periphery of the collet, wherein each turn of the thread provides two points of engagement along the longitudinal dimension of the section of tubing.
US08025317B2	Axially sealing system for connecting fluid-passed conduits A system for connecting fluid-passed conduits which can be integrated into a refrigerant circuit of a heating, ventilation and air condition system of a motor vehicle. The system includes two connection blocks, wherein the connection blocks are joined together by a fastener having an elastically deflectable transfer component, the elastically deflectable transfer component compensates for a thermal expansion of the fastening means and the connection blocks.
US08025304B2	Drive mechanisms for human-powered machines An improved power transfer mechanism for use on a human-powered machine, adapted to be drivingly connected to a power take-off device of said machines, includes: a housing adapted in use, to be disposed within a frame of said human-powered machine; at least one crankshaft adapted to be disposed within said housing; respective left-side and right-side crank arms each adapted to be drivingly associated with an end of said at least one crankshaft; and drive transfer means adapted to co-operate with said at least one crankshaft and each associated crank arm, the arrangement being such that a first member of the group comprising and left-side and right-side crank arms and said power take-off device is adapted to be attached to said at least one crankshaft, such that each of the second and third of said members is adapted to be rotatable relative to said first of said members, and each other, only to a limited and controlled degree, whilst not be movable axially or in a longitudinal direction relative to said at least one crankshaft.
US08025301B2	Structural I-beam automotive suspension arm A structural element comprising a vehicle suspension control arm is constructed from a complex, single piece, sheet metal stamped component formed from a material of uniform thickness. The stamping is configured with the correct plan view shape and formed into an I-beam cross-section comprising a central web portion and two flange portions. The central web portion is configured as a single material thickness and the flange portions comprise upstanding and downstanding closed sections with a continuous double returned segment. The open ends of the sheet metal terminate at or near the central web portion and are welded to the web portion, and in an alternative embodiment also to the continuous double returned segment, to create a favorable structural I-beam section with flange portions twice the thickness of the web portion.
US08025289B2	Recording apparatus performing skew correction A recording apparatus is capable of reliably correcting skew feeding of a recording sheet in an arrangement for conveying the recording sheet absorbed by a belt surface. The recording apparatus includes: a driving roller for driving the conveying belt wound around the driving roller and electrically charging the conveying belt by application of a voltage; and a pinching roller abutting against the driving roller via the conveying belt. A pinching section, which is formed by the driving roller and the pinching roller, corrects skew feeding of the recording sheet fed from the paper feed section and thereafter the voltage is applied to the driving roller to electrically charge the conveying belt.
US08025287B2	Sheet material feeding apparatus and image forming apparatus The sheet material feeding apparatus according to this invention comprises a sheet material stacking unit selectively located at a feeding position for feeding a sheet material and at a standby position for non-feeding a sheet material; a first holding force applying unit configured to apply a first holding force and a second holding force applying unit configured to apply a second holding force for holding the guide member to the sheet material stacking unit; and a restraining unit configured to restrain the second holding force applying unit from applying the second holding force when the sheet material stacking unit is in the standby position.
US08025286B2	Document feeder flag assembly An improved document feeder flag assembly is disclosed. The improved document feeder flag assembly allows single handed, on the fly loading of a document sorter. A method for loading a document sorting machine with a single hand, while the method of operating the machine is also disclosed. The document feeder flag assembly includes a baseplate and a pivot post attached to the baseplate. Further, the assembly includes a flag arm having a first side and a second side, the first side of the flag arm is attached to the pivot post. There is also a feeder flag having a first side and a second side, the first side of the feeder flag being attached to a second side of the flag arm. The document feeder flag assembly also includes a resistance device attached between the feeder flag and the flag arm.
US08025285B2	Sheet take out apparatus and sheet processing apparatus According to one embodiment, a sheet take out apparatus includes a supply table on which sheets are stacked; a detecting portion configured to detect a state of a top surface of the stacked sheets; a cylindrical take out rotor which is rotatably provided so as to face an end portion on a take out side of a top sheet and partially includes a suction hole to attract the sheet, the take out rotor taking out the sheets one by one by attracting the end portion on the take out side of the sheet with rotation; a suction portion which is provided inside the take out rotor and includes an air hole to attract the sheet through the suction hole, the suction portion provided so as to allow the air hole to rotationally move between a first opening position and a second opening position, the first opening position having a first distance away from the end portion on the take out side of the sheet, the second opening position having a second distance, which is longer than the first distance, away from the end portion on the take out side of the sheet; and a drive structure configured to rotationally move the suction portion to any of the first opening position and the second opening position based on state information detected by the detecting portion.
US08025284B2	Remaining sheet volume detecting apparatus and image forming apparatus A remaining sheet volume detecting apparatus includes a loading unit that loads a sheet; a driving unit that lifts up the loading unit to a feed position of a loaded sheet; a feeding unit that feeds a sheet from the loading unit that has reached the feed position; a load thickness detecting unit that detects a load thickness of sheets within the loading unit based on a movement amount of the loading unit until the loading unit reaches the sheet feed position; a sheet thickness detecting unit that detects a thickness of a sheet fed by the feeding unit from the loading unit that has reached the feed position; and a remaining sheet volume calculating unit that calculates remaining sheet volume within the loading unit.
US08025283B1	Continuous media edge reference surface for a removable media input tray assembly of an image forming device A removable media input tray assembly comprising a housing for receiving a removable media input tray. One or more housing assemblies stackable beneath an image forming device. The assembly having a substantially continuous media reference surface extending the height of a media feed path formed by two vertically aligned plates, one plate mounted on the removable media input tray and the other mounted on the housing and extending into the removable media input tray when installed in the housing, the arrangement of plates minimizing any gaps in the media reference surface within the assembly and adjacent assemblies and the image forming device.
US08025280B2	Sheet processing apparatus and sheet processing method There is provided a technique in which in a sheet processing apparatus including a switchback portion in a sheet transport path, a contribution can be made to the improvement of maintenance in the case where a sheet jam occurs in the vicinity of a switchback position. In a sheet processing method of a sheet processing apparatus for performing a specified process to a sheet, the sheet processing apparatus includes a first sheet transport path for transporting the sheet, and a second sheet transport path that is for performing switchback transport of the sheet transported in the first sheet transport path and includes at least one of a hole, a projection and a recess in the vicinity of a meeting position between the second sheet transport path and the first sheet transport path, and the first sheet transport path and the second sheet transport path are enabled to be integrally pulled out to the outside of the sheet processing apparatus.
US08025279B2	Ratcheting C-clamp A one-handed ratcheting C-clamp is provided. The C-clamp incorporates a spring loaded handle mechanically coupled to a ratcheting mechanism. The ratcheting mechanism has a plurality of gear teeth that engage the threads of a corresponding rod disposed through a hole formed in one section of the C-shaped C-clamp. The handle rotates the bidirectional ratchet such that the threaded rod is lowered or raised within the hole of the C-shaped C-clamp. A button located in the side of the handle may release the ratchet mechanism pawl to provide axial sliding engagement of the rod to a corresponding work piece. The handle and corresponding ratchet mechanism secure the rod against the work piece. Further tightening engagement of the work piece is accomplished via a lever located on a top portion of the rod.
US08025265B2	Stand for flat-panel display A stand for a display device, such as a flat-panel display, selectively accommodates mounting surfaces having disparate orientations with improved stability and durability, to facilitate viewing of the flat-panel display in either of at least two physical states of orientation as necessary or desired, specifically, with respect to both horizontal and vertical mounting surfaces. The stand includes a pivoting arm for receiving the display device, the pivoting arm including a locking member having at least two locking devices; a support arm for receiving a base; and a locking release coupled to the pivoting arm by a pivot pin and coupled to the support arm by a releasing pin for loading an elastic member, the locking release including a lever having an upper end for receiving the pivot pin and a lower end for receiving the releasing pin and compressing the elastic member, the upper end including a set of locking devices formed in correspondence to the at least two locking devices of the locking member to enable a selective engagement between one of the locking devices of the lever and one of the locking devices of the locking member.
US08025264B2	Display support device A display support device is provided, which is disposed at a rear surface of a display, such that the display is able to be suspended on a main support bracket arranged at a wall. The support bracket disclosed in the present invention is provided with one more hooks, for connecting the support bracket to the support bracket body. Furthermore, a positioning bar having a fastening function is pivoted on the support bracket body, so as to fasten the support bracket to a contact surface of the main support bracket by means of the positioning bar after being connected to the main support bracket, such that the main support bracket can be more firmly positioned, thus preventing the support bracket from releasing from the main support bracket due to vibration, and improving the fastness and safety in use.
US08025253B2	Commercial aircraft with a main deck and a lower deck In a commercial aircraft with a main deck (2) and a lower deck (5, 6), at least one passenger cabin (16, 16′) is also provided on the lower deck. The fuselage diameter lies on the order of a wide-body aircraft, and an energy-absorbing deformation structure (22, 23, 24) is arranged underneath the lower deck cabin. The invention proposes to arrange the wings (7) on the aircraft fuselage in accordance with the shoulder wing configuration, and to arrange the landing gear (10) outside on the fuselage such that the landing gear bays are spaced apart from one another by a certain distance that is defined by the positioning of the bottom longeron spars (9). This may provide that the lower deck volume situated underneath the main deck can be optimally utilized for payloads. The lower deck areas may also be interconnected in such a way that a significant useful width of the passage between the landing gear bays is achieved.
US08025250B2	Providing length equalization Length equalization may be provided. First, a plurality of conductors may be paid off from a plurality of pay-off devices respectively corresponding to the plurality of conductors to form a cable. The plurality of conductors comprising the cable may then be wound onto a take-up device. During the winding process, a guide device may be rotated to cause the plurality of conductors to have substantially a same length after the cable has been wound onto the take-up device. The guide device may be disposed between the take-up device and the plurality of pay-off devices. The guide device may have holes respectively corresponding to each of the plurality of conductors. Each of the plurality of conductors may pass through a respective hole in the guide device.
US08025247B2	Distributor plate for a VSI-crusher, and a method of replacing such a plate A replaceable distributor plate is adapted for protecting a lower horizontal disc of a rotor of a vertical shaft impact crusher. The replaceable distributor plate includes at least two separate pieces. The separate pieces are separated from each other along separating lines, as seen from above, each of which separating lines extend substantially from the center of the distributor plate to the periphery thereof.
US08025246B1	Combined mailbox shredder apparatus The combined shredder mailbox apparatus provides a single case having a mailbox with downwardly pivoted door positioned above a drawer. The shredder is disposed within the case between the mailbox and the drawer. The apparatus thereby allows a user to shred unwanted mail items rather than carry them elsewhere for disposal. Typical electrical plug, the solar panel and battery, or both can power the apparatus. The heavy duty shredder can shred up to 10 folded sheets or paper at once. The shredder can also shred credit cards and the like and compact discs.
US08025242B2	Drinking straw The straw designed for the intake of water based drink from a container. In the lower part of the flexible straw there are holes that are connected to the main tube of the straw. Above the holes and attached to the straw, there is a floating device which allows for the intake of the drink from the container only from fixed depth ranges, preferably from 5-15 mm from the surface of the water. The straw allows for the protection of the organism of the user from negative effects of the drink on the body's cells.
US08025239B2	Multiple image security features for identification documents and methods of making same An identification document manufacturing method makes an identification document with an optically variable security feature by forming a lens structure in the document's lamination layer along with image information. The method provides image information arranged to include at least two different images. The method uses pressure to form a lens profile in a laminate, including combining the laminate with ink representing the image information to form the document. The document is formed together with the laminate and ink such that the lens profile enables display of the at least two different images when the document is viewed at different predetermined angles. An information bearing document comprises a core layer, an image layer depicting at least two different images, and a laminate layer. The laminate layer is pressed on the core layer such that it forms a lens profile that enables display of the at least two different images when the document is viewed at different predetermined angles.
US08025238B2	Tire built in RFID tag Disclosed herein is a built-in RFID tire tag. The built-in RFID tire tag includes an antenna and a circuit unit. The antenna is mounted in a tire, and is configured to be operated by resonating with radio waves, which are transmitted from an RFID reader and to have a repetitive corrugated shape. The circuit unit is configured to be operated by being supplied with power using the radio waves. The antenna includes a pair of tag radiators. Each of the tag radiators is divided into a first region and a second region. The corrugation density of the second regions, which are close to the circuit unit, is greater than that of the first regions, which are not close to the circuit unit. The first regions, which depend on rotational motion of the tire, adapt flexibly to bending and torsion of the tire by the difference between the corrugation densities.
US08025235B2	Progressively degrading synthetic markers There is described a synthetic marker encoding data, the synthetic marker comprising an information payload represented by bits encoded along a spectrum, each of the bits having a priority level assigned thereto ranging from high to low, bits having lower priority levels being encoded along an end of the spectrum which is successively lost with progressively degrading marker viewing conditions compared to bits having higher priority levels.
US08025232B2	Indicia reading apparatus having image sensing and processing circuit There is provided in one embodiment an indicia reading apparatus with enhanced functionality which can filter image data prior to the capture of image data into an image frame memory for further processing. In one aspect the indicia reading apparatus can have an image sensing and processing circuit that can contemporaneously output, on respective first and second interfaces, both filtered and raw pixel values so that both filtered and raw frames of image data can be captured contemporaneously for further processing. Filtered and raw frames of image data or pixel values can also be serially output through a single interface in an interleaved manner. An image sensing and processing circuit which outputs either or both raw and filtered pixel values can be provided on a single integrated circuit. In another aspect an image sensing and processing circuit can be provided that develops data indicating a location of a decodable indicia representation within image data prior to capture of a frame of image data into an image frame memory so that when pixel values are first addressed for further processing, a decodable indicia representation such as a bar code representation has already been located. By processing of image data within an image processing circuit prior to capture into an image frame memory a trigger to read time (TTR) can be reduced.
US08025230B2	System and method for prioritizing visually aimed threats for laser-based countermeasure engagement The present invention increases the survivability of a helicopter by prioritizing a threat engagement sequence for a laser-based countermeasure system based on the determined relative lethality of each detected visually trained threat (e.g., small arms fire). The system and method defines a plurality of threat effectiveness merit factors, or lethality factors, that are determinable from available helicopter navigation and sensor data, to quantify the danger associated with each detected threat. The system and method then combines the defined lethality factors using a mathematical function, such as a merit function, to numerically quantify the level of threat posed by each threat. The calculated threat values for each of the detected threats are compared to prioritize the threats for engagement by a laser-based countermeasure system, such as a Visual Acquisition Disrupter (VAD) system.
US08025213B2	Automatic settlement of user account with creditor from transaction kiosk A transaction kiosk collects cash from a user and then electronically negotiates with the user's creditor to settle a balance on an account with the creditor. The bank recognizes the cash deposited in the transaction kiosk by the user as security for the settlement amount. The cash deposited in the transaction kiosk is considered a cash asset owned by the bank and available to satisfy depositor claims. A transaction processor brokers the transaction between the user of the transaction kiosk, the surety bank, and the creditor.
US08025211B2	Systems and methods of production, distribution, logistics, and printing of tickets Systems and methods for the production, distribution, logistics and printing of lottery tickets are disclosed. A central server provides a ticket combination and identifying variable data in response to a request from a computing system terminal. The terminal receives combination and variable data and issues commands for the printing of the same on a plurality of tickets. The tickets comprise a substratum capable of being printed upon at high speeds and colors and images. The printing may be performed at a point of sale. Prior to printing, the plurality of tickets may be imprinted with information related to marketing and appearance. Additionally, prior to the printing, the plurality of tickets do not have a combination or identifying variable data serving to identify the plurality of tickets.
US08025210B2	Insulated beverage container The insulated beverage container is a container, such as a coffee cup, providing thermal insulation for the user's hand. The container includes a vertically extending annular wall and a base, forming a beverage-receiving cup. A plurality of tubes are secured to an outer surface of the annular wall. Each tube is hollow and defines an air passage therein, and is further elongated along the vertical direction, having upper and lower air flow apertures formed therethrough. In use, heat generated by the beverage heats the air contained within the tubes. As the air rises within the tubes, ambient air at a lower temperature is drawn through the lower air flow apertures and the heated air is expelled through the upper air flow apertures, maintaining a flow of cooled air from the environment through the tubes.
US08025203B2	Process for applying material to a component, a fiber and a fiber mat Short fibers in a solder or a welding material often do not have the desired strength. Fiber mats that are introduced onto a surface or into a recess of a metallic component are provided. In addition a process for applying material to a metallic component is provided. In the process, a first fiber mat and a second fiber mat are used.
US08025201B2	Methods and apparatus for integrated circuit ball bonding with substantially perpendicular wire bond profiles Techniques for ball bonding wires in an integrated circuit are provided which allow formation of desired wire bond profile shapes for optimal performance. A wire is ball bonded to a first bond site in the integrated circuit with a bonding tool and at least one bend is formed in the wire. The wire is terminated at a second bond site with the bonding tool, thereby creating a wire bond profile. The technique is repeated for a plurality of additional wire bonds of the integrated circuit, and at least two wire bond profiles in the integrated circuit are substantially perpendicular to one another at a crossing point of the profiles.
US08025200B2	Friction stir welding machine and friction stir welding tool A friction stir welding machine is provided that is adapted to perform solid phase welding on a welding portion of materials to be welded, by pressing a welding tool against the welding portion of the materials to be welded while rotating the welding tool, and forcing the welding tool to be advanced into a softened portion which is softened by a frictional heat while stirring the softened portion, wherein a coating made of aluminum nitride is formed on at least a region of the welding tool to be in contact with the materials to be welded.
US08025193B1	Rifle holder device A rifle holder device for supporting a rifle in a position that is easy to grab for taking a shot is described. The holder device lets a hunter or shooting enthusiast carry a rifle with its weight supported on either his right or left hip. Rifles are rather heavy weapons. Should the hunter or shooting enthusiast carry one in his hands or arms for an extended period of time, his muscles can get fatigued. This makes it more difficult to get off an accurate shot in a timely manner. However, the present holder device puts most of the rifle's weight on the hunter's hip, thereby freeing his hands and arms from having to carry the rifle until it's time to take a shoot. Further, the present holder device is adjustable for carrying rifles of many different sizes.
US08025190B2	Upgraded ironing machine for ironing trousers Upgraded ironing machine, particularly for ironing trousers, comprising a supporting structure (2) of at least two substantially vertical pressing plates (3), arranged so they are facing each other and moving from a home configuration, wherein the pressing plates are substantially a long way from each other, and a working configuration wherein the pressing plates are substantially close together, at least one ironing plate (4) substantially vertical and interposable between the pressing plates in the working configuration, at least one supporting element of at least one pair of trousers positionable with the legs laid respectively on the opposite sides of the ironing plate and automated positioning means of the trousers with respect to the ironing plate.
US08025189B2	Plastic aerosol container and method of manufacturing same A container (1) for dispensing a pressurised product and a method for manufacturing the container. The container (1) includes a body (2), a collar (3) and a dispensing valve (4). The body (2) is moulded from PET or like plastics, and has a shaped neck (7) surrounding an opening. The collar (3) is also moulded of plastics material, and is shaped to be snap-fitted to the shaped neck (7) of the body (2). Alternatively, the collar (3) is shaped to straddle the internal and external walls of the neck (7) of the body (2) to form a shaped lip therearound. The dispensing valve (4) is attached to the neck/collar (7,3), and has an outer flange (11) which is formed of malleable material and is shaped to fit about and be retained by the collar (3).
US08025188B2	Powder feed system A fine powder is reliably dispensed from a hopper into containers on a moving conveyor belt with the assistance of a powder feed system. The hopper serves as a powder inlet that dispenses by gravity into a feed chamber that is form fitted to the sweep of a relatively slow rotating feed wheel with two spaced sets of pins. A relatively fast rotating agitator is located below the feed wheel which has a series of agitating blades that rotate between the span of the feed wheel pins, the blades in at least one embodiment resemble a J-shape. The agitator is located directly above a rotary trap chamber wheel, which has recesses that take doses of powder and dispense them into awaiting containers moving on a conveyor belt below.
US08025180B2	Capsule dispensing apparatus The present invention refers to an apparatus for dispensing capsules, preferably single-use, disposable capsules for the production of beverages, brews and the like, intended for use in connection with automatic food-product vending machines. The inventive capsule dispensing apparatus includes a plurality of receptacles adapted to accommodate capsules in a stacked arrangement, at least a rotary pick-up device provided with two or more compartments distributed about the axis of rotation thereof for removing the capsules from the receptacles, and a conveyor. The capsule dispensing apparatus is characterized in that between the at least a pick-up device and the conveyor there is arranged a distribution tray including a plurality of guide partitions adapted to enable the capsules to undergo a rotary motion.
US08025177B2	Joint compound container A joint compound container including a body having a generally trough shape formed from two opposing planar side walls separated from one another by a planar floor, and opposing end walls. The container also includes a reinforcing band attached to the body and configured for reinforcing each of the side walls and the end walls where the reinforcing band is displaced from an upper edge of the body only by a distance sufficient to define a scraping edge extending upwardly beyond an upper edge of the reinforcing band and where the scraping edge is formed by the upper edge of the body and supported by the band.
US08025176B2	Plastic container including a grip feature A blow molded, hollow plastic container including two opposed, relatively longer sidewall portions which alternate with two opposed, relatively shorter sidewall portions. A first of the relatively shorter sidewall portions includes a grip area, and the opposed second relatively shorter sidewall portion includes a pour area.
US08025171B2	Fuel tin The invention relates to a fuel paste tin, comprising a dished tin body (1) and a sealing lid (3), fixed to the tin body (1) with two pre-scored lines (6), along which a partial lid section (7) may be removed from the sealing lid (3) by breaking a material connection to generate a precisely defined opening (4, 10, 11) in the sealing lid (3). The invention permits the production of fuel paste tins with may be employed directly as paste burners with a desired burn capacity and burn duration, which are economic to produce and cause little litter.
US08025168B2	Apparatus and method for the separate storage and mixing of substances A storage device has a second cap for actuating a rod and permitting a fluid to flow through that cap. The storage device has an outer container and an inner container. Mounted at one end of the inner container is a first cap that rotates open and closed for allowing the contents of the inner and outer containers to mix together when desired. The other end of the inner container has an opening that is enclosed by the second cap that is operable to actuate the rod. When actuated, the rod pushes against the first cap thereby opening it in order to mix the contents. Moreover the second cap defines a plurality of holes adapted to permit a fluid to flow through them. Thus the second cap actuates the rod, yet also is disposed at the same end of the outer and inner containers from which the fluid can flow.
US08025160B2	Sulfur-impregnated organoclay mercury and/or arsenic ion removal media The use of a sulfur-impregnated organoclay provides a mercury or arsenic removal media having increased reactivity, stability, and mercury removal ability. The Hg/As removal media described herein is prepared by impregnating an organophilic clay with elemental (free state) sulfur. Alternatively, the clay can be made organophilic by onium ion reaction prior to or simultaneously with impregnating the organoclay with sulfur.
US08025157B2	Power recovery system A power recovery system is used for reducing the total energy consumption in a process such as an industrial treating process or a fluid refining process including the delivery of a fluid under a high pressure. The power recovery system includes a high-pressure pump for pressuring raw water, a reverse osmosis membrane cartridge for treating high-pressure water discharged from the high-pressure pump with a reverse osmosis membrane to produce treated water, a positive-displacement piston pump for pressuring raw water under the pressure of concentrated water which is discharged from the reverse osmosis membrane cartridge without being treated by the reverse osmosis membrane, and a power recovery pump turbine for boosting the pressurized raw water discharged from the positive-displacement piston pump and adding the boosted water to the high-pressure water discharged from the high-pressure pump. The power recovery pump turbine is actuated by pressurized water generated in the power recovery system.
US08025156B2	Method and apparatus for separating and dewatering slurries A vertical cylindrical dewatering apparatus for dewatering fibrous slurries, slurry of manure and water, or other similar slurries. The apparatus includes a housing that includes a defined chamber having an enclosed top end with a slurry injector into the chamber, a centrally disposed first filtering element that includes first and second flightings, and a second vertical cylindrical filtering element including a support grid. The first and second filtering elements define the chamber. The slurry in-flow port at the top of the apparatus directs the slurry spiraling down between the flightings. The particles start building up at the bottom of the chamber as the water is filtered out from the housing through filtrate drains. Compressed air supplied through a rotating seal down through the centrally disposed filtering element moves through the filter, and through the particles forcing the water from between the particles out through the outer filter element. After the moisture is removed from the particles, a hinge door is opened and a drive motor turns the first filter and flightings for particle removal. An alignment ring is attached to outer edges of the lower end of said flights in order to maintain a clearance of at least ¼ inch between the outer edges and the second filter element.
US08025149B2	Device for monitoring the removal of items placed in compartments of a blister package, in particular to assist a patient in following a prescribed programme of medication Described within is a device for monitoring the removal of articles contained in compartments of a standard blister package, in particular to assist a patient in following a prescribed programme of drugs. The compartments are covered with a rupturable cover. The removal of a drug out of the blister package is detected by photosensitive sensors located under the compartments, one per compartment. The device includes an opaque frame support comprising cavities which accommodate said standard blister package and covers the transparent faces of each compartment, which keeps light from the photosensitive sensors. Ambient light illuminates the photosensitive sensors when the cover of a compartment is torn and a drug removed from the compartment.
US08025147B2	Golf ball stacking device A golf ball stacking device comprises a hollow, elongated body formed of three panels of clear, flexible plastic sheet material connected together at ends to form a hollow tube having an hourglass shape and a generally triangular cross section. Each panel has relatively wide upper and lower ends and a relatively narrow neck portion positioned between the ends. The neck portions are bowed inwardly to form a relatively narrow arcuate throat for balls to pass between larger upper and lower chambers of the body. The upper chamber comprises an inlet for receiving golf balls. The lower chamber comprises a stacking chamber for stacking the golf balls in a triangular pyramid. The panels are not rigidly connected together at the throat, so that the panels surrounding the throat can flex outwardly to prevent ball clogging in the throat. Slots in the side edges permit manipulation of the balls inside the device. A removable flat tray fits under the body and supports a triangular pyramidal stack of balls on the tray.
US08025146B2	Cooleebob compliant upright drink insulator attachment Improvements in a compliant upright drink insulator attachment device that is works with a standard drink insulator. The attachment device uses two parts where one part mates with the second part to slip through a standard insulated drink holder. These insulated drink holders are commonly called coolies or koozies and are manufactured with a central hole to allow for draining. A clip connects a compliant cord to one or both of the two parts. The compliant cord is configured as a coiled cord. A weight is connected to the free end of the compliant cord to keep the insulated drink holder in an upright orientation in the water. The compliant cord allows the weight to move semi independent from the insulated drink holder, and further allows the weight to be stored within the insulated drink holder for storage when it is not being used.
US08025143B2	Bottle distribution table at the entry to single file channels The distribution table (3) is arranged downstream of an introduction table (2) and upstream of single file channels (12) and comprises an entry zone (10) which is provided at the sides with sensors (17) which detect the presence of bottles and connected to control means for controlling and regulating the introduction flow of said bottles at said entry zone (10) and also between said entry zone (10) and the single file channels (12) and distribution channels (11) of transverse alignment the number of which corresponds to half the number of single file channels (12). The distance separating channels (11) from the channels (12) is of the order of one quarter of the diameter of the bottles. The distribution channels (11) are defined by longitudinal walls (21) supported by a mobile structure (15), said structure being moved in a continuous circular sweep of low amplitude in front of said single file channels (12).
US08025141B1	Contour trimmer for potted plants A contour trimmer apparatus for potted plants includes a crank and connecting rod mechanism for moving a pair of transversely opposed pot engagement heads between open and closed positions. A gap between the pot engagement heads in their closed position may be adjusted via a lead screw arrangement which adjusts an operating position of the crank of the crank and connecting rod assembly.
US08025137B2	Power transfer/transmission apparatus A power transfer/transmission apparatus includes clutch adjusting mechanisms that are easy to assemble and are stably supported, the power transfer/transmission apparatus has a clutch housing, the clutch housing includes a vertical wall (a flange and a vertical wall) connected to a joint shaft and a peripheral wall connected to the vertical wall and enclosing a main clutch, the flange has an output unit support that rotatably supports a first end of a clutch output unit at a position that is axially different from the position of the joint shaft, a second end of the clutch output unit includes a centering part that forms a hollow axle joint having inner splines engaged with an axle so that the axle joint and axle may rotate together.
US08025127B2	Telescopic table board positioned with resilient pin A telescopic table board positioned with a resilient pin is provided, which is characterized by the following features: The telescopic table board includes a left table board and a right table board slidely nested with each other; as for the left table board and the right table board, one of them is fixedly provided with a rack, while the other with a corresponding seat bore, in which is a resilient pin positioned, which is mainly composed of a positioning fastener and a spring; the positioning fastener is provided at the head with a tooth head engaged with the corresponding rack, extends at the tail through the seat bore, and is provided at the tail end with a handle; and the spring is sleeved onto the positioning fastener, and functions between the positioning fastener and the seat bore, thus constituting the resilient-pin type telescopic positioning mechanism between the left table board and the right table board. The present utility model endows the operation table board or gangplank with the telescopic function, thus enhancing versatility and satisfying different requirements for length of the table board (gangplank) on various application occasions.
US08025123B2	Muffler structure for vehicle The invention obtains a muffler structure for a vehicle which can suppress an emission sound. In a muffler shell for a muffler for a vehicle, there are formed a peripheral joint in which an upper shell and a lower shell corresponding to a plurality of shell structure portions are joined in respective peripheral joint flanges and, and an inter-isolation chamber joint in which the upper shell and the lower shell are joined in inter-isolation chamber joint flanges and in such a manner as to partition a space positioned in an inner side of the peripheral joint into a plurality of isolation chambers and arranged in parallel in a gas flow direction.
US08025120B2	Stethoscope and antimicrobial cover An anti-infective stethoscope is described that comprises a tube member; a head member operably connected to the tube member; and first and second earpieces operably connected to the tube member, wherein the tube member and head member include an antimicrobial barrier mechanism. The earpieces may also include an antimicrobial barrier mechanism. According to one embodiment, the antimicrobial barrier mechanism may be provided in the form of a cover comprising an antimicrobial substance wherein the cover operably covers the tube member and head member of the stethoscope. In a preferred form, the antimicrobial barrier mechanism is an antimicrobial substance applied to the tube member, head member, and optionally the earpieces.
US08025117B2	Power axle for a commercial vehicle A power axle for assisting an automotive vehicle in ascending and descending steep slopes and grades includes an electromagnetic motor mounted to one floating axle of the vehicle, a junction box mounted to and electrically connected to the electromagnetic motor, a DC/AC power inverter mounted to the cab interposed between and for electrically interconnecting the vehicle's battery to the electromagnetic motor for powering the motor from the battery and control switches mounted on the dashboard and which include an on/off switch and a speed control dial for regulating and controlling the interaction and engagement of the electromagnetic motor with the floating axle of the vehicle.
US08025111B2	Agitator for a drill and related methods An apparatus assists in preventing the accumulation of debris in a flow path during the formation of a borehole. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a drill head including a drive shaft for driving a drilling element to form the borehole. Preferably, the drilling element includes a passage forming a flow path for debris from the borehole. A carrier positioned adjacent the flow path is connected to at least one agitator connected to the carrier for agitating debris in the flow path. A related method pertains to manufacturing a drill head including an agitator.
US08025110B2	Motor shaft security apparatus A down hole drilling motor shaft security apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus has a general body housing threadedly attached to a lower radial bearing housing and an output shaft extending from the lower radial bearing housing. Within the general body housing is a thrust bearing assembly that secures a portion of the output shaft within the general body housing and the lower radial bearing housing. An intermediate sleeve having a capture groove of an elongated predetermined width is threadedly attached to the output shaft. An interference structure that is secured to the general housing extends radially into the capture groove in a manner that prevents axial loads from being transmitted to the intermediate sleeve from the interference structure while the bearing assembly is intact. The interference structure is configured to secure the intermediate sleeve and the output shaft to the general housing by engagement with the capture groove of the intermediate sleeve in the event of axial movement of the intermediate sleeve a preselected amount.
US08025097B2	Method and apparatus for setting and controlling temperature One embodiment of the present invention is a method for setting and controlling temperature of a device that includes: (a) thermally contacting the device to a heat transfer apparatus, the heat transfer apparatus having an apparatus intake to receive thermal transfer fluid, an apparatus exhaust to output thermal transfer fluid, and a conduit to conduct thermal transfer fluid from the apparatus intake to the apparatus exhaust through the heat transfer apparatus; (b) flowing a first thermal transfer fluid in a first thermal control circuit at a first temperature, and flowing a second thermal transfer fluid in a second thermal control circuit at a second temperature; (c) at a first predetermined time, directing the first thermal transfer fluid to flow to the apparatus intake, and from the apparatus exhaust back to the first thermal control circuit and the second thermal transfer fluid to flow in the second thermal control circuit without flowing to the apparatus intake; and (d) at a second predetermined time, directing the second thermal transfer fluid to flow to the apparatus intake, and from the apparatus exhaust back to the second thermal control circuit and the first thermal transfer fluid to flow in the first thermal control circuit without flowing to the apparatus intake.
US08025088B2	Dual roll blind system A dual roll blind system is able to adjust a light shading rate or extent and comprises a winding roll which includes a roll casing rotatably supported between both side plates of a ceiling bracket; a driving winding roll which includes a moving member disposed between both side plates in parallel with the winding roll and is thread-engaged with a screw shaft rotating by means of a blind winding device of one side, a straight moving member which is provided for left and right straight movements by restricting the rotation of the moving member, and a roll casing engaged with the moving member and the straight moving member; a first blind material of which upper end is fixed at the winding roll and in which a light transmission part and a light non-transmission part having constant widths are alternately formed in a width wise direction; a second blind material of which upper end is fixed at the driving winding roll and which has a light transmission part and a light non-transmission part corresponding to the first blind material and is movable left and right; and a counterweight bar which fixes a lower end of the first blind material with a lower end of the second blind material being slidably inserted into the counterweight bar in a parallel direction.
US08025087B2	Ultrasonic vibration welder The present invention solves the problem that a connecting portion between a horn and a vibration transmission rod has a tendency to get damaged and the problem associated with the structure in which a chip is attached to an end of the vibration transmission rod, which occur with the known ultrasonic vibration welder. A vibration transmission rod has an end surface serving as a vibration-and-pressure application surface, and a polygonal cross section. The vibration transmission rod is disposed at an end of a horn in such a manner that they vibrate together. The vibration transmission rod and a mass are formed separately. The mass applies pressure to a projection formed at a nodal point of the vibration transmission rod.
US08025079B2	Clean out tube check valve Disclosed is a check valve for preventing liquid from entering an attached tube. The check valve includes a cylindrical housing having an inner surface and a removable plug that is at least partially within the housing. The plus has a side wall with at least part of the sidewall sloping in an inwardly direction from a top surface to a bottom surface towards a central axis. The side wall is operable to contact the inner surface of the housing and form a seal, thereby preventing liquid from passing through the housing, the housing being fixedly attached to an inner surface of a tube.
US08025077B2	Mechanical fuse to seal pipes upon unintended rupture The present invention relates to a mechanical fuse to seal pipes upon unintended rupture. When a pressure difference between a first pressure and a second pressure in a pipe is below a pressure threshold, a first spring retains a flap in a first position allowing gaseous fuel to flow from a first portion to a second portion and when the pressure difference between the first pressure and the second pressure is not below the pressure threshold the flap moves to a second position preventing the gaseous fuel from flowing from the first portion to the second portion.
US08025066B2	Absorbent fabric covered hair clip A method and tool for quickly drying and styling hair into a waved formation comprising an absorbent fabric covered hair clip that is secured about a plurality of scrunched sections of wet or damp hair. The absorbent material dries the hair more quickly by absorbing some of the moisture from the hair, the jaws help squeeze the moisture from the hair into the absorbent material covering, the softness of the absorbent material covering keeps the more rigid jaws from crimping the hair while drying, resulting in smooth continuous waves or curl.
US08025050B2	Nebulizer and cartridge structure thereof A nebulizer and cartridge structure thereof for use in a nebulization apparatus comprises a first cartridge accommodation space and a second cartridge accommodation space. The first cartridge accommodation space includes at least one connection bottom, and the second cartridge accommodation space includes at least one connection side. Moreover, the second cartridge accommodation space is disposed under a lower connection position of the first cartridge accommodation space. The connection bottom is connected to the connection side to form an included angle that can be a lead angle. The lead angle further includes a fillet angle or a chamfering angle. Accordingly, the nebulizer and the cartridge structure can efficiently reduce the residues of liquid medicament.
US08025045B2	Cooler arrangement for a motor vehicle A cooler device for a motor vehicle including a charge air cooler with a first cooler element, an EGR cooler with a second cooler element arranged substantially in plane with the first cooler element is disclosed. A screening device regulates air flow through the cooler elements. A control mechanism is operable to switch the screening device to and from between an open position and a closed position. A first screening portion allows more air to pass through than a second screening portion when the screening device is in the closed position such that air flow through the first cooler element is limited to a lesser extent than through the second cooler element in the closed position.
US08025044B1	Fuel savings device and methods of making the same An apparatus for enhancing fuel mileage of internal combustion engine consists of a tube inserted into a fuel line between a fuel storage tank and the engine, the tube having a plurality of electrodes protruding into a fuel passage within the tube. The electrodes are provided with an electrical charge for imparting electrical charges to liquid fuel molecules flowing through the fuel passage of the tube.
US08025041B2	Method of removing the fuel contained in the lubricating oil of an internal-combustion engine and engine using same The present invention relates to a method removing the fuel contained in the lubricating oil of an internal-combustion engine comprising an engine block with an air intake circuit for a fuel mixture, a burnt gas exhaust circuit, an oil sump and means for pumping the oil contained in the sump. According to the invention, the method consists in removing, after pumping the oil, the fuel diluted in the oil by heating intermittently the oil for a time ranging from 1/100 second to 10 second, in order to obtain vaporization of the fuel diluted in the oil.
US08025039B2	Valve spring device and valve train of internal combustion engine using the same A port is formed in a cylinder head of an engine. The port is opened and closed by a valve. A valve spring device is provided with a first spring and a second spring. The second spring is contained in a housing and held by a stopper in a manner such that it is compressed along an axis or subjected to a preload. The preload of the second spring is larger than an installation load of the first spring. An axial load acts on the springs. The valve spring device has load-deflection characteristics such that only the first spring deforms axially when the axial load is not larger than a predetermined value and that both the first and second springs deform axially when the axial is load exceeds the predetermined value.
US08025034B2	Interval phasing for valve timing A system for communicating information between a valve controller and an engine controller is presented. The system is designed to improve the timing of data transferred between two controllers.
US08025025B2	Apparatus and method for applying a film on a substrate A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an apparatus having a plurality of applicators, each applicator with an ingress opening to receive a liquid, and an egress opening to release the liquid, and a conductor positioned in a conduit of each of the plurality of applicators, the conductor and the conduit having dimensions to cause a surface tension of the liquid to prevent a constant flow of the liquid from the egress opening. Each conductor of the plurality of applicators can be coupled to one of one or more power sources operable to apply a charge to the liquid to overcome the surface tension and form at the egress opening of each applicator a plurality of jet sprays of the liquid applicable on a substrate to form a thin film. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US08025024B2	Pipe joint lubrication device A pipe joint lubrication device including at least one first nozzle for application of lubricant on at least one of the fittings, a threaded nipple or a threaded socket, wherein the at least one first nozzle is provided on a first jaw housing which is rotatable about the longitudinal axis of the nipple or the socket.
US08025019B1	Buoyant bumper apparatus for absorbing water vessel impact against pilings A bumper apparatus includes a roller rack and rack fasteners for mounting the roller rack vertically along a dock structure; a bumper assembly having a buoyant structure having sufficient buoyancy to cause the bumper assembly to rise and fall with the water surface and thus with the tide and with any adjacent water vessel; and a rack engaging structure slidably interconnecting the roller rack and the bumper assembly so that the bumper assembly is slidable vertically relative to the roller rack. The roller rack preferably includes a spaced apart upright pair of opposing first and second mounting rails; and a longitudinal series of substantially horizontal cylindrical rollers mounted on individual roller axles extending between and connected to the first and second mounting rails so that the rollers protrude forwardly from the mounting rails.
US08025017B2	Thread cutter for sewing machine A thread cutter for a sewing machine includes a first thread seizing assembly reciprocally movable and including two unit thread seizing members having distal ends formed with first thread seizing portions respectively, a cutting blade located nearer to the needle hole side than a movement locus of the first assembly, and a second thread seizing assembly seizing the needle and bobbin threads both seized by the first assembly during backward movement of the first assembly, cutting the threads in cooperation with the cutting blade. When the threads seized by the first assembly are further seized by the second assembly, the first assembly is moved so that the distal ends of the unit thread seizing members are spaced from each other by a predetermined distance in a direction intersecting a movement direction of the first assembly.
US08025015B1	Vehicle workstation A vehicle workstation for mounting laptop computers and other equipment inside a vehicle that is easily attached to and removed from the vehicle and prevents vehicle vibrations and jolts from being transmitted to the equipment.
US08025014B2	Railroad freight car A railroad freight car may have a body for carrying lading. The body may be a gondola car body. The car body may include a decking or floor structure, and may include longitudinally extending side beams bordering the floor structure. The connection of the side beams to the floor structure may be may without the use of a dedicated side sill. The car body structure may include cross-bearers and side beam stiffeners that are joined together by structural knees. The car body may also include clean out ports to facilitate cleaning of the lading receptacle.
US08025005B2	System and method for protecting vehicle occupants The present invention is directed to an armor system that protects vehicle occupants from lands mines or improvised explosive devices. In the preferred embodiment, the armor system has an arc member, a membrane, reactive blocks, and a reactive block enclosure. The armor system is designed to dissipate, neutralize, and redirect explosion energy, fragments and shrapnel, thereby ensuring the safety of the vehicle occupants.
US08025002B2	Planetary impact defense system A system for defending a planet having a satellite against impact from an incoming body includes an explosive system and a propulsion system. The explosive system is adapted for deployment on the satellite and detonation thereon with sufficient explosive force to produce at least one ejectum to which is imparted a velocity increment sufficient for the ejectum to exceed the satellite's escape velocity and enter orbit about the planet. The propulsion system is adapted to be secured to at least one ejectum and impart a velocity increment to the ejectum sufficient to leave orbit about the planet and enter an orbit intercepting the incoming body.The system is used in a planetary defense method in which the explosive system is deployed at a deployment site on the satellite and detonated to produce at least one ejectum having a velocity that exceeds the escape velocity of the satellite. The ejectum enters into orbit around the planet, at which time the propulsion system is secured to the ejectum to produce a projectile. The propulsion system is then activated to increase the velocity of the projectile, causing the projectile to enter into an intercept orbit targeting the incoming body and subsequently intercept and impact the incoming body. The impact prevents the incoming body from impacting the planet.
US08024999B2	Cutter apparatus of milling machine A cutter apparatus of a milling machine includes: a transmitting means in an X-axis direction provided with a spindle and a motor delivering rotation power to the spindle; a milling cutter rotatably arranged at one side of the transmitting means so as to cut a work piece; and a tool holder interposed between the spindle and the milling cutter and connecting the milling cutter to be able to eccentrically rotate in a Y-axis direction. Since the necessity of a transmitting means in a Y-axis direction can be eliminated, a mechanical structure can be simplified and a problem of restriction of addition of a model and modification of a work piece can be solved.
US08024986B2	Environmental sensing unit A duct mounted environmental sensing unit includes a plurality of sensors for detecting respective parameters of a fluid in a duct. The sensing unit enables at least three sensors to make contact with the fluid through a single insertion point in the duct.
US08024978B2	Media isolated pressure transducer having boss comprising single metal diaphragm A pressure sensor for sensing a pressure of a fluid includes a monolithic metal including substrate having a substantially planar top side, wherein the metallic comprising substrate includes s a relatively thick boss near a center of the substrate and a thinned sensing portion that is elastically deformable and pressure-sensitive positioned radially outward from the boss. At least one dielectric layer is on the top side of the substrate. A plurality of piezoresistors are on the dielectric layer, wherein the piezoresistors are positioned over the thinned diaphragm portion. At least one overglaze layer is over the conductor layer that provides apertures for electrically contacting the plurality of piezoresistors. A sensing system includes a housing including at least a first port for coupling to a fluid for measurement of a pressure of the fluid and at least one sensor in the housing including a pressure sensor according to an embodiment of the invention.
US08024975B2	Ultrasonic testing method and ultrasonic testing device using this An ultrasonic wave is sent from a transmission element to a test element to produce a plate wave in the test element, and the plate wave propagating through the test element is received by a reception element to thereby test the test element on the propagation route of the plate wave. The other probe that is the other reception element or transmission element is disposed between the transmission element and the reception element. A probe holding mechanism that has support legs contacting the surface of the test element and keeps constant an angle of the other probe with respect to the surface of the test element is allowed to support the other probe. And, the other probe is allowed to cross over in non-contact the propagation route of the plate wave extending from the transmission element to the reception element by means of support legs.
US08024971B2	Convective accelerometer A convective accelerometer capable of measuring linear or angular acceleration, velocity, or angle of inclination is provided. The accelerometer comprises sensing elements that are sensitive to convection located inside a sealed housing containing a liquid agent. Applied external acceleration causes forced convection of the liquid agent, which produces variations in an electric current produced by the sensing elements that are proportional to the applied acceleration or angle of inclination. The accelerometer has a small size, extremely wide frequency and dynamic ranges, high sensitivity, simple design and is suitable for mass production. The device has a wide range of application, such as stabilization and control systems, homeland security, and oil exploration.
US08024963B2	Material property measurements using multiple frequency atomic force microscopy Apparatus and techniques for extracting information carried in higher eigenmodes or harmonics of an oscillating cantilever or other oscillating sensors in atomic force microscopy and related MEMs work are described. Similar apparatus and techniques for extracting information using contact resonance with multiple excitation signals are also described.
US08024961B2	Simultaneous normal and radial liquid permeameter A permeameter including a fluid control chamber, a permeability specimen area, and a first outlet from the specimen area measuring fluid as a function of a normal permeability of at least one specimen in the specimen area and a second outlet from the specimen area receiving and measuring further fluid as a function of a radial permeability of the at least one specimen in the specimen area.
US08024948B2	Drum type drying and washing machine A drum type washing and drying machine has a water tank (4), a rotary drum rotatably provided in the water tank (5), a dehumidifying heat exchanger for dehumidifying air introduced from inside of the rotary drum (5), a heater unit for heating the air dehumidified by the dehumidifying heat exchanger, and a blower (131) for introducing the air in the rotary drum (5) into the dehumidifying heat exchanger and delivering into the rotary drum (5) the air heated by the heater unit. A filter (160) is placed in a suction-side channel between the rotary drum (5) and the blower and on an upstream side of air flow produced by the blower (131) in a drying process. The filter (160) is placed so as to be soaked in water supplied into the water tank in a washing process or in a rinsing process.
US08024944B2	Threadless nut A glassware forming machine baffle arm assembly that includes a quick-connect/disconnect arrangement mounting a baffle manifold on a baffle arm. The arrangement includes a baffle arm having an aperture, and a baffle manifold having a segment extending through said aperture and permitting rotation of said baffle manifold with respect to said baffle arm. The arrangement also includes a threadless nut, and a bayonet connection between said threadless nut and said baffle manifold segment.
US08024939B2	Outdoor unit of air conditioner and its control method An outdoor unit includes an outdoor unit control circuit, an inverter substrate and a compressor. Periodic communication showing the operating condition of the inverter substrate is set from the inverter substrate to the outdoor unit control circuit. Thus, when the communication is performed normally, the drive of the compressor is changed to a power saving process according to the necessity of the power consumption and the operating condition of the inverter substrate. When the communication is defective, the power-on reset is done to the inverter substrate.
US08024928B2	Method and apparatus for using solar energy to enhance the operation of a compressed air energy storage system The invention relates to a method and apparatus for using solar energy to enhance the efficiency of a compressed air energy storage system (and visa-versa). The apparatus comprises a photovoltaic panel to drive a compressor, which provides compressed air energy into an inner vessel housed within a storage tank. Two solar receiving panels are used to heat water which can be circulated and stored within an annulus surrounding the inner vessel, wherein the heated water can help regulate the temperature of the compressed air within the tank. This way, when air is released using a turbo expander, any excess temperature drops that can otherwise result from air expansion can be avoided. The overall system efficiency is enhanced by the chilled air by-product of the turbo expander which is used to generate more electrical power from an associated fuel-driven generator set, and/or by the waste heat from the compressor and from the generator set exhaust which is used in a Combined Heat and Power system (CHP) to power either a steam-driven generator set or an absorption chiller.
US08024927B1	System for buoyancy power generation An apparatus comprising the use of at least two or more vertically disposed tubular structures with each tube filled with water, and having a nozzle-like conduit at one end. Inside each tube is a sealed cylinder or float for containing either gas or water. When gas is introduced into the float positioned at the bottom of the tube, the float begins to ascend inside the tube causing the water advancing ahead of the rising float to become increasingly more pressurized due to the buoyancy effect. Maximum or near maximum pressure levels are reached when the water advancing ahead of the rising float reaches the top of the tube and is forced through the narrow conduit and the interconnected flow line. At the top, the gas in the float is replaced with water compelling the float to sink to or near the bottom of the tube where the water is replaced with gas, and the process is repeated. The coordinated ascending and descending float in their respective tubes with one gas-filled float rising within its tube while simultaneously the other water-filled float sinks within another tube, or more typically a plurality of floats and tubes constructed and operating essentially in the same way, continuously repeat this process forcing a constant flow of highly pressurized water through the system eventually striking the turbine blades to rotate the generator shaft and produce the requisite hydroelectric power.
US08024926B2	Hydraulic circuit for heavy equipment A hydraulic circuit for heavy equipment is disclosed, which utilizes a hydraulic fluid supplied from a hydraulic pump for driving a cooling fan, as a pilot signal pressure, without installing a separate constant displacement pilot pump for supplying the pilot signal pressure to a control valve for controlling the hydraulic fluid to be supplied to a working device such as a boom. The hydraulic circuit includes first to third hydraulic pumps connected to an engine; a first control valve installed in a flow path of the first hydraulic pump; a second control valve installed in a flow path of the second hydraulic pump; a hydraulic motor connected to the third hydraulic pump; a cooling fan, connected to the hydraulic motor, for discharging cooling wind to an oil cooler; a temperature sensor for detecting a temperature of the hydraulic fluid in the hydraulic tank; an electric relief valve, installed in a drain flow path of the third hydraulic pump, for variably controlling a rotation velocity of the cooling fan; a controller for controlling the hydraulic pressure that drives the hydraulic motor; and a pilot pressure generator, installed in a pilot flow path branched and connected to a flow path of the third hydraulic pump, for supplying a pilot signal pressure to the first and second control valves when shifting.
US08024920B2	Method of monitoring a dosing agent supply for treating exhaust An exhaust after-treatment system for a vehicle including a dosing agent that is selectively injected into an exhaust from a dosing agent supply includes a first module that determines a level of a dosing agent source and a second module that determines whether the vehicle is at a convenient location for replenishing the dosing agent source. A third module selectively inhibits vehicle operation if the level of the dosing agent source is below a threshold level and the vehicle is at the convenient location.
US08024910B2	Methods and apparatus for forming a container An apparatus for forming a container includes a frame, and a forming station coupled to the frame. The forming apparatus includes a plurality of folding plows configured to fold portions of a blank to form a container. The apparatus also includes a transfer assembly including a plurality of containment bars for supporting the container in a formed state. The containment bars facilitate retaining the formed state of the container while the transfer assembly transfers the container to an operator.
US08024907B2	Insulated panels A panel comprising: a frame member (70) defining a periphery of said panel; a first wall (77) retained by the frame (70) and a second wall (79) opposing said first wall (77) and together with the first wall (77) defining an internal space (73, 74) of the panel; the panel further comprising at least one intermediate wall (78) disposed in said internal space intermediate the first (77) and second walls (79) and which creates a first space (73) in said internal space between said intermediate wall (78) and said first wall (77) and a second space (74) in said internal space between said intermediate wall (78) and said second wall (79); characterized in that the frame includes respective abutment surfaces (80, 81, 82) which receive and retain respective first, second and intermediate walls wherein; the intermediate wall (78) insulates said first wall (77) from said second wall (79).
US08024903B2	Drywall crack repair backing plate A multi-perforated metallic base member device (the Backing Plate) that is used to repair stress cracks, or panel abutment joint separations in drywall boarding, thereby restoring and strengthening the repaired areas without the need to replace any affected sections, which is quickly and easily installed to the blind side of the cracked wall from the outside, by temporarily mounting it onto the (so called) locking hooks of its detachable installation member, (The Handle) thereby creating a living hinged assembly. Once mounted the base member may be pivoted over like a jackknife to be inserted into the wall cavity through a pre-cut slit in the crack, where it will spring open within the wall, to be pulled outward by the Handle and held in place against the blind side of the wall, while it is securely fastened to both cracked panel edges through the outside of the wall. The device may be applied at any desired area of the wall or ceiling framework, completely independent of rearward support from the framing members, thereby creating an artificial backing and a permanent mechanical bond between broken panel edges. Once the device is so installed, the handle may be released from its Locking Hooks by applying a simple hand squeeze. The handle may then be re-used to install multiple Backing Plates as needed. Paper or nylon mesh tape is then applied with a patching compound, sanded smooth, retextured and painted. With practice, nearly invisible crack repairs can be achieved by almost anyone.
US08024897B2	Ventilated roof system with ridge vent A roofing system in a building structure having a ridge vent includes strips of composite material having a base material adapted to form a hermetic seal with the top surface of a roofing section and recesses in a top surface in which an air permeable material can be positioned. A strip is applied to roof sections adjacent to each side of a ridge vent so that a ridge cap can overlay the strips in spaced relation from the underlying roof sections and be sealingly secured to the roof sections. The strip material establishes a barrier between the ridge cap and the roof sections through which air can pass, but through which the passage of rain and insects is inhibited.
US08024896B2	Anchor recess former A device that attaches to the rebar used to manufacture a concrete item and is left in place as the wet concrete is placed within the form for the concrete item and allowed to cure. The device is a hollow, walled, generally cup- or half disc-shaped structure having an outer forming wall and a hollow interior. The device may be a unitary or two part construction having an upper section, a lower section, upper rebar braces, lower rebar braces, and anchor holes. Anchor holes extend through the anchor recess former providing for a passage from the hollow interior to the outside. Upon the curing of the concrete, the present invention becomes an integral part of the concrete item, creating a uniform recess and exposing an anchor that can be used to lift the concrete item.
US08024889B2	Pest control method and apparatus An apparatus to project toward a tree to disburse a pheromone, comprising: a releaser (20) removably adjacent to a capsule (25) via an extension (120); whereby said releaser (20) and said capsule (25) are disposed adjacent to each other in a deployable state (180), then the releaser (20) separates from the capsule (25) but is still connected via said extension (120) whereby inertia causes said releaser (20) to move away from said capsule (25) into an attachment state (200). A method of applying a pheromone onto a tree branch, comprising: positioning a releaser (20) to a first end (122) of an extension (120); positioning a capsule (110) to a second end (124) of an extension (120); positioning the releaser (20) adjacent to the capsule (110) so that the member (10) is in a deployable state (180); projecting the member (10) in its deployable state (180) whereby inertia causes said releaser (20) to separate from said capsule (110) and form an attachment state (200).
US08024888B2	Rearming electronic animal trap with infrared sensor and multiple-killing-plate configuration An electric or electronic animal trap with a CPU-controlled, rearming, multiple killing plate configuration and automatically resetting interruptible beam sensor for triggering a high voltage cycle. A high-voltage output circuit is connected to killing plates which are activated with a high-voltage pulse train when a pest interrupts the beam signal, such as an infrared beam signal generated by an infrared transmitter to an infrared receiver. The trap is preferably configured to automatically rearm if the IR beam signal is no longer interrupted after the killing cycle. If the IR beam signal is still blocked after the killing cycle, however, the trap enters a standby mode indicating trap servicing is required to remove the dead rodent from the trap.
US08024886B2	Adjustable rod holder The invention is an adjustable rod holder comprising a tubular holster mounted to an arm and a base, wherein the arm is secured to the base by a rotating joint that is secured in a first angular position by a locking member that moves radially with respect to an axle of the rotating joint. The rotating joint can be releasably secured at a plurality of indexed angular positions by the locking member fitting within a plurality of recesses spaced radially about an axle of the rotating joint. Preferably, the arm of the rod holder has a sufficient length to allow the rod holder to store the rod in a vertical position without interference from the gunnel or other mounting surface. In one embodiment, the rod holder has a pivoting stabilizer that engages the reel of a rod placed in the holder to secure and stabilize the system.
US08024880B2	Combination exit sign and emergency light bar A combination exit sign and emergency light is provided, wherein the emergency light is disposed along a bottom, portion of the exit sign. The bottom portion of the housing is formed with a recessed section intermediate opposing side flange portions, with a light bar incorporating LEDs being mounted in the recess section to provide emergency lighting during power outages and emergency situations. The bar is white in color on the outside, except a bottom portion of the bar is left clear for the free transmission of light. With this construction, at least a substantial majority of fight generated by the LEDs will be directed out of the bottom portion, while the side portions are also preferably lit thereby providing a more intense light out of the bottom portion to assure adequate illumination leading to a suitable exit.
US08024875B2	Compact excavator implement interface A compact excavator includes a base frame, an upper frame and first and second track assemblies supporting the base frame. The compact excavator also includes a primary implement assembly coupled to the upper frame and a secondary implement assembly. The secondary implement assembly includes a lift arm assembly pivotally coupled to the base frame and an implement coupler pivotally coupled to the lift arm assembly. The implement coupler is configured to latch an implement to the lift arm assembly.
US08024862B2	Hair clipper A hair clipper has a blade block, which includes a fixed blade, a movable blade overlapped with the fixed blade to make sliding contact with the fixed blade, a pressing spring applying a pressing load to maintain a uniform contact pressure between the fixed blade and the movable blade, and a blade base for receiving and retaining the fixed blade and the movable blade and the pressing spring. The blade base has a blade holder retaining the fixed blade and the movable blade and a blade cover attached to the blade holder to cover the fixed blade and the movable blade. Further, the blade holder has a primary retainer member holding end portions of the pressing spring and the blade cover has a secondary retainer member pressing the end portions of the pressing spring in a direction in which the pressing spring is retained by the primary retainer member.
US08024859B1	Oil pump anti-wear plate for transfer case and method of use A replacement oil pump plate for attachment to an original equipment manufacture oil pump within a transfer case for elimination of mechanical wear by replacing the abrasive aluminum tabs formed on the oil pump with low-friction plastic tabs is disclosed. The present plastic tab design redistributes the surface-to-surface contact between the magnesium transfer case and the aluminum pump tabs away from the original wear points so that any necessary weld repairs to the transfer case will not be disturbed. The present replacement pump plate is provided in a kit format including a pump plate, machine screws, plastic tabs, and installation instructions. The present invention also describes a method of installing the pump plate kit on the original equipment manufacture oil pump subassembly.
US08024858B2	Method of manufacturing printed wiring board with built-in electronic component A printed wiring board is manufactured by a method in which a base substrate having a first insulation layer, a second insulation layer, and a conductive film is provided. An electronic component is placed on the first insulation layer at a position determined based on an alignment mark. After the electronic component is enclosed inside an opening of the second insulation layer, a via hole exposing a terminal of the electronic component is formed at a position determined based on the alignment mark, which is used to determine the position of the electronic component. A via conductor is formed in the via hole, and a conductive layer is formed on the conductive film and patterned to form a conductive circuit connected to the via conductor.
US08024852B1	Bar mounted tool adaptor A tool mount assembly includes drop down connections to aid in mounting of a tool to a moving base and a fail-safe tool mounting system for preventing installation of a tool in an undesired or incorrect manner. A plurality of tool mount rails are received within mounts and are uniquely tailored to assure proper placement of tools such as grippers or vacuum cups at desired locations specific to the application requirements.
US08024849B2	Fire extinguisher The fire extinguisher of the present invention includes a container housing a fire inhibiting material which may automatically discharge its fire inhibiting contents in response to a fire. In one exemplary embodiment, the fire inhibiting material is pressurized within the container and the container is structured and arranged to discharge its fire inhibiting contents in a predetermined direction. Also, a method is provided for constructing a container for holding fire inhibiting contents under pressure and a method and apparatus for effectively and efficiently filling and pressurizing the container with fire inhibiting material, forming a container structured and arranged to expel the fire inhibiting material contained therein in a predefined direction in response to a fire.
US08024839B2	Indexing hinge An indexing hinge comprises a two arm hinge half and an axle hinge half. The two arm hinge half includes two hinge arms, a projecting indexing element disposed therebetween and a first mounting element. The axle hinge half includes two axles, each extending from a toothed indexing element, and a second mounting element. When the axle hinge half is connected to the two arm hinge half by interconnecting each axle with a respective hinge arm, the projecting indexing element abuts the toothed indexing element in such a way as to prevent rotation unless an additional rotational torque is applied. An electronic equipment enclosure installation comprises an electronic equipment enclosure and an indexing hinge.
US08024837B2	Vacuum cleaner with a cover release element A vacuum cleaner comprising a housing, in which a dust collection chamber is arranged, which may be sealed by a dust chamber cover, on which an unlocking element for a clip element is provided, which cooperates with a counter-clip element on the housing, in order to hold the dust chamber cover in a closed position. According to the invention, a vacuum cleaner with improved cover lock may be achieved, whereby the unlocking element is integrated flush in the contour of the dust chamber cover and is embodied to be operated by pressing.
US08024834B2	Vehicle washing system A vehicle washing apparatus includes a brush mounted to a drive shaft, a position locator for positioning the brush relative to a vehicle to be washed and a motor for rotating the drive shaft. A controller positions the brush proximate the vehicle for washing. A load sensor, for sensing the load on the drive shaft, is connected to the controller so that the controller may react to the sensed load exceeding a threshold by controlling a retraction of the brush from the vehicle. Additionally, parameters related to the operation of the brush may be determined based on information related to the size of the vehicle to be washed, where the size information is obtained by sensors.
US08024829B2	Weight activated restraining pillow Weight restraining pillow has a filled outer perimeter area encompassing a central sling area. The sling is defined in part by two generally parallel outer seams adjacent the outer perimeter, and an inner seam located between the outer seams which help hold the fill of the perimeter in place. When a weighted object is placed on the sling, the perimeter is drawn inward toward the object placed therein.
US08024822B2	Articulating shower arm An improved shower arm. The shower arm includes an elbow portion adapted to fluidly communicate with a shower head and an arm portion adapted to fluidly communicate with a water supply. The arm portion is pivotably coupled with the elbow portion about a long axis of the elbow portion, with the long axis of the elbow portion and a long axis of the arm portion forming an angle. The arm portion and the elbow portion form a continuous channel configured to fluidly connect the water supply with a shower head. A mechanism allowing a user to selectively pivot and lock the position of the arm portion relative to the elbow portion is provided. The locking mechanism may include one or more sets of splines or similar features, such that engagement of the sets of splines securely locks the relative position of the arm and elbow portions. The splines may be coupled and decoupled by a variety of mechanisms, including: hydraulic pressure generated by a restrictor plate; a spring forcing the sets of splines together; and a pair of magnets. Alternative embodiments may omit the splines and instead employ a tab-and-gear, tab-and-ratchet, or nut-and-collet structure to selectively prohibit rotational motion between the arm and elbow portions.
US08024817B2	Wetsuit, neck opening for wetsuit and method of making same A wetsuit has a trunk portion having a pair of arm openings and a neck opening that fits about the torso of a wearer. The neck opening includes an area of reduced thickness that is folded to form a soft flexible edge. The neck opening is made by forming a channel of reduced thickness in a piece of material to surround the neck opening in the wetsuit, and folding the material along a centerline of the channel to form the soft flexible edge.
US08028342B2	Method for interactive real time sharing of multimedia data, server, and interactive real time communication network A method of sharing multimedia data, comprising: a step of inserting multimedia data into a space administered by an author; a step of the author establishing a list of approved persons receiving a right of access to the multimedia data contained in the space administered by the author, those persons forming a virtual community; a step of authenticating a visitor requesting access to the space administered by the author; a step of informing the author of the identity of the authenticated visitor; a step of the author automatically launching an interactive real time communication session with the authenticated user.
US08028336B2	Intrusion detection using dynamic tracing Techniques have been developed whereby dynamic kernel/user-level tracing may be employed to efficiently characterize runtime behavior of production code. Using dynamic tracing techniques, user space or kernel instruction sequences between system calls may be instrumented without access to source code. In some realizations, instrumentation may be interactively specified on a host system. In some realizations, instrumentation specifications may be supplied as functional definitions (e.g., as scripts and/or probe definitions) for installation on a host system. Using the developed techniques, data states, parameters passed and/or timing information may be sampled to provide more detailed insight into actual program behavior. In signature-oriented exploitations, more powerful intrusion signatures are possible. In anomaly-oriented exploitations, a more detailed “sense of self” may be developed to discriminate between normal and anomalous program behavior.
US08028327B1	Method and system for a low-cost-internet-base station (LCIB) granting a client device temporary access Methods and systems are provided for a low cost Internet base station (LCIB) to grant a client device temporary access to a wireless network. In an embodiment, an LCIB receives a request from a client device. The request includes a feature code, an access code, and a client-device identifier. The feature code in the request indicates that the client device is requesting temporary access to the wireless network. Upon detecting the feature code in the request, the LCIB compares the access code in the request with a stored access code. If the access code from the request matches the stored access code, the LCIB grants the client device access to the wireless network on a temporary basis. Alternatively, if the access code from the request does not match the stored access code, the LCIB denies the client device access to the wireless network.
US08028326B2	Federating trust in a heterogeneous network A check of a processing device is performed. A device may receive a network access request to access a network from a first processing device. A security check may be caused to be performed on the first processing device. Whether to grant the network access request to the first processing device is based on a result of the security check.
US08028323B2	Method and system for employing a first device to direct a networked audio device to obtain a media item A method for playing music includes displaying a list of playlists names, selecting one of the displayed playlists names, sending at least one attribute of a playlist corresponding to the selected playlist name to a playlist server, receiving a playlist from the playlist server wherein the received playlist corresponds to the attribute(s), selecting at least one song from the received playlist, sending information representative of the selected song to a content server, receiving the selected song from the content server, and playing the selected song(s). Requesting a playlist on the first device based on attributes, sending the same attributes to a second device having the second device request the playlist and start playing.
US08028318B2	Remote control unit for activating and deactivating means for payment and for displaying payment status The invention relates to a remote control unit for intelligent digital audiovisual reproduction systems, comprising storage means, payment means, a sound control circuit, display means and a metal chassis wherein said remote control unit comprises a distant radio frequency transmitter that is associated with a radio frequency receiver connected to the sound control circuit of the audiovisual reproduction system.
US08028311B2	Multiple positioner data storage device An optical data storage device having at least two removable rotatable disks and at least one actuator assembly for writing data onto each side of the disks and reading the data recorded on each side of the disks is provided. The disks are rotated by a dual stator/dual rotor spindle motor. The actuators are driven by a dual coil/dual moving magnet actuator.
US08028307B2	Disk apparatus having disk conveying arms A disk storage medium processing apparatus includes at least an apparatus body having a disk loading/unloading slot, a traverse unit which is disposed in the apparatus body to conduct at least one of recording, deletion, and reproduction of information onto or from a disk, and a clamper supporting device for supporting a clamper which clamps the disk to the traverse unit. A disk conveying device conveys the disk into the apparatus body when a part of the disk is inserted through the disk loading/unloading slot and ejects a part of the disk through the disk loading/unloading slot from the state that the disk is housed in the apparatus body. A control device controls the disk conveying device.
US08028306B2	Disk storage medium processing apparatus A disk storage medium processing apparatus includes a disk conveying device for conveying a disk between a disk loading/unloading slot of an apparatus body and a centering position of a traverse unit. The disk conveying device includes a pair of first and second disk guide arms which are pivotably disposed on the apparatus body and which can hold the periphery of the disk to convey the disk. Therefore, the disk storage medium processing apparatus can easily and flexibly conduct the control for conveyance of the disk no matter whether the disk has a small diameter or a large diameter, with keeping protection of the recording surface of the disk and can be formed more compactly.
US08028304B2	Component integrator Techniques allow for communication with and management of multiple external components. A component manager communicates with one or more component adapters. Each component adapter communicates with an external component and is able to call the methods, functions, procedures, and other operations of the external component. The component manager associates these external operations with local operations, such that an application may use local operation names to invoke the external operations. Furthermore, the component manager has component definitions and operation definitions that describe the component adapters and operations, including input and output parameters and the like. The component manager is able to receive a group of data including a local operation and a list of input and output parameters and determine from the foregoing information which external operation to call and which component adapter has access to the external operation.
US08028299B2	Computer architecture and method of operation for multi-computer distributed processing with finalization of objects The present invention discloses a modified computer architecture (50, 71, 72) which enables an applications program (50) to be run simultaneously on a plurality of computers (M1, . . . Mn). Shared memory at each computer is updated with amendments and/or overwrites so that all memory read requests are satisfied locally. During initial program loading (75), or similar, instructions which result in memory being re-written or manipulated are identified (92). Additional instructions are inserted (103) to cause the equivalent memory locations at all computers to be updated. In particular, the finalization of JAVA language classes and objects is disclosed (162, 163) so finalization only occurs when the last class or object present on all machines is no longer required.
US08028298B2	Systems and methods for managing shared resources in a computer system An operating system is provided wherein a plurality of objects are established and registered in response to requests from hardware or software associated with the computer system. The objects include at least one type, at least one attribute, and a handle. The plurality of objects are then manipulated to effect processing and exchange of information.
US08028297B2	Nonstop program system and a method of continuously running programs by switching between program sides A nonstop program system includes program sides each including programs accomplishing the required function of the system and a dedicated variable area storing variables used for executing the program. Those programs are independent of each other and have the same contents. When the operational state of one program side is set to an ACT state, while using the one program side as the active side for executing the program in the one program side, the operational state of another program side is set to a HOT_SBY state, and a variable area of the other program side is synchronized with the variable area of the active side, thereby alternately and periodically switching the operational states of the program sides. When switching the active side, the operational state of the other program side is switched to the ACT state to cause the other program side as the active side to continuously execute the program.
US08028286B2	Methods and apparatus for scheduling threads on multicore processors under fair distribution of cache and other shared resources of the processors A thread scheduler identifies a thread operable to be scheduled by a scheduling policy for execution on the chip multiprocessor. The thread scheduler estimates, for the thread, a performance value that is based on runtime statistics of the thread for a shared resource on the chip multiprocessor. Additionally, the thread scheduler applies the performance value to the scheduling policy in order to reallocate processor time of the thread commensurate with the performance value under fair distribution of the shared resource on the chip multiprocessor. The thread scheduler also applies the performance value to the scheduling policy in order to reallocate processor time of at least one co-executing thread to compensate for the reallocation of processor time to the thread.
US08028280B2	Compiler optimisation of source code by determination and utilization of the equivalence of algebraic expressions in the source code A computer program product and computer system for implementing a method of compiler optimisation of source code during compilation of the source code in a computer environment. The compiler optimisation of source code includes: recasting two algebraic expressions into a form of one or more token pairs arranged sequentially in a string, each token pair including an operator followed by an operand; reducing the strings in accordance with a set of predetermined simplifying rules; and comparing the reduced strings by matching to detect an equivalence of the two algebraic expressions.
US08028270B2	Data dictionary file based source code generation method and system A software generation method and system. The method includes receiving by a computing system, a first data file including first data associated with an entity. The first data file includes a first file format. The first data file is converted to a second data file including a second file format. The second data file includes the first data. A data dictionary including second data is generated. Computer source code is generated within the data dictionary. The computer source code is generated from the second data. The computer source code is transferred from the data dictionary to an import agent source code editor of a software application.
US08028267B2	Pattern designing method, pattern designing program and pattern designing apparatus An embodiment of the invention provides a pattern designing method, including the steps of carrying out transfer simulation calculation and step simulation calculation by using physical layout data produced from circuit design data, and comparing a result of the transfer simulation calculation and the step simulation calculation with a preset standard; and carrying out calculation for electrical characteristics by using parameters obtained from the physical layout when as a result of the comparison, the preset standard is fulfilled, and carrying out calculation for the electrical characteristics by reflecting the result of the transfer simulation calculation and the step simulation calculation in the parameters when as the result of the comparison, the preset standard is not fulfilled, thereby extracting the parameters.
US08028261B2	Method of predicting substrate current in high voltage device A method of predicting a substrate current in a high voltage device that may accurately predict substrate current components in each of a first region, a second region, and a third region. This may be accomplished by modeling a substrate current component in a third region, in which an inconsistency may occur when a substrate current in a high voltage device is calculated, for example using BSIM3-based modeling. According to embodiments, a substrate current for a third region may be modeled by an expression with a ternary operator, and the modeled substrate current may be added to a substrate current obtained through BSIM3-based modeling.
US08028257B2	Structure for data bus bandwidth scheduling in an FBDIMM memory system operating in variable latency mode A design structure embodied in a machine readable storage medium for designing, manufacturing, and/or testing a design for scheduling the servicing of data requests, using the variable latency mode, in an FBDIMM memory sub-system is provided. A scheduling algorithm pre-computes return time data for data connected to DRAM buffer chips and stores the return time data in a table. The return time data is expressed as data return time binary vectors with one bit equal to “1” in each vector. For each received data request, the memory controller retrieves the appropriate return time vector. Additionally, the scheduling algorithm utilizes an updated history vector to determine whether the received request presents a conflict to the executing requests. By computing and utilizing a score for each request, the scheduling algorithm re-orders and schedules the execution of selected requests to preserve as much data bus bandwidth as possible, while avoiding conflict.
US08028256B1	System and method for breaking a feedback loop using a voltage controlled voltage source terminated subnetwork model A system and method is disclosed for breaking a feedback loop by replacing at least one component in the feedback loop with a model containing two physically disconnected subnetworks that have terminals that are connected to ground with voltage controlled, voltage sources (VCVSs). Dependent source parameters of the VCVSs control lateral signal transfer though the model allowing the feedback loop to be opened or closed. The model maybe used in a software simulation in which a replicate circuit is used to set and maintain a closed-loop bias on the open-loop circuit. Small-signal analysis of the equivalent open-loop circuit allows extraction of transfer functions that yield a return ratio RR(s) corresponding to the modeled component.
US08028253B2	Method and apparatus for determining mask layouts for a multiple patterning process One embodiment provides a method for determining mask layouts. During operation, the system can receive a design intent. Next, the system can determine a set of critical edges in the design layout, and select a first edge and a second edge. The system can then determine a first trench and a second trench using the first edge and the second edge, respectively. Note that an edge of the first trench may substantially overlap with the first edge, and an edge of the second trench may substantially overlap with the second edge. Next, the system may assign the first trench and the second trench to the first mask layout and the second mask layout, respectively. The system can then increase the first trench and the second trench, thereby improving pattern fidelity. The resulting mask layouts may be used in a double patterning process.
US08028248B1	Transcription editing A computer program product for use with text transcribed from audio information, the computer program product residing on a computer-readable medium, includes computer-readable instructions for causing a computer to: enable defined keystroke combinations for use in editing the text transcribed from audio, the defined keystroke combinations corresponding to formatting functions identified as frequently-used functions during editing of a transcribed text; and respond to an activated keystroke combination by replacing a first format in the text document with a second format corresponding to the chosen keystroke combination.
US08028246B2	Concierge—shopping assistant A method for providing access to information related to a digital image record on a data processing device. The digital image record is displayed with a tab emanating from an edge of the digital image record. The tab includes an access point that allows a user to access a category of information related to content contained within the digital image record.
US08028244B2	Status processing system, status processor, and status displaying method A status processor is communicable with a host device via a network. The processor includes a media connecting unit, a status-reflecting filename setting unit, and a server unit. The media connecting unit is capable of connecting a storage media. The status-reflecting filename setting unit sets a status-reflecting filename corresponding to a status of the processor or the storage media. The server unit transmits data indicating an existence of the file having the status-reflecting filename to the host device.
US08028240B2	Custom labeler for screen readers A screen reader feature is described that enables end users to assign their own descriptions to forms and navigational elements in electronic documents such as web pages, word processing documents and portable document formats. The form or navigational element is identified by the end user. A dialog box provides a text entry box for accepting a user-defined description. The description is saved in association with the document and its particular form or navigational element.
US08028239B1	Context-based management user interface supporting extensible subtractive filtering A management user interface can be generated at run time via subtractive extensible context-based filtering. Definitions of user interface elements can include an indication of appropriate contexts for which the user interface elements are to be shown. Context factors can include application state, external state, surface or element definitions, or some combination thereof. The context-based filtering approach allows definition of user interface elements and user interface surfaces so that appearance of additional elements in the appropriate surfaces can be accomplished without programming. For example, a user interface surface definition can specify categories of user interface elements. At run time, those user interface elements of the category can be chosen for display. When new elements relating to the category are added, the new elements appear when the surface is rendered. Other features include heterogeneous type selection and exact number homogeneous type selection.
US08028232B2	Image processing using a hierarchy of data processing nodes A method of editing image data, wherein an image frame comprising a plurality of components is generated by processing a plurality of data processing nodes arranged in a hierarchical structure, said image frame is displayed to a user, said user manually selects one of said plurality of components for editing, a first data processing node considered to be appropriate to said component is selected and editing tools relevant to said first data processing node are displayed to said user.
US08028229B2	Document merge Methods and systems of merging a first document with at least a second document to generate a third document. Each of the first and second documents includes at least one data unit. Each data unit is associated with a unit identifier and an edit identifier. The unit identifiers of each of the documents are compared to the unit identifiers of the other document to determine whether each unit identifier is a matching or non-matching unit identifier. Edit identifiers of the data units associated with the matching unit identifiers are compared to each other. Data units associated with the non-matching unit identifiers are inserted directly into the third document. Data units associated with the matching unit identifiers and the matching edit identifiers are inserted directly into the third document. Data units associated with the matching unit identifiers and the non-matching edit identifiers are merged into the third document.
US08028223B2	Transmission device, encoding device and decoding device Disclosed is a transmission device which transmits a systematic code obtained by adding parity bits to information bits. When the code rate of the systematic code is a value in a specific range determined by the decoding characteristic in a case where dummy bits are not inserted, a dummy bit insertion portion inserts dummy bits into the information bits and shifts the decoding characteristic, so that the code rate assumes a value outside a specific range determined by the decoding characteristic after shifting. An encoding portion performs systematic encoding of the information bits into which the dummy bits are inserted, and deletes the dummy bits from the results of the encoding to generate a systematic code, and a rate matching portion, performs rate matching such that the size of the systematic code is equal to a size determined by the physical channel transmission rate, and transmits the systematic code.
US08028215B2	Error control code apparatuses and methods of using the same An Error Control Code (ECC) apparatus may include a control signal generator that generates an ECC control signal based on channel information. The ECC apparatus also may include: a plurality of ECC encoding controllers that output data respectively inputted via storage elements corresponding to the ECC control signal; and/or an encoding unit that encodes, using a plurality of data outputted from the plurality of ECC encoding controllers, encoding input data into a number of subdata corresponding to the ECC control signal. In addition or in the alternative, the ECC apparatus may include: a plurality of ECC decoding controllers that output data respectively inputted via the storage elements corresponding to the ECC control signal; and/or a decoding unit that decodes, using a plurality of data outputted from the plurality of ECC decoding controllers, a number of decoding input data corresponding to the ECC control signal into one piece of output data.
US08028209B2	Scalable scan system for system-on-chip design A method and system to facilitate a scalable scan system in the design of a system-on-chip. In one embodiment of the invention, the system-on-chip includes a controller and one or more clock gating units. The clock gating unit is added to each unique clock domain of each function or logic block in the system-on-chip. By having a controller that connects to each clock gating unit and the scan input and output signals in each logic block of the SOC, this allows a scalable scan system in the design of the SOC and allows frequent block level design changes in the SOC without extensive changes to the scan logic in one embodiment of the invention. In addition, the scalable scan system also allows at-speed scan write-through testing of a memory array that can improve the scan test coverage of the system-on-chip.
US08028207B1	Early memory test A PC BIOS can contain an early memory test that can identify a memory slot containing a bad memory. The BIOS can also contain a program module for using a communications port to report the identified memory slot. The communications port used for reporting is one that can be used without using system memory. In fact, the communications port can be used when there is no system memory installed in the PC. The parallel ports, LPT1 and LPT2 are such communications ports, as are the serial ports COM1 and COM2. An indicator can be electrically connected to the communications port to give a visual indication of a memory slot containing bad memory.
US08028203B2	Exception view with context A method, apparatus and computer-usable medium for the graphical presentation of the contextual relationship between a reported exception and its related resources and/or contributing factors. An exception view is presented to display an abnormally operating resource and the operational state of its related resources and/or contributing factors. Contextually related processes and resources are graphically depicted in one or more hierarchy trees, topologically-oriented views, or other depictions, with the operational health or condition of each resource indicated. Fault determination and resolution of the reported exception and its related processes and resources can then be facilitated.
US08028193B2	Failover of blade servers in a data center Failover of blade servers in a data center including powering off a failing blade server by a system management server through a blade server management module (‘BSMM’) managing the failing blade server, the failing blade server characterized by a machine type, one or more network addresses, and one or more storage addresses, the addresses being virtual addresses; identifying, by the system management server from a pool of standby blade servers, a replacement blade server, the replacement blade server managed by a BSMM; assigning, by the system management server through the BSMM managing the replacement blade server, the one or more network addresses and the one or more storage addresses of the failing blade server to the replacement blade server, including enabling in the replacement blade server the assigned addresses; and powering on the replacement blade server by the system management server through the BSMM managing the replacement blade server.
US08028184B2	Device allocation changing method Switching of the allocation of a device to a guest OS is implemented through transmission of a virtual suspension interrupt to a guest OS in a VMM; a power control notification process module that causes the guest OS to start a return process from a suspended state; a guest power process module that traps a suspension process of the guest OS; an I/O configuration change process module that updates a logical device definition of the VMM in the suspended state of the guest OS; a guest I/O emulation process module that emulates an I/O instruction that is issued by an I/O reconfiguration process module and that is executed when the guest OS has returned from the suspended state, thereby to provide a new logical device configuration to the guest OS.
US08028183B2	Power cap lower bound exploration in a server environment Disclosed is a computer implemented method, computer program product, and apparatus for determining a safe lower bound for a commonly powered data processing system. A power management module operates the data processing system using at least one nominal operating parameter during an exploration periodicity, with the at least one nominal operating parameter being clock speed. The power management module determines whether a calibration period is occurring. The power management module calibrates the data processing system up to a measurement interval duration expiration. The power management module may repeat operating the data processing system using the at least one nominal operating parameter.
US08028171B2	Signature apparatus, verifying apparatus, proving apparatus, encrypting apparatus, and decrypting apparatus Provided are a signature apparatus, a verifying apparatus, a proving apparatus, an encrypting apparatus, and a decrypting apparatus capable of efficiently reducing a signature text counterfeit problem to a discrete logarithm problem. The commitment is a hash value of a set of a value to be committed. Data including a pair of elements of a cyclic group associated with a discrete logarithm problem is used as a public key, and a discrete logarithm of an order of the pair is used as a secret key. Accordingly, it is possible to summarize secret information of an attacker from the commitment without rewinding the attacker and to ensure a higher safety than that of a Schnorr signature scheme. In addition, one-time power residue calculation is performed in each of the signature and verification calculations, so that it is possible to lower an amount of calculation in the signature and verification calculations.
US08028161B2	System for negotiating security association on application layer A first computer sends a list of possible security associations to a second computer in a message according to a protocol of an application layer, a security parameter index being contained in the message for each security association. The second computer selects a security association and transmits it or an indication of the security association selected by it to the first computer.
US08028158B1	Method and apparatus for creating a self booting operating system image backup on an external USB hard disk drive that is capable of performing a complete restore to an internal system disk Backup applications that use externally connected hard disk drives for storing full image backups of a windows system disk or compressed image or file by file backups of a windows system disk. A system incrementally updates the images, including the system registry, and puts information on the external drive that makes it bootable.
US08028152B2	Hierarchical multi-threading processor for executing virtual threads in a time-multiplexed fashion A hierarchical microprocessor. An embodiment of a hierarchical microprocessor includes a plurality of first-level instruction pipeline elements; a plurality of execution clusters, where each execution cluster is operatively coupled with each of the first-level instruction pipeline elements. Each execution cluster includes a plurality of second-level instruction pipeline elements, where each of the second-level instruction pipeline elements corresponds with a respective first-level instruction pipeline element, and one or more instruction execution units operatively coupled with each of the second-level instruction pipeline elements, where the microprocessor is configured to execute multiple execution threads using the plurality of first-level instruction pipeline elements and the plurality of execution clusters.
US08028146B2	Management of temporary and permanent areas in nonvolatile memories of a storage system The temporary area capacity required to be secured with respect to the whole permanent area is calculated in accordance with the capacity and access frequency of a host computer data permanent area of a disk device contained in the storage system and a disk device of an external storage device that is managed by a storage virtualization function of this storage system. The nonvolatile memory is defined as the temporary area and is used to temporarily store host computer data when a data I/O from the host computer is processed. The required capacity of the temporary area is re-calculated in accordance with an event such as a configuration change in the external storage system.
US08028145B2	Data storage device A data storage device that performs a process of writing to a memory a plurality of measured data sets received in time series includes: a nonvolatile memory divided in a plurality of blocks to which the measured data is written; and a write control section that performs a processing including successively writing N sets of the measured data to a given block in the nonvolatile memory, and then successively writing next N sets of the measured data to another block, wherein the write control section judges whether or not the N sets of measured data lastly written to the given block of the nonvolatile memory and another N sets of measured data obtained after the N sets of measured data lastly written to the given block contain data with a value outside a predetermined range, writes new measured data to the given block such that the N sets of measured data lastly written to the given block are not overwritten when the data with a value outside the predetermined range is included, and writes new measured data to the given block such that at least one of the N sets of measured data lastly written to the given block is overwritten when the data with a value outside the predetermined range is not included.
US08028139B2	Remote copy method and remote copy system In a configuration in which it is necessary to transfer data from a first storage system to a third storage system through a storage system between the storage systems, there is a problem that it is inevitable to give an excess logical volume to a second storage system between the storage systems. A remote copy system includes first storage system that sends and receives data to and from an information processing apparatus, a second storage system, and a third storage system. The second storage system virtually has a second storage area in which the data should be written and has a third storage area in which the data written in the second storage area and update information concerning the data are written. Data sent from the first storage system is not written in the second storage area but is written in the third storage area as data and update information. The data and the update information written in the third storage area are read out from the third storage system.
US08028132B2	Collision handling apparatus and method The present invention relates to mechanisms for handling and detecting collisions between threads (5, 6, 7) that execute computer program instructions out of program order. According to an embodiment of the present invention each of a plurality of threads (5, 6, 7) are associated with a respective data structure (9, 10, 11) comprising a number of bits (12) that correspond to memory elements (m0, m1, m2, mn) of a shared memory (4). When a thread accesses a memory element in the shared memory, it sets a bit in its associated data structure, which bit corresponds to the accessed memory element. This indicates that the memory element has been accessed by the thread. Collision detection may be carried out after the thread has finished executing by means of comparing the data structure of the thread with the data structures of other threads on which the thread may depend.
US08028129B2	Dynamically re-classifying data in a shared cache In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for determining if a state of data is indicative of a first class of data, re-classifying the data from a second class to the first class based on the determination, and moving the data to a first portion of a shared cache associated with a first requester unit based on the re-classification. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US08028125B2	Content-addressable memories and state machines for performing three-byte matches and for providing error protection A method and system for detecting matching strings in a string of characters utilizing content addressable memory is disclosed.
US08028120B2	System with flash memory device and data recovery method thereof A method is for recovering a block mapping table in a system including a flash memory device, where the block mapping table utilizes address mapping in accordance with a wear-leveling scheme. The method includes reading block arrangement information from the flash memory device for the wear-leveling scheme, restoring the block mapping table with reference to allocation block information included in the block arrangement information and scanning address allocation information included in spare regions of erased blocks of the flash memory device with reference to erased block information included in the block arrangement information and updating the block mapping table in accordance with the scanned address allocation information.
US08028119B2	Memory module, cache system and address conversion method A memory system including a non-volatile memory, a cache memory, a control circuit, and a data processing device is configured. The high speed can be achieved by transferring data in the non-volatile memory to the cache memory to retain the same therein. When the data in the non-volatile memory is transferred to the cache memory, error correction is performed so as to improve the reliability. Since the cache memory and the non-volatile memory can be accessed from the data processing device independently, improvement in usability can be achieved. The memory system including the plurality of chips is configured as a memory system module where respective chips are arranged in a stacked manner and wired by a ball grid array (BGA) and wire bonding between chips.
US08028111B2	Radio communication apparatus, communication control method, and computer-readable program A radio communication apparatus configured to perform radio communication according to a first radio communication protocol includes an identification information memory unit configured to store first identification information identifying a host apparatus and second identification information identifying the host apparatus based on a second radio communication protocol, the first and second identification information being associated with each other; an identification information reception unit; an identification information acquisition unit; and a connection request transmission unit.
US08028106B2	Hardware acceleration of commonality factoring with removable media Systems and methods for commonality factoring for storing data on removable storage media are described. The systems and methods allow for highly compressed data, e.g., data compressed using archiving or backup methods including de-duplication, to be stored in an efficient manner on portable memory devices such as removable storage cartridges. The methods include breaking data, e.g., data files for backup, into unique chunks and calculating identifiers, e.g., hash identifiers, based on the unique chunks. Redundant chunks can be identified by calculating identifiers and comparing identifiers of other chunks to the identifiers of unique chunks previously calculated. When a redundant chunk is identified, a reference to the existing unique chunk is generated such that the chunk can be reconstituted in relation to other chunks in order to recreate the original data. The method further includes storing one or more of the unique chunks, the identifiers and/or the references on the removable storage medium. The acceleration hardware and/or software can reside in multiple devices, depending on the embodiment. For example, hardware and/or software for the chunking and/or hashing functions can reside in one or more of a host computer, a removable storage device, a removable cartridge holder and the removable storage cartridge.
US08028101B2	Systems and methods for controlling HDA system capabilities Systems and methods for controlling the capabilities of an High Definition Audio (HDA) system, wherein the system determines whether an optional component such as a plug-in card is connected to the system and then configures itself in a baseline configuration if the optional component is not connected or configures itself in a different, alternative configuration if the optional component is connected. In one embodiment, a codec of the system includes a programmable processor configured to read configuration authorization information and also read configuration information from the optional component if it is connected to the system. The processor also controls the configuration of the HDA system and the operation of the codec based on the authorization and configuration information. The system can thereby provide different features and functionality using the same hardware.
US08028095B1	Multi-speed serial interface for media access control and physical layer devices A network device includes a media access control (MAC) device that transmits a first data stream at a first data rate, the first data stream including first symbols having M bits. A translator converts the first data stream to a second data stream at a second data rate. The translator includes a data appender that appends N bits to the first symbols in the first data stream to generate second symbols having M+N bits. A data duplicator duplicates the second symbols X times to produce the second data stream at the second data rate. M and X are integers greater than one, and N is greater than or equal to zero.
US08028094B2	USB video card and dongle device with video encoding and methods for use therewith A universal serial bus (USB) dongle device includes a USB interface for receiving a video signal in a first format and for sending a processed video signal in a second format wherein the first format differs from the second format. An encoding module generates the processed video signal based on the video signal. In a further embodiment, A video card includes a video receiver for receiving a video signal in a first format, based on a selection command. An encoding module generates a processed video signal in a second format based on the video signal, wherein the first format differs from the second format. A USB interface transfers the processed video signal to the host device, receives the selection command from the host device and receives a power signal from the host device to power the video receiver and the encoding module.
US08028085B2	Optimizing message transmission and delivery in a publisher-subscriber model Systems and methods for reducing the latency incurred during the publication of a message in a message publication system are provided. In a message publication system wherein the publishing component and the receiving component are located within the same processing space, several of the latency components that are usually unavoidably incurred may be eliminated. In such a system, the messaging queue is not used as a medium between the two components but is instead used as a secondary back-up storage. This results in the elimination of one latency component as the message is directly published from the publishing component to the receiving component. Further time reductions or optimizations occur when the durability, or reliability, of the message publication is not a concern and the messaging queue can be completely disregarded. Yet another optimization occurs when the identity of the subscriber is known in advance by the publisher.
US08028082B2	Location based multicast policies Disclosed herein in an example embodiment is a multicast policy infrastructure that allows administrators to integrate location awareness for a particular multicast stream when it is being forwarded to an intended user. The infrastructure provides more flexibility by allowing multicast call admission control, access control, and other multicast policies to be based on the location or conditions where the host/user is receiving the multicast stream. A multicast policy can also provide additional mechanisms such as transcoding services, compression services, etc. based on the host/user location. As will be demonstrated in example embodiments herein, location awareness can include connectivity media (wired or wireless), physical location of user, and/or signal strength (and/or effective bandwidth).
US08028080B2	Method and apparatus for media data transmission Methods and apparatuses for processing media data transmitted in a data communication medium. A digital processing system is provided with a time related sequence of media data provided to the digital processing system based on a set of data, wherein the set of data indicates a method to transmit the time related sequence of media data according to a transmission protocol. The set of data, itself, is a time related sequence of data associated with the time related sequence of media data. The time related sequence of media data may be presented and/or stored by the digital processing system.
US08028076B2	Edge traversal service dormancy A system maintains a dormant state in the host, in which no beacons (or “bubbles”) are transmitted from the host when no application or service (collectively, “processes”) of the host is accepting unsolicited traffic via the edge traversal service. When at least one application or service begins to accept unsolicited traffic via the edge traversal service, the host enters a qualified state and begins transmitting the beacons. As each additional application or service begins to accept such traffic, the number of accepting applications and services is maintained. As applications and services terminate acceptance of such traffic, the number of accepting applications and services is decremented. When the last application or service terminates acceptance of unsolicited traffic via the edge traversal service, the host re-enters the dormant state and ceases transmission of its beacons.
US08028075B2	Modified semaphore flags system and method for controlling remote communications A remote communication system and method are disclosed. An environment is identified defining a plurality of semaphore flags communicated between a first and a second computer as part of a remote session (i.e., the first computer remotely controlling the second computer via the remote session), with each semaphore flag defining an action associated with the remote session. A first application, via a unidirectional communication with the environment, modifies at least one semaphore flag associated with the environment (e.g., modifying commands to open or close files, keyboard scan codes, cursor position, mouse position, clipboard data, screen resolution, or channel administration), wherein the modified semaphore flag is extracted by an interceptor associated with the second computer and, the interceptor, based on a look-up, executes a pre-defined action affecting the remote session, wherein the pre-defined action being different than the modified semaphore flag's associated action.
US08028068B2	System using a lockbox device for releasing financial information from an information embargo setting Information is electronically transmitted from an information embargo setting. The latency and/or lag in releasing information from the information embargo setting is reduced to facilitate dissemination of the embargoed information faster than other entities. The entity controlling the release of information in the information embargo setting may include one or more of a governmental agency (e.g., associated with the United States government, associated with the Canadian government, associated with the European Union and/or one or more states included therein, and/or other agencies associated with other governments), and/or other entities.
US08028062B1	Non-disruptive data mobility using virtual storage area networks with split-path virtualization A system creates a storage area network (SAN) centric storage virtualization layer in front of storage devices. The system allows data mobility and migration without disruption to the one or more host servers attached to the SAN. Specifically, the host servers are not disrupted when switching I/Os between physical and virtual storage, for example, by taking advantage of WWPN spoofing and Fibre Channel VSAN technology. The use of VSANs effectively allow multiple virtual directors and/or switches to be created within a physical director and/or switches, each with their own separate name server, thereby providing complete isolation from one another. The host-storage pathing information is unchanged as the original physical storage port's WWPNs are spoofed by the virtual storage port. The result is two identical WWPNs within the SAN which is normally disallowed; however, by separating the physical port WWPN into one VSAN and the virtual port WWPN into another, the restriction may be circumvented.
US08028061B2	Methods, systems, and computer program products extracting network behavioral metrics and tracking network behavioral changes A network behavioral metric is extracted from a communication network based on a relevancy of the metric to network behavior by identifying a network metric x that is defined as a random variable that represents a quantitative measure of a network behavior accumulated over a period of time, selecting a network feature, generating a metric disintegration model for the network metric x comprising at least one normal behavior probability distribution function for the metric x for each value of the network feature, respectively, and at least one abnormal behavior probability distribution function for the metric x for each value of the network feature, respectively, increasing a number of the values of the metric x that indicates normal network behavior and/or abnormal network behavior based on the metric disintegration model, and selecting a network metric x as a behavioral metric based on a relevancy η of the network metric x to the network behavior. Embodiments for tracking network behavioral changes are also provided.
US08028056B1	Server monitoring framework A software framework configured to execute in a computer system and adapted to monitor statistics associated with one or more servers coupled to the computer system is disclosed. A data structure is configured to store statistics associated with the one or more servers coupled to the computer system. A server-monitoring thread is configured to update at least some of the statistics stored in the data structure, the server-monitoring thread to execute on a processor of the computer system. An application programming interface (API) responsive to a plurality of software modules executes in the computer system, the API is configured to process requests from the plurality of software modules for (i) adding or removing servers in the data structure or (ii) accessing statistics from the data structure. The computer system may be a network cache.
US08028055B2	Optimal combination of sampled measurements Two regularized estimators that avoid the pathologies associated with variance estimation are disclosed. The regularized variance estimator adds a contribution to estimated variance representing the likely error, and hence ameliorates the pathologies of estimating small variances while at the same time allowing more reliable estimates to be balanced in the convex combination estimator. The bounded variance estimator employs an upper bound to the variance which avoids estimation pathologies when sampling probabilities are very small.
US08028042B2	System and method of managing media content A system and method of managing media content is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes sending a request for a media content item from a user computer to a server via an interface to an online site. The method also includes receiving the media content item at the user computer. Further, the method includes selecting a library associated with a media content player application and, upon receipt of the media content item, automatically adding the media content item to the selected library of the media content player application at the user computer.
US08028041B2	Dynamic content for online transactions Various methods and systems provide dynamic content to users of online payment service providers without requiring users to log in or otherwise actively engage the payment service providers. In one example, a method includes providing a client device with access to an online marketplace over a network. The method also includes facilitating transmission of a user identifier stored by the client device to a payment service provider. The method further includes receiving dynamic content from the payment service provider in response to the user identifier. In addition, the method includes serving the dynamic content to the client device over the network.
US08028038B2	Obtaining a playlist based on user profile matching A system for sharing playlists utilizes a network, such as the Internet. A player device other than a general purpose computer, such as a dedicated media player or a remote control for a dedicated media player, is in communication with the server over the network. The player device is configured to receive a playlist, queue the playlist, display the playlist, and play a selection from the playlist. A user profile may be used to identify playlists that are likely to contain selections of interest to the user.
US08028032B2	Email messages The described implementations relate to email messages. One technique detects a link to a web-site in an email message. The technique causes content from the web-site to be visualized on a common display area with the email message for a recipient of the email message.
US08028028B2	Message character string output system, control method thereof, and information storage medium A message string output system which can prevent users from feeling uncomfortable due to repeated input of a particular string by another user is provided. A judging unit (36) judges whether or not a message string which is input by an input unit (30) contains a specific string. An input status information updating unit (38) updates, based on a judgment result by the judging unit (36), input status information stored in an input status information storage (46) in corresponding to user identification information corresponding to the message string. An output form determining unit (43) determines an output form of a specific string part contained in the message string based on the input status information stored in correspondence with the user identification information corresponding to the message string.
US08028025B2	Apparatus, system, and method for setting/retrieving header information dynamically into/from service data objects for protocol based technology adapters An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for processing a technology specific message. In one embodiment, a computer program product receives a message having a conventional header and a user-defined header that both conform to a predefined header format, each header comprising a header name and a value; identifies each header in the message based on the predefined header format; generates a header structure to store the header name and the value from each header; stores the header structure in a set of header structures of an extendable message business object; and passes the extendable message business object to an integration broker.
US08028022B2	Generating content recommendations from an online game A content recommendation method can include retrieving contacts for a player of a content recommendation game and listing content associated with the retrieved contacts and prompting the player in response to a selection of a particular one of the listed content to identify a specific one of the retrieved contacts as a source associated with the particular one of the listed content. The particular one of the listed content can be recommended to the identified specific one of the retrieved contacts when the player has incorrectly identified the specific one of the retrieved contacts as a source associated with the particular one of the listed content. Otherwise, the player can be awarded points in the game to a game score for the player for having correctly identified the specific one of the retrieved contacts as a source associated with the particular one of the listed content.
US08028014B2	Positioning device, method of controlling positioning device, and recording medium A positioning device, which locates a position based on satellite signals which are signals from positioning satellites, includes a position holding section which holds a reference position P, a stationary condition determination section which determines whether or not the reference position P satisfies stationary conditions B, an average position calculation section which averages the reference position P satisfying the stationary conditions B and a present located position Pg calculated by positioning to calculate an average position Pav, a position output section which outputs the average position Pav, and a position storage section which stores the average position Pav in the position holding section as the reference position P.
US08028010B2	Adjusting log size in a static logical volume A method, system, and program for adjusting the size of a file system and an inline file system log housed in a static logical volume. A computer system includes a logical volume allocated between an file system and its inline file system log. A request is received to adjust the inline log from a current size to a new size while maintaining the size of the logical volume. Storage space is then allocated from within the logical volume to the inline log according to the storage requirement for the new size. Allocating storage space may require decreasing or increasing the amount of storage formerly allocated to the inline log. Then, the inline log is reformatted to the allocated storage space, such that the storage allocated to the inline log for a file system is adjusted while the size of the logical volume housing the inline log and file system remains static.
US08028006B2	Method and apparatus for exchanging sub-hierarchical structures within a hierarchical file system A method for replacing a first sub-hierarchy of a New Technology File System hierarchical filesystem (NTFS HFS) with a second sub-hierarchy is disclosed. The first sub-hierarchy includes a first root directory having at least one special system file, and a first plurality of files. The second sub-hierarchy includes a second root directory located in a second location of the HFS, a second plurality of files and at least one placeholder file corresponding to the at least one special system file. The method includes the steps of configuring the first plurality of files to branch from the first root directory once the first root directory is accessed through the second location, exchanging the first plurality of files with the second plurality of files, and exchanging at least one directory pointer corresponding to the at least one special system file with at least one directory pointer corresponding to the at least one placeholder file.
US08028003B2	System and method for presenting survey data over a network A computer system and method for generating web pages for displaying formatted customer satisfaction display information and/or presentations on a user computer which may be located remotely and connected to the system by a computer network. The formatted customer satisfaction survey information enables a product or service provider to evaluate the quality of goods and/or services received based on database data obtained by performing surveys of customers, employees, and/or staff. This information can then be compared to normative information, national standards, or other available data. The system utilizes HTML templates, applets, and web servers to generate the web pages. i The HTML template process also allows for generation of the HTML templates by programmers. The system and method can be utilized in a quality improvement program.
US08027998B2	Minutes production device, conference information management system and method, computer readable medium, and computer data signal A minutes production device includes: a producing unit that produces minutes, based on conference information; a recommending unit that searches a database and recommends information, based on the conference information used by the producing unit to produce the minutes; and an editing unit that edits the minutes, based on the information recommended by the recommending unit.
US08027982B2	Self-service sources for secure search A flexible and extensible architecture allows for secure searching across an enterprise. Such an architecture can provide a simple Internet-like search experience to users searching secure content inside (and outside) the enterprise. The architecture allows for the crawling and searching of a variety of sources across an enterprise, regardless of whether any of these sources conform to a conventional user role model. The architecture further allows for security attributes to be submitted at query time, for example, in order to provide real-time secure access to enterprise resources. The user query also can be transformed to provide for dynamic querying that provides for a more current result list than can be obtained for static queries.
US08027974B2	Method and system for URL autocompletion using ranked results A set of ordered predicted completion strings are presented to a user as the user enters text in a text entry box (e.g., a browser or a toolbar). The predicted completion strings can be in the form of URLs or query strings. The ordering may be based on any number of factors (e.g., a query's frequency of submission from a community of users). URLs can be ranked based on an importance value of the URL. Privacy is taken into account in a number of ways, such as using a previously submitted query only when more than a certain number of unique requesters have made the query. The sets of ordered predicted completion strings is obtained by matching a fingerprint value of the user's entry string to a fingerprint to table map which contains the set of ordered predicted completion strings.
US08027972B2	Nodal data normalization Embodiments of the invention may be used to normalize data stored in an in-memory database on a parallel computer system. The data normalization may be used to achieve memory savings, thereby reducing the number of compute nodes required to store an in-memory database. Thus, as a result, faster response times may be achieved when querying the data. In one embodiment, normalization may be performed in a manner to avoid datasets that cross physical or logical boundaries of the compute nodes of a parallel system.
US08027964B2	Personalized query completion suggestion Search query processing includes receiving a search query input string from a user of a mobile device and comparing the search query input to a personalized dictionary of the mobile device, determining a suggested completion for each match in the comparison, and providing the suggested completion to the user for selection. The user can select the suggested modification, if desired, and the completed query can be submitted to a search facility. Personalized dictionaries can be generated from analysis of previously submitted search queries. The analyzed search queries may have been submitted by the user, as well as by other users with similar interests. The analysis of search queries may categorize users into clusters or groups of persons having similar interests.
US08027956B1	System and method for planning or monitoring system transformations Embodiments provide systems and methods for planning or monitoring system transformations. One embodiment of a method for planning or monitoring the transformation of a system includes developing one or more states, each state representing a system and associated with data structures representing entities comprising the system, wherein the states are ordered in a succession of states to form a scenario modeling the transformation of the system. States can be populated by reflecting one or more data structures or properties of data structures across one or more states. The method can further include collecting data associated with the system at intervals and reflecting the collected data across states. Data structures may be contained in a repository and collected data may be used to update the repository and data structures contained in the repository. A modeling tool may be utilized to display data structures in the repository according to different representations.
US08027952B2	System and article of manufacture for mirroring data at storage locations Provided is a system and article of manufacture for mirroring data. A mirror policy indicating volumes in a first storage system is processed to mirror to volumes in a second storage system and volumes in the second storage system to mirror to volumes in a third storage system. The third storage system is at a first geographical location remote with respect to a second geographical location including the first and second storage systems. A command is transmitted to cause the copying of updates to the volumes in the first storage system to corresponding volumes in the second storage system indicated in the mirror policy. Upon an occurrence of an event, the causing the suspension of the copying of updates to the volumes in the first storage system indicated in the mirroring policy to the volumes in the second storage system. During the suspension of the copying of volumes between the first and second storage systems, causing the copying of updates to the volumes in the second storage system indicated in the mirroring policy to the volumes in the third storage system indicated in the mirroring policy.
US08027950B1	Electronic file creation and management systems and methods A method of file management in an electronic processing system includes defining in the electronic system an electronic file of a selected file type and at least one electronic sub-folder within the electronic file for storing information of a corresponding information type. Roles are defined in the electronic processing system for participants creating and utilizing the electronic file, including a role for an information collector. The information collector is electronically tasked to collect information of the information type, which is uploaded and selectively stored in the sub-folder in the electronic file. Selected participants are allowed to access the electronic file as defined by the corresponding role.
US08027941B2	Automated classification algorithm comprising at least one input-invariant part A classification algorithm is separated into one or more input-invariant parts and one or more input-dependent classification parts. The input-invariant parts of the classification algorithm capture the underlying and unchanging relationships between the plurality of data elements being operated upon by the classification algorithm, whereas the one or more classification parts embody the probabilistic labeling of the data elements according to the various classifications. For any given iteration, a user's input is used to modify at least one classification part of the algorithm. Recalculated classification parts (i.e., updated classification results) are determined based on computationally simple combinations of the one or more modified classification parts and the one or more input-invariant parts. Preferably, a graphical user interface is used to solicit user input. In this manner, wait times between user feedback iterations can be dramatically reduced, thereby making application of active learning to classification tasks a practical reality.
US08027937B1	Systems, devices, and methods for providing multiple services to premises over communication networks Methods, systems, and devices for providing one or more virtual networks for a plurality of services are disclosed. The device may include a secure access node coupled to a wide area communication network and a premises communication network. The secure access node may have a node software platform, one or more node processors, a node storage device, and one or more node communication interfaces. Further, the secure access node may receive a plurality of data packets through one of the one or more node communication interfaces. The node software platform may execute on one of the node processors and may include a node deep packet inspection engine, a node rules generation engine, a node rule check and notification generation engine, a node service segregation engine, a node communication software application, and a node service adapter software application.
US08027934B2	Method and system for paying for a service A system of paying for a service that is delivered to a user by a provider of said service, the system including print means for printing out a docket issued by the service provider and bearing the amount to be paid for the requested service, and franking means for printing a postage amount equal to said amount to be paid on said docket or on a label affixed next to said docket.
US08027926B2	Secure and recoverable database for on-line value-bearing item system An on-line value bearing item (VBI) printing system that includes one or more cryptographic modules and a secure database is disclosed. The secure database includes account balances and other information for all of the on-line value-bearing item system customers and is capable of preventing access by unauthorized users. Also, a secure communication network is in operation to prevent unauthorized access to the users' data stored in the database.A plurality of subsystems located on the server system side of the on-line VBI system provide services related to purchasing, accounting, and printing of VBI. In addition to the secure database, the server system includes one or more cryptographic modules for authenticating, processing value for the VBI, and generating indicia data for the plurality of users.
US08027923B2	Certified transmission system The invention provides a method and apparatus for transmitting a message from a sender to an intended recipient. The method includes encrypting a message using a symmetric key, sending the encrypted message to an intended recipient without the symmetric key and providing the symmetric key to a third party. If the intended recipient signs and returns to the third party a receipt for the message, the method includes transferring, by the third party, the receipt to the sender and providing the symmetric key to the intended recipient.
US08027917B2	Method for facilitating financial and non financial transactions between customers, retailers and suppliers A new medium of tender employs both a primary barcode and a merchant specific extension barcode that are both associated with specific consumers. The system operates within preexisting merchant platforms and links merchant systems, POS systems, inventory systems, SKU systems, barcode readers and a server switch. The system allows the ready linking and access of consumer transaction related information including purchase history, credit information, merchandise details and similar information. It further allows for the ready remittance of payment via the ACH network through the eCache computer network or other funding networks based on criteria established by the merchant itself. It further facilitates the administration of consumer rewards or loyalty programs and also facilitates consignment arrangements between suppliers and merchants.
US08027916B2	Method and apparatus for screening financial transactions A system for screening money transfers. According to one embodiment of the invention an operator is provided with at least one prompt to request further information about an attempted money transfer. The operator can be prompted with a series of questions to facilitate a regimented screening process of suspicious transfers.
US08027912B1	System and method for merchant risk management Systems and methods for quantifying and managing financial risks related to a processing agent or transaction acquiror's relationship to a merchant are described. Factor analysis may be utilized to determine one or more principal components from data associated with merchant credit transactions, and such principal components may be utilized in the calculation of cumulative distribution functions and the generation of probability values, which may be averaged and compared with predetermined thresholds to provide a quantitative basis for determining whether a risk management event related to one or more particular merchants should be triggered. Net estimated forward-looking liabilities for particular merchants and groups of merchants may be quantitatively assessed and acted upon.
US08027910B2	System and method for displaying highest and lowest traded prices of tradable objects A client terminal displays on a graphical interface a first indicator of a price associated with a lowest traded price of a tradable object during a predetermined period of time, a second indicator of a price associated with a highest traded price of the tradable object during the predetermined period of time, along with at least one quantity indicator associated with at least one order to buy/order the tradable object. The first indicator, the second indicator, and the at least one quantity indicator are displayed in relation to a static axis of price, and the client terminal dynamically updates the first and second indicator to new lowest and highest traded prices based on market updates received from an exchange.
US08027907B2	Fixed-income system for managing pre-trade activity Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for managing pre-trade activity. In general, a distribution of information about what traders and customers want to do may be known. Users may be made aware of trade ideas that can be proposed to a trading desk's buy-side clients. Relevant information on the trading desk may be brought together, and the information may be processed through a set of rules that extract trading opportunities. On the buy side, trade ideas may be extracted without having to have the intervention of a sell-side salesforce.
US08027904B2	Method and system for creating and trading corporate debt security derivative investment instruments A method of creating and trading corporate debt security derivative investment instruments on an exchange, as well as a trading facility for trading such derivatives, is disclosed. Corporate debt security derivative investment instruments are created by identifying a credit rating service that includes a plurality of risk categories. Unique monetary values are mapped to risk categories and an entity rated by the credit rating service is identified. A corporate debt security derivative investment instrument is then created whose value is determined at least in part by the monetary value to which the risk category associated with the rated entity is mapped.
US08027899B2	System and method for forming a financial instrument indexed to entertainment revenue A method for forming a securities bundle indexed to entertainment revenue includes determining a first funding amount for a first entertainment event. A second funding amount is determined for a second entertainment event. Next, a dividend schedule is determined for the first and second entertainment events. A securities bundle is formed at least partially based on the funding amounts and the dividend schedule, with the securities bundle comprising a first security and a second security. The first security is associated with the first entertainment event and the second security is associated with the second entertainment event.
US08027895B2	Architecture for anonymous trading system An anonymous trading system comprises a network of broker nodes, each of which have an equal status and can match orders, initiate deals and distribute prices. Trading agents are connected to some or all of the broker nodes. The network is arranged to conform to a series of rules and in a preferred embodiment the brokers are arranged as a clique tree.
US08027884B2	Contextual presentation on electronic catalog pages of information reflective of prior orders An electronic catalog system, which may be implemented as a web site or another type of interactive system, presents context-sensitive information to customers reflective of their prior orders. In one embodiment, when a customer requests an item detail page for a particular item, the system may supplement the item detail page with information reflective of one or more related orders previously placed by the customer. This information may include, for example, an indication that the customer previously ordered this item or a related item, and may include information, such as status information, regarding such previously placed order(s). If the customer previously ordered a related item, the information provided on the item detail page may include an indication of whether the previously ordered item is compatible or interoperable with the item being viewed.
US08027872B2	Passenger transportation system and method for obtaining tickets in such a system A method for obtaining tickets for journeys in a passenger transportation system (VSY) which comprises stations (S11 . . . S00) for entering and/or leaving transport means (VM1, VM2) of the system (VSY) for journeys between the stations (S11 . . . S00), wherein at least one station (S11 . . . S00) of the system (VSY) is assigned at least one contactlessly readable data carrier (T11 . . . T00) and/or at least one transport means (VM 1, VM2) of the system (VSY) is assigned at least one contactlessly readable data carrier (T10, T20), wherein the contactlessly readable data carriers (T11 . . . T00; T10, T20) contain ticket information items (IN11, IN23, INOO), and one of the contactlessly readable data carriers (T11 . . . T00; T10, T20) is read by a mobile reader (MOD) in at least one station (S11 . . . S00) and/or in at least one transport means (VM1, VM2), and the corresponding ticket information item or items (IN11, IN23, IN00) is/are stored in the mobile reader (MOD).
US08027862B2	Time series pattern generating system and method using historical information An object of this invention is to analyze history information for each of a plurality of instances, and generate a time series pattern for each of a plurality of business processes. A time series pattern generating system analyzes the history information of an instance generated upon each execution of a class that defines a series of processes and is constituted by components having a defined order, and generates a time series pattern. The history information is generated upon each execution of the components, stored in chronological order, and includes a class identifier, a component identifier, an instance identifier, and component processing time information. Information relating to the processing order of the components that are executed in each instance is created, dependence relationships between the components are estimated, and a time series pattern including a component processing order is generated.
US08027859B2	Analysis of a model of a complex system, based on two models of the system, wherein the two models represent the system with different degrees of detail Disclosed is a method for analyzing a computer-based data processing model of a complex system, said model comprising at least two modeling levels on which the system is represented at different degrees of abstraction. The inventive method comprises the following steps: a first partial model of the system is created on a first modeling level by defining objects and links between said objects; a second partial model of the system is created on a second modeling level by defining objects and links between said objects; associations or relations between objects of the first and the second modeling level are created; at least one first chain of events is created which represents a sequence of actions on the first modeling level and describes said sequence of actions by means of the objects of the first modeling level; at least one second chain of events is created which represents the same sequence of actions on the second modeling level and describes said sequence of actions by means of the objects of the second modeling level; and at least one of the following two steps: the partial models and associations and chains of events created according to the previous steps are automatically analyzed in order to determine and output quality-related data about the model; the partial models and associations and chains of events created according to the previous steps are automatically analyzed in order to obtain data about the modeled system and output said data.
US08027858B2	Cycle planning tool for territory management Electronically creating a schedule plan of events which replicates one or more previously scheduled events. A source date range is acquired into a memory of a machine. A set of previously scheduled events within the source date range is identified. A target date range is received through a user interface. At least a portion of the previously scheduled events is assigned to a date within the received target date range to create the schedule plan. The schedule plan is posted to a calendar. Another method creates a schedule plan on the basis of one or more search criteria used for identifying any match from a database. At least a portion of any matches are assigned a time slot within a target date range of a calendar program.
US08027855B2	Methods of assessing and designing an application specific measurement system Methods of assessing feasibility of a project include receiving a datum from a customer; designing an application specific system based on the datum; analyzing the datum; evaluating a set of input parameters to determine an applicability of the application specific system to a customer process; and providing feedback for the customer process with the application specific system.
US08027854B2	Method, system, and computer program product for interfacing with information sources A method, system and computer program product for interfacing between information requesters and information sources. In an embodiment, information is obtained from one or more information sources in response to client requests. In an embodiment, information received from information sources is cached for future use, such as for future client requests. In a caching embodiment, information can also be received by monitoring traffic between an information source and a third party, and/or by proactively querying the information sources. Proactive queries can be generated to populate a cache and/or to update presently cached information. In a caching embodiment, the invention includes methods for determining whether to respond to a request for information out-of-cache and/or with real-time information from an information source. In an embodiment, the invention interfaces with airline availability information sources. The invention also includes, without limitation, methods for interfacing with information sources through proxies, methods for ordering and prioritizing queries, methods for processing queries in a distributed architecture, and time-out features.
US08027846B2	Patient treatment and progress monitor display A medical information system receives patient data and information from various sources and displays such information in a variety of formats for use by member of a medical team in a hospital, clinic, or office. The system receives patient information from doctors, pharmacists, patient monitoring equipment, testing laboratories, and/or computer databases. Access to selected subsets of patient information is provided by user selection of specific data sets identified by job function selection icons. A member of the medical team can record observations about a patient using key words and phrases which can be supplemented with additional text for customized notation. Multiple types of patient data are selectively displayed simultaneously, and to multiple remote users. The system can access stored data according to user-specified formulae to compute a score or metric which reflects a relationship between various factors, each factor being weighted appropriately according to its significance as defined in the formula. A user can selectively display data in graphic form by “clicking” on a row of tabular data in a tabular region of the display and “dragging and dropping” that row to a graphic display region of the display.
US08027842B2	Service for providing speaker voice metrics A method of providing voice metrics over an established telephone call between a user and a subscriber can include receiving voice information from the user over the call and determining biometric information from the voice information for the user. The method further can include encoding the biometric metric information and sending the biometric information to the subscriber over the call.
US08027839B2	Using an automated speech application environment to automatically provide text exchange services The present solution includes an automated response method. The method can receive user interactions entered through a real-time text exchange interface. These user interactions with the speech application can be dynamically and automatically converted as necessary into a format consumable by a voice server. A text input API of a voice server can be used to allow the voice server to directly accept text input. Further, automated interactions can be received from the voice server, which are dynamically and automatically converted into a format accepted by the text exchange interface. The text exchange interface can be an off-the-shelf unmodified interface. The speech application can be a VoiceXML based application that lacks an inherent text exchange capability.
US08027838B2	Method and system for connecting characters, words and signs to a telecommunication number This invention relates to the field of wireless data and instant communication technologies and describes a method and a system for connecting words, phrases, or symbols of any languages or multimedia expressions, within the content of transmitted data, to telecommunication codes. The presented method of the invention selects a group of Telecom Codes, defines Content Names, assigns the Content Names to the Telecom Codes, receives the transmitted content, and redirects the content to the connected Telecom Codes after detecting the existence of the Content Names. The presented system of the invention combines both software and hardware functions, with the hardware portion comprising a Processor, a Memory, a Display Device, an input Device, and a Communication Interface, and the software portion comprising an Operating System, a Client Data Management Module including Management Interface, a Database Software, a group of Telecom Codes as well as other connectable Telecom Codes configured in the Database Software, a group of defined Content Names configured in the Database Software, the Connection Relations and the Rules of Directing configured in the Database Software, an Analysis and Redirecting Module, and a Communication Interface. The presented method and system, of the invention solves the difficulties in memorizing and input cumbersomeness when long Telecom Codes of many digits are used, and leads to five new application developments; Information Portal, Multiple Content Names Connecting to Single Telecom Code, Multiple Telecom Codes Connecting to Single Content Name, Connection of Classified Advertisements, and Interactive Customer Relation Management (ICRM) and Supplier Relation Management (ISRM) System.
US08027825B2	Structure for testing an operation of integrated circuitry A design structure is embodied in a machine readable medium for designing, manufacturing, or testing integrated circuitry. The design structure includes a general purpose computational resource for performing general purpose operations of a system. A special purpose computational resource is coupled to the general purpose computational resource. The special purpose computational resource is for: storing test patterns, a description of the integrated circuitry, and a description of hardware for testing the integrated circuitry; and executing software for simulating an operation of the described hardware's testing of the described integrated circuitry in response to the test patterns.
US08027821B2	Method for determining gene knockouts A method for determining candidates for gene deletions and additions using a model of a metabolic network associated with an organism, the model includes a plurality of metabolic reactions defining metabolite relationships, the method includes selecting a bioengineering objective for the organism, selecting at least one cellular objective, forming an optimization problem that couples the at least one cellular objective with the bioengineering objective, and solving the optimization problem to yield at least one candidate.
US08027815B2	System and method for detecting generalized space-time clusters A system for detecting clusters in space and time using input data on occurrences of a phenomenon and characteristics at a plurality of locations and times comprises an expectation generation module determining expected occurrences of a phenomena, and an occurrence modeling module determining actual occurrences of the phenomena. The system further comprises a search module searching the expected occurrences and the actual occurrences for a plurality of candidate solutions, wherein each solution is represented as a set of points in the three-dimensional space, and wherein each point corresponds to a location at a time. The system comprises a convex container module determining at least one solution corresponding to a selected convex container shape from the plurality of candidate solutions, and a solution evaluation module determining a strength metric for each solution determined by the convex container module, the search module selecting a dominant cluster in the input data.
US08027811B2	Processing of spectrometer pile-up events In an energy dispersive spectrometer wherein event (particle/photon) detection is performed by counting events spaced by greater than a shaping time, events which are spaced by less than the shaping time are also collected and counted. These “combined events” are treated similarly to “single events” which are spaced by greater than the shaping time, and can be used to generate combined-event spectra for comparison and/or use with the conventional single-event spectra. The combined-event spectra can be compared to the single-event spectra to provide an indication of data quality; can be subtracted from the single-event spectra to remove artifacts, and/or can be deconvolved into a single-event spectrum to increase the resolution of the single-event spectrum.
US08027809B2	Home power management system Systems and methods for managing power usage are provided. The system includes a programmable microprocessor, at least one input mechanism, a memory having instructions and/or other information, a display, at least one power consuming power device and a remote server. The systems allows the user of a power consuming device to receive instructions or other information from the server. The method includes using stored program instructions to generate power device related information on a display, collecting power device data representative of the electrical current or power consumed, connecting to a remote computing facility having a server, and providing the data to a computer remotely located from the central server.
US08027801B2	Multi drive test system for data storage device Embodiments of the invention provide a data storage device test method and data storage device manufacture method which allow a tester to perform an operation test of plural data storage devices connected thereto in a shorter period of time. In one embodiment, an operation test of each of plural HDDs 81-84 connected to a tester is performed by making plural HDDs 81-84 execute commands received from the tester, wherein, during a waiting period when exchange stops between the tester and, for example, HDD 81 of which operation test is being executed, the tester executes the operation test of another HDD. Such a waiting period occurs, for example, before HDD 81 becomes ready to receive a command, before a data transfer is completed and before HDD 81 becomes ready to receive the subsequent command. By using this waiting period, the tester issues a command to, for example, HDD 82 if the HDD is ready to receive a command or transfers data to the HDD if data transfer is possible.
US08027794B2	System and method for measuring properties of liquid in multiphase mixtures This disclosure describes measuring properties of a multiphase mixture flowing in a pipe using probes with different sensitivity depths. By generating annular flow of the multiphase mixture in the pipe, the probes may be contacted with the liquid phase of the mixture flowing on an inner-wall of the pipe and apparent permittivities of the annular flow measured by the probes. These measured permittivities may be processed to determine liquid fraction of the annular flow and water-in-liquid ratio of the liquid phase of the annular flow.
US08027786B2	Method and apparatus for editing electronic flight plans A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for managing a flight plan for an aircraft. A set of projected flight plan parameters are displayed associated with a waypoint presented on a display of an aircraft data processing system. User input is received to form a set of actual flight plan parameters. A set of variances between the set of projected flight plan parameters and the set of actual flight plan parameters is displayed on a map in association with the waypoint.
US08027784B2	Personal GPS navigation device A navigation device is disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the navigation device includes a storage device to store map information; a processor to determine a route of travel based upon a current position of the navigation device and an input or selected destination position; and a display to display the current position on the map information corresponding to the determined route of travel, the display displaying zoomed-in display of the map information upon the processor determining that a decision point is within a threshold distance of the current position of the navigation device.
US08027780B2	Method and system for controlling torque during a vehicle launch condition A method and control module for controlling an engine includes a requested torque module that generates a requested torque and a maximum toque capacity module that determines a maximum torque capacity corresponding to a maximum torque capacity of the engine. A launch trim torque threshold determination module determines a launch trim torque threshold. A comparison module that compares the requested torque and the launch trim torque threshold. An output module that applies a fast rate limit to the requested torque up to the launch trim threshold when the requested torque is less than the launch trim torque threshold and a shower rate limited torque request when the requested torque is greater than the launch trim torque threshold.
US08027776B2	Method for experimenting engine controls parts Various engine control parts, which are actually attached to the engine and are necessary for engine control, are constructed in a state where electrical transmission and fuel supply are enabled in a manner similar to a case where the engine control parts are mounted on an actual engine, and model-based control is performed using numerical formulas on the same conditions as those of the actual engine on the basis of test data of the actual engine written in an electronic control unit constituting one of the engine control parts.
US08027775B2	Vehicle control device A basic required manipulated variable Mfbdmd_a is determined on the basis of a state amount error, which is the difference between a state amount of a motion of an actual vehicle 1 and a reference state amount, then a driving/braking force manipulation control input Fxfbdmd_n of a wheel is determined on the basis of the above basic required manipulated variable. At this time, a change in a driving/braking force operation control input Fxdmd_n of a front wheel and a rear wheel, respectively, of a particular set is made to be proportional to a change in the basic required manipulated variable Mfbdmd_a, and the ratio (gain) of a change in Fxdmd_n with respect to a change in Mfbdmd_a is made to change on the basis of gain adjustment parameters, such as side slip angles βf_act and βr_act. This makes it possible to properly control a motion of the actual vehicle to a desired motion by properly manipulating a road surface reaction force acting on a front wheel of the vehicle and a road surface reaction force acting on a rear wheel.
US08027774B2	Method and device for ensuring the standstill of a motor vehicle A method ensures the standstill of a motor vehicle. Before reaching the standstill, an electronic control unit checks whether a predefined inclination threshold is exceeded, whether the velocity has fallen below a predefined travel velocity threshold, and whether there is a negative vehicle acceleration. If all three conditions exist simultaneously, an increased setpoint braking torque is predefined until the motor vehicle reaches the standstill.
US08027767B2	Method for controlling a vehicle steering system Systems and methods for controlling a vehicle steering system are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, the method includes receiving a desired front road wheel angle signal at a controller. The desired front road wheel angle signal is indicative of a desired front road wheel angle of vehicle wheels. The method further includes receiving a parking assist request signal at the controller indicating a parking assist operational mode is desired. The method further includes generating a desired motor torque signal for controlling a power steering motor in the parking assist operational mode utilizing the controller, based on the desired front road wheel angle signal and the parking assist request signal.
US08027763B2	OBD II readiness monitor tool apparatus and method An OBDII device method and system includes an inexpensive, user friendly way to determine a vehicle's readiness for emissions testing and if repairs were successful. An audible and/or visual indicator is provided to alert the repair shop technician or driver that the vehicle has completed its drive cycle and may now be tested for compliance with state and federal emissions laws or indicate that the emissions related repairs were successful.
US08027758B2	Navigation system for an aircraft and associated command process A navigation system for an aircraft, including a calculator of an estimated flight path for the aircraft; a device for determining an estimated value of a flight parameter that corresponds to an estimated speed for the extension of at least a portion of the high-lift devices of the aircraft; and a display of an indication for such estimated value. A command process for such a system and an aircraft equipped with such a system are also disclosed.
US08027751B2	Fluid delivery system A fluid delivery system for delivering a metered dose of fluid from a supply tank (28) to a downstream chamber or vessel (10), comprises a pump apparatus (20) comprising a pump plunger (32) which is operable to perform a pumping stroke under the control of an electromagnetic actuator (36), including a solenoid (36a), to effect delivery of the fluid and a control unit (24) for supplying an input signal (58) to the solenoid (36a) to initiate a current flow to the solenoid (36a) and thereby initiate movement of the pump plunger (32). An electronic device (54) provides an output signal to indicate that movement of the pump plunger has stopped at the end of the pumping stroke, and a timer determines a time difference between the input signal (58) being supplied to the solenoid (36a) and the output signal being output by the electronic device (54). A processor (26) compares the time difference with a predetermined time difference and determines, as a result of the comparison, whether or not the pump plunger (32) has performed a valid pumping stroke in which an intended volume of fluid is displaced.
US08027749B2	Handling of patient's own medicine systems, methods, and devices Systems, methods, and devices are described related to the assignment and management of patient-specific bins. A dispensing device at a healthcare facility includes a number of bins for storage of medical supplies, with some of the bins designated as patient-specific bins allocated to be assigned to patients for storage of their medications or certain other supplies. A central server computer system, in communication with a computer of the dispensing device, may monitor and assign current and future patient-specific use of the bins for the dispensing device. The assignment and management of patient-specific bins may be performed by devices distributed through the system.
US08027737B2	Lead extension with input capabilities A lead extension useful in deep brain stimulation treatment includes a body portion having a distal end and a proximal end, wherein the proximal end receives a stimulation signal from a generator. A lead interface is disposed at the distal end to send the stimulation signal to a brain stimulation lead. The lead extension also includes a sensor interface disposed at the distal end to receive an input signal from a sensor that is detached from the stimulation lead and send the input signal to the generator.
US08027735B1	Atraumatic high-retention headpiece A headpiece for a cochlear implant system includes a transcutaneous transmission coil that transfers power and/or data to an implantable device implanted under a user's skin. The headpiece includes a magnet for holding the transmission coil in close proximity to the receiver coil in the implanted device, which also contains a magnet, and provides the desired alignment between the coils so that inductive coupling may efficiently occur. The headpiece has a bottom surface for skin contact that includes a plurality of flexible bumps configured to distribute pressure over a large surface area while allowing blood flow throughout the area. This also provides friction contact with the skin to help secure the headpiece, reducing movement due to lateral loading, while reducing skin irritation and erosion.
US08027733B1	Optimizing pitch allocation in a cochlear stimulation system Optimizing pitch allocation in a cochlear stimulation system may include implanting an electrode array having a plurality of electrodes into the cochlea of a patient, where the electrode array has an associated implant fitting characteristic that defines a relationship between the implanted electrode array and audio frequencies, presenting sounds through the electrode array to the patient, receiving from the patient a selection of one of the sounds that most closely conforms to a single note, and determining a slope of the implant fitting characteristic of the electrode array based on the sound selected by the patient. Each sound may include a fundamental frequency and one or more harmonics. The optimization may also include changing a center frequency of a band pass filter associated with each electrode based on the determined slope.
US08027717B2	Method and apparatus for monitoring the sedation level of a sedated patient A method and an apparatus for monitoring the sedation level of a sedated patient during anaesthesia, in particular during a pre-surgical phase. The method comprises the steps of providing a skin conductance signal measured at an area of the patient's skin, calculating a derivative signal of said conductance signal with respect to time, and establishing said sedation level based on said derivative signal.
US08027711B2	Laser imaging apparatus with variable patient positioning A diagnostic computed tomographic imaging apparatus, comprises a patient support structure including a tabletop to support a patient in front-down, prone position. The tabletop includes an opening to permit a breast of the patient to be vertically pendant below the tabletop. A scanning mechanism is disposed below the opening and orbitable about the breast pendent through the opening to obtain perimeter data and image reconstruction data of the breast. The scanning mechanism rotates about an axis of rotation transverse to the tabletop. One of the tabletop and scanning mechanism is movable in x-y axes to center the breast about the axis of rotation.
US08027704B2	Method and system for increasing data rate in a mobile terminal using spatial multiplexing for DVB-H communication A method and system for increasing data rate in a mobile terminal using spatial multiplexing for digital video broadcasting for handhelds (DVB-H) communication are provided. A reconfigurable orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) chip may be utilized in a mobile terminal to process received spatially multiplexed signals. The mobile terminal may be utilized in a spatially multiplexed multiple-input-multiple-output (SM-MIMO) wireless system. The spatially multiplexed signals may be quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) modulated and may utilize OFDM subcarries. A processor may be utilized to configure the OFDM chip to process signals such as IEEE 802.11 and 802.16, and DVB. The OFDM chip may generate channel weights to be applied to the spatially multiplexed signals received in multiple receive antennas. The weighted signals may be combined to generate multiple RF received signals from which channel estimates may be generated. Subsequent channel weights may be dynamically generated from generated channel estimates.
US08027698B2	Communication method For lack of a unique, specific and detailed specification for information on status of a mobile station to be notified by a mobile station to a fixed station, an operation may be varied from one mobile station to another in a communication system, thereby posing a problem for an efficient uplink scheduling. A communication method includes a transmission process multiplexing a transport channel for transmitting data from a high-order layer on a physical data channel and transmitting the multiplexed result to the fixed station, a status notification process notifying status information containing information on a transmission power headroom used for scheduling, and a transmission control process receiving the scheduling result and controlling the transmission process. The status information notification process includes notifying an index attached to each predetermined transmission power headroom level classified between upper and lower limit values of the transmission power headroom as the status information.
US08027695B2	Method and system for the prevention of unwanted wireless telecommunications A method and system for filtering unwanted wireless telecommunications includes structure and steps/function for monitoring traffic associated with roaming subscribers, the traffic being carried via inter-network Internet Protocol links. Structure and steps/function are also provided for intercepting a send-routing-information message from an originating node within the traffic, and initiating a response to the originating node so as to direct the originating node to send a short message service (SMS) or Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) associated with the send-routing-information message to a SPAM-filter via an SMS or MMS delivery message. Structure and steps/function are further provided for receiving the SMS or MMS at the SPAM-filter, and determining, at the SPAM-filter, whether the SMS or MMS constitutes an unwanted message. Also, structure and steps/function are provided for invoking an action for managing the SMS based on results of the determining process.
US08027692B2	System and method of accessing and recording messages at coordinate way points The present invention is essentially a method and system for leaving and retrieving messages at specific coordinate way points within a commercial mobile radio service (CMRS) provider network. Users carry or transport interface devices for communicating over the network and are able to record and view messages at specific coordinate locations while traveling in the network. The location of the device is calculated by the device or by the network while the device is powered on and in within the physical boundaries of the network, or through a combination of both. Messages can be made available to network subscribers when their interface devices come within an area centered about a physical coordinate location. Personalized messages can also be left by subscribers at any coordinate point within the boundaries of the network. The invention can also be used to facilitate access of information about an asset when a technician comes within a physical proximity threshold relative to said asset.
US08027684B2	System for performing a task in a communication network and methods thereof A system, method, and computer program product for executing a task via a communication network, including devices configured to establish the communication network, wherein each of the devices includes a database having a capability of the devices, wherein the devices are adapted for executing a pre-defined set of activities indicative of the task. The device further includes a resource module adapted to select an optimal capability among the devices for performing the task based on the capability of the devices and a decision module adapted to allocate the task among the devices based on the selection of the optimal capability among the devices. The device further includes an execution module adapted to perform the task in any of the devices based on the allocation of the optimal capability among the devices and wherein the application resource is exchanged among the devices prior to invoking the task.
US08027683B2	Handover between radio networks A communication system comprises a first radio network supporting a first air interface standard and a second radio network supporting a second air interface standard. The second radio network comprises a network interface 401 which receives a handover request message from the first radio network to hand over a remote station 101 to the second network. A handover preference processor 405 receives a handover preference message including a preference indication for a radio network for the remote station. A load processor 409 determines a load indication for the second radio network and a load threshold processor 407 determines a handover load threshold for the remote station in response to the preference indication. A handover evaluation processor 403 determines whether to accept the handover in response to a comparison of the load indication and the handover load threshold.
US08027681B2	Method and apparatus to allow hand-off from a macrocell to a femtocell A method for hand-off of a CDMA access mobile from a macrocell to a femtocell is disclosed. The method includes tracking each femtocell which mobile stations have allowed access incorporating a mobile station identification for each of the mobile stations. The method continues with storing the mobile station identification for each femtocell. This may occur in a database or similar structure. The message continues on with requesting a hand-off from the macrocell to the femtocell via PN offset and the method concludes with querying all femtocells that have that PN offset that are within range of the macrocell's neighbor list. If only one femtocell fits that criteria the method is done. If more than one femtocell fits that criteria, a priority list may be set up based at least in part on the number of times and/or frequency that the mobile station has been allowed access on the femtocell. The method could include allocating resources for all high priority femtocells and cleaning up resources for the femtocells that do not send a hand-off complete message.
US08027677B2	Automatic network selection methods and apparatus using a steered PLMN Methods and apparatus for automatically selecting a wireless communication network by user equipment using a “steered” PLMN are disclosed. A home network identification, a list of prioritized roaming network identifications, and a steered network identification are stored in memory (e.g. a SIM or USIM) of the user equipment. In an automatic network selection procedure, a scanning operation is performed to receive one or more network identifications corresponding to one or more available wireless communication networks in a coverage area. The user equipment attempts to select a wireless communication network in the coverage area by comparing the received network identifications from the scanning operation with the steered network identification. If a match between a received network identification and the steered network identification is identified, a wireless communication network corresponding to the received network identification that matches the steered network identification is selected and registered with by the user equipment. This procedure is performed in lieu of use of the list of prioritized roaming network identifications of the user equipment. By setting the steered network identification via an over-the-air programming procedure when necessary (e.g. on a per region basis), a home network operator may “steer” user equipment to any desired network immediately and efficiently.
US08027676B2	Radio network controller and radio communications method A radio network controller can set up a connection with a mobile station located in a specific cell under control of the radio network controller. The radio network controller includes a connection setup request transmitter configured to transmit a connection setup request for request to set up the connection to the mobile station located in the specific cell; and a judger configured to judge whether or not to need to acquire information of the mobile station located in the specific cell. The connection setup request transmitter is configured to transmit the connection setup request to the mobile station located in the specific cell, when the judger judges to need to acquire the information of the mobile station.
US08027675B2	Apparatus and method for controlling registration of mobile identification number of mobile communication terminals An apparatus and method for controlling registration of a mobile identification number (MIN) of a mobile communication terminal. A memory stores a table in which MIN groups uniquely assigned to common carriers are stored, and a MIN of a mobile communication terminal. An input device inputs a MIN to be stored in the memory. If the MIN stored in the memory is a default MIN, a controller replaces the MIN stored in the memory with the MIN input from the input device. If the MIN stored in the memory is not the default MIN and the input MIN belongs to a MIN group assigned to a common carrier corresponding to the stored MIN, the controller replaces the stored MIN with the input MIN.
US08027674B2	Method and system for improved beacon acquisition performance with time slot and antenna sector reuse A wireless multi-cell communication system, such as a time division duplex (TDD) system, includes at least one wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) and a plurality of base stations which broadcast beacon signals into a plurality of sectors of a cell of the system. Beacon channel acquisition performance is enhanced by reducing beacon channel mutual interference. Each of the base stations broadcasts a beacon signal into at least one of the cell sectors in a first time slot and to at least another one of the cell sectors in a second time slot different from the first time slot. The WTRU determines, at a particular position, which one of the beacon signals has the best signal quality, acquires the one beacon signal and establishes communications via the base station that generated the one beacon signal having the best signal quality.
US08027663B2	Wireless methods and devices employing steganography A wireless device includes a data capture system, a radiant-energy data transmission system, and a steganographic encoder that hides a plural-bit auxiliary code within data captured by the data capture system prior to its transmission by the data transmission system. An illustrative system, operable with audio input data, is a cell phone that steganographically encodes a user's voice. In some arrangements the steganographic encoding depends on data wirelessly received from a remote location. A variety of other arrangements and systems are also detailed.
US08027658B2	Enhanced emergency service provider A service enhancement to emergency-911 capability involves a new entity termed an EESP which implements and operates a system that communicates subscriber-specific emergency information portably linked to subscriber identity in a timely fashion to emergency care providers.
US08027655B2	Receiver apparatus and method for tracking and rejecting transmit signal in wireless communication system A receiver apparatus for tracking and rejecting a Transmit (Tx) signal in a wireless communication system and an operation method thereof are provided. The receiver apparatus includes a controller for receiving channel frequency information of the Tx signal and for controlling an operation for tracking and rejecting a frequency of the Tx signal; a phase locked loop for generating an oscillation frequency by generating a control voltage according to the channel frequency information of the Tx signal under the control of the controller and for filtering a signal corresponding to the oscillation frequency among signals input to a low noise amplifier; and the low noise amplifier for amplifying power while minimizing noise of a signal filtered by the phase locked loop.
US08027654B2	Digital broadcasting receiving apparatus When a power source of a digital broadcasting receiving apparatus is turned on, a microprocessor executes reading of a Read Data with specifying a Read Slave Address which is set by applying a prescribed electrical potential to an Address Select (AS) terminal, if the microprocessor confirms that an A/D converter (ADC) bit which is contained in the Read Data from a Mixer Oscillator PLL (MOP) IC is a ADC bit which is set by applying a prescribed electrical potential to an ADC terminal, the microprocessor transmits a tuning data of a format which corresponds to the MOP IC in which target channel is specified with specifying a Write Slave Address which is set by applying a prescribed electrical potential to the AS terminal.
US08027653B2	Signal receiving apparatus and control method thereof A signal receiving apparatus includes: a tuning unit which has at least one tuner; a communication unit which communicates at least one external device; and a controller which divides an entire channel frequency band to be assigned to the tuning unit and a tunable device, and controls the tuning unit and the communication unit to tune the assigned channel frequency bands if the tunable device is present among the external devices.
US08027641B2	Method and system for detecting channels suitable for FM transmission in an integrated FM transmit/receive system A method and system is provided processing channel information may include in a mobile FM radio system including an integrated FM radio transmitter and FM radio receiver, dynamically generating a list of local FM channels, ranking local FM channels in the generated list, and selecting one of the ranked local FM channels for use by the FM transmitter based on neighboring channel interference. The FM radio receiver may detect FM channels being transmitted or not being transmitted, detect a pilot signal or a channel transmission pause. A tuning frequency of the FM radio receiver may be adjusted for scanning and detecting the local FM channels based on knowledge of a location of the FM radio receiver, received signal strength indicator (RSSI), dynamically scanning for local FM channel based on received RDS/RDBS data or country code, and/or carrier error of a related FM signal.
US08027637B1	Single frequency wireless communication system A method and apparatus for communicating between devices is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises one or more communication devices coordinating transmissions of data packets to function as an access point with respect to a first mobile station and a second station wirelessly communicatively coupled to the one or more communication devices, and the one or more communication devices wirelessly transmitting a first packet and a second packet to the first mobile station and the second mobile station respectively at different time or at time when the transmissions overlap, at least partially, based on whether transmissions of the first and second packets would interfere with each other.
US08027634B1	RFID system for subscription services with multiple subscribers and/or devices The RFID system of the present invention provides activation of a subscription based device wirelessly using a RFID system. The system for activating of a user for a subscription service comprises a first secure RFID sensor associated with a subscription-based device and a second secure RFID sensor associated with a user device. The first and second secure RFID sensors communicate with one another to establish activation of the user device. For example, the first sensor can receive an authentication value associated with the subscription service from the second RFID sensor. After activation, the subscription-based device can broadcast the subscription service to the user device. Alternatively, the user device can also have a capability to verify its separate or related subscription such as WiFi, WiMAX, GSM, CDMA or other wireless-based connectivity service. Also, the user device associated with the subscription-based service can be activated only when a secure RFID sensor is within a predetermined range of the user device.
US08027630B2	Sheet processing apparatus, sheet processing method, and image forming system A sheet processing apparatus which enable users to easily set the cutting amount of sheets according to the intended purpose of use. A folding unit folds the sheets. A cutting unit cuts off ends of the folded sheets. A setting unit sets details of processing of the sheets to be executed at least by the center-folding unit and the cutting unit. The setting unit is capable of selecting a first cutting amount-setting mode in which a cutting amount is set using a cutting width of the at least one end, and a second cutting amount-setting mode in which the cutting amount is set using a sheet size which the sheets should have after being cut. The setting unit sets the cutting amount in a selected one of the first cutting amount-setting mode and the second cutting amount-setting mode, when setting details of processing of the sheets to be executed by the cutting unit.
US08027626B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus to form an image on a recording sheet by transferring electrophotographic developer onto the recording sheet is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a heat roller to thermally fix the transferred developer onto the recording sheet, a rotating member to convey rotation force to the heat roller, a bearing to support the rotating member rotatably, a frame in which the bearing is assembled so that the rotating member is supported by the frame through the bearing. The bearing is made of a material having sliding resistance lower than sliding resistance of a material of the frame. The bearing is arranged on an opposite side of the heat roller with respect to the frame and receives the rotating member on the opposite side. The bearing and the frame are assembled to have clearance therebetween.
US08027620B2	Image formation apparatus and developer cartridge The invention provides an image formation apparatus, to which developing devices, each having an opening, and developer cartridges for respectively supplying a developing agent to the openings of the developing devices are mountable. The apparatus includes: developing device shutters, each configured to open and close a respective one of the openings of the developing devices mounted to the apparatus; and a link mechanism configured to move the developing device shutters in linking with each other.
US08027614B2	Image forming apparatus including separation member for separating photosensitive member from endless belt An image forming apparatus includes: a plurality of photosensitive members, an endless belt, and a separation mechanism. The photosensitive members are arranged in parallel with and spaced from one another and correspond to respective colors. The plurality of photosensitive members includes a first photosensitive member and at least one second photosensitive member. Each of the photosensitive members has a first end portion and second end portion that is opposite to the first end portion in a longitudinal direction of each of the photosensitive members. The endless belt contacts the photosensitive members. The separation mechanism is configured to swing the second photosensitive member around the first end portion of the second photosensitive member as a fulcrum between a contact position at which the second photosensitive member contacts the endless belt and a separated position at which the second photosensitive member is separated from the endless belt.
US08027606B2	Image forming apparatus with condition setting for manual duplex mode Provided is an image forming apparatus including an image forming section forming images on image forming faces of a recording medium, a condition setting section individually setting an operating condition of the image forming section for forming the image on a first image forming face of a recording medium and another operating condition of the image forming section for forming the image on a second image forming face of the recording medium opposite to the first image forming face in the manual duplex mode, and a control section controlling the image forming section on the basis of each operating condition set by the condition setting section.
US08027605B2	Image forming apparatus and image density control method An image forming apparatus and an image density control method for controlling image density in the image forming apparatus, involving adjusting a toner concentration control reference value in accordance with an amount of the toner replaced in a developing device so as to adjust the image density to maintain a consistent developability and changing image forming intervals in accordance with an amount of the toner replaced in the developing device during continuous printing operation.
US08027602B2	Belt feeding device and image heating device with setting means for switching inclination angle of supporting member A belt feeding apparatus includes an endless belt and a supporting member for rotatably supporting the belt. The belt feeding apparatus further includes a setting member for setting, when the belt is deviated from a widthwisely normal zone, an inclination angle of the supporting member to a return angle to return the belt toward the normal zone. The setting member also sets, when a predetermined time elapses from the belt returning to the normal zone, the inclination angle of the supporting member to a balance angle to keep the belt in the zone.
US08027597B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus, including: a fixing device having: a first heat generator for generating heat for a fixing processing, the first heat generator using electric power supplied by a commercial power source; and a second heat generator for generating heat for the fixing processing, the second heat generator using electric power supplied by the auxiliary power source device; a heat generation controller for allowing the first heat generator and the second heat generator to generate heat; a sheet jam detector for detecting a sheet jam of a recording sheet which occurs in the image forming section having the fixing device and a conveyance path of a recording sheet; and a charge controller for allowing charging of the auxiliary power source device to start when the sheet jam detector detects a sheet jam, and the charged capacity detector detects no full charge of the auxiliary power source device.
US08027593B2	Slow chirp compensation for enhanced signal bandwidth and transmission performances in directly modulated lasers The frequency chirp modulation response of a directly modulated laser is described using a small signal model that depends on slow chirp amplitude s and slow chirp time constant τs. The small signal model can be used to derive an inverse response for designing slow chirp compensation means. Slow chirp compensation means include electrical compensation, optical compensation, or both. Slow chirp electrical compensation can be implemented with an LR filter or other RF circuit coupled to a direct modulation source (e.g., a laser driver) and the directly modulated laser. Slow chirp optical compensation can be implemented with an optical spectrum reshaper having a rounded top and relatively large slope (e.g., 1.5-3 dB/GHz). The inverse response can be designed to under-compensate, to produce a flat response, or to over-compensate.
US08027591B2	Resonant quantum well modulator driver A drive circuit and method of controlling a quantum well modulator are disclosed. The drive circuit can be disposed in an optical transceiver having a quantum well modulator configured to retro-modulate an incoming optical signal. The drive circuit can include separate modulating and bias voltage sources. A level of the modulating voltage and the bias voltage can be determined based on an ambient temperature of the optical transceiver and can be adjusted to compensate for variations in the optical performance of the quantum well modulator. The quantum well modulator can be controlled in intervals. The modulating voltage can be applied to the quantum well modulator during a first interval. A current associated with the modulating voltage can be returned to the modulation voltage source during a second interval. A timing of the first and second intervals can be based on electrical properties of the quantum well modulator.
US08027590B2	System and method for signal extraction by path modulation A system includes a transmitter is configured to transmit an electromagnetic signal to a receiver, which is configured to receive the electromagnetic signal and another electromagnetic signal for mixing therewith. Propagation paths of the signals to the transmitter and receiver include a first propagation path of the electromagnetic signal to the transmitter, and a second propagation path of the other electromagnetic signal to the receiver. The arrangement, which is located along either or each of the propagation paths of signals to the transmitter and receiver, is configured to alter the length of a respective propagation path. And the processor configured to recover an amplitude and phase of the transmitted electromagnetic signal, including being configured to receive a sequence of samples of the received electromagnetic signal, and Discrete Fourier Transformation process the sequence of samples.
US08027586B2	Passive optical network system and optical line terminating apparatus A passive optical network (PON) system which enables plural types of ONUs having different signal transmission speeds to be connected to one OLT. An optical line terminating apparatus (OLT) connected to plural types of ONUs having different signal transmission speeds through an optical distribution network includes an optical transmitter-receiver connected to the optical distribution network, a transmission/reception line interface connected to a wide area network, a downstream frame processing section for converting a packet received by the transmission/reception line interface from the wide area network into a downstream frame containing identification information on a destination ONU in a header, and a downstream transmission controller for modulating the downstream frame at a speed corresponding to a signal transmission speed of the destination ONU and outputting the modulated frame to an electrical/optical converter connected to the optical transmitter-receiver.
US08027583B2	Wavelength division multiplexed systems with optical performance monitors The specification describes optical performance monitors which are simplified by coupling single tunable optical filters to multiple channels being monitored. Optical measurements for more than one channel may be made simultaneously. The optical system architecture is preferably an optical performance monitor for a WDM system. In a system designed according to the invention n channels may be monitored using n photodetectors, n optical splitters, but only n/2 tunable optical filters. Additional system simplification may be obtained using optical switching elements coupled to the optical splitters.
US08027577B2	Camera A camera comprising a location sensor, a first recorder, a first calculator, and a first motor, is provided. The location sensor detects the present location of the camera. The first recorder records a past location. The past location is a location where an image was photographed at a previous point in time. The first calculator compares the present location of the camera with the past location. The first calculator calculates a first difference between the present location of the camera and the past location. The first monitor displays the calculated first difference.
US08027575B2	Heater contact assembly for volatile liquid dispenser Disclosed herein are heaters for dispensing volatile air treatment chemicals. Semi-circular electrical contacts are provided in a ring-type heater, and alignment and anchoring features are provided to facilitate use of a spring to accommodate thermal expansion.
US08027564B2	Recording medium, method and apparatus for providing management information A recording medium, method and apparatus for providing management information are provided. According to an embodiment, the method includes grouping data of a digital stream into a plurality of object units, and grouping one or more object units into an object; and creating management information for accessing the data, the management information including map information and indication information, wherein the map information includes an object unit index table associated with the object units, and the object unit index table includes object unit information associated with the object units, and wherein the indication information indicates whether the data of the digital stream are grouped into the object units on a basis of a predetermined time period or an entry point information included in the digital stream.
US08027561B2	Methods, devices and computer program products for event-based media file tagging Methods are provided for tagging digital media files. A digital media file is obtained with a digital media device. One or more event tags are associated with the digital media file on the digital media device responsive to a user prompt. The one or more event tags identify the digital media file. Related devices and computer program products are also provided.
US08027553B2	Connected body and optical transceiver module An optical element amounted structure includes an optical element having an electrode such as a bump formed on a surface thereof, and a substrate having an electrode that is joined to the optical element formed on the surface. The structure of the electrode of the substrate has a substantially ring configuration or a substantially ring configuration a part of which is notched, and the optical element and the substrate are joined to each other in a configuration where a joining material such as a bump is inserted into an opening portion.
US08027539B2	Method and apparatus for determining an orientation of a document including Korean characters A method and apparatus for determining an orientation of a document including Korean text are presented. A binarized pixel image is created from the document image. Contiguous pixels are grouped and labeled using a bounding box. A spanning stroke may be detected from a group of the contiguous pixels. The orientation of the document is determined by comparing counts associated with spanning strokes in the left, right, top, and bottom halves of the bounding boxes.
US08027538B1	User interface for high dynamic range merge image selection Methods and apparatus, including systems and computer program products, for creating high dynamic range images. One method includes actions of establishing a current set of digital image; displaying a high dynamic range image and information identifying the current set of images, the high dynamic range image being computed from the current set of images; and repeatedly, as long as the user provides user input changing the current set of images, receiving user input changing the current set of images and in response to each user input displaying a high dynamic range image and information identifying the current set of images, where the high dynamic range image is computed from the current set of images.
US08027534B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program An image processing apparatus comprising: background generation means for generating, on each of corresponding pixel positions of more than one input image, a pixel value involved in a predetermined distribution among pixel values of the input images as a background pixel value in the pixel position; degree-of-difference generation means for generating, on each of the pixel positions, a degree-of-difference indicating a degree to which each input image pixel value has a difference from the background pixel value; and output image generation means for generating, on each of the pixel positions, an output image pixel value by reflecting the input image pixel values depending on the degree-of-difference.
US08027532B2	Method for recognition between a first object and a second object each represented by images A method for recognition between a first and second object represented by at least one first image and at least one second image, includes defining rectangular assemblies of random pixels; filtering the first image with first n filters obtained from the assemblies of pixels to obtain n first filtered matrices; classifying the n first filtered matrices by providing a first center and a first radius within a space of N dimensions; filtering the second image with the first n filters to obtain n second filtered matrices; classifying the n second filtered matrices by providing a second center within the space of N dimensions; and comparing the first center and first radius with the second center.
US08027522B2	Image recognition system and recognition method thereof and program A task is to correctly classify an input image regardless of a fluctuation in illumination and a state of occlusion of the input image.Input image sub-region extraction means 2 extracts a sub-region of the input image. Inter-pattern distance calculation means 3 calculates an inter-pattern distance between this sub-region and a sub-region of a registration image pre-filed in dictionary filing means 5 for each sub-region. Region distance value integration means 10 integrates the inter-pattern distances obtained for each sub-region. This is conducted for the registration image of each category. Identification means 4 finds a minimum value out of its integrated inter-pattern distances, and in the event that its minimum value is smaller than a threshold, outputs a category having its minimum distance as a recognition result.
US08027520B2	Methods and arrangements employing digital content items Methods and arrangements for identifying content, and employing such identification, are detailed. One method embeds a plural-bit digital watermark into content, but first checks to see if the content is previously watermarked. Another method applies a digital watermark detection procedure to only a sub-portion of a digital content item. Yet another arrangement involves plural-portion content, where one portion is watermarked with first data governing its rights management, and another portion is watermarked with second data governing its rights management. Still another method concerns distribution of content items, where each is watermarked with a unique ID as part of the distribution process. Yet another method concerns deriving an identifier from content, and using the content to access related metadata from a remote computer system. Still other methods concern arrangements for recognizing content, and then providing links to information about the content creator, etc., in response. A variety of other technologies and improvements are also detailed.
US08027515B2	System and method for real-time calculating location Provided is a system and method for providing location information of robot in real time using an artificial mark. The system includes: an image processing module for obtaining an image signal by photographing artificial marks installed at a predetermined space with a space coordinate and detecting an image coordinate of artificial mark from the obtaining the image signal; a location calculating module for calculating a current location by comparing the image coordinate of detected artificial mark and a pre-stored space coordinate of artificial mark; and an artificial mark identifying module for updating current location information by selectively using one of an artificial mark tracing process and an image coordinate estimating process.
US08027512B2	Method and software program for searching image information Video systems are widely used in the field of surveillance of buildings, traffic, private homes, supermarkets and the like. For some applications it is useful to save the video information for a later access or analysis. As the saved data volume increases with the number of video cameras of a video system and the recorded time there is a need for video databases, which allow a fast searching for relevant video information. A method for searching image information comprising the steps of: extracting a trajectory of an interesting object in a picture frame sequence, whereby the trajectory is represented by a first set of location points in the picture frames, pre- processing the extracted trajectory to a pre-processed trajectory by applying a spatial correlation filter algorithm, which reduces the number of location points, whereby the pre-processed trajectory is represented by a second set of location points in the picture frames, storing the pre-processed trajectory in a database and applying search queries on the pre-processed trajectory data of the database and a respective software program is proposed.
US08027511B2	System for virtually distributing mailpieces A method of enabling mailpieces to be distributed and consulted in electronic form, including the steps of scanning each of the mailpieces and transmitting the images of the mailpieces to a first server; displaying the images on a first viewing screen associated with the first server, and assigning each of the images to a recipient by “dropping ” the image into one of the pigeonholes of a virtual sorting rack associated with the recipient and displayed on the first viewing screen or on a second viewing screen also associated with the first server; and displaying a dynamic dialogue box on at least one consultation screen of a final recipient.
US08027509B2	Digital watermarking in data representing color channels The present disclosure relates to digital watermarking. One claim recites a method to detect two or more different digital watermarks in media. The method includes: receiving captured imagery of the media, the captured imagery comprising a plurality of image frames; for a first image frame applying a first watermark detector to search for a first digital watermark hidden within the first image frame, in which an electronic processor is programmed as the first watermark detector; and for a second image frame applying a second, different watermark detector to search for a second, different watermark hidden within the second image frame, in which an electronic processor is programmed as the second watermark detector. Other claims and combinations are provided too.
US08027504B2	Apparatus and method for analyzing image identifications generated by an OCR device A method for analyzing image identifications. An optical character recognition (OCR) identification of an image, an associated confidence value, and a photograph of the image are received. After determining that the received confidence value is below a predefined threshold, a data store is searched to find OCR identifications matching the received OCR identification. If the searching fails to find a matching OCR identification, then a manual agent males a correct identification of the image in the received photograph; otherwise a search score associated with each OCR identification is received. If no received search scores is above a predetermined threshold, then the message is sent to the manual agent for correct identification; otherwise the correct identification is determined based on the OCR identifications associated with the search scores above the predetermined threshold and the correct identification thus determined is subsequently transmitted to a billing system.
US08027502B2	Speaker device and mobile phone A speaker device includes a magnetic circuit which includes a magnetic gap, a diaphragm which has a recessed part arranged in the magnetic gap and extending in a direction substantially orthogonal with respect to an extending direction of a magnetic flux in the magnetic gap, and a voice coil which is formed into an annular shape and has a first parallel part extending in one direction and a second parallel part extending in a direction in parallel with the first parallel part and opposite to the first parallel part with a constant space. Particularly, the first parallel part and the second parallel part are arranged in a direction in parallel with an extending direction of the recessed part, respectively. The first parallel part is arranged in the recessed part to be positioned in the magnetic gap, and the second parallel part is positioned above the recessed part.
US08027482B2	DVD audio encoding using environmental audio tracks Audio tracks including environmental information are recorded on a DVD, or other playback medium using microphones, vibration sensors, or other devices that capture ambient sound from the original environment in which a performance, presentation or other sound is created. For example, environmental audio tracks can be obtained by placing microphones on the floor, ceiling and walls of an amphitheater during a pop music performance. Any object, item or surface can be a candidate from, or within, which to capture an ambient sound. Sounds can be obtained from sensors mounted to musicians, audience members, theater seats, various rooms within a building, etc. The environmental audio tracks (EATs) can be provided individually or mixed together with one or more other EATs, one or more standard recorded tracks, or otherwise mixed or combined with other sounds. Or the EATs can be processed, effected, etc., as desired. The original or modified EATs are then encoded onto a DVD (or other medium) so that a listener can selectively hear the EATs alone, or in combination with, other audio tracks on the DVD.
US08027481B2	Personal hearing control system and method A personal hearing control system includes a microphone located within a user's sealed ear canal, a speaker having a diaphragm which directs sound into the ear canal, and a controller which drives the speaker such that the system emulates the acoustics of the user's open ear canal. Also provided are a microphone located on the outer ear side of the sealed ear canal, which is coupled to a handheld interface unit having multiple inputs and operating modes. A user-selected input is processed by the interface unit, and the processed signal is coupled to the speaker. In one operating mode, the output of the outer ear mic is processed so as to cancel sound that leaks from the outer ear to the inner ear side of the seal.
US08027479B2	Binaural multi-channel decoder in the context of non-energy conserving upmix rules A multi-channel decoder for generating a binaural signal from a downmix signal using upmix rule information on an energy-error introducing upmix rule for calculating a gain factor based on the upmix rule information and characteristics of head related transfer function based filters corresponding to upmix channels. The one or more gain factors are used by a filter processor for filtering the downmix signal so that an energy corrected binaural signal having a left binaural channel and a right binaural channel is obtained.
US08027478B2	Method and system for sound source separation Methods of sound source separation in which individual sources are extracted from a multiple source recording, include a method of analyzing stereo recordings to facilitate separation of individual musical sound sources from stereo music recordings. In the method sources predominant in the left are treated in a different manner to sources in the right.
US08027474B2	Method and system for secure data aggregation in wireless sensor networks A method for transmitting sensed data in a wireless sensor network including multiple sensors, includes: encrypting the sensed data with an encryption key and a verification key to generate encrypted data in each of the multiple sensors that senses data; wirelessly receiving the encrypted data from the multiple sensors; determining that the sensed data from one of the multiple sensors is different from the sensed data from others of the multiple sensors without decrypting the encrypted data; and transmitting the encrypted sensed data determined to be different.
US08027469B2	Video slice and active region based multiple partial encryption A television set-top box has a receiver receiving a digital television signal comprising, a plurality of unencrypted packets; and a plurality of encrypted packets. The encrypted packets are of at least one selected packet type and the at least one selected packet type has at least one of the following: packets containing a video slice header appearing in an active region of a video frame, any packet carrying data describing an active region of a video frame, I Frame packets, packets containing motion vectors in a first P frame following an I Frame, packets having an intra_slice_flag indicator set, packets having an intra_slice indicator set, packets containing an intra_coded macroblock, packets that carry data for a slice containing an intra_coded macroblock, packets containing data from a first macroblock following the video slice header, packets containing video slice headers, packets containing anchor data, and P Frame packets for progressively refreshed video data. A decrypter decrypts the encrypted packets; and a decoder decodes the unencrypted packets and the decrypted packets to produce a signal suitable for play on a television set. This abstract is not to be considered limiting since other embodiments can include more, fewer or different features than those described in this abstract.
US08027468B2	Method and system for camera sensor fingerprinting Some embodiments of the application provides methods and systems for providing camera fingerprinting by receiving a video frame from a camera, generating a confidence map based on an image characteristic associated with the video frame, generating a signature based on a sensor imperfection in the camera, weighting the signature based on the confidence map for each frame and generating a key based on the weighted signature over the plurality of video frames received. Other methods and systems are disclosed.
US08027464B2	Holding apparatus for accommodating a mobile telephone The invention relates to a holding device provided with a receiving system for receiving a mobile telephone (30, 30′), said holding device comprising a housing (1). The receiving system is formed by at least two lateral jaws (3) projecting from a rear wall of the housing (1), at least one of said jaws being laterally displaceable and both of said jaws being provided with padding (5) that can be compressed by from lateral housing walls of the mobile telephone (30, 30′). The distance between the jaws (3) can be adjusted to the width of the mobile telephone (30, 30′) by means of an adjusting device (11) provided in the rear wall (2). The adjusted jaws (3) remain fixed for the insertion and the removal of the mobile telephone (30, 30′), and the mobile telephone is fixed in the holder exclusively by means of a friction connection produced between the compressible padding (5, 6) and the mobile telephone (30, 30′). The aim of the invention is to create a universal holding device for different types of mobile telephones (30, 30′). To this end, the adjusting device (11) comprises a rotatably arranged plate (15) that is connected to the two jaws (3), and can be fixed in the rotary position thereof by means of a centrally arranged screw. The screw head (14) can be actuated on the rear wall (2) and covered by the inserted mobile telephone (30, 30′).
US08027461B1	Systems and methods for splitting telecommunication signals with reduced noise A telecommunication system has a telecommunication line for communicating a combined signal and a splitter that is coupled to the telecommunication line. The splitter has a high-pass filter, a low-pass filter, and a current limiter. The high-pass filter is configured to transmit a first component signal of the combined signal, and the low-pass filter is configured to transmit a second component signal of the combined signal. The current limiter is configured to limit a current of the second component signal thereby preventing at least one inductor in the low-pass filter from saturating.
US08027459B2	System and method for providing queue time credit for self-servicing callers A system and method for servicing a caller at a contact center includes providing self-service menu options to the caller through an automated system, and determining a total time spent by the caller in the automated system. If the caller's attempts at self-service are unsuccessful, the caller is transferred out of the automated system and into a position of a wait queue, the position of the caller in the wait queue being determined based on a credit for the total time spent by the caller in the automated system. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.
US08027457B1	Process for automated deployment of natural language There is disclosed a system and method for monitoring and updating an interactive voice response system through the use of a human agent who reviews the responses provided by a computer system and makes recommendations which are then used as data for updating the interactive voice response system. There is further disclosed a user interface for allowing the human agent to review the responses provided by the computer system, and to provide alternate responses which could be implemented by the computer system.
US08027413B2	Ultratight coupling prefilter detection block An observation lock detector block receives I&Q correlations and generates error measurement vectors, each including phase, frequency, code, pseudorange, and covariance residual estimates, and generates validity indicator and confidence indicator vectors, one of which error measurement vectors is an output as a selected error measurement vector with a respective validity indicator and confidence indicator vector, both of which selected vectors are communicated to a navigation solution processor in a ultratightly coupled navigation system for providing improved estimations of a navigation solution, the indicators indicating the usefulness of measurement errors, the prefilter detector block comprising discriminators, sequential filters, observation lock detectors and a measurement selector for selecting measurement vector based on phase, frequency, and code discriminations, the measurement errors being residual estimates that are indicated as valid or invalid for dynamic propagation of the residuals in a navigation receiver for improved performance, especially in low signal-to-noise environments, such as, for use in an ultratight GPS navigation system.
US08027412B2	Apparatus and method for detecting frame boundary in wireless communication system Disclosed is an apparatus and a method for detecting a boundary of a frame in a wireless communication system. The apparatus includes: a controller for measuring correlation energy with preambles with respect to received signals transmitted from a transmitter, measuring strength of the received signals, and removing a sample from frames constituting the received signals, the preambles predetermined and used by the system, the sample having a ratio of the correlation energy with respect to the strength of the received signals, the ratio being smaller than a reference value; and a classifier for extracting a maximum value from the correlation energy received from the controller, and determining a boundary of a downlink of the frames constituting the received signals.
US08027395B2	Edge MMSE filters A method for performing channel estimation of an OFDM channel includes, in part, interpolating pilots for sub-channels positioned within a first range of an OFDM symbol, and estimating frequency response of sub-channels positioned within a second range of the OFDM symbol. The first range is defined by subchannels positioned substantially away from channel edges and the second range is defined by subchannels positioned substantially near channel edges. The method optionally includes transforming the pilots from frequency domain into the time-domain, time-domain windowing to obtain a channel impulse response having a multitude of discrete values, estimating the discrete values within the channel impulse response; and transforming the channel impulse response to the frequency domain.
US08027393B2	Explicit outband signaling method in a wireless network supporting cognitive radio technology An explicit outband signaling method for detecting sharable resources for management of public resources in a wireless network supporting Cognitive Radio (CR) technology. To this end, the invention transmits state information for the current channel to a CR system in order to enable communication of the CR users, whose communication with the CR system is impossible due to an influence of an incumbent system, thereby allowing the CR system to stop the use of the interference channel, and to provide a corresponding service with another channel.
US08027385B2	Efficient video coding A method (1600) and apparatus (220) for encoding a sequence of images for transmission over a communication network is disclosed. Initially (1602) an object-based first image is rendered from a computer graphics application (240). The rendered first image is then (1604) encoded (226) according to a predetermined encoding scheme and transmitted (1606) for remote display (116). A test (1608) is then performed to determine if any more images are to be rendered. If so, the next (further) image is rendered (1612) from the computer graphics application (240). Changes between the first image and the further image are then determined (1614) from a change indicating output (244,246) of the computer graphics application (240). The identified changes are then used (1616) to determine a manner in which the further image is to be encoded according to the predetermined format. The further image is then encoded (1618) based upon the changes, and transmitted (1620) for remote display. Further images are rendered and encoded using changes from the preceding image.
US08027381B2	Robust mode staggercasting user controlled switching modes A method and apparatus for staggercasting includes encoding a set of signals representing content. The set of encoded signals is capable of being decoded to produce a corresponding set of decoded signals, each having a quality which is different from the qualities of the decoded signals corresponding to the other encoded signals. A composite signal is generated which includes the set of encoded signals, staggered in time. The set of encoded signals extracting from the composite signal. Errors in the set of extracted encoded signals are detected to produce a subset of available extracted encoded signals which are not erroneous. A content representative signal at a selectable desired quality is then decoded.
US08027379B2	Monitoring and adjusting noise parameters One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method of monitoring impulse noise. In the method, clusters of corrupted symbols in a stream of symbols are characterized in accordance with a cluster parameter associated with the clusters. Other methods and systems are also disclosed.
US08027375B2	Shared filter design for pilot symbol averaging in rake fingers in WCDMA systems A rake receiver having a shared moving average filter that is operable in a multiplexed manner to receive and filter outputs from a plurality of pilot signal correlators.
US08027374B2	Method, system and apparatus for transmit diversity control A method, apparatus and system for modifying a transmit diversity signal by receiving at least one input parameter, collecting at least one interval of feedback data, computing a transmit diversity parameter, and modifying a transmit diversity signal based on the computed parameter. In some embodiments of the invention, the diversity parameter may be any one or a combination of relative phase, relative amplitude, relative power, data rate of the transmit diversity signal, or any other suitable parameter.
US08027372B2	Signal acquisition in a wireless communication system Each base station transmits a TDM pilot 1 having multiple instances of a pilot-1 sequence generated with a PN1 sequence and a TDM pilot 2 having at least one instance of a pilot-2 sequence generated with a PN2 sequence. Each base station is assigned a specific PN2 sequence that uniquely identifies that base station. A terminal uses TDM pilot 1 to detect for the presence of a signal and uses TDM pilot 2 to identify base stations and obtain accurate timing. For signal detection, the terminal performs delayed correlation on received samples and determines whether a signal is present. If a signal is detected, the terminal performs direct correlation on the received samples with PN1 sequences for K1 different time offsets and identifies K2 strongest TDM pilot 1 instances. For time synchronization, the terminal performs direct correlation on the received samples with PN2 sequences to detect for TDM pilot 2.
US08027368B2	Terminal in wireless communication system and ranging method for dynamically changing ranging period thereof A ranging method of an access terminal that requests a ranging to an access point through a wireless network and performs the ranging, the ranging method including a) initializing a ranging period, b) setting a timer with the ranging period and starting the timer, c) requesting a ranging by transmitting a given ranging code to the access point based on radio resource allocation information provided by the access point, d) receiving a ranging response message from the access point, and controlling transmission power, timing, and frequency offset of an access terminal according to transmission parameters included in the received ranging response message, e) estimating a downlink channel condition through which a signal from the access point is transmitted, f) resetting the ranging period according to the estimated downlink channel condition, and g) iteratively performing b) to f) according to the reset ranging period.
US08027361B2	Class-based bandwidth allocation and admission control for virtual private networks with differentiated service A method and apparatus for establishing a virtual private network (VPN) session for a priority request. The method and apparatus includes identifying a priority request from a plurality of VPN session request classes. Reserved bandwidth is allocated to the priority request if a nominally allocated bandwidth is insufficient to satisfy the priority request. Once the allocated bandwidth is assigned, admission control is applied to the priority request.
US08027355B2	Resource allocation method and system There is provided a communication system, comprising a network infrastructure comprising: a transmitter configured to transmit signaling information to user terminals, the signaling information being related to the allocation of the plurality of sub-carriers at a common frequency band used for data transmission between the multiple user terminals and a network infrastructure; a processor configured to divide the common frequency band into two suppression bands at the edge zones of the common frequency band and to provide a safe band between the two suppression bands, the two suppression bands including sub-carriers having a predetermined amount of decreased channel estimation accuracy compared with the other sub-carriers of the common frequency band; and a processor configured to allocate signaling information, related to the allocation of at least one sub-carrier to a user terminal having an expected signal to interference-plus-noise ratio at a predetermined level, to at least one sub-carrier included in the safe band.
US08027343B2	Communication system, computer, and method for determining a communication protocol to be used in a communication system The invention relates to a communication system comprising at least one first communication network designed for communication according to a first protocol, at least one second communication network designed for communication according to a second protocol, and at least one third communication network designed for communication according to the first and second protocols. The at least one first communication network and/or the at least one second communication network and/or the at least one third communication network are coupled together for the exchange of messages. The inventive system also comprises a mobile computer designed for communication according to the first and second protocols, and a target computer which is designed for communication according to the first protocol and/or the second protocol, and is associated with the first, second or third communication network. The inventive communication system is designed in such away that when the mobile computer is connected to a network connection computer of the third communication network, before the establishment of a communication connection to the target computer, the protocol to be used for communication with the network connection computer is determined.
US08027332B1	Virtual telephone extension Call routing to user communication devices is facilitated. According to an example embodiment, a call-routing switch arrangement uses data in a programmable database to associate or match incoming calls with destination user-communication devices for users employing two or more user identifiers. The incoming calls are then routed to the destination user-communication devices in response to the match. In some applications, the user identifiers include local and virtual telephone numbers for a particular user, the local number pertaining to a geographical location relating to the user's communication device or to a service via which the user's communication device is connected (e.g., a mobile telephone service), and the virtual telephone number to a different geographical location. In this context, a virtual number allows telephone calls to be made to a particular user to give the impression to a caller that the user is located or has offices in a particular geographical location pertaining to an area code in the virtual number.
US08027328B2	Header compression in a wireless communication network In one embodiment, a relationship is determined between radio link protocol (RLP) sequence numbers in received RLP packets and real-time protocol (RTP) sequence numbers in RTP packets decompressed from the received RLP packets. An RTP sequence number associated with a compressed RTP packet is determined based on the determined relationship and at least one of the RLP sequence numbers of the received RLP packet or packets forming the compressed RTP packet. An RTP time stamp may be determined in a similar manner.
US08027317B2	Point-to-multipoint transmission of localized data The present invention relates to a method, system, network element and computer program product for transmitting a data stream in a point-to-multipoint mode from a source entity to a plurality of users in a predetermined area of a cellular network, said predetermined area comprising a plurality of sub-areas. A predetermined, recurring time period is allocated to transmission of localized data specified for users of individual ones of said plurality of sub-areas, and a transmission capacity of the data stream is divided using said predetermined, recurring time period among adjacent sub-areas. Localized data is then transmitted during the predetermined, recurring time period using a divided transmission capacity allocated to the respective sub-area. Thereby, combination of global and local broadcast or multicast content is enabled in a broadcast system by avoiding overlapping of transmissions with different content at cell edges.
US08027313B2	Wireless communication device and method of restraining dispersion of propagation environment index A wireless communication device capable of restraining dispersion of a propagation environment index and thereby improving throughput. A reception controller receives a pilot signal, measures a propagation environment and detects a phase change of the pilot signal. A moving average processor obtains a moving average of propagation environment values. An index function setter generates a propagation environment index function indicative of the correspondence between the propagation environment value and a propagation environment index which is a propagation environment quality index. When the detected phase change is greater than a threshold, a slope corrector corrects the slope of the propagation environment index function by using the moving average as a reference point, and a propagation environment index transmitter obtains a propagation environment index corresponding to the measured propagation environment value by using the propagation environment index function whose slope has been corrected, and transmits the obtained index to a base station.
US08027311B2	Method of uplink packet scheduling and supporting thereof in wireless mobile communication system A method of uplink packet scheduling in a wireless mobile communications system and method of supporting the same are disclosed, scheduling efficiency can be enhanced in case that one base station schedules uplink packet transmission to a user equipment which is in soft handover with a plurality of base stations. A method of uplink packet scheduling, which is for a user equipment in a soft handover state in a wireless mobile communications system, includes the steps of transmitting a NACK signal in response to an uplink packet transmitted from the user equipment, receiving instruction information for a reception result of the uplink packet in at least one base station from the user equipment or at least one different base station, and performing the uplink packet scheduling for the user equipment by considering the instruction information.
US08027301B2	Cooperative OFDMA and distributed MIMO relaying over dense wireless networks A method for wireless communication combines OFDMA resource allocation and power control policies with cooperative relaying techniques. The techniques are preferably implemented in a dense wireless network of power-limited mobile devices assisted by mobile relay devices having superior power supplies. Preferably, MIMO beamforming techniques are used to further increase energy efficiency and spectral efficiency beyond the increases provided by ODFMA cooperative relaying.
US08027296B2	Dynamic mobile service control deployment architecture A dynamic mobile service control architecture for policy-based control and charging of a mobile data network is described. Reference point links logically connecting a subscription profile repository and a service gateway allows the service gateway to receive information about a subscription to a service by a subscriber and forward this subscription information to an external application function that is providing the service to the subscriber through the mobile data network. Reference point links logically connecting a policy server with the service gateway allows the service gateway to receive and enforce policy rules on service data flows passing through the service gateway.
US08027293B2	Communication channel selection and use Methods and systems for characterizing requests for individual items of information available from a target address as part of a request for content are provided. The characterization of requests for items of information is applied to select one of a plurality of communication channels for servicing the request. In addition, where different requests for items of information are assigned to different communication channels, those different communication channels can be used to obtain items of information from the target address simultaneously.
US08027285B1	Method to eliminate frequency offset introduced in a network A remote, a communications system, and a method in which the remote communicates with another remote via a repeater and also communicates with a hub. The remote includes a transceiver configured to receive a signal from the another remote, a measuring unit configured to measure a first offset, and a calculation unit configured to calculate a frequency offset for the signal based on (i) the first offset measured at the measuring unit, and (ii) a second offset measured at the hub.
US08027282B2	Heterogeneous wireless data transmission network A heterogeneous wireless network topology suited for low-power, short-range and ubiquitous ad-hoc communication. The network topology integrates different wireless transmission technologies, in particular to a wireless sensor network including different node types and communication technologies. The network is highly heterogeneous and can be operated according to the master-slave principle. The nodes can have different wireless communication means tailored to their individual role in the network and other constraints, thus allowing different communication patterns.
US08027280B2	Layered architecture for data management in a wireless sensor network A wireless sensor network comprises a plurality of nodes that communicate over wireless communication links. At least one of the plurality of nodes receives sensor data from a sensor. The wireless sensor network is queried by specifying a set of events of interest. For each event of interest included in the set of events of interest, a producer node included in the plurality of nodes identifies when that event of interest occurs and, when that event of interest occurs, transmits event data related to that event of interest to a consumer node included in the plurality of nodes. The wireless sensor network further comprises a data management stack that comprises a plurality of layers. The plurality of layers comprises an execution layer that executes on each producer node included in the plurality of nodes. For each event of interest included in the set of events of interest, the execution layer executing on the producer node for that event of interest identifies when that event of interest occurs.
US08027279B2	Echo cancellation Embodiments related to echo compensation have been described and depicted.
US08027277B2	Passive network tap for tapping network data A passive full-duplex bidirectional ZPL tap includes first and second network ports and first and second tap ports. A passive signal separator is configured to receive a data stream from at least one of the first or second network port and pass through the data stream and a first signal portion comprising at least the first signal component and a second signal portion comprising at least the second signal component. A first receive only physical interface device (Phy) is configured to receive the first signal portion from the signal separator and provide the first portion to the first tap port and a second receive only Phy is configured to receive the second signal portion from the signal separator and provide the second signal portion to the second tap port.
US08027274B2	Multicast communication system and method The present invention aims to realize a system and method of reliably performing multicast communication via a bandwidth-guaranteed network, and provides a multicast communication system for performing multicast communication via a bandwidth-guaranteed network, the system including: a multicast proxy response device added with a group address destination identifier; and a multicast client, wherein the multicast proxy response device transmits a session connection request to the group address destination identifier of the multicast proxy response device when starting reception, the multicast proxy response device which has received said session connection request transmits a session connection response to said multicast client, and the multicast client receives multicast data through a bandwidth secured in the bandwidth-guaranteed network by the session connection response.
US08027260B2	Mixed integer programming model for minimizing leased access network costs A device receives network configuration information from a network, determines a logical network based on the network configuration information, and constructs a mixed integer programming (MIP) model based on the logical network. The device also calculates an optimal solution, which minimizes network costs, using the mixed integer programming (MIP) model, performs a post-optimization mapping procedure on the optimal solution to produce an optimal network configuration mapping, and outputs the optimal network configuration mapping for implementation.
US08027256B1	Multi-port network device using lookup cost backpressure In one embodiment of a network device, multiple packet sources contend for access to a packet processing pipeline. The packet processing pipeline tracks the usage of lookup resources by each of the multiple packet sources. When a packet source is detected to be using more than an acceptable allocation of the lookup resources, access to the packet processing pipeline for that source is limited or curtailed to bring that source back within an acceptable allocation of resources. This backpressure mechanism can be used to control sources that, although within a bandwidth limit, are submitting a packet type mix that is consuming unfair percentages of lookup resources in an oversubscribed system. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US08027237B2	Optical storage medium, information recording apparatus, and information reproducing apparatus An optical storage medium can be provided by which illegal usage of the optical storage medium involving an infringement on the copyright can be prevented effectively without impairment of the functions for reproducing physical format information and optical storage medium manufacturing information. The optical storage medium includes a main information region in which encrypted data information is recorded as a pit row that is capable of being read out by means of light and a control data region. In the control data region, key information for decoding the encryption of the data information, the physical format information and the optical storage medium manufacturing information are recorded by wobbling a groove.
US08027235B2	Defect managing method and defect managing device Performing sequential recording to alternate destinations of an information recording medium and improving access performance of accessing the information recording medium are achieved by estimating sequential defective areas of the information recording medium based on prescribed conditions, allocating blocks of a spare area as alternate destinations of the defective areas, and performing alternate recording to the allocated alternate destinations, in response to a recording request to record information to the sequential defective areas. The above can be achieved because the use of the alternate destinations will help to prevent a time-out from occurring due to he the defective areas.
US08027228B2	Optical disk device and seek method in optical disk device An optical disk device executes a seek operation to move an irradiation position of light beam on an optical disk to a track of a target address. During execution of a seek operation through a one-track jump operation in which the irradiation position of the light beam is moved along the radial direction of the optical disk by one track, it is determined whether or not off-track of the irradiation position of the light beam has occurred. When it is determined that the off-track has occurred, a seek operation through a multiple track jump operation is executed in which the irradiation position of the light beam is moved along the radial direction of the optical disk by an amount corresponding to a plurality of tracks.
US08027224B2	Broadband underwater acoustic transducer An efficient, broadband, underwater acoustic transducer having nominally a quasi-omnidirectional radiation pattern is realized with a plurality of thin walled radially vibrating hollow spherical piezoelectric transduction elements aligned axially. Each spherical transduction element is progressively smaller in diameter so as to enhance the combined frequency coverage and achieve the desirable radiation pattern. The transduction elements may be excited individually, or together electrically in series or in parallel combinations.
US08027223B2	Earth analysis methods, subsurface feature detection methods, earth analysis devices, and articles of manufacture Earth analysis methods, subsurface feature detection methods, earth analysis devices, and articles of manufacture are described. According to one embodiment, an earth analysis method includes engaging a device with the earth, analyzing the earth in a single substantially lineal direction using the device during the engaging, and providing information regarding a subsurface feature of the earth using the analysis.
US08027219B2	Semiconductor memory devices having signal delay controller and methods performed therein A semiconductor memory device may have a memory cell array with respective memory cells disposed at intersections of rows and columns. The semiconductor memory device may also include at least one decoder and at least one delay controller. The decoder may select a row or column of the memory cell. The signal delay controller may control a delay of an activation signal applied to the row or column by the at least one decoder based on at least one of a position of the at least one memory cell associated with the selected row or column and a line loading capacitance value of the selected memory cell.
US08027210B2	Data input apparatus with improved setup/hold window In the data input apparatus, a data delay unit outputs data input from outside the data input apparatice. The data delay unit varies the degree of delay in response to a test mode signal. A data alignment signal generating unit receives a first signal synchronized with an external clock signal and a second signal synchronized with a data strobe signal, and the data alignment signal generating unit outputs one of the first signal and the second signal as a data alignment signal in response to the test mode signal. A data alignment unit is synchronized with the data alignment signal to align the data delayed in the data delay unit. The data input apparatus improves the setup/hold window when a semiconductor memory device is in the test mode.
US08027207B2	Leakage compensated reference voltage generation system An e-fuse sense circuit employs a single ended sense scheme in which the reference voltage is compensated for leakage. A reference voltage generator includes a pull-up resistor of similar value to the selected bitline pull-up resistor. As the sensing trip point is adjusted by selection of a bitline pull-up resistor, a pair of pull-up and pull-down resistors are adjusted together to adjust the impedance of the reference voltage generator. A leakage-path simulation structure including a parallel connection of bitcells is added to the reference voltage generator. The leakage-path simulation structure imitates the bitcells on a bitline in the array of e-fuses. Leakage current on the bitline offsets the bitline voltage by a certain error voltage. The reference voltage is also offset by a fraction of the error voltage to balance the shifts in the ‘1’ and ‘0’ margin levels in the presence of leakage.
US08027206B2	Bit line voltage control in spin transfer torque magnetoresistive random access memory A Spin Transfer Torque Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory (STT-MRAM) and associated read operations are disclosed. A bit cell includes a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) and a word line transistor, the bit cell being coupled to a bit line and a source line. A clamping circuit is coupled to the bit line and is configured to clamp the bit line voltage to a desired voltage level during a read operation of the STT-MRAM to prevent the bit line voltage from exceeding the desired voltage level. The desired voltage level is less than a write voltage threshold associated with a write operation of the STT-MRAM.
US08027192B2	Resistive memory devices using assymetrical bitline charging and discharging A nonvolatile memory device includes a plurality of memory banks, each including a plurality of nonvolatile resistive memory cells (e.g. PRAM cells). The device also includes a write global bitline shared by the memory banks and a read global bitline shared by the memory banks. The device further includes a control circuit configured to write data to a selected nonvolatile memory cell in a first memory bank using the write global bitline while reading data from a selected nonvolatile memory cell in a second memory bank using the read global bitline such that a discharge time period of the write global bitline is longer than a quenching time period of a write current which flows through the nonvolatile memory cell of the first memory bank.
US08027191B2	Write circuit for providing distinctive write currents to a chalcogenide memory cell A write circuit for providing distinctive write currents to a chalcogenide memory cell is disclosed. The write circuit includes a current amplitude trim module, a current amplification and distribution module, and a write current shaping module. The current amplitude trim module provides a well-compensated current across a predetermined range of temperatures, voltage supplies and process corners intended for programming a chalcogenide memory cell. The current amplification and distribution module amplifies the well-compensated current in order to meet a programming requirement of the chalcogenide memory cell. The write current shaping module supplies an appropriate amount of write “0” current or write “1” current, based on the amplified current, to program the chalcogenide memory cell accordingly.
US08027189B2	Nonvolatile memory device A nonvolatile memory device includes a plurality of programming current driving units configured to supply memory cells with a programming current corresponding to a write data, a common programming current controlling unit configured to generate a common control voltage for controlling the programming current and a switching unit configured to transfer the common control voltage to the programming current driving unit selected among the plurality of programming current driving units by a plurality of driving selection signals.
US08027184B2	Semiconductor storage device and operating method of the same A semiconductor storage device includes: reading blocks; third wirings; reading switches; a control circuit; and evaluating circuits. The reading blocks includes first and second wirings extended in a first and second direction, respectively, and resistive storage elements arranged at points where the first and second wirings intersect. The third wirings is extended in the second direction and provided correspondingly to the second wirings. The reading switches are arranged between the third and second wirings. The control circuit controls the reading switches and supplies currents or the like to the first wirings. The evaluating circuits are connected to the third wirings and evaluate the currents or the like. When data is read out, the control circuit selects a selection reading block and a selection first wiring and supplies the currents or the like, and the evaluating circuits execute the evaluations of the currents or the like in the third wirings.
US08027170B2	Substrate and electronic device using the same An electronic device which includes a feedthrough capacitor mounted on a front surface of a substrate. A feedthrough electrode penetrates a laminate (body of the capacitor). External electrodes are electrically connected to opposite ends of the feedthrough electrode. A capacitor electrode is disposed to form capacity in cooperation with the feedthrough electrode. A wiring conductor is formed on a rear surface of the substrate or inside the substrate, and via-hole conductors are connected to the wiring conductor. The feedthrough electrode and the external electrodes constitute a first current path. The wiring conductor and the via-hole conductors constitute a second current path electrically connected in parallel to the first current path.
US08027167B2	Case cable management The case cable management has a shell, a circuit board, multiple sockets and a cover. The shell has a bottom board and a sidewall. The circuit board is attached securely to the bottom board of the shell. The sockets are mounted through the sidewall of the shell and have multiple terminals connected securely to the circuit board. The cover covers the shell. Multiple power lines are mounted through the sidewall of the shell to connect the circuit board and sockets to a power supply and cables from computer apparatuses are connected to the sockets to receive electric power. Different cables can be distinguished clearly and conveniently for simplified cable routing to avoid confusion and facilitate replacement.
US08027157B2	Battery cover latch mechanism and portable electronic device using same A battery cover latch mechanism (10) used in portable electronic device (100) is described including a cover member (11), a housing member (12), a latch assembly (13), and a return member (14). The latch assembly slides from a released position to a latched position to latch the cover member to the housing member. The return member is secured to the cover member including an elastic sheet (141) secured to the latch assembly. The elastic sheet is used to return the latch assembly from the latched position to the released position.
US08027146B2	Electric circuit device enabling impedance reduction An electric circuit device (101) comprises an electric element (100) and a substrate (200). The electric element (100) comprises a conductive plate (11, 12), a conductive plate (21 to 23), a side anode electrode (10A, 10B) connected to the conductive plate (11, 12), and a side cathode electrode (20A, 20B, 20C, 20D) connected to the conductive plate (21-23). The conductive plate (11, 12) is alternately laminated with the conductive plate (21-23). The substrate (200) includes a dielectric (201) and a conductive plate (202-205). The conductive plate (202) is connected to the side anode electrode (10A). The conductive plate (203) is connected to the side anode electrode (10B). The conductive plate (204) is connected to the side cathode electrode (20A, 20B). The conductive plate (205) is connected to the side cathode electrode (20C, 20D).
US08027145B2	Capacitor element and method of manufacturing capacitor element There are provided a porous plate dielectric substance, pillar-shaped electrodes respectively formed in pores belonging to a first group and pores belonging to a second group alternately arranged on the dielectric substance, insulator layers made of an organic insulator formed on tips of pillar-shaped electrodes in the pores of the first and second groups so as to fill the pores and hide electrodes respectively provided on one principal surface and another principal surface of the dielectric substance and connected to base ends of the pillar-shaped electrodes.
US08027144B2	Capacitor structure A capacitor structure is provided. The capacitor structure comprises a plurality of parallel conductive line levels and a plurality of vias. Each conductive line level comprises first conductive lines parallel to each other and second conductive lines parallel to each other. Also, the first conductive lines on different conductive line levels are aligned to each other and the second conductive lines on different conductive line levels are aligned to each other so as to form first conductive line co-planes and second conductive line co-planes. The vias are located on the conductive line co-planes and between the conductive line levels for connecting the conductive lines on the neighboring conductive line levels. The vias, on a height level of each of the conductive line co-planes, are arranged only on one of the neighboring conductive line co-planes.
US08027140B2	Reed switch arrays An array of reed switches (13) is assembled on a circuit board (11) having a plurality of through-apertures (12) with one reed switch (13) disposed in each aperture with the axis of the switch envelope (14) extending perpendicularly to the plane of the board. A plurality of coils (16) is provided on the board so that each switch (13) is surrounded by a respective coil, the coils being connected to conductors on the board for operation of the switches. Also disposed is a control circuit wherein the reed switch drive coils (26) are connected in series across a constant-current voltage source and a respective solid-state switch TR1, TR2 . . . connected across each coil, with divers for each solid-state switch to permit operation of a selected reed switch.
US08027134B2	Apparatus and method for scalable power distribution According to one aspect of the invention, a plug-in module is provided for installation in a power distribution assembly. In one embodiment, the plug-in module includes a housing, an electrical isolation and overcurrent protection device located in the housing and a current sensing device located in the housing and adapted to sense a current carried by the electrical isolation and overcurrent protection device. The plug-in module may further include a power cable including a first end that is pre-terminated at the plug-in module to connect the power cable to the electrical isolation and overcurrent protection device, and electrical contacts adapted to removably couple the plug-in module to a plurality of stationary electrical conductors of the power distribution assembly. According to one embodiment, the electrical isolation and overcurrent protection device includes a circuit breaker.
US08027132B2	Failure detection device for power circuit including switching element A failure detection device detects the voltage across the main electrodes of an IGBT via a diode. The failure detection device determines occurrence of short-circuit failure in the IGBT when the anode voltage of the diode is lower than a first predetermined reference voltage. Determination can be made, excluding the case of a proper operation corresponding to a flywheel diode in an ON state, preferably together with the condition that the anode voltage of the diode is higher than a second predetermined reference voltage.
US08027126B2	Magnetic head suspension A load bending part includes a pair of first elastic plate parts and a second elastic plate part. The pair of first elastic plate parts are elastically deformed in a bended manner so as to generate a first pressing load. The second elastic plate part is positioned between the pair of first elastic plate parts in the suspension widthwise direction in a state of having both ends in its longitudinal direction connected to a pair of support pieces of a supporting part, and are elastically deformed in a twisted manner around a twist axis line along the suspension widthwise direction so as to generate a second pressing load. The total of the first and second pressing loads functions as a load for pressing the magnetic head slider toward the disk surface against air pressure due to rotation of a disk surface.
US08027122B2	Dual sided tape storage device and dual sided tape drive A data storage device is provided with a housing having an access opening, a pair of tape reels and dual sided data tape. The access opening is adjacent to a tape path for access of each tape side. A tape drive is provided with a pair of read/write heads, each having a first position to receive the tape, and a second position for engaging one side of the tape for performing a read/write function. A method is disclosed for reading and/or writing data with a data storage device by providing a housing having an access opening, a pair of tape reels, and dual sided tape. The data storage device is loaded to a tape drive having a pair of read/write heads that are actuated to engage the data tape sides. The tape is conveyed along the pair of read/write heads while a read/write function is performed.
US08027108B2	System and method for projection systems using sequential color techniques A projection system using a sequential color filter is provided. The sequential color filter utilizes various colors, such as red, blue, and green, divided into segments to produce images. Each color may be divided into two or more segments and arranged such that high sequential color rates may be obtained to help reduce the rainbow effect. The colors may be arranged such that the sequential color filter is symmetrical in the sense that the sequential color filter is divided into approximately equal regions wherein each region has approximately an equal amount of respective colors.
US08027107B2	Camera module Disclosed herein is a camera module. The camera module includes a lens barrel having at least one lens which brings an image of a subject into focus. A housing having a space for the lens barrel, and friction member formed in axially. A piezoelectric actuator provided in an outer circumferential surface of the lens barrel, and generating vibration when external voltage is applied to the piezoelectric actuator, with a through hole formed for having the friction member. An elastic member include the friction member, and inserted into the through hole of the piezoelectric actuator, and applying the vibrations to the friction member.
US08027105B2	Lens barrel assembly and method Provided is a lens barrel assembly and method. The lens barrel assembly including: a lens barrel in which at least one lens is installed; a driving member that moves the lens barrel in the direction of an optical axis; a base at which the driving member is accommodated; a guide member that is formed on the base and guides a movement of the lens barrel; and an elastic unit that connects the base and the lens barrel and includes a plurality of elastic members. The lens barrel assembly can improve image quality of an image processing device by stabilizing the movement of the lens barrel.
US08027101B2	Optical element fixing component and imaging unit The present invention relates to an optical element fixing component having a hollow portion which includes an optical element. The optical element fixing component is made from a non-crystalline alloy, and a ratio of a linear expansion coefficient of the optical element fixing component toward a linear expansion coefficient of the optical element is 1.5 or less.
US08027099B2	Optical system for camera The present invention provides an optical system for a camera including: a first lens which has a negative refractive power and has a meniscus shape convex toward object side; a second lens which has a negative refractive power and has a convex surface toward object side; a third lens which has a positive refractive power and has a convex surface toward object side; and a fourth lens which has a positive refractive power and has a convex surface toward image side, wherein the optical system satisfies the following inequalities: 0.3
US08027098B2	Focus lens apparatus Provided is a zoom lens including: a focus lens unit which moves during focusing; and a magnification-varying lens unit which moves during zooming, in which when the magnification-varying lens unit is moved in a direction in which a depth of focus deepens, a focus operation using the focus lens unit is stopped.
US08027092B1	Curved light shelf system for daylighting an interior space A light shelf for daylighting an interior space with reflected sunlight has a reflective upper surface having a cyma-reversa profile along a vertical cross-section perpendicular to the window, with a convex region adjacent to the window and a concave region distal from the window.
US08027091B2	Method for correcting optical proximity effects In a method for correcting optical proximity effects (Optical Proximity Correction, OPC) when imaging a pattern, arranged in the object surface of a projection objective, into the image surface of the projection objective with the aid of a projection objective, a multiplicity of optical elements and at least one pupil surface that is Fourier-transformed to the image surface are arranged between the object surface and the image surface. An optical filtering of the light used for the imaging is carried out with the aid of at least one OPC filter inserted between the object surface and the image surface in accordance with an OPC filter function that is adapted to the pattern and corresponds to a spatially dependent transmission filtering in the region of the pupil surface of the imaging system. The profile of the pupil transmission function is adapted with the aid of the OPC filter to the pattern, characterized by the position of diffraction orders, of the mask such that there is respectively present for all the diffraction orders contributing to the imaging an optimized pupil transmission which leads to a minimization of line width variations, dependent on line density, in the image surface.
US08027086B2	Roll to roll nanoimprint lithography Apparatus and methods for a nano-patterning process to fabricate nanostructures. A roller type mold is used to continuously imprint nanostructures onto a flexible web or a rigid substrate. The process includes a coating and an imprinting module, which rotate the web synchronously. Liquid resist materials are used for imprinting and the patterns are set by thermal or UV curing. The process is used to produce bilayer metal wire-grid polarizers, organic solar cells, and organic light emitting diodes.
US08027084B2	Inverted microscope provided with blockage member for preventing spillage of fluid An inverted microscope includes a lens holding mechanism which holds an objective lens arranged under a sample and used to form an observation image of the sample; a focusing mechanism which holds the lens holding mechanism on its upper part and moves the objective lens up and down together with the lens holding mechanism; and a microscope main body which serves as a casing including the focusing mechanism therein, and includes an opening allowing an attachment of the focusing mechanism and the lens holding mechanism in its upper wall surface. A size of the lens holding mechanism in a horizontal plane is larger than a size of an image projected onto the horizontal plane of the opening.
US08027074B2	Scan optical system, light scan device, and image formation device An imaging lens good in mass-productivity, compact, low in manufacturing cost, good in aberration performance is provided by effectively correcting aberrations without greatly varying the variation of the thickness of a curing resin. An imaging device having such an imaging lens and a portable terminal are also provided. A third lens (L3) has a flat surface on the object side, a convex surface near the optical axis on the image side, and a concave aspheric surface around the peripheral portion within the region where a light beam passes. Therefore, it is possible to reduce the other optical aberrations such as distortion and simultaneously to design the imaging lens so that the astigmatism takes on a maximum value at the outermost portion. Hence, the resolutions at low to middle image heights are high. In addition, such a shape does not cause a large variation of the thickness of the third lens (L3) from the region along the axis to the periphery. Therefore, the thickness of the third lens (L3) can be small, and the material cost can be reduced.
US08027070B2	Methods and systems for hue adjustment Aspects of the present invention relate to systems and methods for color image hue shifting. Some aspects relate to processes by which reference hue values and corresponding hue shift values are used to modify color hue values in a non-perceptually-uniform color space. Some aspects relate to processes that generate a hue shift table for modifying image hue values.
US08027069B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus is provided that, is capable of physically preventing taking-out of the set document, even when a thick copy-prohibited document is set on a document reading device. The image forming apparatus is configured to place a document on a document table, and at least the document is read by closing a pivotally supported document cover portion to cover the document and the image forming apparatus comprises a read-out document determining portion and when the document is determined to be a copy-prohibited document, and prevents the document from being taken out from the document table by locking the rotation of the pivotally supported portion of the document cover.
US08027068B2	Image-capturing unit and image-capturing apparatus For an image-capturing unit having a light source and mirrors directing light reflected from a scanned document into a lens condensing the light onto a photoelectrically converting image sensor, a synthetic resin housing. The housing is composed of an open-ended upper frame having a top plate from which sidewalls extend, encompassing an internal space. A mounting surface for anchoring the light-source is formed on the upper side of the upper-frame top plate, and formed on the lower side of the upper-frame top plate is a pedestal on which the lens is supported. Mirror-support projections are formed on the lower side of the upper-frame top plate, or on the upper-frame sidewalls, to support the mirrors from below the lens. With this housing, the influence of heat from the light source on the optics is minimized, improving the mirrors' positional accuracy.
US08027067B2	Method for correcting skew in scanned documents An apparatus and method for deskewing a scanned printed document is described. The original printed document is scanned with the scanner to obtain a first digital image, which contains skew (rotation) with respect to the original printed document. The first digital image is digitally flipped around a centerline to obtain a second digital image, which is printed to generate a second printed document. The second printed document is scanned using the same scanner to obtain a third digital image, which contains skew errors with respect to the second printed document. The third digital image is digitally flipped around the centerline to obtain a final digital image, which is substantially free of the skew introduced by the scanner.
US08027066B2	Methods, systems, and media to enhance image processing in a color reprographic system Methods, systems, and media to enhance image processing for a color reprographic system are disclosed. Embodiments of the invention may calibrate a component like scanner and/or printer in response to user input and/or coupling the component to the reprographic system. More specifically, embodiments may generate correction parameters that describe differences in color values between an image scanned by a scanner or an image printed by the printer by comparing the outputs to known characteristics like color values for the image. Some embodiments comprise a graphical user interface (GUI) to communicate with the user, allowing the user to select user preferences to change, for example, the brightness of an image being copied. Further embodiments incorporate network and phone system interfaces to communicate with remote components as well as to receive input from and/or output to other systems via email, facsimile, etc.
US08027059B2	Image processing device An image processing device has a main unit, a storage unit, a first processing unit, a second processing unit, a first determination unit, and a first replacement unit. The storage unit is provided in the main unit that stores a color image having ground color and different color from the ground color, the color image being formed by color-pixels including a ground color pixel and a different color pixel, the ground color pixel having the ground color, the different color pixel having the different color. The first processing unit scales down the color image to produce a first gray-scale image which is simply represented by brightness having a plurality of brightness values, the first gray-scale image being formed by first gray-scale pixels. The second processing unit determines the brightness value of each of the color pixels to produce a histogram showing a distribution of the color pixels with respect to the brightness. The first determination unit determines a first threshold level based on the histogram to distinguish the ground color pixel from the different color pixel. The first replacement unit compares the brightness value of at least one of the color pixels with the first threshold level to detect the ground color pixel, the first replacement unit replacing the detected ground color pixel with a white color pixel to produce a processed color image, the white color pixel having white color.
US08027049B2	Remote e-mail printing An information providing server has information on plural printers. The information providing server provides a user of a portable terminal with the information on the plural printers by sending the information on the plural printers to the portable terminal. The portable terminal sends an e-mail to which a file to be printed is attached to a printer selected by the user. Each of the plural printers has a plurality of print conditions to which different e-mail addresses are respectively assigned. The printer that has received an e-mail specifies a print condition from an e-mail address indicating the destination of the e-mail. The printer then prints the file attached to the received e-mail under the specified print condition.
US08027044B2	Image forming apparatus, print job processing method, and program An image forming apparatus which makes it possible to perform image forming processing and post-processing efficiently. A job controller divides a single print job into a plurality of print jobs according to the processing capability of a post-processing apparatus. A print controller causes a printer section to perform sequential operations according to the split print jobs, to form a plurality of sets of printed sheet bundles. The sets of sheet bundles formed in association with the respective print jobs and stacked on a stacker by the operation of the print controller are sequentially brought to the post-processing apparatus, and the post-processing apparatus sequentially performs post-processing on the supplied sets of sheet bundles.
US08027040B2	Method for determining an analyte in a sample In one aspect of the invention, a method or apparatus is described for determining concentration(s) of one or more analytes in a sample using plasmonic excitations. In another aspect, a method relates to designing systems for such concentration determination, wherein metallic nanostructures are used in combination with local electrical detection of such plasmon resonances via a semiconducting photodetector. In certain aspects, the method exploits the coupling of said metallic nanostructure(s) to a semiconducting photodetector, said detector being placed in the “metallic structure's” near field. Surface plasmon excitation can be transduced efficiently into an electrical signal through absorption of light that is evanescently coupled or scattered in a semiconductor volume. This local detection technique allows the construction of sensitive nanoscale bioprobes and arrays thereof.
US08027038B2	System and method for calibrating optical characteristics A miniaturized spectrometer/spectrophotometer system and methods are disclosed. A probe tip including one or more light sources and a plurality of light receivers is provided. A first spectrometer system receives light from a first set of the plurality of light receivers. A second spectrometer system receives light from a second set of the plurality of light receivers. A processor, wherein the processor receives data generated by the first spectrometer system and the second spectrometer system, wherein an optical measurement of a sample under test is produced based on the data generated by the first and second spectrometer systems.
US08027033B2	Calibrated analyte concentration measurements in mixtures The concentration of analytes in a complex mixture can be ascertained by spectroscopic measurement, even if the spectra of substances other than the analyte overlap with that of the analyte. Both independently measured concentrations of the analyte in a training set and of the analyte spectrum are used. Variances in the spectral data attributable to the analyte are isolated from spectral variances from other causes, such as compositional changes associated with different samples that are independent of the analyte. For the special case of noninvasive glucose measurements on the skin of biological organisms, the volume averaged glucose in the sample is predicted from the blood glucose. A test for over-fitting of the data is also described.
US08027031B2	Spectrometric metrology of workpieces using a permanent window as a spectral reference In a spectrographic workpiece metrology system having an optical viewing window, the viewing window is calibrated against a reference sample of a known absolute reflectance spectrum to produce a normalized reflectance spectrum of the reference sample, which is combined with the absolute reflectance spectrum to produce a correction factor. Successive production workpieces are measured through the window and calibrated against the viewing window reflectance, and transformed to absolute reflectance spectra using the same correction factor without having to re-load the reference sample.
US08027027B2	Exposure apparatus, and device manufacturing method A lithographic projection apparatus includes a substrate table that holds a substrate, a projection system that projects a patterned beam of radiation onto the substrate, and a liquid confinement structure that confines a liquid in a space between the projection system and the substrate, the substrate, the substrate table, or both, to form a part of a boundary of the space. In addition, a closing plate forms a part of a boundary of the space in place of the substrate, the substrate table, or both, when moved without substantially disturbing the liquid, the liquid confinement structure, or both.
US08027025B2	Exposure apparatus and device manufacturing method An exposure apparatus which exposes a substrate with exposure light, includes a projection optical system which projects a pattern image of an original onto the substrate; a first illumination unit which illuminates the original with the exposure light; and a second illumination unit which guides illumination light that is different from the exposure light for exposing the substrate to the projection optical system, the second illumination unit includes a modifier which modifies an illumination distribution of the illumination light entering an optical element near a pupil of the projection optical system and an optical element which is the closest to the original in the projection optical system.
US08027022B2	Projection objective The disclosure relates a projection objective for imaging an object field in an object plane into an image field in an image plane. The disclosure also relates to a microlithographic projection exposure apparatus including such a projection objective. The disclosure further relates to methods of using such a projection exposure apparatus to fabricate microstructured or nanostructured components, such as highly integrated semiconductor components. In addition, the disclosure relates to components fabricated by such methods.
US08027015B2	Layout of liquid crystal display panels and size of mother substrate A layout of LCD panels and a size of the mother substrate are disclosed, to improve the efficiency in arrangement of the LCD panels, and to maximize the substrate efficiency, the layout comprising a mother substrate; a dummy region of 15 mm or less in a periphery of the mother substrate; and six LCD panels of the 26-inch model in a matrix of 2×3 on the mother substrate excluding the dummy region with a margin corresponding to 2˜4% of a length of the LCD panel.
US08027009B2	Liquid crystal display device and method of manufacturing the same A liquid crystal display device and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. The liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel including gate pads connected to gate lines and data pads connected to data lines; at least one driving circuit mounted on a circuit substrate including poly-silicon thin-film transistors, formed by a low temperature poly-silicon (LTPS) process, and including circuit pads to be connected to the gate pads or data pads; and a conductive film to electrically connect the driving circuit and the gate pads or data pads.
US08027005B2	Liquid crystal display having a pixel region with a source electrode of at least a high-melting-point metal layer An active matrix liquid crystal display device includes first and second substrates, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first and second substrates, and plural image signal lines and scan signal lines formed on the first substrate. Respective pixel regions are formed by adjacent image signal lines and adjacent scan signal lines, and the respective pixel regions have at least one of a semiconductor layer, a pixel electrode, a counter electrode, and a source electrode which has a high-melting-point metal layer and an aluminum layer formed on the high-melting-point metal layer; wherein the high-melting-point layer enables connection of the semiconductor layer and the pixel electrode, and the pixel electrode is formed between the high-melting-point metal layer and the first substrate; and wherein a part of the scan signal lines positioned between the pixel regions and the gate terminal is covered by an ITO layer electrically connected to the counter electrode.
US08027002B2	Liquid crystal display comprising a biaxial plate and a C-plate A vertical alignment type liquid crystal display, which has a liquid crystal layer whose retardation value is about 600 nm or more, can solve the viewing angle problems associated with the wider viewing angle. The liquid crystal display can include a vertical alignment liquid crystal cell, and first and second polarizing plates cross-Nicol disposed on respective sides of the liquid crystal cell. The liquid crystal cell has a liquid crystal layer with a retardation of about 600 nm or more. A biaxial plate is provided between the liquid crystal cell and the first polarizing plate, and two C-plates are provided between the liquid crystal cell and the second polarizing plate.
US08026974B2	Imaging apparatus, method and program An imaging apparatus that images an image with a solid-state imaging device includes an area defining section that defines an unnecessary image detection area, which may contain an unnecessary image, at a position along an outer edge of an imaged image obtained by the solid-state imaging device, a focus evaluation value calculating section that calculates a focus evaluation value, which indicates the focal degree, based on an image signal of the imaged image obtained through a gradually moved focus lens, an unnecessary image detection processing section that determines that the imaged image contains the unnecessary image if the focus evaluation value calculated based on an image signal in the unnecessary image detection area has a peak while the focus lens is moving, and a warning processing section that performs processing for warning a photographer of the fact that the unnecessary image is contained if it is determined.
US08026967B2	Rolling shutter for prevention of blooming A rolling shutter technique for a pixel array is described in which multiple rows of the array are hard reset as the shutter moves down the array. As the rolling shutter progresses down the array, each row is hard reset multiple times before its integration period begins, thereby ensuring that the row is in a true hard reset condition at the beginning of its integration period. Also, multiple rows are hard reset in advance of the beginning of the integration period for a given row, thereby making it less likely that overexposed pixels several rows away will be able to distort the integrating row by blooming.
US08026964B2	Method and apparatus for correcting defective imager pixels A method and apparatus for correcting defective pixel signals, wherein pixel signals are corrected in accordance with correction information associated with operating conditions under which an image is acquired. A method for acquiring and storing correction information in an imager device is also provided.
US08026962B2	Image synthesizing apparatus and image pickup apparatus with a brightness adjusting processing Disclosed is an image synthesizer including an image frames memory which memorizes a plurality of image frames which are produced by continuously taking pictures of a subject, an image synthesizer which synthesizes a plurality of image frames to a summation image, an image brightness adjuster which adjusts brightness of the summation image by synthesizing the image frames with the image synthesizer, and a display which displays the summation image which is being synthesized by the image synthesizing means in the image brightness adjusting processing.
US08026959B2	Integrated circuit for receiving data An integrated circuit for receiving data includes an input receiver circuit that is supplied with a data signal and a reference signal. The input receiver circuit converts the data signal into differential input control signals that are supplied to first and second signal paths. The first and second signal paths being connected in parallel. The first signal path includes a first comparator circuit that is connected, via a delay circuit and an amplifier circuit, to an output connection of the integrated circuit. The second signal path includes a second comparator circuit that is likewise connected, via a first inverter circuit and a second inverter circuit, to the output connection of the integrated circuit. The two amplifier circuits act as edge discriminators that drive each other and make it possible to generate, at the output connection, an output signal with the same duty cycle as the data signal without distortion.
US08026955B2	Camera exposure controller including imaging devices for capturing an image using stereo-imaging In an exposure controller of a camera mounted on a robot for taking an image utilizing incident light from external world in which an object such as a human being is present, a brightness histogram of the image is generated and exposure parameters are set based on the generated histogram. Then, it is determined whether the set exposure parameters are within a predetermined range and when they are out of the range and if a high-brightness imaging region is present in the image due to high-brightness incident light, it is again determined whether it is necessary to remove the high-brightness imaging region. When it is determined to be necessary, the high-brightness imaging region is extracted and is removed from the image, thereby enabling the camera to image the object with suitable brightness even when a bright light source such as the sun is within the camera angle of view.
US08026954B2	System and computer-readable medium for automatic white balancing Systems and computer-readable medium are disclosed for automatic white balancing of an input image. Accordingly, the system includes a cast detector configured to receive and classify an input image based at least in part on a selection of constituent pixels of the input image. The cast detector is further configured to select the constituent pixels based on a computed reliability of each of the constituent pixels to convey at least one characteristic of a capture illuminant. The system further includes a cast balancer. The cast balancer is configured to perform white balancing of the input image based on the classification of the input image by the cast detector. The cast balancer is further configured to identify the capture illuminant based on at least one characteristic represented by each of the selected constituent pixels.
US08026942B2	Skin imaging system with probe A skin testing and imaging station and corresponding method for capturing, displaying and analyzing images of a person and for testing the skin using a variety of probes includes a digital camera, a light source capable of providing at least two different wavelengths of light, a plurality of probes for conducting skin tests, a touch-screen display and a computer for controlling the components of the station. The apparatus selectively captures and displays a plurality of digital images using different wavelengths of illuminating light, e.g., using a plurality of flashes and filters, some of which may be adjustable to adjust the angle of incidence of the illuminating light on the subject. In video mode, the camera displays a real time image on the display facilitating a user to position a probe for testing any specific area of the skin. Preferably, the apparatus is self-serve, allowing any person to capture, review and analyze the images and skin data. Verbal and/or graphic instructions to a user aid in use of the station. An intuitive graphic user interface with thumbnail images is employed. Focus control, zoom and synchronized side-by side comparison of images are available.
US08026940B2	Image forming apparatus A CPU (91) of an image forming apparatus includes a beam detecting part (911) that detects each of laser beams scanning by a predetermined number (e.g., four) of polygon mirrors (332) at a preset position (where a beam sensor (335) is disposed), a reference phase setting part (912) that sets a reference phase that is a phase to be a reference of the predetermined number of rotation phases of the polygon mirrors (332) based on a result of detection by the beam detecting part (911), and a phase control part (913) that controls polygon motor (330) so that predetermined number of rotation phases of the polygon mirrors (332) match the reference phase.
US08026937B2	Image forming method, image forming apparatus and toner image pattern An image forming method exposes image bearing members by simultaneously reflecting light beams corresponding to different colors by different reflection surfaces of a polygon mirror, transforms electrostatic latent images formed on the image bearing members into toner images for correction, transfers the toner images in an overlapping manner onto a transfer body, and calibrates overlapping positions of the toner images based on an optical detection of the toner images. The toner images are arranged at positions on the transfer body such that the toner images of different colors have no overlap therebetween, even if the toner images shift in a direction perpendicular to the transport direction due to a color registration error. Two first toner images simultaneously formed by two corresponding light beams reflected by one reflection surface of the polygon mirror are arranged adjacent to each other in a transport direction of the transfer body, and are sandwiched by two second toner images simultaneously formed by the two corresponding light beams reflected by the one reflection surface of the polygon mirror along the transport direction.
US08026911B2	Method and a system for generating a synthesized image of a hair The invention relates to a method of generating a synthesized image of a hair, comprising the following steps: calculating the shape of the hair by applying a behavioral relationship determining the shape of the hair as a function of a physical parameter linked to a mechanical property of the hair, in particular the linear density; producing an image of the hair of shape that has been calculated in this way. The behavioral relationship may be given by the minimization of the following function: E = K L ⁢ ∫ 0 1 ⁢ [ 1 2 ⁢ ( k ~ ⁡ ( s ~ ) - α ) 2 + 1 β ⁢ z ~ ⁡ ( s ~ ) ] ⁢ ⅆ s ~ , where α=Lk0 and β=K/gμL3, and where L designates the length of the hair, k0 its spontaneous curvature, K its bending moment, μ its linear density and g the acceleration due to gravity, {tilde over (s)} the curvilinear abscissa relative to the length of the hair, {tilde over (k)} its local curvature relative to its length and {tilde over (z)} its height relative to its length.
US08026907B2	Plasma display device A plasma display device includes plasma display panel and a data driver. Plasma display panel includes a front substrate and a rear substrate faced to each other to form a discharge space therebetween. The front substrate includes a plurality of display electrodes. The rear substrate includes a plurality of data electrodes intersected with the display electrodes. Discharges cells are formed at the intersections of the display electrodes and data electrodes. Data electrodes have a plurality of main electrode parts provided in portions facing the display electrodes, and wiring parts that connect main electrode parts together and have a width smaller than the widths of main electrode parts. The widths of main electrode parts in a peripheral portion of plasma display panel are larger than the widths of main electrode parts in a central portion thereof.
US08026905B2	Double-sided touch sensitive panel and flex circuit bonding A multi-touch sensor panel can be created using a substrate with column and row traces formed on either side. Metal traces running along the border of the substrate can be used to bring the row traces to the same edge as the column traces. A single flex circuit can be fabricated to connect to the rows and columns on directly opposing sides. Flex printed circuits can be bonded to directly opposing attachment areas of a substrate by cooling one side of the substrate while bonding the other. In addition, “coverlay” material extending over right-angled traces on the flex circuit ensure that those traces do not get shorted should conductive bonding material get squeezed out during bonding. Furthermore, a spacer is placed at the distal end of the flex circuit to apply even bonding pressure over the entire flex circuit attachment area during bonding.
US08026899B2	Computer input device having movable light pervious plate A computer input device includes a housing, a move tracking module, and a light pervious plate. The move tracking module is disposed in the housing, and emits a sensing light. The light pervious plate is movably disposed between the housing and the move tracking module, and may be moved between a first position and a second position relatively to the move tracking module. In this manner, the sensing light selectively penetrates the light pervious plate and is emits out of the housing, or is directly emits out of the housing, so that the computer input device correspondingly executes a touch mode or a mouse mode.
US08026897B2	Cursor motion control of a pointing device A pointing device generates pixel counts at a predetermined frame rate indicative of motion in predetermined axes of a user's digit across an imaging surface. A cursor motion controller receives the pixel counts and generates navigation output signals representing averages over predetermined time intervals selected to smooth the motion of a cursor on the display of an electronic apparatus. Optionally, the cursor motion controller can multiply a pixel count in each frame by a predetermined acceleration factor so that a cursor on the display of an electronic apparatus will move a greater distance based on an increased rate of motion of the user's digit across the imaging surface. Optionally, the cursor motion controller can interrupt the generation of navigation output signals for a predetermined interrupt period after completion of a cursor stroke. The averaging, acceleration and interruption features can be used independently or in various combinations.
US08026890B2	Flat display device having a common voltage generation section for generating a stable average DC potential and a control method thereof According to one embodiment of the present invention, a flat display device which makes drive voltage polarity of pixels of adjacent lines reversed polarity, while drives to reverse drive voltage polarity of the same line on a frame-by-frame basis, has common voltage generation circuit for supplying a common voltage signal to a facing electrode of the flat display device and a control circuit for generating a common voltage control signal supplied to the common voltage generation circuit. The control circuit obtains a control signal for generating common voltage whose average DC potential does not vary, by using a horizontal synchronization timing signal, a vertical synchronization timing signal, and a clock signal. In order to obtain the control signal, the device has an (fh/2) signal generation circuit, an (fv/2) signal generation circuit, an (fh×n) signal generation circuit, an multiplication circuit, a selection control circuit, and a selection circuit.
US08026889B2	Drive circuit of display device and method of testing the same A first switch circuit is provided between a gradation voltage selection circuit and an output circuit. The output circuit includes a test switch that disconnects the gradation voltage selection circuit from the output circuit in a test mode; a test switch that connects, in the test mode, the gradation voltage selection circuit to a tester connection terminal TESR1; and a test switch that connects, in the test mode, the output circuit to a tester connection terminal TESR2. A second switch circuit is provided between a gradation voltage generation circuit and the gradation voltage selection circuit to disconnect, in the test mode, the gradation voltage generation circuit from the gradation voltage selection circuit.
US08026884B2	Optical module and positioning frame thereof A system for driving a liquid crystal display is provided. The system receives a video signal including a first predetermined gray level signal and a second predetermined gray level signal. The system includes a memory, an impulse signal module, a first multiplexer and a detection unit. The memory stores the first predetermined gray level signal. The impulse signal module receives the first and second predetermined gray level signal to generate a plurality of impulse signals. The first multiplexer receives the plurality of impulse signals and outputs the second predetermined gray level signal or the plurality of impulse signals according to the first control signal. The detection unit generates a first control signal to be applied to the first multiplexer according to the first predetermined gray level signal and the second predetermined gray level signal.

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