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US08140963B2	Tag aggregator A system for managing tags on a web page is disclosed. Tags are managed by implementing primary and secondary tags. The secondary tags are aggregated to provide network and tag management efficiency.
US08140961B2	Automated re-ordering of columns for alignment trap reduction An automated method to align column values to proper byte boundaries for rapid scanning in a parallel processing database system. A table definition is received having a logical order of fields. The fields are re-ordered to create a physical order of fields. The physical order of fields has fixed length fields having a same byte alignment requirement positioned adjacent to each other in descending order from largest size to smallest size, and wherein a first fixed length field in the physical order is aligned on a proper byte boundary. Other embodiments, aspects and features are also disclosed.
US08140959B2	Method and a program for estimating building material quantities A method and a computer program for estimating item quantities in a building project that includes one or more items. The method includes steps for providing a spreadsheet template including a summary worksheet and one or more input worksheets with a plurality of cells for estimating a quantity of an item in a building project comprising one or more items, receiving a value of a parameter inputted by a user in a predetermined cell of an input worksheet, calculating the quantity of the item based on the value and a formula for the item, and generating a list including the quantity of the item on the summary worksheet. The program includes codes for performing the method and the spreadsheet template may be used by a spreadsheet program such as MICROSOFT EXCEL.
US08140957B2	Technique for controlling screen display The present invention aims at automatically selecting an object which should be displayed in a simplified form in a manner such that user friendliness is not reduced and the drawing time is shortened. To this end, the invention provides a system for controlling a screen display, which includes a structure acquisition unit configured to acquire tree structure data, as structure data defining a structure of a document to be displayed on a screen, in which a plurality of display objects are represented as nodes and a display object indicating a more detailed configuration of a display object at a parent node is represented as a child node, a time acquisition unit configured to acquire required time data which indicates time that has been previously required to draw each of the display objects on the screen, a selection unit configured to select, among the display objects at leaf nodes of the structure data, a display object having an evaluation value obtained based on the required time data which indicates that the required time is longer, preferentially to a display object having an evaluation value which indicates that the required time is shorter, and a drawing control unit configured to draw a display object other than the selected display object preferentially to the selected display object on the screen.
US08140952B2	Method of assisting a user A method of assisting a user, for use in an environment comprising: a user session, an external entity session and a forms engine for generating a form. The method comprises the steps of: registering with the user session, wherein a first session is established between the user session and the forms engine; receiving a request for assistance from a user; in response to receiving the request, de-registering with the user session, wherein the first session is un-established; registering with the external entity session, wherein a second session is established between the external entity session and the forms engine; receiving input from the external entity session; and populating the form with the received input.
US08140948B2	Efficient low complexity high throughput LDPC decoding method and optimization A decoder and method for iteratively decoding of low-density parity check codes (LDPC) includes, in a code graph, performing check node decoding by determining messages from check nodes to variable nodes. In the code graph, variable node decoding is performed by determining messages from the variable nodes to the check nodes. The variable node decoding is independent from degree information regarding the variable nodes. Decoded results are output.
US08140947B2	Method and apparatus for storing survivor paths in a Viterbi detector using systematic pointer exchange Methods and apparatus are provided for storing survivor paths in a Viterbi detector. The invention maintains at least one register and at least one pointer for each state. Each register stores a bit sequence associated with a Viterbi state and each pointer points to one of the registers. One or more predefined rules based on a trellis structure are employed to exchange one or more of the pointers. A survivor path memory is also disclosed for a Viterbi detector. The survivor path memory comprises a plurality of columns, each associated with a different time step, and an input processor. Each column comprises a flip flop for storing one bit or portion of a bit sequence associated with a Viterbi state; and a multiplexer for each state controlled by a case signal indicating a time step, the multiplexer selecting a state from a previous time step, wherein an output of the multiplexer of a given state is connected to at least one data input of a flip flop of the given state. The input processor generates a control signal that exchanges one or more pointers based on a trellis structure, wherein each of the pointers points to one of the flip flops.
US08140938B2	Semiconductor memory device and error correction method thereof A semiconductor memory device having an error correcting function, includes a memory array having a data area and a check code area, an operation circuit including an encode circuit coupled to the data area and the check code area, and a decode circuit coupled to the check code area, and a control circuit including a first register coupled to the operation circuit.
US08140935B2	ECC controller for use in flash memory device and memory system including the same An ECC (error correction code) controller of a flash memory device which stores an M-bit data (M being a positive integer equal to or greater than 2) comprises a first ECC block which generates a first ECC data from a program data to be stored in the flash memory device according to a first error correcting method and a second ECC block which generates a second ECC data from the first ECC data and the program data output from the first ECC block according to a second error correcting method, the program data, the first ECC data, and the second ECC data being stored in the flash memory device.
US08140934B2	LDPC-coded multilevel modulation scheme A PMD compensation scheme suitable for use in multilevel block-coded modulation schemes with coherent detection.
US08140933B2	Buffering packets of a media stream Buffering packets of a media stream for transmission from a transmitting device to a receiving device. Media packets are formed from at least one kind of media information in a stream generator; forward error correction data is formed on the basis of the media packets; one or more repair packets are formed on the basis of the forward error correction data; and a transmission schedule is generated for packets to be transmitted. In addition, hypothetical decoding is also performed according to the transmission schedule. The hypothetical decoding comprises buffering the packets to be transmitted according to the transmission schedule to a hypothetical decoding buffer; and controlling the buffer occupancy level of the hypothetical decoding buffer by controlling the operation of the stream generator.
US08140931B2	Method and system for generating parallel decodable low density parity check (LDPC) codes An approach is provided for efficiently decoding low density parity check (LDPC) codes. A plurality of parallel processors decode the LDPC codes mapped by accessing a mapped matrix in a memory structure. The mapped matrix is constructed based on a parity check matrix of the LDPC codes. No two different entries in an identical row of the mapped matrix connects to identical bit nodes or identical check nodes.
US08140930B1	Encoder and decoder by LDPC coding The present invention is intended to provide an LDPC coding scheme which is capable of efficiently implementing a high-performance and high-speed encoder and decoder of an error correcting code suitable for the field of communications such as mobile communications. As to the configuration, a Tanner graph for representing codes with variable nodes and check nodes is used to classify the individual nodes into a plurality of categories. For calculating a probability propagation in iterative decoding, weighting previously determined for each category is performed on a log-likelihood ratio (LLR) subjected to propagation.
US08140927B2	Method and system for reliable multicast data transmission Provided is a method and system for reliably multicasting a data transmission from a server to one or more clients, which may be connected via a control channel and a multicast data channel. In one example, the method includes sending a first data transmission to the clients over the multicast data channel. A response is received over the control channel from at least some of the clients. The response identifies data not received by the responding client. In some examples, the response may indicate that all the data was received. The server determines a minimum retransmission data set based on the responses. The minimum retransmission data set includes at least some of the data not received by the client during the first data transmission. The minimum retransmission data set is sent over the multicast data channel and received by the clients that did not receive it during the first data transmission.
US08140910B1	Mismatched operation and control correction A system and method for a software override capability for enforcing a predetermined state for an otherwise hardware-programmable device. Software that may think it knows what it is doing may try to control a hardware device, but may not know about a hardware issue, such as another feature or defect requiring that the device stay in a certain state. The technique programmatically maintains a persistent hardware state independent of any other control software. To other software, the software layer of the invention is indistinguishable and inseparable from hardware. Nothing can slip in between. Any insertion attempt will be detected and disallowed. Features of the processor or system chips actually weld the software to the hardware, which feature disallows any software intervention between the welded software layer and the hardware.
US08140889B2	Dynamically reassigning a connected node to a block of compute nodes for re-launching a failed job Methods, systems, and products for dynamically reassigning a connected node to a block of compute nodes for re-launching a failed job that include: identifying that a job failed to execute on the block of compute nodes because connectivity failed between a compute node assigned as at least one of the connected nodes for the block of compute nodes and its supporting I/O node; and re-launching the job, including selecting an alternative connected node that is actively coupled for data communications with an active I/O node; and assigning the alternative connected node as the connected node for the block of compute nodes running the re-launched job.
US08140884B2	Efficient time-based memory counters Some embodiments of efficient time-based memory counters have been presented. In one embodiment, a set of arrays of counters is arranged in layers to associate the set of arrays with a set of predefined time intervals. Furthermore, a set of pointers may be used to reference the set of arrays of counters. An index is maintained to provide time-based management of the arrays of counters. The index includes a timestamp and the set of pointers. Each pointer logically points to a distinct one of the set of arrays.
US08140883B1	Scheduling of pipelined loop operations Pipelined loop operations are efficiently scheduled. A preliminary as soon as possible (ASAP) schedule for a data operation in a pipelined loop is determined. A producer operation clock cycle associated with a producer operation in the pipelined loop is determined. The producer operation provides a data value for use by the data operation in a subsequent loop. A consumer operation clock cycle associated with a consumer operation in the pipelined loop is determined. The consumer operation obtains the data value from the data operation in a previous loop. The data operation is scheduled at the half-way point between the producer operation clock cycle and the consumer operation clock cycle.
US08140879B2	System and method for information handling system power management by variable direct current input A power manager of an information handling system selectively commands a first or second source voltage from an AC-to-DC adapter based upon power consumption of the information handling system. A lower direct current voltage is provided during reduced power consumption so that DC-to-DC conversion in a power supply is more efficient. A higher direct current voltage is provided during increased power consumption so that the current required to provide the increased power remains below a threshold current, thus allowing the power system to have components that operate at lower current levels under high power consumption operations yet with increased efficiency during low power consumption operations.
US08140875B2	Integrated circuit apparatus An integrated circuit apparatus may include: a plurality of power domains to which power voltage is separately supplied; a plurality of circuit macros belonging to a plurality of the power domains respectively; a plurality of power switches to conduct or to substantially block power coming from a power circuit and going to the plurality power domains, respectively; and a power-controlling unit including a controller to control the plurality of power switches, a power domain register to store power domain data which corresponds to a plurality of external interrupt signals that are indicative of power domains that are to be activated; and an interrupt handler to respond to the external interrupt signals by delivering the power domain data corresponding to the external interrupt signals to the controller, the controller being operable to turn on/off the power switches corresponding to the power domain data, respectively.
US08140873B2	User imposed power constraints on web server based on user preferences Web application users are able to specify power constraints for remote web servers. These may be based on individual performance needs and energy-conservation desires. They enable the user to exercise control over the amount of energy that the web server expends in serving the needs of the user. The invention may employ such features as vertical scaling using power capacity on demand (CUoD) type functionality. The method includes providing a user-interactive interface to enable the user to indicate a preference for power restrictions with respect to its web requests. The user then instructs the web site provider to reduce power consumption in response to the user's request. The user specifies a reduction in overall power consumption for the user's needs, such as instructing the web service provider to use an energy-conserving server to handle the user's web requests, or specifying a acceptable delay or fulfilling the user's web requests.
US08140872B1	Restoring processor context in response to processor power-up A CPU (1) automatically preserves the CPU context in a computer memory (5) that remains powered-up when the CPU is powered down in sleep mode. By means of the preserved CPU context, the CPU is able to instantly and transparently resume program execution at the instruction of the program that was asserted for execution when the CPU was powered down. The CPU is permitted to power down frequently, even during execution of a program, and results in reduced average overall power consumption.
US08140869B2	Central power management The present invention provides a central power management method and system, a device side agent and a central power management controller. The central power management method includes: registering a plurality of devices, wherein at least power management capabilities associated with controllable statuses of power management of each of the plurality of devices are recorded; collecting running status data from each of the plurality of devices; analyzing the running status data to determine a current power management policy for each of the plurality of devices; and for each of the plurality of devices, controlling running status thereof according to the current power management policy determined for the device and the power management capabilities of the device.
US08140859B1	Secure storage and replay of media programs using a hard-paired receiver and storage device A method and apparatus for storing and retrieving program material for subsequent replay is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of receiving a data stream comprising the program material encrypted according to a first encryption key, decrypting the program material; re-encrypting the program material according to a second encryption key; and storing the re-encrypted material in a media storage device. The program material is played back by retrieving the re-encrypted material from the media storage device and decrypting the re-encrypted program material. In one embodiment, the second encryption key is derived from metadata describing replay rights. In a further embodiment, the media storage device also stores the second encryption key which has been further encrypted by a key that is unique to the device used to receive the program material.
US08140858B2	Data processing apparatus A data processing apparatus is provided, which detects falsification of software to data and rewriting of the data. The data processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises a security unit which has an encryption circuit for decrypting an encrypted signal including secrecy data. The security unit includes a compression circuit which compresses an access signal used in accessing the security unit and outputs the compression result, and a comparison circuit which compares the compression result outputted from the compression circuit with a previously-calculated expectation value of the compression result of the access signal.
US08140854B2	User authentication method and user authentication system The present invention is a user verification method and a user verification system, in which a password derivation pattern for each user is pre-registered into a verification server, and when a user is to use the system, the verification server generates a presented pattern and presents this to the user, the user inputs a password corresponding to the user's own password derivation pattern for the presented pattern, the verification server performs verification of the inputted password based on the presented pattern and the user's own password derivation pattern that was registered, and a verification result is then notified to the usage target system.
US08140847B1	Digital safe An online file lodging system or digital safe, which comprises plural safes or safe user accounts, is disclosed for securely storing highly confidential files. A user of the system can create an individual safe by using account management tool. The system has a web-based use interface, from which the user can upload files for storage with detailed tracking information, grant the right of access to the owner of another safe, and generate authenticity certificate for proving the uploading time and the substance of the file in a future time.
US08140841B2	Method and micro-system for updating configurations of target system in computer A technique for updating configurations of a target system in a computer. The method comprises booting, based on Preboot Execution Environment technology, a micro-system for updating configurations of a target system before booting the target system, the micro-system performing the steps of: (a) acquiring target configuration packages via a network from a server; (b) extracting target configuration data from said target configuration packages; and (c) updating the configurations of said target system by using said target configuration data, wherein said micro-system is independent of said target system.
US08140840B2	Multi-operating system document editing mode for battery powered personal computing devices Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for a low power document editing mode for mobile computing devices. In an embodiment of the invention, a battery powered computing device can be configured for power optimized document editing, the computing device. The device can include a central processing unit (CPU), both coupled to a battery, memory, fixed storage and a display within a single computing case. The device also can include a primary personal computing operating system and also an auxiliary low-power consumption operating system each stored in fixed storage, each including a configuration to access an editable document in the fixed storage. Finally, the device can include a boot read only memory (ROM) programmed to selectively bootstrap into either the primary personal computing operating system or the auxiliary low-power consumption operating system.
US08140831B2	Routing instructions in a processor Disclosed are a method and system for reducing complexity of routing of instructions from an instruction issue queue to appropriate execution pipelines in a superscalar processor. In one or more embodiments, an instruction steering unit of the superscalar processor receives ordered instructions. The steering unit determines that a first instruction and a subsequent second instruction of the ordered instructions are non-branching instructions, and the steering unit stores the first and second instructions in two non-branching instruction issue queue entries of a shadow queue. The steering unit determines whether or not a third instruction the ordered instructions is a branch instruction, where the third instruction is subsequent to the second instruction. If the third instruction is a branch instruction, the steering unit stores the third instruction in a branch entry of the shadow queue; otherwise, the steering unit stores a no operation instruction in the branch entry of the shadow queue.
US08140828B2	Handling transaction buffer overflow in multiprocessor by re-executing after waiting for peer processors to complete pending transactions and bypassing the buffer There is disclosed a method and apparatus for handling transaction buffer overflow in a multi-processor system as well as a transaction memory system in a multi-processor system. The method comprises the steps of: when overflow occurs in a transaction buffer of one processor, disabling peer processors from entering transactions, and waiting for any processor having a current transaction to complete its current transaction; re-executing the transaction resulting in the transaction buffer overflow without using the transaction buffer; and when the transaction execution is completed, enabling the peer processors for entering transactions.
US08140826B2	Executing a gather operation on a parallel computer Methods, apparatus, and computer program products are disclosed for executing a gather operation on a parallel computer according to embodiments of the present invention. Embodiments include configuring, by the logical root, a result buffer or the logical root, the result buffer having positions, each position corresponding to a ranked node in the operational group and for storing contribution data gathered from that ranked node. Embodiments also include repeatedly for each position in the result buffer: determining, by each compute node of an operational group, whether the current position in the result buffer corresponds with the rank of the compute node, if the current position in the result buffer corresponds with the rank of the compute node, contributing, by that compute node, the compute node's contribution data, if the current position in the result buffer does not correspond with the rank of the compute node, contributing, by that compute node, a value of zero for the contribution data, and storing, by the logical root in the current position in the result buffer, results of a bitwise OR operation of all the contribution data by all compute nodes of the operational group for the current position, the results received through the global combining network.
US08140825B2	Systems and methods for selectively closing pages in a memory Systems, methods and media for selectively closing pages in a memory in anticipation of a context switch are disclosed. In one embodiment, a table is provided to keep track of open pages for different processes. The table comprises rows corresponding to banks of memory and columns corresponding to cores of a multi-core processing system. When a context switch signal is received, the system unsets a bit in a column corresponding to the core from which the process is to be context-switched out. If no other process is using a page opened by the process the page is closed.
US08140812B2	Method and apparatus for two-phase storage-aware placement of virtual machines Techniques for placement of a virtual machine in a computing system. A first request is sent from a pool management subsystem to a placement subsystem. The first request includes specification of available storage capacities of storage systems in a computer network. The placement subsystem automatically determines a target storage system based, at least in part, on the available storage capacities. An identification of the target storage system is received at the pool management subsystem. At least one disk image of the virtual machine is written to the target storage system. Then, a second request is sent to the placement subsystem. The placement subsystem automatically determines a target computer. The latter determination is based, at least in part, on connectivity between the target computer and the target storage system. The virtual machine is installed at the target computer. The techniques facilitate live migration of virtual machines placed thereby.
US08140811B2	Nonvolatile storage thresholding Embodiments for facilitating data transfer between a nonvolatile storage (NVS) write cache and a pool of target storage devices are provided. Each target storage device in the pool of target storage devices is determined as one of a hard disk drive (HDD) and a solid-state drive (SSD) device, and classified into one of a SSD rank group and a HDD rank group. If no data is received in the NVS write cache for a predetermined time to be written to a target storage device classified in the SSD rank group, a threshold of available space in the NVS write cache is set to allocate at least a majority of the available space to the HDD rank group. Upon receipt of a write request for the SSD rank group, the threshold of the available space is reduced to allocate a greater portion of the available space to the SSD rank group.
US08140806B2	Eliminating fragmentation with buddy-tree allocation This disclosure describes solutions for reducing the amount of fragmentation on a computer memory device, such as a hard disk, random access memory device, and/or the like. In an aspect, this disclosure describes systems, methods and software for allocating storage space for variable-sized data chunks in a fashion that reduces or eliminates the need for periodic de-fragmentation of the memory device. In another aspect, this disclosure describes solutions that provide for the dynamic re-allocation of existing data blocks on the memory device to provide contiguous available space that can be allocated for new data blocks.
US08140794B2	Snapshot storage and management system with indexing and user interface A system and method of managing stored data in a storage management system. The storage management system includes a storage manager, a media agent connected to the storage manager, and a primary volume connected to the media agent. A plurality of snapshots are taken of the primary volume. The snapshots are indexed by associating respective information with the snapshot. The indexed snapshots are copied to a recovery volume. In this way, browsing features are enabled for the user. The user may view the snapshots in a hierarchical format, and may even view snapshot data in association with the corresponding application. The resultant recovery volume may be used to replace a primary volume.
US08140788B2	Apparatus, system, and method for selecting an input/output tape volume cache An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for selecting an input/output tape volume cache (TVC). A history module maintains access history instances for a plurality of clusters. A request module receives an access request for a logical volume. An adjustment module weights the access history instances in favor of recent access history instances. A calculation module calculates an affinity of the logical volume for each cluster of the plurality of clusters. The calculation module may calculate the affinity of the logical volume for each cluster of the plurality of clusters using read/write/scratch granularity and an algorithm. Further, the calculation module may filter out clusters. A selection module selects a cluster TVC with a highest affinity as the TVC for the logical volume.
US08140775B1	Allocating background workflows in a data storage system using autocorrelation Technologies are described for implementing a system that schedules background workflows in a storage system. Historical load statistics can be analyzed to estimate the preferred times in the future during which to schedule background workflows. After collecting load statistics related to the storage system, natural cyclical patterns in the load data can be determined as the predominant periodicities of the load data are selected from peaks in an autocorrelation of the collected data. A linear predictor may be formed as a weighted sum of the historical data sampled at the determined periodicities. Error minimization, such as the method of least squares, may be used to determine the values of the weighting in order to minimize an error between the load predictor and the measured load. Predicting future loads can improve the scheduling of background operations by avoiding conflicts with normal system operations.
US08140766B2	Enhanced coherency tracking with implementation of region victim hash for region coherence arrays A method and system for precisely tracking lines evicted from a region coherence array (RCA) without requiring eviction of the lines from a processor's cache hierarchy. The RCA is a set-associative array which contains region entries consisting of a region address tag, a set of bits for the region coherence state, and a line-count for tracking the number of region lines cached by the processor. Tracking of the RCA is facilitated by a non-tagged hash table of counts represented by a Region Victim Hash (RVH). When a region is evicted from the RCA, and lines from the evicted region still reside in the processor's caches (i.e., the region's line-count is non-zero), the RCA line-count is added to the corresponding RVH count. The RVH count is decremented by the value of the region line count following a subsequent processor cache eviction/invalidation of the region previously evicted from the RCA.
US08140753B2	Method and system for rebuilding data in a distributed RAID system Embodiments of the systems and methods disclosed provide a distributed RAID system comprising a set of data banks. More particularly, in certain embodiments of a distributed RAID system each data bank has a set of associated storage media and executes a similar distributed RAID application. The distributed RAID applications on each of the data banks coordinate among themselves to distribute and control data flow associated with implementing a level of RAID in conjunction with a volume stored on the associated storage media of the data banks. Migration of volumes, or portions thereof, from one configuration to another configuration may be accomplished according to a priority associated with the volume.
US08140745B2	Data retrieval methods Embodiments of methods and systems for controlling access to information stored on memory or data storage devices are disclosed. In various embodiments, methods of retrieving information from a data storage device previously deactivated by modification or degradation of at least a portion of the data storage device are disclosed.
US08140741B2	Semiconductor storage device and control method thereof According to one embodiment, a semiconductor storage device comprises a main memory, a request issue module, a delay module, and an access module. The main memory is configured to store candidate information for determining a compaction candidate for a nonvolatile memory. The request issue module is configured to issue an access request for the candidate information in the main memory. The delay module is configured to delay the access request issued from the request issue module. The access module is configured to access the candidate information in the main memory based on an access request delayed by the delay module.
US08140738B2	Flash memory interface device A memory interface module provides interfacing between a host processor with multiple flash memories and parallel interfaces of varying protocols. The interface module includes multiple register files, multiple operation information registers, an internal memory, a flash interface portion, and a finite state machine (FSM). The register files receive a command from the host processor for controlling an operation of multiple flash memories. The operation information registers execute and store the command and operation information. The internal memory receives and stores host data from the host processor. The internal memory further stores flash data extracted from multiple flash memories. The flash interface portion interacts with the memory devices connected to the controller. The FSM extracts the command and the operation information from the register files, which are programmed by the user and controls the control signals of the memory devices connected to the controller through the flash interface.
US08140737B2	Method for enhancing life cycle of memory A hierarchical mechanism for preventing concentrated wear on single physical block or a specific set of physical blocks in the physical memory is proposed. The logical blocks mapping to the physical blocks in the physical memory are classified into two different levels for implicitly representing the modification times of the physical blocks. A modify count and a maximum modify count are further included for counting the modification times in a single process of the hierarchical mechanism and for limiting the modification times in single process, leading to the probabilities of all the physical blocks being modified in the physical memory being balanced. The breakdown of the physical memory caused by the breakdown of a specific set of physical blocks or single physical block is thus prevented.
US08140735B2	Techniques for dynamic disk personalization Techniques for dynamic disk personalization are provided. A virtual image that is used to create an instance of a virtual machine (VM) is altered so that disk access operations are intercepted within the VM and redirected to a service that is external to the VM. The external service manages a personalized storage for a principal, the personalized storage used to personalize the virtual image without altering the virtual image.
US08140734B2	Asynchronous/synchronous switching of console devices and peripheral devices A signal switch for sharing a video monitor, a plurality of console devices compliant with an industry standard and one or more than one peripheral device in any of a plurality of computer systems, is provided comprising a CPU with a first memory for storing a management program for managing the signal switch; a hub switch module connected to the CPU and configured to communicate with any of the plurality of computer systems, and the one or more than one peripheral device; a device control module for emulating according to the industry standard the plurality of console devices, connected to the CPU and the hub switch module; a host control module connected to the CPU and configured to communicate with the plurality of console devices; and a video control module connected to the CPU and configured to communicate with a video monitor device.
US08140733B2	Secure external computer hub Secure external hubs for coupling peripheral devices to host computers are disclosed. Each peripheral device includes device identification (ID). Peripheral devices may be securely coupled to a host computer by designating authorized device IDs in response to an administrator input received via an administrator port of a hub, authorizing the peripheral devices connected to the hub based on the designated authorized device IDs, and enabling communication between authorized peripheral devices connected to the hub and a communication cable and preventing communication between unauthorized peripheral devices connected to the hub and the communication cable.
US08140729B2	Method and apparatus for arbitration on a full-duplex bus using dual phases A method and apparatus for arbitrating on a high performance serial bus is disclosed. The invention provides for a plurality of arbitration phases and an arbitration advancing means.
US08140722B2	Mobile terminal, character conversion apparatus, character conversion process, computer program, and computer usable medium A character conversion apparatus makes a predictive search of a conversion database for conversion candidates on the basis of one or more characters inputted by use of a character input key. The apparatus obtains, in reference to a table, the total number of times the character input key is to be pressed down before inputting an unconverted character included in each of the searched conversion candidates and immediately following the one or more characters. The table contains characters assigned to the total numbers of times the character input key is pressed down. The apparatus determines the order of display, on a screen of a display device, of the conversion candidates to align with a descending order of the total number of times the character input key is to be pressed down before inputting the unconverted character. On the screen, the conversion candidates are displayed in the determined order of display. The apparatus receives confirmation of one of the conversion candidates.
US08140716B2	Method and system for implementing automatic installation of key device The invention discloses a method and system for implementing automatic installation of a key device, and relates to the field of smart card. The method includes steps of: establishing, by the key device, a connection with a computer; declaring to the computer that the key device itself is a compound device containing a USB keyboard device; sending a predefined first keyboard message sequence to the computer, wherein the first keyboard message sequence is used for starting an operation environment of the computer; converting, after the operation environment is started, a pre-stored script instruction for running an installation program into a second keyboard message sequence, and sending the second keyboard message sequence to the computer; sending a predefined third keyboard message sequence to the computer, wherein the third keyboard message sequence is used for running the installation program. The system includes a key device and a computer. According to the invention, by way of interaction between the key device and the computer, the technical problem that the key device can not be installed automatically in the case that the autorun function of the Windows system is shielded is solved, thereby facilitating automatic installation of the key device.
US08140708B2	System and method for the serving of extended bit depth high resolution images A novel and useful system and method for the serving and display of extended bit depth (EBD) high resolution images on a web browser using multimedia platform code or code for a graphics framework. To display an EBD image, such as an x-ray or MRI image set, on a web browser, the image data is mapped into a plurality of channels of pixels of a color image which a web browser is able to handle, where each channel holds a portion of the full dynamic range of the original EBD image. At the client, a color transform is applied to the color image data which takes into account the user's desired VOI settings. The resulting display image has the exact values as if the VOI was applied to the original EBD image and is dynamically mapped to the display capabilities of the client viewing framework thus enabling a reviewer to detect any available details of the image.
US08140707B2	Inter working system Disclosed are examples of an interworking system. In some embodiments, the interworking system includes a STUN server and an application layer gateway (ALG) server. The STUN server can be configured to provide binding information. The application layer gateway (ALG) server can include an IP masquerading performer, a STUN client performer, an address translator and a determiner.
US08140703B2	Regulating users of online forums Regulating a user of a computer-based service includes receiving input about a first user from at least one other user of the computer-based service, determining a degree to which the at least one other user can influence a parameter associated with the first user, and modifying the first user's parameter based on the received input and the determined degree of influence. The first user's parameter, for example, can relate to the first user's ability to use the computer-based service.
US08140702B2	System and method of maximizing utility in media delivery network A method is provided for maximizing utility of a media delivery network having a media source, a first media adaptor, a second media adaptor and a media renderer. The media source can provide data in a first format and a second format. The first media adaptor can receive the data in the first format from the media source. The second media adaptor can receive the data in the second format from the media source. The first media adaptor can further provide data in a third format based on the received data in the first format. The second media adaptor can further provide data in a fourth format based on the received data in the second format. The media renderer can render the data in the third format and can render the data in the fourth format. The method includes: defining constraints of the media delivery network; predetermining factors to measure a utility of the media delivery network; defining a utility function based on the predetermined factors; and maximizing the utility function in light of the defined constraints.
US08140699B2	Switching a client from unicasting to multicasting by simultaneously providing unicast and multicast streams to the client Switching a client from unicasting back to multicasting involves simultaneously providing the digital video content to the client via unicasting and multicasting until the client has buffered duplicate frames (i.e., frames that contain the same digital video content). Once the client has buffered duplicate frames, the client can transition from playing out of a buffer that holds frames received via unicasting to playing out of a buffer that holds frames received via multicasting without skipping a frame. Once the transition back to multicasting is complete, unicasting is terminated and any frames remaining in the unicast buffer are flushed.
US08140698B2	Method and system for efficient data transmission in interactive networked environments Various methods to prioritize the transmission of interactive digital content to multiple users to achieve efficient usage of available bandwidth are disclosed. The present invention covers prioritization of transmission of digital content based on information transmitted from the receiver. In addition, prioritization of multicast transmission of digital content to multiple clients accessing a shared interactive environment can be realized.
US08140696B2	Layering serial attached small computer system interface (SAS) over ethernet Disclosed are embodiments of a storage area network (SAN), a network interface card and a method of managing data transfers. These embodiments overcome the distance limitation of the Serial Attached Small Computer System Interface (SAS) physical layer so that SAS storage protocol may be used for communication between host systems and storage controllers. Host systems and storage controls are connected via an Ethernet interface (e.g., a legacy Ethernet or enhanced Ethernet for datacenter (EED) fabric). SAS storage protocol is layered over this Ethernet interface, providing commands and transport protocol for information exchange. Since the Ethernet interface has its own physical layer, the SAS physical layer is unnecessary and, thus, so is the SAS distance limitation. If legacy Ethernet is used, over-provisioning is used to avoid packet drops, or alternatively, TCP/IP is supported in order to recover from packet drops. If EED is used, congestion management as well as priority of service functions are provided by the EED protocols.
US08140691B2	Role-based views access to a workflow weblog Described is a method for controlling a user's access and viewing rights to a weblog used to track the status of a workflow based on one or more roles or responsibilities of the user in the workflow. Advantageously, the workflow is not required to change when workflow members leave their assigned roles or are unable to perform their workflow tasks. Instead, new members are assigned to the roles and access and viewing rights are changed accordingly. Optionally, a person responsible for a workflow instance can grant access and viewing rights for the particular workflow to an individual who is not a member of the workflow.
US08140681B2	Decentralized application placement for web application middleware A decentralized process to ensure the dynamic placement of applications on servers under two types of simultaneous resource requirements, those that are dependent on the loads placed on the applications and those that are independent. The demand (load) for applications changes over time and the goal is to satisfy all the demand while changing the solution (assignment of applications to servers) as little as possible.
US08140677B2	Autonomic web services hosting service An autonomic grid. The autonomic grid can include a multiplicity of hosting services communicatively coupled to one another. Each hosting service can include an administrative service configured to determine whether to deploy requested Web services locally or remotely; a code base for storing implementations of the requested Web services; and, a deployment service configured to deploy on command the implementations stored in the code base. Notably, at least one of the hosting services further can include one or more Web services instances; one or more monitors configured to proxy requests to and responses from the Web services instances; and, one or more agents subscribed to the monitors to analyze the requests to and responses from the Web services instances, and to provision Web services in others of the hosting services based upon the analysis.
US08140672B2	Media resource storage and management Provided are computer-implemented methods and systems for performing media resource storage and management. The computer-implemented method and system implemented as a request manager is capable of monitoring requests for media resources in a content delivery network. For each monitored request, the request manager determines whether to generate a multifile for the requested media resource. For example, the request manager can first determine whether the media resource is eligible for multifile generation. If eligible, the request manager then determines whether the media resource has reached a popularity threshold. If the media resource has reached the popularity threshold, the request manager initiates generation of the multifile for the requested media resource. Generally, the generated multifile is stored in a storage system associated with the content delivery network.
US08140651B2	Method and system for self-organizing computer systems A system and method to self-configure a distributed system includes obtaining a description of a distributed system which has a plurality of computing nodes, each node being capable of performing any of a plurality of tasks in the description. At each node, a persona of that node is determined in accordance with the description such that the nodes are assigned tasks in the distributed system. Each node is reconfigured in accordance with the persona such that the nodes are linked in the distributed system to provide a self-configured distributed system for performing at least one application.
US08140638B2	Multistage online transaction system, server, multistage online transaction processing method and program Provided is a system in which a plurality of nodes including a plurality of servers are connected at least with one NAS shared among the plurality of nodes. At least one of the nodes includes a shared memory from/to which each server belonging to the same node can read and write data. Each of at least two of the servers belonging to the node having the shared memory includes: a node judging device which judges whether output destination of output data obtained by processing the input data is the server belonging to the same node as that of the server itself; a data storage memory acquiring device which secures a storage region of the output data on the shared memory if the output destination is the server belonging to the same node; and a data processor which processes the input data and stores the output data to the storage region.
US08140633B2	Forwarding to automatically prioritized IM accounts based upon priority and presence Systems for forwarding incoming instant messages comprise a primary IM processing device configured to send and receive IM messages. The primary IM processing device is further configured to forward incoming IM messages to an available secondary IM processing devices based upon presence information and availability information on a plurality of secondary IM processing devices. A router is configured to route IM messages between the primary IM processing device and the secondary IM processing devices. An IM server is coupled to a communications network and is configured to send and receive presence information from the primary IM processing device and the secondary IM processing devices. The primary IM processing device is further configured to maintain presence information on the secondary IM processing devices including the secondary IM processing devices that were unavailable to receive a forwarded instant message. Other systems and methods are also provided.
US08140621B2	Providing event data to a group of contacts Data related to an event is provided to a group of contacts while the event is occurring via an event user interface that enables the group of contacts to coordinate with one another during the event. In this regard, an event coordination service is provides the event data to each contact of the group for review via an event user interface that is persistently displayed on a telecommunication or other computing device associated with the contact for the contact's easy and immediate reference during the event. When the event ultimately concludes, display of the event user interface ceases as the group of contacts likely no longer needs immediate or ready reference to the event.
US08140618B2	Methods and systems for bandwidth adaptive N-to-N communication in a distributed system Methods and systems for bandwidth adaptive computing device to computing device communication are described. Bandwidth adaptive communication includes receiving a communication from a first participant, storing the payload data of the communication in a channel memory element associated with the first participant, and transmitting the payload data to a second participant.
US08140616B2	Server unit, server control method, and recording medium in server-based computing system When a drawing command for the screen drawing data created by an application program corresponding to a user input event is transmitted to a client unit, if the transmission delay time t obtained by RTT measurement is within a preset threshold value TH, the drawing command is transmitted in real time in an Instantaneous (Eager) Update mode in the order in which the drawing data was created. If the transmission delay time t has exceeded the threshold value TH, an interval corresponding to a drawing update time interval Tn is allowed and the drawing commands during the interval are put together and transmitted in a Non-instantaneous (Lazy) Update mode. In the Non-instantaneous (Lazy) Update mode, transmission priority according to the type of a drawing command (the user's attention) is set.
US08140610B2	Bitmap-based display remoting Bitmap transfer-based display remoting by a server coupled to a client is described. Specifically, an application executing on the server implements operations to render a portion of a graphical user interface (GUI). The server decomposes corresponding rendering-based command(s) into simple bitmap raster operations commands. The server sends the bitmap-based commands to the client. The client, responsive to receiving the commands, respectively stores and draws bitmaps from an offscreen display surface, as directed by the server, to an onscreen display surface to present the GUI portion to a user. Logic at the client to store and present the GUI portion are independent of any client-implemented display remoting cache management logic. The client operations are also independent of determinations and processing of graphical object semantics beyond bitmap semantics. Such management and semantic determinations and processing are implemented and maintained respectively at and by the server.
US08140606B2	Method and apparatus for a fail safe fourier transform matrix A base station transmitter for maintaining data rate transmission between a set of Fourier Transform matrices, having a digital Fourier Transform Matrix (FTM), and analog FTM, and a plurality of transmit paths therebetween. During the occurrence of a power amplifier failure, the method includes detecting the failure of a power amplifier (PA); and reconfiguring the digital FTM and analog FTM to a pass-thru mode.
US08140597B2	Computer system memory management The number of CPU cycles required to reclaim object memory space in a memory management process is reduced by using a two phase approach. A data structure exists for each object that is to be loaded into object memory space. One part of the data structure is the object definition. The other part is a MM (Memory Management) immunity annotation or value that controls the frequency with which the object must actually be examined to determine if it is suitable for reclamation. On each iteration of the memory management process, the object's MM immunity value is tested to determine whether it is greater than a predetermined threshold. If greater than the threshold, the value is decremented, but the object is not actually examined for its suitability for removal. If the value equals the threshold, the object itself is examined. If it is found to be suitable, it is removed to reclaim the object memory space it previously occupied, If it is actually examined but is found not to be suitable for removal, the MM immunity value is reset to its original value or is otherwise adjusted to prevent examination of the object for a certain number of future iterations of the memory management process.
US08140590B2	Dynamic generation of user interfaces and automated mapping of input data for service-oriented architecture-based system management applications A method and system for dynamically generating a semantically correct user interface (UI) panel for a service request and automatically mapping input data for service-oriented architecture-based system management applications. A document is received that includes semantic annotations specifying semantics of elements of a service request input message. During runtime, a UI panel is generated based on the semantics and by interpreting metadata generated by interpreting hints included in the document. Further, the semantic annotations may include a mapping definition of information technology (IT) resource selections. Based on the mapping definition, the IT resource selections are extracted from a registry and automatically mapped to a UI input element in a UI panel. In response to selecting an IT resource from the UI panel, properties of the selected IT resource are automatically mapped to an element of the service request input message according to the semantic annotations.
US08140589B2	Autonomic updating of templates in a content management system A content management system (CMS) autonomically updates one or more templates based on characteristics of documents in the repository, and based on specified criteria in an autonomic template update policy. At an appointed time, the CMS finds a template in the repository, retrieves an autonomic template update policy corresponding to the template, and determines from characteristics of documents in the repository whether the criteria in the autonomic template update policy allows autonomically updating the template. If the criteria are met, the template is autonomically updated without intervention by a CMS administrator. The result is a CMS where templates autonomically change as the content in the repository changes.
US08140583B2	Tag syndicates Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to social bookmarking and provide a method, system and computer program product for tag syndicates in a social bookmarking system. In an embodiment of the invention, a tag syndicate method can be provided. The method can include establishing different tag syndicates, each tag syndicate providing a specified set of users of a social bookmarking system. The method further can include selecting at least one tag syndicate for use in conducting a content operation, and performing a content operation utilizing the social bookmarking system based upon the selected tag syndicate or syndicates. In this regard, the content operation can be a visible operation such as a type ahead operation, or a logical operation such as sorting content search results.
US08140581B2	Configurable view on data models Data-driven configuration of various views on data models. A framework may be provided that offers one or more parameterized view generation components, each aimed at generating a particular view type in response to configuration data that populates the parameters of the associated component. A user or other computing entity merely provides configuration data to an appropriate view generation component to generate a custom view. That custom view may then optionally perhaps be applied to any number of data models, or perhaps not applied to any data model at all and just saved for perhaps some future use. This view generation may generate composite views on a data model, or even hierarchical views on a data model.
US08140574B2	Community search scopes for enterprises applications Described are a method and apparatus for searching for user relevant information in content repositories using community search scopes. According to the method, a user is presented with a selection of search scopes in which the user is a member. The user selects one of the search scopes according to the desired information and provides a search request that can include, for example, keywords, phrases and data attributes. Searching is performed in each content repository assigned to the search scope if the user is a member of the content repository. Relevant information found in the search content repositories is presented to the user.
US08140572B1	System, method and computer program product for aggregating on-demand database service data In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for aggregating on-demand database service data. These mechanisms and methods for aggregating on-demand database service data can enable embodiments to more flexibly summarize data. The ability of embodiments to provide such feature may lead to enhanced aggregation features which may be used for providing more effective ways of summarizing data.
US08140571B2	Dynamic discovery of abstract rule set required inputs A method, system and article of manufacture for processing rule sets and, more particularly, for processing abstract rule sets. One embodiment provides a computer-implemented method of managing execution of an analysis routine on input data. The method comprises receiving input and receiving user-selection of an analysis routine for processing the received input. The analysis routine is defined by at least one abstract rule set having one or more abstract rules each having a conditional statement and a consequential statement. The method further comprises executing the analysis routine on the received input, comprising (i) identifying all required inputs for each abstract rule of the analysis routine, (ii) determining whether the received input includes data for all required inputs, and (iii) if the received input does not include data for one or more of the required inputs, retrieving suitable data for the one or more of the required inputs from the database.
US08140570B2	Automatic discovery of metadata This is directed to processing stored data to automatically generate metadata for the stored data. In particular, this is directed to identifying metadata associated with stored data, and identifying other data that relates to the stored data from one or more sources. A processing module can identify other data sharing some of the identified metadata, and can extract additional metadata associated with the identified other data. The extracted metadata can then be associated with the user's stored data. The processing module can extract additional metadata from any suitable source, including for example local application data, social networks or blogging sources, and other remote sources. In some embodiments, an electronic device can retrieve data from other users for a particular event based on metadata associated with the user's data for the event to form a master collection of data.
US08140569B2	Dependency network based model (or pattern) A dependency network is created from a training data set utilizing a scalable method. A statistical model (or pattern), such as for example a Bayesian network, is then constructed to allow more convenient inferencing. The model (or pattern) is employed in lieu of the training data set for data access. The computational complexity of the method that produces the model (or pattern) is independent of the size of the original data set. The dependency network directly returns explicitly encoded data in the conditional probability distributions of the dependency network. Non-explicitly encoded data is generated via Gibbs sampling, approximated, or ignored.
US08140558B2	Generating structured query language/extensible markup language (SQL/XML) statements A mechanism is provided for generating Structured Query Language/Extensible Markup Language (SQL/XML) statements. An SQL/XML generation module receives an SQL statement that is expressed in terms of logical data items. The SQL/XML generation module parses and analyzes the SQL statement and generates a set of XMLQUERY functions, a set of XMLTABLE functions, and a set of XMLEXISTS predicates to retrieve, filter, or update at least one of XML documents or relational data based on a main mapping table and a namespace mapping table. The SQL/XML generation module generates at least one SQL/XML statement from parts of the SQL statement and the generated set of XMLQUERY functions, the set of XMLTABLE functions, and the set of XMLEXISTS predicates. The at least one SQL/XML statement is substantially equivalent in functionality to the SQL statement. The SQL/XML generation module sends the at least one SQL/XML statement to a database engine for execution.
US08140552B2	Method and apparatus for optimizing lead time for service provisioning A method for optimizing lead time for service provisioning for a request from a customer includes storing a record of installation and configuration times for each hardware and software configuration in a database, and then calculating success rates and failure rates for each hardware and software configuration. A manual installation time for the request is set in the event of failure. The necessary time to prepare the system fulfilling the customer request is then determined and displayed in the data center.
US08140534B2	System and method for sorting attachments in an integrated information management application A system and method to sort attachments in an integrated information management application. The system includes an email agent, and email repository, and an attachment engine. The email agent facilitates organization of email communications within the integrated information management application. The email repository is coupled to the email agent. The email repository stores a plurality of email files and a plurality of email attachments. The email attachments are associated with at least some of the email files. The attachment engine is coupled to the email agent. The attachment engine generates a list of the email attachments within the email repository for visual communication on a display device.
US08140533B1	Harvesting relational tables from lists on the web Computer implemented methods and apparatus for extracting list information into database tables. A number of fields are independently determined for items in list. A number of database table columns are determined from most common number of list item fields. New fields are determined for items with more fields than database columns. Null fields are inserted into items with fewer fields than database columns. Information from items having the same number of fields as database columns is written to database table rows. Information from each field is written to a corresponding database table column. Streaks of poorly matching cells in a database table row are determined. Streak cells are merged and new cells are determined. Null cells are inserted if number of new cells is less than number of cells in the streak. Information from the new cells is written to the table row and columns that define the streak.
US08140521B1	Performing SQL query optimization by simplifying sub-expressions A method, computer program, and database system are disclosed for processing a database query that includes one or more expressions. The method includes resolving columns in one or more of the expressions. Expression optimization is performed on one or more of the expressions. Afterward, further query optimization is performed.
US08140508B2	System and method for contextual commands in a search results page The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for acting upon one or more items in a search results page. The method of the present invention comprises displaying a search engine results page (SERP), said SERP comprising a plurality of search result resources and a plurality of associated contextual controls, selecting a resource and storing a non-persistent resource identifier associated with the selected resource in response to selection of the contextual control.
US08140507B2	Method and system for searching across independent applications A method and system are provided for searching across independent applications. A first seedlist (202) is provided from a first application (201), the first seedlist (202) including a list of data items (211) for crawling by a search engine (220). The data items (211) are owned by the first application (201). A second seedlist (206) is also provided from a second independent application (205), the second seedlist (206) including annotation data (214) for crawling by a search engine (220). The annotation data (214) relates to the data items (211) of the first application (201). A search index (204) provides searchable data from the two or more applications (201, 205), the searchable data relating to the same set of data items (211).
US08140497B2	System and method for implementing nonblocking zero-indirection transactional memory Systems and methods for implementing and using nonblocking zero-indirection software transactional memory (NZSTM) are disclosed. NZSTM systems implement object-based software transactional memory that eliminates all levels of indirection except in the uncommon case of a conflict with an unresponsive thread. Shared data is co-located with a header in an NZObject, and is addressable at a fixed offset from the header. Conflicting transactions are requested to abort themselves without being forced to abort. NZObjects are modified in place when there are no conflicts, and when a conflicting transaction acknowledges the abort request. In the uncommon case, NZObjects are inflated to introduce a locator and some levels of indirection, and are restored to their un-inflated form following resolution of the conflict. In some embodiments, transactions are executed using best effort hardware transactional memory if it is available and effective, and software transactional memory if not, yielding a hybrid transactional memory system, NZTM.
US08140494B2	Providing collection transparency information to an end user to achieve a guaranteed quality document search and production in electronic data discovery Techniques are provided that enable the display of full text index-ability, indexing, and container extraction status of files in a collection repository in connection with content management. Further, techniques are provided that: guarantee the user knows which files failed to index and explode and which files are not indexable; tell the user which files have not been indexed yet, so they are not omitted from the analysis; allow users to work on the collected files without waiting for maximum possible indexing period; allow users to start working immediately on collected content; allow for displaying indexing and extraction status information relevant only to the search query; allow for automatic and manual update of a list of un-indexable file types; and allow for informing users about the processing status of a collection by sending notifications, displaying alerts, and providing appropriate views.
US08140486B2	Restoring a source file referenced by multiple file names to a restore file Provided are a method, system, and program for restoring a source file referenced by multiple file names to a restore file. An operation is processed to restore a source file having a first file name to a restore file, wherein the source file is in a state of being accessed by a process. A determination is made as to whether a second file name references the source file. A first temporary file name and a second temporary file name are created that both reference the restore file in response to determining that the second file name references the source file. The first temporary file name is renamed to the first file name and the second temporary file name is renamed to the second file name. After the renaming of the first and second temporary file names, the first and second file names reference the restore file.
US08140484B2	Techniques for determining an implemented data protection policy Described are techniques for determining an implemented data protection policy. One or more recovery points corresponding to each of one or more storage objects are determined. A data protection method determined in accordance with a facility and replication type associated with each recovery point is selected for each of the one or more recovery points. A data protection category for each of the one or more recovery points is determined in accordance with the data protection method, a recovery point type, and a recovery point location associated with each recovery point. A data protection policy indicating an implemented data protection policy for each of the one or more storage objects for at least one data protection category is stored.
US08140479B2	Logical classification of objects on a computer system A method, apparatus and program product for classifying objects on a computer system. An audit journal of interactions with objects is evaluated to identify a plurality of logical groups of objects. A graphical construct, such as a hierarchical tree, is created from the plurality of logical groups. And, in response to user input directed to the graphical construct, at least one object is classified based upon a logical group within which the object is arranged.
US08140476B2	Statistical quality monitoring and enhancement A method and computer system for monitoring and controlling the quality of tests performed upon a database. A statistical quality layer is provided, which for each new test to be executed on the database, provides recommendations as to a confidence level to be applied to the test and to a number of additional data records to be added to the database in order to maintain the total expected number of type-I errors of tests performed upon the database. The method and computer system further provide access control of users to the database.
US08140463B2	Automated metadata generation of learning and knowledge objects A novel system for automated metadata generation of learning and knowledge Objects are presented. Such system automates the processes of adding descriptive and contextual information to digital learning content, digital documents, and other objects used in learning and knowledge management. It also automates the process of creating associations among higher level objects and classifications systems used to organize content, and it does so in a way that improves the functionality of existing technologies, that can be tuned to meet the needs of a particular organization or community of practice, and that can be extended and refined to take advantage of new information retrieval technologies. It includes methods that handle aggregate digital objects composed of a plurality of other objects and that improves efficiency by caching data and recognizing the relationships among aggregate objects and their components.
US08140461B2	System and method for identifying conflicting network access rules and creating a resolved consequence A method of selectively identifying conflicting network access rules within a knowledge base containing a plurality of network access rules, each rule having a condition portion and a consequence portion, and creating a corresponding resolved consequence, including the steps of comparing the condition portions of the rules, determining conflicting rules to be rules with matching condition portions and differing consequence portions, and analyzing the consequence portions of each of the conflicting rules to define the resolved consequence to be executed when the condition portion in any of the conflicting rules is executed.
US08140454B2	Systems and/or methods for prediction and/or root cause analysis of events based on business activity monitoring related data In certain example embodiments of this invention, there is provided systems and/or methods for processing BAM-related data to predict when events of interest are about to happen and/or to identify the root causes of, or at least data correlated with, such events of interest. In certain example embodiments, key performance indicators (KPIs) are gathered and gardened. The gardening process may identify KPI values of interest (e.g., based on a Z-factor analysis thereof across one or more collection intervals). The gardened KPIs may be processed using a time-series transform (e.g., a Fast Fourier Transform), matched to one of a plurality of predefined waveforms, and fed into a dynamic Naïve Bayesian Network (NBN) for prediction. The gardened data also may be used to determine the relevance of the KPI for root causes of problems (e.g., based on a chi-square analysis).
US08140451B1	Supervised learning using multi-scale features from time series events and scale space decompositions Disclosed herein is a method, a system and a computer program product for generating a statistical classification model used by a computer system to determine a class associated with an unlabeled time series event. Initially, a set of labeled time series events is received. A set of time series features is identified for a selected set of the labeled time series events. A plurality of scale space decompositions is generated based on the set of time series features. A plurality of multi-scale features is generated based on the plurality of scale space decompositions. A first subset of the plurality of multi-scale features that correspond at least in part to a subset of space or time points within a time series event that contain feature data that distinguish the time series event as belonging to a class of time series events that corresponds to the class label are identified. A statistical classification model for classifying an unlabeled time series event based on the class corresponding with the class label is generated based at least in part on the at the first subset of the plurality of multi-scale features.
US08140441B2	Workflow management in a global support organization Customer support involves multiple levels of support, where customer support personnel at higher levels have more experience and a higher cost associated with their services. A random assignment of support personnel to a problem, at lower levels, can lead to multiple call transfers, a customer being put “on hold”, ineffective resource utilization, and high service costs being billed to customers. Functionality can be implemented to assign a support person to resolve the customer's problem based on a multi-dimensional dynamic social network database of resources (e.g., personnel experience, success rate, skill set, social network, etc.) which allows for efficient assignment of support personnel to a problem. Routing a customer call to the most appropriate support person at a given level before determining support personnel at higher levels can ensure optimization in terms of return on investment and resource utilization. Optimally selecting and assigning support personnel can also ensure customer satisfaction.
US08140435B2	System and method for processing protected text information A method and apparatus of encouraging distribution, registration, and purchase of free copyable software and other digital information which is accessed on a User's System via a Programmer's Program. Software tools which can be incorporated into a Programmer's Program allow the User to access Advanced Features of the Programmer's Program only in the presence of a valid Password which is unique to a particular Target ID generated on an ID-Target such as the User's System. Advanced features will thus relock if the Password is copied to another ID-target. If a valid Password is not present, the User is invited to obtain one, and provided with the means of doing so, and of installing that Password in a place accessible to the User's System on subsequent occasions. The present invention also provides Programmers with means to invoke business operations as well as computational operations with their programs, and thus to automatically obtain payment from Users who elect to obtain passwords.
US08140423B2	Controlling an order slicer for trading a financial instrument In one aspect, the present invention provides an order slicer that receives an order that to trade a financial instrument. The order associates a trading strategy with said order. The trading strategy is replaceable. In another aspect, an interface accepts a trading strategy of an order to trade a financial instrument. A transmitter transmits the trading strategy to an order slicer.
US08140417B2	Data transmission system and data transmitting method A data transmission system is provided that enables a user to move away before the completion of data transmission regardless of whether a refund is made in association with occurrence of a communication error when a data transmitting apparatus performs data transmission and collects a consideration. The data transmitting apparatus includes a consideration receiving portion that receives a consideration of FAX data transmission, a report destination input portion that inputs a report destination of a user, and a FAX transmission error detecting portion that detects a communication error at the time of the FAX data transmission. In case the FAX transmission error detecting portion detects a communication error, the system including the data transmitting apparatus transmits refund information for refunding the consideration of the FAX data transmission with the communication error to the report destination input through the report destination input portion.
US08140406B2	Personal data submission with options to purchase or hold item at user selected price At least one embodiment of a method includes receiving data related to an item, the item being associated with a listed price and receiving data related to a user requested price for the item. Some embodiments include determining whether a first seller accepts the user requested price for the item and in response to a determination that the first seller accepts the user requested price, sending an offer to the user to purchase the item at the user requested price.
US08140402B1	Social pricing Mechanisms are provided to facilitate buying and selling products utilizing social pricing. Sellers initiate sale of a product with volume discounts for a limited time. In other words, the more people that buy a product, the lower the price for the group. Buyers have a real incentive to become prosumers that not only purchase a product but also promote purchase by others. A social pricing system brokers interaction between sellers and buyer groups, and provisions mechanisms to aid promotion of products by consumers utilizing social networks and other online activities.
US08140401B2	Automated quoting of molds and parts from customer CAD file part data A customer sends a CAD file for the part to be molded to the system. The system assesses the CAD file to determine various pieces of mold manufacturing information. One or more acceptability criteria are applied to the part, such as whether the part can be manufactured in a two-piece, straight-pull mold, and whether the mold can by CNC machined out of aluminum. If not, the system sends a file to the customer graphically indicating which portions of the part need modification to be manufacturable. The system provides the customer with a quotation form, that allows the customer to select several parameters, such as number of cavities, surface finish and material, which are independent of the shape of the part. The quotation module then provides the customer with the cost to manufacture the mold or a number of parts. Budget-driven quotation is possible, wherein proposed modifications in the molding process are controlled by the budget of the customer. Interactivity is also achieved, with the customer being able to modify the quotation interactively by modifying one or more of the initially selected parameters, including selecting a different budgeted amount.
US08140400B2	Transaction sets for automated electronic ordering of telecommunications products and services A system and method for electronically exchanging information related to telecommunication services includes separating data representing the information to be exchanged into predefined segments corresponding to telecommunication services, associating a segment identification code with each segment, and grouping each segment identification code with corresponding data. The system and method also include concatenating the segment identification codes and associated data according to a predefined sequence to form an electronic transaction and transmitting the electronic message to a telecommunications wholesaler or reseller. Preferably, the information is exchanged over a TCP/IP connection in an interactive, transaction-based exchange.
US08140390B2	System and method for displaying partial advertising data during trick play A method is disclosed including but not limited to initiating a trick play command having a trick play duration at the end user device during replay of video data an end user device main display; presenting an advertising data item having an advertising duration during execution of the trick play command; and presenting a remaining portion of the advertising data on a picture in picture (PIP) display on the main display after expiration of the trick play duration. A system is provided for executing the method. A data structure is provided in a computer readable medium for containing data used by the system and method.
US08140380B2	Creating an incentive to author useful item reviews A facility for rewarding the provision of useful item reviews is described. The facility receives a plurality of item reviews, each from a source. The facility publishes each of the plurality of received item reviews, and assesses the usefulness of the published item reviews. Based upon this assessment of usefulness, the facility selects one or more of the published item reviews, and provides rewards to the sources of these selected item reviews.
US08140378B2	System and method for modeling shopping behavior A system and method are provided for modeling shopper behavior in a store. The system may include an analysis program executable on a computing device, configured to receive product position data and shopper path data gathered from a plurality of stores, each having a different shape represented in a corresponding store map. The analysis program is typically configured to spatially define behavioral domains, product categories, and geographic locations that are common to each of the store maps, and compute statistics based on the product position data and the shopper path data, which statistics are normalized by behavioral domain, product category, and geographic location, across the plurality of stores.
US08140375B2	Voting on claims pertaining to a resource A credibility card contains a claim about a resource, a way to identify the claimant, and a set of choices to be voted on about the claim. A resource can be information content, a product, or another item about which a claim can be made, and it may be associated with a Uniform Resource Indicator (URI). Information (e.g., a web page) that contains or describes the resource includes the credibility card, and a user viewing the information is given the chance to vote on the claims, such as by indicating agreement or disagreement with the claim. The votes are stored in a repository, which may protect the votes from being deleted. Users can view the tally of votes in order to judge the credibility of the claim or the claimant.
US08140370B2	System and method for reducing the steps involved in searching for available appointment times and scheduling appointments in a health care environment A system and method for searching for and scheduling appointments in a health care environment. The present invention is a computerized searching and scheduling system and method for scheduling appointments. The computerized searching and scheduling system and method comprises a plurality of search definitions for defining a plurality of standard searches based on health care provider pools, date offsets and time ranges. The plurality of search definitions define a plurality of appointment visits that are available for scheduling appointments. The computerized searching and scheduling system and method further comprises a plurality of scheduling algorithms for determining a scheduling solution based on parameters and rules by visit type, procedure, providers, and/or resources. Execution of the plurality of search algorithms provides a plurality of available appointment time options for selection in scheduling an appointment.
US08140369B2	System and method for optimizing manufacturing workforce A method and system for optimizing the manufacturing workforce and reducing workforce boredom in an assembly plant is provided. A master database contains all the plant workers along with all of the assembly tasks required to be performed at the assembly plant for a predetermined period, a repetitive threshold value for each worker, and a burden value for each assembly task. Each worker is assigned to a particular assembly task based upon the attributes of the worker and the assembly task requirements. A first schedule is generated by matching assembly tasks to a worker. The first schedule is then used to generate a second schedule such that workers do not exceed a repetitive value threshold or a burden value threshold. Thus the method and system generates schedules such that workers are given a variety of assembly tasks and therefore are not bored by performing the same task repetitively.
US08140363B2	System and method for integrating hazard-based decision making tools and processes A system and method for inputting, analyzing, and disseminating information necessary for identified decision-makers to respond to emergency situations. This system and method provides consistency and integration among multiple groups, and may be used for both initial consequence-based decisions and follow-on consequence-based decisions. The system and method in a preferred embodiment also provides tools for accessing and manipulating information that are appropriate for each decision-maker, in order to achieve more reasoned and timely consequence-based decisions. The invention includes processes for designing and implementing a system or method for responding to emergency situations.
US08140355B2	Health management system, personalizing terminal and health management data integrating method To provide a health management system including health data measuring devices shared by a plurality of persons and health data measuring devices used by an individual together, which unites health data measured by each health data measuring device with the user practicing the measurement to allot user ID etc. to the health data as well as to provide a personalizing terminal and a health management data integrating method. A personalizing terminal 160 receives attribute information and health data from common devices 110 to 130 as the health data measuring devices shared by the plurality of persons, gives a user ID to the health data at a user ID allocator 163 and transmits the health data and the aforementioned attribute information to a gateway 170. Gateway apparatus 170 integrates the attribute information and health data received from personalizing terminal 160, personal device 140 or 150 and transmits the data to a server apparatus 310 in a data center 300.
US08140351B2	Centralized sterile drug products distribution and automated management of sterile compounding stations Central management of dose order preparation retrieves an unprocessed dose order record, selects a workstation from a set of workstations, forwards the order for conversion into a drug dosage form, and repeats the process for additional unprocessed dose order records. Depending on the operation type of the selected workstation (manual, automatic), protocol information concerning preparation of the dose order is selectively provided to the selected workstation. Interrogatable elements enable tracking of dose orders and dosage forms throughout preparation, storage and distribution cycles. Further methods enable rapid fulfillment by utilizing inventory ahead of drug order processing if suitable dosage forms exist in inventory records.
US08140349B2	Drug delivery device incorporating a tracking code A tracking code is adhered to a syringe label cradle for tracking each activity regarding the syringe label cradle, e.g., drug preparation, drug inventory, drug dispensing, drug administration, drug return, drug charges, etc. The tracking code may be in the form of bar or other machine readable code, as well as human readable indicia. The unique tracking code enables tracking of events pertaining to a specific syringe from the time of being prepared with a prescribed drug to its disposal or return to a hospital pharmacy. A log is created relating the patient to the specific drug used and all information inputted with respect to the tracking code.
US08140346B2	Computer-implemented method and system for handling business transactions within an inhomogeneous legal environment A mechanism for performing business transactions, comprising an integrator service connected to a first company's intranet or an independent legal integrator service provider. Prior to execution of a transaction, a communication channel between the first company and the integrator service is established to exchange relevant information such as the source and target country of the transaction and the kind of goods to be transferred. Based on the exchanged information, the integrator service determines any relevant legal issue, in the present case a relevant import/export regulation issue and delivers a compliance statement to the first company.
US08140342B2	Selective scaling mask computation based on peak detection A set of peaks in a reconstructed audio vector Ŝ of a received audio signal is detected and a scaling mask ψ(Ŝ) based on the detected set of peaks is generated. A gain vector g* is generated based on at least the scaling mask and an index j representative of the gain vector. The reconstructed audio signal is scaled with the gain vector to produce a scaled reconstructed audio signal. A distortion is generated based on the audio signal and the scaled reconstructed audio signal. The index of the gain vector based on the generated distortion is output.
US08140332B2	Technique for searching out new words that should be registered in dictionary for speech processing To search out a new word that should be newly registered in a dictionary contained in a segmentation device for segmenting a text into words. This system inputs a training text into the segmentation device to cause the segmentation device to segment the training text into words, and thereby generates a plurality of segmentation candidates in association with certainty factors of the results of the segmentation, the segmentation candidates respectively containing mutually different combinations of words as results of the segmentation of the training text. Then, this system computes a likelihood that the each word is a new word by summing up some of the certainty factors that are respectively associated with some of the plurality of segmentation candidates that contain the each word. Then, from among combinations of words each contained in at least any one of the segmentation candidates, the system searches combinations of words contained in at least any one of the segmentation candidates and containing words with which the entire training text can be written, in order to find out a combination that minimizes an information entropy of words assuming that each word belonging to the combinations appears in the training text at a frequency according to the likelihood corresponding to the word, and thereafter for outputting the found-out combination as the combination of words including the new word.
US08140330B2	System and method for detecting repeated patterns in dialog systems Embodiments of a method and system for detecting repeated patterns in dialog systems are described. The system includes a dynamic time warping (DTW) based pattern comparison algorithm that is used to find the best matching parts between a correction utterance and an original utterance. Reference patterns are generated from the correction utterance by an unsupervised segmentation scheme. No significant information about the position of the repeated parts in the correction utterance is assumed, as each reference pattern is compared with the original utterance from the beginning of the utterance to the end. A pattern comparison process with DTW is executed without knowledge of fixed end-points. A recursive DTW computation is executed to find the best matching parts that are considered as the repeated parts as well as the end-points of the utterance.
US08140329B2	Method and apparatus for automatically recognizing audio data A method and apparatus are proposed for automatically recognizing observed audio data. An observation vector is created of audio features extracted from the observed audio data and the observed audio data is recognized from the observation vector. The audio features include features are selected from a group of 3 types of features obtained from the observed audio data: (i) ICA features obtained by processing the observed audio data, (ii) first MFCC features obtained by removing a logarithm step from the conventional MFCC process, or (iii) second MFCC features obtained by applying the ICA process to results of a mel scale filter bank.
US08140325B2	Systems and methods for intelligent control of microphones for speech recognition applications Systems and methods for intelligent control of microphones in speech processing applications, which allows the capturing, recording and preprocessing of speech data in the captured audio in a way that optimizes speech decoding accuracy.
US08140324B2	Systems, methods, and apparatus for gain coding A wideband speech encoder according to one embodiment includes a lowband encoder and a highband encoder. The lowband encoder is configured to encode a lowband portion of a wideband speech signal as a set of filter parameters and an encoded excitation signal. The highband encoder is configured to calculate values for coding parameters that specify a spectral envelope and a temporal envelope of a highband portion of the wideband speech signal. The temporal envelope is based on a highband excitation signal that is derived from the encoded excitation signal. In one such example, the temporal envelope is based on a difference in levels between the highband portion and a synthesized highband signal, wherein the synthesized highband signal is generated according to the highband excitation signal and a set of highband filter parameters.
US08140322B2	Method of managing error risk in language translation Methods for analyzing, evaluating, and controlling risk of errors in language translation of medical device labeling are disclosed. The disclosed methods include identifying the risk level of the device; identifying the safety function(s) of the content that is translated; evaluating risks associated with the translation process; and analyzing this risk information and applying it in the selection of resources and in the design and execution of processes, to effectively mitigate the risk of safety related translation errors in labeling for medical devices.
US08140320B2	Modelizing resources and external data of a program for procedural language coding A method and system to represent in UML the resources and external data manipulated by a program to be coded in a procedural language is disclosed. The usual UML class diagram is enhanced with two new stereotypes “Program” and “Data Object”. The program stereotypes applied to an operation and its parameters describe the data manipulated, through the logical definition provided by the Data Object. This model will be enhanced in order to introduce classes on which the Resource stereotype is applied. These classes will be connected to the appropriate logical data definition (the Data Object) and used as parameter types of the operation instead of the Data Object. A second set of stereotypes will be applied to the Resource classes to indicate the physical type of the resource (a file, table etc. . . . ) and its characteristics. Parameters that point to a DataObject or a primitive type will be considered as external data.
US08140315B2	Test bench, method, and computer program product for performing a test case on an integrated circuit The disclosure relates to a test bench, method, and computer program product for performing a test case on an integrated circuit. The test bench may comprise a simulation environment representing an environment for implementing the integrated circuit and a reference model of the integrated circuit, wherein the reference model may be prepared for running within the simulation environment. The test bench may further comprise a device for running a simulation on the reference model within the simulation environment. The reference model may be based on an original reference model provided for a formal verification.
US08140312B2	Method and system for determining analyte levels Methods and apparatus for analyte level estimation are provided.
US08140293B2	On die thermal sensor An on die thermal sensor (ODTS) for use in a semiconductor device includes a temperature information output unit for measuring an internal temperature of the semiconductor device to generate a temperature information code having temperature information, and updating the temperature information code according to a refresh period.
US08140283B2	Independent frequency measurement and tracking Independent frequency measurement and tracking of a signal using a measurement interval where the frequency of the signal is measured and a sampling rate is calculated, and a settling interval where the frequency of the signal is not measured. The sampling rate is calculated to correspond with the frequency of the signal and updated only after the calculation of the sampling rate in the measuring interval. The signal may be a signal of an electric power system such as a voltage waveform or a current waveform. The frequency calculation may include determination of a rate of rotation of a positive-sequence phasor of the signal.
US08140282B2	Determining a total length for conductive whiskers in computer systems One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that determines a total whisker length for conductive whiskers on a circuit in a computer system. During operation, a target electromagnetic signal radiating from the computer system is monitored. Then, the target electromagnetic signal is analyzed to determine the total whisker length for conductive whiskers on the circuit in the computer system.
US08140277B2	Enhanced characterization of electrical connection degradation One embodiment provides a system that analyzes an electrical connection in a computer system. During operation, the system monitors a reflection coefficient associated with the electrical connection and applies a sequential-analysis technique to the reflection coefficient to determine a statistical deviation of the reflection coefficient. Next, the system assesses the integrity of the electrical connection based on the statistical deviation of the reflection coefficient. Finally, the system uses the assessed integrity to maintain the electrical connection.
US08140273B2	Program product to screen for longitudinal-seam anomalies Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, program product and methods to detect crack-like features in pipeline welds using magnetic flux leakage data and pattern recognition. A screening process, for example, does not affect or change how survey data is recorded in survey tools; only how it is analyzed after the survey data is completed. Embodiments of the present invention can be used to screen for very narrow axial anomalies in the pipeline welds, and may also be used to predict the length of such anomalies. Embodiments of the present invention also produce a listing of the anomalies based on their relative signal characteristics.
US08140263B2	Method for deriving conversion coefficient used for specifying position from value detected by various sensors, and navigation apparatus A position measuring unit measures measurement data including at least a movement velocity, an accuracy reduction index, and an azimuth on the basis of a signal received from a satellite. A determining unit for a distance determines validity of measurement data and determines whether to derive a distance conversion coefficient using the measurement data determined valid. When the deriving is determined, a distance conversion coefficient calculator derives a distance conversion coefficient. A determining unit for an angular velocity determines an effective range for an integration value of an output value from an angular velocity sensor over a predetermined period on the basis of a movement velocity included in measurement data, and determines whether to derive an angular velocity conversion coefficient on the basis of the effective range and the integration value of the output values over the predetermined period. When the deriving is determined, an angular velocity conversion coefficient calculator derives an angular velocity conversion coefficient.
US08140262B2	Method to identify the vessel a container is loaded on A method and system for determining which vessel a container is loaded on. Independent location information received from the container and a vessel is compared to determine a distance between the vessel and the container. If the distance is within the length of the vessel, the container is loaded on the vessel.
US08140258B1	Wayfinding system A wayfinding device is provided for giving directions to a desired destination within a building having a plurality of wayfinding beacons configured to transmit data using an ultrasound signal. The ultrasound signal can include a plurality of bursts, wherein a sequence of predefined time intervals between consecutive bursts within the plurality of bursts uniquely identifies each wayfinding beacon. The wayfinding device is separate from the wayfinding beacons and includes a wayfinding beacon recognition component configured to identify a wayfinding beacon when the device receives the data through the ultrasound signal from a wayfinding beacon. The device is further programmed to provide directions to a user of the device in a direction toward the desired destination in response to identifying a wayfinding beacon.
US08140253B2	Shift map switching control unit A shift map switching control unit includes a fuel level sensor 72, plural shift maps for deriving the shift timing of an automatic transmission 1b, and a controller 101 that selects one shift map out of the plural shift maps and controls the shift of the automatic transmission 1b according to the selected shift map. The controller 101 switches a standard shift map 103 to a high fuel economy shift map 104 in which fuel consumption is reduced when it is sensed that the residual quantity of fuel is equal to or below a predetermined value. An operational mode display lamp 99 displays the selected shift map. As the residual quantity of fuel is sensed, based upon a mean value of output signals from the fuel level sensor 72 in predetermined time, the shift maps can be prevented from being frequently switched.
US08140249B2	Method for encoding messages, method for decoding messages, and receiver for receiving and evaluating messages Method for encoding messages which are to be transmitted, method for decoding messages, and receiver for receiving and evaluating messages, in particular traffic messages, wherein the messages include message contents, and wherein a message contains at least one reference to an additional supplementary message which is to be transmitted separately and contains supplementary message contents.
US08140241B2	Driving action estimating device, driving support device, vehicle evaluating system, driver model creating device, and driving action determining device A driver model with higher precision is created as an evaluation standard for a driving condition in a normal condition. By detecting biometric information of a driver, whether a driver is in a usual condition or not is recognized. Then, data of driving conditions are collected while the driver is driving, and from the driving condition data, a part indicating that the driver operates in a usual condition is extracted to create a driver model. Further, the driver model is created taking only a case of driving in a normal condition as a driving action in normal times based on biometric information of the driver, and hence the driver model becomes more precise and neutral. Further, by using a GMM (Gaussian mixture model) for the driver model, a driver model for each driver can be created easily, and moreover, by calculation to maximize a conditional probability, a driving operation action is easily estimated and outputted.
US08140230B2	Apparatus and method for regulating active driveline damping in hybrid vehicle powertrain The present invention provides an improved method and apparatus for regulating active damping in a hybrid vehicle powertrain. The method includes: monitoring the damping command sent to the active damping system; determining a mean reference point, which may be a filtered value of the damping torque command; determining if the unfiltered damping torque command value switches from one side to the other of the mean reference point; if a switch is detected, determining if the size of the switch exceeds a predetermined minimum; if it does, then increasing a total number of switches; determining if the total number of switches exceeds a switch threshold; if the total number of switches exceeds the switch threshold, determining if the current damping torque exceeds a damping torque threshold; and decreasing the damping torque if the total number of switches exceeds the switch threshold and the current damping torque exceeds the damping torque threshold.
US08140228B2	System and method for dynamically maintaining the stability of a material handling vehicle having a vertical lift A system and method that maintains the dynamic stability of a material handling vehicle having a vertical lift. The method allows static vehicle properties, such as vehicle weight, wheelbase length, and wheel configuration, and dynamic operating parameters, such as vehicle velocity, floor grade, lift position, and load weight, to be accounted for when maintaining the dynamic stability of a moving material handling vehicle. The method may include calculating and predicting center-of-gravity parameters, wheel loads, and projected force vectors multiple times a second and adjusting vehicle operating parameters in response thereto to maintain vehicle stability.
US08140225B2	System and method for classifying a target vehicle A system and method for classifying a target vehicle using a sensor system, including a plurality of target vehicle sensors. The sensor system acquiring target vehicle data points that define at least an upper and lower portion of the target vehicle. The sensor system reconstructing a target vehicle shape using the target vehicle data points to provide a first and second target vehicle classification value. The sensor system determining an overall target vehicle classification based in part upon the first and second target vehicle classification values.
US08140215B2	Method and apparatus for geospatial data sharing Methods and apparatus for processing non-authoritative observational data during a coordinated operation, such as a military mission. Actuation of a trigger control initiates a retrieval procedure for collecting observational data from at least one system incorporated in a vehicle. Categories associated with an observational event may be selected to classify the observational data, and the selected category may be stored with the observational data in a memory. The observational data may be stored in the memory as one or more data structures called “tags.” A tag may be transmitted in real time to one or more operators in the coordinated operation via a wireless network. Stored observational information may be reviewed and edited by an operator to add additional annotations to a tag. A secondary review by supervising personnel may determine if the non-authoritative tag should be added to an authoritative source used for planning of future missions.
US08140213B2	Detection of vehicle operation under adverse conditions Details relating to the operation of a vehicle under adverse conditions are recorded and collected. This data is particularly useful to forestall catastrophic failures, and to provide valuable information for potential buyers of used vehicles. Among the operating conditions that are considered are high levels of air contaminants, operation in extreme hot or cold temperatures, hauling heavy loads, as well as hard braking, turning and acceleration. In addition to the detection and recording of data, prorated maintenance schedules are recalculated and adjusted to accommodate for the operation of the vehicle under these adverse or less than ideal conditions. Typically, the data is stored in the on-board computers present in most vehicles. Periodic off loading of the data to the dealer and service providers is also provided.
US08140209B2	Parking assisting device and parking assisting method A parking assisting device is equipped with a imaging device (1), a gaze position determining sections (3, 11), target parking position setting sections (1, 11), and a parking assisting section (2). The imaging device (1) takes images of surrounding of a vehicle. The gaze position determining sections (3, 11) determine positions at which a driver gazes. The target parking position setting sections (1, 11) sets target parking positions based on images taken by the imaging device (1) and gaze positions determined by the gaze position determining section (11). The parking assisting section (2) assists in processing to park the vehicle at the set target parking position.
US08140204B2	Charge depleting energy management strategy for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles A method for managing power distribution from an engine and a battery in a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle whereby battery power is used to meet a driver demand for power and engine power complements battery power when either battery state-of-charge limit or battery discharge power limit would be exceeded, an external power grid being used to restore battery power following battery charge depletion.
US08140202B2	Method of controlling a rail transport system for conveying bulk materials A train is driven by drive stations positioned along a track for frictionally contacting side plates on the train. The drive speed is controlled in response to sensors located at each drive station sensing a position of a wheel and a side plate for confirming a presence of the train. A start command is transmitted from the drive station driving the train to a second drive station downstream when a lead car is within a preselected distance from the second drive station. The drive station at the second drive station is quickly accelerated to a target speed for synchronizing the first drive station with the second drive station. After receiving the train, the second drive station then transmits a stop command to the first drive station for fast decelerating the drive station to a stop.
US08140201B2	Vital method for exiting and re-entering a mapped guideway territory A system and method for controlling a train in a manner that accommodates transitions from and to railway-controlled territory at designated locations, as well as operating within the proximity of those locations in a vital manner.
US08140194B2	Supply-and-demand control system of distributed and coordinated type, for use in power systems According to one embodiment, each of the nodes incorporated in the respective electrical apparatuses that constitute a local power system establishes a communication path connected to any adjacent node, transmits and receive average supply-and-demand state data to and from the adjacent node through the communication path. Each node adjusts (increases or decreases) the power to generate or consume in it, on the basis of the average supply-and-demand state data. Each node performs a supply-and-demand control of distributed and coordinated type, in which the average supply-and-demand state value is corrected based on the value by which the power has been adjusted (increased or decreased) and the average supply-and-demand state value thus corrected is supplied to the adjacent node through the connection path.
US08140193B2	Assessing, forecasting and simulating energy consumption of buildings using energy efficiency coefficients Energy consumption data of a building and temperature data outside the building collected over a period of time are correlated and segmented into a plurality of segments including at least a heating consumption segment, a cooling segment, and temperature-insensitive segment. An energy efficiency coefficient for heating from the heating consumption segment, an energy efficiency coefficient for cooling from the cooling consumption segment, an energy efficiency coefficient for other energy consuming activities from the temperature insensitive segment are determined, and scaled. The energy efficiency coefficient for heating, the energy efficiency coefficient for cooling and the energy efficiency coefficient for other energy consuming activities are used to assess energy efficiency among one or more buildings, forecast future consumption of energy in the building based on forecasted temperature and simulate impact of hypothetical temperature and hypothetical energy efficiency on energy consumption in the building.
US08140187B2	Multiple drawer and compartment vending A multi-drawer and doored vending system in which each drawer has one or a plurality of compartments each holding an items to be vended, and each doored compartment contains at least one item for vending. Drawer control is provided by a drawer opening and position control system comprising an array of spaced apart control tabs on each drawer, a drawer lock and release assembly, and a progressively movable drawer position control bar to control drawer opening in conjunction with the control tabs. Each doored compartment also employs a lock and release assembly. A control system is provided to control user interface, to maintain product inventory counts and to control the vending process. This involves verifying the identity of a user seeking to obtain a vended item, verifying any other system or pre-vend requirements, and permits limited access to a drawer and compartment corresponding to an approved vend selection. An item return compartment is also included.
US08140185B2	Virtual vendor shelf inventory management A cooler system for providing goods. The cooler system may include a cooler with a refrigeration system and a shelf monitor, a data processing device remote from the cooler, and a vending bridge. The data processing device is in communication with the refrigeration system and the shelf monitor of the cooler.
US08140184B2	Tank-locking device, system for managing liquid supply and method using the same A system for managing liquid supply suitable for a process equipment with a liquid tank is disclosed. The system includes a host, a data-reading tool, a system controller and a tank-locking device. The host stores a built-in liquid database. The data-reading tool used for reading data related to the liquid tank is electrically connected to the host. The host receives the data related to the liquid tank from the data-reading tool, and the received data mapped with the liquid database. The system controller drives the tank-locking device according to the signal from the host to whether or not allow replacement of the liquid tank.
US08140182B2	Bulk feeding disk drives to disk drive testing systems A method of supplying disk drives to a disk drive testing system includes placing a disk drive tote, carrying multiple disk drives, in a presentation position accessible to an automated transporter of the disk drive testing system. The method includes actuating the automated transporter to retrieve one of the disk drives from the disk drive tote, and actuating the automated transporter to deliver the retrieved disk drive to a test slot of the disk drive testing system and insert the disk drive in the test slot.
US08140181B2	Substrate transfer method, control program, and storage medium storing same A substrate transfer method for use in a substrate processing apparatus including a first processing unit that performs a first process on a substrate, a second processing unit performing a second process on the substrate, and a substrate transfer mechanism that transfers the substrate between the first and the second processing unit, includes: detecting misalignment of the substrate when the substrate is unloaded from the first processing unit; and correcting the misalignment of the substrate based on a detected result. Further, the substrate transfer method includes loading the misalignment-corrected substrate to a targeted position in the second processing unit.
US08140180B2	Dynamic item-space allocation and retrieval Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to staging manufactured items and provide a method, system and computer program product for staging items in a manufacturing environment. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for staging items in a manufacturing environment can be provided. The method can include defining attributes of staging locations in a distribution area of the manufacturing environment, defining a set of staging strategies for use in the distribution area of the manufacturing environment, receiving a manufactured item in the distribution area and obtaining characteristics of the manufactured item, comparing the obtained characteristics of the manufactured item to the set of staging strategies to select the staging strategy to apply to the manufactured item and applying the selected staging strategy to the manufactured item to assign the manufactured item to storage in one of the staging locations in the distribution area based on matching the obtained characteristics of the manufactured item to the defined attributes of the one of the staging locations. The method can further include the retrieval of the manufactured item from the staging location at the appropriate time to allow for subsequent processing or shipment, and may include multiple iterations of the staging-retrieval process as required by the particular implementation.
US08140178B2	Machine tool system for measuring shape of object to be measured by using on-board measuring device In a simultaneous multi-axis measuring machine tool system including linear drive axes and rotation axes to measure a surface shape of an object to be measured by using an on-board measuring device having a probe mounted, at one end thereof, with a spherical contactor, a numerical controller controls driving of the linear drive axes and the rotation axes so that a central axis of the probe is always oriented in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the object to be measured and that the spherical contactor of the probe comes in contact with and follows a surface of the object to be measured.
US08140174B2	Device and method for controlling a plant by using an identifier for partially identifying a model parameter A control apparatus that can partially identify model parameters is provided. The apparatus for controlling an object that is modeled using at least one first model parameter and at least one second model parameter comprises a partial model parameter identifier for recursively identifying the second model parameter based on an output from the object and an input into the object, and a controller for using the first model parameter that is pre-identified and the second model parameter identified by the partial model parameter identifier to determine an input into the controller so that the output from the object converges to a desired value. Since all model parameters are not required to be recursively identified, the time for causing the model parameters to converge to optimal values can be shortened. The computational complexity for the identifier can be reduced.
US08140173B2	Anchoring device for securing intracranial catheter or lead wire to a patient's skull An anchor system for securing a lead to a patient's skull is disclosed. The lead is of the type that passes through a burr hole created in the patient's skull and includes a distal end which is implanted within the patient's brain at a target site. The anchor, according to a first embodiment of the invention includes a stem, an integrally formed rim plate, and a peripheral clamping structure. The clamping structure is adapted to receive and snugly hold a portion of the lead. The stem is sized and shaped to fit within the burr hole, leaving the rim plate positioned flush with the patient's skull. A flared passage is provided within the stem and rim plate so that the lead may pass through the stem and into the rim plate, at which point the lead follows the contours of the flared passage and communicates with the peripheral clamping structural. The clamping structure holds a portion of the lead so that any tension of the lead will not be transmitted past the anchor and the distal end of the lead will not become displaced from the target site. According to a second embodiment, the peripheral clamping structure includes several flexible loops that are sized and spaced from each other to allow a lead to be laced through the loops as the lead extends about the periphery of the rim plate.
US08140170B2	Method and apparatus for renal neuromodulation An apparatus for renal neuromodulation includes an expandable support member having a main body portion for engaging a wall of a blood vessel proximate a renal vasculature and at least one electrode connected with the main body portion. The at least one electrode is arranged to selectively deliver electric current to a desired location where modulation of the sympathetic nervous system is effective to alter renal function. The apparatus further includes an insulative material attached to at least a portion of the main body portion for isolating blood flow through the vessel from the electric current delivered by the at least one electrode.
US08140167B2	Implantable therapy system with external component having multiple operating modes A therapy system for applying an electrical signal to an internal anatomical feature of a patient includes an implantable component and an external component. The external component can be configured into one of multiple selectable operating modes. The therapy system also may include a first external antenna configured to communicate with the implantable component and a second external antenna configured to communicate with the implantable component. Plugging one of the external antennas into the external component automatically configures the external component into one of the operating modes.
US08140165B2	Independent protection system for an electrical muscle stimulation apparatus and method of using same Electrotherapy systems and methods for delivering an electrostimulation treatment program to a user while reducing the risk of inducing cardiac fibrillation. The systems and methods detect electrostimulation treatment program delivery characteristics, including a pulse intensity above a preset limit; a pulse duration above a preset limit; an inappropriately compensated pulse; a charge per pulse above a predetermined limit; a current improperly exiting from a stimulation channel; a current present outside of a pulse; an excitation pulse and a compensation pulse generated on different channels; an inter-pulse time less than a predetermined limit; and a time between an excitation and a compensation pulse greater than a predetermined limit. The limits are selected in relation to an objective of reducing the risk of inducing cardiac fibrillation.
US08140162B1	Low temperature degradation resistant yttria stabilized zirconia The invention is directed to an apparatus substantially eliminating destructive low-temperature, humidity-enhanced phase transformation of yttria-stabilized zirconia in general, as well as eliminating low-temperature degradation of yttria-stabilized tetragonal zirconia polycrystalline ceramic (Y-TZP). The martensitic-type phase transformation from tetragonal to monoclinic is accompanied by severe strength degradation in a moist environment at low-temperature, specifically at room temperature as well as at body temperature. This class of materials has been chosen as the packaging material for small implantable neural-muscular sensors and stimulators because of the high fracture toughness and high mechanical strength. This destructive phase transformation has been substantially eliminated, thus ensuring the safety of long-term implants, by subjecting the sintered components to post-machining hot isostatic pressing, such that the average grain size is less than about 0.5 microns.
US08140158B2	Heart monitoring device and a system to detect vibrations concerning the status of the heart An implantable heart monitoring system has a control circuit that operates an implanted vibrator to emit a vibration signal that interacts with tissue in vivo. A vibration sensor detects vibrations after interaction with the tissue, and supplies a detection signal to the control circuit. The control circuit analyzes the vibrations in the detected signal relative to the vibration signal, and derives information concerning at least one mechanical property of the heart therefrom, such as stiffness and/or thickness of at least a part of the heart.
US08140157B2	Medical device for detecting ischemia and a method for such a device In a method and medical device for detecting an ischemic episode and to determine a location of ischemia in a heart of a patient, an impedance measuring circuit measures the impedances in the tissue between electrodes of at least one electrode configuration according to a predetermined measurement scheme and an ischemia detector evaluates the measured impedance values using at least one reference impedance image of the heart to detect changes in the measured impedances that are consistent with an ischemia and to determine a location of the ischemia to at least one region of the image.
US08140155B2	Intermittent pacing therapy delivery statistics This document discusses, among other things, an apparatus comprising an implantable cardiac depolarization sensing circuit, an electrical stimulation circuit, and a pacing mode controller. The pacing mode controller is configured to deliver pacing therapy according to a first pacing mode that is a normal operating mode, and to deliver pacing therapy according to second and third pacing modes. The second and third pacing modes increase mechanical stress on at least a particular portion of the ventricle as compared to the pacing therapy delivered during the first pacing mode. The pacing mode controller alternates between the second and third pacing modes when switched from the normal operating mode to a stress augmentation mode and stores a statistic related to the stress augmentation mode in a stress augmentation cycle memory area.
US08140153B2	Cardiac tachyarrhythmia therapy selection based on patient response information Cardiac treatment methods and devices providing templates representative of past tachyarrhythmia events, each template associated with a therapy. A cardiac waveform is detected, and if it corresponds to a particular template associated with a previous therapy that was satisfactory in terminating a past event, the previous therapy is delivered again. If unsatisfactory, the previous therapy is eliminated as an option. If, for example, the previous therapy was an antitachycardia pacing therapy unsatisfactory in terminating the past tachyarrhythmia event, delivery of the antitachycardia pacing therapy is eliminated as an option. Instead of ATP therapy, one or more of a cardioversion, defibrillation, or alternate anti-tachycardia pacing therapy may be associated with the particular template. Cardiac waveforms and templates may correspond in terms of one or more of morphology, timing, drug regimen, medication, neural activity, patient activity, hemodynamic status, cardiac tissue impedance, transthoracic impedance, or other information corresponding to the episode.
US08140142B2	Method and apparatus for providing data processing and control in medical communication system Methods and apparatus for providing data processing and control for use in a medical communication system are provided.
US08140138B2	Method and system for providing vehicle-directed services The present invention provides a method, system, and computer usable medium for directing service in a vehicle. A service request is received at a service management application from the vehicle. A vehicle location is also received. Vehicle delivery-enabling information is determined based on the service request and the vehicle location. The service corresponding to the service request is configured based on the vehicle delivery-enabling information. The configured service is sent to the vehicle.
US08140134B2	Electronic device The present invention has an object to provide an electronic device to improve user convenience, in which a cellular phone 1 includes an operation unit side body 2 having an operation face 2A, a display unit side body 3 having a display face 3A, the display unit side body 3 being disposed at the operation face 2A side of the operation unit side body 2, a connecting body 6 disposed between the operation unit side body 2 and the display unit side body 3, a rotating connection unit 4 that connects the display unit side body 3 with the connecting body 6 to be mutually rotatable around a rotational axis Z1 extending in a thickness direction, and a pivoting connection unit 5 that connects the operation unit side body 2 with the connecting body 6 so that an angle between the operation face 2A and the display face 3A can be varied.
US08140124B2	Terminal apparatus with data output capability A terminal apparatus is provided that makes it easy to determine whether or not data once saved can be deleted. When data included in a memory is output to an external equipment of the terminal apparatus, output history data including an output destination, an output day and time, and an output section is generated/updated while being correlated with the data. Then, if required, an output history of the data can be displayed based on the output history data after the output of the data.
US08140122B2	Apparatus and method for changing communication mode in multi-antenna system considering channel environment An apparatus and a method for determining a multi-antenna transmission mode at a base station in a multi-antenna system are provided. The method for determining the multi-antenna transmission mode includes when using a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) transmission mode as a multi-antenna transmission mode, determining a reference set point; updating a set point for transmit power control of a terminal according to an error occurrence of a signal received from the terminal; determining whether a channel to the terminal is a channel for applying the MIMO transmission mode by comparing the updated set point with the reference set point; and when the channel to the terminal is not a channel for applying the MIMO transmission mode, changing the multi-antenna transmission mode to a fixed transmission mode.
US08140112B2	Method and apparatus for handoff between a wireless local area network (WLAN) and a universal mobile telecommunication system (UMTS) Apparatus and method for providing an automatic handoff process of a dual-mode user equipment (UE) from either a wireless local area network (WLAN) to a universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS) or from a UMTS to a WLAN. Handoffs may be initiated by the UE, based upon user preference, signal quality, comparison of location coordinates of the UE and the system to be switched to or signal quality. The available channels of one system may be sent to the UE by the other system or the UE may monitor channels of the system to be switched to and lock on to one. The handoff may also be initiated by the UMTS, the selection being power-based.
US08140108B2	Website theme changing using a mobile device An apparatus and method for changing a theme of a website automatically. A mobile device includes a processor and a memory. The memory contains an application for detecting the selection of a theme and automatically changing a theme of a website to the selected theme. Information related to the selected theme may be transferred to the website using a wireless protocol such as MMS, WAP, etc. The website may be a blog site, a social networking site, or a personal website. The selected theme may include information related to music, alerts, wallpaper, text, videos, pictures, or virtual card file (VCF) information.
US08140107B1	Method and system for selective power control of wireless coverage areas In methods and systems for adjusting forward link transmit power of wireless coverage areas, forward link signal strength is observed to obtain a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and/or an observed frame error rate (FER) for the received signal. A determination is made whether to request a forward link power adjustment. If the determination is that a forward link power adjustment is required, a request may be made into a radio access network (RAN) to adjust power. The RAN may select a subset of wireless coverage areas in which to adjust power. If further power adjustment is required, a further request may be made into the RAN, and the RAN may select a different subset of wireless coverage areas in which to adjust power.
US08140087B2	Techniques for always on always connected operation of mobile platforms using network interface cards An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a network interface (NIC) card operable in communication with a mobile platform to monitor network traffic and perform filtering to enable decreased system resource use in said mobile platform when in an Always On Always Connected (AOAC) state.
US08140082B2	Communication system, mobile station, switch apparatus, and communication method A communication system according to the present invention includes: a mobile station 10; an access point located on a radio access system; and a switch apparatus 30 connected to the radio access system, wherein a secured connection between a mobile station 10 and the access point 20 has been already established. The mobile station 10 includes a judgment unit 30 configured to judge whether or not to establish a secured connection between the mobile station 10 and the switch apparatus 30.
US08140060B2	Method and architecture to deliver pre-customized business card multimedia contents through IMS-based PLMNs for improving the existing calling line identification service An improved Calling Line Identification (CLI) service is implemented inside a cellular telephony network connected to the IMS platform for delivering IP-based multimedia services to the end users. The new architecture is based on a multimedia CLI-dedicated server (MM-CLI) connected to the IMS and the packet switched (PS) domain of the core network. The MM-CLI comprises: a Control server, media storage, and a web interface. The control server is devoted to handle the SIP signalizing flow including a SIP element called MESSAGE carrying in its body either the multimedia contents of the so-called business card or HTTP address link to retrieve the components of said multimedia contents. The media storage stores multimedia contents of the business cards and/or said HTTP address links according to respective user's profiles. The web interface web allows the end users to download the multimedia components of the business cards through the addressed HTTP links. The handsets include a client application for monitoring the line status of the caller and transmitting the SIP MESSAGE at the very initial instant of the call setup. The client further monitors both the line status of the callee and the incoming SIP stack for synchronizing the CLI information and either get or retrieve the multimedia components of the business card. A player internal to the user phone renders and plays the business cards.
US08140053B2	Mobile telecommunications terminal comprising RFID functions and associated method A mobile telecommunications terminal comprising RFID functions, in addition to an associated method are provided. In one aspect, the terminal comprises a telecommunications interface, a user interface and a data processing unit. A modification made with the aid of an RFID transponder circuit to be controlled via of RFID data records that are stored in an RFID memory unit in such a way that a flexible RFID transponder emulation is achieved at minimal cost.
US08140052B2	Roaming method with call announcement A method is disclosed for completing a roaming cellular call between a roaming subscriber and another party. The first step is initiating the roaming call between the roaming subscriber and the another party. The roaming subscriber is provided with a prepaid debit account. The roaming subscriber is then connected to a cellular network when a connection between the subscriber and the another party is to be made such that a call has been built over a calling network. The prepaid debit account of the roaming subscriber is then examined to determine the balance thereof, and then the roaming subscriber is informed of financial information regarding the call connection prior to connecting the roaming subscriber to the another party over the already built call.
US08140039B2	Quadrature-input quadrature-output divider and phase locked loop frequency synthesizer or single side band mixer The present invention relates to a quadrature divider which may be used in a phase locked loop or frequency synthesizer or with a single side band mixer. According to a preferred embodiment the divider takes a quadrature input and has a quadrature output. The divider has four analog mixers 1, 2, 3 and 4. The first two mixers 1, 2 take the in-phase quadrature input, while the second mixers 3, 4 take the quadrature-phase quadrature input. The outputs and feedback loops of the mixers are properly arranged such that the in-phase and quadrature-phase outputs of the divider have a determinisitic phase sequence relationship based on the phase sequence relationship of the corresponding quadrature inputs. Third order harmonics may be minimized or reduced by addition or subtraction of the mixer outputs. As the divider is able to take a quadrature input, there is no need for a dummy divider in the phase locked loop, thus saving space and power.
US08140038B2	Adaptive receivers An adaptive receiver for receiving a radio frequency (RF) signal and converting the RF signal at an RF frequency FRF toward a low intermediate frequency FIF is disclosed. The adaptive receiver comprises a pair of band pass filters with a nominal center frequency Fc equal to FIF, a look-up table (LUT) configured to estimate a frequency offset Δf, representing the center frequency of the band pass filter due to an operating temperature change and/or process variation, a micro controller configured to estimate the operating center frequency of the band pass filter (=FIF+Δf with the frequency offset included) and use this new center frequency as the adaptive intermediate frequency FIF,AD, and a local oscillator generates oscillating signals at a frequency FLO equal to FRF minus FIF,AD. A temperature sensing device may also be included in this adaptive receiver.
US08140028B2	Low noise RF driver A low noise RF driver circuit including at least two series-coupled driver stages which receive a frequency modulated signal and an amplitude modulated signal that is applied to the supply voltage input of the driver stages, and provide a combined output signal. The RF driver circuit can be implemented in CMOS technology and integrated with other components of an RF communication subsystem, such as an RF transceiver circuit and power amplifier. Each driver stage includes a complementary pair of transistors with source degeneration resistors for linearity and gain control.
US08140027B2	Automatic frequency tuning system and method for an FM-band transmit power amplifier An automatic frequency tuning system and method for a transmit power amplifier. The transmit power amplifier has an antenna feed line including a series capacitor and is coupled to an output of an output driver. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a shunt capacitor array having a plurality of capacitors selectably couplable to the antenna feed line to apply a programmable shunt capacitance thereto, (2) a peak detector circuit couplable to nodes of the antenna feed line associated with both terminals of the series capacitor and (3) a processor configured to control the peak detector circuit to determine a ratio of voltage levels measured at the nodes at a given power level of the output driver.
US08140025B2	Single input/output port radio frequency transceiver front end circuit with low noise amplifier switching transistor A front end circuit for coupling an antenna to a radio frequency (RF) transceiver for time domain duplex systems is disclosed. The front end circuit includes an antenna port, a power amplifier, a low noise amplifier, and a matching network. The output of the power amplifier and the input of the low noise amplifier are coupled to the matching network and connected in common to the antenna. The power amplifier and the low noise amplifier are activated and deactivated in sequence corresponding to the transmit and receive modes of the transceiver, and the matching network minimizes the effect that one has on the other at the designated operating frequency.
US08140020B2	Radio frequency calibration apparatus and method for multi-antenna mobile communication system There is provided to an RF calibration apparatus and method for a multi-antenna mobile communication system, which calibrates a phase error and gain error of an RF path by calculating the minimum value of a sum of an initialized reference signal and a comparison signal by a simple operation and controlling the phase value of a phase converter and the gain of a variable amplifier on the RF path, in calibrating the RF path of a multi-antenna mobile communication system of a TDD (Time Division Duplexing) type or FDD (Frequency Division Duplexing) type.
US08140018B2	Communication systems A wireless communication system is comprised of multiple radio access networks—RANs—which at least partly share the same frequency spectrum. Each RAN is provided with a gateway—GW—(GW1, GW2, GW3) for managing the network. Spectrum sharing in the system is achieved through a hierarchy of processes including long-term—LT—spectrum assignment, short-term—ST—spectrum assignment, and dynamic channel allocation, the latter process assigning sub-channels to base stations (BS1, . . . BS5; BS6, . . . BS10; BS11, . . . BS16) in each RAN. However, so-called “red” sub-channels (subject to interference) are liable to arise.
US08140013B1	Wireless communication device and method A wireless communication device and associated method is described. The device includes a radio and a controller to operate the radio in a normal communications range responsive to the controller binding the radio to a host in a reduced binding range, where the radio and the controller are integrated into a single chip.
US08140011B2	Radio node apparatus, multi-hop radio system, and multi-hop radio system constructing method The present invention provides a radio node apparatus, a multi-hop radio system and a multi-hop radio system constructing method, capable of constructing a tree type multi-hop radio system in which mutual radio nodes determine a radio node which becomes a root node of a tree in an autonomous manner and the root node is set as a root in an autonomous manner. The radio node apparatus includes a storage unit for storing state information, used for constructing a multi-hop radio system, including information for specifying a root radio node apparatus positioned at a summit of the multi-hop radio system, with the radio node apparatus has a connection, and the number of hops from the root ratio node apparatus, a collection unit for collecting state information transmitted from surrounding radio node apparatus, and a selection unit for selecting a host connection-accepting radio node apparatus on the basis of the information for specifying the root radio node apparatus and the number of hops included in the collected state information.
US08140010B2	Near field RF communicators and near field RF communications enabled devices A near field RF communicator (100) has an inductive coupler (102) and a first signal provider (109, 110, 111) to cause the inductive coupler to provide a first signal that when inductively coupled to the inductive coupler of another near field RF communicator in near field range is insufficient to cause initiation of communication with that other near field RF communicator. A sensor (116) senses a change in an impedance of the inductive coupler (102) due to inductive coupling of the first signal between the inductive couplers of the said near field RF communicator and a said other near field RF communicator in near field range. A controller (107) determines whether or not another near field RF communicator is in near field range on the basis of any change in impedance sensed by the sensor and, if another near field RF communicator is determined to be in near field range, causes a second signal to be inductively coupled to the other near field RF communicator to initiate communication between the two near field RF communicators. The sensor may use a phase detector (118) to enable a change in impedance to be sensed by detecting a change in a current-voltage phase relationship resulting from a change in impedance.
US08140005B2	Modular satellite transceiver A modular satellite transceiver is provided according to some embodiments of the disclosure. The modular transceiver may include an RF module and a back end module. The RF module may operate in a first band, and may include, for example, one or more antennas, an RF front end module, an up converter, a down converter, an analog-to-digital converter, and a digital-to-analog converter. The back end module may include various digital processing components and/or modules. The RF module may be removably coupled with the back end module such that the RF module may be replaced with another RF module operating in a second band. During transmission the back end module may provide at least one digital signal to the RF module; and during reception the RF module provides at least one digital signal to the back end module.
US08140004B2	Digital satellite radio systems and associated methods for providing indoor reception A digital satellite radio system includes a content server for providing a digital satellite radio channels, and a satellite for broadcasting the digital satellite radio channels. For overcoming indoor reception problems, a modem is connected to the content server via the Internet for receiving a selected digital satellite radio channel while not receiving unselected digital satellite radio channels. A digital satellite radio unit receives the selected digital satellite radio channel from the modem while not receiving the unselected digital satellite radio channels. In lieu of the modem connected to the Internet, a repeater receiving signals from the satellite is used for providing the selected digital satellite radio channel to the digital satellite radio unit.
US08139994B2	Automatic original cover closer and office equipment having the same In order to reduce a number of parts and required costs, and to improve operability during assembly and maintenance, the automatic original cover closer comprises hinge portions having a supporting member which supports the original cover to be opened and closed with regard to a main body of an office equipment and a driving portion automatically driving the supporting member of the hinge portions. The automatic original cover closer is characterized in that the supporting member is rotatably supported via a rotation shaft on a mounting member attached to the main body, that the driving portion comprises a driving motor and a driving force transmitting mechanism for transmitting a rotation drive force of the driving motor to the rotation shaft, and that the rotation shaft is adjusted so that its rotation drive force can be transmitted to the supporting member via a shaft engaging members fixedly attached thereto.
US08139989B2	Toner bottle having a rubbing member and image forming apparatus including same A toner bottle includes a bottle main body for discharging toner contained therein by rotation of the bottle main body and a scraping member disposed inside the bottle main body for rubbing the inner wall surface of the bottle main body 20 by rotation of the bottle main body. A shaft section for supporting a rubbing section included in the scraping member has an inclined support section extending with a predetermined angle inclined in a direction deviating from a direction in which an axis of rotation of the bottle main body extends.
US08139987B2	Developer supplying cartridge, developer receiving cartridge, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus A developer supply cartridge detachably mountable to a main assembly of an image forming apparatus, includes a developer accommodating portion of accommodating a developer; a discharging opening for discharging the developer accommodated in the developer accommodating portion to a developer receiving opening of a developer receiving cartridge provided with developing means for developing an electrostatic image formed on an image bearing member with the developer, the developer receiving cartridge being detachably mountable to the main assembly of the image forming apparatus; a shutter member movable between an opening position for opening the discharging opening and a closing position for closing the discharging opening; an engaging portion for engagement with the developer receiving cartridge so as to receive, from the developer receiving cartridge, a force for moving the shutter member from the closing position to the opening position, in interrelation with a relative movement between the developer supply cartridge and the developer receiving cartridge toward each other in a mounting-and-demounting direction of the developer supply cartridge relative to the main assembly of the image forming apparatus.
US08139985B2	Developing apparatus and image forming apparatus using same A developing apparatus using a two-component developer constituted by a magnetic carrier and a toner, and an image forming apparatus comprising the developing apparatus. A developing unit and a stirring unit are provided, and in order to suppress toner scattering that may occur after a development operation has been halted for a long time, and thereby suppress contamination of the apparatus interior, the developer in a developing machine is transferred to a stirrer serving as a developer storage unit on the exterior of the developing machine when the development operation ends. Further, to extend the life of the developer, a range in which an angle of a restricting member upstream side central angle α, which is a central angle of the surface of a developing roller serving as a developer carrier on the upstream side of a restricting member opposing position opposing a doctor blade serving as a developer amount restricting member in a surface motion direction of the developing roller, is not less than 0[°] and not more than 60[°] is set as a low magnetic flux density area γ in which the maximum value of a normal direction magnetic flux density on the surface of the developing roller is not more than 30 [mT].
US08139979B2	Process cartridge and electrophotographic image forming apparatus A process cartridge is provided detachably mountable to a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus. The process cartridge includes an electrophotographic photosensitive drum, a frame for supporting the electrophotographic photosensitive drum, a developing roller, and a developer supplying roller. The process cartridge further includes portions-to-be-supported, portions-to-be-positioned, a portion-to-be-urged, and a cartridge side developer supply roller bias contact. The process cartridge can be positioned with high accuracy relative to the main assembly of an image forming apparatus.
US08139969B2	Apparatuses useful in printing, printing apparatuses and methods of fixing marking material on media Apparatuses useful in printing, printing apparatuses and methods of fixing marking material on media are provided. An exemplary embodiment of the apparatuses useful in printing includes a marking device; a first transport device which transports a first medium and a successive second medium to the marking device in a process direction with the first medium and second medium separated from each other by a first inter-document zone in the process direction; a fixing device including a first member including a first outer surface and a second member including a second outer surface forming a nip with the first outer surface; a second transport device which transports the first medium and second medium from the marking device to the nip; and a controller configured to control a speed of the marking device, the first member and the second transport device to reduce the first inter-document zone between the first medium and second medium to a second inter-document zone in the process direction between the marking device and the nip.
US08139963B2	Image fixing apparatus with safety relay and control thereof An image fixing apparatus has an integration circuit which is provided in a signal path from a comparison circuit to a relay drive circuit and integrates a signal input to the integration circuit, wherein an integral value of the signal input to said integration circuit reaches a reference value; and a latch circuit having an input port connected to a signal path from said integration circuit to the relay drive circuit and an output port connected to a signal path from the comparison circuit to the integration circuit. The latch circuit continuously transmits a signal from said output port to the integration circuit, upon a change in a signal level of the input port so that the relay is switched to the open position, and latches the relay in the open position.
US08139947B2	Optical transmission apparatus with clock selector An optical transmission apparatus includes a first transceiver unit coupled to a first node, a second transceiver unit coupled to a second node, an electrical signal processing unit provided between the transceiver units, a first transmission clock generating unit configured to generate a clock used by the second transceiver unit based on a clock of a signal arriving through the first node, a second transmission clock generating unit configured to generate a clock used by the first transceiver unit based on a clock of a signal arriving through the second node, a selector configured to select an output clock of the first transmission clock generating unit at a time of optical input interruption at the second node, and a frequency dividing unit configured to produce a frequency-divided clock obtained by dividing frequency of the output clock selected by the selector for provision to the second transmission clock generating unit.
US08139928B2	Method of creating playback control file for recording medium and method and apparatus for reproducing data using the playback control file A method of creating the playback control file for a recording medium and a method and apparatus for reproducing data using the playback control file are disclosed. The method includes reading an original PlayList including at least one original PlayItem from the recording medium, the at least one original PlayItem being configured to reproduce original data recorded on the recording medium, downloading at least one additional PlayItem from an external source, the at least one additional PlayItem being configured to reproduce additional data downloadable from the external source, and creating a new PlayList by binding the original PlayList with the at least one additional PlayItem, the new PlayList being able to reproduce the original data and the additional data, individually or in combination.
US08139925B2	Recording medium, playback device, and integrated circuit Provided is a recording medium that enables seamless connection between preceding playitems which are stream data arranged prior to a position where a long jump occurs, such as a layer boundary, and succeeding playitems which are stream data arranged subsequent to the position where the long jump occurs. A block exclusively for 2D playback Ln2D is arranged succeeding a 3D extent block in which a depth map data block, a right-view data block, and a left-view data block are arranged in an interleaved manner. A 3D extent block including a block exclusively for 3D playback L3SS is arranged between the block exclusively for 2D playback and a long jump point LB. The block exclusively for 2D playback and the block exclusively for 3D playback are identical in content.
US08139921B2	Program recording reservation system and remote controller A program recording reservation system includes a recording apparatus including a recorder for recording a broadcast program; and a remote controller for making a recording reservation for the recording apparatus. A content management section is provided for managing, as recording parameters, an average recording bit rate for each of a plurality of provided recording modes and the remaining recordable capacity of the recorder. Date and time at which a broadcast program is scheduled to be broadcast are obtained as program information. A recording capacity necessary for recording a program shown in the program information is computed. On the basis of the average recording bit rate for each recording provided by the recorder, the duration of the broadcast program, and the remaining recordable capacity, the capability or incapability of recording of a broadcast program is determined. The determined capability or incapability of recording for each program is displayed in the program table.
US08139918B2	Recording medium editing apparatus based on content supply source An editing apparatus wherein the editing of content is controlled according to its supply source. Identification information for identifying a content supply source is recorded in a recording medium in correspondence with the content supplied from the content supply source and recorded in the recording medium. When editing of the content is requested by a user, the identification information corresponding to that contend is checked. According to the content supply source identified by the identification information, the editing of the content is enabled or disabled.
US08139908B2	Modular lighting system A system includes first and second light collecting modules, each having a window and an optical fiber which receives light flowing through the window. The first and second modules are coupled together so they are repeatably rotatable, as a unit, between first and second positions. A light emitting fixture is operatively coupled to the optical fiber. The light emitting fixture includes an electrical light positioned proximate to a light emitting end of the optical fiber.
US08139901B2	Nano-encoding and decoding information related to printed texts and images on paper and other surfaces A method and system for nano-encoding and decoding information related to printed texts and images on paper and other surfaces is provided. The system and method includes a nano-encoder for encoding information related to printed texts and images; and then collocating the encoded information with the related printed texts and/or images. The system also includes a nano-decoder for decoding information encoded by the nano-encoder. The nano-decoder includes a text processing database having a translator database. The translator database includes a definition database; and a summary database. In addition, the system and method includes detecting luminescent nano particles and/or magnetic nano particles; and determining invariant properties of the detected nano particles. The invariant properties are then matched with coded information. The system and method includes matching the invariant properties with predetermined coded information and analyzing the invariant properties of the detected nano particles for segmentation.
US08139892B2	Spatial standard observer The present invention relates to devices and methods for the measurement and/or for the specification of the perceptual intensity of a visual image, or the perceptual distance between a pair of images. Grayscale test and reference images are processed to produce test and reference luminance images. A luminance filter function is convolved with the reference luminance image to produce a local mean luminance reference image. Test and reference contrast images are produced from the local mean luminance reference image and the test and reference luminance images respectively, followed by application of a contrast sensitivity filter. The resulting images are combined according to mathematical prescriptions to produce a Just Noticeable Difference, JND value, indicative of a Spatial Standard Observer, SSO. Some embodiments include masking functions, window functions, special treatment for images lying on or near borders and pre-processing of test images.
US08139884B2	Blur image adjusting method A blur image adjusting method includes the following steps. Firstly, a blur image in YCbCr color space is obtained. The Y component of the blur image is extracted so as to obtain a Y component blur image. A blur area is extracted from the Y component blur image by an edge detection technology. A horizontal shift amount and a vertical shift amount are estimated according to a horizontal shift pixel number distribution and a vertical shift pixel number distribution of the blur area. A point spread function is determined according to the horizontal shift amount and the vertical shift amount. Afterwards, the blur image is adjusted according to the point spread function.
US08139880B2	Lifting-based directional lapped transforms A “directional lapped transform coder” (“DLT Coder”) provides various techniques for designing directional lapped transforms. In general, lapped transforms are factorized into lifting steps. A “directional operator” is then introduced into each lifting step in order to construct the directional lapped transform by selecting data elements from a data signal along a path corresponding to the directional operator. The resulting directional lapped transform preserves the advantages of conventional lapped transforms while also providing more efficient representation directional signals. In various embodiments, the resulting directional lapped transform is used to enable an image/video coding scheme that provides significant improvement over conventional state-of-the-art image lapped transform based coding schemes for images with strong directional correlations.
US08139878B2	Picture coding method and picture decoding method The method includes the following units: a coefficient number detecting unit (109) for detecting the number of coefficients which has a value other than 0 for each block according to the generated coefficient, a coefficient number storing unit (110) for storing the number of coefficients detected, a coefficient number coding unit (111) for selecting a table for variable length coding based on the numbers of coefficients in the coded blocks located on the periphery of a current block to be coded with reference to the selected table for variable length coding so as to perform variable length coding for the number of coefficients.
US08139874B2	Disk sector allocation for high performance access to images An image data storage system and associated method store, on one or more disk drives in a disk drive array, original image data for different images as well as multiple resolution levels of compressed image data for each image. The lowest resolution level image data for multiple different images (i.e., “thumbnail” copies of images) are grouped together and stored within sectors closest to the center. The progressively higher resolution levels of image data for the same images can similarly be grouped together and stored within sectors sequentially from a first track closest to the center to a last track closet to an outer edge. Alternatively, all higher resolution levels of image data for any single image can be grouped together and stored within a same sector as close to the center as possible. This organization can significantly reduce average access time for large collections of images.
US08139866B2	Method and system for drift correction of spectrum images A method and system corrects for drift in spectrum images resulting from collection signals. Signals resulting from a scan are collected. A reference image is obtained for determining initial pixel locations. A correction image is extracted, validated and correction vectors generated.
US08139862B2	Character extracting apparatus, method, and program The present invention provides a technique of accurately extracting areas of characters included in a captured image even in a case where noise or dirt of a relatively large area occurs in a background image. An integrated pixel value is obtained by integrating pixel values in a character extracting direction B for pixel positions in a character string direction A of an image including a character string. A standard deviation value is calculated along the character extracting direction for pixel positions in a character string direction A. The integrated pixel value and the standard deviation value are combined for pixel positions in a character string direction A. A threshold is set automatically or manually. A part of pixel positions in a character string direction A having the combined value of the integrated pixel value and the standard deviation value higher than the threshold is recognized as a character area to be extracted.
US08139861B2	Character extracting apparatus, method, and program The present invention provides a technique of accurately extracting areas of characters included in a captured image even in a case where noise or dirt of a relatively large area occurs in a background image. A pixel value integration evaluation value is obtained by integrating pixel values in a character extracting direction B at each of the pixel positions in a character string direction A of an image including a character string. A waveform of the value is expressed as waveform data. A first threshold and a second threshold are set for the waveform data. An area in which the waveform data exceeds the first threshold is set as a character candidate area. In a case where an area in which the pixel value integration evaluation value exceeds the second threshold exists in the character candidate areas, the character candidate area is regarded as a true character area and the characters are extracted.
US08139858B1	System and method for identifying arthropods in color-digital image information A color-based imaging system and method for the detection and classification of insects and other arthropods are described, including devices for counting arthropods and providing taxonomic capabilities useful for pest-management. Some embodiments include an image sensor (for example, a digital color camera, scanner or a video camera) with optional illumination that communicates with a computer system. Some embodiments include a color scanner connected to a computer. Sampled arthropods are put on a scanner to be counted and identified. The computer captures images from the scanner, adjusts scanner settings, and processes the acquired images to detect and identify the arthropods. Other embodiments include a trapping device and a digital camera connected by cable or wireless communications to the computer. Some devices include a processor to do the detection and identification in the field, or the field system can send the images to a centralized host computer for detection and identification.
US08139856B2	Image processing apparatus, imaging apparatus, and computer readable medium irregularizing pixel signals continuous in level near a saturation level An image processing apparatus, a computer readable medium and the like in which a dither effect in a neighborhood of a highlight area can be obtained easily and certainly. For this purpose, an image processing apparatus includes an inputting unit which inputs a pixel signal group representing a field image, an averaging unit (21-2 and 21-3) which performs a processing having an averaging effect among the pixel signal group input by the inputting unit, and an irregularizing unit (21-4) which irregularizes mutually continuous signal-values at least near a saturated level among the pixel signal group after having been processed by the averaging unit, into discontinuous signal-values.
US08139854B2	Method and apparatus for performing conversion of skin color into preference color by applying face detection and skin area detection A method and apparatus for performing a conversion of a skin color of an input image into a preference color by applying face detection and skin color detection is disclosed. The method includes: detecting a face area from the input image; detecting a skin area from the input image; judging a common area between the face area and the skin area as a face; extracting a skin color from the input image with reference to the skin color in the judged face; and converting the extracted skin color into an image-adaptive skin color.
US08139849B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image processing program There is provided an image processing apparatus for applying an adjusting process to an image including multicolor image signals. An image area including a pixel to be processed is extracted, and one representative signal value is generated from signal values corresponding to a plurality of colors of pixels included in the image area (S2501). A feature amount associated with the image area is calculated based on the representative signal value (S2503, S2505, S2511), and a substitute candidate pixel common to the plurality of colors is selected from the image area based on the calculated feature amount (S2512). Signal values of the pixel to be processed are substituted by new pixel values, which are calculated from the signal values of the pixel to be processed and signal values of the substitute candidate pixel.
US08139848B2	Color signal processing device, image processing apparatus, color signal processing method, image processing method, computer-readable medium and computer data signal A color signal processing device includes a conversion unit that converts a first color signal into a second color signal. The second color signal is obtained by changing a color point, in a device independent color space, corresponding to a color of each color component of the first color signal by a distance corresponding to a reduction degree so that the color point, in the device independent color space, corresponding to the color of each color component of the first color signal approaches white along a locus, in the device independent color space, corresponding to each color component of the first color signal. The locus, in the device independent color space, corresponding to each color component is obtained by changing an amount of a coloring material that corresponds to each color component and is used in an output device.
US08139845B2	Evaluation object pattern determining apparatus, evaluation object pattern determining method, evaluation object pattern determining program and pattern evaluating system There is provided an evaluation object pattern determining apparatus capable of determining local patterns to be evaluated. The apparatus is for use in a pattern evaluating system storing patterns of a LSI chip as CAD data, picking out coordinates of local patterns whose process margin is small from the CAD data by way of simulation and assisting observation of the local patterns produced in a fabrication line. The apparatus includes a risk level map creating section for creating risk level maps in which risk areas are disposed. The risk area is assigned with a risk level obtained by digitizing that the risk area is an area whose process margin is smaller than other areas. The apparatus also includes a superimposition processing section for superimposing the coordinates of the local patterns with the risk level map to pick out the coordinates of the local patterns located within the risk area.
US08139840B1	Inspection system and method for high-speed serial data transfer An inspection system and method for serial high-speed image data transfer is provided herein. According to one embodiment, the method may include receiving multiple channels of image data at an input data rate and buffering the image data at the input data rate until the buffered data reaches a predetermined size. Once the predetermined size has been reached, the method may include packing the buffered data, encoding the data packet, serializing the encoded data packet and converting the encoded data packet into an optical signal. In some cases, the image data may be packed along with a data header containing information about the system. Once converted, each optical signal (i.e., representing one data packet) may be transmitted serially over one or more fibre channels to a processing node of the inspection system. In most cases, the data is packed, encoded, serialized and transmitted to the processing node at a data rate much higher than the input data rate. The processing node analyzes the optical signal to detect defects on a specimen under inspection.
US08139821B2	Vehicle periphery monitoring device A vehicle periphery monitoring device includes: a parallax calculating unit which extracts a first image section that contains a target object in real space from a first image imaged by a first imaging unit at a predetermined time and extracts a second image section correlated to the first image section from a second image imaged by a second imaging unit at the predetermined time, and then calculates the parallax between the first image section and the second image section; a parallax gradient calculating unit for calculating a parallax gradient based on a time series calculation of the parallax of the identical target object in real space by the parallax calculating unit; and a first distance calculating unit for calculating the distance from the vehicle to the target object on the basis of the parallax gradient and the velocity of the vehicle.
US08139820B2	Discretization facilities for vehicle event data recorders Exception event recorders and analysis systems include: vehicle mounted sensors arranged as a vehicle event recorder to capture both discrete and non-discrete data; a discretization facility; a database; and an analysis server all coupled together as a computer network. Motor vehicles with video cameras and onboard diagnostic systems capture data when the vehicle is involved in a crash or other anomaly (an ‘event’). In station where interpretation of non-discrete data is rendered, i.e. a discretization facility, captured data is used as a basis for production of supplemental discrete data to further characterize the event. Such interpreted data is joined to captured data and inserted into a database in a structure which is searchable and which supports logical or mathematical analysis by automated machines. A coupled analysis server is arranged to test stored data for prescribed conditions and upon finding such, to initiate further actions appropriate for the detected condition.
US08139810B2	Motorcycle speaker system A motorcycle having an open-air cockpit area and a seat configured to receive a rider and position the rider within the open-air cockpit area. A luggage container defines a substantially enclosed cargo volume, and the luggage container is configured to open to provide selective access to the cargo volume. A speaker is configured to output sound in response to signals from a source. A speaker enclosure at least partially encloses the speaker. A bass-reflex passage couples an interior space of the sparker enclosure and the cargo volume of the luggage container.
US08139803B2	Systems and methods for haptic sound Systems and methods for applying vibration to the human body. A vibration system includes a vibrator capable of converting an electrical signal into vibration. In one aspect, the vibrator is arranged on or about the human body on a pectoralis major muscle and spaced away from a sternum. In another aspect, the vibrator is arranged on or about the human body such that a first pattern of vibrations are generated on the body's surface. The first pattern of vibrations matches in relative amplitude a second pattern of vibrations generated on the body's surface when the body generates sound.
US08139798B2	Sound reproducing apparatus A sound reproducing apparatus is provided with a circuit comprising a first secondary phase shifter in a front stage of at least one of channels among a first power amplifier, a second power amplifier and a third power amplifier, and a second secondary phase shifter and an adder in at least one of remaining channels for providing an output by adding output signals of a music signal source and the second secondary phase shifter. The apparatus of this structure eliminates phase interferences between a center speaker and right and left speakers by controlling sound waves generated by the center speaker, thereby achieving excellent reproduction of music.
US08139797B2	Directional electroacoustical transducing A multichannel audio system for radiating sound to a listening area that includes a plurality of listening spaces. The audio system includes directional audio devices, positioned in a first of the listening spaces, close to a head of a listener, for radiating first sound waves corresponding to components of one of the channels and nondirectional audio devices, positioned inside the listening area and outside the listening space, distant from the listening space, for radiating sound waves corresponding to components of a second of the channels.
US08139790B2	Integrated circuit biasing a microphone The invention provides an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit receives a first signal from a microphone via a first node. In one embodiment, the integrated circuit comprises a biasing circuit and a buffering circuit. The biasing circuit is coupled between the first node and a second node, drives the microphone with a first voltage source, and filters the first signal to generate a second signal at the second node. In one embodiment, the biasing circuit comprises a first resistor, a first capacitor, and a load element. The first resistor is coupled between the first voltage source and the first node. The first capacitor is coupled between the first node and the second node. The load element is coupled between the second node and a second voltage source. The buffering circuit is coupled between the second node and a third node and buffers the second signal to generate a third signal at the third node.
US08139789B2	Signal amplifier circuit A plurality of main amplifiers amplifies input audio signals with an adjustable gain. A first selector selects any of the input audio signals. An auxiliary amplifier receives an output of the first selector and amplifies this output with an adjustable gain. A second selector receives n outputs from the main amplifiers and selects any of the outputs. A soft switching circuit receives an output of the second selector at a first input terminal, receives an output of the auxiliary amplifier at a second input terminal, and makes the output transition gradually from one of the input terminals to the other of the input terminals. Output switches are respectively provided for the main amplifiers, an output of a corresponding main amplifier is received at a first input terminal, an output of the soft switching circuit is received at a second input terminal, and one of the outputs is selected to be outputted.
US08139785B2	Sound reinforcement method and apparatus for musical instruments A method and apparatus for sound reinforcement for musical instruments. The method and apparatus re-direct sound waves via an open-sided chamber against a curved wall panel in such a way that the sound from a musical amplifier is reflected or altered in its course from a direction in which the microphone design has reduced sensitivity to a direction of maximum sensitivity and, typically, altering the direction of the sound from off-axis to on-axis into the microphone capsule.
US08139776B2	Wireless receiving apparatus and electronic appliance A wireless receiving apparatus that includes a connector including a plurality of terminals. A predetermined terminal is assigned as an identification terminal for identifying an electronic appliance connected to the connector, and a circuit for generating an identification signal of a level corresponding to a voltage level of the predetermined terminal when the electronic appliance is connected to the connector, and for identifying the electronic appliance connected to the connector based on the level of the identification signal.
US08139773B2	Method and an apparatus for decoding an audio signal An apparatus and method for receiving a downmix signal including at least one object signal, and a bitstream including object information and downmix channel level difference. When the downmix signal includes at least two object signals, a relation identifier indicating whether two object signals are related is extracted, and whether the two object signals correspond to stereo object signals is identified using the downmix channel level difference and the relation identifier generating mix information including a first element and a second element using a single user input, and generating at least one of downmix processing information and multi-channel information based on the object information and the mix information. Further, the first element is applied to the left object signal to output a first channel, the second element is applied to the right object signal to output a second channel, and the first element is conversely related to the second element.
US08139771B1	System and method for switching a mode of a receiver using block estimation A system and method for switching a mode of a receiver between a monophonic and stereophonic mode is disclosed. The method can include generating a residual signal indicative of a noise level associated with a pilot energy signal, calculating a residual block energy level of the residual signal over an observation interval, generating a monitor signal based on a number of times the pilot energy signal is less than a pilot energy threshold during the observation interval and switching the mode of the receiver based on the residual block energy level and the monitor signal.
US08139769B2	Processing multi-key content Multi-key content processing systems and methods, for processing content with at least one distribution target position. Each of the distribution target positions corresponds to an authorization key. An example method includes the steps of: encrypting said content with a content key; forming a key link based on said content key and the authorization key of said at least one distribution target position; and attaching said key link to the encrypted content.
US08139758B2	Voice caller ID An apparatus and method for audibly annunciating at a device information transmitted over a telephone network. The information is transmitted in the form of a modulated signal to the device wherein the modulated signal is representative of the information. The apparatus includes a receiver for capturing a ring signal and a modulated signal representative of information transmitted over a telephone network during an interval between the ring signal and a subsequent ring signal; a converter in communication with the receiver for converting the modulated signal into a stream of audible signals; and a speaker in communication with the converter for producing audible sounds corresponding to the stream of audible signals representative of the information received over the telephone network.
US08139746B2	Caller treatment in a SIP network In a SIP network, SIP servers are provisioned with information used to authenticate subscribers and entities that will be placing calls. This information can be used during call establishment to allow or deny calls, as well as to determine the appropriate party to bill if the call involves a charge, such as a long distance charge. In addition to allowing calls between authenticated and trusted entities, there is a need for the SIP server to allow certain kinds of calls that involve non-trusted users or entities. If non-trusted entities where not recognized, trusted users and entities within the SIP network would not be able to receive calls from users or entities not know to the SIP server that is providing them services.
US08139742B2	Apparatus and method for facilitating service management of communications services in a communications network A service order management system provisions service orders in a communications network having multiple network elements. The service order management system includes an order manager and an interface. The order manager, which receives requests representative of service orders for at least one communications service from dissimilar service order sources, includes an input process and an output process which determine, at least in part, service implementing information provided to the network elements to implement the at least one communications service. The interface is configured to interface the service order management system with the dissimilar service order sources.
US08139738B1	Telephone to computational device association The present invention allows for dynamic association of a computational device, such as a personal computer or personal digital assistant, with a telephone terminal. A computer-telephone adaptor or like function implemented in a telephony switch or other telephony device will receive authentication indicia. The authentication indicia may be provided by the computational device that is to be associated with the telephone terminal, or through other means. The authentication indicia may be provided by a user or generated by the computational device or by other means. To confirm the association, the user must enter confirmatory authentication indicia corresponding to the original authentication indicia through the telephone terminal.
US08139734B2	Call volume based IVR call duration and port adjustment A method, system and computer-readable medium are disclosed for adjusting port usage and call duration in an interactive voice response (IVR) system based on changes in call volume. In one embodiment, the method comprises monitoring usage of one or more ports within an IVR system. A determination is made whether the usage of the ports exceeds a predetermined threshold for port usage. In response to determining port usage exceeds the predetermined threshold, the method adjusts one or more call flows within the IVR system to reduce call duration within the IVR system.
US08139722B2	System and method for expedited resolution of inquiries for an automated agent An automated agent system and method includes an action classifier which scores a representation of a portion of a user inquiry based on a knowledge bank. A comparing device compares a running score of the representation to a threshold to determine if enough information has been collected to respond early to the inquiry. An action mechanism provides an early response to the user prior to the user completing the inquiry if the threshold has been exceeded.
US08139721B2	Telephonic repeat method A method, system and computer program product for assigning one or more conditions to a telephonic communication system to enable recording, replaying, and pausing of a telephone conversation. Recording of a telephone conversation may be manually or dynamically initiated during the telephone conversation. Dynamic replay of a telephone conversation is automatically initiated when a conversation experiences insufficient call quality, an interruption to the telephone service is detected, the user is distracted, a displacement of the user's phone is detected, or the user toggles between listening modes. A pause mode is automatically entered into during the telephone conversation when a section of the telephone conversation is replayed. An automated pause alert may be played during repeat of the telephone conversation to inform one or more parties that the user is temporarily unavailable. Real-time access to the telephone conversation is resumed when the replaying of the recorded telephone conversation has ended.
US08139716B2	Multi X-ray generator and multi X-ray imaging apparatus A compact apparatus can form multi-X-ray beams with good controllability. Electron beams (e) emitted from electron emission elements (15) of a multi-electron beam generating unit (12) receive the lens effect of a lens electrode (19). The resultant electron beams are accelerated to the final potential level by portions of a transmission-type target portion (13) of an anode electrode (20). The multi-X-ray beams (x) generated by the transmission-type target portion (13) pass through an X-ray shielding plate (23) and X-ray extraction portions (24) in a vacuum chamber and are extracted from the X-ray extraction windows (27) of a wall portion (25) into the atmosphere.
US08139713B2	Combined nuclear-radiographic subject imaging When performing a patient scan to collect patient data for reconstruction into one or more image volumes, a combination nuclear-radiographic subject imaging device (10) includes first and second detector heads (22a, 22b), which move on respective positionable tracks (14a, 14b). The positionable tracks move on stationary tracks (12) coupled to a rotatable gantry structure (16). Each detector head is rotatably coupled to its positionable track by a rotation arm (24). When a radiographic scan is performed, the first detector head (22a) is rotated so that a radiographic detector (26) mounted to the first detector head (22a) faces the patient, and an X-ray source (28) mounted to the second detector head (22b) also faces the patient, opposite the radiographic detector (26). When a nuclear imaging scan is performed, the detector heads (22a, 22b) are rotated to face the patient during the scan.
US08139712B2	Radiation imaging apparatus and method for breast A radiation imaging apparatus in which early recognition of breast cancer can be made possible by acquiring both a radiation tomographic image that accurately displays a tumor mass and a radiation planar image that accurately displays calcification. The apparatus includes an image processing unit for generating a tomographic image signal in a first imaging mode and generating a planar image signal in a second imaging mode, a computing unit for computing an imaging direction for obtaining a radiation planar image based on a location designated in a radiation tomographic image, and a control unit for controlling a rotational driving device and a radiation generating unit to obtain the radiation tomographic image in the first imaging mode, and controlling the rotational driving device according to the computed imaging direction and controlling the radiation generating unit to obtain the radiation planar image in the second imaging mode.
US08139705B2	Screened chamber for ion therapy In a shielded chamber for neutron therapy including a therapy room which has a central beam axis along which a high-energy therapy beam is introduced into the Chamber through one end wall thereof and which includes at the opposite end a labyrinth entrance with at least two shielding wall sections displaced longitudinally along the central beam axis and extending into the room from opposite side walls, the wall sections include structures for causing spallation to thereby generate from the high energy neutrons in the high energy neutron beam a plurality of low energy neutrons which are then moderated by the wall sections.
US08139697B2	Sampling method and data recovery circuit using the same A sampling method and a data recovery circuit using the same are provided. The sampling method includes following steps. First, a first strobe, a second strobe, a third strobe, and a fourth strobe are provided, wherein the second strobe lags the first strobe a first predetermined phase, the third and the fourth strobe respectively lag the first and the second strobe a second predetermined phase, and the second predetermined phase is half of the first predetermined phase. Then, a digital signal is respectively sampled with the first and the second strobe. Thereafter, the positions of data transition points of the digital signal are determined according to the sampling results of the first and the second strobe. Next, the third or the fourth strobe is selected as a preferable sampling strobe according to the determination result. Finally, the digital signal is sampled with the preferable sampling strobe.
US08139691B2	Apparatus and method for selecting correlation scheme based on carrier frequency error Provided is a correlation scheme selecting apparatus and method that can acquire initial synchronization efficiently by calculating frequency error criterion threshold between correlation schemes and selecting a correlation scheme for each region when a correlation value is calculated for initial sync in a communication system with carrier frequency errors. The method for selecting a correlation scheme based on a carrier frequency error includes: calculating mis-detection probability values based on a normalized frequency offset for each correlation scheme; determining as a frequency-error criterion threshold a crossing point of graphs of the calculated mis-detection probability values for each correlation scheme; and selecting a correlation scheme based on the determined frequency-error criterion threshold.
US08139687B2	Method to track a target frequency of an input signal A digital demodulator adapted in a receiver and a digital demodulation method are provided. The digital demodulator includes: a phase splitter, a complex multiplier, an AFC, a limiter, a phase detector, a re-tracker, a post-multiplier and an oscillator. The phase splitter generates a complex signal from the input signal. The complex multiplier multiplies the complex signal by both first and second phase signals to generate first and second base band signals. The AFC generates a first output signal. The limiter generates a trend signal and the re-tracker generates a tuning signal from the first output signal. The phase detector multiplies the trend and second base signal and adjusts the multiplied signal based on the tuning signal. The oscillator generates the first and second phase signals according to the output of the phase detector. The post-multiplier multiplies the trend signal by the first and second base band signals for output.
US08139683B2	Receiver and a method for channel estimation A receiver and a method for channel estimation, the method includes calculating at least one initial channel estimate; characterized by calculating an estimate of the channel based upon a mathematical relationship between a first group of pilot subcarriers and a second group of pilot subcarriers;whereas a difference between locations of pilot subcarriers of the first group and locations of corresponding pilot subcarriers of the second group is substantially constant; and at least one of the following conditions are fulfilled: (i) pilot subcarriers that belong to the same group of subcarriers are non-evenly spaced in a frequency domain, (ii) a pilot subcarrier of the first group and a corresponding pilot subcarrier of the second group are proximate to each other in the frequency domain.
US08139678B2	High data rate closed loop MIMO scheme combining transmit diversity and data multiplexing Closed loop multiple-antenna wireless communications system with antenna weights determined by maximizing a composite channel signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio minimum. Multiplexed symbol streams over subsets of antennas enhance throughout.
US08139677B2	Method for selecting constellation rotation angles for quasi-orthogonal space-time and space-frequency block coding In one embodiment, the present invention generates a single rotation angle that may be used to maximize diversity of a quasi-orthogonal space-time block code that encodes groups of four data symbols. Two rotation angles corresponding the first two data symbols in a group are set to zero, and two rotation angles corresponding to the second two data symbols in a group are set to a single initial value. A codeword distance matrix is determined for each possible combination of codewords and erroneously decoded codewords that may be generated using the initial rotation angle, and the minimum of the determinants of these matrices is selected. This process is repeated to generate a plurality of minimum determinants, and, for each iteration, a different single rotation angle corresponding to the second two data symbols is used. Then, a single rotation angle is selected that corresponds to the maximum of the minimum determinants.
US08139676B2	Wireless communication unit, linearised transmitter circuit and method of linearising therein A wireless communication unit includes a frequency generation circuit, and a linearised transmitter operably coupled to the frequency generation circuit and having a forward path for routing a signal to be transmitted; and a feedback path, operably coupled to a power amplifier and the forward path for feeding back a portion of the signal to be transmitted. The feedback path and forward path form two loops in quadrature. The frequency generation circuit includes independent phase shift elements arranged to independently phase shift the two loops in quadrature (‘I’ and ‘Q’).
US08139672B2	Method and apparatus for pilot communication in a multi-antenna wireless communication system Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate improved pilot information to MIMO user devices without increasing interference of SISO user devices in a wireless communication environment. A data communication signal can be generated and transmitted at a first power level, and a continuous pilot waveform comprising pilot information related to the data signal can be generated and sent at a second power level below the first transmission power level. Alternatively, a discontinuous pilot waveform can be generated so that it does not overlap with pilot segments in the first waveform, and can be transmitted at the first power level without interfering with the first waveform as received by a SISO user device. A MIMO user device can receive both waveforms, and can employ the pilot waveform to better estimate a MIMO channel for the first waveform.
US08139668B2	Unified STTC encoder for WAVE transceivers A transmitter encodes an input bitstream using space-time trellis coding (STTC). The encoder includes a serial to parallel convertor to produce a first and second output bitstreams. First and second three bit shift registers are connected to produce first and second output bitstreams. A multiplier applies a code generating weight to each bit of the shift registers to encode the bitstreams. A first switch is connected between a last bit of the first shift register and a first bit of the second shift register. A second switch is connected between the second output and the first bit of the second shift register. The first set of encoded bit streams and the second set of encoded bitstreams are combined and mapped to a frequency domain.
US08139652B2	Method and apparatus for decoding transmission signals in a wireless communication system Disclosed is a method and an apparatus for decoding transmission signal. The method includes the steps of: receiving transmission signal including repeated symbols; deinterleaving the received signal; mutually combining the repeated symbols in the deinterleaved signal; and decoding the combined symbols. According to the method, reception performance is improved as compared to a conventional decoding method, and system performance is improved by reducing the loss of frame information included in an FCH.
US08139648B2	Image processing apparatus and image processing method A basic pattern generating unit 81 generates a film grain basic pattern 86 in which the histogram of random noise is substantially the same as the film grain basic pattern information 53. The film grain basic pattern 86 is of (64×64) pixels and an area of (16×16) pixels is cut out and supplied to a multiplier 84. Strength information 88 is generated based on film grain strength information 54 produced on the encoding side and an average value 87 of a pixel value in the area of (16×16) pixels of decoded image information 42. The strength of basic pattern 86 is adjusted by this strength information 88. Film grain image 89 whose strength is adjusted is added to the area of (16×16) pixels of the decoded image information 42 by an adder 85 by the unit of pixel.
US08139647B2	Moving image decoding apparatus and moving image decoding method Moving image decoding apparatus and moving image decoding method wherein the picture quality degradation is small even when an error occurs in decoding or the like in an coding system that refers to more than one frames to perform a prediction coding. An error correcting part (6) comprises an image selecting part (61) and an error concealing part (62). The image selecting part (61) selects a frame to be used as the image for the concealment and notifies the error concealing part (62) of, as information of the selected frame, the frame number (frame_num) of the selected image or the number of a frame memory in which the selected image is stored. The error concealing part (62) uses additional information and the selected frame information which is given from the image selecting part (61) to conceal the macro block where the error has occurred.
US08139645B2	Apparatus for enhanced wireless transmission and reception of uncompressed video A transmitter transmits an essentially uncompressed HDTV video by direct mapping of transformation coefficients of Y—Cr—Cb video components to communication symbols. A main portion of the important transform coefficients is sent in a coarse representation using, for example, QPSK or QAM. The coefficients representing the higher frequency of each of Y—Cr—Cb, as well as the quantization error values of the DC and near DC components, are sent as pairs of real and imaginary portions of a complex number that comprise a symbol. In the transmitter, a history containing certain information of some of the coefficients is maintained for the immediately preceding frame, and if a match is found, instead of repeating sending of these coefficients, additional high-frequency coefficients are sent. In the receiver, a history buffer containing certain information of some of the coefficients is maintained, and upon detection of an error the content of the buffer is used instead.
US08139644B2	Motion vector derivation method, moving picture coding method and moving picture decoding method A motion vector derivation unit includes a comparison unit for comparing a parameter TR1 for a reference vector with a predetermined value to determine whether it exceeds the predetermined value or not; a switching unit for switching selection between the maximum value of a pre-stored parameter TR and the parameter TR1 according to the comparison result by the comparison unit; a multiplier parameter table (for multipliers); and a multiplier parameter table (for divisors) for associating the parameter TR1 with a value approximate to the inverse value (1/TR1) of this parameter TR1.
US08139643B2	Motion estimation apparatus and method for moving picture coding Provided is a motion estimation apparatus for moving picture coding. The apparatus includes a 1-pel buffer for storing 1-pel unit pixels using luminance signals of a reference frame which correspond to macroblocks of a current frame, a 1-pel estimator for calculating 1-pel unit motion vectors and minimum costs in correspondence to the macroblocks of the current frame and the pixels stored in the 1-pel buffer, a ½-pel interpolator for performing ½-pel unit interpolation using the pixels stored in the 1-pel buffer, a ½-pel buffer for storing the ½-pel unit interpolated pixels, a ½-pel estimator for calculating ½-pel unit motion vectors and minimum costs in correspondence to the pixels stored in the ½-pel buffer, the values calculated by the 1-pel estimator, and the macroblocks of the current frame, a ¼-pel interpolator for performing ¼-pel unit interpolation using the pixels stored in the ½-pel and 1-pel buffers, a ¼-pel buffer for storing the ¼-pel unit interpolated pixels, and a ¼-pel estimator for calculating ¼-pel unit motion vectors and minimum costs in correspondence to the pixels stored in the ¼-pel buffer, the values calculated by the ½-pel estimator, and the macroblocks of the current frame.
US08139636B2	Method and apparatus for coding image information, method and apparatus for decoding image information, method and apparatus for coding and decoding image information, and system of coding and transmitting image information An image information decoding method for decoding compressed image information in an image decoding apparatus, which has been coded via a process including dividing an input image signal into blocks, performing an orthogonal transform on the blocks on a block-by-block basis, and quantizing resultant orthogonal transform coefficients. The decoding process includes performing, in a dequantization unit in the image decoding apparatus, dequantization such that a quantization parameter is weighted by an addition operation that adds the weight by addition, and the dequantization is performed on each chroma and luma component of the quantized coefficients using quantization step sizes, said luma component being weighted by the quantization parameter; and performing, in a transform unit in the image decoding apparatus, an inverse orthogonal transform.
US08139632B2	Video decoder with adaptive outputs In one aspect, there is provided a video decoder including a first write port to write uncompressed video data to a first buffer in a first format adapted based on an input required by the video decoder and to suppress writing to the first buffer. The video decoder also includes a second write port to write uncompressed video data to a second buffer in a second format adapted to provide the uncompressed video data for subsequent processing external to the video decoder.
US08139628B1	Method and device to compensate for baseline wander A method and device for compensating for undesirable signal characteristics such as baseline wander that includes a linear equalization filter responsive to receive an input, a combiner responsive to an output of the linear equalization filter, and a decision feedback equalization filter responsive to an output of the combiner, where the combiner is further responsive to an output of the decision feedback equalizer. Additionally, an error feedback circuit is responsive to the output of the combiner, and the combiner is further responsive to an output of the error feedback circuit to form a compensated signal having reduced distortion relative to the distorted signal.
US08139627B2	DC offset estimation in received signals A scheme for deducing a DC offset in a received signal burst acquired through a particular channel, wherein the received signal burst corresponds to a transmitted signal burst. An impulse response estimate of the channel is used to model how a known or recovered part of the transmitted burst would have been affected by passage through said channel in place of the corresponding part of the transmitted signal burst. The modelled part of the transmitted burst is then compared with the corresponding part of the received signal burst to deduce a DC offset present in the received signal burst.
US08139626B2	Communication apparatus, communication method, circuit module and integrated circuit In communication method for communicating via a transmission channel to which first communication apparatuses communicating based on a first communication system, second communication apparatuses communicating based on a second communication system, and third communication apparatuses communicating based on a third communication system are connected, a data transmission domain and a notification domain for notifying a data transmission within the data transmission domain are allocated to the first communication apparatuses, the second communication apparatuses, and the third communication apparatuses, respectively. In the communication method, notices of the data transmission for each of the first communication apparatuses, the second communication apparatuses and the third communication apparatuses are transmitted within the notification domain, and the data transmission domain is reallocated in accordance with the notices transmitted from the first, second and third communication apparatuses.
US08139624B1	System and method for providing multiple ad hoc communication networks on a hardware channel A node for communicating with multiple ad hoc communication networks includes a first antenna configured to communicate in a first frequency band associated with a first ad hoc communication network and a second antenna configured to communicate in a second frequency band associated with a second ad hoc communication network. A transceiver is coupled to the first antenna and the second antenna. The transceiver is configured to transmit and receive messages. A control circuit is coupled to the transceiver and is configured to implement an access protocol having a time slot section. The access protocol is configured to switch communications in the time slot section between the first frequency band and the second frequency band.
US08139618B2	Light emission device, light emission device driving method, and projector A light emission device includes: first and second clad layers sandwiching an active layer; a first electrode connected with the first clad layer; and second electrodes connected with the second clad layer, at least part of the active layer forms gain areas corresponding to the second electrodes, the gain areas extend from a first side to a second side of the active layer while inclined to a vertical of the first side, at least first and second gain areas form a set of gain areas and a plurality of sets are provided, the first and second gain areas in each set are disposed perpendicular to a direction extending from the first side to the second side, the second electrodes above the first gain areas are interconnected by a first common electrode, and the second electrodes above the second gain areas are interconnected by a second common electrode.
US08139615B2	Data processing apparatus A data processing apparatus includes a channel demultiplexing circuit, a bus, a memory controller and a memory. The channel demultiplexing circuit has a first delay circuit which delays first channel data only of multi-channel data by one cycle and outputs first delayed channel data, a second delay circuit which delays second channel data only of the multi-channel data by one cycle and outputs second delayed channel data, and a channel data holding circuit which stores first coupled data obtained by coupling the first channel data and the first delayed channel data for multiple cycles and stores second coupled data obtained by coupling the second channel data and an output of the second delay circuit for multiple cycles. The channel demultiplexing circuit selectively outputs a first channel data group and a second channel data group to the bus.
US08139603B2	Architecture for multiple MIH users Currently, the I.E.E.E. 802.21 specification allows multiple MIH (Media-Independent Handover) Users in a single MIH Function. However, the specification is not clear about how multiple MIH Users are supported by a single MIHF (MIH Function) under a constraint in which if there is only one MIH User is allowed to change the state of a particular link during a particular period of time. This document proposes a detailed architecture which allows for the co-existence of multiple MIH Users by introducing a link ownership scheme in the MIHF (MIH Function). The proposed link ownership scheme also supports the scenario in which the state of a link of a mobile node is changed by a network node by modifying the MIH_Register primitives in the I.E.E.E. 802.21 specification to signal the set of allocated links to a remote MIH User on the network node. The modification of MIH_Register primitive also has the added benefit of allowing the network node to subscribe to events on a specific set of links present in the mobile node as opposed to not knowing any of the links at all.
US08139599B2	System and method for operating a communications system A method (500, 600) is provided of operating a local transceiver (300), comprising: setting the local transceiver into an operational mode; operating the local transceiver in a polling mode (520); receiving a quiescent begin indicator identifying a beginning of a quiescent mode (520); setting a portion of the local transceiver into a low power consumption mode in response to the quiescent begin indicator (540); measuring an elapsed time since receiving the quiescent begin indicator as a quiescent time (530, 550); and returning the portion of the local transceiver to the operational mode based on a quiescent end indicator 550, 580, 690).
US08139594B2	Apparatus and method to coordinate calendar searches in a network scheduler given limited resources A system that indicates which frame should next be removed by a scheduler from flow queues within a network device, such as a router, network processor, and like devices is disclosed. The system includes a search engine that searches a set of calendars under the control of a Finite State Machine (FSM), a current pointer, and input signals from an array and a clock line providing current time. Also included is a decision block that determines which of the searches are critical and which, during peak calendar search periods, can be postponed with minimal impact to the system. The postponed searches are then conducted at a time when there is available calendar search capacity.
US08139590B2	Optimized power usage for data networks A solution for optimized power usage for a data network includes, at a network device coupled to a network, examining traffic usage information of the network and power usage information of a plurality of routers in the network, and calculating a path from a first router of the network to a second router of the network based at least in part on the traffic usage information and the power usage information. The calculated path has relatively low aggregate power usage for routers comprising the path. The solution also includes storing an indication of whether one or more of the plurality of network routers may be placed in a power conservation mode based at least in part on the calculating.
US08139583B1	Command selection in a packet forwarding device Packet modification is performed in the switch fabric by selecting a conditional command belonging to a set of commands for modifying a packet. The set of commands is identified based on an index value, and selecting a conditional command belonging to the set of commands is based on a mask value, where the index and mask values are determined based on data in the packet undergoing modification, such as the packet's source and destination, or incoming label. Among other advantages, controlling packet modification in the switch fabric through selecting a conditional command belonging to a set of commands allows multiple sets of commands to be replaced with a single set of commands, resulting in a more efficient use of available external memory.
US08139582B2	Method and apparatus for making transport frame and method and apparatus for processing transport frame Provided are a method and apparatus for creating a transport frame in order to identify the starts of packets, and a method and apparatus for processing the transport frame. In the method of creating the transport frame, at least one packet to be transported by being loaded in the transport frame is received. Then, information about the start location of a first packet, that is, a packet whose head and tail are both in the transport frame and which comes first within the transport frame, among the received at least one packet is created. Next, the transport frame, including the at least one packet and the start location information about the first packet, is created.
US08139567B2	Transceiving apparatus and data processing system for communication base stations A base station apparatus adaptive for antenna arrays including at least one radio frequency (RF) header module, at least one data processing apparatus, and transceiving apparatus for transceiving data between the at least one radio frequency (RF) header module and the at least one data processing apparatus. The transceiving apparatus includes an uplink module to group data received by the RF header module according to grouping configuration information, and to transfer the grouped data to the data processing apparatus; and a downlink module to degroup the data from the data processing apparatus according to the grouping configuration information, and to transfer the degrouped data to the RF header module. Also provided are methods of receiving and sending data, and a computer readable article of manufacture tangibly embodying computer readable instructions for executing a computer implemented method of sending and receiving data for a base station.
US08139561B2	Method for wireless internet communication in mobile communication terminal A method for a wireless Internet communication in a mobile communication terminal is provided. In an operation of starting a wireless Internet function, it is determined if a data call is being serviced and, if a data call is not serviced, the wireless Internet function is started by setting the wireless Internet function as a data call. In an operation of originating or terminating a voice call, it is determined if a wireless Internet function is being performed and, if the wireless Internet function is being performed, the wireless Internet function and a voice call service are substantially simultaneously started. Accordingly, in the wireless Internet communication method of the mobile communication terminal, a W-LAN function is set in the same manner as that in which a CDMA data call is set through modification of the SVD scheme, so that a W-LAN data protocol such as the DHCP (which can be used when the W-LAN function is set) and a voice call service can be provided at the same time. Herein, when software that does not support data concurrency is employed, it is possible to prevent the origination of a CDMA data call capable of causing an erroneous operation during the W-LAN operation.
US08139556B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving downlink synchronization channel in a cellular communication system A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving an SCH in a cellular wireless communication system, in which a number of available PSCs among PSCs defined for P-SCH in the system is checked, a default PSC to be used with priority in UEs of the system for cell search is selected and a P-SCH signal is transmitted with the default PSC in each of underlying cells when the number of available PSCs is 1, and PSCs are selected for the cells from among the available PSCs so adjacent cells have different PSCs and P-SCH signals are transmitted using the selected PSCs in the cells when the number of available PSCs is 2 or larger.
US08139555B2	Bi-directional packet data transmission system and method A bi-directional packet data transmission system for a packet data transmission between a terminal and a radio access network includes an uplink resource and a downlink resource which are independently set. Memory resources can be effectively managed even in a packet data transmission service with the asymmetrical structure such that the packet amount for the downlink is much greater than the packet amount for the uplink, or the packet amount for the uplink is much greater than the packet amount for the downlink.
US08139544B1	Pilot tone processing systems and methods Embodiments of pilot tone processing systems and methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, among others, a pilot tone processing system comprises pilot tone logic configured to receive first pilot tone data corresponding to a first transmit antenna and second pilot tone data corresponding to a second transmit antenna and separate the first pilot tone data from the second pilot tone data.
US08139538B1	Methods and apparatus for achieving route optimization between mobile networks and a correspondent node using a mobile router as a proxy node Methods and apparatus for establishing an optimized route between a node and a Correspondent Node are disclosed. In a Mobile Router supporting Mobile IP, the Mobile Router having one or more networks associated therewith, a method of establishing a route between one or more nodes associated with one of the networks of the Mobile Router and a Correspondent Node includes composing a HOTI message on behalf of at least one of the nodes, which is sent from the Mobile Router to a Correspondent Node via a Home Agent supporting the Mobile Router. The Mobile Router sends a COTI message to the Correspondent Node on behalf of the node. The Mobile Router receives a HOT message from the Correspondent Node. It then receives a COT message from the Correspondent Node, thereby enabling a binding between the node(s) and the Correspondent Node to be generated such that data packets transmitted between the node(s) and the Correspondent Node can be routed between the node(s) and the Correspondent Node without being routed via the Home Agent.
US08139533B2	Division of the scheduling algorithm into background and foreground algorithms Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate dividing scheduling algorithms into background and foreground aspects capable of simultaneously servicing a multiplicity of disparate flows in wideband communications networks. The systems provided herein arbitrarily select prospective time horizons, generate optimal bandwidth allocation targets based on a plurality of flows observed by the system, and utilizes the optimal bandwidth targets to assign flows to users over the entirety of the prospective time horizon.
US08139532B2	Error control method, medium access control (MAC) frame designing method, and terminal registration method in wireless communication system, and recording medium The MAC frame in a wireless communication system includes a terminal ID allocated to each of multiple terminals. At least one connection ID is allocated to each terminal having the terminal ID, and sub-carrier allocation information is allocated to each connection having the connection ID. The sub-carrier allocation information includes a sub-carrier allocation status for each sub-carrier, and the number of allocated information bits for each sub-carrier. The sub-carrier allocation status and the number of allocated information bits for each sub-carrier can be allocated, by sub-carriers, to the sub-carrier allocation information using a same number of bits; or the information on the sub-carrier allocation status is first allocated to the sub-carrier allocation information and the number of allocated information bits for each sub-carrier is allocated.
US08139518B2	System for measuring a rise-over-thermal characteristic in a communication network A system for measuring a rise-over-thermal (RoT) characteristic in a communication network includes controlling a transmitting station to maintain its transmit power at a substantially constant level for a first time interval, and measuring a first received power level. The transmitting station is then controlled to adjust its transmit power by a selectable amount for a second time interval, and a second received power level is measured. The first and second received power levels are then processed to determine the RoT characteristic.
US08139516B2	Wireless communication terminal, wireless communication system, communication management method and computer program A wireless communication terminal, which forms a wireless network with a plurality of other wireless communication terminals, includes a detection portion to detect a first communication management signal periodically transmitted via broadcast from another wireless communication terminal prior to communication of a data signal, a communication control portion to determine whether to transmit a second communication management signal to the wireless communication terminal to transmit the first communication management signal based on a detection status of the first communication management signal, and a wireless communication portion serving as a transmission portion to transmit the second communication management signal via unicast to the wireless communication terminal as a transmission source of the first communication management signal and as a reception portion to receive an acknowledge signal transmitted via unicast in response to the second communication management signal.
US08139515B2	Device and method of managing data communications of a device in a network via a split tunnel mode connection A device and a method for managing data communications of a device in a network are provided. The method includes establishing a secure communication connection for the device with a service provider via a tunnel mode connection. A determination is then made whether the device is part of a trusted domain including one or more other devices. If the device is part of a trusted domain including one or more other devices, then a direct communication connection is established, which bypasses the tunnel mode connection for only the devices that are part of the same trusted domain. Communications with any devices which are not part of the same trusted domain are routed via the tunnel mode connection.
US08139514B2	Method and system for communicating with multiple users via a map over the internet A method, device, and system for communicating with multiple users via a map over the Internet are disclosed. The device includes a processor for executing computer programs, a memory for storing data, an input module for entering user commands, a communication module for transmitting and receiving data, and a display for showing information on a screen. The device further includes logic for selecting a group of users, logic for creating a map to share among the group of users, logic for displaying locations of the group of users on the map, and logic for broadcasting changes of a user's location to the group over the Internet.
US08139511B2	Method and system for transmitting an address into an electronic form for a participant of a communication link A method and a system for transferring a PIM-address in an electronic formula of a PIM-application, based on a communication connection between end devices of subscribers in a communication system are provided. A communication system address, which identifies the second end device, detects user input of a first subscriber. The detected communication system-address is converted into a PIM address which identifies a second subscriber, the PIM-address to the PIM-application and the transferred PIM-address is input into a field of the electronic formula of the PIM-application.
US08139507B2	Network graph for alternate routes Routes between cells in an interconnection network are represented with a graph using graph theory. Failed links are identified, and using the graph, alternative routes between cells in the graph are found.
US08139501B2	Relay device, wireless communication system and multicast relay method A relay device for multicast communications. The relay device transmitting a user data packet, containing a content, in which to set a multicast address associated with the content, to a plurality of base stations belonging to a same zone in order to wirelessly transmit the content substantially simultaneously from the plurality of base stations, comprises a storing unit storing information indicative of a multicast group in which the mobile terminal participates together with information about the zone to which the base station performing wireless communications with the mobile terminal belongs, and generates a query packet for checking if the mobile terminal continues to participate in the multicast group stored therein, and transmits the user data packet containing the query packet to each of the base stations belonging to the same zone.
US08139500B2	Information processing device and method thereof, and computer program product An information processing device is configured to be connected via a network to a plurality of external devices and output data through one of the external devices. The information processing device includes a characteristic information acquiring unit, a device searching unit, and a port generating unit. The characteristic information acquiring unit acquires characteristic information related to data to be output. The device searching unit searches for an external device through which the data is to be output based on the characteristic information. The port generating unit generates an output port to the external device. The data is transmitted to the external device through the output port.
US08139497B2	Method and system using ARP cache data to enhance accuracy of asset inventories A technique for improving accuracy in an inventory containing assets associated with a network. Information pertaining to computer devices connected to a specified network is updated. Each device sends packets through at least one router in a set of routers, and each packet contains an element uniquely identifying its sending computer device. An inventory is maintained that identifies at least some of the computer devices as assets of an entity associated with the network. Data is acquired from ARP caches that are located within the routers. The acquired cache data is processed to detect all of the identifying elements that identify computer devices of the group. A database is constructed from information in the cache data that pertains to detected identifying elements. Information contained in the database is compared with information contained in the inventory to update the inventory.
US08139493B2	On-vehicle gateway device, method for controlling an on-vehicle gateway device, connection device and connection control method An on-vehicle gateway device connected to an information system network and a control system network of a vehicle executes monitoring the status of an information system via an information system access circuit taking charge of message transmission and reception to and from the information system network, and an information system management step to manage information acquired by the information system monitoring, monitoring the status of a control system via a control system access circuit taking charge of message transmission and reception to and from the control system network, and a control system management step to manage information acquired by the control system monitoring, managing policies for access control by the access control circuit controlling data flows between the information system access circuit and the control system access circuit, and determining whether or not to update the policies managed by policy management and to update the policies.
US08139484B2	Unsolicited grant service class of IEEE 802.16/WiBro system Provided is a traffic class of an IEEE 802.16/WiBro system. The unsolicited grant service (UGS) scheduling method with regard to a subscriber station (SS) and a base station (BS) that are disposed in a network wherein an IEEE 802.16/WiBro system is realized, the method includes: when the SS requires 1 through M (where M is a positive integer) UGS flows, and the BS serves 1 through N (where N is a positive integer) frames, the BS storing grant periods and guaranteed sizes that are granted to the M UGS flows in each N frame; and the BS comparing service capacity of a frame and a sum of guaranteed sizes of each flow belonging to the N frames, and determining if an overload occurs.
US08139482B1	Method to implement an L4-L7 switch using split connections and an offloading NIC A method of operating intelligent network interface circuitry includes the network interface circuitry coupling a core processor to a network to facilitate communication over the network between the core processor and at least a first peer and a second peer. A first connection connects to the first peer and a second connection connects to the second peer. The network interface circuitry receives data packets from the first peer via the network on the first connection, according to a first particular protocol. The network interface circuitry processes the received data, including associating, with the second connection, data that is at least a portion of the data packets received on the first connection, such that the data received by the intelligent network interface circuitry on the first connection is switched to be outgoing from the intelligent network interface circuitry on the second connection, according to a second particular protocol.
US08139478B1	Recovery method for an optical network A system and method of routing communication signals is provided. A first technique uses a packet switched device that operates using Internet Protocol, the packet switched device determines one or more commands based on a routing request to establish, maintain, restore or breakdown one or more communication paths and a circuit switched device that provides physical switching between a plurality of ports based on the one or more commands from the packet switched device. A second technique for expediting error condition information is also provided. As various error conditions are recognized, information relating to the error conditions is provided directly to the packet switched device to enable the packet switched device to restore communications with minimal delay.
US08139470B2	Optical information recording medium, and substrate and manufacturing method for the optical information recording medium In an optical disk including at least a rewritable phase change material and comprising a recording layer having a reflectivity of more than 15%, an address output value as an address pit signal component occupying in a reproduced signal in a non recording state is prescribed to be 0.18 though 0.27 or a numerical aperture of an address pit signal occupying in a reproduced signal in a non recording state is prescribed to be more than 0.3.
US08139468B2	Optical recording medium and recording and reproducing method using the same It is an object of the present invention to provide an optical recording medium containing a laminated structure of a first deformable material layer containing a phase-change material that absorbs light at a recording wavelength to generate heat and is subject to exothermic melting and deformation and a second deformable material layer containing a material which contains a silicon oxide (SiOx; 0
US08139462B1	System and method for precise recording A method for calculation of recording depth in a holographic disk is disclosed. The method includes applying a first external voltage to one or more actuators coupled to an objective lens to focus a tracking beam of radiation having a first wavelength on a reference layer of the disk, wherein the reference layer comprises at least one of a partially dichroic coating or a partially metallized coating. The method also includes applying a second external voltage to the one or more actuators coupled to the objective lens to focus a recording beam of radiation on the reference layer of the disk, wherein the recording beam comprises a second wavelength different from the first wavelength of the tracking beam. The method further includes computing a difference between the first external voltage and the second external voltage. The method also includes calculating a lens-shift distance based upon the difference using a voltage-distance calibration curve, wherein the lens-shift distance refers to a shift in distance of the objective lens in order to focus the tracking beam of radiation and the recording beam of radiation on the reference layer respectively. The method also calculates the recording depth based upon the lens-shift distance.
US08139460B2	High-speed multi-layer optical disc recording An apparatus includes a recorder having at least two optical pickup heads for simultaneously recording at least two bit streams on respective layers of recordable media in one of an opposite track path and a parallel track path.
US08139459B2	Optical recording medium, information recording method, and information reproducing method According to one embodiment, an optical recording medium is provided in which interlayer crosstalk is low and in which stable and high-quality recording characteristics can be obtained. To this end, an optical recording medium comprises a first recording part which includes a first recording layer and a first light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side closer to a light receiving surface, and a second recording part which includes a second recording layer and a second light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side farther from the light receiving surface, the first recording part and the second recording part being stacked, wherein the thickness of the second light reflecting layer is larger than the thickness of the first light reflecting layer.
US08139454B2	Recording and reproducing apparatus and method A Spare Area kept unused on a disk is available for use other than spare processing, or Defect Management process, and compatibility of the disk is at least secured between different recording apparatuses. This is implemented by recording a SWP_PAC cluster defined as a new item and by recording address information of used addresses in a PAC or TDDS area.
US08139451B2	Information recording apparatus and information recording method An information recording apparatus for recording additional content on a medium on which a title including one or more files is already recorded, includes means for designating a title to be added on the medium; means for transmitting disc package information, the disc package information and unique IDs; means for receiving and additionally recording on the medium the title to be added generated in the content server, file names of files so as not to be the same as the file names of the files constituting the titles already recorded on the medium; means for receiving and additionally recording a new title for display of a menu screen on the medium, which is generated in the content server, so that the title to be added can be selected, on the basis of the disc package information; and means for receiving and additionally recording new disc package information on the medium.
US08139441B2	Method for bispectral picking of anelliptical NMO correction parameters Method of determining the velocity V and anellipticity η parameters for processing seismic traces in a common midpoint (CMP) gather comprising:—a preliminary step to define a plurality of nodes (dtn, τo), for each node (dtn, τo) defined in the preliminary step, the following steps:—for static NMO correction of traces in the CMP gather as a function of the values of the said parameters dtn and τo at the node considered, and calculation of the semblance function associated with the said NMO correction for the node considered; and—for each picked time to, a step including determination of the maximum semblance node (dtn (to), τo (to)),—and a final step to convert the dtn (to) and τo (to) parameters, so as to obtain the velocity to) and anellepticity η (to) laws.
US08139436B2	Integrated circuits, systems, and methods for reducing leakage currents in a retention mode An integrated circuit includes at least one memory array for storing data. A first switch is coupled with the memory array. A first power line is coupled with the first switch. The first power line is operable to supply a first power voltage. A second switch is coupled with the memory array. A second power line is coupled with the second switch. The second power line is operable to supply a second power voltage for retaining the data during a retention mode. A third power line is coupled with the memory array. The third power line is capable of providing a third power voltage.
US08139432B2	Variable resistance memory device and system thereof A nonvolatile memory device comprising: a plurality of memory banks, each of which operates independently and includes a plurality of resistance memory cells, each cell including a variable resistive element having a resistance varying depending on stored data; a plurality of global bit lines, each global bit line being shared by the plurality of memory banks; a temperature compensation circuit including one or more reference cells; and a data read circuit which is electrically connected to the plurality of global bit lines and performs a read operation by supplying at least one of the resistance memory cells with a current varying according to resistances of the reference cells.
US08139429B2	Output enable signal generating circuit and method of semiconductor memory apparatus An output enable signal generating circuit for a semiconductor memory apparatus includes an output control unit configured to receive CAS latency information and to generate an output control signal having enable timing according to a DLL on/off mode, and an output enable signal output unit configured to receive the output control signal and to output an output enable signal in response to a read command and a DLL clock signal.
US08139426B2	Dual power scheme in memory circuit A semiconductor memory device includes address signal level shifters configured to transform a low level address signal into a higher level address signal. A decoder is configured to receive the higher level address signal and, in response, provide word line signals. Write drivers receive low level data input signals and configure bitlines in response to the received input. Memory cells are responsive to the word line signals and to the configured bit lines for storing data therein.
US08139424B2	Semiconductor apparatus A semiconductor apparatus includes a first internal voltage generator generating a first internal voltage in response to an external power supply voltage, a second internal voltage generator generating a second internal voltage in response to the external power supply voltage, the second internal voltage is larger in absolute value than the first internal voltage, and a preset signal generating circuit responding to a power-on of the external power supply voltage to the semiconductor apparatus and generating first and second preset signals which bring the first and second internal voltage generators into respective initial states, generation of the second preset signal is stopped after stopping generation of the first preset signal, in which the first internal voltage generator is released from its initial state in response to the stopping the generation of the first preset signal to be allowed to generate the first internal voltage, the second internal voltage generator is released from its initial state in response to the stopping the generation of the second preset signal to be allowed to generate the first internal voltage, and the second internal voltage is generated after generation of the first internal voltage.
US08139420B2	Nonvolatile semiconductor memory device A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device capable of reading and verifying a negative threshold cell by biasing a source line and a well line to a positive voltage. The nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes a precharge circuit which precharges a bit line to the same voltage as that of the source line in reading and verifying the negative threshold cell.
US08139417B2	Flash memory device and read method A flash memory device includes a word line decoder configured to receive a row address, and decode a selected word line and a neighboring non-selected word line corresponding to the row address during a read operation, and a word line driver configured to receive data identifying the selected word line and the neighboring non-selected word line from the word line decoder, and applying a read voltage to the selected word line, a first voltage to non-selected word lines other than the neighboring non-selected word line, and a second voltage to the neighboring non-selected word line.
US08139412B2	Systematic error correction for multi-level flash memory In accordance with exemplary embodiments, a multi-level flash memory employs error correction of systematic errors when reading multi-level flash memory. Error correction includes i) detection of each systematic error, ii) feedback of the systematic error to circuitry within the memory, and iii) subsequent adjustment within that circuitry to cause a correction of systematic error in the output signal of the multi-level flash memory.
US08139402B2	Magnetic memory device A magnetic memory device is provided in which, even when a recording layer having an asymmetric shape and a local via are formed over a strap wiring with a sufficient distance allowed therebetween, increase in the size of the magnetic memory device can be suppressed. The magnetic memory device includes the strap wiring, the local via, and a magnetic recording element (TMR element). The TMR element includes a fixed layer and the recording layer. The planar shape of the recording layer is asymmetric with respect to the direction of the easy magnetization axis of the recording layer and is symmetric with respect to the axis of symmetry perpendicular to the easy magnetization axis. The contoured portion of the recording layer on the side closer to the center of area of the recording layer is opposed to the local via formation side.
US08139396B2	Resistance change memory and control method thereof According to one embodiment, a resistance change memory includes a memory cell array in which a plurality of blocks are provided, resistance change storage elements which are provided in blocks and which store data in accordance with a change in resistance state, first and second wirings in the blocks, each of the first and second wirings being connected to each of resistance change storage elements, and a control circuit which controls the state of a selected block targeted for operation and the state of unselected blocks except the selected block among the blocks. The control circuit respectively applies first and second unselect potentials to the first and second wirings in at least one of the unselected blocks during a period in which the selected block is in operation.
US08139390B2	Mixed data rates in memory devices and systems Mixed data rates in a memory system is disclosed. The system includes at least one semiconductor memory device and another device defining a ring topology. The semiconductor memory device includes input circuitry for receiving a clock signal having a frequency at least substantially equal to a frequency x. A first set of circuit elements are each clocked by a same or respective first internal signal having a frequency at least substantially equal to the frequency x. A second set of circuit elements are each clocked by a same or a respective second internal signal having a frequency at least substantially double that of the frequency x.
US08139388B2	Nonvolatile semiconductor storage device This invention has the purpose of providing a nonvolatile semiconductor storage device which is capable of entering multivalued storage in a FeFET unit without requiring preparation of a plurality of voltage sources.The nonvolatile semiconductor storage device is provided with multivalued ferroelectric memory cells which impart varied quantities of polarization to a ferroelectric material by applying pulse voltages having one and the same height and varied widths and consequently produce varied states of storage in conformity with the varied quantities of polarization.
US08139384B2	Method and apparatus for input charge control of a power supply An example controller includes a constant current control circuit and an integrator included in the constant current control circuit. The constant current control circuit is to be coupled to receive an input current sense signal, an input voltage sense signal, and an output voltage sense signal. The control circuit is adapted to regulate an output current of a power supply by generating a control signal to control switching of a switch. The integrator is coupled to integrate the input current sense signal during a switching period of the control signal to generate an integrated signal representative of a charge taken from an input voltage source of the power supply. The constant current control circuit is adapted to control the switching of the switch such that the integrated signal is proportional to a ratio of the output voltage sense signal to the input voltage sense signal.
US08139382B2	System and method for integrating local maximum power point tracking into an energy generating system having centralized maximum power point tracking A system for integrating local maximum power point tracking (MPPT) into an energy generating system having centralized MPPT is provided. The system includes a system control loop and a plurality of local control loops. The system control loop comprises a system operating frequency, and each local control loop comprises a corresponding local operating frequency. Each of the local operating frequencies is spaced apart from the system operating frequency by at least a predefined distance. For a particular embodiment, a settling time corresponding to the local operating frequency of each local control loop is at least five times faster than a time constant corresponding to the system operating frequency.
US08139380B2	Flyback system power source apparatus for controlling a synchronously rectifying element A flyback system power source apparatus, which applies a voltage intermittently to a primary winding of a transformer to perform voltage outputting onto a secondary winding side of the transformer, comprises: the transformer; a synchronously rectifying element for rectifying a current in a secondary winding of the transformer; and a synchronous rectification control circuit for detecting a voltage vibration caused in a terminal voltage of the secondary winding to perform operation control of the synchronously rectifying element on the basis of the detection.
US08139375B2	Electronic apparatus According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a housing, a printed wiring board accommodated in the housing, and a circuit component electrically connected to the printed wiring board, the circuit component including an outer peripheral surface. The printed wiring board includes an outer peripheral edge, at least a pair of edge portions extending in mutually crossing directions, the pair of edge portions being opposed to the outer peripheral surface of the circuit component and being located inside the outer peripheral edge, and a projection portion located between the pair of edge portions and projecting toward the circuit component.
US08139372B2	Printed circuit board, method for manufacturing printed circuit board and electronic apparatus A printed circuit board is disclosed. The printed circuit board includes an insulation layer and a conductor layer having a GND pattern. The printed circuit board has a center portion, to which an element is to be mounted. The printed circuit board has a periphery portion and a slit pattern separating the periphery portion from the center portion. The GND pattern extends through the center portion and the periphery portion.
US08139371B2	Power electronics devices with integrated control circuitry A power switch apparatus includes a substrate; a semiconductor die mounted on the substrate and including power electronics circuitry for a high power, alternating current motor application; gate drive circuitry mounted on the substrate and electrically coupled to the power electronics circuitry on the semiconductor die; and control circuitry mounted on the substrate and electrically coupled to the gate drive circuitry.
US08139370B2	Electronic system having field effect transistors and interconnect bumps on a semiconductor substrate A method and system for a FET cell is presented. The FET cell includes multiple individual transistors and interconnect bumps that are configured to flip-chip connect to a substrate. The substrate may have the majority of a matching structure for the FET cell. Furthermore, the FET cell may include a stability circuit in communication with the terminals of the individual transistors and further in communication with the interconnect bumps. Additionally, different materials can be used in combination in the FET cell and the separate substrate having the majority of the matching structure. Various materials may be more efficiency used in a FET cell, while other materials are suitable for the separate substrate.
US08139368B2	Component-containing module A component-containing module includes a core substrate which includes a lower surface including recessed portions and a raised portion, and an upper surface facing the lower surface and which includes a plurality of in-plane conductors, an integrated circuit element arranged at a location which is above the upper surface and which corresponds to the raised portion, a first passive element and a second passive element disposed in the recessed portions of the lower surface, a composite resin layer which underlies the lower surface and which has a flat or substantially flat surface, and an external terminal electrode which is disposed on the flat or substantially flat surface of the composite resin layer and which is electrically connected to the in-plane conductors of the core substrate. The component-containing module enables electronic components, such as integrated circuit elements and passive elements, to be densely arranged and to be reduced in profile and size.
US08139364B2	Electronic control module assembly An electronic control module includes a body portion, a printed circuit board positioned within the body portion, and a cap portion adapted to mate with the body portion. One of the body portion and the cap portion is formed with a groove and the other of the body portion and the cap portion is formed with a projection that is resiliently deformable upon entry into the groove to mechanically and sealingly couple the body portion and the cap portion. In some constructions, the projection is a U-shaped flange. In some constructions, the body portion and the cap portion are formed by molding a metal alloy from a thixotropic state.
US08139344B2	Electrolytic capacitor assembly and method with recessed leadframe channel A solid electrolytic capacitor has a capacitor body formed from a pressed anode, a dielectric layer and a solid electrolyte layer. An anode lead extends from anode pellet and is electrically connected to an anode termination. The outer surface of the capacitor body forms a cathode that is electrically connected to a cathode termination. Base anode and cathode termination portions are coplanar and connected with a recessed leadframe channel. A capacitor element is attached to the anode and cathode termination portions and encapsulated. The recessed leadframe channel is removed to isolate the anode and cathode terminations on a single mounting surface, leaving a surface groove formed between the anode and cathode terminations.
US08139338B2	Load control apparatus A load control apparatus adapted to indirectly detect an overcurrent, i.e. a current magnitude exceeding a predetermined limit value, occurring in an electric conductor element (4) belonging to a load current circuit (20), on the basis of an increase in temperature. The load control apparatus (30) comprises a control current circuit including a temperature-sensitive switch member (S) capable of changing its operational state in response to an increase in the temperature to a predetermined value, and a control unit (32) adapted to detect a change in the operational state of the temperature-sensitive switch member (S), and to detect an overcurrent occurring in the electric conductor element (4) based thereon, the temperature-sensitive switch member (S) being adapted to be connected heat-conductively to a target element, in which at least part of the load current of the electric conductor element (4) passes in an operating situation, and the temperature-sensitive switch member (S) being further adapted to be electrically insulated from the electric conductor element (4) of the load current circuit.
US08139333B2	Short circuit protection circuit A short circuit protection circuit which readily recovers a relay drive circuit to an output operation state after a short circuit is cancelled while preventing the relay drive circuit from being damaged by a short circuit. The relay drive circuit outputs a drive current to a load in accordance with a first control signal. A short circuit detection circuit detects the occurrence of a short circuit at an output side of the relay drive circuit and suspends output operation of the relay drive circuit when a short circuit occurs. Further, the short circuit detection circuit intermittently transmits a recovery signal to the relay drive circuit in a certain time interval after a predetermined time elapses from when the short circuit occurs to recover the output operation of the relay drive circuit. The time interval is gradually increased whenever the recovery signal is transmitted.
US08139326B2	Unit with built-in control circuit with protect elements The present invention provides a unit with a built-in control circuit capable of cost reduction. The unit of the present invention is an unit with built-in control circuit comprising a ground line, a control circuit including a plurality of terminals to be connected to an IC-chip, and a plurality of protect elements connected to the terminal and the ground line.
US08139324B2	Magnetic read head having a non-magnetic electrode layer and a magnetic read write system To provide a magnetic head that is suited for high recording density magnetic read and write, and has little noise. A magnetic pinned layer is formed on a non-magnetic electrode layer via a first insulating layer, and a magnetic free layer is formed on a medium-side plane of the non-magnetic electrode layer via a second insulating layer. A circuit for flowing current between the non-magnetic electrode layer and the magnetic pinned layer via the first insulating layer, and a circuit for measuring voltage between the non-magnetic electrode layer and the magnetic free layer are connected to the magnetic free layer. The medium-side plane on which the magnetic free layer is formed may be a plane substantially parallel to the surface of the medium, or may be a plane tilted from the surface of the medium.
US08139320B2	Write head having independent side shield and trailing shield throat height A magnetic write head for perpendicular magnetic recording. The magnetic write head includes a write pole having a pole tip region and a flared region. The write pole also has a trailing, wrap-around magnetic shield that is separated from the sides of the write pole by a non-magnetic side gap layer. The write head is formed such that the side gap spacing is larger in the flared region than in the pole tip region. This varying gap spacing can be formed by depositing a non-magnetic material using a collimated sputter deposition aligned substantially perpendicular to the air bearing surface. This collimated sputtering deposits the non-magnetic material more readily on the sides of the write pole in the flared region than in the pole tip region.
US08139317B2	Disk drive device which includes a clamping magnet for attracting a disk The present invention provides a disk drive device that can appropriately clamp a disk by means of magnetic force even when the disk drive device is very small. A clamping magnet 16 on which a disk 20 is mounted is attached to a turntable portion 15b of a rotor frame 15 to attract the disk 20. The clamping magnet 16 is configured so that the disk 20 can be mounted on the clamping magnet 16. An area of the rotor frame 15 from the turntable portion 15b to a boss portion 15a is composed of a ferromagnetic material.
US08139314B2	Pass-through mechanism for linear tape library A pass-through mechanism that couples a first linear tape library string to a second linear tape library string is maintained. A first robotic assembly associated with the first linear tape library string places a tape from the first linear tape library string into the pass-through mechanism. The pass-through mechanism moves the tape to a position where the tape can be removed by a second robotic assembly associated with the second linear tape library string. The second robotic assembly removes the tape from the pass-through mechanism and places the tape into the second linear tape library string.
US08139309B2	Negative biasing a slider with respect to a disk to reduce slider wear and provide burnish rate control In a method for negatively biasing a slider with respect to a disk to reduce slider wear and provide burnish rate control a negative bias voltage is generated between the slider and the disk surface respectively, the negative bias voltage causing slider/disk contact wear to occur on the disk instead of on the slider.
US08139306B2	Electrical current as probe for modulation at head-disk interface A system and method for measuring the modulation between a magnetic head and a magnetic storage medium, such as a disk, is disclosed. A magnetic read/write head is positioned above a magnetic storage medium at a given flying height. The magnetic read/write head reads a signal from the magnetic storage medium. A tester measures an alternating electric current between the magnetic read/write head through the slider and the magnetic storage medium. A computer may then calculate the modulation by the magnetic read/write head based on the alternating electric current. A DC voltage to the head may be applied to lower the flying height of the magnetic head.
US08139303B2	Method for production of magnetic recording medium, magnetic recording medium and magnetic recording and reproduction device A method for the production of a magnetic recording medium includes the steps of forming a magnetic layer on a nonmagnetic substrate, injecting atoms into portions of the magnetic layer to cause the portions to be demagnetized or allowed to acquire amorphousness, thereby forming a magnetically separated magnetic recording pattern, the step of injecting atoms including the steps of applying to a surface of the formed magnetic layer an SOG film as a resist, partly removing or thinning the resist, and irradiating the surface with atoms, thereby partly injecting atoms into the magnetic layer through the portions of the magnetic layer from which the resist is removed or in which the resist is thinned.
US08139298B2	Optically measurable mounting structure A mount between an optical element and a housing includes an optical element that has an optical element mount with plural optical element mounting pads and an optical element connecting surface that links the optical element mounting pads together. The housing includes a housing mount that has plural housing mounting pads and a housing connecting surface that links the housing mounting pads together. The optical element mount and the housing mount are mounted to one another such that the only contact between the optical element and the housing is between the mounting pads of each respective element.
US08139297B2	Imaging optical system, camera apparatus, and personal digital assistant An imaging optical system, including a first lens group; an aperture stop; a second lens group having a positive power, the first lens group, the aperture stop and the second lens group being arranged from a side of an object sequentially, wherein the second lens group includes a second front lens group having a positive power and a second rear lens group having a positive power, the second front lens group and the second rear lens group being arranged sequentially from the object side, wherein, when focusing from an infinity-distance object to a short-distance object, the first lens group and the aperture stop are fixed, and the second front lens group and the second rear lens group are moved with a mutually different movement amount.
US08139296B2	Reimaging optical system and endoscope using the same The invention relates to an reimaging optical system that has a sufficiently enhanced magnification and better performance, and an endoscope using the same. The reimaging optical system 3 is adapted to re-form an image by an image guide 6 on a solid-state imaging device 4 having a diagonal length of 6.5 mm or longer, and satisfies the following condition. 0.6<(D×\|β\|)/V (1). Here D is the diameter of the image guide 6, β is the optical transverse magnification of the reimaging optical system 3, and V in mm is the minor axis direction length of an imaging area of the solid-state imaging device 4.
US08139285B2	Raman amplifying device and control method A light amplifying device including a Raman amplifier to Raman-amplify a signal light by inputting excitation lights of a plurality of wavelengths to a transmission path through which the signal light propagates, a plurality of measuring units measuring powers of light output from the Raman amplifier in a plurality of wavelength bands included in an amplification band of the Raman amplifier, a calculating unit calculating a ratio of the respective powers measured by at least two of the plurality of measuring units, and a control unit controlling a power ratio of the respective excitation lights input to the transmission path by the Raman amplifier based on the ratio calculated by the calculating unit.
US08139277B2	Multiple-source multiple-beam polarized laser scanning system Two integrated multi-beam sources are positioned and disposed such that each emits light toward an optical splitter. The emitted light is polarized such that the splitter brings the optical paths of the two integrated multi-beam sources generally parallel to one another such that the optical system aperture throughput for the two integrated multi-beam sources is roughly the same as for a single integrated multi-beam source. The splitter may be such that a portion of the optical energy from each source is directed into an imaging path and a portion of the optical energy is directed toward one or more non-polarizing splitters and optical sensors for, inter alia, controlling the output of the sources. In various embodiments, the number of splitters, and hence the extent of optical loss, may be reduced by use of a combined polarized and non-polarized splitter, dual polarized splitters, and time-sequenced beam generation and monitoring.
US08139271B2	Printing apparatus for printing in accordance with a stored or a set print condition and control method therefor A printing apparatus and a method of controlling the printing apparatus are provided, which enable the setting of a first mode in which image data received via a wireless interface that wirelessly receives image data from an external apparatus is converted into print image data and is printed under the default print conditions, and of a second mode in which image data received through a wireless interface is displayed on a display apparatus connected to the printing apparatus and is printed according to the print conditions that are set by using a menu screen displayed on the display apparatus and an operational panel of the printing apparatus. In addition, in the case where no display apparatus is connected to the printing apparatus, the printing apparatus prints in the first mode based on the default print conditions.
US08139265B2	Color space conversion apparatus and method for controlling the same A color space conversion apparatus and a method of controlling the same, the color space conversion apparatus including: a first color space conversion unit to convert a first color space into a first Lab color space; a second color space conversion unit to convert a second color space into a second Lab color space; a spherical color space conversion unit to expand the first and second Lab color spaces into a spherical color space; and a spherical gamut mapping unit to perform gamut mapping between the first and second color spaces through spherical parametrization, thus avoiding problems in color reproduction caused by the lack of one-to-one correspondence between Lab color space values of the input and output devices.
US08139263B2	Systems and methods for printing artwork containing overlapped inks Systems and methods provide a mechanism to print documents having artwork with overlapping inks. One aspect of the systems and methods includes sending the document to a printer having a printer control system. The printer control system detects overlapping areas, and flattens the artwork into separate atomic regions. The system determines whether the colors in the atomic regions are available on the printer as process colors or spot colors. Unavailable spot colors are converted to process colors, and blended into a single process color. Available spot colors are retained.
US08139255B2	Image reading apparatus and control program for image reading apparatus for determining output range of image data based on reference-range information of such image data An image reading apparatus including: a reading device; a display device; an operable portion; an outputting portion which outputs the image data; an image-data storing portion which successively stores a prescribed amount of the image data; a reference-range-information storing portion which stores reference-range information that is required to determine a reference range of the image data; a reference-range managing portion which determines the reference range and which successively updates the information such that the reference range is successively updated at a prescribed timing by a prescribed size; a display controlling portion which controls the display device to display the display image; a timing controlling portion which controls updating intervals at which the reference range is updated; a command detecting portion which detects a specific command; and an output-range determining portion which determines an output range of the image data.
US08139253B2	Interactive printer/scanner A printer comprises: a feed mechanism and a printhead assembly. The printhead assembly comprises: a printhead for printing a position-coding pattern onto a surface and a scanhead for scanning a pre-printed graphic image. The printer further comprises an ink supply and a processor configured for generating association data. The association data indicates an association between a scanned graphic image, an impression identity and a plurality of positions.
US08139244B2	Print data processing apparatus and printer A print data processing apparatus that controls data transmitted to and received from a printer, includes an extension attaching unit that selectively attaches a first extension corresponding to a kind of a formed application or a second extension corresponding to the control process to data outputted to the printer, and a transmission performing unit that transmits data to which the extension is attached to the printer. When the printer is controlled to perform a preset control process, the extension attaching unit attaches a second extension corresponding to the control process to the data.
US08139243B2	Information processing apparatus, control method, and computer-readable medium for distributed processing of print jobs A print job often includes secret information, and information may suffer sniffing from devices that execute distributed processing of jobs, or on the network. Therefore, executing the distributed processing of a print job including secret information reduces the robustness in terms of security protection. Hence, upon reception of a job, a task manager (TM) issues, to a dynamic job scheduler (DJS), a request of target devices of distributed processing according to a security level indicating the importance level of data included in that job. The DJS notifies the TM of the target devices, and the TM transmits divided jobs to the target devices.
US08139241B2	Printing apparatus and its control method, job processing method, and printing system When authentication data input before execution of print processing based on a secure print job is authenticated, a copy is printed based on the secure print job (S1909). When print processing for the designated number of copies is to be executed after the print processing, the control prompts the user to input authentication data (S1914) before the print processing. When the authentication data is authenticated, print processing is executed based on the secure print job for the designated number of copies (S1916).
US08139240B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus is provided, in which communication history that may change in a sleep mode is updated and displayed, whereby state of data communication in the sleep mode can be grasped. Even if the image forming apparatus as a whole is stopped, power is supplied only to a communication unit. When data is transmitted/received from an external device, a communication controller of the communication unit that transmitted/received data temporarily drives an electronic paper, so that transmission/reception log is displayed on electronic paper. Thereafter, power supply to the electronic paper is stopped.
US08139232B2	Multiple measurement techniques including focused beam scatterometry for characterization of samples A system for monitoring thin-film fabrication processes is herein disclosed. Diffraction of incident light is measured and the results are compared to a predictive model based on at least one idealized or nominal structure. The model and/or the measurement of diffracted incident light may be modified using the output of one or more additional metrology systems.
US08139228B2	Methods for optically enhanced holographic interferometric testing for test and evaluation of semiconductor devices and materials Improved methods and systems for inspection imaging for holographic or interferometric semiconductor test and evaluation through all phases of manufacture. Specifically, systems and methods are disclosed for extending the range of optical holographic interferometric inspection for evaluating microelectronic devices and determining the interplay of electromagnetic signals and dynamic stresses to the semiconductor material are provided in which an enhanced imaging method provides continuous and varying of the magnification of the optical holographic interferometric images over a plurality of interleaved optical pathways and imaging devices. Analysis of one or more holographic interference patterns displays internal and external stresses and the various effects of such stresses upon the operating characteristics of features within the features, interior structures, or internal surfaces of the semiconductor material or wafer under test.
US08139226B2	Soft clock delay for OCT system and method therefor An optical coherence analysis system comprises a swept source laser for generating optical signals that are tuned over a scan band; an interferometer for transmitting the optical signals over a sample arm and reference arm and combining the optical signals; a k-clock for generating a sampling clock indicating non-linearities in the frequency tuning of the optical signals over the scan band, the k-clock being not delay matched to propagation delays for the optical signals in the interferometer; a sampling system for sampling the optical signals from the interferometer in response to the k-clock to generate interference signals; and a processing system for determining non-linearities in the sampling clock and for transforming the interference signals into an image of a sample in response to the non-linearities. The system compensates for the lack of an electronic delay of k-clock using a nonuniform discrete Fourier transform.
US08139225B2	System for processing patient monitoring power and data signals A device interface selectively acquires patient physiological parameter data. An acquisition processor acquires physiological data from a patient. A communication processor is coupled to an optical communication pathway for receiving a plurality of optical signals from a source. A conversion processor is electrically coupled to the acquisition processor and communication processor and converts a first optical power signal at a first frequency and received via the optical communication pathway using the communication processor, to a first electrical signal for providing power to said device interface. The conversion processor converts an optical control signal at a second frequency different from the first frequency and received via the optical communication pathway using the communication processor, to a second electrical signal for providing control data to the acquisition processor directing the acquisition processor to acquire at least one physiological parameter from a patient.
US08139224B2	Particle concentration detecting device A particulate concentration detector including a detection mechanism having a light emission unit and light reception unit. The particulate concentration detector detects the concentration of particulates suspended in a liquid from the light amount detected by the detection mechanism. The detection mechanism includes a first light guide, a second light guide, a liquid chamber, and a third light guide. The first light guide is arranged at a location facing toward a light emission surface of the light emission unit. The second light guide is arranged at a location facing toward a light reception surface of the light reception unit. The liquid chamber is formed between the first light guide and second light guide and allows the liquid to flow therein. The third light guide is arranged in an oscillatable manner in the liquid chamber so as to face toward the first light guide and the second light guide.
US08139223B2	Transmission optical system A transmission optical system includes a plurality of imaging optical systems arranged apart from each other, forming successively the image of an object to be projected so a real image of either a two-dimensional or a three-dimensional object can be observed at the opposite end, with its convexity features either identical to or reversed from the projected object, depending on whether the total number of the imaging optical systems is even or odd.
US08139220B2	Point-of purchase (POP) spectrophotometer for open-view measurement of a color sample Disclosed herein is a point-of-purchase (POP) spectrophotometer for open-viewing of a color sample. The POP spectrophotometer includes a housing assembly containing an illumination optical system and an imaging optical system in desired orientation. Also provided is at least one of a second illumination optical system, a sheen detection system, and a camera system. The housing assembly includes a chassis in secure arrangement with a plurality of supports that define a target plane having a target location and that space the chassis therefrom. The chassis is configured to position the illumination, imaging, sheen detection, and/or camera systems in desired orientations relative to the target location and each other. The POP spectrophotometer can include an alignment device and/or targeting optics for facilitating user-identification of the target location, and means can be provided to enhance insensitivity to ambient light and/or depth variation of the color sample.
US08139217B2	Alignment systems and methods for lithographic systems An alignment system for a lithographic apparatus has a source of alignment radiation; a detection system that has a first detector channel and a second detector channel; and a position determining unit in communication with the detection system. The position determining unit is constructed to process information from said first and second detector channels in a combination to determine a position of an alignment mark on a work piece, the combination taking into account a manufacturing process of the work piece. A lithographic apparatus has the above mentioned alignment system. Methods of alignment and manufacturing devices with a lithographic apparatus use the above alignment system and lithographic apparatus, respectively.
US08139213B2	Two-dimensional spectral imaging system Systems, including methods, apparatus, and algorithms, for spectrally imaging a two-dimensional array of samples.
US08139212B2	Measurement of volume holographic gratings The present invention relates to methods of measuring the optical characteristics of volume holographic gratings with high resolution and with a large spectral coverage using a spectrally broad band source in conjunction with instruments that measure the spectrum such as spectrometers, imaging spectrometers, and spectrum analyzers.
US08139209B2	System and method for measuring a laser-induced damage threshold in an optical fiber A system for measuring a laser-induced damage threshold in an optical fiber may include a lens to direct a first laser beam through a core of the optical fiber. The system may also include an optical arrangement to direct a second laser beam through an exterior surface of the optical fiber and into the core of the optical fiber at a preselected location of the optical fiber to provide a predetermined power density at the preselected location, wherein the optical arrangement causes the second laser beam to be directed into the optical fiber substantially completely around a perimeter of the optical fiber to provide the predetermined power density.
US08139204B2	Distance-measuring optoelectronic sensor A distance-measuring optoelectronic sensor for the monitoring of a working zone is provided which is located within a detection zone of the sensor and at a first distance from the sensor, wherein the sensor has a lighting unit having a light source to illuminate the working zone at least partly as well as an object detection unit by means of which unauthorized objects in the working zone can be detected. In this respect, an illumination control is designed, in a switching-on phase, first to activate the lighting unit with a lower power so that a provisional working zone at a second distance from the sensor less than the first distance is illuminated with at most a preset maximum power; to check by means of the object detection unit whether an unauthorized object intrusion is taking place into the provisional working zone; and if no unauthorized object intrusion is recognized, to activate the lighting unit at a higher power so that the working zone is illuminated with at most the preset maximum power.
US08139200B2	Spectral purity filter for multi-layer mirror, lithographic apparatus including such multi-layer mirror, method for enlarging the ratio of desired radiation and undesired radiation, and device manufacturing method A lithographic apparatus comprising a support configured to support a patterning device; a substrate table configured to hold a substrate; a projection system configured to project a pattern imparted to a radiation beam by the patterning device onto a target portion of the substrate; and a first multi-layer mirror and a second multi-layer mirror, the first multi-layer mirror and the second multi-layer minor being arranged along a path of the radiation beam, the first multi-layer minor and the second multi-layer mirror each having a reflectivity of at least about 50% in extreme ultra violet wavelength range, and the first multi-layer mirror configured to reduce radiation having wavelengths in a first wavelength range and the second multi-layer minor configured to reduce radiation having wavelengths in a second wavelength range different from the first wavelength range, wherein the first wavelength range and the second wavelength range are outside extreme ultra violet wavelength range.
US08139198B2	Exposure apparatus, exposure method, and method for producing device A part of exposure beam through a liquid via a projection optical system enters a light-transmitting section, enters an optical member without passing through gas, and is focused. The exposure apparatus receives the exposure light from the projection optical system to perform various measurements even if the numerical aperture of the projection optical system increases.
US08139196B2	Liquid crystal display element, method of manufacturing the element, and electronic paper having the element The invention relates to a liquid crystal display element, a method of manufacturing the element, and electronic paper having the element. The invention provides a liquid crystal element in which a change in a state of display attributable to an external force can be suppressed, a method of manufacturing the element, and electronic paper having the element. One blue pixel region is surrounded by four wall structures and four polymer layers without any discontinuity. The wall structures are formed on a bottom substrate and are in contact with a top substrate. The polymer layers are formed by injecting a cholesteric liquid crystal and polymeric substances (monomers or oligomers) which are materials different from both of the cholesteric liquid crystal and the wall structures between the top and bottom substrates and polymerizing the polymeric substances.
US08139185B2	Display device The present invention provides a display device which can provide bright display by both of reflective display and transmissive display without having a multi-gap structure and which can reduce a difference in response time between the reflective region and the transmissive region. The display device of the present invention is a display device including: a pair of substrates; a display medium interposed between the pair of substrates; and a pixel having a reflective region for performing reflective display and a transmissive region for performing transmissive display, wherein the display device includes a pixel electrode and a common electrode on one of the pair of substrates, a voltage is applied to the display medium through the pixel electrode and the common electrode, the pixel electrode is provided with a slit, and a shield electrode is arranged between the pixel electrode and the common electrode in the reflective region.
US08139181B2	Polarization plate, liquid crystal display device and protective film Provided are a polarization plate which has a high mechanical strength, which does not impair a visibility even under a high temperature and high humidity, which is excellent in flexibility and abrasion resistance, and which reduces a visible disturbance such as color unevenness due to a size change, as well as a liquid crystal display device using the polarization plate. A film composed of a plurality of layers composed mainly of thermoplastic resins is used as a first protection film used for a visible side of the polarization plate, and at least one surface layer of this first protection film is composed mainly of an acrylic resin. Furthermore, a second protection film having a specific property is disposed at a side of a liquid crystal cell.
US08139177B2	Liquid crystal display device In a liquid crystal display device having a liquid crystal display panel which includes a first substrate and a second substrate, a back plate is arranged on a first-substrate-side of the liquid crystal display panel, a first polarizer is arranged between the back plate and the first substrate, the first polarizer is adhered to the back plate, a face plate is arranged on a second-substrate-side of the liquid crystal display panel, a second polarizer is arranged between the face plate and the second substrate, and the second polarizer is adhered to the face plate.
US08139172B2	3-dimensional display device using light controlling film A 3-dimensional display device includes a display panel for displaying image; a backlight for supplying light to the display panel; a light scattering control unit between the display panel and the backlight to scatter or transmit the light from the backlight; and a light control film over the backlight to reflect and focus the light from the backlight.
US08139169B2	Liquid crystal TV set and liquid crystal display unit Disclosed are a liquid crystal display unit and a liquid crystal TV set, each of which has a sequence circuit 13 that includes first, second, and third voltage output units. The sequence circuit 13, upon the turning-on of the power to the liquid crystal display unit 11, supplies the first, second, and third output voltages to a liquid crystal display panel 11c in this order and stops supply of the third, second, and first output voltages in this order upon the turning-off of the power to the liquid crystal display unit 11. Consequently, the display screen is prevented from the noise that is otherwise generated on the screen.
US08139160B2	Television tuner with double quadrature mixing architecture A television tuner employs a double quadrature mixing architecture to frequency-translate VHF/UHF TV signals to various standard IF frequencies. In the television tuner, a quadrature mixer converts the input television signal into a first in-phase signal and a first quadrature-phase signal according to a first reference signal, and a double quadrature mixer converts the first in-phase signal and first quadrature-phase signal into a second in-phase signal and a second quadrature-phase signal according to a second reference signal, and a polyphase filter filters the second in-phase signal and second quadrature-phase signal to produce an output signal.
US08139159B2	Single down-conversion television tuner A television tuner employs a single down-conversion architecture to translate VHF/UHF TV signals to various standard IF frequencies. The television tuner includes a harmonic rejection and quadrature mixer and a quadrature mixer. The harmonic rejection and quadrature mixer mixes a first-band signal with a reference signal to output a first pair of in-phase and quadrature-phase signals with a harmonic-frequency component eliminated from the resulting signals. A quadrature mixer mixes a second-band signal with the reference signal to output a second pair of in-phase and quadrature-phase signals. A digital signal processing circuit coupled to both the harmonic rejection and quadrature mixer and the quadrature mixer for selectively processing either the first pair of in-phase and quadrature-phase signals or the second pair of in-phase and quadrature-phase signals to generate an output signal corresponding to a desired channel.
US08139142B2	Video manipulation of red, green, blue, distance (RGB-Z) data including segmentation, up-sampling, and background substitution techniques RGB-Z imaging systems acquire RGB data typically with a high X-Y resolution RGB pixel array, and acquire Z-depth data with an array of physically larger Z pixels having additive signal properties. In each acquired frame, RGB pixels are mapped to a corresponding Z pixel. Z image resolution is enhanced by identifying Z discontinuities and identifying corresponding RGB pixels where the Z discontinuities occur. Thus segmented data enables RGB background substitution, which preferably blends foreground pixel color and substitute background color. The segmented data also enables up-sampling in which a higher XY resolution Z image with accurate Z values is obtained. Up-sampling uses an equation set enabling assignment of accurate Z values to RGB pixels. Fixed acquisition frame rates are enabled by carefully culling bad Z data. Segmenting and up-sampling enhanced video effects and enable low cost, low Z resolution arrays to function comparably to higher quality, higher resolution Z arrays.
US08139137B2	Focusing method, suitable for an image capturing apparatus using in an environment of low brightness and image capturing apparatus using the same A focusing method, suitable for an image capturing apparatus using in an environment of low brightness, is provided herein. The focusing method includes that an image sensing unit in the image capturing apparatus is wholly or partially divided into a plurality of regions, and digital image data sensed by the image sensing unit is divided into a plurality of sets corresponding to the regions of the image sensing unit. The regional image data corresponding to each of the regions are summed up during the focusing step, so as to obtain a sum of data for each region. Each sum of data is used to calculate a corresponding contrast value, and the contrast value is used to perform calculations for the focusing step, so as to obtain a focus.
US08139125B2	Optical image recording device with small height and high resolution An optical image recording device comprises a housing having a comparatively small height and at least one comparatively broad optical image information entering surface, an optical path unit including a first lens array, a second lens array and an optical image recording device including an image sensor, while in the optical path unit the first lens array is guiding the entering optical information to the optical axis of the second lens array extending substantially perpendicular to the height of the housing and the optical image information is received by the image sensor, and the optical image recording device further including electrical circuitry coupled to the image sensor for processing and storing the image data.
US08139116B2	Range image system for obtaining subject image of predetermined distance position A solid-state imaging device has a single plate structure and is capable of imaging of visible light and infrared light. While imaging of the visible light and the infrared light is performed by the imaging device every one-frame scanning period, an IR pulse is emitted, every other one-frame scanning period, to a space to be shot. A visible-light image is produced every one-frame scanning period. A range image from which influence to be caused by infrared component of the ambient light is removed is produced every other one-frame scanning period by subtracting an IR pixel image (S2IR), which is obtained by imaging of non-emission time of the IR pulse, from an IR pixel signal (S1IR), which is obtained by imaging of emission time of the IR pulse.
US08139114B2	Surroundings monitoring apparatus and surroundings monitoring method for reducing distortion caused by camera position displacement A surrounding monitoring apparatus reduces distortion caused by camera position displacement. A position displacement information obtainment unit obtains position displacement information and outputs it as camera position displacement information, a moving object state detection unit detects vehicle information and outputs it as a moving object state, a coordinate transformation parameter selection unit selects a coordinate transformation parameter according to the camera position displacement information, an image synthesis parameter selection unit selects a reference image synthesis parameter and a graphics parameter according to the moving object state, a coordinate transformation unit performs coordinate transformation on image coordinates of a captured image which are included in the reference image synthesis parameter using the coordinate transformation parameter and outputs the image coordinates as a transformed image synthesis parameter, and an image synthesis unit generates and outputs a synthetic image according to the transformed image synthesis parameter.
US08139109B2	Vision system for an autonomous vehicle A system includes a vehicle management system, and at least a first, a second, and a third video camera in communication with the vehicle management system. The vehicle management system is configured to receive input from a combination of at least two cameras selected from among the first, second, and third video cameras based on an event associated with a vehicle to provide at least a first, a second, and a third visual depth of field.
US08139106B2	Microscope apparatus Provided with a time-lapse imaging unit which repeatedly captures a specimen at predetermined time intervals and generates a plurality of images, and a recording unit which records at least one of an image group including one or more of the images captured during a predetermined period among a period of a time-lapse capturing performed by the time-lapse imaging unit or an image group including one or more of the images picked at predetermined time intervals among the period of the time-lapse capturing performed by the time-lapse imaging unit. Thus, data generated in time-lapse photography are managed favorably in a microscope apparatus provided with a time-lapse imaging unit which repeatedly captures a specimen at predetermined time intervals and generates a plurality of images.
US08139096B2	Multi-color image forming apparatus and method of controlling the same A multi-color image forming apparatus includes signal detecting units which are included in development units and detect horizontal synchronization signals, a correction unit to count pulse widths of the horizontal synchronization signals detected by the signal detecting units and correct timings of vertical offsets to be increased or decreased according to lengths of the pulse widths, and a video controller to output video data to scan multi-color images on surfaces of photosensitive drums according to the timings of the vertical offsets corrected by the correction unit. Even when any one of the laser scanning units and the development units is shifted from a reference position, the vertical offset is corrected such that the multi-color images printed on a recording medium are aligned in a vertical direction. Accordingly, preventing quality of the multi-color images from deteriorating is possible.
US08139092B2	Thermal transfer dyesheet and printer A thermal transfer dyesheet comprising a substrate bearing a region of a thermally transferable dye, the region including a first printable portion within the region having a first optical density, a second printable portion within the region having a second optical density, the difference in optical density between the first and second optical densities being detectable by a detection means on a dyesheet printer, and a third printable portion within the region having an optical density substantially the same as that of the first printable portion is provided, together with a method for manufacture of the dyesheet and an associated printer.
US08139085B2	Display data extraction methods, devices and computer systems utilizing the same A device of capturing display data is implemented in an electronic device. A first request for capture of display data associated with the display of the electronic device is received. The display is a composite image generated by a program from one or more raw data objects in the electronic device. When the first request is received, a backup of the display data, comprising the one or more raw data objects, is stored by the electronic device in form of a data structure in response to the first request.
US08139073B1	Early compression tag lookup for memory accesses Systems and methods for determining a compression tag state prior to memory client arbitration may reduce the latency for memory accesses. A compression tag is associated with each portion of a surface stored in memory and indicates whether or not the data stored in each portion is compressed or not. A client uses the compression tags to construct memory access requests and the size of each request is based on whether or not the portion of the surface to be accessed is compressed or not. When multiple clients access the same surface the compression tag reads are interlocked with the pending memory access requests to ensure that the compression tags provided to each client are accurate. This mechanism allows for memory bandwidth optimizations including reordering memory access requests for efficient access.
US08139072B2	Network hardware graphics adapter compression A Video Card with standard video output and a Network Ethernet port output of compressed digital video output that represents the image seen by a monitored computer user. A custom video card software driver is used to set up the dual display video controller configurations that assist with the functioning of the digital video compression that is a hardware combination of Run-Length, Huffman encoding and MPEG located on the same monitored user video card. One of the video controller's I2C ports is used to control the compression video circuits and as the pathway for the custom Ethernet communications, thus avoiding an additional costly connection to the user's main computer bus. The first video stream from the dual head video controller chip is used for regular viewing by the local PC (personal computer) user. The second video flow is a frame delayed version of the first video stream used to for comparing current and old frames as the core digital compression image process that results in an Network Ethernet video output. This invention provides a low cost hardware compression for the popular XGA, UXGA VESA computer graphics formats.
US08139071B1	Buffering unit to support graphics processing operations An apparatus and method for buffering graphics data are described. In one embodiment, a graphics processing apparatus includes a storage unit and a reorder control unit that is connected to the storage unit. The reorder control unit is configured to coordinate storage of vertex attributes in the storage unit so as to convert the vertex attributes from an initial order to a modified order. The reorder control unit is configured to identify a subset of the vertex attributes to be stored within a common range of addresses in the storage unit, and the reorder control unit is configured to access the storage unit such that the subset of the vertex attributes is written into the storage unit substantially in parallel.
US08139061B2	Floating point execution unit for calculating a one minus dot product value in a single pass A floating point execution unit calculates a one minus dot product value in a single pass. As such, the dependency that otherwise would be required to perform the calculations is eliminated, resulting in a substantially faster performance of such calculations. The floating point execution unit may be used, for example, to accelerate pixel shading algorithms such as Fresnel and electron microscope effects.
US08139057B2	Supply voltage removal detecting circuit, display device and method for removing latent image A supply voltage removal detecting circuit, a display device and method for removing a latent image when a supply voltage is disconnected, in which the supply voltage removal detecting circuit includes a voltage controller, a detection signal generator, and an output unit. The voltage controller controls voltages such that when a first supply voltage and a second supply voltage stay at a first level, the voltage at a first node is greater than the voltage at a second node, and when the first supply voltage or the second supply voltage becomes a second level, the voltage at the second node stays at a specific level, and the voltage at the first node is less than the specific level. The detection signal generator generates a detection signal by comparing the voltage at the first node with the voltage at the second node. The output unit prevents the voltage controller and the detection signal generator from faulty operations, and inverts the detection signal in response to an operation enabling signal to output a detection control signal.
US08139053B2	Arrangement for canceling offset of driver amplifier circuitry In an offset canceling arrangement, an offset of an operational amplifier may be canceled even in case capacitive or resistive element is connected outside of the operational amplifier per se, and a signal may be output even during the offset canceling operation. IC chips include respective sets of plural output circuits. Each of the IC chips is provided with an offset canceling function, for which the respective sets of output circuits are grouped into plural groups. A reference signal for offset canceling is generated from a reference output circuit. One of the groups, each constituting one IC chip, is selected, and the reference signal for offset canceling generated by the group is used as a reference signal for offset canceling for the remaining group(s).
US08139042B2	Input device and display device with input function An input device which includes a light-transmissive touch panel, a phase difference plate disposed on the opposite side to an input operation surface of the touch panel, a ¼ wavelength plate disposed on the side of the input operation surface of the touch panel, and a polarizing plate on the touch panel side, which is disposed on the ¼ wavelength plate toward the input operation surface of the touch panel, wherein a ratio R1 (450 nm)/R1 (590 nm) of the phase difference value R1 (450 nm) for the phase difference plate at a wavelength of 450 nm to the phase difference value R1 (590 nm) for the phase difference plate at a wavelength of 590 nm is greater than a ratio R0 (450 nm)/R0 (590 nm) of the phase differences value R0 (450 nm) for the ¼ wavelength plate at a wavelength of 450 nm to the phase difference value R0 (590 nm) for the ¼ wavelength plate at a wavelength of 590 nm, the phase difference value R1 (590 nm) for the phase difference plate at a wavelength of 590 nm is smaller than the phase difference value R0 (590 nm) for the ¼ wavelength plate at a wavelength of 590 nm, and an absolute value of an angle between the retardation axis of the phase difference plate and the retardation axis of the ¼ wavelength plate is in the range of 60° to 85°.
US08139041B2	Liquid crystal display having touch screen function using photoconductor Provided is a liquid crystal display (LCD) having a touch screen function using a photoconductor, which includes first and second substrates and a liquid crystal layer filled therebetween. The first substrate includes a touch sensing layer formed under a substrate and sensing a position by variation in current or voltage due to change in characteristics of the photoconductor in response to light supplied from outside, a light shielding layer formed under the touch sensing layer and preventing leakage of light, and a color filter layer including red (R), green (G) and blue (B) color filter patterns to express a color between the light shielding layer, thereby effectively finding a touch position according to a current variation depending on a change in characteristics of the photoconductor by the light supplied from outside.
US08139038B2	Method for determining pressed location of touch screen A method for determining pressed locations of a touch screen, suitable for an electronic device having the touch screen, is provided. In the present method, coordinates and pressure values of m samples where the touch screen is pressed are detected. Then, the pressure values of those samples are compared to find n samples with the highest pressure values. Finally, the coordinates of those n samples are averaged for determining the pressed location of the touch screen. Accordingly, the accuracy of determining the pressed location of the touch screen can be increased and the convenience for operating the electronic device is enhanced.
US08139034B2	Ergonomic computer alignment A system and computer program product for automatically positioning a computer to an ergonomically correct orientation are presented. An optic sensor at a top of a computer monitor measures a distance and angle to a user's eye. This distance and angle, along with stored anatomical data for a specific user, are used to automatically adjust a base of the computer, thus positioning the computer's keyboard in an ergonomically correct alignment for the specific user.
US08139032B2	Power-saving computer mouse A power-saving computer mouse having installed therein a switching transistor and a proximity sensor switch formed of a capacitive proximity sensor and a charge induction plate for controlling said switching transistor to switch on the power supply circuit when the user holds the computer mouse with a hand, or to switch off the power supply circuit when the user moves the hand away from the computer mouse.
US08139021B2	Histogram-based dynamic backlight control systems and methods Displays systems and methods for adjusting backlight illumination are disclosed wherein backlight illumination may be set low enough according to an error threshold amount in order to reduce backlight power consumption while maintaining a level of image quality. In one embodiment, image data is evaluated within a given frame and partitioned into histogram bins depending on the amount of backlight illumination requested or required by the image data. The histogram is traversed to provide an accumulative error measure. The error measure is compared against the error threshold and, if exceeded, the final backlight illumination may be set as a function of various illumination levels considered and possibly the first and a second threshold.
US08139008B2	Bi-stable display systems and driving methods thereof Bi-stable display systems and driving methods thereof are presented. The bi-stable display system includes a bi-stable display panel having at least one substrate, at least one electrode disposed on the substrate, and a bi-stable display medium between the at least one electrode, wherein the at least one electrode extends to pluralities of electrode pads on the at least one side of peripheral regions. A data input device for inputting display data to the bi-stable display panel includes a plurality of input terminals corresponding to the electrode pads of the bi-stable display panel. A trigger device detects relative movement between the bi-stable display panel and the data input device and generates a trigging signal to shift data address in a data shifter, thereby renewing image data in the bi-stable display panel.
US08139003B2	Display device, video signal processing method, and program There is provided a display device provided with a display portion, in which pixels having a light-emitting element for self-light-emitting, and a pixel circuit for controlling a current applied to a light-emitting element according to a voltage signal are arranged in a matrix, provided with an average luminance calculation portion calculating an average of luminance of an input video signal, and a light-emitting time setting portion setting a real duty defined every one frame by which light-emitting time for light emitting of the light-emitting element according to a calculated average luminance, wherein the light-emitting time setting portion sets the real duty in such a way that a light-emitting amount defined by a standard duty set beforehand and a maximum luminance among those of a video signal, and a light-emitting amount defined by a real duty to be set and an average luminance become the same as each other.
US08139002B2	Organic light emitting diode display and driving method thereof An organic light emitting diode display for removing a voltage which is charged into a gate electrode of a driving transistor before a current frame is changed to a next frame is disclosed. In the organic light emitting diode display, a display panel has a plurality of pixels that include an organic light emitting diode. A timing controller controls a driving timing of the inputted video data and controls a supply timing of a refresh voltage. A data driver converts a digital data which is outputted from the timing controller for a current frame into an analog data voltage to supply it to the pixels, and then supplies the refresh voltage to pixels which are selected among the pixels in accordance with a control of the timing controller. And a gate driver primarily supplies a scanning pulse for a first horizontal period of a current frame to select the pixels to be supplied with a data, and then secondarily supplies a scanning pulse for a second horizontal period of a current frame to select pixels to be supplied with the refresh voltage among the pixels in accordance with a control of the timing controller.
US08138997B2	Pixel, organic light emitting display using the same, and associated methods An organic light emitting display includes a scan driver configured to sequentially supply a scan signal to scan lines and sequentially supply a light emitting control signal to light emitting control lines, a data driver configured to supply a data signal to data lines, and pixels arranged coupled to the scan lines, the data lines and the light emitting control lines. Each of the pixels includes an organic light emitting diode, a second transistor, a storage capacitor coupled between an i−1th light emitting control line and a gate electrode of the second transistor, a first transistor coupled between an ith scan line, a data line and a first electrode of the second transistor, and a third transistor coupled between the gate electrode and a second electrode of the second transistor.
US08138995B2	Plasma display device A plasma display device includes the following elements: an image signal conversion circuit for converting an image signal into an image data; a data electrode driver circuit for driving data electrodes according to the image data; a power calculation circuit for calculating a power consumption of the data electrode driver circuit according to the image data; and a temperature calculation circuit for calculating a temperature of the data electrode driver circuit according to the image data. The image signal conversion circuit converts the image signal into an image data decreasing the power consumption of the data electrode driver circuit at least when the calculated power consumption exceeds a predetermined power threshold value, or when the calculated temperature exceeds a predetermined temperature threshold value.
US08138993B2	Control of a plasma display panel The control of a plasma display panel, successively comprises, at least for all the cells of a current line having to switch state for the next line: a connection of a terminal of application of an intermediary supply voltage to output terminals of column control stages corresponding to the junction points of first and second switches between two terminals of application of a supply voltage, to perform a precharge or a predischarge of the screen cells; a disconnection of said output terminals from this intermediary voltage; and a connection of each output terminal to a first or to a second power supply voltage by the turning-on of the first or second switch of the corresponding stage, according to a luminance reference value, delayed with respect to the disconnection of the corresponding output terminal from the terminal of application of the intermediary voltage.
US08138992B2	Method and apparatus for evoking perceptions of affordances in virtual environments Methods and apparatus are provided for evoking perceptions of affordances in a user/virtual environment interface. The method involves recognizing the absence or inadequacy of certain sensory stimuli in the user/virtual environment interface, and then creating sensory stimuli in the virtual environment to substitute for the recognized absent or inadequate sensory stimuli. The substitute sensory stimuli are typically communicated to the user (e.g., visually and/or audibly) as properties and behavior of objects in the virtual environment. Appropriately designed substitute sensory stimuli can evoke perceptions of affordances for the recognized absent or inadequate sensory stimuli in the user/virtual environment interface.
US08138991B2	Real-time image scanning and processing An apparatus for displaying at least one image with respect to a line-of-sight (LOS), with an image source, a display processor and a displaying unit. The display processor is coupled with the image source and the displaying unit. The image source provides at least one spatially unregistered image, and the display processor spatially registers the spatially unregistered image with the LOS, thereby generating a respective at least one spatially registered image. The displaying unit displays at least one spatially registered pixel on a displaying surface. The display processor includes a storage unit, an image processor and a pixel locator, the pixel locator being coupled with the image processor, wherein the storage unit stores the spatially unregistered image. The image processor selects at least one projection pixel to be displayed and the pixel locator determines, in each spatially unregistered image, the location of the spatially registered pixel corresponding to the selected projection pixel.
US08138980B2	Antenna device for radio apparatus and portable radio apparatus An object of the present invention is to provide an antenna device for a radio apparatus in which the amount of energy (SAR) absorbed by a head of a human body can be reduced without lowering the power of radio waves transmitted during a call. There is provided a board 108 serving as a base plate of an antenna element, an antenna element 102 disposed in a longitudinally end portion of the board 108 through a feeding portion 107, a conductor plate 109 disposed substantially in parallel with a main surface of the board 108 and disposed on the opposite side to a surface having a sound hole of a receiver portion, and a plurality of short-circuit conductors 110 disposed on a lower end portion of the conductor plate 109. The conductor plate 109 is short-circuited to a lower end portion of the board 108 through the short-circuit conductors 110.
US08138975B2	Interference detection, characterization and location in a wireless communications or broadcast system A Wide Area Sensor Network (WASN) is disclosed that utilizes wideband software defined radios (SDRs) to monitor RF energy over a wide frequency range, detect when critical frequencies are being jammed or otherwise interfered with, and locate the source of the interference so that the interference can be eliminated. The WASN may use one or more geolocation techniques In addition, the WASN may detect and locate unauthorized transmitters as well as estimate the transmitted power of authorized transmitters to assure they are not transmitting more power than authorized.
US08138972B2	Signal processing system for satellite positioning signals A signal processing system for processing satellite positioning signals is described. The system comprises at least one processor and a signal processor operating under a number of operational modes. The signal processor includes at least one of a signal processing subsystem, a fast Fourier transform (FFT) subsystem, and a memory subsystem that are each dynamically and independently configurable in response to the operational modes. Further, the system includes a controller that couples to control transfer of data among the signal processing subsystem and the FFT subsystem via the memory subsystem. Configurability of the memory subsystem includes configuring the memory subsystem into regions according to the operational modes where each region is accessible in one of a number of manners according to the operational modes.
US08138965B1	Kinematic algorithm for rocket motor apperception A method, Kinematic Algorithm for Rocket Motor Apperception (KARMA), for processing radar returns for identifying the type of a missile target includes generating tracks representing the missile, and applying the tracks to a set of plural template-based filters, each representing one missile hypothesis, to generate plural sets of missile states, one set for each hypothesis. The missile states are processed to generate kinematic parameter likelihood values (LLHs). The LLH values for each filter hypothesis are normalized and weighted. A weighted maximum likelihood value (WMLH) is calculated for each hypothesis. The correct hypothesis is deemed to be the one having the maximum WMLH, thus identifying the missile type.
US08138960B2	Map information update support device, map information update support method and computer readable recording medium A map information update support device includes a communication interface unit that acquires plural items of radar image data of the same observation area acquired at different times, respectively, a registration processing unit that registrates the plural items of radar image data with respect to one another, a characteristic value calculation unit that calculates a characteristic value representing a state of a surface of the earth in the observation area using the items of radar image data after the registration process, a feature changed area extraction unit that extracts a feature changed area based on the characteristic value, a road change candidate area extraction unit that synthesizes the feature changed area with map information of the observation area and extracts a road change candidate area that is a candidate of a road changed portion, and an output unit that outputs the map information synthesized with the road change candidate area.
US08138947B2	Speed limit informing device installed in on-board navigation system A device for informing to a driver a speed limit set for an own lane included in a multi-lane road is installed in a navigation system mounted on an automotive vehicle. The device includes a road surface camera for taking pictures of the speed limit painted on a road surface and informing devices such as a display panel and/or a speaker. The speed limit set for the own lane is specified based on the pictures taken by the road surface camera, and the specified speed limit is informed to the driver. Speed limits set for neighboring lanes may be also specified, and if they are different from the speed limit set for the own lane, this is informed to the driver together with the speed limits set for the neighboring lanes. It is not required to distinguish the own lane from among other lanes included in the multi-lane road because the speed limit set for the own lane is detected by the camera mounted on the own vehicle.
US08138940B2	Municipal operations monitoring and alert system Methods and systems for efficient network and device-based monitoring and response to municipality functions, operations, infrastructure and utilities uses automated notifications of municipal agents or employees of municipal operations information. Notifications are delivered according to pre-defined rules, a hierarchical structure of categories to organize alerts and information in a logical order of critical importance and delivered by information systems within the municipality. A user interface is utilized to change the hierarchy, view alert information, and select issues for responsive action.
US08138935B2	Image processor An image processor includes: a notification control unit configured, when apparatus condition information which requires an alert is received, to notify alert information corresponding to the alert using a notification unit; a storage unit configured to store first information related to alert information previously notified using the notification unit and second information related to current apparatus condition received which requires an alert; and a judgment unit configured to judge whether the first information and the second information match. The notification control unit is configured to not notify an alert information related to the current apparatus condition which requires an alert using the notification unit when an elapsed time from the notification of the previous alert information to the reception of the current apparatus condition information is equal to or less than a predetermined time period and the first information and the second information match.
US08138925B2	RFID systems and methods for automatically detecting and/or directing the physical configuration of a complex system A radio-frequency identification (RFID)-based configuration detection system for automatically detecting, directing, and/or configuring the physical configuration of a complex system constituted by a set of one or more types of mateable components. The RFID configuration detection system utilizes a set of mateable RFID tags arranged so that each mateable component includes at least one mateable RFID tag. Each RFID tag includes information about its associated component and is arranged so that when the components are mated, their associated RFID tags also are mated. The system uses at least one RFID reader to read RFID tag signals from the RFID tags. The RFID tag signals provide information about mating status of the component, as well as information about components themselves. An information processing system operably connected to the RFID reader receives and process information concerning the number and type of mated connections and thus the configuration. Changes to the configuration, such as mated connections being unmated, can be tracked to provide real-time configuration information.
US08138919B2	Systems and methods for location based communication The present invention provides a system and method for obtaining location-based data on a mobile device that comprises receiving location data from a RFID tag using the mobile device, transmitting identification data of the mobile device and the location data to a remote system, receiving customized data from the remote system, wherein the customized data are based on the location data from the RFID tag and the device ID, and presenting the customized data on the mobile device.
US08138905B2	Circuit arrangement for a tire pressure warning device and tire pressure detecting method implemented using the tire pressure warning device A tire pressure warning device having a detection circuit is mounted to an inflation valve on every tire of a car to implement tire pressure detection. First, a microprocessing controller in the detection circuit sends a tire location ID assigned to every tire to a signal receiving circuit provided in a dashboard of the car. Then, the microprocessing controller detects a tire pressure value of the corresponding tire and uses the detected tire pressure value as a standard pressure point for the tire. Thereafter, the microprocessing controller keeps detecting the tire pressure value of the tire. When a detected new tire pressure value is higher or lower than the standard pressure point by a preset percentage, a wireless RF is transmitted to the signal receiving circuit for the latter to identify the tire with high or low tire pressure and emit an alarm while displaying the tire pressure value.
US08138904B2	Tire internal pressure alarm device An elastic member 11 positioned between an inner surface of a casing 2 and a front face of a pressure sensing portion 8 of a pressure sensor 1 reduces a possibility of liquid and foreign matters in a tire directly reaching the pressure sensing portion 8. The elastic member also increases adhesiveness between the pressure sensing portion 8 of the pressure sensor 1 and a labyrinth structure and further prevents a potting agent 9b from flowing into the sensing portion 8. Moreover, the elastic member 11 is a member constituting at least a part of the labyrinth structure, so that it does not need that a wall is provided on the pressure sensor 1 and a dedicated seal member is provided on the pressure sensing portion 8.
US08138903B2	Mirror assembly An interior rearview mirror assembly for a vehicle includes a mirror casing having a human machine interface thereat. The mirror assembly includes a display device disposed behind the transflective mirror reflector of the interior rearview mirror assembly and visible through the transflective mirror reflector to the driver when displaying information. The display device may include a video screen. The user actuatable input may be actuatable by a user to operate at least one element of circuitry disposed in the mirror casing. The human machine interface may be at least partially at a bezel portion of the casing, or may be at least partially at a rear casing portion of the mirror casing.
US08138898B2	Electronic device to be incorporated into a motor vehicle in order to help retrieve the device following a theft The invention relates to an electronic device (1) that is to be incorporated into a motor vehicle. Said device (1) comprises a radio module (18) for establishing a short-distance wireless connection to an authorized cellular telephone (2) which is identified based on an identification key for the authorized cellular telephone (2) stored in a memory element (28) of the electronic device (1). In order to make it easier to retrieve the electronic device after the same has been stolen, the electronic device (1) further comprises means for detecting dismounting of the electronic device (1) from a motor vehicle as well as means for automatically establishing a short-distance wireless connection to another cellular telephone and automatically initializing a mobile wireless connection to said other cellular telephone when an identification key for the other cellular telephone is to be or is stored for the first time in the memory element (28) after restarting the electronic device once dismounting has been detected.
US08138894B2	Vehicle control system and method, and component devices An in-vehicle device notifies a mobile device of a frequency channel which has been stored in its memory unit, and sets the notified channel to a reception channel. The mobile device transmits a reply signal through the channel notified from the in-vehicle device. When the in-vehicle device determines that a code included in the received reply signal is identical with a code specific to a vehicle, the in-vehicle device stores the channel used for receiving the reply signal in its memory unit. As a result, each communication is conducted through the same channel, which enabled the successful communication previously, thereby enhancing the certainty of communication.
US08138891B2	RFID network control and redundancy In accordance with the preferred embodiment and alternative embodiments of the invention, RFID network control devices (RNCDs) are provided wherein RFID traffic signals from any one of multiple RFID readers may be routed to any of the RFID antennas coupled to the RNCD. Each reader coupled directly or indirectly to the RNCD, either through its own action or the action of the external host controller managing the reader, may issue commands to the RNCD, over the same cable used to carry RFID traffic signals, and cause the RNCD to set its internal switch configuration such that a channel is established for RFID traffic signals between that reader and a particular RFID antenna coupled to the RNCD. This may include commands from the reader or external host controller which place other intervening RNCD units in a bypass state so as to establish the required communications channel with a minimum of signal strength loss.
US08138884B2	Access control system having multiple sensing antenna coils An access control system has at least two antenna coils (12, 13 and 14, 15) arranged one behind the other at an entrance lane (4) and connected to a reading device (20), which with a capacitance (40, 41) form an oscillating circuit (30, 31). Here either the one oscillating circuit (30, 31) with the in entrance direction (5) first antenna coil (12, 13) or the other oscillating circuit with the second antenna coil (14, 15) is actuated by the reading device (20), in order to read out data for the purpose of access authorization from a transponder (22) which is carried by a user and has a transponder coil (24) coupleable with the antenna coils (12 to 15). The oscillating circuit (30, 31) not actuated by the reading device (20) is detuned or short-circuited.
US08138882B2	Securing premises using surfaced-based computing technology An approach is provided that that uses an electronic multi-touch floor covering that has numerous sensors to identify shapes. The electronic multi-touch floor covering identifies a shape of an object that is in contact with the surface of the electronic multi-touch floor covering. An entity record is then retrieved from a data store, such as a database, with the retrieved entity record corresponding to the identified shape. Actions are then retrieved from a second data store with the actions corresponding to the retrieved entity record. The retrieved actions are then executed by the computer system.
US08138878B2	Current-compensated choke and method for producing a current-compensated choke The invention relates to a current-compensated choke with a ring core at least two coils composed in each case of the same number of windings, wherein in the interior of the ring core a non-conductive body is arranged with holes embodied in pairs in a mirror symmetrical manner to a symmetry axis of the ring core, wherein respectively one winding is guided through each hole of at least some of the pairs of symmetrical holes, and windings corresponding to one another of different coils are guided through the two holes comprising a pair, and a method for producing a current-compensated choke of this type.
US08138875B2	Inductively powered apparatus An inductive power supply system for providing power to one or more inductively powered devices. The system includes a mechanism for varying the physical distance or the respective orientation between the primary coil and secondary coil to control the amount of power supplied to the inductively powered device. In another aspect, the present invention is directed to an inductive power supply system having a primary coil and a receptacle disposed within the magnetic field generated by the primary coil. One or more inductively powered devices are placed randomly within the receptacle to receive power inductively from the primary coil. The power supply circuit includes circuitry for adjusting the power supplied to the primary coil to optimize operation based on the position and cumulative characteristics of the inductively powered device(s) disposed within the receptacle.
US08138873B2	Permanent magnet device A magnet arrangement for creating a magnetic field. The magnet arrangement includes a first magnet having a first surface defining a first pole and a second surface defining a second pole opposite the first pole, and a second magnet having a third surface defining a third pole and a fourth surface defining a fourth pole opposite the third pole. The second surface has a higher magnetic flux density than the first surface. The third surface has a higher magnetic flux density than the fourth surface. The second magnet is spaced from the first magnet to define a first gap between the second surface and the third surface. Magnetic field lines of the magnetic field run from the first surface to the second surface, from the second surface to the third surface through the first gap, and from the third surface to the fourth surface.
US08138869B1	Accessory device with magnetic attachment A magnetic attachment mechanism and method is described. The magnetic attachment mechanism can be used to releasably attach at least two objects together in a preferred configuration without fasteners and without external intervention. The magnetic attachment mechanism can be used to releasably attach an accessory device to an electronic device. The accessory device can be used to augment the functionality of usefulness of the electronic device.
US08138868B2	Method and structure for magnetically-directed, self-assembly of three-dimensional structures A magnetically directed, self-assembled structure has a first body. The first body includes a single magnet or plurality of magnets disposed thereon to form a spatially variable magnetic field in a first predetermined pattern. A second body has a single magnet or plurality of magnets disposed thereon to form a spatially variable magnetic field in a second predetermined pattern. The second predetermined pattern is complementary to the first pattern. The first body is attracted to the second body with an attractive force greater than a mixture force such that the first body and second body are fully aligned to each other and bonded together.
US08138851B2	High bandwidth programmable transmission line equalizer A transmission line equalizer includes multiple signal paths connected in parallel between an equalizer input signal and an output amplifier where each signal path has a network implementing a specific frequency dependent response and each signal path implements current gain amplification with one or more of the signal paths having a variable gain programmed through a time invariant, DC programming signal. Furthermore, one or more of the signal paths implements linear-to-nonlinear signal transformations and compensating nonlinear-to-linear signal transformations to generate linearized output signals at the one or more signal paths. The equalizer further includes the output amplifier summing output signals from the multiple signal paths to generate an equalized output signal. In operation, the gain of the one or more signal paths is varied to establish the relative proportions of the output signals generated by each signal path and summed at the output amplifier.
US08138850B2	Feeding apparatus for a semi-circular shape waveguide with feeding segments offset from the midpoint of the semi-circular waveguide A feeding apparatus is utilized for a waveguide. The waveguide includes an opening and a bottom periphery around the opening. The bottom periphery includes a feeding side. The feeding apparatus includes a substrate and a feeding segment. The substrate is connected to the bottom periphery of the waveguide. The feeding segment installed in the substrate is utilized for feeding a signal into the waveguide, which the feeding segment extends to the opening from a position of the feeding side different from midpoint of the feeding side.
US08138839B2	Wideband CMOS gain stage A CMOS gain stage includes biasing circuitry configured to insure saturation of a subsequent stage without a source follower circuit. The CMOS gain stage is optionally powered by a supply voltage that is greater than a permitted supply voltage for a processes technology that is used to fabricate the CMOS gain stage. In order to protect CMOS devices within the CMOS gain stage, optional drain-to-bulk junction punch-through protection circuitry is disclosed. A variety of optional features can be implemented alone and/or in various combinations of one another. Optional features include process-voltage-temperature (“PVT”) variation protection circuitry, which renders a gain relatively independent of process, voltage, and/or temperature variations. Optional features further include bandwidth enhancement circuitry.
US08138836B2	Emitter-follower type bias circuit An emitter-follower bias circuit supplying a bias voltage to the base of an amplification transistor includes: a depletion mode FET boosting a reference voltage; and an emitter-follower circuit generating the bias voltage in response to the reference voltage boosted by the depletion mode FET.
US08138834B2	Current control circuit, class AB operational amplifier system and current control method A current control circuit for controlling a bias current of a class AB operational amplifier includes: a low current source, for generating a low bias current; a high current source, for generating a high bias current, which is greater than the low bias current; and a comparing and selecting unit, coupled to an output terminal of the class AB operational amplifier, for selecting one of the low bias current and the high bias current to output as the bias current according to an output voltage of the class AB OP.
US08138830B2	Variable gain instrumentation amplifier Techniques for providing an instrumentation amplifier having a plurality of selectable gain settings. In an exemplary embodiment, a gain adjustment block for accepting a differential input voltage is coupled to a differential-to-single-ended conversion block for generating a single-ended output voltage. The gain adjustment block may have a plurality of gain settings selectable by one or more switches. The instrumentation amplifier advantageously offers precise gain control without the need for external calibration, while being robust and simple to design.
US08138826B1	Apparatus and method for complete elimination of input coupling capacitors in signal amplification A circuit and method for signal amplification is provided. The circuit includes an amplifier including an input amplifier that is arranged to receive an input analog signal, and to provide an input amplifier output signal by amplifying the input analog signal. The amplifier further includes a DC offset correction circuit that is arranged to determine a DC offset correction for the input amplifier each time the amplifier is powered up. The DC offset correction is performed by iteratively adjusting a DC offset of the input amplifier until the input amplifier output DC offset is zero when the input analog AC signal is zero, within a predetermined tolerance. The DC offset correction circuit is further arranged to provide the determined DC offset correction to the input amplifier during operation of the amplifier.
US08138825B2	Multi-chip stack structure and signal transmission method thereof A multi-chip stack structure and a signal transmission method are disclosed in specification and drawing, where the multi-chip stack structure includes first and second chips. The first chip includes a first inductance coil with a first series capacitor, and the second chip includes a second inductance coil with a second series capacitor. The first and second inductance coils are magnetically coupled to each other. The magnetically coupled inductance coils and the capacitors constitute a coupling filter.
US08138819B2	Driving transistor control circuit A control circuit controls a driving transistor connected in series with an electrical load between a power supply voltage and a ground. The control circuit includes a pull-up resistor connected at one end to a power supply voltage side of the driving transistor, a current detection resistor for detecting an electric current flowing from the driving transistor to the ground, a current mirror circuit including a starting transistor connected between the pull-up transistor and the current detection resistor. The current mirror circuit supplies a mirror current of the electric current. The control circuit further includes a current source circuit for supplying a driving current to a control terminal of the driving transistor in accordance with the mirror current to turn ON the driving transistor in response to an external control signal.
US08138818B2	Gate drive apparatus A gate drive apparatus including a constant-current-pulse gate drive circuit which creates a gate signal for a switching device as a constant-current output, a constant-voltage-pulse gate drive circuit which creates the gate signal as a constant-voltage output, and a decision/switch circuit which switches the operation of the constant-current-pulse gate drive circuit and the operation of the constant-voltage-pulse gate drive circuit. The variance of switching speeds attributed to the variances of threshold voltages and mirror voltages in a plurality of switching devices which are driven by the gate drive apparatus can be suppressed, and the variance of losses can be minimized.
US08138801B1	Frequency crossing detection using opposing pattern detectors A system and method are provided for matching a signal (compClk) to a particular frequency band in a multiband communications device. The method accepts a compClk signal, a frequency source is selected from sources collectively covering a range of frequency bands, and a reference clock is supplied from the selected source. If the frequency of the compClk is greater than the reference clock frequency, a high frequency window sampler supplies a first frequency pattern detector output signal (fpdOut—1). Simultaneously, a low frequency window sampler compares the compClk signal with the reference clock. If the frequency of the compClk is less than the reference clock frequency, the low frequency window sampler supplies a second frequency pattern detector output signal (fpdOut—2). The selected frequency source is compared to fpdOut—1 and fpdOut—2 signals, and a determination is made as to whether the selected frequency source coarsely matches the compClk frequency.
US08138800B2	Phase detecting circuit and PLL circuit A phase detecting circuit includes a latch circuit that switches, based on an OR signal and an AND signal of two clock signals to be subjected to phase comparison, one of outputs used for generation of two pulse signals on an advance phase side and a delay phase side to a preparation operation state for performing the phase comparison and a circuit operation state after the phase comparison, and holds the output in the states.
US08138799B2	Inter-phase skew detection circuit for multi-phase clock, inter-phase skew adjustment circuit, and semiconductor integrated circuit An inter-phase skew detection circuit includes a frequency division circuit that frequency-divides N-phase clocks to be measured at predetermined timings so as to generate N+2 frequency-divided clocks; a phase comparison target clock generation circuit that generates N phase comparison target clocks by using predetermined N frequency-divided clocks among the N+2 frequency-divided clocks; a phase comparison reference clock generation circuit that generates N reference clocks by using the N+2 frequency-divided clocks, in accordance with predetermined combinations between the N+2 frequency-divided clocks and an operation criterion; and a phase comparison circuit that detects respective phase differences between the N phase comparison target clocks and the corresponding N reference clocks.
US08138797B1	Integrated circuits with asymmetric pass transistors Asymmetric transistors such as asymmetric pass transistors may be formed on an integrated circuit. The asymmetric transistors may have gate structures. Symmetric pocket implants may be formed in source-drains on opposing sides of each transistor gate structure. Selective heating may be used to asymmetrically diffuse the implants. Selective heating may be implemented by patterning the gate structures on a semiconductor substrate so that the spacing between adjacent gate structures varies. A given gate structure may be located between first and second adjacent gate structures spaced at different respective distances from the given gate structure. A larger gate structure spacing leads to a greater substrate temperature rise than a smaller gate structure spacing. The pocket implant diffuses more in portions of the substrate with the greater temperature rise, producing asymmetric transistors. Asymmetric pass transistors may be controlled by static control signals from memory elements to implement circuits such as programmable multiplexers.
US08138791B1	Stressed transistors with reduced leakage Integrated circuits with stressed transistors are provided. Stressing transistors may increase transistor threshold voltage without the need to increase channel doping. Stressing transistors may reduce total leakage currents. It may be desirable to compressively stress N-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor (NMOS) transistors and tensilely stress P-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor (PMOS) transistors to reduce leakage currents. Techniques that can be used to alter the amount of stressed experienced by transistors may include forming a stress-inducing layer, forming a stress liner, forming diffusion active regions using silicon germanium, silicon carbon, or standard silicon, implementing transistors in single-finger instead of multi-finger configurations, and implanting particles. Any combination of these techniques may be used to provide appropriate amounts of stress to increase the performance or decrease the total leakage current of a transistor.
US08138783B2	Testable integrated circuit and IC test method A circuit portion (100) of an IC comprises a plurality of conductive tracks (130) for coupling respective circuit portion elements (150), e.g. standard logic cells, to a power supply rail (110), with the conductive tracks (130) being coupled to the power supply rail (110) via at least one enable switch (132). The circuit portion (100) further comprising an element (160) for determining a voltage gradient over the circuit portion (100) in a test mode of the integrated circuit (600), which is conductively coupled to the conductive tracks (130). The element (160) has a first end portion (164) for coupling the element (160) to the power supply terminal and a second end portion (166) for coupling the element (160) to the output (620) in the test mode. This facilitates IDDQ testing of the circuit portion (100) by means of measuring a voltage gradient over the element (160).
US08138780B2	LCD panel apparatus and testing method using the same An LCD panel apparatus comprises a pixel array, a first common electrode terminal, a second common electrode terminal, a plurality of first current directional devices and a plurality of second current directional devices. The pixel array comprises a plurality of common lines. Each first current directional device is connected in series between a first side of each common line and the first common electrode terminal. Each second current directional device is connected in series between a second side of each common line and the first common electrode terminal. The second common electrode terminal is connected between the first side of each common line and each first current directional device. The current flows through each common line in a single direction so as to detect any defects in the common line. The testing method for the LCD panel apparatus includes the steps of: providing a first current directional device and connecting the first current directional device in series between a first side of each common line and a first common electrode terminal; providing a second current directional device and connecting the second current directional device in series between a second side of each common line and the first common electrode terminal; providing a second electrode terminal and electrically connecting the second electrode terminal between each first current directional device and the first side of each common line; and supplying different voltages to the first common electrode terminal and the second common electrode terminal, thereby the current flows through each common line in a same direction during testing.
US08138778B1	Apparatus for high density low cost automatic test applications An apparatus for testing radio frequency (RF) and/or mixed signal semiconductor devices and or modules is described. specifically described is how the distributed stimulus for RF automatic test applications, unified testhead for automatic test applications, reverse card backplane for automatic test applications, direct coaxial interface for automatic test applications, cable-free interface for automatic test applications, micromachine switch matrix for automatic test applications, device specific module high speed date for RF automatic test applications may be used within tester apparatus described herein or in other test applications. Additionally a high speed date communications test apparatus which may be used in a variety of device testers is described herein.
US08138777B2	TCP-type semiconductor device and method of testing thereof A TCP-type semiconductor device has: a base film; a semiconductor chip mounted on the base film; and a plurality of leads formed on the base film. Each lead has: a first terminal portion including a first end that is one end of the each lead and connected to the semiconductor chip; and a second terminal portion including a second end that is the other end of the each lead and located on the opposite side of the first terminal portion. I a terminal region including the second terminal portion of the each lead, the plurality of leads are parallel to each other along a first direction, the plurality of leads include a first lead and a second lead that are adjacent to each other, and the first lead and the second lead are different in a position of the second end in the first direction.
US08138774B2	Method of determining the diameter of a hole in a workpiece A method of determining the diameter of a hole extending from a surface of an electrically conducting workpiece into or through the workpiece 1 is provided. The hole is defied at the workpiece's surface by an edge of diameter to be determined. For determining the diameter, the workpiece is electrically charged so that discharge occurs at the edges. The discharge current is measured and the diameter of the hole is determined from the measured discharge current.
US08138770B2	Methods and systems for the rapid detection of concealed objects The present invention provides for an improved scanning process having microwave arrays comprised of microwave transmitters in radiographic alignment with microwave receivers. The microwave array emits controllably directed microwave radiation toward an object under inspection. The object under inspection absorbs radiation in a manner dependent upon its metal content. The microwave radiation absorption can be used to generate a measurement of metal content. The measurement, in turn, can be used to calculate at least a portion of the volume and shape of the object under inspection. The measurement can be compared to a plurality of predefined threats. The microwave screening system is used in combination with other screening technologies, such as NQR-based screening, X-ray transmission based screening, X-ray scattered based screening, or Computed Tomography based screening.
US08138767B2	Transmissivity monitoring of an energy transmission element A method for monitoring transmissivity of an energy transmission element for a protective earth conductor and an electrical machine with such transmissivity monitoring are provided. For a cost-effective solution for transmissivity monitoring, the protective earth conductor of a first circuit is connected on a first side of the energy transmission element via a connecting line to a ground of a second circuit wherein a potential-free voltage supply is connected between the protective earth conductor and ground on a second side of the energy transmission element. A current flows through the energy transmission element and the connecting line that is produced by the potential-free voltage supply. The transmissivity of the energy transmission element is monitored using the current flow by a monitoring element which is arranged between the protective earth conductor and ground on the second side of the energy transmission element.
US08138766B2	Flashover analysis tool A method to minimize human intervention during decision making processes while controlling an electrical power system by identifying an initiating element that cause a tripping of the transmission overhead lines and identifying potential future protection system failures that can initiate a cascading of tripping or total national blackout. A method of producing flashover analysis signal as a protection system analysis including processing a neutral current, three phase current profile, three phase voltage profile, and a plurality of digital signal of a transmission line using an artificial neural network to calculate pickup time, reset time, DEF confirmation time or total fault clearance time. A method of producing flashover analysis signal including as a flashover signature analysis to identify the cause of the flashover as a current transformer explosion, tree encroachment, crane, lightning strike or polluted insulator.
US08138763B2	Method for quantitative separation of electromagnetic induction and induced polarization effects The invention relates to the field of electrical exploration and to the methods of determination of subterranean formations properties by means of electric parameters of subterranean formations measuring and separating of the parameters measured. The invention can be applied both in surface and marine electrical exploration using controlled sources of electromagnetic field, and is used in gas and oil exploration for searching and delimitation of oil and gas reservoirs basing on segregation of response from stratum, secondarily changed due to hydrocarbons migration, to split the measured signal to available components. The invention provides for a set of techniques that enable a layer-by-layer determination of geoelectrical parameters values, as well as process characteristics of induced medium polarization and electromagnetic induction.
US08138761B2	Receiver for a wireless magnetic resonance imaging scanner with notch-filters and a 90° hybrid couplers forming a complete circuit loop A receiver for a wireless magnetic resonance imaging system comprises a pair of substantially identical notch filters (22, 23) each having an input and output and first and second 90 degree hybrid couplers (21, 24). The notch filters are coupled together at each input and output by the first and second 90 degree hybrid couplers respectively.
US08138760B2	Temperature system with magnetic field suppression A temperature system is provided with magnetic field suppression. In one embodiment, the temperature system comprises a plurality of conductors patterned to conduct current in directions that generate 2N multipole magnetic moments that interact to suppress the magnetic fields generated by the current conducting through the plurality of conductors, where N is an integer that is greater than one.
US08138758B2	Method of controlling a magnetoresistive device using an electric field pulse A method of operating a magnetoresistive device is described. The device comprises a ferromagnetic region configured to exhibit magnetic anisotropy and to allow magnetisation thereof to be switched between at least first and second orientations and a gate capacitively coupled to the ferromagnetic region. The method comprises applying an electric field pulse to the ferromagnetic region so as to cause orientation of magnetic anisotropy to change for switching magnetisation between the first and second orientations.
US08138756B2	Microfiber magnetometer A magnetometer includes a tapered microfiber having a curved portion, an excitation laser in optical communication with the tapered microfiber, and a nanocrystal attached to the curved portion of the tapered microfiber. Laser light emitted from the excitation laser interacts with the nanocrystal to create an emitted photon flux which is monitored to detect a magnetic field passing through the nanocrystal.
US08138754B2	Method and apparatus for testing characteristics of thin-film magnetic head The characteristics of thin-film magnetic heads are evaluated by measuring, in a step and repeat method and apparatus, the magnetic field generated by the respective heads in a bar including multiple heads.
US08138751B2	Magnetic rotation sensing for meter Embodiments for rotation sensing are provided. A device may include a magnet apparatus including a first and a second magnet. The magnet apparatus may be configured to be coupled to a dial apparatus of a meter. The device may include a first magnetic field sensor and a second magnetic field sensor configured to be coupled to a dial cover. The magnetic field sensors may generate signals based upon the sensed magnetic fields. In some embodiments, the device may include logic for counting rotations and/or logic for detecting abnormal conditions such as a missing dial hand, missing dial cover, magnetic tampering and/or malfunctioning magnetic field sensors.
US08138747B2	Evaluation method for evaluating battery safety in the event of internal short circuit and evaluation apparatus used therefor The present invention relates to an internal short circuit evaluation method for a battery including an electrode group including a positive electrode plate, a negative electrode plate and a separator disposed between the positive electrode plate and the negative electrode plate, and an outer jacket covering the electrode group, the method including the steps of: (I) processing the electrode group to a predetermined position of the electrode group, from the outside of the electrode group toward the inside thereof; and (II) causing a short circuit between a portion of the electrode plate and a portion of the negative electrode plate of the electrode group that are located inside from the predetermined position, and measuring battery information that is changed by the short circuit, and an evaluation apparatus used for the above-described method.
US08138737B2	Duty cycle controller for power factor correction circuit A power factor correction circuit includes a first rectifier to rectify an AC voltage, a series circuit connected to an output of the first rectifier and including a step-up reactor and a switching element, a rectifying-smoothing circuit connected to both ends of the switching element and including a second rectifier and a smoothing capacitor, an input voltage detector to detect an output voltage of the first rectifier, an output voltage detector to detect a voltage across the smoothing capacitor, an error amplifier to amplify an error between the output voltage signal and a reference voltage, and a controller to determine an ON/OFF duty ratio of the switching element according to the amplified error signal and a result of a calculation carried out on the input voltage signal and output voltage signal.
US08138729B2	Generation control apparatus for vehicles that controls current supply to a field winding of a generator to control output voltage of the generator The present invention provides, as one aspect, a generation control apparatus for vehicles which controls current supply to a field winding of a generator to control output voltage of the generator. The apparatus includes a switching element connected to the field winding, and a duty determining unit that increases a drive duty for interrupting the switching element when output voltage of the generator becomes lower than a predetermined regulated voltage. The apparatus also includes a load response control unit that performs load response control for limiting an increase rate of the drive duty determined by the duty determining unit, after expiration of a predetermined time from application of an electrical load.
US08138726B2	Electronics with multiple charge rate One or more buttons, located either on a battery pack or on an electronic device powered by the battery pack, that allow the user to charge the battery of a portable device faster than normal. Electronic circuitry is provided for activating the charge mode choices.
US08138725B2	Simulated fast recharge of power supply A fraction of the battery energy is kept in reserve during operational use of a battery-powered apparatus. The motor of the apparatus is switched off when the battery has discharged to the level of this reserve fraction. The reserve is made available again for operational use when the user has recharged the apparatus for a little while. This approach 5 simulates a super fast charging operation.
US08138723B2	Remote battery charging system with dynamic voltage adjustment and method of use In a remote battery charging system comprising a charging circuit there is always a voltage loss due to inherent resistances in the system from such things as connectors and conductors. These resistances create voltages losses in the system such that charging time are increased substantially. The present invention compensates for voltage losses on the system by generating a dynamic adjustment voltage over the charging period. A voltage translator circuit is used to measure charging circuit output voltage and current over a plurality of incremental time periods during the charging period an calculate a signal proportional to changes in output voltage and current over the incremental time period. The signal is then applied to the charging circuit to offset any voltage losses.
US08138719B2	Battery state monitoring circuit and battery device Provided are a battery state monitoring circuit and a battery device which are capable of inhibiting discharge without enabling an overdischarge cell balance function when an overcurrent detection circuit detects a discharge overcurrent, without the need for an additional terminal of the battery state monitoring circuit. A detection signal of the overcurrent detection circuit is input to each of a communication terminal for overdischarge signal and a communication terminal for overcharge signal included in the battery state monitoring circuit provided on a side of the overcurrent detection circuit. An overdischarge cell balance circuit outputs a cell balance signal when an overdischarge detection signal indicates an overdischarge non-detected state, an overdischarge signal indicates an overdischarge detected state, and an overcharge signal indicates an overcharge non-detected state.
US08138718B2	Docking bay for conditionally supplying battery recharging energy to a vehicle utilizing non plug-in electrical contact between a pair of docking bay contacts and a pair of vehicle contacts Docking bays for providing energy to vehicles having a rechargeable battery are disclosed. A given docking bay includes a pair of normally de-energized, unprotected, docking bay contacts for making electrical contact with cooperative vehicle contacts when the vehicle is driven into the docking bay. Typically the vehicle will be an electric vehicle, but is not necessarily an electric vehicle. The given docking bay also includes a contact energizer having an output operatively connected to the docking bay contacts and an input connectable to an external source of energy, for example a domestic AC power grid. The energizer is switchable in response to an energizer control signal from a first state where battery recharging energy is not provided to the docking bay contacts to a second state where battery recharging energy derived from the external source is provided to the docking bay contacts. A controller is operatively connected to the energizer.
US08138715B2	Network-controlled charging system for electric vehicles through use of a remote server A network-controlled charge transfer device for electric vehicles includes a control device to turn electric supply on and off to enable and disable charge transfer for electric vehicles, a transceiver to communicate requests for charge transfer with a remote server and receive communications from the remote server, and a controller, coupled with the control device and the transceiver, to cause the control device to turn the electric supply on based on communication from the remote server.
US08138697B2	Sensorless speed detection during zero vector A speed estimation method for determining the speed of a sensorless permanent magnet brushless motor having one or more phases driven by one or more stages of an inverter, each stage including high- and low-switches connected in series across a DC Bus and having a respective common switched node, the respective switched node being coupled to a respective motor phase terminal. The method includes the steps of applying an alternating sequence of Zero Vectors to the inverter, the sequence alternating between a first Zero Vector whereby motor current does not flow in the DC Bus and a second Zero Vector wherein the high and low side switches of the inverter are alternately turned on with active vector components being injected by the inverter for each inverter stage thereby to allow motor current to flow in the DC Bus, whereby the terminals of the motor during the first and second Zero Vectors are shorted to brake the motor without substantially raising the voltage of the DC Bus during the braking time; and the speed of the motor can be determined by measuring the current in a sensor of the DC bus during the time when the second Zero Vector is applied without using a sensor in the motor.
US08138691B2	Multi-channel driving circuit and driving method thereof A driving method of a multi-channel driving circuit includes: receiving multiple driving signals corresponding to multiple to-be-driven elements, providing multiple randomized time delays, respectively adjusting the driving signals according to the randomized time delays to generate multiple delayed driving signals, and respectively driving the corresponding to-be-driven elements according to the delayed driving signals.
US08138682B2	Symmetrical RF power supply for inductively coupled electrodeless lamps A radio frequency (RF) power supply for an electrodeless lamp includes a pair of DC rails, an RF inverter having power input terminals connected between the rails, a first inductor arranged to inductively couple with an electrodeless lamp, first and second resonance capacitors that each connects a respective one of two input terminals of the first inductor to a same first rail of the pair of DC rails, and a second (ballasting) inductor connecting an output of the RF inverter to one of the two input terminals of the first inductor. Thus, the first inductor is connected in a symmetrical π-filter and supplied by two equal but phase-opposite voltages whose sum is the lamp voltage. The inductance of the ballasting inductor is significantly reduced so that the RF efficiency of the power supply is 96%.
US08138676B2	Methods and systems for dimmable fluorescent lighting using multiple frequencies A system for operating a fluorescent light is provided. The system comprises: a fluorescent lamp with at least one electrode having at least one corresponding heating filament; a filament signal power supply for providing a filament current signal having a filament current frequency, the filament signal power supply connected to create a filament current through the at least one filament; and a plasma signal power supply for providing a plasma power signal having a plasma power frequency, the plasma signal power supply connected to create a plasma current between the at least one electrode and a gas contained in the fluorescent lamp. The plasma power frequency is greater than the filament current frequency.
US08138675B2	Stabilized emissive structures and methods of making An emitter is disclosed. The emitter includes a base layer comprising an array of nanocavities on an emission surface of the base layer, wherein facets of the nanocavities are substantially along equivalent crystallographic planes of one or more families of planes having substantially equal surface energies, wherein the equivalent crystallographic planes have surface energies equal to or lower than a surface energy of the crystallographic plane of the emission surface. Methods of making such emitters and radiation sources including such emitters are also disclosed.
US08138669B2	Double-emission organic light emitting diode display device A double-emission organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device to display images on both sides includes two substrates each having an independently-drivable OLED bonded to each other to prevent breakage due to external pressure and decrease power consumption. The OLED display device includes a first substrate, a first OLED disposed on the first substrate and having at least one first emission layer, a conductive layer disposed on the first OLED, a second OLED disposed on the conductive layer and having at least one second emission layer, and a second substrate disposed on the second OLED. Alternatively, the OLED display device includes a sealant disposed along edges of the first and second substrates to bond the first substrate to the second substrate, and a conductive filler disposed between the first and second substrates.
US08138665B2	Liquid metal wetting of micro-fabricated charge-emission structures Described is a micro-fabricated charged particle emission device including a substrate and a plurality of charged particle emission sites formed in the substrate. A path extends between each emission site and a source of liquid metal. Each path is coated with a wetting layer of non-oxidizing metal for wetting the liquid metal. Exemplary non-oxidizing metals that may be used to provide the wetting layer include gold and platinum. The wetting layer is sufficiently thin such that some liquid metal is able to flow to each emission site despite any chemical interaction between the liquid metal and the non-oxidizing metal of the wetting layer.
US08138662B2	Electrode for a discharge lamp An electrode for a discharge lamp (I) with a core (11) and a sheath (12), which surrounds at least regions of the core (11). The sheath (12) has, in the longitudinal direction (A), a continuous bore (121), which has a first diameter (d1) in a first subregion and a second diameter (d2) in a second subregion.
US08138654B2	System and method for generator stator mounting In one embodiment, a system includes a stator mounting kit that includes multiple radial adjustment shims having different thicknesses from one another. The stator mounting kit also includes multiple stator alignment adapters having different circumferential alignments between a keybar mount and a spring bar mount. The stator mounting kit is configured to enable radial and circumferential alignment between each spring bar and respective keybar in a stator framework via selection of one of the stator alignment adapters and selection of one or more of the radial adjustment shims.
US08138647B2	Pulse adapter assembly A pulse adapter assembly that includes a pulse assembly that has a housing with a cavity disposed therein that receives a sensing device and a driven magnet. The adapter assembly has a shaft having a bearing assembly thereon and driver magnet wherein the shaft is disposed within the cavity of the pulse assembly such that the driven magnet and driver magnet couple to position the driven magnet at a predetermined distance from the sensing device. A workpiece such as a flow meter is attached to the adapter assembly wherein the sensing device monitors the driven magnet to determine an operational parameter of the workpiece.
US08138643B2	Motor-driven compressor An electric motor includes a cylindrical stator that is formed with a plurality of slots. The cylindrical stator has polyphase coils that are formed by winding a plurality of conductive wires in the slots to have polyphase, a wire bundle and an insulating tube covering the wire bundle. Each conductive wire includes a core wire and an insulator that covering the core wire. The wire bundle has a drawing portion, a connecting portion and an elongated portion that is elongated between the drawing portion and the connecting portion for increasing creepage distance between the connecting portion and the housing thereby to increase insulation resistance. The connecting portion of the wire bundle provides a neutral point of the electric motor. The elongated portion and the connecting portion of the wire bundle are covered with the insulating tube.
US08138637B2	Electrical energy transmission device An electrical energy transmission device has phase conductors, which carry alternating current and have transfer impedance, and sheathed conductors, which are inductively coupled to the phase conductors. A first end and a second end of each sheathed conductor form a sheath circuit with a reactance. An electronic assembly for changing the impedance of the sheath circuit is provided. The electrical energy transmission device can be used flexibly given different demands placed on the energy transmission. The electronic assembly is also configured to increase the transfer impedance.
US08138631B2	Advanced renewable energy harvesting The power of DC electrical sources is combined onto a DC buss, such that each source behaves independently from any other source attached to the buss. In one embodiment, a converter module is attached to each of a plurality of solar photovoltaic panels and its output is attached in a parallel manner to a common buss that forms the input to a DC AC inverter. The converter module includes a Maximum Power Point Tracking component that matches the output impedance of the panels to the input impedance of the converter module. The converter also includes a communication component that provides parametric data and identification to a central inverter. Data generated by each converter module is transmitted over the power line or by wireless means and is collected at the inverter and forwarded to a data collection and reporting system.
US08138627B2	Power management of network-connected devices in peak power periods A system and method are provided for managing network-connected devices in peak power periods. The method establishes a network of connected devices, identifying a first device in the network as an off-peak device, and a second device as a peak device. If a peak power warning signal is detected, the off-peak device is disabled, but not the peak device. Any job destined for the off-peak device from a source device is relayed to the peak device and processed by the peak device. If the job destined for the off-peak device is a job format associated with the off-peak device, relaying the job to the peak device may further include the operation of converting the job to a job format associated with the peak device. In one aspect, a destination change message is sent to the source device, indicating the location of the peak device processing the job.
US08138620B2	Methods and systems for operating a wind turbine power converter A method for providing an output power to a load is described. The method includes coupling a multi-thread power converter system to an alternating current (AC) generator and to a load and monitoring at least one operating characteristic of the AC generator. The method also includes providing the multi-thread power converter system with one of a first switching pattern and a second switching pattern based at least partially on the at least one monitored operating characteristic. The method also includes configuring the multi-thread power converter system to operate in accordance with the first switching pattern and the second switching pattern and to convert an AC input power provided by the generator to an output power for delivery to the load.
US08138613B2	Microelectronic devices Microelectronic devices and methods for manufacturing microelectronic devices are described herein. An embodiment of one such method includes attaching a plurality of singulated microelectronic dies to a removable support member with an active side of the individual dies facing toward the support member, depositing a flowable material onto the dies and a portion of the removable support member such that the flowable material covers a back side of the individual dies and is disposed between adjacent dies, and removing the support member from the active sides of the dies.
US08138612B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device including: a semiconductor substrate including an electrode; a resin protrusion formed on the semiconductor substrate and including a plurality of first portions and a second portion disposed between two of the first portions adjacent to each other; and an interconnect electrically connected to the electrode and extending over one of the first portions of the resin protrusion. A lower portion of a side surface of the second portion includes a portion which extends in a direction intersecting a direction in which the resin protrusion extends.
US08138608B2	Integrated circuit package substrate having configurable bond pads Methods, systems, and apparatuses for integrated circuit package substrates, integrated circuit packages, and processes for assembling the same, are provided. A substrate for a flip chip integrated circuit package includes a substrate body having opposing first and second surfaces. A solder mask layer covers at least a portion of the first surface of the substrate body. First and second electrically conductive features are formed on the substrate body. The first electrically conductive feature is a portion of a first electrical signal net, and the second electrically conductive feature is a portion of a second electrical signal net. The first and second electrically conductive features are configured to be selectively electrically coupled together by application of an electrically conductive material. The electrically conductive material may be a conductive epoxy, a jumper, a solder paste, a solder ball, or a solder bump that couples a flip chip die to the substrate.
US08138606B2	Wiring conductor, method for fabricating same, terminal connecting assembly, and Pb-free solder alloy A Pb-free Sn-based material part of a wiring conductor is provided at least at a part of its surface, and the Sn-based material part includes a base metal doped with an oxidation control element. The oxidation control element is at least one element selected from a group consisted of P, Ge, K, Zn, Cr, Mn, Na, V, Si, Ti, Al, Li, Mg and Ca. The wiring conductor is reflow processed, such that at least one of the Sn and the oxidation control element is diffused to form an alloy.
US08138605B2	Multiple layer barrier metal for device component formed in contact trench A semiconductor device formed on a semiconductor substrate may include a component formed in a contact trench located in an active cell region. The component may comprise a barrier metal deposited on a bottom and portions of sidewalls of the contact trench and a tungsten plug deposited in a remaining portion of the contact trench. The barrier metal may comprise first and second metal layers. The first metal layer may be proximate to the sidewall and the bottom of the contact trench. The first metal layer may include a nitride. The second metal layer may be between the first metal layer and the tungsten plug and between the tungsten plug and the sidewall. The second metal layer covers portions of the sidewalls of not covered by the first metal layer.
US08138595B2	Integrated circuit packaging system with an intermediate pad and method of manufacture thereof A method of manufacture of an integrated circuit packaging system includes: forming an elevated contact above and between a lead and a die pad that is coplanar with the lead; connecting an integrated circuit and the lead; attaching a jumper interconnect between the elevated contact and the lead; and forming an encapsulant over the integrated circuit, the lead, the die pad, the elevated contact, and the jumper interconnect, the encapsulant having a recess in a base side with the elevated contact exposed in the recess and the lead exposed from the base side.
US08138589B2	Semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same In fabrication of a semiconductor device mounted on a wiring board, a semiconductor circuit portion is formed over a glass substrate. Then, an interposer having connection terminals are bonded to the semiconductor circuit portion. After that, the glass substrate is peeled off from the semiconductor circuit portion, and a mold resin is poured to cover the periphery of the semiconductor circuit portion from a direction of the separation plane. Then, the mold resin is heated under predetermined conditions to be hardened.
US08138581B2	Semiconductor device with channel stop trench and method A semiconductor device is provided which includes a semiconductor substrate having a first surface, an active area and a peripheral area. The semiconductor device further includes least one channel stop trench formed in the semiconductor substrate, wherein the channel stop trench extends from the first surface at least partially into the semiconductor substrate and is arranged between the active area and the peripheral area. At least one electrode is arranged in the channel stop trench. The semiconductor substrate includes at least a peripheral contact region, which is arranged in the peripheral area at the first surface of the semiconductor substrate. A conductive layer is provided and in electrical contact with the electrode arranged in the channel stop trench and in electrical contact with the peripheral contact region. The conductive layer is electrically connected to the semiconductor substrate merely in the peripheral area and electrically insulated from the semiconductor substrate in the active area.
US08138580B2	Adhesive composition for electronic components, and adhesive sheet for electronic components using the same In order to provide an adhesive composition for electronic components that is excellent in adhesion durability under long-term high temperature conditions, thermal cyclability, and insulation reliability, designed is an adhesive composition for electronic components containing a thermoplastic resin (a), an epoxy resin (b), a hardener (c), and an organopolysiloxane (d), wherein the glass transition temperature (Tg) after curing is −10° C. to 50° C. and the rate of change of Tg after heat-treating the composition at 175° C. for 1000 hours is 15% or less.
US08138562B2	Bit line preparation method in MRAM fabrication A MRAM structure is disclosed that includes a metal contact bridge (MCB) which provides an electrical connection between a MTJ top electrode and an overlying bit line. The MCB has a width greater than a MTJ top electrode and serves as an etch stop during bit line etching to prevent sub-trenches from forming adjacent to the top electrode and causing shorts. MCBs also prevent insufficient etching that causes open circuits. A MCB is preferably a metal, metal compound, or alloy such as Ta with low resistivity and high conductivity. The MCB layer is patterned prior to using a dual damascene process to form a bit line contacting each MCB and a bit line pad connection to a word line pad. MCB thickness is thin enough to allow a strong bit line magnetic field for switching a free layer and large enough to function as an efficient oxide etch stop.
US08138556B2	Pre-released structure device A pre-released structure device comprising: at least one first stacking, comprising at least one first layer based on at least one first material, arranged against a second stacking comprising at least one second layer based on at least one second material, at least one closed cavity, formed in the first and/or the second stacking, and arranged between a portion of the first stacking forming the pre-released structure and the second stacking, at least one spacer arranged in the cavity and linking the portion of the first stacking to the second stacking.
US08138555B2	Semiconductor device and its manufacturing method An object of the present invention is to provide an active matrix type display unit having a pixel structure in which a pixel electrode formed in a pixel portion, a scanning line (gate line) and a data line are suitably arranged, and high numerical aperture is realized without increasing the number of masks and the number of processes. In this display unit, a first wiring arranged between a semiconductor film and a substrate through a first insulating film is overlapped with this semiconductor film and is used as a light interrupting film. Further, a second insulating film used as a gate insulating film is formed on the semiconductor film. A gate electrode and a second wiring are formed on the second insulating film. The first and second wirings cross each other through the first and second insulating films. A third insulating film is formed as an interlayer insulating film on the second wiring, and a pixel electrode is formed on this third insulating film. The pixel electrode can be overlapped with the first and second wirings so that an area of the pixel electrode can be increased in the display unit of a reflection type.
US08138554B2	Semiconductor device with local interconnects A semiconductor device with local interconnects is provided. The semiconductor device comprises a first gate line structure and a second gate line structure disposed on a substrate and substantially collinear. A first pair of source/drain regions is formed in the substrate on both sides of the first gate line structure and a second pair of source/drain regions is formed in the substrate on both sides of the second gate line structure. A pair of conductive lines is disposed on the substrate on both sides of the first gate line structure and the second gate line structure, such that each conductive line is connected to one of the first pair of source/drain regions and one of the second pair of source/drain regions.
US08138538B2	Interconnect structure for semiconductor devices One embodiment relates to an integrated circuit formed on a semiconductor body having interconnect between source/drain regions of a first and second transistor. The interconnect includes a metal body arranged underneath the surface of the semiconductor body. A contact element establishes electrical contact between the metal body and the source/drain regions of the first and second transistor. The contact element extends along a connecting path between the source/drain regions of the first and second transistors. Other methods, devices, and systems are also disclosed.
US08138527B2	Transistor and semiconductor device An accumulation mode transistor has an impurity concentration of a semiconductor layer in a channel region at a value higher than 2×1017 cm−3 to achieve a large gate voltage swing.
US08138521B2	Thyristor semiconductor device and switching method thereof The objective of this invention is to provide a semiconductor device having a thyristor that can shorten the turn-off time. A first electroconductive type first semiconductor region 20 is formed on a substrate, and a second electroconductive type second semiconductor region 22, a second electroconductive type third semiconductor region 23, designated as an anode, and a first electroconductive type fourth semiconductor region 24, designated as an anode gate, are formed on the surface layer part of the first semiconductor region. Also, a first electroconductive type fifth semiconductor region 26, designated as a cathode, and a second electroconductive type sixth semiconductor region 25, designated as a cathode gate, are formed on the surface layer part of the second semiconductor region. A gate insulating film 30 and a gate electrode 31 are formed in an upper layer of the second semiconductor region in a region from a boundary of the first semiconductor region and the second semiconductor region to a boundary of the second semiconductor region and the fifth semiconductor region, and an electroconductive layer for input and output is formed in the third semiconductor region, fourth semiconductor region, sixth semiconductor region, and fifth semiconductor region. A thyristor is constituted by the third semiconductor region, the first semiconductor region, the second semiconductor region, and the fifth semiconductor region.
US08138520B2	Bi-directional diode structure In one embodiment, a bi-directional diode structure is formed to have a substantially symmetrical current-voltage characteristic.
US08138516B2	Light emitting diode A light emitting diode is provided, comprising: a substrate; a metal wiring layer disposed on the substrate; alight emitting element provided on the metal wiring layer; wherein the light emitting element comprises: a semiconductor light emitting layer having a first semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second semiconductor layer formed from the substrate side sequentially; a transparent insulating layer provided on the substrate side of the semiconductor light emitting layer; a first electrode part and a second electrode part provided on the substrate side of the transparent insulating layer in such a manner as being separated from each other, and joined to the metal wiring layer; a first contact part provided so as to pass through the transparent insulating layer and electrically connecting the first electrode part and the first semiconductor layer; and a second contact part provided so as to pass through the transparent insulating layer, the first semiconductor layer, and the active layer, and electrically connecting the second electrode part and the second semiconductor layer.
US08138512B2	LED package with metal PCB The present invention relates to a light emitting diode (LED) package. An object of the present invention is to provide an LED package having a metal PCB, which has a superior heat dissipation property and a compact structure, does not largely restrict use of conventional equipments, and is compatible with an electronic device or illumination device currently used widely. To this end, an LED package according to the present invention comprises a metal printed circuit board (PCB) formed by laminating first and second sheet metal plates with an electric insulating layer interposed therebetween; and an LED chip mounted on the first sheet metal plate of the metal PCB, wherein the first sheet metal plate has electrode patterns and leads respectively extending from the electrode patterns.
US08138504B2	Silicon carbide semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same A silicon carbide semiconductor device having excellent performance characteristics and a method of manufacturing the same are obtained. A coating film made of Si is formed on an initial growth layer on a 4H—SiC substrate, and an extended terrace surface is formed in a region covered with the coating film. Next, the coating film is removed, and a new growth layer is epitaxially grown on the initial growth layer. A 3C—SiC portion made of 3C—SiC crystals having a polytype stable at a low temperature is grown on the extended terrace surface of the initial growth layer. A channel region of a MOSFET or the like is provided in the 3C—SiC portion having a narrow band gap. As a result, the channel mobility is improved because of a reduction in an interface state, and a silicon carbide semiconductor device having excellent performance characteristics is obtained.
US08138499B2	Stacked photoelectric conversion device To provide a stacked photoelectric conversion device capable of inhibiting extreme decrease of the output in the morning and evening.A stacked photoelectric conversion device of the present invention comprises a first photoelectric conversion layer, a second photoelectric conversion layer and a third photoelectric conversion layer stacked in this order from a light entrance side, each photoelectric conversion layer having a p-i-n junction and formed of a silicon based semiconductor, wherein a short-circuit photocurrent of the first photoelectric conversion layer is larger than a short-circuit photocurrent of the second photoelectric conversion layer or a short-circuit photocurrent of the third photoelectric conversion layer under a condition of light source: xenon lamp, irradiance: 100 mW/cm2, AM: 1.5, and temperature: 25° C.
US08138498B2	Apparatus and methods for determining overlay of structures having rotational or mirror symmetry Disclosed are overlay targets having flexible symmetry characteristics and metrology techniques for measuring the overlay error between two or more successive layers of such targets. Techniques for imaging targets with flexible symmetry characteristics and analyzing the acquired images to determine overlay or alignment error are disclosed.
US08138496B2	Addressable transistor chip for conducting assays A bioelectronic microchip formed on a substrate (16) includes a plurality of field effect transistors (10), each including first (12) and second (14) electrodes on the substrate; and a channel (18) extending between the first and second electrodes. An organic semiconducting material fills the channel (18); and a dielectric layer (20) formed atop the first and second electrodes and the channel. An electrolyte (22) to hold a probe molecule may be formed on the dielectric. A third electrode (24) in proximity with the first and second electrodes and isolated therefrom contacts the dielectric. Capture of target molecules may be detected at each transistor through changes in source to drain characteristics. The method provides high density and low cost sensors, particularly in diagonistic and drug discovery applications.
US08138486B2	Lithographic apparatus and device manufacturing method In an immersion lithographic apparatus, bubble formation in immersion liquid is reduced or prevented by reducing a gap size or area on a substrate table and/or covering the gap.

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