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US08230622B2	Ski slope snow tiller A ski slope snow tiller having a frame connected to a tractor movable in a travelling direction; a shaft crosswise to the travelling direction and fitted with tools for working the snow cover; a casing surrounding the shaft; a mat towed over the surface of the snow cover, behind the casing; and a guard located at least over the casing and the mat, to prevent snow accumulating.
US08230617B2	Article of footwear for water sports An article of footwear for water sports disclosed. The article includes straps that fasten an upper into place. The straps are configured to maintain a fastened position when water is splashed from below the article. The article further includes padded members to protect the instep and the front ankle of the foot.
US08230607B2	Keyless blade clamp for a power tool A reciprocating tool that includes a spindle that reciprocates with respect to a housing within a cavity of the housing. The reciprocating tool includes a blade clamp mechanism actuator coupled to the housing for movement with respect the housing between first and second positions. The spindle reciprocates with respect to the blade clamp mechanism actuator. A blade clamp mechanism is coupled to the spindle for reciprocating movement therewith, and the blade clamp mechanism is configured to attach the saw blade to the spindle. The blade clamp mechanism includes a collar mounted on the end of the spindle, and the collar is rotatable about the longitudinal axis of the spindle between an engaged position and a disengaged position in response to movement of the blade clamp mechanism actuator between the first position and the second position.
US08230604B1	Pastry press A pie dough cutter comprising a removably attachable handle providing decorative patterns to be added to the top of a pie crust is herein disclosed. The dough cutter comprises different designs for stamping a portion of crust providing decorative elements. After a pie crust is prepared a desired decorative pattern is pressed through the dough, which is then placed onto a pie prior to baking.
US08230601B2	Rotary electric shaver The rotary electric shaver including; a plurality of cutter circumferential rims (24), each of which is detachable from the shaver main body (12), and separately surrounds and holds each of individual outer cutters (16), a pivotal supporting section (22) which pivotably retains the cutter circumferential rim on a pivotal axis passing the center of the outer cutter, and a detachable blind cover (66) which fills a gap between adjoining cutter circumferential rims and which is in resilient contact, from below, with a bottom edge of the cutter circumferential rim, the bottom edge being adjacent to the center of the shaver main body.
US08230592B2	Method for via stub elimination An enhanced mechanism is disclosed for via stub elimination in printed wiring boards (PWBs) and other substrates. In one embodiment, the substrate includes a plurality of insulator layers and internal conductive traces. First and second through-holes extend completely through the substrate and respectively pass through first and second ones of the internal conductive traces, which are at different depths within the substrate. Photolithographic techniques are used to generate plated-through-hole (PTH) plugs of controlled, variable depth in the through-holes before first and second conductive vias are respectively plated onto the first and second through-holes. The depth of these PTH plugs is controlled (e.g., using a photomask and/or variable laser power) to prevent the first and second conductive vias from extending substantially beyond the first and second internal conductive traces, respectively, and thereby prevent via stubs from being formed in the first place. This advantageously eliminates the costly and time consuming process of via stub backdrilling.
US08230573B2	Hose connecting method and connector arrangement A method for providing a hose pipe connection is disclosed. Embodiments of the method start with a pipe having an enlarged end portion. A sleeve is introduced into the end of the flexible hose. The sleeve has an inner diameter that is equal to the inner diameter of the hose. In an embodiment, the inner diameter of the sleeve is increased while the end of the hose is already placed on the sleeve. The hose fitted with the sleeve is then introduced into the enlarged end of the pipe. Crimping of the enlarged end will then secure the sleeve and the hose and provide a fluid tight and mechanically sturdy connection.
US08230570B1	Automatic gravity vacuum screw feeding An electric screwdriver is coupled to an automatic screw feeding adaptor defining a screw path having a proximal end, a middle region and a distal end. A first screw is received within the screw feeding adaptor and held at a driving position near the distal end of the screw path by applying a distal partial vacuum within the screw feeding adaptor. The first screw is driven, and a torque applied to the first screw is detected. The torque is compared to a minimum torque threshold, and a second screw is moved along the screw path based at least in part upon the comparison.
US08230566B2	Sleeve puller a sleeve puller for pulling out a sleeve inserted in a panel, the sleeve having an inner wall that defines a hole, the sleeve puller including: a sleeve-engaging rod having a distal end and integrally including a sleeve-engaging portion, a screw rod continuous with the sleeve-engaging portion, and a wrenching portion continuous with the screw rod and opposite from the sleeve-engaging portion across the screw rod, the sleeve-engaging portion having a screw thread therein and having a tapered shape having a diameter smaller toward the distal end of the sleeve-engaging rod; a nut support including a slidable surface, a nut supporting surface opposite from the slidable surface, and a through hole extending throughout the nut support from the slidable surface to the nut supporting surface so as to allow the screw rod of the sleeve-engaging rod to be inserted therethrough; and a nut.
US08230565B2	Tool A tool is proposed to assist detachment of an apparatus which has a housing adhering flatly on a pane, particularly of a sensor on the front windscreen of a vehicle, in which the apparatus housing has a surface with an exposed edge spaced from the pane. The tool has the form of a lug which has at least one engagement member on one longitudinal end, which engagement member can be engaged on the exposed edge of the apparatus and is provided with an opening or recess for a lever tool at a longitudinal distance from the engagement member. The tool is applied to the apparatus by engaging the engagement member behind the exposed edge on the apparatus housing. Then the lever tool, e.g. a simple bar or a screwdriver, is pushed through the opening or recess and is applied to bear on the top of the apparatus housing. The free end of the lever is then slowly raised, thereby lifting the housing off the pane.
US08230558B2	Buckle device A buckle device for a motor vehicle is provided. The buckle device comprising a locking tongue for inserting into a buckle and a deflecting body connected to the locking tongue, which is configured to subdivide a safety belt into a shoulder portion and a lap portion and to deflect said safety belt such that the two portions extend away from the deflecting body in different directions. The deflecting body is connected to the locking tongue via at least one elongate element, which is at least partially wound around the deflecting body.
US08230553B2	Hinge mechanism A hinge is disclosed. The hinge can include an axle, a first member coupled to the axle, and a second member coupled to the axle and configured to rotate relative the first member and around the axle. The hinge can further include a stop mechanism configured to stop the second member from rotating, relative to the first member, in a first direction and beyond a first range when the stop mechanism is in a first position and the second member is in the first range. The stop mechanism can be further configured to allow the second member to rotate, relative to the first member, in the first direction, beyond the first range, and into a second range when the stop mechanism is in a second position and the second member is in the first range.
US08230548B2	Apparatus for removing a waste product A method of removing a waste product includes forming a waste product during operation of at least one sheath removal device. The method also includes inducing a fluid flow in a vicinity of waste product formation. The method further includes removing at least a portion of the waste product with the induced fluid flow.
US08230546B2	Support for mounting a windscreen wiper blade on a drive arm made of bent sheet A support for mounting a windscreen wiper blade includes at least two opposing lower lateral claws arranged transversally on either side of the support, each of the claws being able to collaborate with an associated part of a backbone of the blade for attaching the support on the blade, and an upper part on which a connector can be jointedly mounted about a transversal joint axis. The upper part includes at least one elastically deformable portion which is able to deform when the support is mounted and attached to the blade in order to allow a globally transverse movement of the lateral claws, one relative to the other between at least a parted position in which there is no collaboration with the associated part of the backbone, and a close up position in which there is a collaboration with the associated part of the backbone.
US08230544B2	Multipurpose cleaning brush A multipurpose brush includes a body with a first portion having each of a top surface, opposed bottom surface and a peripheral edge, and with a second portion having each of a first surface thereof disposed on and secured to one of the bottom and top surface of the first portion, an opposed bottom surface thereof. At least one set of bristles is secured to and extending outwardly from at least one predetermined surface of the body. The second portion may have a generally triangular cross-section disposed in a plane generally planar to the one of the bottom and top surface of the first portion and may also have a pair of concave ends. A third portion is also provided in generally planar relationship with the first portion and may be adapted for scrubbing and exfoliating human skin, particularly of feet.
US08230539B2	Fold out ramp A ramp assembly includes a ramp disposed within a vehicle. The ramp assembly further includes a movable floor hingedly coupled at a first end to the ramp. A reciprocating mechanism reciprocates a second end of the movable floor between a lowered position when the ramp is in the stowed position, and a raised position when the ramp is in the deployed position.
US08230534B2	Accessible bathtub A bathtub system, including a tub with a bather access opening in one sidewall and a door mounted on that sidewall. In the closed position, the door is adjacent the access opening, and in the open position the door is substantially clear of the access opening. The system includes a gray water reservoir under the tub of approximately the capacity of the tub and which can be connected to a sewer system. A high capacity tub drain conducts water from the tub into the reservoir by gravity alone very quickly.
US08230531B2	Flush toilet control system and related method A control system for a flush toilet includes a water delivery device for delivering a source of flush water to a bowl. The control system includes a controller and a user interface. The controller is operative to control the toilet through a flush sequence in a first mode and a second mode. In the first mode, the controller opens the water delivery device to deliver a predetermined amount of water to the bowl. In the second mode, the controller opens the water delivery device to deliver a user adjustable amount of water to the bowl. The user interface is in communication with the controller for selecting between the first mode and the second mode. Where the toilet is a macerator toilet, the controller monitors current draw unit when the current draw satisfies a predetermined current condition. The controller may operate in a normal mode and a lockout mode.
US08230527B2	Lightweight helmet shell and method for manufacturing the same A lightweight helmet shell includes an inner shell formed from a porous expanded plastic layer, and an outer shell, in which the outer shell is formed from a compressed fiber sheet having an apparent density of 0.15 to 0.7 g/cc and an impact absorbability of less than 300 G. The lightweight helmet shell has excellent breathability, is lightweight, and has improved impact absorbability.
US08230523B2	Ambidextrous mitt for treating a surface An ambidextrous mitt is provided with one of two opposing walls having, over its entire outersurface, means for fastening a removable layer orpad. The removable layer or pad is intended to provide treatment and is designed to ensure thermal and mechanical protection of the part of the hand coming in contact with saidwall. The one wall is connected to the other of two opposing walls by seams. Delimiting pockets are provided for receiving the hand and the thumb.The one wall includes layers giving it the shape of a semi-flexible wafer, while the other wall is made of an elastic textile shaped with an inflating agent to form the pockets.
US08234717B2	Accessing and checking the validity of control information stored in external storage [PROBLEMS] To more infallibly prevent leak of information because loss or theft. [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] It is judged whether or not read control information stored in a predetermined read control information storage area of an external storage is proper. If the judgment result shows that it is invalid, virtualized data stored in the external storage is decrypted, and genuine read control information virtualized in the virtualized data is extracted. It is judged whether or not the extracted genuine read control information is proper. If the extracted genuine read control information is proper, the virtualized genuine data in the virtualized data along with the genuine read control information is made usable by decrypting and creating the virtualized data, and improper read control information is stored in the read control information storage area. The proper genuine read control information and genuine data are encrypted to create virtualized data. The virtualized data is stored in a data storage area of the external storage corresponding to the read control information storage area.
US08234713B2	Enforcing alignment of approved changes and deployed changes in the software change life-cycle On a host, host content change requests are intercepted in real-time. In a tracking mode, the change requests are logged and allowed to take effect on the host. In an enforcement mode, the change requests are logged and additionally compared against authorized change policies and a determination is made whether to allow the change to take effect or to block the changes, thereby enforcing the authorized change policies on the host. Tracking and enforcement can be done in real-time. In either mode and at any time, the logged changes can be reconciled against a set of approved change orders in order to identify classes of changes, including changes that were deployed but not approved and changes that were approved but not deployed.
US08234704B2	Physical access control and security monitoring system utilizing a normalized data format Embodiments disclose a system and method for the integration of data and events to and from physical access control and security monitoring systems that is normalized to standardized definition for enforcement of standardized rules, created through a visual policy editor, affecting persistence, propagation of data and generation of alerts and notifications for physical security, network and IT systems. Data from disparate physical security systems is normalized for visual rule creation by rule object shapes representing normalized security systems, data and processes. A rules-based policy engine enforces security policies and generates actionable events. The overall system provides an integration platform, methods and processes for normalizing data from physical security systems, representation of physical security systems, data and processes for visual creation of rules using defined stencil objects, generating formatted rules, and enforcing these rules in real-time on security systems data and events.
US08234690B2	Solicited authentication of a specific user Secure web-based messaging according to a “push” paradigm is augmented by specific, intended recipient authentication. In particular, a document can be sent to a specified, intended recipient through the Web using e-mail recipient notification, and the recipient is authenticated prior to delivering the document to the recipient. Such authentication prevents a cracker from snooping a delivery notification e-mail message and retrieving the document prior to retrieval by the true intended recipient. In addition, such authentication of the recipient is driven by the sender such that prior participation by the recipient in the messaging system according to the present invention is required.
US08234687B2	Communications security system A method of establishing secure communications between a first computer, eg a client computer (20), and a second computer, eg a web server (70), whereby the client computer (20) receives one or more security policies (85) relating to the web server (70). A client application (10) examines the client computer (20) and preferably configures one or more aspects of the client computer (20) in order to make it comply with the security policies (85). Once the web server (70) receives the results of this examination and/or configuration process, it can determine whether the secure communications are to be established and whether any restrictions need to be placed on this communication and/or the activity conducted via the communication.
US08234683B2	Method and apparatus for controlling channel for providing internet protocol television service A method and apparatus for controlling a channel for providing an IPTV is disclosed, which is capable of improving use efficiency of network resource and reducing a channel zapping time by controlling a channel type of each channel and a bit rate of video data to be transmitted through each channel, the method comprising (a) determining an optimal channel status vector among channel status vectors to indicate channel types of respective channels, wherein the optimal channel status vector enables a minimum cost corresponding to the sum of an average channel zapping time of respective channels and an average distortion value of video data transmitted through the respective channels; and determining an optimal bit rate at the determined optimal channel status vector; and (b) transmitting the video data at the optimal bit rate through the respective channels.
US08234678B2	Method for broadcasting video data sequences by a server to a client terminal A method for broadcasting video data sequences by a server to a client terminal via a network includes generating a request by the client terminal following an event, sending the request to the server, the request including a video sequence broadcasting order to the client terminal, the video sequence defining a transition between a current or “father” state and a subsequent or “child” state, each state being associated with a static final image and the aforementioned server including a memory configured to store an identifier of each state, a transition table starting from each state, compressed data corresponding to a video sequence associated with a transition from one state to another, and verifying by the server that the child state associated with the broadcasting order is a known state in the transition table starting from the parent state.
US08234670B2	Video system showing original channel during zapping on a TV The invention relates to a video system which is able to show more than one channel at the same time. If a user, after watching an original channel sufficiently long, zaps to another channel, the original channel is displayed in for example a PIP, together with the new channel in a main picture. After zapping yet to a third channel, the original channel is still displayed in the PIP. In this way, the user can keep track of the original channel while zapping other channels.
US08234669B2	Data-processing apparatus, data-processing method and data-processing program A data-processing method of receiving broadcast contents and content-related information related to the broadcast contents. The method includes setting a frequency for receiving the broadcast contents from the broadcast station, and recording frequency information corresponding to the set frequency. The method also includes transmitting request information including broadcast station ID identifying the broadcast station corresponding to the frequency information to a server.
US08234664B2	Ejection device for ejecting an optical disk and related method The invention provides a method for ejecting an optical disk and a related ejection device for a slot-in disk drive. The ejection device includes a block disposed on a contact end of an unloading bar. The block stretches out of the contact end of the unloading bar along a longitudinal direction of the unloading bar for pushing a small size optical disk so that a distance between a center of the small size optical disk and a contact end of a loading bar exceeds a predetermined distance. When the small size optical disk is unloaded, the unloading bar backs to an initial position, the slot-in disk drive idles to load and unload the small size optical disk continuously for pushing the small size optical disk outwardly further.
US08234663B2	Transferring data from an application to a destination Illustrative embodiments disclose sending content from a first application at a first location to a second application at a second remote location. In response to a user input indicating a selection of content for transfer to the second application, the selection of the content is copied to form copied content. The copied content is then automatically sent to the second application at the remote second location without requiring additional user manipulation of the copy content. Additionally, the destination may be another user. In this case, the second application is employed to automatically transfer the copied content to that second user.
US08234661B1	Secure digital input/output interface system An interface system includes a first driver module that communicates through a bus with a first peripheral card when the bus is in a first mode. A second driver module communicates through the bus with a second peripheral card when the bus is in a second mode. A bus control module receives a communication notification signal from the second peripheral card when the first peripheral card is communicating with the first driver module. The communication notification signal does not interfere with the communication of the first peripheral card and the first driver module. The bus control module switches the bus between first and second modes in response to the communication notification signal.
US08234659B2	Transaction tool management integration with change management A change management system coordinates information of a transaction tool managed by a transaction tool management system. The system includes a receiver that receives, over a communications network, activity information and/or lifecycle event information for the transaction tool. The system also includes a storage that stores the received information. Additionally, the system includes a processor that manages a change in a status of the transaction tool based on the received information.
US08234652B2	Performing setup operations for receiving different amounts of data while processors are performing message passing interface tasks Mechanisms are provided for performing setup operations for receiving a different amount of data while processors are performing message passing interface (MPI) tasks. Mechanisms for adjusting the balance of processing workloads of the processors are provided so us to minimize wait periods for waiting for all of the processors to call a synchronization operation. An MPI load balancing controller maintains a history that provides a profile of the tasks with regard to their calls to synchronization operations. From this information, it can be determined which processors should have their processing loads lightened and which processors are able to handle additional processing loads without significantly negatively affecting the overall operation of the parallel execution system. As a result, setup operations may be performed while processors are performing MPI tasks to prepare for receiving different sized portions of data in a subsequent computation cycle based on the history.
US08234651B2	Information processing method and apparatus using the same A processor processes the task A and the task B sequentially, wherein the task A performs an application to generate data that should be output to or input from an HDD, and the task B controls a data input and output request to the HDD controller.
US08234646B2	Fault tolerant mutual exclusion locks for shared memory systems The present invention provides a method of implementing a fault-tolerant mutual exclusion lock. The present invention records in a lock structure the IDs of all processes whose failure can lead to the permanent unavailability of the lock. When a process finds the lock unavailable and suspects a permanent failure, it queries the programming environment about the status of all or some of the processes that could have caused the lock's unavailability. If the programming environment determines that these processes have failed, the live process tries to usurp the lock. If it succeeds, it executes some recovery mechanism and frees the lock or proceeds to operate on the objects protected by the lock. The method guarantees recovery from process failures.
US08234643B2	CRON time processing implementation for scheduling tasks within a multi-tiered enterprise network A computer implemented system and method for scheduling jobs. A method according to one embodiment includes the operations of: determining a first possible execution time of a job from a data object containing a job timing entry; determining if a specified base time is less than a first possible execution time of the job; if the specified base time is less than the first possible execution time, then subtracting the base time from the first possible execution time to determine the time until the next execution of the job; and if the specified base time is greater than the first possible execution time, then searching for a next execution time which is greater then the specified base time and subtracting the base time from the next execution time to determine the time until the next execution of the job.
US08234629B2	Ready-to-use media center systems through custom preconfiguration A method and system which enable preconfiguration of an information handling system to function as a media hub. In certain embodiments, during the preconfiguration a customer can select media services such as television services (e.g., Cable TV or Dish Network Service provider) and an information handling system manufacturer can then preconfigure the information handling system during a factory install process for the selected television provider. Additionally, the preconfiguration process can load media guides onto the preconfigured information handing systems during the factory install process. Additionally, in certain embodiments, if a remote control for a receiver is found, then the remote control settings can be preinstalled onto the information handling system. When a user receives the preconfigured information handling system, all that is necessary to setup the system is to couple an IR emitter to the receiver.
US08234619B2	System, method, and software for facilitating business object development testing The present disclosure relates to methods, systems, and software for developing or testing business objects. The method includes identifying at least one of a plurality of business objects in a development environment, parsing the identified business objects to determine various graphical views with at least one of the graphical views comprising a structural presentation of the business object, filtering the structural presentation based on one or more filter criteria, and presenting at least a portion of the views including the structural view.
US08234613B2	Program, design apparatus, and design method for dynamic reconfigurable circuit A computer-readable recording medium that stores therein a computer program for designing a dynamic reconfigurable circuit in which a plurality of circuit configurations are implemented with a single circuit, the computer program enabling a computer to execute: acquiring a plurality of contexts having connection information between operation devices and network modules, wherein the operation devices and network modules are disposed in clusters, and connection information among the network modules; calculating a cluster count of the clusters and an operation device count for each operation device type of the operation devices in each cluster based on the acquired plurality of contexts; generating a circuit configuration for each context in which disposition of the operation devices in each cluster and connection of the network modules are made to satisfy the calculated cluster count and operation device count; and outputting the generated circuit configuration.
US08234610B2	Design rule management method, design rule management program, rule management apparatus, and rule verification apparatus A design rule management method implemented in a rule verification apparatus for checking a violation against a design rule which specifies a part shape when there is any change in parameters in a system, the rule verification apparatus including: a processing unit for processing information; an input unit for inputting information; and a storage unit for storing a first design rule, a second design rule and relationship strength therebetween in association with one another, the method allowing the processing unit to perform steps including: acquiring the changed parameter via the input unit; and in a rule verification to determine whether or not there is any violation in the design rules that use the changed parameter, acquiring from the storage unit all the design rules having the relationship strength of a predetermined value, and performing the rule verification on all the acquired design rules.
US08234609B2	Method and system for implementing top down design and verification of an electronic design Disclosed is a method and system for performing design and verification using stepwise refinement techniques, which can also include or be referred to as “top-down” design verification. With the present stepwise refinement approach, the electronic design can be acted upon at different levels of abstraction, but with approximately the same level of resolution at each abstraction level. A strong relationship of consistency exists between the successive abstraction levels of the design. On account of this consistency, properties that are established or true at one level of the design remain true for all subsequent levels of abstraction of the design. The present approach also allows designers to more efficiently and accurately perform hardware/software co-design. For the co-design process, consistency between different levels of abstraction allows a designer to safely implement a systematic and concurrent divide-and-conquer approach to the hardware and/or software elements in a design.
US08234607B2	Token enhanced asynchronous conversion of synchonous circuits A synchronous circuit design is converted to an asynchronous circuit by converting synchronous circuit logic to an asynchronous circuit logic, and one or more additional tokens into the converted asynchronous circuit. The circuit is initialized with a desired additional number of tokens placed in the asynchronous circuit, or a desired number of tokens are inserted at an input before taking tokens from an output.
US08234605B2	Minimal leakage-power standard cell library A minimal leakage power Standard Cell Library is provided. The minimal leakage power Standard Cell Library provides minimal leakage power cells with improved speed characteristics. The minimal leakage power Standard Cell Library includes cells from an existing Standard Cell Library and a set of minimal leakage power cells for a selected set of logic functions. The minimal leakage power Standard Cell Library is formed by identifying a set of logic functions. For each logic function in the identified set, a base case for an unfolded implementation of the logic function is determined. Widths for transistors in a transistor topology used in the unfolded implementation of the logic function are determined based on the non-linear leakage power characteristics for the transistor topology to achieve minimal leakage power. The determined widths are then assigned to the transistors and the minimal leakage cell is added to the library.
US08234603B2	Method for fast estimation of lithographic binding patterns in an integrated circuit layout The present invention provides a lithographic difficulty metric that is a function of an energy ratio factor that includes a ratio of hard-to-print energy to easy-to-print energy of the diffraction orders along an angular coordinate θi of spatial frequency space, an energy entropy factor comprising energy entropy of said diffraction orders along said angular coordinate θi, a phase entropy factor comprising phase entropy of said diffraction orders along said angular coordinate θi, and a total energy entropy factor comprising total energy entropy of said diffraction orders. The hard-to-print energy includes energy of the diffraction orders at values of the normalized radial coordinates r of spatial frequency space in a neighborhood of r=0 and in a neighborhood of r=1, and the easy-to-print energy includes energy of the diffraction orders located at intermediate values of normalized radial coordinates r between the neighborhood of r=0 and the neighborhood of r=1. The value of the lithographic difficulty metric may be used to identify patterns in a design layout that are binding patterns in an optimization computation. The lithographic difficulty metric may be used to design integrated circuits that have good, relatively easy-to-print characteristics.
US08234587B2	System for accessing a large number of menu items using a zoned menu bar A system that includes a pop-up graphical user interface that includes menu bars overlapping marking menu zones. The interface pops up at the current position of the cursor when the space bar is held down. The menu bars are positioned around a central marking zone with the common menu bars located above the central zone and task specific menu bars located below the central zone. The common application menu bar is positioned outer most and the common window menu bar is located inner most. The menu bars are sized in a “stair-step” pattern and the commands therein are left and right justified to fill the menu bar evenly. The menu bar menu items are accessed just like menu bar items typically found at the top of windows. The menu bars mimic the menu bars that a user may need to use during tasks that users typically perform using the menu bars found in application windows. The zones are divided into a central zone and four outer zones where user customizable marking menus are activated when a mouse button is held down while the cursor is in one of the zones.
US08234583B2	Media asset pivot navigation Media asset pivot navigation is described. In various embodiments, collections of media assets are determined from relational metadata that corresponds to the media assets in a respective collection. Each collection of media assets are represented as a navigation axis along which the media assets in a respective collection can be located, and a media asset can be associated with multiple collections of media assets based on the relational metadata. A media asset navigation interface is generated for display from which the collections of media assets can be navigated to locate the media assets for selection. The media asset navigation interface includes a display of a collection of media assets represented as a navigation axis. A navigation input can be received to pivot from the navigation axis to an alternate navigation axis and initiate a display of an additional collection of media assets that are represented as the alternate navigation axis.
US08234575B2	Dynamic updateable web toolbar A toolbar that persists in a browser window across multiple Web pages during a browsing session is displayed. This toolbar includes multiple toolbar buttons. An updated toolbar is automatically received from a remote toolbar source that is independent of the multiple Web pages, and this updated toolbar includes a change to the toolbar buttons. The toolbar in the browser is replaced, during the browsing session, with this updated toolbar. The toolbar can also include one or more buttons based at least in part on customization information regarding a user of the browser.
US08234573B2	Computer program and methods for automatically initializing an audio controller A computer program of the type commonly known as a “wizard” is disclosed that initializes user interface software for controlling an audio conferencing device. The wizard allows the desired audio inputs (e.g., microphone, telephones, etc.) and audio outputs (speakers, recording devices, etc.) to be chosen by an audio system administrator. Thereafter, the wizard allows an audio conferencing device (or devices) to be chosen by the administrator, or allows such a device(s) to be optimally chosen dependent upon the chosen inputs and outputs. The wizard then maps the inputs and outputs to the input and output ports on the audio conferencing device. When the administrator finishes the wizard, the wizard computes the mapping parameters and other audio-optimizing parameters for the selected inputs and outputs. These parameters are then loaded into the user interface software automatically.
US08234572B2	Remote access to advanced playlist features of a media player A media player can have advanced-playlist creation capabilities such as the ability to automatically generate a playlist around a “seed” song selected by a user. In some embodiments, the accessory can determine whether the media player can use a particular song as a seed song for an advanced playlist and can so inform the user. The user can then operate the accessory's user interface to create an advanced playlist based on a particular song, rather than having to interact directly with the media player.
US08234571B1	Predictive text composition Systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer program products for text composition are provided. In some implementations, a method is provided. The method includes processing a plurality of paragraphs in parallel, including defining a paragraph layout for each paragraph, the paragraph layout including line breaks. The method further includes composing the text in an electronic document including serially composing each paragraph, the serial composing including shuffling the processed paragraphs into a particular position within a page frame of the electronic document.
US08234560B1	Technique for generating a set of inter-related documents Embodiments of a computer system, a method and a computer-program product (e.g., software) for use with the computer system are described. These embodiments may be used to generate a set of inter-related documents. In particular, using a random or pseudorandom number generator and a translation list, an interconnected set of documents are created that are arranged in a hierarchy (such as a tree structure). The documents in this set are both deterministic and include a finite amount of variation. These properties may facilitate reproducible testing of technology related to networks, such as the Internet.
US08234555B2	Data decoding apparatus, data decoding method, data transmitting/receiving system, data receiving apparatus, data receiving method and program Disclosed herein is a decoding apparatus for decoding an LDPC (Low Density Parity Check) code received in a first format or a second format wherein a process to decode received values each obtained as a result of receiving the LDPC code in the first or second format includes at least F check-node processes carried out concurrently as processes of F check nodes respectively or F variable-node processes carried out concurrently as processes of F variable nodes respectively.
US08234552B2	Method and apparatus for preamble creation and communication in a wireless communication network A wireless communications network uses a beamforming process to increase signal quality as well as transmission capabilities and reduction of interference. An improved Golay sequence is also used in the wireless communications network. In one aspect, the processes can be used to communicate regardless of whether the system is on an OFDM mode or a single carrier mode.
US08234550B2	Efficient decoding A decoder includes circuitry for generating bits representing received signals, and beliefs representing an associated reliability of each bit. A bit node computation block receives the bits and associated beliefs, and generates a plurality of bit node messages. A plurality of M serially-connected pipeline stages receive the bit node messages and after M decoding cycles, and generate a plurality of check node messages once per decoding cycle, wherein for each iteration cycle, each of the M serially-connected pipeline stages performs check node computations using all of J component codes, wherein each one of the M serially-connected pipeline stages performs check node computations once per decoding cycle using a single component code that is different that component codes used for all other of the M serially-connected pipeline stages, wherein J is at least as great as M, and wherein each iteration includes M decoding cycles.
US08234549B2	Simultaneous PMD compensation and chromatic dispersion compensation using LDPC coded OFDM A method includes estimating quadrature amplitude modulated QAM symbols in an LDPC encoded OFDM signal for transmission, performing channel estimation by training sequence to determine channel coefficients in reception of the LDPC encoded OFDM signal; and obtaining channel information detection and decoding of the LDPC encoded signal.
US08234540B2	Error correcting code protected quasi-static bit communication on a high-speed bus A communication interface device, system, method, and design structure for error correcting code (ECC) protected quasi-static bit communication (SBC) on a high-speed bus are provided. The communication interface device includes high-speed sampling logic to capture high-speed data from the high-speed bus using a high-speed sampling clock and SBC sampling logic to capture SBC samples from the high-speed bus using an SBC sampling clock. The SBC sampling clock is slower than the high-speed sampling clock. The communication interface device also includes an SBC finite state machine (FSM) to detect a received SBC command in response to a static pattern persisting for a predetermined number of the SBC samples and command decoding logic to decode the received SBC command.
US08234535B2	Method, receiver and transmitter for improved hybrid automatic repeat request The present invention relates to methods and a transmitter and a receiver for a mobile communication system. The basic idea of the present invention is to recursively derive from previous HARQ feedback the number of HARQ transmissions that is required to be able to decode the transmitted data successfully and to only transmit explicit HARQ feedback information if the decoding result differs from the derived result.
US08234529B2	HTMLS with first and second select outputs and enable inputs An integrated circuit can have plural core circuits, each having a test access port that is defined in IEEE standard 1149.1. Access to and control of these ports is though a test linking module. The test access ports on an integrated circuit can be arranged in a hierarchy with one test linking module controlling access to plural secondary test linking modules and test access ports. Each secondary test linking module in turn can also control access to tertiary test linking modules and test access ports. The test linking modules can also be used for emulation.
US08234524B1	Protocol analysis with event present flags The present invention discloses a method to record trace data in a way that significantly reduces the time required to search for specific events, to create an index, to create a histogram, or to analyze the protocol. During capture, the analyzer recognizes infrequent events and sets an Event-Present Flag (“EP Flag”) indicating that a specific event has occurred. The trace is divided into pages, with a separate set of Event-Present Flags for each page indicating whether an event occurred in that page of the trace. This division of a trace into separate pages results in significant efficiencies.
US08234521B2	Systems and methods for maintaining lock step operation A system is provided for rapidly synchronizing two or more processing elements in a fault-tolerant computing system. Embodiments of this system allow for the rapid synchronization of two processing elements through partial copies of the contents of memory associate with each processing element.
US08234520B2	Wear leveling of solid state disks based on usage information of data and parity received from a raid controller A controller configures a plurality of solid state disks as a redundant array of independent disks (RAID), wherein the plurality of solid state disks store a plurality of blocks, and wherein storage areas of the plurality of solid state disks corresponding to at least some blocks of the plurality of blocks have different amounts of estimated life expectancies. The controller includes in data structures associated with a block that is to be stored in the storage areas of the plurality of solid state disks an indication that the block includes parity information corresponding to the RAID, wherein parity information comprises information corresponding to an error correction mechanism to protect against a disk failure. The controller sends the data structures to the plurality of solid state disks, wherein the plurality of solid state disks allocate a storage area that is estimated to have a relatively greater life expectancy in comparison to other storage areas to store the block that includes the parity information.
US08234519B2	Fast data recovery from HDD failure A storage system comprises a first storage device having a first plurality of hard disk drives and a first controller. The first controller stores data in the first plurality of hard disk drives by stripes. Each stripe includes M data and N parity data allocated to M+N hard disk drives of the first plurality of hard disk drives. A first hard disk drive includes data or parity data of both a first stripe of the stripes and a second stripe of the stripes, while a second hard disk drive includes data or parity data of only one of the first stripe or the second stripe. During data recovery involving failure of one of the first plurality of hard disk drives, the data in the failed hard disk drive is recovered for each stripe by calculation using data and parity data in other hard disk drives for each stripe.
US08234515B2	Repurposable recovery environment A reconfiguration manager is operable to reconfigure a repurposable recovery environment between a recovery environment for a production environment and a second environment different from the recovery environment. A storage system in the repurposable recovery environment periodically saves production information from the production environment while the repurposable recovery environment is operating as the second environment. The production information in the storage system is used to reconfigure the repurposable recovery environment from the second environment to the recovery environment.
US08234511B2	Speed binning for dynamic and adaptive power control A representative digital circuit of the invention has an on-chip, non-volatile memory, to which chip-specific speed-binning data that characterize performance of the digital circuit are written during production testing. During normal operation, the power controller that controls power-supply signals applied to the digital circuit reads the speed-binning data from the on-chip memory for use as input parameters for dynamic supply-voltage scaling, dynamic clock scaling, and/or adaptive power control that optimize (e.g., minimize) power consumption in the digital circuit. Advantageously over the prior art, the accuracy and efficiency of dynamic and/or adaptive power control arc improved because the chip-specific speed-binning data enable the power controller to better customize the power-management algorithm for the given digital circuit.
US08234508B2	Information processing apparatus, system and computer readable medium for the same The information processing apparatus includes an authentication processing management section that requests an external authentication apparatus to authenticate a user who makes a processing request to the information processing apparatus and that acquires an authentication result therefrom; an authentication history management section that manages authentication history information including the authentication result of the authentication of the user, which is acquired by the authentication processing management section; a power switching section that switches a power state of the information processing apparatus; and a power control section. The power control section controls switching of a power state by the power switching section before the authentication processing management portion acquires a latest authentication result from the external authentication apparatus by referring to authentication history information registered in an authentication history table of the user, when a processing request is received from the user in a first power state.
US08234503B2	Method and systems for computer security A method for maintaining computer security includes detecting a connection failure, storing information relating to the connection failure, determining a number of connection failures and determining whether a machine is infected with malicious code based on the determined number of connection failures.
US08234490B2	Server certificate issuing system In a server certificate issuing system according to the invention, the Web server includes a control panel which configures and manages a Web and a mail. The control panel is loaded with an entry screen generator to input application items for an issuance of a server certificate, password generator for generating a password which is used to encrypt, and a verification page generator to indicate intention of requesting the issuance of the certificate. On the verification page, the generated password is indicated as verification information for example. The registration server retrieves the password from the received server certificate request and accesses the Web server to read out the verification information indicated on the verification page, and compares the read verification information with the password. As the result of the verification, the verification information read from the Web server is identical to the password, the registration server decides that the Web server for which is to be issued the server certificate exists. Then, the registration server generates the key pair and the CSR and transmits the generated CSR to the certificate issuing server.
US08234473B2	Method and apparatus for backup and recovery using storage based journaling A storage system maintains a journal of journal entries and at lease one snapshot of one or more data volumes. By assigning a unique sequence number to journal and snapshot, it is easy to find a journal which can be applied to the snapshot. A technique is described for detecting an overflow condition of running out of journal space and recovering the journal space.
US08234469B2	Backup of virtual machines using cloned virtual machines A system and method for creating a backup of a virtual machine running on a host computer is described herein. The system and method operate by creating a copy or “clone” of a virtual machine running on a first host computer on a second host machine connected thereto. After generation of the clone, a backup of the virtual hard disk of the clone can be obtained in a manner that does not consume any resources of the first host machine. The backup of the virtual hard disk of the clone can then be used as the backup of the original virtual machine.
US08234468B1	System and method for providing variable length deduplication on a fixed block file system A system and method are described for providing variable length deduplication on a fixed block file system. In one embodiment, data comprising a plurality of data items is received. A determination is made if a segment of the data items exists on a storage volume. If the segment of data items does not exist on the storage volume, the segment of data items is stored on the storage volume. If the segment of data items exists on the storage volume, the segment of data items is deduplicated with the storage volume. A logical identifier describing a location of the segment in the data stream and a physical identifier describing a physical location of the segment are determined. The logical identifier, the physical identifier and the length of the segment is stored in a data structure such that the segment of data items can be accessed using the logical identifier.
US08234463B2	Data processing apparatus, memory controller, and access control method of memory controller A data processing apparatus includes a memory which receives and outputs data with a predetermined data width, an operation circuit which outputs a read command or a write command to access the memory, and an access control circuit which replaces a part of first read data read from the memory with a partial data, and outputs partially replaced data as write data to the memory when receiving the write command and the partial data with a data width smaller than the predetermined data width associated with the write command, from the operation circuit. The access control circuit replaces a part of second read data which has been acquired in response to the read command outputted before, instead of the first read data, with the partial data, and outputs replaced partially data as the write data if the write command has been outputted in connection with a read command outputted before the write command.
US08234462B2	Security erase of a delete file and of sectors not currently assigned to a file Secure erase of files and unallocated sectors on storage media such that any previous data is non-recoverable. The database contains sets of data patterns used to overwrite the data on different physical media. The software programs manage the overwriting process automatically when a file has been deleted. When de-allocated sectors in the file system are pruned from a file or escaped the file deletion process also finds them. Data will never be found on deleted sectors or on pruned sectors is overwritten.
US08234458B2	System and method for maintaining cache coherency across a serial interface bus using a snoop request and complete message A method and system for maintaining cache coherency across a serial interface bus such as a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) bus. The method includes generating a snoop request (SNP) to determine whether first data stored in a local memory is coherent relative to second data stored in a data cache, the snoop request including destination information that identifies the data cache on the serial interface bus, and causing the snoop request to be transmitted over the serial interface bus to a second processor. The method further includes extracting a cache line address from the snoop request, determining whether the second data is coherent, generating a complete message (CPL) indicating that the first data is coherent with the second data, and causing the complete message to be transmitted over the bus to the first processor. The snoop request and complete messages may be vendor defined messages.
US08234457B2	Dynamic adaptive flushing of cached data Method and apparatus for flushing cached writeback data to a storage array. Sets of writeback data are accumulated in a cache memory in an array with a view toward maintaining a substantially uniform distribution of the data across different locations of the storage array. The arrayed sets of data are thereafter transferred from the cache memory to the storage array substantially at a rate at which additional sets of writeback data are provided to the cache memory by a host. Each set of writeback data preferably comprises a plurality of contiguous data blocks, and are preferably written (flushed) to the storage in conjunction with the operation of a separate access command within a selected proximity range of the data with respect to the storage array. A stripe data descriptor (SDD) is preferably maintained for each set of writeback data in the array.
US08234452B2	Device and method for fetching instructions A device and a method for fetching instructions. The device includes a processor adapted to execute instructions; a high level memory unit adapted to store instructions; a direct memory access (DMA) controller that is controlled by the processor; an instruction cache that includes a first input port and a second input port; wherein the instruction cache is adapted to provide instructions to the processor in response to read requests that are generated by the processor and received via the first input port; wherein the instruction cache is further adapted to fetch instructions from a high level memory unit in response to read requests, generated by the DMA controller and received via the second input port.
US08234447B2	Storage control device for storage system provided with storage device coupled to switch network A plurality of storage devices are coupled with at least two switch of a switch network that is configured by a plurality of switches that transfer a packet that complies with an IP (Internet Protocol). Moreover, a storage control device is coupled with the switch network. The storage control device builds an LU (Logical Unit) that is utilized by a host device based on at least two storage devices that are coupled with different switches.
US08234436B2	Computer system including peripheral bridge to communicate serial bits of peripheral component interconnect bus transaction and low voltage differential signal channel to convey the serial bits A computer system for multi-processing purposes. The computer system has a console comprising a first coupling site and a second coupling site. Each coupling site comprises a connector. The console is an enclosure that is capable of housing each coupling site. The system also has a plurality of computer modules, where each of the computer modules is coupled to a connector. Each of the computer modules has a processing unit, a main memory coupled to the processing unit, a graphics controller coupled to the processing unit, and a mass storage device coupled to the processing unit. Each of the computer modules is substantially similar in design to each other to provide independent processing of each of the computer modules in the computer system.
US08234429B2	Monitoring interrupt acceptances in guests In one embodiment, an interrupt acceptance control circuit is provided. The interrupt acceptance control circuit may monitor one or more guest interrupt controllers in a system in response to an IPI (or device interrupt) issued in a guest, to determine if each targeted vCPU in the guest has accepted the interrupt. If not, the interrupt acceptance control circuit may communicate the lack of acceptance to the VMM, in one embodiment. The VMM may attempt to schedule the vCPUs that have not accepted the interrupt, for example.
US08234425B1	Arbiter module An arbiter module is described. In one or more implementations, an apparatus comprises a plurality of interfaces to provide a communicative coupling between a central processing unit, a media drive and a network. The apparatus further comprises one or more modules to manage data routing between each of the plurality of interfaces such that the data is routable between the media drive and the network independent of the central processing unit.
US08234424B2	Efficient strip-down and re-alignment of ingressing physical layer/data layer packets in an aggregated PCI-express port having eight lanes In PCI-Express and alike communications systems, number of lanes used per channel or port can vary as a result of negotiated lane aggregation during network bring-up. Disclosed are systems and methods for efficiently realigning packet data and stripping out control bytes in a by-eight port configuration as the packet data ingresses from the physical layer (PL), past the data link layer (DL) and into the transaction layer (TL). It is shown that data routing can be reduced to just two, mux-selectable permutations based on whether the STP (start of packet) character arrives in an even numbered double-word side (DW0) or an odd-numbered double-word side (DW1) of a physical layer register.
US08234423B2	Multi-reader multi-writer circular buffer memory A system for managing a circular buffer memory includes a number of data writers, a number of data readers, a circular buffer memory; and logic configured to form a number of counters, form a number of temporary variables from the counters, and allow the data writers and the data readers to simultaneously access locations in the circular buffer memory determined by the temporary variables.
US08234419B1	Storage system and method of controlling same to enable effective use of resources This invention enables resources included in a storage system to be effectively used. In a storage system 1 including a host computer 3, a first storage apparatus 10 that receives a data I/O request from the host computer 3, the second storage apparatus 10, and including a function of external attachment processing for managing the entity of a first logical volume of the first storage apparatus 10 in a second logical volume of the second storage apparatus 10, when a problem occurs in performance of the first storage apparatus 10, the external attachment processing is released, while external attachment release processing is performed in which path for accessing from the host computer 3 the second logical volume is switched to allow direct access from the host computer 3 to the second logical volume. When the problem in performance of the first storage apparatus 10 is solved, path switching is performed again to resume the external attachment processing.
US08234415B2	Storage device and control unit A storage and a controller each include an assignment number-managing unit for managing the number of command-processing resources assigned corresponding to a command-sending/receiving pair in combination of an external device and a logical device receiving a data input/output-requiring command; and an assignment-controlling unit for assigning the data input/output-requiring command to the command-processing resource corresponding to the command-sending/receiving pair, the number of the command-processing resources being equal to or lower than the number to be assigned that is managed by the assignment number-managing unit.
US08234406B2	Method of redirecting client requests to web services Method of redirecting a request for a web service in a data transmission network wherein, in response to a request forwarded by a host of a client to a web service provider, the web service provider provides a Web Service Definition Language (WSDL) file based upon a message exchange protocol such as Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) on a transport protocol such as HTTP. This method includes the steps of forwarding a first request from the client to an old address of said web service, responding to the client from the web service point associated with the old address by sending back a message with a header, wherein the header using said message exchange protocol contains a redirection to a new address of the requested web service, and forwarding a second request from the client to the new address of the web service.
US08234402B2	Method and apparatus for request routing A method and apparatus for dynamically encoding transactional information into a document over a network. The transactional information may include information about client data, object properties, or network conditions. The document may contain embedded links with embedded objects that can be requested by a client. The embedded links may contain URLs with associated domain names. The transactional information may be inserted into the domain name so that when the object request is subsequently translated by a DNS server, the DNS server can utilize the transactional information to intelligently translate the domain name into an IP address of a network device that can most advantageously serve the request.
US08234398B2	Method and system for low-latency transfer protocol A method and system for providing computer-generated output and in particular graphical output. An output capturing and encoding engine is configured to intercept graphical output from an application on a server, organize the output into regions having similar motion and/or graphical characteristics, and convert the data from each region into a format suitable to balance transmission efficiencies versus display quality or capability at the receiving end.
US08234397B2	Media article adaptation to client device Systems and methods provide for on-the-fly adaptation of a send rate for content sent to a client based on a detected read rate of the client system for data previously sent. The system and method work within the bounds of simple, existing, open protocols and the media files served are playable by standard media playback clients. The method is driven by a request for media content from a client, in response to which the server provides portions of the media content and monitors the reception rate of the content as it is sent to the client. This method allows for dynamic modification of the send rate of the content after the server has calculated an adjustment to correct for the difference between the reading rate and sending rate, thereby allowing for a send rate most compatible with the client.
US08234393B2	Generic network protocol scripting Some embodiments of generic network protocol scripting have been presented. In one embodiment, a script is received from a user. The script is associated with a set of connection oriented network transport based network protocols. The script may be executed to emulate a network transaction according to one of the set of connection oriented network transport based network protocols within a network.
US08234390B2	Register clustering in a SIP-based network In one embodiment, a method can include: receiving a request for service in a first edge proxy; applying a hash function to a source address of an endpoint; and forwarding the request to a second edge proxy in response to a first result of the hash function, or servicing the request in the first edge proxy in response to a second result of the hash function.
US08234383B2	Bubble packet port identification using detection packets A first information processor (1) transmits a bubble packet to a port assigned after assignment of specified port from reference port in a second communication control unit (4), a server (6) detects the position of the bubble packet transmitting port in a first communication control unit (3) used in transmission of this bubble packet, and a second information processor (2) transmits a reply packet to the detected bubble port transmitting port. In this configuration, the invention presents a communication system capable of establishing more securely communication between plural information processors for communicating by way of communication control unit (NAT). In this configuration, the invention presents a communication system capable of establishing more securely communication between plural information processors for communicating by way of communication control unit (NAT).
US08234374B2	Privacy model that grants access rights and provides security to shared content Systems and/or methods that mitigate overexposure of shared content and that facilitate improving security of content in a computing environment are provided. In particular, the systems and methods involves monitoring resource activities such as user interactions (between users and/or between users and resources), email activity, share space activity, shared content activity, distribution lists, contact lists, personnel or organization structures, and the like. Data can be collected as one or more resource activities are monitored and then analyzed to determine where, if any, changes have taken place. For example, if a user has been removed from a distribution list or a user has not accessed the shared content within a time period, a recommendation can be formulated to suggest an adjustment to the affected access rights. Furthermore, the systems and/or methods can be integrated with other applications such as an email client, whereby an out-of-office indicator can leave access rights as they are.
US08234372B2	Writing a file to a cloud storage solution Systems and methods of the present invention provide for a user uploading a file and a customized metadata about the file to a file storage system. This information may be forwarded to an application, possibly an API, which may divide the file into a plurality of file chunks if the file is greater than a predetermined file size. One or more tracker servers may check a database to locate optimal file locations for the file or file chunks to be stored within the file storage system. These optimal locations may be returned from the tracker servers to the application/API which may perform an HTTP request to write the file to the file storage system. The file write may be validated and finalized, and the successful write may be displayed to the user on a user interface on a client.
US08234360B2	System for processing messages to support network telephony services A system for conveniently extending the capabilities of network systems to support telephony is presented. Also, a method and system for preventing message looping within network devices that support telephony is presented. A network system, such as a proxy server, executes one or more executable service modules having instructions for performing a specific telephony service. A dispatcher operating upon the network device dispatches messages to the service modules according to a set of resource data provided by the service modules. To prevent message looping, the dispatcher executes logical instructions that restrict the service modules from routing messages to each other indefinitely.
US08234354B2	File transfer method and file transfer system A file transfer method and a file transfer system are provided for making it possible to minimize aggregate waiting time of the whole users for data transfer using a multicast protocol. In the file transfer method of transferring a plurality of program files from a recorder storing a plurality of program files via a network to a plurality of mobile terminals using a multicast protocol, the recorder determines order of transfers of the plurality of program files for the purpose of transferring the plurality of program files in order of digital data files, which is the ascending order of file size of the plurality of program files (step S102), the recorder transfers the plurality of program files on the basis of the order of transfers (steps S104-S109), and the plurality of mobile terminals selectively receives the plurality of program files (steps S204-S207), thereby reducing aggregate waiting time that is a sum total of transfer time of the whole users.
US08234353B2	Method, system, and service server for providing firmware through communication network A firmware providing method in which firmware for an electronic device is downloaded from a service server provided on a communication network to a communication terminal. Display information to be displayed on a display of the electronic device is stored in the service server as language standard data that responds to a plurality of languages in accordance with a model of the electronic device. The communication terminal downloads, from among the language standard data, data in which a model of the electronic device and a language are specified, edits at least a portion of the language standard data, and then transmits the edited display information to the service server. In response thereto, the service server generates firmware for the electronic device of the same model based on the edited display information and returns the firmware to a return target terminal.
US08234349B2	Method and apparatus for managing bookmark information for content stored in a networked media server A method and apparatus for managing bookmark information of a media server through a network based on the UPnP AV standard is disclosed. If a request for bookmarking a content item is made, a bookmark item is created and the created bookmark item is linked to the content item by adding the ID of the created bookmark item to the property information of the content item and recording the ID of the content item to be bookmarked in the created bookmark item.
US08234345B2	Preserving a messaging service in a highly available environment A system receives an identifier for a temporary destination in response to messaging software at a client requesting that a messaging server create the temporary destination. The messaging software uses the identifier to indicate the temporary destination as a destination for responses to messages from the messaging software. The identifier is logged. A disconnection from the messaging server is detected. A second request for a temporary destination is created. The identifier is indicated in the second request. The second request indicating the identifier is transmitted to the messaging server to preserve a messaging service in a highly available environment.
US08234325B2	Method of generating random access preambles in wireless communication system A method of generating random access preambles includes receiving information on a source logical index and generating random access preambles in the order of increasing cyclic shift from root ZC sequences with the consecutive logical indexes from the beginning of the source logical index until a predetermined number of the random access preambles are found, wherein the consecutive logical indexes are mapped to root indexes of the root ZC sequences.
US08234321B2	Generation of a high-rate random bit flow A method for accelerating a pseudo-random input bit flow (PRBS(T1)), generated at a first relatively low dock frequency (f1), into an identical output bit flow (PRBS(T0)) at a second relatively high dock frequency (f0), comprising: collecting the output bit flow, delaying the collected flow by a predetermined value (τ); and combining the delayed flow with the input bit flow.
US08234316B2	Nested file system support A processing device and a machine-implemented method may be provided for tracking file system dependencies with respect to a volume residing on a storage device and guest volumes residing on virtual storage devices nested within the volume. A shim driver may receive an indication of a virtual storage device being surfaced and may parse contents to surface partitions and volumes contained within the virtual storage device to a system. The shim driver may open a guest volume nested within a host volume and may send a register request, regarding the guest volume, to a virtual disk mini-filter associated with the host volume. The virtual disk mini-filter may save information regarding a relationship between the host volume and the guest volume. The saved information may be used to prevent file system corruption when the host volume is dismounted or unexpectedly removed.
US08234310B2	Social networking on a website with topic-based data sharing A method and system for constructing a social network using advanced content-based indexing, data and index sharing, and a peer-to-peer network in conjunction with a web site interface. The system uses indexing techniques to identify and share common interests among users of the network, and integrated peer-to-peer software facilitates data sharing based on these interests. Users who wish to join the social network download client software from the network's web site. When installed, the software indexes data on the user's local storage devices by considering possible high- and low-order links between data elements. The indexing software generates an index of user data that is partitioned into separate topic indexes. This index represents a cross-section of the user's interests. The user is then able to join various “friend” groups on the network, and to select by topic which portions of the index are shared with which friend groups.
US08234301B2	Service offering system, management server, service provider, terminal device, storage medium issuing apparatus, server offering method, and storage medium A system including a management server, a medium issuing apparatus, and a service provider is disclosed. The medium issuing apparatus includes recording means for recording right information and unique identifiers on a package storage medium. The right information denotes services available to the package storage medium, and includes a download authorization bit and an upload authorization bit. The management server includes receiving means for receiving the right information and the identifiers from the package storage medium. The management server also includes storing means for storing the right information corresponding to each of the identifiers and the identifiers in a database. In addition, the management server includes checking means for checking an identifier transmitted from a terminal device by way of the service provider against the identifiers stored in the database.
US08234294B2	Method and system of unifying data A system, method and database design is provided for unifying data from a plurality of heterogeneous databases, each having business-context related data and a data access mechanism. A database is created (e.g., the UniDimNet) which contains a node for each dimension of an industry. For each data source which is accessible via the system, a set of data source specific dimensions is created and mapped to the corresponding industry business context dimension(s). A set of templates (e.g., UniViews) is created to query the data sources. Each UniView contains a specific question for a specific dimension designed for a specific data source. UniViews query the database they are associated with by using the data access mechanism of the associated database. A central server coordinates the system and facilitates use of the system through an interface (e.g., the UniViewer). The UniViewer allows a user to query the data sources by identifying an industry business context dimension, a dimension instance and at least one UniView. Multiple UniViews can be combined, cached and saved to facilitate complex queries.
US08234292B2	System, method, and computer-readable medium for optimizing processing of queries featuring maximum or minimum equality conditions in a parallel processing system A system, method, and computer-readable medium for optimized processing of queries that feature maximum or minimum equality conditions are provided. A table on which the query is applied is scanned a single time. Rows of the table distributed to respective processing modules are scanned by the processing modules. Each processing module maintains identification of any rows distributed to the respective processing module that have attribute values that equal the maximum or minimum attribute value locally identified by the processing module. Subsequently, a global aggregation mechanism is invoked to compute the query result without requiring an additional rescan of the table. Further, the disclosed mechanisms may be extended to compute top N queries featuring maximum or minimum equality conditions.
US08234291B2	Method and system for determining junk information The present invention is a method and a system for determining junk information related to the fields of information filtering, and can solve the problem of improperly predefined junk information. The method includes: pre-defining junk information keywords in data samples; computing keyword scores for each of the keywords; simulating filtering of the data samples using the keyword scores to obtain a filtering index value; determining whether the filtering index value satisfies an evaluation index; if not satisfied, revising the keywords or the keyword scores and repeating the simulating to obtain a new filtering index value; and if satisfied, terminating the revising. The disclosed method can help a user more reasonably define junk information keywords and keyword scores, and determine whether information is junk information based on the keywords and corresponding scores, thereby improving efficiency of information filtering. The invention can be widely adopted in a variety of applications and systems such as feedback systems, guestbook systems, forums and junk mail processing.
US08234288B2	Method and device for generating reference patterns from a document written in markup language and associated coding and decoding methods and devices Reference patterns are generated which represent hierarchized data, the hierarchized data being structured in accordance with a schema and being organized in a plurality of items. Primary structural patterns are extracted from the schema, each of the primary structural patterns representing a set of structural information. A list of instances is created for at least one extracted primary structural pattern, each instance associating items of the plurality of items with a primary structural pattern. Instances of one and a same primary structural pattern are grouped into groups of instances according to a predetermined criterion applied on items of distinct instances. For each group, at least one piece of structural information common to each instance of one of the groups of instances is extracted. A reference pattern is generated from the primary structural pattern associated with the one group of instances, the reference pattern including the extracted piece of structural information.
US08234284B2	Method and system for sorting internet music files, searching method and searching engine Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for sorting Internet music files, a searching method and a searching engine. The method for sorting Internet music file includes: calculating text correlation and value correlation of each of music files; calculating comprehensive correlation of each of the music files according to the text correlation and the value correlation; and sorting the music files according to the comprehensive correlation. Embodiments of the present invention are to show the user music files possessing relatively good correlation with the searching request of the user.
US08234279B2	Streaming text data mining method and apparatus using multidimensional subspaces A streaming text data comparator performs real-time text data mining on streaming text data. The comparator receives a streaming text data document and generates a vector representation of the term frequencies relating to an existing document collection. The comparator then transforms the term frequency vector into a projection in a precomputed multidimensional subspace that represents the original document collection. The comparator further calculates a relationship value representing the similarities or differences between the vector representation and the subspace, and compares the relationship value to a predetermined threshold to determine whether the streaming text data document is related to the original document collection. If the streaming text data document is related, the streaming text data comparator intercalates the new document into the document collection. If the new document is not related, the comparator may store or delete the unrelated document.
US08234277B2	Image-based retrieval for high quality visual or acoustic rendering The embodiments of the invention relate to method for image-based retrieval of an image or text, comprising capturing a digital image; matching the digital image against digitally-stored documents; and retrieving one or more of the digitally-stored documents that match the digital image. Other embodiments relate to a device for image-based retrieval and rendering, comprising an image capturing device for capturing digital image; a device for processing the digital image to match it against digitally-stored documents; a device for retrieving a digitally-stored document that matches the digital image; and a device for rendering the selected retrieved image.
US08234276B2	Computer-implemented method and system for managing keyword bidding prices A computer-implemented method and system for managing keyword bidding prices are disclosed. An example system embodiment includes an automatic keyword bidding module, operably coupled with a processor and a memory, operable to determine a revenue per click value associated with a keyword, obtain bidding information associated with the keyword, obtain automatic bid controls associated with the keyword, and automatically generate a bid value for the keyword based on the revenue per click value, the bidding information, and the automatic bid controls.
US08234265B1	Content selection data expansion Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating and applying query rules. Search queries that are received during user sessions are analyzed to generate query rules that specify a high-performing query that can be used to identify content in response to receipt of a low-performing query. The query rules can be generated by identifying queries that are received in a same user sub-session and defining initial query pairs that each have a high-performing query and a low-performing query from the same user sub-session. The initial query pairs that are identified in a threshold number of user sub-sessions are classified as reference query pairs with which query rules are defined. Query rules are made available to a search system, advertisement management system, or another query processing system for identifying content responsive to search queries.
US08234262B2	Method of selecting a second content based on a user's reaction to a first content of at least two instances of displayed content Embodiments provide a device, a system, a computer program product, and a method. A provided method embodiment may be implemented in an environment that includes a person viewing at least two instances of content having a common contextual attribute and displayed by an electronic device. The method includes detecting a reaction by a person to a displayed first content of the at least two instances of displayed content having a common contextual attribute. The method also includes determining a content attribute of the displayed first content. The method further includes initiating a search for a second content using a search parameter corresponding to the detected reaction and to the determined content attribute.
US08234256B2	System and method for parsing, summarizing and reporting log data A system and method is disclosed which enables network administrators and the like to quickly analyze the data produced by log-producing devices such as network firewalls and routers. Unlike systems of the prior art, the system disclosed herein automatically parses and summarizes log data before inserting it into one or more databases. This greatly reduces the volume of data stored in the database and permits database queries to be run and reports generated while many types of attempted breaches of network security are still in progress. Database maintenance may also be accomplished automatically by the system to delete or archive old log data.
US08234255B1	Reducing data transfer for matching patterns A device may receive a packet, obtain data from the packet, store the data in a memory, and send a request to match a portion of the data to a set of patterns, the request identifying the portion in the memory. In addition, the device may access the portion in the memory based on the request, compare the accessed portion to the set of patterns, generate a result by comparing the accessed portion to the set of patterns, and output the result.
US08234242B2	Maintaining a data structure with data set names and pointers to a plurality of catalogs A plurality of catalogs are maintained, and wherein each catalog of the plurality of catalogs includes data sets and attributes of the data sets. An indication that a new data set is to be defined is received. A selected catalog is determined from the plurality of catalogs, wherein the selected catalog is suitable for including the new data set and attributes of the new data set. An entry that indicates a data set name corresponding to the new data set and an index to the selected catalog is inserted in a group table.
US08234240B2	Framework for providing metrics from any datasource A metrics generation system provides IT and other computing system metrics from different data sources in a single display. Configuration files containing parameters and instructions are loaded by the system to access different data sources. The metrics generation system retrieves IT system health data, processes and aggregates metrics from the retrieved data and displays the metrics based on user defined parameters and instructions in the configuration files. The metrics generation system is flexible in that it can be changed to extract data from different IT data sources, calculate different metric information having a hierarchy of attribute types and values, and display a variety of metric data in different formats.
US08234234B2	Utilizing ray tracing for enhanced artificial intelligence path-finding Embodiments of the invention provide methods and apparatus to use ray-tracing to perform artificial intelligence path-finding. Embodiments of the invention may cast a ray into a three-dimensional scene to determine a path from a starting point to an ending point. The ray may have a trajectory which originates at the starting point and proceeds towards the ending point. The artificial intelligence system may perform ray-tracing using a spatial index to determine if the ray intersects any objects within the three-dimensional scene. If the ray reaches the ending point without intersecting any objects, the path of the ray from the starting point to the ending point is the determined path. However, if the ray intersects an object, the artificial intelligence system may cast additional rays into the three-dimensional scene and perform ray tracing with the additional rays to determine a path from the start point to the end point.
US08234232B2	Word-spacing correction system and method A word-spacing correction system and method are provided to automatically recognize and correct errors in the spacing of word inputs in an electronic device with relatively low computing power. In a learning process, probability information about each feature is created from a corpus of correct words, and then error correction rules are created by applying the probability information to a corpus of incorrect words from which all spaces between words of the corpus of correct words are removed. In an applying process, word-spacing in a user's input sentence is corrected by applying the probability information and the error correction rules to the user's input sentence.
US08234229B2	Method and apparatus for prediction of computer system performance based on types and numbers of active devices A method for predicting a subsequent resource utilization in a computer system having a plurality of devices includes the step of monitoring, over a period of time, a contemporaneous resource utilization and a number of active devices to obtain monitored values of the contemporaneous resource utilization and the number of active devices. The subsequent resource utilization is predicted, based upon the monitored values of the contemporaneous resource utilization and the number of active devices. Additionally, methods are described herein for identifying resource saturation and predicting the effects of adding a new device in a computer system.
US08234227B2	Timestamp neural network A timestamp neural network comprised of sensor elements, internal elements, and motor elements is responsive to timestamps. Sensor elements transform a wide variety of signals into events that trigger the updating of timestamps. Internal elements are responsive to timestamps. Motor elements convert timestamps into useful output signals. A real time video pattern recognition system is implemented.
US08234226B2	Data classification methods and apparatus for use with data fusion Methods and apparatus for classifying data for use in data fusion processes are disclosed. An example method of classifying data selectively groups nodes of a classification tree so that each node is assigned to only one of a plurality of groups and so that at least one of the groups includes at least two of the nodes. Data is classified based on the classification tree and the selective grouping of the nodes, and the results displayed.
US08234220B2	Universal secure registry In one embodiment, a user device is configured to allow a user to select any one of a plurality of accounts associated with the user to employ in a financial transaction. In one embodiment, the user device includes a biometric sensor configured to receive a biometric input provided by the user, a user interface configured to receive a user input including secret information known to the user and identifying information concerning an account selected by the user from the plurality of accounts. In a further embodiment, the user device includes a communication link configured to communicate with a secure registry, and a processor coupled to the biometric sensor to receive information concerning the biometric input, the user interface, and the communication link. According to one embodiment, the processor is configured to generate a non-predictable value and to generate encrypted authentication information from the non-predictable value, the identifying information, and at least one of the information concerning the biometric input and the secret information, and to communicate the encrypted authentication information via the communication link to the secure registry.
US08234217B2	Method and system for selectively providing access to content A method of operating a digital program playback device, including: receiving, via a first communications network, a data stream including an encrypted data portion representative of a program; identifying, from the received data stream, an identifier associated with the program; transmitting the program identifier and a device identifier associated with the digital program playback device to an authorization device via a second communications network; receiving, via the second communications network, a decryption key in response to the transmission; and, decrypting the data stream using the decryption key and generating an output signal for playback of the program.
US08234216B1	Drive-through transaction system and method A system (10) for carrying out transactions between a customer at a customer station (14, 21, 202, 204) and a service provider at a service provider station (12, 194), includes transferring items through transaction devices such as pneumatic carrier delivery and receiving device (21, 200) and a deal drawer (20, 208). The customer at the customer station provides inputs corresponding to a financial account through input devices on the body which is stored in the memory (82, 158) on the body. After transfer to the service provider station, data in the memory is output to a charge device (56) which is operative to assess a charge to the customer's account responsive to data output from the memory. Vehicle sensors (230, 234) sense a vehicle adjacent the respective transaction device. At least one computer calculates at least one time value corresponding to each vehicle and stores the at least one time value and other data values concerning the respective transaction.
US08234212B2	Systems and methods for facilitating transactions with interest A financial account issuer facilitating transactions between accounts is disclosed. The invention provides sellers with an irrevocable method of receiving funds from a purchaser and for improving purchaser willingness to transact with an unknown party. The invention also includes the options of interest payments, the use of different account issuers, different financial accounts, budget transfers, spend compartmentalization, cost-splitting, adjusting credit limits, loans, gifting, intermediary facilitating the transaction, transaction tracking, rapid funds availability, confidential transfer of funds, immediate initiation of shipment by a seller, releasing funds to a seller only after approval of the goods, services, or other value, demonstrating proof of payment, and recourse against a remote seller.
US08234209B2	Method of collecting delinquent specialized debt An internet-based system for organization and collection of specialized debt that is delinquent; an example of specialized debt being healthcare debt.
US08234200B2	System and method for identifying accounting anomalies to help investors better assess investment risks and opportunities A system and method of identifying accounting anomalies to assess investment risks and opportunities. The steps include receiving company data and criteria metrics, and evaluating the company data in view of the criteria metrics to produce a performance indicator. Information, such as an easily read visual flag is provided to a client identifying the performance indicator.
US08234197B2	Hierarchical transaction filtering Systems and methods of allocating transactions among business objects are described. Allocation is accomplished using generated allocation rules that are generated using a hierarchical data structure representative of relationships between the business objects and using predefined rules that characterize the business objects. Each generated allocation rule is associated with at least one of the business objects and is used to query a set of transactions to be allocated. Query results, generated using a generated allocation rule, include the transactions to be allocated to the associated business object. Embodiments are disclosed to illustrate how the invention can be used to allocate sales commissions to members of a sales team. The invention is applicable to a variety of business objects including people, organizations, accounts, tasks, or the like.
US08234188B1	Method, system and computer program product for managing funds in custodial deposit accounts A method, system and computer program product for managing aggregate funds held in custodial deposit accounts by a custodial agent on behalf of a plurality of individuals. According to the present invention, the custodial deposit accounts comprise an omnibus transaction account (“Omnibus TA”) and a Omnibus money market deposit account (“Omnibus MMDA”). A corresponding individual transaction account (“Individual TA”) and individual money market deposit account (“Individual MMDA”) are kept on the books and records of the custodial agent for each individual, representing the amount of the individual's funds deposited in the Omnibus TA and Omnibus MMDA, respectively. According to the present invention, limitations on transfers from the Omnibus MMDA to the Omnibus TA and limitations on transfers from the corresponding Individual MMDAs to the Individual TAs are managed by daily allocation of the funds in the Individual TAs and Individual MMDAs.
US08234186B2	Inventory location management An inventory management method and system may be capable of monitoring an inventory by compiling historical data relating to the inventory, defining net inventory needs, and calculating the quantity and/or types of inventory that may be needed to maintain a suitable level of inventory. More than one inventory and respective source may be included in the calculation of the inventory needs. The calculation may determine the inventory needs at a particular location or the inventory that must be maintained at a particular location based at least in part on the historical data, the inventory needs, and the customer's needs. The inventory and/or inventory locations may be consolidated, increased, decreased, and eliminated, as suitable to meet the needs of the customer. The net change in inventory related costs resulting from facility changes such as consolidation, increase, decrease, and elimination may be calculated and optimized.
US08234181B2	System, method and graphical user interface for managing contacts and calendars within an online card system A system implemented by an online stationery/card service is described allowing a user to personalize and send non-electronic stationery/cards, the system comprising: a Web-based GUI for designing stationery/cards and envelopes for the stationery/cards comprising: an envelope design region for designing an envelope to be used for mailing the stationery/cards selected by the end user, the envelope design region comprising: a return address region comprising one or more text boxes for entering a return address of the end user; an address region comprising one or more text boxes for entering the address of a recipient, wherein the address region includes a first link to generate a list of contacts in the user's contacts database and a second link to generate one or more options for contacting the recipient when the user does not know the address of the recipient.
US08234168B1	Image content and quality assurance system and method Disclosed herein are computer-implement systems and methods for identifying and analyzing content (e.g., text, images, videos, etc.) published on digital content platforms (e.g., webpages, mobile applications, etc.). Such analysis is then used to determine whether the published content is appropriate for association with (or “hosting of”) a third-party's content. In one embodiment, for example, the systems and methods presented are particularly useful for determining the appropriateness of an image published on a digital content platform, prior to providing an advertisement proximate the image. As such, merchants can avoid associating their advertised products/services with vulgar, obscene, or otherwise inappropriate images that may have a negative impact on their brand or reputation.
US08234167B2	Video advertiser-broker subsidizing VoIP calls A system and method for an on-line web-based advertiser-broker to subsidize calls of a plurality of VOIP operators' subscribers by showing them video advertisements from a catalogue of advertisements provided by a plurality of advertisers. The advertisement is shown by the advertiser-broker and then the call is transferred to the VoIP operator for call completion.The advertiser-broker provides the clearing-house services between many advertisers and many VoIP operators, subsidizing wholly or partially phone calls of users of VoIP operators by showing them streaming video advertisements of advertisers who pay for the calls. With this new business, phone calls get monetized through advertisers while users pay nothing for phone calls, and VoIP operators do not need to incorporate advertisers to their business.
US08234161B1	System and method for internet community building, website popularization and distribution of E-commerce products A method, system and computer program product for increasing popularity of a website including making agreements with vendors of product for distribution through the website; periodically making available the products on the website to all visitors of the website; and delivering the products to all visitors of the website. Visitors to the website can vote on selection of the product. The products can be made available as a daily reward. The products can be available for installation only for a limited period of time, and can include an installation wrapper with an unlocker that permits installation only for the limited period of time. The unlocker verifies with the server whether the product can be installed and activated, and can be a DLL, an executable file, an ACTIVE-X component, a registry settings file, and a cryptographic key.
US08234160B2	Providing consumers with incentives for healthy eating habits A particular consumable item, purchased by an individual for potential consumption, is detected. Separate health index values each associated with a separate one of multiple health index components are determined for consumption of the particular consumable item. At least one electronic incentive for the individual is selected based on the separate health index values matching at least one health index value requirement specified in a database of electronic incentives.
US08234159B2	Method and system for targeted content placement A system for delivering targeted content to a device includes a database and a processor. The database stores anonymous identifications for a plurality of customers of at least one financial institution. Each anonymous identification is associated with financial information for a respective customer of the at least one financial institution. The processor includes software that is configured to classify consumers, create a targeted list of content viewers, and deliver a targeted advertisement over a network to a device used by a content viewer on the targeted list. The classifications can be based on the financial information associated with each anonymous identification. The target list of content viewers can be based on at least one selected classification. The advertisement can be delivered to a device used by a content viewer on the targeted list after the device has been used to log onto an application offered by the at least one financial institution.
US08234153B2	Automated performance appraisal system with a compensation simulator A performance appraisal system is provided for reviewing employees' performance of a company. The performance appraisal system may be integrated with a compensation simulator such that compensation for each employee may be associated with his/her respective performance. On a computer graphical user interface, employees in an organizational unit of the company may be shown in a grid pane displaying a variety of performance tiers. The employees may be distributed among the performance tiers based on performance appraisals. In response to an employee change performance tier, for example, an employee may be dragged from one performance tier and dropped in a different performance tier, the system automatically makes corresponding changes to respective performance appraisals. The integrated compensation simulator simulates adjustments to compensations for affected employees based on changes to performance appraisals. Alternatively, the system may list employees in a table and the table may contain a number of sections corresponding to a number of performance tiers. In response to an employee change from one section to an adjacent section, for example, caused by an adjustment of a section, the employee may be changed from one performance tier to another performance tier.
US08234140B1	System, method, and computer program product for resource collaboration estimation A system, method, and computer program product for resource collaboration estimation (RCET). The method includes determining types of human resources to be used for a project. The method also includes calculating and storing an effort full time equivalent (FTE) according to the types of human resources. The method also includes calculating and storing a communication FTE according to the types of human resources. The method can also calculate the total effort of each team per phase based on additional communication overhead, and derive the total cost and duration based on the number of FTEs. A data processing system includes various means for performing corresponding steps, and a computer program product includes instructions for executing corresponding steps.
US08234139B2	Process manufacturing with least cost formulation A system for manufacturing a product receives a formulation specification that includes a plurality of ingredients for the product. The system further receives cost information for the ingredients and inventory information. The system then generates a least cost formulation for the product based on the formulation specification, cost information and inventory information.
US08234135B2	Online waiting room system, method and computer program product An exemplary embodiment of the present invention sets forth a system, method and computer program product which may include providing an online waiting room and gatekeeper for controlling access to users in a plurality of tiered classification standby lines, seeking access to an online event.
US08234129B2	Systems and methods for obtaining, storing, processing and utilizing immunologic and other information of individuals and populations A system and method for assessing immunological status of individuals and populations is presented. The method includes establishing a database containing a plurality of records, each record containing information representative of the immune status of an individual, including (1) bioassay results, and (2) individual specific information such as, medical history, clinical observations and historical, demographic, lifestyle, and familial/genetic information. By processing the information trends and/or patterns are obtained correlating various variables in the records across an individual, population or sub-population. The identified trends and/or patterns can, for example, be used in health care related decision making. In exemplary embodiments such processing can include generating a set of correlations and for each correlation generating a set of explanatory or relevant hypotheses. Then, for example, each hypothesis can be automatically refuted or supported, to the extent possible. The identified correlations, their associated hypotheses and the results of such automated vetting can then be reported to a user.
US08234118B2	Method and apparatus for generating dialog prosody structure, and speech synthesis method and system employing the same A dialog prosody structure generating method and apparatus, and a speech synthesis method and system employing the dialog prosody structure generation method and apparatus, are provided. The speech synthesis method using the dialog prosody structure generation method includes: determining a system speaking style based on a user utterance; if the system speaking style is dialog speech, generating dialog prosody information by reflecting discourse information between a user and a system; and synthesizing a system utterance based on the generated dialog prosody information.
US08234102B2	Development of assertions for integrated circuit design simulation One embodiment of the present application includes the preparation of an assertion for inclusion in an integrated circuit simulation performed with a processing device (21). In response to an input to this processing device (21), a set of integrated circuit waveforms are defined to test the assertion. The processing device (21) tests the assertion with these waveforms; and after successful testing, the integrated circuit simulation is performed with the assertion.
US08234096B2	Extraction of component models from PCB channel scattering parameter data by stochastic optimization Various embodiments herein include one or more of systems, methods, software, and/or data structures to extract models of components (e.g., vias and traces) for PCB channels from measurements (or simulations) taken from physical PCB channels. By applying stochastic optimization to measurements of two PCB channels having different channel lengths, s-matrices (e.g., two-port, four-port, and the like) of the components of a PCB channel may be accurately determined by searching the multi-dimensional parameter space for parameters that comply with the measured values. Once the models for the components have been accurately determined, they may be utilized in constructing a model library that includes component models and is based on physical measurement data.
US08234092B2	Dual cross beam sensor system and method for measuring lead edge and/or trail edge media curl A system and method for measuring a lead edge and/or a trail edge media curl utilizing a dual cross beam sensor. The dual cross beam sensor includes one or more pairs of emitters (e.g., a pair to two pairs of emitters) and one or more detectors positioned sequentially in a media path so that a media passes via dual cross beams. Timing data with respect to the media can be measured as the media crosses via the dual cross beam sensor from a leading edge and/or trailing edge. A true instantaneous media speed and a curl height (i.e., media tip height or media curvature) can be simultaneously calculated from the timing data associated with the lead edge/trail edge with respect to each single cross beams of the dual cross beam sensor. An average curl height can be then calculated to enhance the accuracy of the media curl measurement.
US08234090B2	System for estimating the lateral velocity of a vehicle A system and method for estimating vehicle lateral velocity that defines a relationship between front and rear axle lateral forces and front and rear axle side-slip angles. The method includes providing measurements of vehicle yaw-rate, lateral acceleration, longitudinal speed, and steering angle. The method also includes using these measurements to provide a measurement of the front and rear axle forces. The method calculates a front axle lateral velocity and a rear axle lateral velocity, and calculates a front axle side-slip angle based on the rear axle lateral velocity and a rear axle side-slip angle based on the front axle lateral velocity. The method then estimates front and rear axle forces, and selects a virtual lateral velocity that minimizes an error between the estimated and measured lateral axle forces. The method then provides an estimated vehicle lateral velocity using the selected virtual lateral velocity.
US08234083B2	Wind turbine rotor blade comprising an edge-wise bending insensitive strain sensor system A wind turbine rotor blade having a strain sensor system is described. The strain sensor is insensitive to the effect of twisting motions or edge-wise bending on the measurement of the strain. The sensor comprises one or more strain sensing devices arranged in a circular or regular polygon shaped path enclosing a region of the component. In the sensor system, a plurality of strain sensors are spaced longitudinally along a flap-wise axis of the wind turbine rotor blade.
US08234080B2	Method for identifying a compound that modulates telomerase activity The present invention embraces methods for identifying compounds that modulate the activity of telomerase. Compounds of the invention are identified by designing or screening for a compound which binds to at least one amino acid residue of the TRBD, “thumb,” “finger,” and/or “palm” domain; or FP-pocket, PT-pocket or Th-pocket of telomerase and testing the compound for its ability to modulate the activity of telomerase.
US08234076B2	Abnormal output detection system for a biosensor A biosensor has an abnormal output detection system that determines whether an output signal from the redox reaction of an analyte has a normal or abnormal shape or configuration. The abnormal output detection system improves the accuracy and precision of the biosensor in determining whether an output signal has a shape or configuration that may not provide an accurate and/or precise analysis of a biological fluid. The biosensor generates an output signal in response to the redox reaction of the analyte. The biosensor normalizes the output signal and compares the normalized output signal with one or more control limits. The biosensor may generate an error signal when the normalized output signal is not within the control limits.
US08234075B2	Apparatus and method for processing information concerning biological condition, system, program and recording medium for managing information concerning biological condition A system provided in accordance with the present invention comprises a sever unit (100), which serves as an apparatus for processing information concerning a biological condition information, and a client unit (200), which serves as an information terminal of a provider of the information on the biological condition communicably connected to the server unit (100) via a network (300). The server unit (100) determines a composite index reflecting a plurality of metabolites indicative of the biological condition based on the information on the biological condition acquired from the client unit (200).
US08234073B2	System and method for estimating geological architecture of a geologic volume The geological architecture of a geologic volume of interest is estimated through the generation and/or selection of one or more numerical analog models of the geologic volume of interest that represent characteristics of the geologic volume of interest as a function of position within the geologic volume of interest. The estimation of geological architecture of the geologic volume of interest may be implemented in reservoir exploration and/or development.
US08234071B2	Laterolog shunt measurement An apparatus for estimating a property of a formation penetrated by a borehole, the apparatus having: a first electrode and a second electrode configured to couple to a characteristic impedance of a material disposed in the borehole; a third electrode configured with the first electrode to electrically couple to a characteristic impedance of the formation; a circuit element coupled to the first electrode and to the second electrode and having a characteristic impedance; a first sensing circuit coupled to the circuit element and configured to provide a first signal related to the impedance of the borehole material; and a second sensing circuit coupled to the first electrode and the third electrode and configured to provide a second signal related to the characteristic impedance of the formation; wherein the first signal and the second signal are used to estimate the property. A method is also provided.
US08234059B2	Navigation device A navigation device 100 having a function to modify a route comprises an operational object detecting part 11 configured to detect a point or a section on the route as an operational object, a fixed point setting part 12 configured to set as fixed points two points on the route sandwiching the operational object therebetween, an operational object displacement detecting part 13 configured to detect a displacement of the operational object, a path changing part 14 configured to change a path of the route depending on the displacement of the operational object while elongating or contracting a line connecting the operational object and the fixed point, and a route re-searching part 15 configured to re-search and display an alternate route continuously depending on the changing path.
US08234055B2	Engine movement detection systems and methods A control system for an internal combustion engine is provided. The control system includes an engine movement module that selects from N engine rotation modes based on camshaft movement and crankshaft movement, where N is an integer greater than two, and where at least one of the N rotation modes is an assisted spinning mode. A diagnostic module enables one or more engine diagnostic modes based on the selected engine rotation mode.
US08234048B2	Method and system for inhibiting operation in a commanded operating range state for a transmission of a powertrain system A hybrid powertrain system includes torque generative devices to transfer power to an output member. An operator torque request, a rotational direction and speed of the output member, and a signal output from a transmission range selector are monitored. When a change in a direction of intended motion is determined, the powertrain system can change rotational direction of the output member when the speed of the output member is less than a threshold. The powertrain can inhibit a change in the rotational direction of the output member.
US08234041B2	Electric power steering controller A correction value calculating section 70 is provided with a pinion shaft torsion angle correction value calculating section 74 and a pinion shaft torsion angular velocity correction value calculating section 75 for calculating a correction value in consideration with the transmission characteristic of the steering assist torque from the electric motor 6 to the steerable vehicle wheel 9. Therefore, the electric motor 6 can generate the steering assist torque compensating for the influence by the transmission characteristic of the steering assist torque from the electric motor 6 to the steerable vehicle wheel 9 by correcting a target value defined by a detection value of the torque sensor 3 with the correction value.
US08234039B2	Conserved energy metrics for frontal impact sensing algorithm enhancement in motor vehicles A motor vehicle is provided that has a deployable occupant protection device, a controller that manages deployment activity, and a sensor located in a forward portion of the vehicle that produces a forward crash signal in response to crash stimulus. The forward crash signal varies between positive and negative values over time. At least some of the negative values are converted to positive values, defining a conditioned crash signal which is processed with an integrating algorithm, defining a conserved energy crash metric value that supplements processing of a central crash signal while evaluating a potential crash event(s). The conserved energy crash metric value can be used as a confirmatory factor, influencing whether to deploy the deployable occupant protection device. Or, for deployable occupant protection devices having multiple deployment stages, the conserved energy crash metric value can be used in determining whether to initiate one or more of the deployment stages.
US08234036B2	Method and apparatus for starter motor diagnosis and prognosis using parameter estimation algorithm A system and method for determining the state of health of a starter motor to notify a vehicle driver of a potential starter motor failure before the failure actually occurs. The starter motor includes an armature and motor brushes each providing a resistance, and an armature coil providing an armature inductance. Further, the starter motor has a back EMF because of the starter motor being coupled to a flywheel and the vehicle engine. The system and method monitor the combined resistance of the armature and the motor brushes, the inductance of the armature and a back EMF constant of the motor, and provide a signal indicating a potential starter motor failure if any of these three values significantly deviates from nominal values. In one embodiment, the analysis of the motor resistance, armature inductance and back EMF constant is provided by a regression model to determine estimated motor parameters.
US08234030B2	Vehicle and control method of vehicle Upon satisfaction of the condition for making the malfunction diagnosis at least one of the EGR system, the air-fuel ratio sensor and the oxygen sensor during the fuel cut of the engine, a fuel cut of the engine and performing the mortaring of the engine by means of the motor MG1 are continued until the completion of the malfunction diagnoses of all objects, of which the each condition for making the malfunction diagnosis is satisfied among the EGR system, the air-fuel ratio sensor and the oxygen sensor. This arrangement ensures the occasions for making the malfunction diagnoses of the EGR system, the air-fuel ratio sensor and the oxygen sensor.
US08234019B2	Device and method for automatically generating a control order for an aircraft control surface A device and a method for automatically generating a control order of an aircraft control surface. The device can include means for automatically calculating and transmitting, in the case of a suspected deficiency of a control surface control order, a limited auxiliary order, during a confirmation time of the deficiency.
US08234015B2	Method for controlling a grid voltage The present invention relates to a method for controlling a voltage level of a power supply grid operationally connected to a source of electrical power, the method comprising the steps of determining a short circuit impedance of the power supply grid at a point of common coupling, calculating, using the determined short circuit impedance, a gain value of the power supply grid, and controlling the grid voltage level in accordance with the calculated gain value by applying said gain value as a gain parameter in a voltage controller. The method according to the present invention may be implemented as a method for configuring a voltage controller once and for all, or it may be implemented as a method for adaptively adjusting a gain of a voltage controller.
US08234011B2	Movable robot A technique to wholly recognize the surrounding environment may be provided by excluding unknown environment which arises due to parts of a body of a robot hindering the sight of the robot during operations.The robot of the present invention is provided with a body trunk including head and torso, at least one connected member that is connected to the body trunk by a joint in which a driving mechanism is provided, a body trunk side camera that is arranged on the body trunk, and a connected member side camera that is arranged on the connected member. Further, the robot is provided with a composite image creation unit that creates composite image of a body trunk side image taken by the body trunk side camera and a connected member side image taken by the connected member side camera, such that a part of the body trunk side image is replaced with a part of the connected member side image so as to exclude the connected member from the body trunk side image.
US08234008B2	Lidded drawer for single line item dispensing A medication cabinet that includes at least one drawer, a drive mechanism, and a drawer latching mechanism, is disclosed. The drawer includes a slider, and a container that includes a receptacle and a lid that moves between an open position and a closed position. The container also includes a fastener to fasten the lid to the receptacle. The slider maintains the lid in the closed position when at least a portion of the wall is coupled with the fastener, and actuates the lid from the closed position to the open position when the fastener passes through an opening in the wall. The drive mechanism controls longitudinal movement of the slider, and is mounted to the chassis, allowing the drawer to be free of electrical connections with the chassis. When the drive mechanism is not used to move the lid into the open position, longitudinal movement of the slider is inhibited.
US08233999B2	System and method for interactive visualization of music properties There is provided a visual music classification and management system. Each music item in a user's collection will be analyzed to identify its musical characteristics along with some estimate of the degree of confidence associated with that characteristic. By using characteristics, so-called music aspects, it will be possible to efficiently categorize the contents of a music database. Each music item will be stored in a database with the calculated values as will the characterizing aspect. The database contents will be displayed by drawing icons representing the music items on a user's screen, with the size (or other visual aspect) of the icon reflecting the degree of confidence with that categorization. Searches of the database will be performed by on-screen manipulations of the aspect cluster-positioned music items.
US08233993B2	Winged electrode body for spinal cord stimulation An implantable stimulation system including epidural lead for spinal cord stimulation that includes a paddle having a curved proximal end and lateral winged tips and an array of electrodes coupled to conductors within a lead body. The conductors couple to a pulse generator or other stimulation device. The curved and winged paddle provides more complete electrical stimulation coverage to targeted human tissue by minimizing the potential gap between electrodes and targeted fibers.
US08233982B2	Systems and methods for treating supraventricular arrhythmias In various method embodiments, a supraventricular arrhythmia event is detected, and a supraventricular arrhythmia treatment, including neural stimulation to elicit a sympathetic response, is delivered in response to a detected supraventricular arrhythmia event. Some embodiments detect a precursor for a supraventricular arrhythmia episode, and deliver prophylactic neural stimulation to avoid the supraventricular arrhythmia event. Some embodiments detect a supraventricular arrhythmia episode, and deliver therapeutic neural stimulation for the supraventricular arrhythmia event.
US08233979B1	Distributed anode cardiac pacing and sensing Embodiments of the present invention are directed to devices, systems and methods for pacing and sensing, in a chamber of a patient's heart, that provide for good sensed R wave amplitudes and capture thresholds, yet avoids extracardiac stimulation. Such benefits are achieved by using what is referred to herein as a “distributed” anode, where one portion of the anode is within 5 mm of the cathode, but another portion of the anode is at least 10 mm from the cathode. While especially useful for pacing and sensing in the left ventricle, embodiments of the present invention can be used to pace and sense in any chamber of the heart.
US08233975B2	Method utilizing two wire electrode oscillator system for determining body impedance A method for measuring an impedance of a body includes the steps of electrically coupling first and second electrodes to the body and electrically biasing a variable frequency relaxation oscillator. The oscillator has both a positive resistive feedback network and a negative feedback network which includes the electrodes. The method further includes a step of measuring the period of oscillation of the variable frequency oscillator. The measured period of oscillation is indicative of the impedance of the body.
US08233974B2	Method and device for measuring tissue oedema The present invention provides a method of assessing tissue oedema, in particular lymphoedema, by measuring bioelectrical impedance at a single frequency. Comparison of a single frequency bioelectrical impedance measurement taken at an anatomical region affected by tissue oedema to that taken at an anatomical region unaffected by tissue oedema is a reliable indicator of the presence or possible presence of lymphoedema. The present invention further provides an apparatus for determining the presence of tissue oedema.
US08233964B2	System and method for color-coding segmented chest image airways for assessment A method for visualizing airways in chest images, includes: computing a distance map of a segmented bronchial tree; extracting data from the segmented bronchial tree using the distance map; and visualizing a three-dimensional (3D) image of the segmented bronchial tree color-coded according to the extracted data.
US08233958B2	Signal processing for continuous analyte sensor Systems and methods for dynamically and intelligently estimating analyte data from a continuous analyte sensor, including receiving a data stream, selecting one of a plurality of algorithms, and employing the selected algorithm to estimate analyte values. Additional data processing includes evaluating the selected estimative algorithms, analyzing a variation of the estimated analyte values based on statistical, clinical, or physiological parameters, comparing the estimated analyte values with corresponding measure analyte values, and providing output to a user. Estimation can be used to compensate for time lag, match sensor data with corresponding reference data, warn of upcoming clinical risk, replace erroneous sensor data signals, and provide more timely analyte information encourage proactive behavior and preempt clinical risk.
US08233956B2	Medical device A medical device includes a connector which contacts a sensor to electrically connect the sensor with a measurement circuit in a medical device, a contact terminal which constitutes the connector, and a slide pin which ejects the sensor out of the medical device. The slide pin performs the operation of pushing up the contact terminal contacting the sensor as well as the operation of pushing the sensor out of the medical device. Since the contact terminal is completely lifted up by the inclined surface of the upper end part of the slide pin before the sensor is discarded, there occurs no reaction due to rebound of the contact terminal which might occur at the moment when the contact terminal of the connector is separated from the sensor, and thereby the sensor can be discarded so as to fall freely.
US08233953B2	Optical-based sensing devices An optical-based sensor for detecting the presence or amount of an analyte using both indicator and reference channels. The sensor has a sensor body with a source of radiation embedded therein. Radiation emitted by the source interacts with indicator membrane indicator molecules proximate the surface of the body. At least one optical characteristic of these indicator molecules varies with analyte concentration. For example, the level of fluorescence of fluorescent indicator molecules or the amount of light absorbed by light-absorbing indicator molecules can vary as a function of analyte concentration. In addition, radiation emitted by the source also interacts with reference membrane indicator molecules proximate the surface of the body. Radiation (e.g., light) emitted or reflected by these indicator molecules enters and is internally reflected in the sensor body. Photosensitive elements within the sensor body generate both indicator channel and reference channel signals to provide an accurate indication of the concentration of the analyte. Preferred embodiments are totally self-contained and are sized and shaped for use in vivo in a human being. Such embodiments preferably include a power source, e.g. an inductor, which powers the source of radiation using external means, as well as a transmitter, e.g. an inductor, to transmit to external pickup means the signal representing the level of analyte.
US08233947B2	Neckpad communications system for a helmet A neckpad communications system for a helmet includes a neckpad body that includes coupling members for detachably coupling the neckpad body to a surface of the helmet. The system includes a communications unit having a first part that is disposed within and covered by the neckpad body and is configured to permit audio communication with another remote device and a second part including audio transducers located at least partially outside the neckpad body. The audio transducers are operatively connected to the communications unit and can include at least one speaker and a microphone. The neckpad body includes cushioning to allow it to be worn against a user's body and includes controls associated with the communications unit that are accessible exteriorly.
US08233945B2	Rotary cover mechanism for portable electronic devices A rotary mechanism includes a base (10), a cover (30), a torsion spring (40) and a locking module (20). The rotary cover is rotatably mounted to the base. Two ends of the torsion spring are fixed with the base and the cover, respectively. The locking module limits the cover from rotating relative to the base. When the cover overcomes the limitation of the locking module, the cover can automatically rotate relative to the base due to the torsion spring.
US08233944B2	Speaker apparatus and method in a wireless telephone A method and apparatus for a wireless telephone having at least two speakers include a first speaker mounted on a folder housing of the wireless telephone; and a second speaker mounted on a body housing of the wireless telephone. The first and second speakers can be a telephone conversation speaker or a multimedia speaker, where the multimedia speaker outputs a message reception alert tone or a ringing tone. The method and apparatus further include a rotary section for rotating the folder housing, where the first or second speakers can be mounted on the rotary section.
US08233943B1	Selective activation of alerts for receipt and availability of data in a communication device A recipient activates or deactivates user alerts associated with the receipt and/or availability of communications using rules in an alert profile stored on a device, a server, or a location accessible to the server. In one embodiment, the device can implement the rules when a communication is received and/or available. If an alert is activated, the device renders the alert. If the alert is deactivated, the device does not render the alert unless and until the alert is activated. In another embodiment, the server can implement the rules. If the alert is activated when the communication is transmitted to the device, the server also transmits alert-rendering instructions, whereupon the device can render the alert as specified in the instructions. If the alert is deactivated when the communication is transmitted to the device, the server does not transmit the instructions unless and until the alert is activated.
US08233940B2	Base station equipment, base station control equipment and communication system A technique of being capable to decrease the number of times of delivery and receipt of information on a common channel setup between a base station equipment and a base station control equipment. A communication system includes base station equipment and a base station control equipment which controls the base station equipment. The base station control equipment is capable of supplying information necessary for the common channel setup to the base station equipment, and the base station equipment produces a track-record notification signal indicating a track record of the common channel setup while performing the common channel setup on the basis of the information. The base station control equipment does not supply the information necessary for the common channel setup when receiving the track-record notification signal from the base station equipment.
US08233939B2	Multiuser sector micro diversity system Embodiments of methods and apparatus for a multiuser sector micro diversity system are described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US08233936B2	Radio communication system A system and method of operating a radio communication system uses a random access channel to enable a secondary station to transmit a message to a primary station. The secondary station transmits a preamble to the primary station. After successful receipt of the preamble the primary station transmits a control channel including power control information to instruct the secondary station to adjust the output power of its transmitter. This ensures that the secondary station transmits at a sufficient power for the message to be received successfully by the primary station, while minimizing interference generated by the transmission.
US08233925B1	Method and system for mobile club opt-in A method and system for qualifying and transmitting an invitation to a mobile phone number to receive digital communications is disclosed herein. A customer profile stored at a CRM database is analyzed and processed to determine if the data capable phone carrier and data capable communication device is associated with a phone number in the customer profile that has opted-in to receive digital communications such as for a mobile marketing campaign.
US08233919B2	Intelligently providing user-specific transportation-related information A method, system, and medium are provided for distributing transportation alerts to computing devices in accordance with factors, such as device-specific and location-specific factors. In embodiments of the present invention, travel alerts, including public alerts associated with certain areas, are formatted or held prior to delivery, based on safety concerns, legal requirements, device settings, or other considerations.
US08233918B2	Digital content distribution system for delivering location specific content to an ad hoc group of mobile subscribers A digital content distribution system and method are disclosed for delivering location specific content to an ad hoc group of mobile subscribers. The system consists of a downloadable application that runs on the subscribers mobile communication device and communicates with a server-based content composer system. The content composer system manages outgoing content based upon the geographic location reported by a mobile communication device application and the demographic and preference data stored in a subscriber database. Emergency alerts are sent only to subscribers in a area covered by the alert. The emergency alerts are executed on the mobile communication device even though the mobile communication device is in a low power sleep or hibernate mode. Moreover, the emergency alerts take over the mobile communications device no matter what other tasks are being executed when the emergency alert is received.
US08233916B2	Method of and system for virtual mobile game session discovery and player matching A system for establishing multi-party wireless game sessions includes a game session broker and at least two wireless units. Each wireless unit includes a first wireless device having relatively low power consumption and a second wireless device having relatively high power consumption. The game session broker is configured to receive a session ready message that includes location information for a first player and search for a second player having location information matching the location information for the first player. Upon finding a matching player, the game session broker sends session available messages to the wireless units associated with the first and second players. Session ready messages are sent and session available message are received using the first wireless devices. Upon receiving the session available message, the first and second players can establish a wireless game session using their respective second wireless devices. Preferably, the second wireless devices are maintained powered-off until a session available message is received.
US08233912B2	Mobile station localization apparatus, systems, and methods Embodiments herein may use first and second path loss values L1 and L2 to calculate first and second distances R1 and R2 between the MS and first and second base stations BS1 and BS2, respectively, in a wireless packet-carrying network. L1 and L2 may comprise values of a reduction in signal strength of signals as transmitted by the BS1 and the BS2 and as received by the MS. The MS may triangulate its position relative to a grid using R1 and R2. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US08233893B2	Mobile handset update package generator that employs nodes technique A mobile handset in a mobile services network, with access to a plurality of services including a firmware/software update service, is also capable of updating its update agent using an appropriate update package that is retrieved from an update package repository via a management server. A generator with nodes preprocessor is used to create an update package and associated information, such as nodes information and filter information, by comparing two different versions of the firmware/software of the mobile handset.
US08233887B2	Covert message redaction and recovery in a wireless communication device A wireless communication device comprises a user interface, a memory, a wireless communication interface, and a processing system. The wireless communication interface is configured to wirelessly receive a message. The processing system is configured to direct the memory to store the message. The processing system is configured to drive the user interface to display the message, display a message redaction indicator, and responsively receive a message redaction instruction. The processing system is configured to redact a portion of the message responsive to the message redaction instruction and direct the memory to store the redacted portion of the message. The processing system is configured to drive the user interface to display the message without the redacted portion, display a message recovery indicator, and responsively receive a message recovery instruction. The processing system is configured to recover the message responsive to the message recovery instruction and drive the user interface to display the message with the previously redacted portion.
US08233878B2	Methods, systems, and computer program products for handset assisted resource utilization verification Methods, systems, and computer readable media for handset assisted resource utilization verification are disclosed. According to one method, first usage information is obtained from a mobile handset in response to the mobile handset being operated at a first time. Second usage information is obtained from the mobile handset in response to the mobile handset being operated at a second time. Based on the first and second usage information, an indication of network resource utilization is determined for the mobile handset between the first and second times. The first and second usage information may be obtained by polling the handset by sending query messages for the usage information to the handset or by triggering the handset to send the usage information in response to the expiration of a handset-implemented timer.
US08233877B2	Discontinuous reception of bursts for voice calls A mobile terminal capable of operating in a Discontinuous Transmission mode during an active voice call with a remote party is also capable of operating in a Discontinuous Reception mode during the same active voice call. Particularly, a receiving mobile terminal monitors when the remote party stops transmitting speech during the active voice call. If there are no speech signals to receive, the mobile terminal switches it's receiver “off” for selected receive time slots to save battery power.
US08233875B2	Device beacon for handoff management of handoffs to access nodes An access node receives a device beacon transmitted from a wireless communication device in accordance with a system timing of a wireless wide area network (WWAN). When transmitted within a WWAN uplink channel, the device beacon is mapped to designated beacon channels within the time-frequency space of the uplink WWAN channel assignment. In response to the reception of the device beacon, communications between the wireless communication device and the access node are established. In one example, the access node is a femtocell base station. In another example, the access node is a wireless local area network (WLAN) access point.
US08233874B2	Wireless communication apparatus A wireless communication apparatus includes a local oscillator that generates a plurality of LO (Local Oschillation) signals corresponding to frequencies of a plurality of input RF (Radio Frequency) signals, an accumulator that accumulates the plurality of LO signals generated by the local oscillator to generate an accumulated signal, a mixer that mixes the plurality of RF signals and the accumulated signal generated by the accumulator and to generate a plurality of base band signals, and a first signal processing unit that executes a signal process with respect to the plurality of base band signals generated by the mixer.
US08233872B2	Radio-frequency communication device There is provided a radio-frequency communication device that can sufficiently eliminate a leakage signal from a transmission side included in a received signal. The communication device includes a cancel amplitude controlling unit 62 selectively suppressing supply of a cancel signal to a cancel signal synthesizing unit 52, a received-signal terminating unit 50 selectively terminating a received-signal input terminal 64i, a signal strength detecting unit 78 detecting a signal strength, a memory unit 82 storing a signal strength detected by the signal strength detecting unit 78, a signal strength comparing unit 80 comparing a plurality kinds of signal strengths read out from the memory unit 82, and a cancel signal controlling unit 72 controlling an amplitude and/or a phase of the cancel signal based on a result of the comparison by the signal strength comparing unit 80. Thus, suppressing the cancel signal by the cancel amplitude controlling unit 62 enables accurate detection of a strength of the received signal, as well as terminating the received signal by the received-signal terminating unit 50 enables accurate detection of a strength of the cancel signal.
US08233869B2	Automatic gain control with improved cross-modulation An apparatus such as a television signal receiver provides an AGC function which reduces cross-modulation distortion. According to an exemplary embodiment, the apparatus includes first and second amplifiers coupled in series and a gain control circuit. The gain control circuit controls the gains of the first and second amplifiers in response to the magnitude of the input signal. The gain of the first amplifier remains substantially unchaged at a first level while the magnitude of the input signal is within a first range. The gain of the second amplifier is gradually reduced in the first range. The gain of the first amplifier remains substantially unchaged at a second level, which is lower than the first level, while the magnitude of the input signal is within a second range. The gain of the second amplifier gradually reduced in the second range. The gain of first amplifier is gradually reduced at least in part of a third range while the magnitude of the input signal is within the third range. The gain of the second amplifer remains substantially unchaged in the third range.
US08233865B2	Reception device and reception method The noise amount information storage unit 161 stores noise amount information which indicates relationships between gain value of the variable gain amplification units 121 and 125 and the amount of noise included in BB signals output from the down converters 131 and 135. The AGC unit 140 controls the gain value of the variable gain amplification units 121 and 125 so that the power of BB signals output from the down converters 131 and 135 becomes constant. The noise amount estimation unit 162 estimates noise amount of noise corresponding to the controlled gain value of the variable gain amplification units 121 and 125 by referring to the noise amount information stored in the noise amount information storage unit 161. The weight generation unit 170 generates weight matrix based on results of estimations performed by the channel characteristic estimation unit 150 and the noise estimation unit 162.
US08233861B1	Switched impedance synthesis transmit antenna matching system for electrically small antenna radiators A system for transmitting a broadband signal over an electrically short antenna which includes a plurality of switched impedance synthesis transmit antenna matching circuits which are dynamically controlled with knowledge of the transmitting broadband signal to match the dynamic impedance of the electrically short antenna during transmission.
US08233857B2	Detector with bandwidth compensation A measurement system includes a detector to generate a measurement signal responsive to an input signal, and a nulling circuit coupled to the detector to generate a control signal responsive to the difference between the measurement signal and a set-point signal. The nulling circuit may include a bandwidth compensation stage to maintain the overall control loop bandwidth at a substantially constant value.
US08233854B2	Polar modulator and method for generating a polar-modulated signal A polar modulator for generating a polar-modulated signal based on amplitude information and phase information includes a phase-locked loop which is implemented to enable a setting of a frequency depending on a control value to obtain a phase-locked loop output signal. The polar modulator further includes a modulation means which is implemented to combine an amplitude modulation signal derived from the amplitude information with the phase-locked loop output signal to generate the polar-modulated signal. The polar modulator further includes a control value generator which is implemented to high-pass filter an amplitude signal derived from the amplitude information, to obtain a high-pass filtered amplitude signal, wherein the control value generator is implemented to combine the high-pass filtered amplitude signal with a phase signal based on the phase information to generate the control value signal representing the control value.
US08233852B2	Calibration techniques for non-linear devices An apparatus may include a non-linear module, a control module, and a calibration module. The non-linear module produces an output signal from an input signal. The control module selects, upon an occurrence of a calibration condition, a calibration operation from two or more calibration operations. Each of the two or more calibration operations may generate one or more correction values for the non-linear module. Further, each of the calibration operations produces the input signal from a pre-input signal. This selected calibration operation is performed by the calibration module. The two or more calibration operations include a first calibration operation and a second calibration operation. The first calibration operation produces the input signal from the pre-input signal according to a predictive technique. The second calibration operation produces the input signal from the pre-input signal according to a non-predictive technique.
US08233850B1	Broadband power amplifier with partial-envelope transference A method for amplifying a modulated input signal includes separating a dominant low-frequency amplitude component from the modulated input signal. The method further includes separating, from the modulated input signal, a residual signal from which the dominant low-frequency amplitude component has been removed, wherein the residual signal retains the phase information of the input signal, and wherein the residual signal maintains a portion of the amplitude modulation of the input signal. The method yet further includes providing the residual signal to an amplifier while modulating an amplifier supply voltage as a function of the dominant low-frequency amplitude component.
US08233848B2	Method and system for a greedy user group selection with range reduction in TDD multiuser MIMO downlink transmission Certain aspects of a method and system for processing signals in a communication system may include maximizing system capacity for a time division duplex (TDD) multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) downlink system, based on a single signal for a single user within a reduced search range or the single signal for the single user and at least one other signal for one other user within a remaining portion of the reduced search range. The reduced search range may be generated by sorting a plurality of signals based on a channel gain corresponding to each of the plurality of signals. The single signal for the single user may be selected from the reduced search range corresponding to a channel gain that is greater than a channel gain corresponding to a remaining portion of the reduced search range.
US08233840B2	Ephemeris-based synchronization for mesh satellite communications Methods, systems, and devices are described for synchronization in mesh satellite communications. The arrival time of the gateway signal may be used to set a start of receive frame time for a terminal. A received control signal from the gateway may then be used to set a start of transmit frame time for the user terminal. The distance between the satellite and the gateway may change. Ephemeris data, various collections of terminal measurements, or terminal sync bursts may be used to modify start of transmit frame or start of receive frame settings for the terminal or gateway.
US08233833B2	Fixing device and image forming apparatus A fixing device includes a flexible endless fixing member that travels in a prescribed direction and applies heat and melts a toner image, a pressure applying member that pressure contacts the fixing member and forms a nip for conveying a recording medium, and a resistance heat element secured inside an inner circumferential surface of the fixing member, which applies heat to the fixing member. The resistance heat element is arranged not to pressure contact the inner circumferential surface of the fixing member.
US08233831B2	Fixing device with cleaning section for image forming apparatus In a fixing device including a fixing roller, a pressure roller and an external heating section, a scraper is arranged to contact a circumferential surface of an external heating belt and scrape toner and the like on the circumferential surface to thereby clean the circumferential surface. In addition, a material that has higher adherence to toner than on a circumferential surface of the fixing roller is used for the external hating belt to thereby peel the toner and the like on the circumferential surface of the fixing roller and clean the circumferential surface of the fixing roller. Further, as a vibration applying section adapted to apply vibration to the scraper, a first contact/separation section adapted to contact/separate the external heating section with/from the fixing roller is provided. Vibration is applied to the scraper by the first contact/separation to peel the toner and the like off the scraper.
US08233819B2	Image-forming device having detachable process cartridge An image forming device capable of attaching and detaching a process cartridge to and from a frame without mechanical interference of the process cartridge with sheet feed unit and an LED array and without any movement of the LED array. 1. The image forming device includes the process cartridge detachably assembled in a frame and accessible through a front opening upon opening a door. The cartridge includes a casing movably supported by the frame, a photosensitive drum, a charger, and a developing roller. A sheet cassette is detachably installed to the frame at a position below the process cartridge for accommodating a stack of sheets. A sheet feed unit is supported to the process cartridge. The LED array is supported to the frame and is provided independent of the casing. A guide structure is provided at tire frame to guide movement of the process cartridge along with the sheet feed unit from an image forming operating position toward the door and away from the LED array.
US08233814B2	Developer supplying apparatus and image forming apparatus having the same A developer supplying apparatus can include a first chamber and a second chamber defined within a housing. Each of the first and second chambers may include an agitator disposed therein. A magnetic body may be disposed near the first chamber to receive toner from the first chamber. A controller can determine the level of developer received in the first chamber, and to based on the determined developer level control the operations of one or more of the agitators and the magnetic body in order to ensure sufficient supply of the developer in the first chamber to reduce the occurrences of image defects, such as, for example, auger marks.
US08233812B2	Customer replaceable unit monitor (CRUM) unit, replaceable unit and image forming apparatus comprising the CRUM unit, and unit driving method thereof A replaceable unit to participate in an image forming job of an image forming apparatus includes a storage unit to store therein a driving condition corresponding to an operation environment, a detecting unit to monitor the operation environment, a controlling unit to detect a corresponding driving condition from the storage unit if the detecting unit detects the driving environment, and an interface unit to provide a main body of the image forming apparatus with the detected corresponding driving condition. Accordingly, the replaceable unit can be driven under optimum driving conditions.
US08233810B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus for forming an image according to a specified printing time, including: an image forming condition setting unit for setting an image forming condition including an information related to the specified printing time and an information related to recording material; a control unit adapted to calculate a recording material acquisition startup time for starting to acquire a recording material based on the image forming condition set by the image forming condition setting unit, and adapted to issue a warning related to a replenishment of the recording material, and/or to inhibit formation of image, after the recording material acquisition startup time, in the case where there is no recording material specified under the image forming condition or in the case where the recording material is insufficient.
US08233806B2	Transmitter apparatus and communication system A transmitter apparatus to transmit information to a receiver apparatus by using visible light emitted from a plurality of light sources includes at least a first light source to transmit user data; at least a second light source to transmit a pilot signal; and at least a third light source to transmit notice information that is necessary for receiving the user data in the receiver apparatus, the third light source being placed at a position determined by the position of the second light source.
US08233805B2	Laser drivers for closed path optical cables Simplified laser drivers for closed path digital optical cables and digital optical cables including the simplified laser drivers. The laser driver can include less transistors than conventional laser drivers for optical communication cables. The laser can include a bias source and modulation source. The bias source can have a single constant current bias point for all laser diodes. The modulation current source can have a single temperature coefficient for all laser diodes. The laser driver can exclude, for example, any one of or combination of temperature compensation of the modulation or bias current sources, external programming of the modulation or bias current sources, power control based on output of the laser diode, and/or control based on feedback received from a monitor device or other sensor within the cables.
US08233789B2	Dynamic exposure metering based on face detection A system, computer readable medium, and method for dynamically setting a camera's exposure parameters based on face detection are disclosed. When taking a picture or video of a person in front of a bright background, standard exposure algorithms tend to overexpose the background. In one embodiment disclosed herein, a face detection algorithm is run on the current picture or video frame, and the exposure metering region is inset over the detected face. Exposure time, gain, or other exposure parameters may be set based on the pixels within the exposure metering region. In another embodiment, the exposure metering region tracks a moving face according to lag parameters so that the exposure metering region remains substantially over the face. In yet another embodiment, a plurality of faces may be tracked, with the exposure parameters set based on a weighted average of the pixels within the plurality of face-containing exposure metering regions.
US08233785B1	Photography station A photography station operates to capture digital images of a subject with at least one digital camera. The photography station includes foreground lighting and background lighting. The foreground lighting is configured to illuminate the subject, while the background lighting is configured to illuminate a background. The photography station includes a computing device having a setup module operable to perform tests to check a configuration of the photography station, and a photography module operable to capture digital images of the subject with the digital camera. In some embodiments, the tests performed by the setup module include a plurality of initial checking operations and a plurality of background processing operations.
US08233779B2	Recording medium, recording method, reproduction apparatus and method, and computer-readable program An AV Clip generated by multiplexing video and graphics streams is recorded on a BD-ROM. The graphics stream includes a plurality of DSs (Display Sets) which are each a group of segments used for graphics display. ODSs (Object Definition segments) belonging to a DS include a referenced ODS and a non-referenced ODS. The non-referenced ODS is an ODS that is not referenced by a PCS (Presentation Composition Segment) included in the display set. An END segment is provided immediately following a last ODS of the sequence of the referenced ODS and the non-referenced ODS in the display set.
US08233771B2	Systems, devices, and/or methods for managing programs Certain exemplary embodiments relate to a device and/or an associated method in which a recorded television or radio program can be played back from a recording of said program without additional programs, such as commercial breaks. A current program can be resumed once the recording has been played back. Processed program segments can be retrieved while repeated segments can be tuned out during playback. The current program can be resumed more quickly if processed program segments are retrieved during playback.
US08233766B2	Recording medium capable of interactive reproducing and reproduction system for the same On an optical disk, video object sets (VTST_VOBS) to be reproduced and video title set information (VTSI) serving as management information on the video object sets have been stored. In each video object set (VTST_VOBS), many data cells, each containing video, audio, and sub-picture data, are arranged. Management information on programs chains, which are combinations of programs to be reproduced one after another, has been written in a video title set PGC table (VTS_PGCIT). By referring to the program chain table (VTS_PGCIT) according to the user's input, the playback order of program chains can be changed, enabling the program chains to be reproduced one after another in various modes.
US08233762B1	Cable management system A system manages cables to connect to a device provided in a device chassis. The system includes a cable management boom connected to a top portion of the device chassis, cable management shelves connected to a side portion of the device chassis, and a cable management arm connected to and supported by the cable management shelves. The cable management arm is to retain the cables, pivot through an angle to provide access to the device provided in the device chassis, and route the cables from the device to the cable management boom. The cable management boom is to gather the cables, retain the cables, and route the cables above the device chassis.
US08233758B2	Nanotube based optical fuse device and method An optical fuse or energy-switching-off device includes an optical waveguide having an input section and an output section, the two sections forming a pair of opposed surfaces extending transversely through the axes of the waveguide sections. A substantially transparent material is disposed between the opposed surfaces and comprises an electrically conductive nanotube web immersed in dielectric material, where the nanotubes are not in electrical contact with each other. The substantially transparent material forms a plasma when exposed to optical signals propagating within the optical waveguide with an optical power level above a predetermined threshold, and the plasma damages the opposed surfaces sufficiently to render the surfaces substantially opaque to light propagating within the input section of the optical waveguide so as to prevent the transmission of such light.
US08233752B2	Curved optical waveguide in gap between electrodes device An optical waveguide device includes a substrate of a ferroelectric material, at least a pair of electrodes 4A, 4B provided on one main face of the substrate, and a channel-type optical waveguide 5A formed in a gap 1 of the pair of the electrodes. The optical waveguide 5A has a curved part 15. A central line C of the gap 1 is provided outside of a center line WC of the optical waveguide with respect to the center O of curvature of the curved part 15.
US08233733B2	Image processing device An image processing device includes: a first smoothing unit calculating, regarding multiple positions along a first direction in a neighbor region of a predetermined pixel of interest in an input image, a first-stage smoothing value wherein pixel values have been smoothed along a second direction differing from the first, for a first channel; a second smoothing unit calculating, regarding multiple positions along the first direction in the neighbor region, a first-stage smoothing value wherein pixel values have been smoothed along the second direction, for a second channel; an intensity estimating unit estimating the intensity of the first-stage smoothing value of the second channel, based on the first-stage smoothing values of the first and second channels; and a third smoothing unit calculating a second-stage smoothing value for the second channel, the first-stage smoothing value of the second channel intensity-estimated by the intensity estimating unit having been smoothed along the first direction.
US08233725B2	Adaptive sampling region for a region editing tool Properties of pixels in a digital image are sampled within different subdivisions of an editing tool impression to produce different property distributions. The different subdivisions can automatically alter their size, geometry, and/or location, based on image content within one or more of the subdivisions, in order to encompass a set of pixels having a substantially uniform distribution of a pixel property. Uniformity can be defined relative to the editing operation or context of the image. The property distributions from each region are classified to identify different edit classes within the property space, which are then used to apply an edit effect to the digital image within the tool impression. The edit classes may be represented by an edit profile in two or more dimensions.
US08233721B2	Image processing apparatus and method A method of matching a pose of a synthesized representation of a human or animal body to a captured image of that human or animal body is provided, which can be used to generate a graphical model of the body when disposed on a plane, such as a synthesized model of a football player on a field of play. The method includes receiving the captured image data, determining from the captured image data a plurality of limb position estimates, each position estimate corresponding to an amount by which limbs of the body are separated with respect to each other and deriving from the plurality of limb positions an estimated gait phase of the body. The estimated gait phase is then applied to a basis gait model in order to provide an estimated pose of the body, the basis gait model comprising data which defines a displacement of the limbs or parts thereof with respect to a gait cycle period. The estimated pose is then matched to that of the synthesized representation of the body.
US08233720B2	Object detecting apparatus and learning apparatus for the same An object detecting apparatus capable of suppressing an increase of processing loads with high accuracy and a learning apparatus for the same are provided. An object detecting apparatus includes an image window extracting portion (210) for extracting an image window as a partial area of an image in plural from an input image, and a network identifier (590) for detecting a presence of an object from extracted image windows respectively by using a node network in which nodes each having an identifier for identifying the object stored in a storing portion (502) are connected as a network.
US08233719B2	Method and apparatus for determining image content A method and apparatus of processing image data comprises correlating received image data. Image statistics are computed based upon the correlated image and eccentricity is estimated based upon the computed image statistics. An entropy metric of the correlated received image data is determined. An interpretation based upon the image statistics, estimated eccentricity, and entropy metric is performed and a report including the content of the processed image data is generated.
US08233714B2	Method and system for creating flexible structure descriptions A method related to data capture from forms involving optical character recognition comprises detecting data fields on a scanned image; generating a flexible document description based on the detected data fields, including creating a set of search elements for each data field, each search element having associated search criteria; and training the flexible document description using a search algorithm to detect the data fields on additional training images based on the set of search elements.
US08233703B2	Method and device for selecting transform matrices for down-sampling DCT image using learning with forgetting algorithm Down-sampling of an image may be performed in the DCT domain. A multiple layered network is used to select transform matrices for down-sampling a DCT image of size M×N to a DCT image of size I×J. A spatial domain down-sampling method is selected and applied to the DCT image to produce a down-sampled DCT reference image. A learning with forgetting algorithm is used to apply a decay to the elements of the transform matrix and select a transform matrices which solve an optimization problem. The optimization problem is a function of the visual quality of images obtained using the transform matrices and the computational complexity associated with using the transform matrices. The visual quality is a measure of the difference between the down-sampled DCT image obtained using the transform matrices and the visual quality of the DCT reference image obtained using a spatial domain down-sampling method.
US08233701B2	Data reconstruction using directional interpolation techniques Approaches to three-dimensional (3D) data reconstruction are presented. The 3D data comprises 2D images. In some embodiments, the 2D images are directionally interpolated to generate directionally-interpolated 3D data. The directionally-interpolated 3D data are then segmented to generate segmented directionally-interpolated 3D data. The segmented directionally-interpolated 3D data is then meshed. In other embodiments, a 3D data set, which includes 2D flow images, is accessed. The accessed 2D flow images are then directionally interpolated to generate 2D intermediate flow images.
US08233700B2	Solder printing inspection apparatus and component mounting system A component mounting system includes a solder printing inspection apparatus and a component mounting apparatus. The solder printing inspection apparatus includes an ideal solder position generation unit, an ideal loading position generation unit, an image processing unit, and an ideal solder inspection standard generation unit. The ideal solder position generation unit generates ideal solder position information, and the ideal loading position generation unit generates ideal loading position information. The image processing unit generates actual solder position information and loading estimate position information. The ideal solder inspection standard generation unit generates ideal solder inspection position information. A calculation apparatus inspects a solder included in a solder group based on actual inspection standard information obtained by shifting of the ideal solder inspection standard information by just the actual position adjustment information, and the calculation apparatus outputs mounting position adjustment information to the component mounting apparatus.
US08233695B2	Generating image inspection data from subtracted corner-processed design data A method of generating an inspection data used for inspecting an inspection-object pattern on a substrate, the inspection-object pattern formed by transferring a first mask pattern formed on a first mask and a second mask pattern formed on a second mask onto one layer on the substrate, a part of a first transferred pattern of the first mask pattern and a part of a second transferred pattern of the second mask pattern being overlapped on the layer. The method performs a corner process on each corner of a first design data of the first mask pattern and each corner of a second design data of the second mask pattern and generates an inspection data by performing a logical operation using the corner-processed first design data and the corner processed second design data.
US08233680B2	Method of indentifying an individual A method of identifying an individual in which captured images are encrypted by a transformation function and superimposed over previously recorded encrypted images. The superimposition image thus formed is used for identity verification. If the verification is negative a looping step repeats the process until positive verification is achieved.
US08233679B2	Detecting facial similarity based on human perception of facial similarity Similar faces may be determined within images based on human perception of facial similarity. The user may provide an image including a query face to which the user wishes to find faces that are similar. Similar faces may be determined based on similarity information. Similarity information may be generated from information related to a human perception of facial similarity. Images that include faces determined to be similar, based on the similarity information, may be provided to the user as search result images. The user then may provide feedback to indicate the user's perception of similarity between the query face and the search result images.
US08233670B2	System and method for traffic sign recognition This invention provides a vehicle-borne system and method for traffic sign recognition that provides greater accuracy and efficiency in the location and classification of various types of traffic signs by employing rotation and scale-invariant (RSI)-based geometric pattern-matching on candidate traffic signs acquired by a vehicle-mounted forward-looking camera and applying one or more discrimination processes to the recognized sign candidates from the pattern-matching process to increase or decrease the confidence of the recognition. These discrimination processes include discrimination based upon sign color versus model sign color arrangements, discrimination based upon the pose of the sign candidate versus vehicle location and/or changes in the pose between image frames, and/or discrimination of the sign candidate versus stored models of fascia characteristics. The sign candidates that pass with high confidence are classified based upon the associated model data and the drive/vehicle is informed of their presence. In an illustrative embodiment, a preprocess step converts a color image of the sign candidates into a grayscale image in which the contrast between sign colors is appropriate enhanced to assist the pattern-matching process.
US08233668B2	Distinguishing abutting food product A method for determining the boundary between abutting food product in a food processing system uses scan data of the food product to identify a perimeter of the abutting food product. Optionally, data from scanning the food product is first tested to determine or predict if more than one article is present. A perimeter of the abutting food product is generated from the scan data, and the perimeter information is manipulated to identify or estimate the boundary between the product. For example, the boundary may be eroded until it separates into two portions. The two portions are then expanded, constrained by the original perimeter, such that a region of interest includes overlapping portion that includes the boundary. The region of interest is analyzed to locate the boundary. In another method, a parametric shape is fit to the image to identify the individual articles. In another method, a shortest line or surface separating the perimeter into two substantial portions is found.
US08233664B2	Determining relative depth of points in multiple videos A relative depth of points captured by at least two recording sources are determined. A first sequence of image frames acquired from a first source and a second sequence of image frames acquired from a second source are received by a data processing system. The data processing system identifies a plurality of points-of-interest, each point-of-interest being present in both the first sequence and the second sequence. The points-of-interest are clustered into common depth planes at least by comparing motion across the sequences of different points-of-interest. Results of the clustering are stored in a processor-accessible memory system.
US08233660B2	System and method for object motion detection based on multiple 3D warping and vehicle equipped with such system The present invention relates to a technique for detecting dynamic (i.e., moving) objects using sensor signals with 3D information and can be deployed e.g. in driver assistance systems.
US08233657B2	Speaker There is provided a speaker allowing an air in a space between a diaphragm and a frame not to leak outside, and allowing connecting wires electrically connected to the voice coil to be guided out to an outside. A speaker I includes: a frame 4; a magnetic circuit unit 2; a vibrating unit 3; and a wiring structure unit 5. A hole 28 is formed on the frame 4. The magnetic circuit unit 2 is attached to the frame 4. The vibrating unit 3 is received in the frame 4, and includes diaphragms 14, 15 vibrated by the magnetic circuit unit 2. An air in a space surrounded by the diaphragms 14, 15 and the frame 4 is sealed. The wiring structure unit 5 includes a tube member 38, into which lead wires 37 are inserted. The tube member 38 is pressed into a hole 28, and guides the lead wires 37 to an outside of the space.
US08233654B2	Methods and apparatus for processing audio signals Various methods and apparatus for processing audio signals are disclosed herein. The assembly may be attached, adhered, or otherwise embedded into or upon a removable oral appliance to form a hearing aid assembly. Such an oral appliance may be a custom-made device which can enhance and/or optimize received audio signals for vibrational conduction to the user. Received audio signals may be processed to cancel acoustic echo such that undesired sounds received by one or more intra-buccal and/or extra-buccal microphones are eliminated or mitigated. Additionally, a multiband actuation system may be used where two or more transducers each deliver sounds within certain frequencies. Also, the assembly may also utilize the sensation of directionality via the conducted vibrations to emulate directional perception of audio signals received by the user. Another feature may include the ability to vibrationally conduct ancillary audio signals to the user along with primary audio signals.
US08233653B2	Receiver facility with a moveable receiver The wearing comfort and acoustics in an external receiver, in particular in a cymba hearing device, are to be improved. A receiver facility with a receiver, which is embodied to convert the electrical signals into acoustic signals, and an earpiece, which adjusts to an auditory canal when the hearing apparatus is being worn, are thus proposed. A base part is also provided, to which the earpiece is fastened and to which the receiver is moveably fastened at least in respect of a section of the base part. The mobility of the receiver relative to the earpiece decouples the wearing function of the earpiece relative to a centering function in respect of the receiver, as a result of which the wearing comfort and acoustics are improved.
US08233631B2	Medic voice data system A medical voice data system includes a hand-held recording device, an electronic information carrier (EIC), and a host station. The hand-held device records medical information from a user that is examining a person in an extreme environment such as battlefield or disaster area. EICs are stored within a housing interior and can be dispensed therefrom by the user. Recording electronics within the housing interior are operably connected to at least one of the EICs. A microphone is operably connected to the recording electronics to record on a EIC medical information about the injured person. The EIC is configured to be attached to and travel with the person as they are evacuated so that the recorded medical information is immediately available to medical personnel at a care center via the host station. The medical voice data system may also employ a wireless EIC. A host station is used to receive and process the recorded information and convert it to text-based medical record.
US08233628B2	Information processing apparatus and information processing method Encrypted text data c1 generated by encrypting plaintext data using an encryption key, verification data having a size smaller than the encrypted text data c1, and encrypted text data c2 generated by encrypting the verification data using the encryption key are acquired (S601). It is checked if a decryption result of the encrypted text data c2 using a decryption key matches the verification data (S607). If it is determined that the two data match, the encrypted text data c1 is decrypted using the decryption key (S608).
US08233625B2	Rolling code security system A rolling code transmitter is useful in a security system for providing secure encrypted RF transmission comprising an interleaved trinary bit fixed code and rolling code. A receiver demodulates the encrypted RF transmission and recovers the fixed code and rolling code. Upon comparison of the fixed and rolling codes with stored codes and determining that the signal has emanated from an authorized transmitter, a signal is generated to actuate an electric motor to open or close a movable barrier.
US08233618B2	Method and system for generating a pair of public key and secret key A method of generating a pair of public key and secret key, includes the steps of selecting a public key; selecting a secret key; computing a heavy prime number in responsive to the public key and the secret key; factoring the heavy prime number by selecting first and second prime numbers in condition that a sum of said first and second prime numbers equals to the heavy prime number; and pairing the secret key with the public key in term of the heavy prime number as a bridge to generate a unique combination between the secret key with the public key. Therefore, the secret key is definitively undetermined by conjecturing the public key even though the public key is known.
US08233612B2	Network apparatus capable of canceling far-end-crosstalk and network signal processing method thereof The present invention provides a network apparatus capable of canceling far-end crosstalk (FEXT). When the network apparatus is under a training mode, hard data is provided to a FEXT canceller for performing FEXT cancellation. When the network apparatus is under a data mode, soft data is provided to the FEXT canceller for performing FEXT cancellation as well. Therefore, FEXT is effectively canceled, and consumption power of the network apparatus is saved.
US08233604B2	Automated call routing based on an active presence profile A method and system for automatically routing a call to an identity of multiple identities based on an active presence profile. A subscription message is sent to a user's contact addresses. The contact addresses include identities of the user and indicators of remote servers that manage real time communication systems. A presence document that includes a presence status of a first identity of the user is received. The presence status indicates that the first identity is offline. A registration message is issued to a remote server, resulting in a call redirection from the first identity to a second identity. The second identity is included in an active presence profile and is associated with a computing system that receives the redirected call. If multiple presence profiles of the user are active, a matching algorithm selects a contact address of one of the active presence profiles to determine the call redirection.
US08233603B2	Method and apparatus for communicating with one of plural devices associated with a single telephone number A system for (and a method of) selectively establishing communication with one of plural devices associated with a single telephone number is provided. In a preferred embodiment, the system includes a wireless connect unit connected between an enterprise private branch exchange (PBX) network and a public switched telephone network. The wireless connect unit preferably serves as a gateway between the PBX and one or more remote communication devices. The remote devices can be used as standard PBX office telephones for both inbound and outbound telephone calls. Thus, features of the PBX network (e.g., voice mail, direct extension dialing, corporate calling plan, etc.) are available to the remote device even though they are not physically connected to the PBX. When the system receives an incoming call, it can route the call to an office telephone and one or more of the remote devices simultaneously or as desired by the user.
US08233596B2	Providing subscriber information in voice over IP (VoIP) system Subscriber information is provided in a Voice over IP (VoIP) system by transmitting multimedia data (e.g., graphics data or image data) depending on Caller Identification (CID) information of respective IP terminals connected to the VoIP system to a called IP terminal, or to broadcast multimedia data to the respective IP terminals belonging to each group in response to a subscriber's request while managing address information of the respective IP terminals.
US08233592B2	Personal home voice portal A method of accessing voice services through a personal computing system can include receiving, in the personal computing system, a telephone call from a user registered with the personal computing system, wherein the user is remotely located from the personal computing system, receiving a user spoken utterance over the telephone call, and speech recognizing the user spoken utterance to determine a request for a voice service. The method further can include formatting an electronic message according to the request for a voice service and sending the electronic message over a communications network to a remote computing system in accordance with the request for a voice service. Also, the method can include processing and formatting a response received from the remote computing system and playing back audio to the user over the telephone call.
US08233589B2	Scattered electron collector Scattered electron collector comprising a heat absorbing member having a first end, a second end, an outer periphery and a central bore (14, 16), wherein the central bore is formed in longitudinal direction through the heat absorbing member from the first end to the second end, and a cooling element (50) having an outer periphery and an inner periphery (52). The outer periphery (12) of the heat absorbing member is adapted to be in contact with the inner periphery of the cooling element. Further, at least one slot (20) is formed from the central bore in the direction to the outer periphery of the heat absorbing member to reduce compression stress within the heat absorbing member.
US08233584B2	Shift register An exemplary shift register includes a control circuit and an output transistor. The control circuit has a start pulse signal input terminal, a first clock pulse signal input terminal and a power supply voltage input terminal and includes a first control transistor and a second control transistor. The output transistor is electrically coupled to the first control transistor and includes a gate driving signal output terminal and a second clock pulse signal input terminal. Moreover, the first control transistor, the second control transistor and the output transistor all are negative threshold voltage transistors.
US08233583B2	Shift register and display driver thereof A shift register and a display driver thereof are provided. The display driver submitted by the present invention can be directly disposed on a glass substrate of a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel to replace a scan driver commonly used in prior art, so that the cost of the liquid crystal display can be reduced. In addition, the stress taken by the output stage transistor of each shift register stage within the display driver submitted by the present invention can be reduced. Thus, each shift register stage has the highest reliability, and may consequently avoid the erroneous actions when each shift register stage is operated for a long time.
US08233580B2	Method and system for producing radioisotopes A system for automatic production of radioisotopes includes an irradiation unit connectable to a cyclotron and having an electrolytic cell; a purification unit for purifying the radioisotope formed in the irradiation unit; two conduits for transferring an irradiated and electrodissolved target from the irradiation unit to the purification unit; and a central control unit for controlling both the operating units and the transfer means. The method for producing radioisotopes is such that the target carrier is not dissolved together with the irradiated target.
US08233576B2	System, apparatus, and method for a robust synchronization scheme for digital communication systems A synchronization sequence (preamble) that is known to the receiver forms as an integral part of packet-based digital communication systems. The first operation in such digital communication systems is the detection of the beginning of a valid signal (packet). A system, apparatus, and method for a scheme to robustly detect the preamble are provided having a hierarchical cross-correlator in combination with a second stage delayed auto-correlator using the output of the cross-correlator as an input to the second stage correlator.
US08233574B2	Joint space-time optimum filters (JSTOF) for interference cancellation A filter for reducing co-channel interference within a communications receiver may include a multi-channel, space-time filter circuit that filters n signal parts that have been split from a communications signal by jointly estimating space-time filter weights and multi-channel impulse responses (CIRs). The filter may further include a multi-channel, matched filter circuit that receives multi-channel signals from the multi-channel, space-time filter circuit and has a filter response that is provided by a channel impulse response estimation from the space-time filter circuit.
US08233573B2	Dynamic optimization of overlap-and-add length A method of performing overlap-and-add length for zero-padded suffixes. The method includes derotating received information symbol samples. The derotated received information symbol samples include a first set of derotated received information symbol samples and a second set of derotated received information symbol samples. The first set of derotated received information symbol samples are stored in a buffer. The second set of derotated received information symbol samples are provided to a received sample processing unit. The received zero-padded suffix samples are deroted. Based upon an overlap-and-add length, at least a fraction of the derotated received zero-padded suffix samples is added with at least a fraction of the first set of derotated received information symbol samples to produce multiple summed samples. The multiple summed samples is provided to the received sample processing unit.
US08233572B2	Interference mitigation for impulse-based communication In a pulse-based communication system a transmitting device may generate a series of pulses to convey information via a communication medium to a receiving device. In some situations, interference from one or more interfering devices may alter the pulse energy as it is transmitted through the communication medium. To mitigate the effect of such interference, a receiving device may mark certain received pulses as erasures. In this way, such pulses may be ignored during the decoding operation of the receiver.
US08233561B2	Image forming apparatus and data communication method Data comprising a pulse signal is divided into predetermined data segments. The number of pulse-signal fluctuations in the data segment is counted. A transmitter transmits the unchanged data to a receiving portion in a case where the number of pulse-signal fluctuations does not exceed a predetermined number. On the other hand, in a case where the number of pulse-signal fluctuations exceeds the predetermined number, the pulse signal is converted so as to be unchanged at the fluctuation of the pulse signal but to be fluctuated when the pulse signal does not fluctuate. Then, the transmitter transmits the converted pulse signal to the receiving portion wherein only the converted pulse signal is converted to the original pulse signal.
US08233560B2	Restricted codebooks and related signaling to perform beamforming Methods and apparatus are disclosed for applying successive multi-rank beamforming strategies (e.g., successive precoding strategies) for the design of precoders over a set of parallel channels. Successive beamforming is applied to a narrow band channel model and is also applied for finer quantization of a single beamforming vector (e.g., recursive beamforming). A first embodiment provides the optimal approach with high complexity. An alternative embodiment provides successive beamforming for near optimal precoding selection with medium complexity. A low complexity method for precoder selection is also provided wherein a channel representative matrix for the set of parallel channels is determined and successive beamforming on the calculated channel representative is applied.
US08233547B2	Method for activation and deactivation of infrequently changing sequence and picture parameter sets A method for activating and deactivating parameter sets during decoding of a bitstream for display, comprising the steps of: (A) tagging a first picture parameter information set associated with a first identification value as active in response to a reference to the first identification value in a bitstream; (B) changing the tag of the first picture parameter information set from active to inactive and tagging a second picture parameter information set associated with a second identification value as active in response to a reference to the second identification value in the bitstream; and (C) tagging the second picture parameter information set as inactive and re-tagging the first picture parameter information set as active in response to a subsequent reference to the first identification value in the bitstream.
US08233539B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting packet-based image frame A method and apparatus for transmitting a packet-based image frame, the method including: dividing an input image into intra and inter prediction frames and encoding the intra and inter prediction frames; applying different error resilience algorithms to the intra and inter prediction frames; and performing forward error correction (FEC) on the intra and inter prediction frames according to the corresponding error resilience algorithms. According to aspects of the present invention, optimal error correction may be performed in accordance with characteristics of frames when image data is transmitted. Thus, a strong image streaming service for preventing errors of a mobile environment may be implemented simply and efficiently.
US08233537B2	Efficient implementation of H.264 4 by 4 intra prediction on a VLIW processor This invention is useful in video compression standards support a rich set of intra prediction modes. This invention a unique table creation and lookup approach to software pipeline the prediction process for all pixels within a block. The table stores constant data and pointer data into a neighbor pixel table. Indexing into the table based upon the current intra prediction mode for each pixel of a block recalls constant data and other pixel data for calculation of an intra prediction value.
US08233536B2	Methods and systems for multiplication-free inter-layer image prediction Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems and methods for predicting image elements, comprising scaling a received low dynamic range (LDR) image element value for an image element via a binary shift operation, where the binary shift operation is based on a received prediction shift value, and combining, via a received additive operation, the scaled LDR image element value with the received LDR image element value.
US08233533B2	Apparatus for obtaining a filtered value by application of a shift operation In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a decoder configured to determine a reference pixel group including a pixel to be filtered. The reference pixel group includes at least three successive pixels. The decoder is configured to applying weight factors to at least each of the three successive reference pixels. The weight factors are different according to pixel position. A filtered value is obtained by the decoder by summing at least the three weighted successive pixels and applying a shift operation to the sum for dividing the sum.
US08233532B2	Information signal, apparatus and method for encoding an information content, and apparatus and method for error correcting an information signal A scalable information signal is protected in a more efficient and/or safe way by adopting the inter-relationship among the plurality of portions of different levels within the information signal in FEC protecting the information signal. In particular, portions of the information signal representing the information content at a higher level should have associated therewith redundancy information which is dependent not only on that part of this portion being disjoint to a respective overlapping lower level portion. Rather, redundancy information should also be dependent on the latter part so as to increase the chances of success of forward error correcting an error within the lower level portion at the reception side.
US08233529B2	Video decoder A video decoder is provided. An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) converts an analog video signal into a plurality of samples at a sampling rate. A main processing path collects a plurality of odd samples to provide a first decoded video output and synchronization information. A plurality of even samples is converted into a plurality of first converted samples at a first predetermined frequency by a sample rate converter, and then filtered by a filter to obtain a second Y signal. A buffer stores the second Y signal, and reads the second Y signal in response to the timing information. An output sample rate converter converts the buffered output into a plurality of second converted samples at a second predetermined frequency. A parallel-to-serial converter receives the first decoded video output and the plurality of second converted samples to drive a second decoded video output.
US08233511B2	Method and system for modulation of gain suppression in high average power laser systems A high average power laser system with modulated gain suppression includes an input aperture associated with a first laser beam extraction path and an output aperture associated with the first laser beam extraction path. The system also includes a pinhole creation laser having an optical output directed along a pinhole creation path and an absorbing material positioned along both the first laser beam extraction path and the pinhole creation path. The system further includes a mechanism operable to translate the absorbing material in a direction crossing the first laser beam extraction laser path and a controller operable to modulate the second laser beam.
US08233507B1	8/10 and 64/66 aggregation A transmitter including a plurality of input lanes, a substitutor module, and an interleaver module. The plurality of input lanes is configured to receive input symbols including data symbols and idle symbols, wherein the input symbols are arranged into columns of concurrently received input symbols, and wherein each of the columns includes one input symbol from each of the plurality of input lanes. The substitutor module is configured to, at intervals, replace one of the columns with a column of alignment symbols. The substitutor module is further configured to replace an immediately subsequent one of the columns with a column of disposable symbols; and replace one or more immediately subsequent ones of the columns with columns of boundary symbols uninterrupted by disposable symbols. The interleaver module is configured to interleave symbols from the substitutor module between a first transmit lane and a second transmit lane.
US08233506B2	Correlation technique for determining relative times of arrival/departure of core input/output packets within a multiple link-based computing system A method is described that comprises receiving a timing exposure packet having timestamp information. The timestamp information identifies a cycle of a clock signal at which the packet was made available for transfer from a core to a physical layer within a component of a link-based computing system. The packet having been transmitted from the physical layer and also having phase information. The phase information identifies a cycle of the clock signal at which the packet was transferred from the core to the physical layer.
US08233499B2	Controlling the transfer of terminal server data The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for controlling the transfer of terminal server data. In some embodiments, contending request to send terminal server data are resolved by a flow control module situated between a terminal server protocol and a transport/network protocol. The flow control module utilizes channel priorities along with amounts of previously sent data per channel to determine how to distribute bandwidth in a relatively controlled manner between contending channels. The flow control module can be configured to intercept communication between terminal server protocol and a transport/network protocol to facilitate bandwidth distribution. In other embodiments, data is simultaneously sent over multiple channels of terminal server connection. A first write operation obtains a lock on a corresponding channel but the channel lock does not prevent write operations on other channels.
US08233496B2	Systems and methods for efficient multicast handling A network device constructs a notification corresponding to a received multicast data unit, where the notification includes administrative data associated with the multicast data unit that does not include a payload of the multicast data unit. The network device replicates the notification at least three different processing elements at different locations in a processing path of the network device to produce multiple replicated data items and produces a copy of the multicast data unit for each of replicated notifications. The network device forwards each copy of the multicast data unit towards a multicast destination.
US08233489B2	System, method, and router for routing data packets in an overlay network A system, method, and router for routing data packets in an overlay network built over heterogeneous layer-3 domains. A link state overlay routing protocol enables an overlay router to route data packets based on flat identifiers and decides the best path to a destination taking into account a number of parameters such as round trip time. Scalability is provided by making routing decisions based on a network identifier rather than a single end-node identifier.
US08233486B2	Remote management of network devices A device receives an activation inform message associated with a local area network (LAN) device, and verifies the LAN device and a gateway device associated with the LAN device based on an Internet protocol (IP) address included in the activation inform message. The device also performs a set parameter value (SPV) operation to add a new connection request port forwarding entry in the gateway device when the LAN device and the gateway device are verified, and sends a connection request operation, to be forwarded by the gateway device to the LAN device, based on the new connection request port forwarding entry.
US08233484B2	Network address translation (NAT) traversal equipment for signal messages conforming to the SIP protocol by redundancy of address information Method of setting up a communication session (fm) between a calling communication client (C1) and a called communication client (C2), through a communication network (SN1, SN, SN2) comprising at least one address translation equipment (NAT1, NAT2). It comprises steps for transmission of signal messages (fs), transiting through address translation equipment and enabling interchange of physical addresses of communication clients to set up the communication session. This method is characterized in that at least one client transmits at least one signal message containing a physical address in a first location, and coded information containing this particular physical address in a distinct second location.
US08233483B2	Communication apparatus, communication system, absent packet detecting method and absent packet detecting program Any packet loss is detected very quickly by means of only a series of sequence number in a multi-path environment where a transmitter and a receiver are connected to each other by way of a plurality of networks when no inversion of sequence arises in any of the networks. A communication apparatus includes a plurality of sequence buffers arranged at each network to accumulate packets until a sequence acknowledgement and an absence detecting section adapted to determine the occurrence of an absence of a packet when one or more packets are accumulated in all the sequence buffers. With this arrangement, the absence detecting section of the receiver monitors the packets staying in the sequence guaranteeing buffer arranged in each of the network, paying attention to the characteristic that packets are stored in the sequence buffers of all the networks when a packet loss takes place.
US08233479B2	Protocol independent multicast in a point-to-multipoint network In one example embodiment, a method of using protocol independent multicast (PIM) in a point-to-multipoint (P2MP) label switched path is provided. In this method, a label uniquely identifying the P2MP label switched path from different P2MP label switched paths is advertised. In response to the advertisement, a PIM message is received by way of a point-to-point (P2P) label switched path. This PIM message includes the advertised label. The label included in the PIM message is identified to correspond with the P2MP label switched path and the PIM message is reflected by way of the P2MP label switched path based on the identification.
US08233470B2	Multi-radio wireless communication device method for synchronizing wireless network and bluetooth communications Embodiments of a multi-radio wireless communication device and methods for synchronizing wireless network and Bluetooth (BT) communications are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In some embodiments, a BT radio module adjusts a master clock signal by a predetermined step size before each subsequent BT transmission in response to a frame sync pulse from a wireless network radio module to reduce a time difference between subsequent frame sync pulses and synchronization reference points of BT slots.
US08233469B2	Relay device A relay device receives transfer data from a transfer-source terminal and transfers the received transfer data to a transfer-destination terminal via relaying performed by another relay device. When the transfer data is received, the relay device establishes a direct communication with the other relay device, if information regarding the other relay device is attached to the received transfer data. If information regarding the other relay device is not attached, then the relay device attaches information regarding itself to the transfer data and transfers the resulting transfer data to a wireless control station.
US08233454B2	Communication system and method for switching between wireless connections A management apparatus instructs a wireless terminal wirelessly connecting to a first base station to switch wireless connection to a second base station. After the wireless terminal switches the wireless connection to the second base station as instructed, the wireless terminal transmits a message for updating information used for determining a forwarding destination of the message received by the relay apparatus. The relay apparatus updates the information used for determining the forwarding destination of the received message based on the message transmitted from the wireless terminal.
US08233451B2	Method and apparatus for accommodating higher order modulation in wireless communication A method and apparatus for reconfiguring a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) are directed to receiving an active set update message indicating that a mode of operation allowing a certain modulation scheme is enabled or disabled and performing at least one of: performing a MAC reset procedure, updating a set of reference enhanced transport format combination indicators (E-TFCIs) and associated power offsets, determining actions related to E-DPCCH boosting, modifying information related to an enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH), and modifying an index that indicates an E-DCH transport block size table. The update message includes at least one modified information element (IE).
US08233443B2	Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method A wireless communication apparatus is provided. The wireless communication apparatus includes: detection means that detects that there is another wireless communication apparatus around the wireless communication apparatus; comparison means that compares a first reference value managed in the wireless communication apparatus with a second reference value managed in the another wireless communication apparatus; means that corrects the first reference value based on the comparison result; and means that announces the first reference value to the another wireless communication apparatus. Frequencies are set such that a frequency of the wireless communication apparatus becomes same as a frequency of still another wireless communication apparatus to which a radio wave of the wireless communication apparatus does not reach but a radio wave of the another wireless communication apparatus reaches.
US08233438B2	Methods and apparatus for dynamically adjusting a data packet window size for data packet transmission in a wireless communication network A router is operative to perform the following actions for each one of a plurality of wireless devices operating in a wireless network. The router initially transmits a number of data packets matched for a window size which corresponds to a default window size. The router then measures a round trip time (RTT) associated with communication of each of the transmitted packets. The router increases the window size if the RTT associated with the communication of each of the transmitted packets is within a first threshold. On the other hand, the router decreases the window size if the RTT associated with the communication of any of the transmitted packets is more than the first threshold but less than a second threshold. The router sets or updates at least one of the first or the second thresholds based on traffic communicated to the plurality of wireless devices via the router.
US08233434B2	System and method for adaptive control of an averaging parameter for PCINR and RSSI A system and method for adaptive control of an averaging parameter in a communications network may include an averaging parameter adaptive control module (APAC) that is associated with a base station and that includes one or more processors configured to generate a first averaging parameter that is transmitted by the base station to a mobile station communicating with the base station. The mobile station may use the first averaging parameter to generate first channel condition information that indicates a condition of a communication channel. First feedback information including the first channel condition information may be received at the base station. The APAC may generate a second averaging parameter using the first averaging parameter and the first feedback information and may transmit the second averaging parameter from the base station to the mobile station, thereby adaptively controlling the second averaging parameter based on the first feedback information.
US08233427B2	Method and apparatus for generating channel quality estimates A base station receives channel quality reports from a plurality of mobile terminals. The channel quality reports from the mobile terminals indicate the signal power of the signals received by the mobile terminals from the base station and one or more interference parameters relating to the power of impairment components contributing to the total impairment of the received signal during a first time interval. The base station computes an estimated channel quality indication for a second time interval subsequent to the first time interval based on expected variations in the powers of the impairment components. The estimated channel quality indication for the second time interval is used by the base station to schedule the mobile terminals and to determine the transmission format.
US08233424B2	Wireless communication system, connection device, relay device and registering method A wireless communication system is provided. The wireless communication system includes a connection device which configures a first LAN which is a wireless LAN; a relay device which configures a second LAN different from the first LAN and relays data between a LAN terminal connected to the second LAN and the connection device; an authentication connection section which connects the relay device to the connection device through the first LAN by executing authentication conforming to an infrastructure mode based on a request from the relay device to the connection device; and a data transfer section which transfers data to be communicated between the LAN terminal and the connection device by using a data frame conforming to a wireless distribution system between the connection device and the relay device connected by the authentication connection section.
US08233422B2	Radio frequency multicasting A method for radio frequency multicasting and a multicast site architecture are provided. The method includes assigning a different traffic multicast Internet Protocol (IP) address to each of a plurality of groups of LMR users and encapsulating the LMR content within IP packets. The method further includes transmitting the IP packets to one of the plurality of groups of LMR users using at least one of the assigned traffic multicast IP addresses.
US08233419B2	Uplink power control device and method An uplink power control device and method, which uses power control technology for E-DCH channel in HSPA+ system, wherein, the user equipment reads TPC from Node B in the latest several time slots, the current transmission power of uplink channels and the modulation mode of E-DPDCH channel in next TTI; then selects a method for power control according to the modulation method of E-DPDCH channel in next TTI; calculates the transmission power of uplink channel used in next TTI according to the TPC received in the latest several time slots, the current transmission power, requirements for maximal transmission power and minimal transmission power, power control adjustment step and β factor corresponding to DPCCH of uplink channel; finally keeps the transmission powers of all or some of uplink channels constant in the whole TTI of E-DPDCH. The device and method can decrease crosstalk between I branch and Q branch signals.
US08233400B2	Methods, systems, and computer readable media for verifying the availability of an internet protocol (IP) media router during a call setup Methods, systems, and computer readable media for verifying the availability of an IP media router during a call setup are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving, from a first endpoint device, a call setup signaling message requesting to establish a call session with a second endpoint device. The method also includes selecting a first media router to establish a first call leg of the call session, performing a route query and MAC address resolution to determine if the first media router is available, and if the first media router is determined to be available, creating a first redirect stream to communicate media packets received from the second endpoint device to the first endpoint device via the first call leg.
US08233398B2	Apparatus and method for transmitting frame information in multi-hop relay broadband wireless access communication system Provided is an apparatus and method for transmitting frame information in a wireless communication system using a relay scheme. In a method for transmitting frame information from an upper node in the wireless communication system, downlink section information for communication with the lower relay station for a relay service is transmitted to a lower relay station at the request of the lower relay station for an initial connection. After the initial connection, frame information for communication with the lower relay station for a relay service is transmitted to the lower relay station through the downlink section.
US08233391B2	System, method and computer program product for transmitting data entities A method, system and computer program product for transmitting data entities, the method includes: receiving data entities to be transmitted over multiple channels; and preventing a transmission of data entities that are to be transmitted over congested channels while transmitting data entities that are to be are to be transmitted over non-congested channels.
US08233390B2	Priority and source aware packet memory reservation and flow control in forwarding planes A source-based memory usage table is accessed to identify a source having a memory usage satisfying a predetermined memory usage threshold, the source-based memory usage table including a plurality of source records, each corresponding to a source from which packets are received. A first flow control signal is transmitted to the identified source that has a memory usage satisfying the corresponding predetermined memory usage threshold to control further packet transmission from the identified source. A priority-based memory usage table is accessed to identify a priority of which a memory usage satisfies a predetermined memory usage threshold of the priority. A second flow control signal is transmitted to one or more sources associated with the identified priority having a memory usage satisfying the corresponding predetermined memory usage threshold to control further packet transmission from the identified one or more sources.
US08233386B2	Device that uses parameters to provide multi-channel serial data transmissions and method thereof A device that uses parameters to provide multi-channel serial data transmissions and the method thereof are provided. A first serial device configures with the channel parameters corresponding to a procedure executed on a second serial device. The invention determines whether the data channel corresponding to the procedure requires sending/receiving data occupies a physical line. If so, the first serial device transmits data to the second serial device. Otherwise, the first serial device transmits a channel switch request to the second serial device. After the first serial device and the second serial device are both switched the data channel corresponding to the procedure to occupy the physical line, the first serial device and the procedure could exchange data. Therefore, the first serial device could establish new connection without closing original connection. It achieves the goal of using a single serial port to have data channels of different operation modes or connections.
US08233380B2	RDMA QP simplex switchless connection A local RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) network adapter that comprises a simplex switchless connection with a counterpart QP on a remote RDMA network adapter in an example is selected for a Queue Pair (QP). An apparatus in an example comprises a requester RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) session fail-over coordinator on a coherency domain that adds a session fail-over header to a front of a data payload sent by an RDMA computer program from the coherency domain. Upon termination, of an RDMA adapter not coherent with the coherency domain and in a communication path of the data payload, before delivery to the RDMA computer program of a receive completion notification for the data payload, the session fail-over header is employable by a responder RDMA session fail-over coordinator to reconstruct the receive completion notification.
US08233379B2	Method, network element device and network system for establishing connection between maintenance node and base station A method for establishing a connection between a maintenance node and a base station includes the following steps: the base station switches over to a preset standby Operation & Maintenance (OM) channel when an main OM channel fails and sends to the maintenance node via the standby OM channel a notification that the base station has switched over to the standby OM channel; and the maintenance node establishes a connection with the base station over the standby OM channel by using a standby Internet Protocol (IP) address of the base station after receiving the notification. A base station is also provided.
US08233372B2	Optical system for compensating for coma aberration and/or spherical aberration in an optical pickup device and optical pickup device having the same An optical system for optical pickup, which optical system is used for performing recording, reproducing, and/or erasing of information on an optical recording medium and has a simple configuration, is provided. An optical pickup device 1 includes a collimator lens system 23, a beam expander 33, and an objective lens system 34 that includes an S-SIL element 27b. The beam expander 33 includes a lens element 33c that is supported so as to be movable in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis. By moving the lens element 33c in the direction perpendicular to the optical axis, a coma aberration of a spot on a recording layer can be compensated in a state where the interval between a surface of an optical recording medium 28 and the S-SIL element 27b opposed thereto is maintained constant.
US08233371B2	Objective lens, optical head and optical disc device Provides an objective lens, an optical head and an optical disc apparatus (drive) capable of compensating for various types of aberrations including wavelength changes for a plurality of types of optical discs including high density optical discs, DVDs and CDs with a good wavelength dispersion compensation ability and thus capable of providing good recording or reproduction characteristics.The objective lens according to the present invention includes a first lens and a second lens substantially in close contact with each other such that optical axes thereof match each other, and acts as a convex lens as a whole. Each lens includes a central portion including the optical axis and a peripheral portion located in a periphery of the central portion. The central portion of the first lens acts as a convex lens; and the central portion of the second lens acts as a concave lens. Where the refractive index of the first lens at d line (wavelength: 587.56 nm) is nd1, the Abbe constant of the first lens represented using the refractive indices at d line, F line (wavelength: 486.13 nm) and C line (wavelength: 656.27 nm) is νd1, the refractive index of the second lens at d line is nd2, and the Abbe constant of the second lens represented using the refractive indices at d line, F line and C line is νd2, the objective lens fulfills nd1>nd2 and νd1>νd2.
US08233365B1	Methods and apparatuses for detecting a modulation transition in an optical storage medium Circuits, architectures, systems, methods, software, and algorithms for detecting a modulation transition (e.g., a change from a written portion containing RF-modulated data to an unwritten portion containing only a wobble signal modulation) on an optical storage medium. The method generally includes steps of focusing a first spot of light onto an optical storage medium, wherein the first spot is substantially centered on a first track of the optical storage medium, focusing a satellite spot of light onto an optical storage medium, wherein the satellite spot at least partially overlaps a track adjacent to the first track, generating a satellite signal from light reflected from the optical storage medium from the satellite spot, and detecting the modulation transition by detecting a change in a level of the satellite signal. The present invention advantageously provides for detecting a modulation transition between a main (current) track and an adjacent (next) track, so that demodulation of a signal from an optical storage medium can be smoothly switched from one mode to another.
US08233362B2	Information recording medium, method for recording information on information recording medium, method for reproducing information from information recording medium and method for producing information recording medium The present invention provides a measure for getting read/write control information stored within a space of a predetermined size in a format that ensures compatibility with media of a lower order or an older generation even if the size of the read/write control information increases significantly as the storage densities of information storage media rise in the near future. On an information storage medium, a data sequence is writable as a combination of marks and spaces. The medium has at least one information storage layer, which has an information storage area to store information and a control information area for use to perform a read/write operation on the at least one information storage layer. The control information area stores at least one set of control information, which includes a first kind of write pulse information including information to be used as a reference value and a second kind of write pulse information including information to be used as an offset value. The size of the offset value is at least a half as large as that of the reference value.
US08233344B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a plural number of sense amplifiers that sense at least two data in parallel and that operate under a first frequency, and a multiplexer that operates under a second frequency higher than the first frequency and that sequentially serially outputs the data sensed in parallel. The semiconductor device also includes a driver circuit having a latch circuit connected to an output of the multiplexer, and an output driver circuit connected to the latch circuit and operating under the second frequency. The voltage of a power supply of the sense amplifiers is the same as the voltage of a power supply of the output driver circuit. The power supply of the sense amplifiers and the power supply of the output driver circuit are connected to respective different power supply lines.
US08233340B1	Programmable control block for dual port SRAM application A dual-port static random access memory (SRAM) includes a multitude of programmable delay elements disposed along the paths of a number signals used to carry out read, write or read-then-write operations. At least one of the programmable delay elements controls the timing margin between a pair of clock signals that trigger a read/write enable signal. A second programmable delay element coarsely adjusts the delay of a first signal associated with a dummy bitline. A third programmable delay element finely adjusts the delay of a second signal associated with the dummy bitline. A fourth programmable delay element controls the delay of a signal used to reset the read/write enable signal. During a read operation, the voltage level of the second signal is used as an indicator to activate the sense amplifiers. During a write operation, the voltage level of the second signal is used to control the write cycle.
US08233339B2	Semiconductor memory device A semiconductor memory device includes an open-loop-type delay locked loop (DLL) configured to generate a clock signal locked by reflecting a first delay amount which actually occurs in a data path and a second delay amount which is required for locking the clock signal, a latency control unit configured to shift an inputted command according to a latency code value corresponding to the first delay amount and latency information, and output the shifted command, and an additional delay line configured to delay the shifted command according to a delay code value corresponding to the second delay amount, and output the command of which operation timing is controlled.
US08233326B2	Semiconductor non-volatile memory, charge accumulating method for semiconductor non-volatile memory, charge accumulating program storage medium There is provided a semiconductor non-volatile memory including: plural memory sections, a voltage application section, and a control section that controls the voltage application section wherein the control section controlling voltage application such that, based on a value of current detected by a current detection section, in a region where the current flowing in a channel region is greater than a predetermined target value at which a amount of charge accumulated has become a specific value in at least one of a first charge accumulating section or a second charge accumulating section, when a value of current flowing in the channel region approaches a target value, a rate of increase in the charge accumulating amount per time is decreased at least once.
US08233323B2	Non-volatile semiconductor storage device A non-volatile semiconductor storage device includes a control circuit performing an erase operation to erase data from a selected one of memory transistors. The control circuit applies a first voltage to the other end of selected one of selection transistors, causes the selected one of the selection transistors to turn on, and causes any one of the memory transistors to turn on that is closer to the selection transistor than the selected one of the memory transistors. The control circuit also applies a second voltage lower than the first voltage to a gate of the selected one of the memory transistors. Such a potential difference between the first voltage and the second voltage causing a change in electric charges in the electric charge storage layer.
US08233294B2	Method and system for controlling a power converter system connected to a DC-bus capacitor A method and system for controlling a power converter system with first, second, and third phase legs with respective first, second, and third associated phase currents determine direction of current flow in at least two phase legs and switch states of the power converter system in response to the current flow directions to reduce ripple current in a connected direct current (DC)-bus capacitor.
US08233292B2	Controllers, systems and methods for controlling power of light sources A controller for controlling power to an LED light source includes a control terminal and control circuitry coupled to the control terminal. The control terminal provides a control signal to control a transformer. A cycle of the control signal includes a charging period, a discharging period, and an adjusting period. The control circuitry controls a primary winding of the transformer to receive power during the charging period and controls a secondary winding of the transformer to discharge power to the LED light source during the discharging period. The control circuitry further varies a frequency of the control signal periodically by controlling the adjusting period.
US08233291B2	Single stage AC to DC conversion device with compact configuration A single-stage AC to DC conversion device includes an energy storage unit, a magnetic unit, and a switch unit. The magnetic unit electrically connects the energy storage unit with the switch unit, and has a core, a first winding, a second winding, a third winding, and at least one output winding. The first winding couples with the core and transfers a first electric energy to the core. The second winding couples with the core and stores a second electric energy in the energy storage unit. The third winding couples with the core and transfers the second electric energy to the core. The output winding couples with the core that transfers the first electric energy and the second electric energy, and outputs a third electric energy through the output winding.
US08233290B2	Unified control switch module for vehicles A unified control switch module includes a printed circuit board, a waterproof pad, and one or more knobs. The printed circuit board includes switches and light-emitting elements mounted thereon. The waterproof pad is coupled to the printed circuit board, and is provided with first protrusions, which are formed at respective locations that correspond to the switches, and second protrusions having respective through-holes, which are formed at respective locations that correspond to the light-emitting elements. The knobs are located on the waterproof pad, and are provided with respective lower ends, which are formed to extend outwards from the through-holes.
US08233286B2	Printed wiring board reliably achieving electric connection with electronic component Terminal pads are arranged on a first surface of the substrate for an electronic component to receive terminals of the electronic component. An electrically-conductive film is formed on a second surface defined on the back of the first surface over the back of a mounting area for the electronic component. The mounting area is contoured along the outer periphery of the arrangement of the terminal pads. The ratio of the area of the electrically-conductive material to the area of the surface of the substrate over the back of the mounting area is set appropriate to the ratio of the area of the electrically-conductive material to the area of the surface of the substrate over the mounting area for each electronic component. This results in suppression of flexure of the printed wiring board during reflow.
US08233284B2	Grounding structure and electrical device A grounding structure, for connecting to an opposite connecting electrical device with a metal casing, is assembled on a circuit board having at least one grounding component. The grounding structure includes a conductive mechanism electrically connected to the metal casing of the opposite connecting electrical device; and at least one conductive pad, disposed between the conductive mechanism and the circuit board, and contacting the conductive mechanism and the grounding component of the circuit board. The grounding structure of the invention can transmit the disturbance to be advantageous for signal transmitting between the opposite connecting electrical device and the circuit board.
US08233281B2	Device for reducing thermal stress on connection points The present invention relates to a device adapted in order to decrease stress on connection points between a heat generating source and a substrate. The device 13 comprises a larger heat-dissipating part 7, and at least one smaller heat-dissipating part 6. The larger part 7 is arranged with at least one cavity 8 for housing the at least one smaller part 6. The at least one smaller part 6 is adapted to be attached to at least one heat-generating source 2, and at the same time more mobile in the cavity 8 and/or less affected by changes in temperature than the larger part.
US08233278B2	Solar inverter cabinet architecture A cabinet for a solar power inverter is described. A solar power inverter receives DC current from a solar panel and transforms the DC current into AC current. To cool the inverter equipment, an air inlet receives ambient air drawn into the cabinet by an air pressurizer. The ambient air is urged into a pressurized air plenum, from which two ports channel the air into at least two air paths to flow over the equipment in the cabinet. The equipment in the cabinet is arranged such that the air passes over more heat-sensitive equipment before reaching less heat-sensitive equipment. The equipment in the cabinet can be separated by grounded, metal walls to contain and diminish electromagnetic interference. The equipment may be accessed from a single, front side of the cabinet.
US08233273B2	Electronic device An electronic device is provided, including a processing unit and a G-sensor electrically connected thereto. The G-sensor detects the posture of the electronic device and outputs a measurement signal to the processing unit accordingly. The processing unit produces a thermal control signal according to the measurement signal, so as to reduce heat generated from the electronic device or increase cooling efficiency of the electronic device.
US08233271B2	Electronic apparatus An electronic apparatus includes a body housing having a battery housing portion configured to accommodate a battery therein, a display housing in which a display device is accommodated, and a hinge portion connected to an end portion of the display housing. The hinge portion connects the display housing and the body housing such that the display housing and the body housing are relatively rotatable between a first position in which a display screen of the display device is covered with the body housing and a second position in which the display screen is uncovered. The battery housing portion has a bulged portion which is bulged outward from a portion of the body housing that faces the end portion of the display housing in the first position, and the bulged portion has a flat wall portion which extends toward the display housing.
US08233270B2	Modular data center A modular data center is constructed utilizing two building modules, wherein each of two modules includes a computer rack disposed therein which computer rack is spaced apart from an exterior wall to define an exterior access space and spaced apart from an interior opening to define an interior access space. When the two building modules are joined so that the openings abut one another, the interior access spaces of the two modules form a contiguous space between the two computer racks, which space satisfies access requirements for each computer rack. The interior access space between the two computer racks may be enclosed to form an environment that can be separately cooled from the remainder of the modular data center. A method provides two building modules, each containing a computer rack, which modules are joined so that the access spaces for the computer racks overlap, wherein a portion of the computer rack access space of one module forms part of the computer rack access space of the other module.
US08233268B2	Sealing a control device A housing comprising at least one electrical connection through a housing wall that is particularly inexpensive to produce and allows the electronic components located on the internal face and the external face of the housing to be attached in a particularly variable manner. The electrical connection is directly surrounded by housing material while being additionally sealed by means of sealing material. The inventive housing seal is provided with a profiled seal encompassing at least two sealing lips. The sealing material is additionally used for sealing the cover and/or the bottom relative to the housing wall. The arrangement is also particularly well protected against oil and other aggressive media as a combination of housing material and sealing material is used for surrounding the electrical connection.
US08233264B2	Multilayer ceramic capacitor There is provided a multilayer ceramic capacitor. The multilayer ceramic capacitor includes inner electrodes and dielectric layers stacked alternately with each other. When a continuity level of each of the inner electrodes is defined as B/A where A denotes a total length of the inner electrode and B denotes a length of the inner electrode excluding pores of the inner electrode, and a section of the inner electrode, having a predetermined length from each end of the inner electrode, is defined as an outer section, a section of the inner electrode excluding the outer section is defined as an inner section, and a section of the dielectric layers from each end of the inner electrode to a corresponding surface of the multilayer ceramic capacitor is defined as an edge section, a length of the outer section is 0.1 to 0.3 times that of the edge section, and the outer section of the inner electrode has a lower continuity level than that of the inner section of the inner electrode.
US08233263B2	Multilayer chip capacitor for improving ESR and ESL A multilayer chip capacitor includes a capacitor body including a stack of a plurality of dielectric layers and having first and second side faces and first and second end faces, a plurality of external electrodes of opposite polarity alternated on each of the first and second side faces, and a plurality of internal electrodes each including one or two leads extending to an outer face of the capacitor body and respectively connected to the external electrodes. A horizontal distance between leads of the internal electrodes of opposite polarity adjacent to each other in a stack direction is longer than a pitch between the external electrodes of opposite polarity adjacent to each other on the same side face of the capacitor body.
US08233256B2	System and method for programming and controlling over current trip point limits in voltage regulators A system and method for controlling an over current protection trip point for a voltage regulator includes an input for receiving a monitored operating parameter of the voltage regulator. Control logic responsive to this input generates a digital current control signal. A digital to analog controller converts the digital current control signal to an analog current control signal and this analog current control signal is used for controlling a current source for generating a current that establishes the over current protection trip point of the voltage regulator.
US08233253B2	Controlling appratus and controlling method for signal outputing circuit and video system The invention discloses a controlling apparatus for a signal outputting circuit in an electronic system. The controlling apparatus includes a detecting circuit, a switch, and a controlling circuit. The detecting circuit is used for detecting whether the electronic system has an abnormal condition. The switch is electrically connected between a signal receiving terminal and the signal outputting circuit. The controlling circuit is electrically connected between the detecting circuit and the switch. Once the detecting circuit detects that the electronic system has the abnormal condition, the controlling circuit sets the switch into a high-impedance state.
US08233250B2	Over voltage protection of switching converter Embodiments for at least one method and apparatus of generating a regulated voltage are disclosed. One apparatus includes a voltage regulator. The voltage regulator includes regulator circuitry for generating a regulated voltage from a first power supply and a second power supply, and voltage spike protection circuitry for voltage-spike-protecting the regulator circuitry, wherein the voltage spike protection circuitry includes a dissipative element and a charge-storage circuit. One method includes a method of generating a regulated voltage. The method includes regulator circuitry generating a regulated voltage from an input voltage, and voltage-spike-protecting the regulator circuitry with voltage spike protection circuitry, wherein the voltage spike protection circuitry includes a dissipative element and a charge-storage circuit.
US08233243B2	Head suspension assembly interconnect for a data storage device Interconnections for attaching a suspension assembly to an arm of an actuator or positioning device are disclosed. In illustrated embodiments, the interconnection includes one or more weld connections formed along opposed side seams of overlapping portions of the arm and head suspension assembly. In illustrated embodiments, the weld connections are formed along side surfaces generally transverse to upper and lower surfaces of the arm. In another embodiment, a groove pattern is formed, for example via a laser etching process, in an overlapping portion of the head suspension assembly or arm and an epoxy is inlayed in the groove to connect the head suspension assembly and arm. Illustrated embodiments also include multiple connections including, for example, a swage connection and a weld or other connection.
US08233240B2	Magnetic recording disk drive with integrated lead suspension having multiple segments for optimal characteristic impedance An integrated lead suspension (ILS) in a magnetic recording disk drive has the transmission line portion of the ILS between the flex cable and the gimbal formed of multiple interconnected segments, each with its own characteristic impedance. At the interface between any two segments there is a change in the widths of the electrically conductive traces of the transmission line. The change in impedance of a fixed-length segment is a function of the change in its trace width. The number of segments and their characteristic impedance values are selected to produce the largest frequency bandwidth with a substantially flat group delay from the write driver to the write head.
US08233234B2	Stepped main pole for perpendicular write heads in hard disk drives and method of making same A stepped main pole for a perpendicular write head and methods of making the stepped main pole. The stepped main pole has a main pole tip and a base portion. The main pole tip has a surface that forms part of the ABS and a first thickness. The base portion extends from the main pole tip and has a thickness that varies from the first thickness to a second thickness to form a slanted surface with an apex angle adjacent the main pole tip. By placing the base portion away from the ABS and providing a thickness that increases in a direction away from the ABS, the stepped pole can provide the necessary magnetic flux for writing, while avoiding undesired leakage and fringing. To form embodiments of the stepped main pole of the invention, a fluorine-based reactive ion etch (RIE) may be used. By using an RIE to define the stepped main pole, the apex angle can be better controlled and tight edge control can be achieved.
US08233230B2	Method and apparatus for controlling head with spin-torque oscillator in a disk drive According to one embodiment, a disk drive has a magnetic disk and a magnetic head having a spin-torque oscillator. The disk drive further has a head amplifier IC configured to supply a write signal and a drive signal to the magnetic head. The write signal corresponds to write data. The drive signal is supplied to generate a high-frequency magnetic field. The head amplifier IC continuously supplies a drive signal of normal level to the spin-torque oscillator, and supplies a drive signal of high level higher than the normal level, only for a prescribed time after the polarity inversion of the write signal.
US08233228B2	DLC-head offset compensation while writing In described embodiments, effects of frequency and phase error introduced at the outer diameter or inner diameter of the disk when a read head is used to maintain timing lock while the write head is used to write new data might be eliminated with a simple compensation circuit. Compensation circuits, modules or methods receive as input information i) write head radial position (e.g., from a wedge number that indicates the circumferential position of the heads), and ii) read head and write head relative physical offset. The timing error is measured by the system and might be automatically adjusted by the appropriate amount in order to reduce or to eliminate the differential head error when a write event (as opposed to a read event) is activated.
US08233221B2	Adjustable lens system for real-time applications An adjustable fluid type lens system is provided that allows e.g. ultrasound imaging through the lens during adjustment of the lens. The lens includes a container enclosing two immiscible fluids, e.g. water and oil, being in contact with each other at an interface. Incoming waves are then refracted at this interface. The shape of the interface, and thereby the refraction property, is adjustable by adjusting a voltage applied to the lens. The two fluids are selected such that they together exhibit a mechanical damping which is critical or near critical. A control circuit generates the electric voltage for adjusting the refraction from one value to another, the control circuit being arranged to change the electric voltage such that a rate of voltage change is limited to avoid oscillation of the interface, thereby adjusting refraction of incoming waves at the interface in a continuous manner. This makes it possible to use the lens while it is during adjustment from one refraction value to another, since the interface shape will at all time during the adjustment have a controlled shape. The voltage can be either a continuous voltage or a discrete stepwise (digital) voltage which is just controlled with respect to step size and temporal extension of the steps. The lens system has a number of applications e.g. within the medical field, e.g. for ‘on the fly’ high speed ultrasound imaging, or for ultrasound ablation applications where ablation can be performed during adjustment of the lens to follow a pre-defined trajectory.
US08233217B2	Multilayered fluorescent screens for scanning beam display systems Fluorescent screens and display systems and devices based on such screens using at least one excitation optical beam to excite one or more fluorescent materials on a screen which emit light to form images. The fluorescent materials may include phosphor materials and non-phosphor materials such as quantum dots.
US08233216B2	Optical amplifier bandwidth alteration The alteration of the bandwidth of an optical amplifier. Before alteration, optical signals having a first set of wavelengths are provided through a gain medium of the optical amplifier. In addition, a first pump having a set of pump wavelengths is propagated through the gain medium to thereby amplify the optical signals. After alteration, optical signals having at least a partially different set of wavelengths are able to be optically amplified by coupling a second pump into the optical medium. The second pump is at least partially distinct from the first pump in that the second pump includes at least one pump wavelength that was not included in the first pump.
US08233214B2	Optical fiber amplifier and a control method therefor A fiber amplifier having two erbium doped fiber coils and a pump laser diode optically coupled, through a fiber array, to a planar lightwave circuit, is described. A photodetector array, a multiport free-space optical isolator, and a strip of thin-film gain flattening filter are attached to a side surface of the planar lightwave circuit, which has a tunable optical power splitter for variably splitting the optical pump power for the laser diode between the two erbium doped fiber coils, and variable tilters for correcting the gain tilt of the amplifier. The variable splitter and the tilters are thermally tunable Mach-Zehnder interferometers.
US08233199B2	Document presentment apparatus for use in linear document reader A document scanner is disclosed. The document scanner includes a document bed having a surface to position a document. The document bed includes a slot in which a presentment apparatus is positioned. The presentment apparatus includes a first rigid layers a second compressible layer, and a third lower friction layer. A method of use of the document scanner is disclosed as well.
US08233196B1	Halftoner block employing average values and shifts Halftoning apparatus and method that may generate and employ average values and shifts are described herein. The apparatus may include an unpacker to determine shifts and average values for a plurality of input pixel values, each pair of average value and shift being associated with a corresponding pair of the input pixel values. The apparatus may further include a halftone core coupled to the unpacker to receive the shifts and the average values from the unpacker and to generate pairs of output pixel values based at least in part on the received shifts and average values, wherein the output pixel values are for generating pixels of an image.
US08233195B2	Method for reducing image noise A method for reducing image noise is provided. The procedure of the method is provided in the following steps. First, the color level scale of a scanned image of a document is reduced by a plurality of bits in order to subtract a noise level from the scanned image. Then the color level scales of all pixels of the image are recombined by a halftone pattern method in order to recover the color level scales. Finally the missing codes of the image are filled out by bit enhance method. Because of the color level scales of the proceeding image are not reduced, the scanned image quality does not be blurred by the method. Because the method does not minimize the color level of the proceeding image, the image noise can be reduced without blurring the scanned image and the quality of the image can be increased after the process thereof. And because each color level of the pixel in the image is subtracted by a noise level, some of the bits are removed and the capacity of the image file is decreased.
US08233193B2	Document editing to prevent leaking secret information by masking an area including hierarchically arranged objects A computer-readable recording medium that stores a program for causing a computer to edit an electronic document including a plurality of hierarchically arranged objects. The program makes a computer execute extracting an object from the electronic document including the hierarchically arranged objects representing one of a text, an image, a drawing and a table; determining whether the extracted object is superimposed by a user specified area serving as a masking area of a target document input by a user; and converting, into different information, information included in an area of the object determined to be superimposed by the user specified area.
US08233182B2	Printing apparatus and method for controlling the same in enabling use of paper information A printing apparatus includes a CPU that determines whether or not to use operation information included in paper information received from another printing apparatus. If it is determined to use the operation information, the received paper information is registered as the paper information of Type 2. In addition, the CPU included in the printing apparatus selects one of a plurality of pieces of paper information and controls a printer unit such that the printer unit performs a printing process in an operating state based on the operation information included in the selected piece of paper information.
US08233180B2	Methods for automatically determining workflow for print jobs A method automatically determines a workflow for a print job via analysis of PDF documents is disclosed. A job synopsis comprising hashed information of a historical print job's document content along with a PDF document-level and object-level metadata and information about workflow nodes and parameters can be stored in a database. The job synopsis of a new incoming print job can then be compared to the historical print job synopses database. If the new print job matches the historical print job within a certain predefined similarity limit, then workflow and parameter information associated with the historical job can be utilized to augment an initial workflow for the incoming print job.
US08233179B2	Print management system including management of storage status of print data In a print processing system, a storage server temporarily stores print data generated on a user client PC; a multifunction apparatus then obtains the print data from the storage server and prints the data, according to user's operation on the multifunction apparatus; and a management server manages a storage status of the print data on the storage server. The user client PC transmits to the storage server, bibliographic information associated with the print data concurrently when transmitting the data. The storage server stores thereon the print data obtained from the user client PC and transfers to the management server, the bibliographic information obtained from the user client PC. The management server manages the storage status of the print data on the storage server, based on the bibliographic information obtained from the storage server.
US08233178B2	Print device selection in a networked print job environment What is disclosed is a novel system and method for selecting a printer in a document reproduction environment comprising a plurality of networked printing devices. In one embodiment, a document is received which is to be printed and a set of image quality requirements specific for the document are determined based on the document's image content. A threshold quality expectation level is set for the document based on the set of image quality requirements. Device specific image quality metrics are obtained for each of the networked printing devices and then compared with the threshold quality expectation level. A printing device which best exceeds the threshold quality expectation level is selected as a result of the comparison. The document is sent to the selected networked printing device. If none of the networked printing devices is found to meet the threshold then an operator is signaled that the document cannot be printed.
US08233177B2	Client side rendering of printable documents in a network In a network facilitating print functions, a means for rendering a print job intended for a remote printer on a client computer using stored administrative settings is provided. Transparently to the client's applications, the client computer keeps the stored remote printer's administrative settings synchronized with those stored on the print server. Using the stored administrative settings, the client renders the print job to a native printer language directly cognizable by the printer before sending this rendered file to the print server for forwarding to the printer. By queuing these remote print jobs, the online status of the respective print server is also transparent to the client's applications, facilitating off-line printing.
US08233175B2	Apparatus and methods for interfacing reprographic and imaging systems with multiple set finishing devices Reprographic or imaging systems and methods issue a command to place multiple finishing devices into an alternating delivery mode such that consecutive sets are sent to different finishing devices, rather than to the same finishing device.
US08233172B2	System and method for notification of multi-function peripheral receive job Methods, systems, and software for notification of multi-function peripheral (MFP) receive jobs are disclosed. A system provides a MFP configured to store at least one remote communication identifier, to process a MFP job associated with the at least one remote communication identifier, and to transmit, in response to an event associated with the MFP job, notification directed to the remote communication identifier. The MFP may receive the remote communication identifiers from embedded MFP jobs or may receive them from previously stored user profiles that specify notification preferences for different job types. The remote identification identifier may be, for example, an email address or a telephone number.
US08233171B2	Device managing apparatus, method of controlling the same, and control program A device managing apparatus which can collectively manage a plurality of devices connected to a network and reduce resources such as time and costs required for developing a network device managing program. It is determined whether or not each of the devices connected to the device managing apparatus via the network has a unique device management page of the device for management of the device. If any of the devices does not have a unique device management page thereof, a device management page for the device is created. If any of the devices has a unique device management page thereof, it is then determined whether or not it is possible to communicate with the device. If it is possible to communicate with the device, information indicative of the unique device management page of the device is acquired.
US08233164B2	Rendering apparatus, rendering method, and computer-readable storage medium It is determined whether the rasterization result of a rendering object is cashed. If it is determined that the rasterization result of the rendering object is not cashed, an image and a mask for the image are generated from the rendering object. The generated image and the generated mask are stored in a cache. If it is determined that the rasterization result of the rendering object is cached, an image and a mask are extracted from the cache. The extracted image is rendered on a portion of the extracted mask so that a background image remains on a portion other than the portion of the extracted mask.
US08233160B2	Automatic rotated row placement in multiup imposition A system and method for automatically placing a rotated row in a multi-up imposition. Calculations can be performed, which are required to execute an automated multi-up imposition. The dimensions of the input document can be then evaluated against the available area in the imposed layout to determine whether there is sufficient space to add a rotated row to the layout (e.g., the “Dutch Row” in Dutch imposition). If it is determined that there is sufficient space for a rotated row, a rotated page row can then be added to the imposed layout.
US08233155B2	Inspection method and apparatus, lithographic apparatus, lithographic processing cell and device manufacturing method In a scatterometric method, a roughness value can be obtained by using a model including a surface layer having a variable parameter relating to its refractive index.
US08233154B2	High precision code plates and geophones An apparatus and method are disclosed for imaging a diffraction grating with a very high depth of focus, using a highly accurate code plate position measurement system. Positions may be measured to an accuracy of 1 nm or even smaller. The system may be used in fields such as manufacturing integrated circuits, and low- and very-low-frequency geophones, and other low- and very-low-frequency acoustic detectors.
US08233152B2	Optical coherence tomographic imaging method and optical coherence tomographic imaging apparatus An optical tomographic diagnostic apparatus is characterized by executing a first step (S1) to acquire a wavelength spectrum, a second step (S2) to increase the number of elements of the wavelength spectrum, a third step (S3 and S4) to convert the wavelength spectrum into a wavenumber spectrum and to decrease the number of elements to provide a wavenumber spectrum of equal intervals, and a fourth step (S5) to acquire tomographic information of the object to be inspected from the wavenumber spectrum. As a result, a wavenumber spectrum of equal intervals can be obtained which is faithful to a physical phenomenon, and more accurate tomographic information can be obtained.
US08233127B2	Liquid crystal display device An object of the present invention is to reduce a lateral width of an FPC also with evenly aligned and arranged plurality of ICs. The liquid crystal display device according to the present invention includes a glass substrate, a plurality of ICs of COG (Chip On Glass) configuration aligned on a glass substrate along a side thereof, and an FPC (Flexible Printed Circuit) that is arranged to extend along the side of the glass substrate and that is connected to the plurality of ICs. Specified ICs from among the plurality of ICs are arranged in that extending directions of their longer sides are inclined with respect to an extending direction of the side of the glass substrate such that the longer sides face towards a central side of the FPC.
US08233119B2	Liquid crystal display device There is provided a liquid crystal display device having color filters on a side of a TFT substrate, in which an orientation film is formed by inkjet printing. The formation of an orientation film by inkjet printing is more advantageous than the conventional flexographic printing in terms of the production cost. It is necessary, however, to reduce the viscosity of the orientation film to be applied by inkjet printing. For this reason, first and second orientation film stoppers are formed between a display area and a sealing portion in a TFT substrate, to prevent the orientation film from flowing to an end of the TFT substrate. The orientation film stoppers are formed by the overlapping of color filters. A profile of the orientation film is defined by the first orientation film stopper. The second orientation film stopper is formed to ensure that the orientation film does not flow to the outside.
US08233115B2	Flat panel display assembly with improved luminance uniformity and method for constructing the same A flat panel display assembly and a method for constructing a flat panel display assembly are provided. The flat panel display assembly includes a substrate, a plurality of light emitting components mounted to the substrate, at least one diffusion component having concave and convex opposing surfaces. Each of the diffusion components is coupled to the substrate such that the concave surface thereof is between at least some of the plurality of light emitting components and the convex surface thereof. The at least one diffusion component is configured to diffuse light emitted from the at least some of the plurality of light emitting components as the light propagates therethough. A diffusion layer is coupled to the substrate such that the convex surface of each of the at least one diffusion component is between the concave surface thereof and the diffusion layer and configured to further diffuse the light that propagates through the at least one diffusion component.
US08233108B2	Liquid crystal display A liquid crystal module includes: a liquid crystal display panel; a backlight unit that irradiates light onto the liquid crystal display panel; a panel guide that supports the liquid crystal display panel and the backlight unit in a stacked condition and ensures a panel gap between the liquid crystal display panel and the backlight unit; and a top case facing the panel guide. The panel guide includes one or more ventilation openings that penetrate side walls of the panel guide facing the panel gap.
US08233099B1	Temporary birefringent color image apparatus and method Disclosed is an apparatus and method for making temporary colorful birefringent displays. In its preferred embodiment, cellophane 104 is laminated between self-adherent vinyl sheets 108 with non-water soluble adhesive 112 and desired shapes 212 are cut therefrom. Plane polarizing filter 213 is similarly laminated between sheets of self-adherent vinyl 214. One of the polarizer laminations is adhered to a gloss surface such as a window 217. Shapes 212 cut from the cellophane-vinyl laminations are adhered to the polarizer lamination 215. Colors created by the polarized light passing through the birefringent cellophane laminations 100 are viewed through a polarizing analyzer 230 which can be a second lamination of polarizer between self-adherent vinyl sheets and placed over the completed design, or through analyzers held separately from the design such as polarized glasses 218 or hand held viewers 222, 230. Transmissive 214 and reflective 304 and transflective 604 types are disclosed. A less-resilient but less expensive version using low-tack adhesive 710 in place of surface-adherent vinyl 104 is also described. Embodiments and methods are disclosed for using the apparatus as educational devices 400, games, toys 200, hobby activities and making decor and temporary signs 504.
US08233097B2	Scanning projector ambient lighting system A display device including a plurality of image projection devices and a display. The display device provides received content to the display and provides image signals to the plurality of image projection devices. In response to the provided image signals, the plurality of image projection devices project images on an area of a display surface that is separate from the display. A plurality of image capture devices positioned around the display device operate during a calibration and/or alignment procedure of the plurality of image projection devices to calibrate and/or align the projected images.
US08233077B2	Method and apparatus with depth map generation An apparatus and method are disclosed wherein a depth map is generated using a single camera (e.g., single lens of a camera) and multiple images are captured by the camera. In some embodiments, a single digital camera is used to capture a set of images corresponding to a set of lens positions based on uniform or nonuniform lens position data. The method and apparatus determines focus metric information for each of a plurality of regions of interest in each image of a set. A determination is made of a best lens position for each of the regions of interest based on the focus metric information from the images in the set and are stored as data in a depth map. Image generation operations are then performed based on the generated depth map.
US08233073B2	Image capturing device with improved image quality An image capturing device (1) is disclosed comprising an electronic image detector (17) having a detecting surface (15), an optical projection system (5) for projecting an object within a field of view onto the detecting surface (15), and, optionally, a computing unit (19) for manipulating electronic information obtained from the image detector (17), wherein, the projection system (5) is adapted to project the object in a distorted way such that, when compared with a standard lens system, the projected image is expanded in a center region of the field of view and is compressed in a border region of the field of view. Preferably, the projection system (5) is adapted such that its point spread function in the border region of the field of view has a full width at half maximum corresponding essentially to the size of corresponding pixels of the image detector (17).
US08233062B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and imaging apparatus An image processing apparatus includes an image adding unit to perform noise reduction processing in the spatial direction by adding multiple images while performing motion compensation, an intra-screen noise reducing unit to perform noise reduction processing in the spatial direction within one image for each of the multiple images before adding with the image adding unit, and a control unit to vary the noise reduction strength in the spatial direction by the intra-screen noise reduction unit as to the multiple images to be added with the image adding unit.
US08233058B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image sensing apparatus An image processing apparatus includes a spectrum estimation unit for estimating a spectrum for each pixel from multiband image data comprising image data in multiple different wavelength ranges; a memory for storing spectral data suitable for each of multiple different shooting modes; and a conversion unit for determining a shooting mode of the multiband image data and converting the spectrum into band data with different spectral characteristics using the spectral data stored in the memory, the spectral data suitable for the determined shooting mode.
US08233049B2	Imaging using an electromagnetic wave An object of examination is irradiated with an electromagnetic wave including a frequency component from 30 GHz to 30 THz and a Fourier transform image of the transmitted or reflected electromagnetic wave from the object of examination is obtained. The obtained Fourier transform image is subjected to a spatial frequency filtering processing. This method can visualize only the part to be visualized in an imaging operation using a terahertz wave.
US08233043B2	Systems and methods for location of objects Systems and methods that may be employed to visually locate and/or track objects equipped with active RFID tags. The disclosed systems and methods may employ an articulated camera/s, such as closed circuit television (“CCTV”) or other suitable type of articulated camera/s, that is equipped with an antenna array.
US08233039B2	Microscope image pickup system A microscope image pickup system includes: alight source; an object lens; a display device; a record device; a capture device for performing a preview mode in which an image of the test object obtained by the object lens is repeatedly captured and a plurality of captured images are continuously displayed on the display device, or an image record mode in which the image of the test object is captured and the captured image is recorded on the record device; an illumination light amount control device for controlling the amount of light of the illumination light; and a system control device for controlling an operation of the illumination light amount control device depending on the preview mode or the image record mode performed by the capture device.
US08233037B2	Image display apparatus Provided is an image display apparatus that includes a display unit that displays a series of images obtained by imaging an inside of a subject in time sequence, and displays a time bar indicating imaging periods of the series of images so that areas of the time bar are identified by different colors corresponding respectively to regions of the inside of the subject. The apparatus also includes a control unit that identifies the respective regions of the inside of the subject, which are displayed on the series of images, and controls the display unit so that, for each of the regions identified, an area of the time bar corresponding to a period when a series of images of the region are displayed is colored with a substitute color identifying the region.
US08233035B2	Dual-view stereoscopic display using linear modulator arrays A method for displaying first and second stereoscopic images to first and second viewers provides the first viewer with a first decoding device having a first viewer differentiating element for receiving the first stereoscopic image and further having a first left- and right-eye differentiating elements for separating left- and right-eye images. The second viewer is provided with a second decoding device having a second viewer differentiating element for receiving the second stereoscopic image and further having a second left- and right-eye differentiating element. The first stereoscopic image is displayed to the first viewer by forming a first left-eye image and forming a first right-eye image, each over substantially half of the refresh period. The second stereoscopic image is displayed to the second viewer by forming a second left-eye image and forming a second right-eye image, each over substantially half of the refresh period.
US08233032B2	Systems and methods for creating a three-dimensional image A method for generating and displaying a three-dimensional image viewable from different angles includes the steps of generating a plurality of images of a three-dimensional object from a plurality of angles. Each image is displayed from an angle corresponding to the generated angle on a display surface of a screen, typically having a plurality of display surfaces. The screen is rotated such that each viewable angle of each image is displayed at least twenty-four times per second so as to appear constant.
US08233026B2	Scalable video encoding in a multi-view camera system The present invention employs scalable video coding (SVC) in a multi-view camera system, which is particularly suited for video conferencing. Multiple cameras are oriented to capture video content of different image areas and generate corresponding original video streams that provide video content of the image areas. An active one of the image areas may be identified at any time by analyzing the audio content originating from the different image areas and selecting the image area that is associated with the most dominant speech activity.
US08233015B2	Display apparatus and method of manufacturing the same A display apparatus includes first and second frames in which a display panel is seated and optical sheets are received, and a method of manufacturing the display apparatus. The display apparatus includes a display panel displaying an image, a light source supplying light to the display panel, a first frame supporting the display panel and having the light source positioned therein, and a second frame combined with the first frame, wherein the second frame includes a cover portion that receives the light source, and a support portion, which extends from the cover portion along sidewalls of the first frame, where the support portion combines with the first frame, and includes an opening, the opening formed opposite to and facing the cover portion.
US08233012B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program An image processing apparatus displaying an image on a display screen having a predetermined image size includes an image scaling unit scaling image information on a main image layer in a first memory area in accordance with the image size of the display screen; an on-screen display enlarging unit enlarging image information on an on-screen display layer read out from a second memory area so as to be fitted in the image size of the display screen; and a mixing unit mixing the enlarged image information on the on-screen display layer with the enlarged or reduced image information on the main image layer. The on-screen display enlarging unit includes first and second on-screen display partial enlargement units that enlarge the image information in an area without the display information on the on-screen display layer and in an area with the display information thereon, respectively.
US08233008B2	Method and system for distinctively displaying selected floor with sufficient details in a three-dimensional building model A method, system and program product for distinctively displaying selected floors with sufficient details in a three-dimensional building model includes graphical metaphors that permit a selected or highlighted floor and their respective elements to be absolutely clear and distinct from the floors immediately above and below. The graphically displayed metaphors comprise “drawers”, “wireframe”, “expansion/compression”, “projected floor”, “sliding unselected floors”, “turning the pages”, “big map-small map”, and “fisheye” graphical configurations. Such graphically displayed metaphors can be utilized to highlight a selected floor, separate it from adjacent floors, and provide a graphical effect of depicting the floor's vertical position within a building.
US08233003B2	Image processing device, image processing method, and electronic instrument An image processing device that supplies image data to a driver section of a display panel includes an encoding section that encodes image data on a block-by-block basis to generate encoded data, the image data corresponding to one scan line of an input image, the image data being divided into a plurality of blocks, a memory that stores the encoded data from the encoding section, and a decoding section that decodes the encoded data from the memory on a block-by-block basis to generate decoded data, the decoded data from the decoding section being supplied to the driver section.
US08232997B2	System and method for providing a dynamic expanded timeline Generating a child timeline on a drawing sheet of a diagramming program such that the child timeline is dynamically linked to a parent timeline. An automated method allows for the automatic placing of information on the child timeline that was on the parent timeline when the child timeline is created. Parent and child timelines can be modified and a child timeline can be automatically updated when changes are made to the parent timeline and these changes affect the time interval corresponding to the child timeline.
US08232993B2	Systems and methods for graphical rendering A computer readable medium configured to approximate the integral of the product of a plurality of functions includes logic configured to factor the plurality of functions into a set of fixed functions and one varying function, logic configured to determine a first vector that represents the product of the fixed functions in the wavelet domain, logic configured to determine a second vector that represents the one varying function in the wavelet domain, and logic configured to determine an inner product of the first vector and the second vector.
US08232987B2	Method for compensating voltage drop of display device, system for voltage drop compensation and display device including the same The present invention relates to a method for compensating voltage drop of a display device, a system for voltage drop compensation, and a display device including the same. A method for compensating a voltage drop of a display device including a display panel, a maximum compensation voltage table MLEC LUT for voltage compensation when a voltage drop is a maximum in the display panel, and a voltage drop coefficient table LEC LUT representing voltage drop coefficients with respect to total output currents during one frame according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: receiving an input image signal; gamma-converting the input image signal to obtain a pre-compensation data voltage; obtaining a first total output current flowing in all pixels PX of the display panel during one frame based on the input image signal; obtaining a first voltage drop compensation voltage V_LEC based on the voltage drop coefficient table LEC LUT and the maximum compensation voltage table MLEC LUT; and adding the first voltage drop compensation voltage V_LEC to the pre-compensation data voltage to obtain the post-compensation data voltage.
US08232985B2	Display driving circuit including a latch-up prevention unit A display driving circuit is provided. The display driving circuit includes first to third voltage generation units configured to receive an externally applied input voltage having a same magnitude and generate respective voltages having different magnitudes, and a latch-up prevention unit connected to the second voltage generation unit and configured to receive a lower voltage among voltages output from the second voltage generation unit and to ground the lower voltage for a preset period of time.
US08232984B2	Thin film transistor array panel having a driver inspection unit and display device including the same The present invention relates to a thin film transistor array panel and a display device including the same. A thin film transistor array panel according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: a plurality of gate lines; a plurality of pixels respectively connected to the gate lines; a gate driver comprising a plurality of stages connected to each other, the plurality of stages being respectively connected to the plurality of gate lines and applying gate signals to the plurality of gate lines; and a driver inspection unit separated from the gate driver and including at least three inspection stages, wherein each of the at least three inspection stages has a same structure as one of the plurality of stages of the gate driver.
US08232983B2	Method for driving plasma display panel, and plasma display device In the method for driving a plasma display panel and the plasma display device, the scan electrodes of the plasma display panel are divided into two scan electrode groups, the address period of subfields is divided into two address periods corresponding to the two scan electrode groups, and at least in one address period, the scan electrodes belonging to the scan electrode group provided with scan pulses are sequentially provided with scan pulses shifting from second voltage higher than scan pulse voltage to scan pulse voltage and shifting again to second voltage, and the scan electrodes belonging to the scan electrode group not provided with scan pulses are provided with either third voltage higher than scan pulse voltage or fourth voltage higher than second voltage and third voltage, and with third voltage at least while scan pulse voltage is applied to adjacent scan electrodes.
US08232980B2	Stylus and method of manufacturing the same The present disclosure relates to a method of manufacturing a stylus pen configured to select one of plural pieces of content installed in advance in a communication terminal. Examples of the method comprise preparing a protective cap of a conductive fiber material by sequentially stacking nickel, copper and nickel on both sides of a polyester fiber by deposition coating, placing the protective cap on a mold, applying a bonding agent to an internal surface of the protective cap, and injecting a non-conductive liquid onto the internal upper portion of the protective cap.
US08232973B2	Method, device, and graphical user interface providing word recommendations for text input A portable electronic device having a touch screen display performs a set of operations, including displaying a plurality of key icons, each having an adjustable size hit region, and receiving a sequence of individual touch points input by a user on the touch screen display. The operations performed by the device further include processing the received individual touch points by: forming a user-input directed graph for the sequence of individual touch points received so far, determining a character corresponding to a last received individual touch point in accordance with the adjustable hit regions of the displayed key icons, displaying a sequence of characters corresponding to the sequence of individual touch points, and updating sizes of the adjustable hit regions for a plurality of the key icons in accordance with the sequence of individual touch points input by the user.
US08232970B2	Scan sequence generator A sensor panel device that can generate and use a stimulus signal having multiple different waveforms for detecting events on or near the sensor panel is disclosed. Among other things, such a stimulus signal can be used to reject environmental noise present in the device. In some embodiments, the stimulus signal has multiple waveforms having different frequencies. Logic circuitry can generate representative values from output of the different waveforms applied to one or more sensing nodes in the sensor panel device. From the representative values, a final value can be generated that represents whether an event occurred at or near the one or more sensing nodes.
US08232962B2	System and method for display management based on user attention inputs A system and method are provided for managing data being displayed on at least one monitor screen based on monitoring user's attention in relation to the monitor screen. In one embodiment, upon detecting that the user's attention is leaving at least a portion of a screen, the system may alert the user of such an event. Alternatively, the system could alert the user upon detecting a triggering condition while the user's attention is away from the at least a portion of the screen. The step of alerting the user may include modifying at least a portion of a display on a monitor not being viewed by the user. Additionally, the system may initiate preparation of a report including any data not being viewed by a user during the time period when the user is not viewing a portion of the monitor.
US08232960B2	Displaying electrophoretic particles Among various embodiments of the present disclosure, displaying electrophoretic particles can be performed by configuring an electrophoretic display for directed spreading of electrophoretic particles across a number of substantially planar display electrodes. Such a configuration can be accomplished by controlling planar spreading of the electrophoretic particles in an electrophoretic pixel with an electrical field between an in-plane storage electrode and an in-plane activation electrode. The in-plane activation electrode can be connected to an in-plane display electrode, which extends across a first area in the electrophoretic pixel adjacent to a display aperture having a second area that is substantially coextensive with the first area.
US08232951B2	Dynamic image control device using coincident blank insertion signals An image control device has display signals and blank insertion (BI) signals. Polarities of the display signals and those of the BI signals are coincident. Thus, BI signals are displayed in a way of 1+2 line inversion and differences of response times are eliminated to avoid affecting MPRT.
US08232949B2	Liquid crystal display device, driving control circuit and driving method used in same A liquid crystal display device is provided which is capable of improving quality of moving images. A field dividing driving operation is performed in which an odd field during which each of scanning electrodes in odd-numbered rows is sequentially driven and an even field during which each of scanning electrodes in even-numbered rows is sequentially driven occur, alternately and repeatedly, with time width of a refresh rate. In the former half of the odd field, display data is written in each of pixel regions corresponding to scanning electrodes in odd-numbered rows and, in the latter half of the odd field, black data is written in each of the pixel regions corresponding to scanning electrodes in the odd-numbered rows. In the former half of the even field, display data is written in each of pixel regions corresponding to scanning electrodes in the even-numbered rows and, in the latter half of the even field, black data is written in each of pixel regions corresponding to scanning electrodes in the even-numbered rows.
US08232945B2	Gamma voltage generator and control method thereof and liquid crystal display device utilizing the same A gamma voltage generator can control brightness of a first color pixel unit and a second color pixel unit. A first potential divider is coupled between a first node and a second node for generating a first main gamma voltage. At least one second potential divider is coupled between the second node and a third node for generating a first sub-gamma voltage and a second sub-gamma voltage. The brightness of the first color pixel unit is controlled by the first main gamma voltage and the first sub-gamma voltage. The brightness of the second color pixel unit is controlled by the first main gamma voltage and the second sub-gamma voltage.
US08232939B2	Voltage-programming scheme for current-driven AMOLED displays A system and method for driving an AMOLED display is provided. The AMOLED display includes a plurality of pixel circuits. A voltage-programming scheme, a current-programming scheme or a combination thereof is applied to drive the display. Threshold shift information, and/or voltage necessary to obtain hybrid driving circuit may be acquired. A data sampling may be implemented to acquire a current/voltage relationship. A feedback operation may be implemented to correct the brightness of the pixel.
US08232937B2	Display device and electronic equipment using the same In an active matrix EL display device, pixels which are suitable for a constant current drive are structured. The pixel includes a first switch which has one end connected to a source signal line and the other end connected to a current-voltage conversion element, a second switch which has one end connected to the current-voltage conversion element and the other end connected to a voltage holding capacitor and to a voltage-current conversion element, and a pixel electrode connected to the current-voltage conversion element and to the voltage-current conversion element.
US08232936B2	Electronic circuit, method of driving the same, electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus To reduce time for writing a target voltage in the gate of a driving transistor. In a first period, a transistor 211 is switched on to allow a driving transistor 210 to function as a diode and transistors 212 and 213 are switched on to electrically connect the drain of the driving transistor 210 to a data line 112, to which an initial voltage is applied, such that the initial voltage is applied to the gate of the driving transistor 210. In a second period, a transistor 212 is switched off such that the gate of the driving transistor 210 is maintained to have an off voltage corresponding to the power source. In a third period, the transistor 211 is switched off such that the voltage of the data line 112 is converted into a grayscale voltage to maintain the gate of the driving transistor at the target voltage. In a fourth period, the driving transistor 210 flows the current corresponding to the maintained gate voltage to an OLED element 230.
US08232933B2	Organic light emitting display with compensation for transistor threshold variation An organic light emitting display is disclosed. The display includes a scan line, a data line, and a pixel coupled to the scan line and the data line. The pixel is configured to at least partially compensate for transistor threshold variation and for IR-drop in a power supply line, where the pixel includes no more than three transistors and no more than two capacitors.
US08232929B2	Microwave antenna for wireless networking of devices in automation technology A microwave antenna for wireless interconnection of automation devices has a first printed circuit board, on which a first conductor loop is arranged as a printed conductor track. A second printed circuit board having a second conductor loop in the form of a printed conductor track is arranged transversely with respect to the first printed circuit board. The second printed circuit board is attached to the first printed circuit board. The conductor loops are connected to a common feed connection. A bypass line connects one end of each the first and the second conductor loops.
US08232922B2	Ultra wide band antenna with a spline curve radiating element The present application relates to microstrip-fed printed planar antennas and in particular to the geometry of same. More particularly an antenna is provided with a radiating or ground plane element having a generally continuous curved shape and being symmetrical about the longitudinal axis and non-symmetrical about an axis transverse to the longitudinal axis.
US08232921B2	Half-mode substrate integrated antenna structure The present invention relates to a half mode substrate integrated antenna structure 1, 10, 11 for electromagnetic signals, comprising a substrate 2 with a top 2a and a bottom side 26, said substrate being essentially of a flat shape with a main plane M, a conductive layer 3a arranged on said top and a conductive layer 3b arranged on said bottom side, a series of conductive vias 4 extending between the conductive layers 3a, 3b of the top and the bottom side of the substrate so that a waveguide having a feeding end 5 and an antenna end 6 is formed, wherein said antenna end 6 is formed by end regions 7 of said conductive layers 3a, 3b and said substrate 2 so that a radiation pattern of said antenna structure 1 essentially extends in the main plane M.
US08232917B2	Post-mission high accuracy position and orientation system A method of generating post-mission position and orientation data comprises generating position and orientation data representing positions and orientations of a mobile platform, based on global navigation satellite system (GNSS) data and inertial navigation system (INS) data acquired during a data acquisition period by the mobile platform, using a network real-time kinematic (RTK) subsystem to generate correction data associated with the data acquisition period, and correcting the position and orientation data based on the correction data. The RTK subsystem may implement a virtual reference station (VRS) technique to generate the correction data.
US08232909B2	Doppler radar motion detector for an outdoor light fixture A motion detector system includes the ability to detect motion through the use of a Doppler radar sensor or a combination of PIR sensors and a Doppler radar sensor. The system includes an outdoor light fixture having one or more lamps and a housing coupled to the outdoor light fixture. The housing includes a Doppler radar sensor and a microprocessor for analyzing the signals received by the Doppler radar sensor. Alternatively, the housing includes a combination of PIR sensors and a Doppler radar sensor and a microprocessor for analyzing the signals received from these sensors. The lamps in the light fixture are activated when either the PIR sensor or the Doppler radar sensor generates a signal indicating motion within the monitored area. Alternatively, the lamps can be activated when either the PIR sensor or the Doppler radar sensor senses predetermined number of motion activities over a limited time period.
US08232902B2	Pulse modulation devices and methods An embodiment method of generating an output pulse stream comprises first pulse modulating a first multi-bit input term to generate a first one-bit pulse stream, using a bitwise logic AND to combine the first one-bit pulse stream and a second multi-bit term, thereby generating a multi-bit AND output, and second pulse modulating the multi-bit AND output to generate a one-bit output pulse stream representing a product of the first and second multi-bit input terms.
US08232898B2	E85 gas station locator applications using V2X peer-to-peer social networking A system and method for wirelessly exchanging information concerning the location of E85 gas stations between E85 vehicles. The method includes transmitting messages from an E85 gas station that identifies the location of the E85 gas station, the time of the transmission and the price of the E85 gas, and receiving the messages by E85 vehicles that pass within a certain distance of the E85 gas station. The method also includes identifying that two E85 vehicles pass close to each other, where the vehicles periodically broadcast an E85 beacon identifying them as E85 vehicles. When two E85 vehicles are identified, the vehicles exchange information concerning a list of the E85 gas stations that they have stored from messages received from E85 gas stations and/or other E85 vehicles. The two vehicles update their lists to include those E85 gas stations that one vehicle may have that the other does not.
US08232890B2	Guidance system and method for medical procedures Embodiments of the present invention comprise a guidance system and method for providing an angular orientation of a medical device. The system and method may utilize a fluid-filled portion with a position indicator that floats in the fluid contained within the fluid-filled portion. The guidance system may be coupled to the medical device so that when the angular orientation of the guidance system is varied, the position indicator moves within the fluid-filled portion. The position of the position indicator is designated by angle gradations on the outer portion of the fluid-filled portion.
US08232887B2	Electronic monitoring of the on-board power supply system of a motor vehicle with respect to voltage peaks or voltage drops A process is provided for the electronic monitoring of the on-board power supply system, or parts of the on-board power supply system, of a motor vehicle with respect to voltage peaks or voltage drops. The value of the electric voltage is continuously recorded, and a comparator circuit continuously compares a first earlier voltage value with a subsequently determined second voltage value. The comparator circuit keeps available for a predetermined time period the highest voltage value recorded up to that point-in-time.
US08232885B2	Photoelectric smoke detector A photoelectric smoke detector is capable of preventing an erroneous alarm from being issued even when steam flows into a smoke detecting unit. The smoke detecting unit includes: an installation section; and a smoke inlet section. The installation section includes: a light emitting element for emitting light to an inside of the installation section; and a light receiving element for receiving the light emitted from the light emitting element. The smoke inlet section includes: a plurality of wall members for preventing external light from entering the smoke inlet section; and a smoke inlet formed between the plurality of wall members. The installation section and the smoke inlet section are arranged so as to overlap each other, with the smoke inlet section being positioned on a lower side of the installation section, and are communicated with each other through an opening.
US08232880B2	Semiconductor device The present invention provides a battery as a power supply for supplying power in the RFID, and another antenna for charging the battery, in addition to an antenna which transmits and receives individual information to and from outside as a means for supplying power to the battery.
US08232879B2	Directional sensing mechanism and communications authentication The present invention is directed toward an RFID device that includes a motion sensing mechanism. The motion sensing mechanism is adapted to sense motion of the RFID device and then selectively allow or restrict the RFID device's ability to transmit messages, which may include sensitive data, when the RFID device is placed in an RF field. Thus, the motion sensing mechanism is utilized to control access to data on the RFID device to only instances when the holder of the RFID device moves the RFID device in a predefined sequence of motion(s).
US08232872B2	Cross traffic collision alert system A cross traffic collision alert system is provided that includes an image-based detection device for capturing motion data of objects in a region of a direction of travel. A motion analysis module monitors the captured motion data. A salient region detection module identifies regions of interest within the captured motion data. A predictive object detection module is responsive to the outputs of the motion analysis module and the salient region detection module for generating at least one object candidate. Non-imaging object detection sensors sense a region for detecting the at least one object candidate. An object tracking module tracks the at least one object candidate and fuses the at least one object candidate transitioning between the regions. A threat assessment module determines a threat assessment of a potential collision between a tracked object candidate and the driven vehicle and determines whether a warning should be provided.
US08232860B2	RFID reader for facility access control and authorization An access control system (1) for a secure facility includes an authorization system having an interface, in the form of an interrogator (7), for receiving the request signal indicative of a user seeking authorization for a predetermined action, where that action is to unlock a door that presently blocks a doorway. If that action occurs, the user will be able to progress through the doorway. A processor (8) is responsive to the request signal for determining if the access is to be granted to that user at that particular time. If access is to be granted, processor (8) generates the secure signal. An operating device, which is collectively defined by ports (13), processor (14) and locking device (15), is physically spaced apart from processor (7) and responsive to the secure signal for initiating the action. That is, the action is to progress the locking device to the second configuration. This, in turn, will allow the user to subsequently gain access through the doorway. The action of progressing the locking device to the second configuration is initiated ultimately by device (15)—after processor (14) provides the required signals via one of ports (13)—to allow the user to then physically progress through the doorway.
US08232858B1	Microelectromechanical (MEM) thermal actuator Microelectromechanical (MEM) buckling beam thermal actuators are disclosed wherein the buckling direction of a beam is constrained to a desired direction of actuation, which can be in-plane or out-of-plane with respect to a support substrate. The actuators comprise as-fabricated, linear beams of uniform cross section supported above the substrate by supports which rigidly attach a beam to the substrate. The beams can be heated by methods including the passage of an electrical current through them. The buckling direction of an initially straight beam upon heating and expansion is controlled by incorporating one or more directional constraints attached to the substrate and proximal to the mid-point of the beam. In the event that the beam initially buckles in an undesired direction, deformation of the beam induced by contact with a directional constraint generates an opposing force to re-direct the buckling beam into the desired direction. The displacement and force generated by the movement of the buckling beam can be harnessed to perform useful work, such as closing contacts in an electrical switch.
US08232854B2	Target magnet mounting system An embodiment is a target magnet mounting system including a magnet housing having first and second sets of spring clip mounting hooks on opposing sides of the housing and first and second spring clips mountable to the first and second spring clip mounting hook sets, respectively. Each of the spring clips includes a flexible strip having opposing first and second ends, each of the first and second ends including serrated teeth. The target magnet mounting system may be inserted into a channel to detachably engage the sidewalls of the channel to position a target magnet.
US08232842B1	Output buffer An output buffer including a differential amplifier, a first and a second output stage, and a first and a second control stage is provided. The differential amplifier receives an input and a feedback signal and accordingly adjusts the level of the first and second control signals. The first control stage determines to provide a first current to an output terminal of the output buffer according to the level of the first and second control signals. The first control stage is biased under a high voltage and outputs one of the first control signal and the high voltage. The second control stage is biased under the low voltage and outputs one of the second control signal and the low voltage. The second output stage determines to provide a second current to the output terminal of the output buffer according to the signal generated by the first and second control stages.
US08232832B2	Voltage adder circuit and D/A converter circuit A voltage adder circuit includes an amplifier circuit having a first operational amplifier and into which a first voltage is input, a circuit that supplies an output current to the amplifier circuit, and a current providing section that detects the output current of the circuit and supplies an output current equal to the output current of the circuit in magnitude so that the output current of the circuit is prevented from inputting to or outputting from the first operational amplifier through an output terminal of the first operational amplifier. A second voltage is input into the circuit.
US08232828B2	Analog circuit having improved response time There is provided an analog circuit having improved response time. An analog circuit having improved response time may include: a low level limiter converting a signal having a lower level than a predetermined reference level into a signal having a predetermined non-low level higher than the predetermined reference level; and an analog circuit section amplifying the signal from the low level limiter into a signal having a predetermined level.
US08232822B2	Charge pump and phase-detecting apparatus, phase-locked loop and delay-locked loop using the same A charge pump including a first current source, a second current source, a first switch, a second switch, a third switch, a fourth switch, and a reset switch is provided. First terminals of the first and the third switch are coupled to the first current source. First terminals of the second and the fourth switch are coupled to the second current source. Second terminals of the first, the second, and the reset switch are coupled to an output terminal of the charge pump. A first terminal of the reset switch is coupled to the second terminals of the third and the fourth switch. Control terminals of the first, the second, the third, and the fourth switch respectively receive a first control signal, a second control signal, an inverted signal of the first control signal, and an inverted signal of the second control signal.
US08232821B2	Clock data recovery circuit Multiple flip-flops each latch input data at a time point of the corresponding clock signal. The i-th (i represents an integer) first logical gate generates an internal up signal which is asserted when the output of the (2×i−1)-th flip-flop does not match the output of the (2×i)-th flip-flop. The j-th (j represents an integer) second logical gate generates an internal down signal which is asserted when the output of the (2×j)-th flip-flop does not match the output of the (2×j+1)-th flip-flop. A third logical gate generates an up signal based upon the multiple internal up signals. A fourth logical gate generates a down signal based upon the multiple internal down signals.
US08232816B2	Probe head with machine mounting pads and method of forming same A probe head for testing semiconductor wafers has a probe contactor substrate have a first side and a second side. A plurality of probe contactor tips are coupled to the first side and the plurality of tips lie in a first plane. A plurality of mounting structures are coupled to the second side with each of the mounting structures each having a top surface lying in a second plane, wherein the first plane is substantially parallel to the second plane.
US08232802B2	RF coil assembly for MRI using differently shaped and/or sized coils A radio frequency coil assembly is provided that includes a first radio frequency coil for receiving a magnetic resonance signal from a tested body; a second radio frequency coil for receiving a magnetic resonance signal from the tested body; and a third radio frequency coil for receiving a magnetic resonance signal from the tested body and having a shape that is different from that of at least one of the first and second radio frequency coils so as to increase local sensitivity in an image-picked-up region.
US08232799B2	Noise reduction apparatus, systems, and methods This document describes a general system for noise reduction, as well as a specific system for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance (NQR). The general system, which is called Calculated Readout by Spectral Parallelism (CRISP), involves reconstruction and recombination of frequency-limited broadband data using separate narrowband data channels to create images or signal profiles. A multi-channel CRISP system can perform this separation using (1) frequency tuned hardware, (2) a frequency filter-bank (or equivalent), or (3) a combination of implementations (1) and (2). This system significantly reduces what we call cross-frequency noise, thereby increasing signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR). A multi-channel CRISP system applicable to MRI and NQR are described.
US08232794B2	Rotation angle detector A rotation angle detector for detecting the rotation angle of a rotator to be measured which detects the flux density, generated depending on rotation of the rotator to be measured, of a ring-like magnet fixed to the rotator by means of a magnetic detection element. Since a soft magnetic member is interposed between the ring-like magnet and the rotator, rotation angle of the rotator can be measured accurately without being affected by the material or diameter of the rotator or the fixing state of the rotation angle detector to the rotator. Consequently, a rotation angle detector for detecting the rotation angle of a rotator to be measured accurately without being affected by the material or diameter of the rotator or the fixing state of the rotation angle detector to the rotator is presented.
US08232789B2	System and method for providing linear buck boost transitions within a buck boost converter A voltage regulator, comprises first circuitry for generating an output voltage responsive to an input voltage and a plurality of switching control signal. Switching control circuitry generates the switching control signals responsive to the output voltage and at least one of a buck ramp signal and a boost ramp signal. Voltage ramp generation circuitry generates each of the buck ramp signal and the boost ramp signal. The boost ramp signal comprises the buck ramp signal offset by the peak value of the buck ramp signal.
US08232787B2	Pulse time detector, a controller for a switched mode power supply, and a switched mode power supply including such a controller An apparatus for monitoring the pulse time of switches within a DC to DC power supply, comprising a timing circuit responsive to a switching confirmation signal to commence timing and to monitor for control signals being sent to the switch and to indicate whether elapsed period between the switching confirmation signal and the control signal is too long or too short.
US08232786B2	Fast transient step load response in a power converter A method of controlling a power converter having at least one switching device for supplying an output voltage and a load current to a load is disclosed. The method includes sensing the output voltage and sensing the load current. The method further includes controlling a duty cycle of the switching device according to the sensed output voltage and a voltage control loop when a rate of change of the load current does not exceed a threshold level. The method also includes adjusting the duty cycle of the switching device set by the voltage control loop when the rate of change of the load current exceeds the threshold level.
US08232783B2	Constant-voltage power supply circuit A constant-voltage power supply circuit which limits the consumption current inside at startup or when overloaded and suppresses the occurrence of an overshoot at startup, comprises an error amplifying part; an output part having an outputting PMOS; a load current monitoring part that monitors a load current flowing through the PMOS and increases the bias current of the error amplifying part according to the load current; and a gain adjusting part having a current limiting resistor and that monitors the load current and decreases a gain of the error amplifying part according to this load current. Hence, at startup or when overloaded, the gain adjusting part operates as a limiter circuit. Hence, at startup or when overloaded, the consumption current inside can be limited. Further, at startup, the response is made slower by this limiter operation, thus suppressing the occurrence of an overshoot.
US08232780B2	Power factor correction converter A switching control circuit includes an A/D converter that converts detection signals of an input voltage detection circuit, a current detection resistor, and an output voltage detection circuit into a digital signal, a D/A converter that provides a reference voltage to an analog comparator, a PWM circuit that outputs a control voltage to a switching element, and a CPU that provides a specified value to the D/A converter as a reference value, reads the values converted by the A/D converter, and obtains the average value of the inductor current. The CPU reads an inductor current Ib when the output of the PWM circuit is set at a high level, and obtains the average value of an inductor current peak value Ip determined by the specified value and the inductor current value Ib at turn-on as an average inductor current value ILav.
US08232772B2	Over voltage and over current protection integrated circuit An integrated circuit is disclosed including a primary input for receiving an input voltage, a battery voltage input for receiving a battery voltage signal and an output for providing an output voltage higher than the battery voltage. First circuitry responsive to the input voltage is provided for turning off the output voltage responsive to an input over voltage condition. Second circuitry responsive to the battery voltage signal is provided for turning off the output voltage responsive to a battery over voltage condition. Third circuitry provides for over current protection.
US08232771B2	Battery gas gauge reset mechanism A gas gauge circuit has a power supply pin, a power return pin, power-on reset capability, and a communications signal pin. A reset control circuit is coupled between the power supply pin and the communications signal pin, or between the power return pin and the communications signal pin. The reset control circuit removes power to the gas gauge circuit in accordance with a control signal asserted on the communications signal pin. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US08232768B2	System and method for balancing battery cells A system for cell balancing comprises battery modules and a controller. Each of the battery modules comprises battery cells, balance circuits and a battery management module. The battery management module in each of the battery modules is coupled to the battery cells and for acquiring cell voltages of battery cells. The balance circuits are coupled to the battery cells and for performing balance operation on the battery cells under control of the battery management module. The controller is coupled to the battery modules and for generating a reference signal based on the cell voltages provided by each of the battery modules. The battery management module in each of the battery modules can control the balance circuits to balance the battery cells according to the reference signal, thereby achieving cell balance among the battery modules.
US08232767B2	Apparatus and method of testing for battery The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for testing batteries, which can prevent errors from occurring due to the tolerance of voltage sensors when the charged states of batteries are measured, and can charge a battery having a charged state deteriorated due to the difference in the resistance of each battery. The apparatus includes a voltage circuit for measuring voltages of N batteries. A resistance circuit decreases voltages of batteries, which are greater than a reference voltage. A connection switch unit selects any one of the N batteries. A divert change unit separates polarities of each battery and changes positions of an cathode and a anode of the battery depending on separated polarities. A selection switch unit selectively connects the cathode and anode of the battery to an cathode and a anode of the voltage circuit or the resistance circuit.
US08232762B2	Computer and battery charging method thereof A computer includes a system part which has at least one electronic component, a power supplying part which supplies a main electric power to the system part, a battery part which receives charging electric power from the power supplying part and supplies auxiliary electric power to the system part, and a controlling part which, if the main electric power is supplied by the power supplying part, and if charge level of the battery part according to supply of the charging electric power exceeds a reference level corresponding to a discharged state, cuts off the supply of the charging electric power and controls the battery part to discharge the auxiliary electric power.
US08232755B2	Motor with circuits for protecting motor from input power outages or surges A DC motor is provided. The DC motor prevents rush or overload of current in the DC motor during and/or after power input irregularities to the DC motor. A control circuit of the DC motor is configured to control current provided to the DC motor. When power irregularities in the power input to the DC motor are detected by the control circuit, the control circuit stops generating PWM (Pulse Width Modulated) signals and stops the current provided to the DC motor. After the stoppage of PWM signals, the control circuit can perform a soft-start of the PWM signals when the power irregularities are no longer detected. The soft starting of the PWM signals generates gradual increase in current to the DC motor, thus, preventing sudden rush of current that cause malfunction of the DC motor.
US08232754B2	Control device for electrically driven door A control device for an electrically driven door is provided that can enhance the sensitivity of detection of a door pinch state and that can prevent a passenger from being pressed when the door pinch state occurs. The control device includes a driving force instruction value producing unit that outputs a driving force instruction value of the electrically driven door, a state observing unit that estimates a mechanical resistant force to a door driving system, a reference model that determines a dynamic characteristic of the electrically driven door to the mechanical resistant force estimated by the state observing unit, a gain compensator that computes a control compensation value that makes an output of the reference model coincide with an actual speed of the electrically driven door; and an adder that adds the control compensation value computed by the gain compensator to the driving force instruction value outputted by the driving force instruction value producing unit.
US08232739B2	LED with integrated constant current driver An LED package containing integrated circuitry for matching a power source voltage to the LED operating voltage, LEDs containing such integrated circuitry, systems containing such packages, and methods for matching the source and operating voltages are described. The integrated circuitry typically contains a power converter and a constant current circuit. The LED package may also contain other active or passive components such as pin-outs for integrated or external components, a transformer and rectifier, or a rectifier circuit. External components can include control systems for regulating the LED current level or the properties of light emitted by the LED. Integrating the power supply and current control components into the LED can provide for fabrication of relatively small LEDs using fewer and less device-specific components.
US08232721B2	Efficiency enhancement methods for OLED light source through index bridging An apparatus such as a light source is disclosed which has an OLED device and an index bridging elastomer disposed on the substrate or transparent electrode of said OLED device and on the exterior of said OLED device. The elastomer bridges the refractive index between the substrate and an intended target for said apparatus.
US08232718B2	Tiled electroluminescent device with filled gaps A tiled electroluminescent device that improves light-emission uniformity and reduces reflection from ambient light includes a first and a second electroluminescent device tile, a portion of the edge of the first device tile abutted with a portion of the edge of the second device tile leaving a gap between the first and second device tile edges, each device tile including a substrate, having an optical index and a level of transparency, and an electroluminescent diode for emitting light according to a distribution that is substantially Lambertian, whereby light is directed along an oblique angle to the surface of the substrate of the first tile and through the edge of the first device tile; and a filler located in the gap between the abutting edges of the first and second device tiles, the filler having an optical index and a level of transparency matched to the substrates.
US08232714B2	Cathode A cathode has a cathode head in which is arranged at least one emitter that emits electrons upon application of a heating voltage. At least one series resistor is connected in the voltage feed to at least one emitter. The use of such a cathode in an x-ray tube enables x-ray exposures with a high quality.
US08232697B2	Power unit An output shaft and an input shaft are connected with a connection member interposed therebetween, and a motor rotor is provided outside the connection member. Part of oil flowing down from an oil supply opening 11a of a motor housing MH is supplied to a first spline joint section of the input shaft and the connection member through a space and an opening of a bearing flange fixed to the motor housing MH. The oil lubricating the first spline joint section moves along an inner circumferential surface of a hole by a centrifugal force generated by rotation of the connection member, the oil moves in a radial direction along an end face on one end section side of the connection member 40 in one end section of the connection member, and the oil is supplied to a second spline joint section of the output shaft and the connection member.
US08232694B2	Drive unit A drive unit in particular for an actuating element of a motor vehicle, is described, which has a gear mechanism unit, a drive motor and a contacting unit, with the gear mechanism unit encompassing a first interface for a detachable attachment of the drive motor and a second interface for the detachable attachment of the contacting unit, and with the drive motor being energized by the contacting unit in the mounted condition. The interfaces of the gear mechanism unit are designed to energize the drive motor through the contacting unit, and a rotary sensor that can contact the contacting unit and can detect the rotation of a gear mechanism rotating element (for example 6) is provided. Such a drive unit is very flexible with regard to the applicable control- and/or regulating electronic system.
US08232690B2	Magnetic drive engine The present invention replaces the internal combustion engine utilizing a conventional 12 voltage system that is used in automobiles today. The combustion engine can be a 90 degree V-Type or Inline type of cylinder block. This magnetic drive engine of the present invention comprises a head assembly supported by a cylinder engine block. The cylinder block houses the pistons and the head assembly houses a plurality of corresponding plug assemblies. Each plug assembly has an electromagnet on its bottom end which switches polarity based upon the polarity sent by the sensors on the crankshaft. By integrating the mechanics and the electromagnetism needed to push and pull the magnets on the pistons, the plug assembly is a staging area, for the coils and rods (mediums), to initiate the changing of polarity. A computer controls the switching of polarity and voltage needed for top performance.
US08232689B2	Electromagnetic machines An electromagnetic machine (1) comprises an electrical conductor vane (7) disposed between two magnetic arrays (3). The electrical conductor vane (7) comprises a plurality of electrically insulated conductors (35), wherein when the conductors (35) are disposed in magnetic fields produced by the magnetic arrays (3) and when current flows in the conductors (35), an electromagnetic force is induced to cause movement of the magnetic arrays (3) relative to the electrical conductor vane (7) and wherein the set of conductors (35) substantially fills the gap between the magnetic arrays (3) through which the magnetic fields pass.
US08232680B2	Selecting a single AC source for a switching power supply An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for providing alternating current (“AC”) power redundancy in power supplies. A first input module is configured to receive a first AC power input waveform. A second input module is configured to receive a second AC power input waveform. A first switch and second switch are controlled by a switching logic module to select one of the AC power input waveforms for use by a power supply. If the first AC power input waveform is present, then it is selected for use. If both the first and second AC power input waveforms are present, then the first AC power input waveform is selected for use. If only the second AC power input waveform is present then it is selected for use.
US08232677B2	Cascaded multi-supply power supply A multi-supply power supply circuit has a first power supply regulating circuit that produces a first power supply voltage; and a second power supply regulating circuit that receives the first power supply voltage from the first power supply regulating circuit as an enable input signal and is operative to produce a second and different power supply voltage. In one embodiment, the first power supply voltage may reach a steady state condition prior to the second power supply voltage reaching a steady state condition. In one example, the multi-supply power supply circuit includes a plurality of cascaded low drop out power supply regulating circuits.
US08232673B2	Power conditioner and method of managing the same A power conditioner includes a main converter to transform a voltage outputted from a power source into a first transformed voltage and output the first transformed voltage to supply power to a power using point; and an auxiliary converter to transform the first transformed voltage outputted from the main converter into a second transformed voltage and output the second transformed voltage to supply power to balance-of-plant (BOP) elements including driving devices of the power source. The main converter includes a first winding to transform the voltage outputted from the power source into the first transformed voltage and output the first transformed voltage to supply power to the power using point; and a second winding to transform the voltage outputted from the power source into a third transformed voltage and output the third transformed voltage to supply power directly to the BOP elements, thereby bypassing the auxiliary converter.
US08232666B2	External AC-DC coupling for communication interfaces A power line communication device comprises a plurality of transformers in series. These transformers are used to increase the voltage of a digitally encoded signal in a stepwise fashion prior to being coupled into a power line. While a transmit path includes at least a first transformer and a second transformer in series, a receive path may include only one of these two transformers. For example a receive path may include only the first transformer, or include the first transformer and a third transformer. The net ratio of voltage increase and decrease may be different in the transmit and receive paths. Additionally, the communication interface can be disposed within an AC/DC converter or distributed among an AC/DC converter and an appliance attached thereto.
US08232665B2	Vertical wind collector and redirecting tower The wind power generator includes: a wind tunnel formed by a columnar member erected on a foundation in a vertical direction; a plurality of wind-collecting plates that extends from a circumferential wall of the columnar member in directions normal to the circumferential wall; a plurality of upper and lower guide plates provided between the wind-collecting plates; a plurality of wind inlets that introduces wind collected by the wind-collecting plates into the wind tunnel; back-flow preventing means that allow only the flow of wind blowing from the outside of the columnar member into the inside of the columnar member; a turbine that is driven by wind blowing out from one end of the wind tunnel, and power generator that is driven by the turbine.
US08232663B2	Controlling noise generated by wind turbines in a wind farm by de-synchronization of wind turbine rotors In one aspect, a method for controlling the amplitude modulation of the noise generated by wind turbines is disclosed. The method may include determining a rotor position of a first wind turbine, determining a rotor position of a second wind turbine, determining if the first and second wind turbines are operating in-phase and, in the event that the first and second wind turbines are operating in-phase, adjusting an operating condition of at least one of the first wind turbine and the second wind turbine so that the first and second wind turbines operate out-of-phase.
US08232654B2	Semiconductor package through-electrode suitable for a stacked semiconductor package and semiconductor package having the same A semiconductor package including a through-electrode for stacked a semiconductor package and a semiconductor package having the same is disclosed. The semiconductor package through-electrode includes a first electrode having a recessed portion formed therein to pass through a semiconductor chip. A second electrode is disposed within the recess of the first electrode. The first electrode of the semiconductor package through-electrode includes a first metal having a first hardness, and a second electrode comprises a second metal having a second hardness lower than the first hardness. The through-electrode passes through the semiconductor chip body and may be formed with the first metal having the first hardness and/or a first melting point and the second metal having the second hardness and/or a second melting point which are lower than the first hardness and/or the first melting point. This through-electrode allows a plurality of semiconductor packages to be easily stacked.
US08232646B2	Interconnect structure for integrated circuits having enhanced electromigration resistance An interconnect structure for an integrated circuit (IC) device includes a metal line formed within a dielectric layer, the metal line having one or more vertical diffusion barriers therein; wherein the one or more vertical diffusion barriers correspond to a liner material of a via formed above the metal line, with the via extending completely through a thickness of the metal line such that a bottom most portion of the via comprises a portion of the metal line.
US08232645B2	Interconnect structures, design structure and method of manufacture An interconnect structure is provided that substantially eliminates electro-migration (EM) damage, a design structure and a method of manufacturing. The metal interconnect is formed in a dielectric material. A metal cap is selective to the metal interconnect. The metal cap includes RuX, where X is at Boron, Phosphorous or a combination of Boron and Phosphorous.
US08232644B2	Wafer level package having a stress relief spacer and manufacturing method thereof In a semiconductor device package having a stress relief spacer, and a manufacturing method thereof, metal interconnect fingers extend from the body of a chip provide for chip interconnection. The metal fingers are isolated from the body of the chip by a stress-relief spacer. In one example, such isolation takes the form of an air gap. In another example, such isolation takes the form of an elastomer material. In either case, mismatch in coefficient of thermal expansion between the metal interconnect fingers and the body of the chip is avoided, alleviating the problems associated with cracking and delamination, and leading to improved device yield and device reliability.
US08232638B2	Interconnection structure having oxygen trap pattern in semiconductor device An interconnection structure having an oxygen trap pattern in a semiconductor device, and a method of fabricating the same are provided. The interconnection structure includes a lower interlayer insulating layer formed on a semiconductor substrate. A metal layer pattern and a capping layer pattern are sequentially stacked on the lower interlayer insulating layer. An oxygen trap pattern is disposed on the capping layer pattern and includes a conductive oxygen trap pattern.
US08232634B2	Semiconductor device having a pin mounted heat sink A semiconductor chip is mounted on a heat sink disposed inside a through-hole of a wiring board, electrodes of the semiconductor chip and connecting terminals of the wiring board are connected by bonding wires, a sealing resin is formed to cover the semiconductor chip and the bonding wires, and solder balls are formed on the lower surface of the wiring board, thereby constituting the semiconductor device. The heat sink is thicker than the wiring board. The heat sink has a protruded portion protruding to outside from the side surface of the heat sink, the protruded portion is located on the upper surface of the wiring board outside the through-hole, and the lower surface of the protruded portion contacts to the upper surface of the wiring board. When the semiconductor device is manufactured, the heat sink is inserted from the upper surface side of the wiring board.
US08232629B2	Semiconductor device It is made for the layout of the mounting wiring at the time of mounting to become efficient by changing the structure of a semiconductor device.A first chip is mounted on a first die pad, and a second chip is also mounted on a second die pad. A first die pad and a second die pad do division structure in parallel to the first side and second side of sealing body 40. As a result, the pin for an output from a first chip and the pin for control of the circuit for a drive can make it able to project from a counter direction, and can set the wiring layout at the time of mounting as the minimum route.
US08232622B2	Stacked-chip device A stacked-chip device includes a first inductive chip having a first function, a second inductive chip having a second function different from the first function, which is stacked on the first inductive chip, and a third inductive chip having the second function, which is stacked on the second inductive chip. Each of the first, second and third inductive chips has transmitting inductors which transmit data and receiving inductors which receive data. The transmitting inductors and the receiving inductors are disposed in line symmetry to an axis of symmetry. The axes of symmetry of the first, second and third inductive chips are overlapped. Each of the second and third inductive chips is disposed in upside-down or back to front to the first inductive chip.
US08232615B2	Packaged device with acoustic transducer and amplifier A device includes: a lead frame having an aperture in a central portion thereof; at least one acoustic transducer mounted on the lead frame above the aperture and configured to convert between acoustic energy and an electrical signal with low signal losses; a housing connected to the lead frame and including a base portion on a same side of the lead frame as the acoustic transducer; an amplifier is provided on a base portion of the housing in close proximity to the acoustic transducer; and a lid configured together with the base portion of the housing to define a cavity, wherein the acoustic transducer and the amplifier are closely positioned within the MEMS device cavity.
US08232605B2	Method for gate leakage reduction and Vt shift control and complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor device The present invention relates to a method for gate leakage reduction and Vt shift control, in which a first ion implantation is performed on PMOS region and NMOS region of a substrate to implant fluorine ions, carbon ions, or both in the gate dielectric or the semiconductor substrate, and a second ion implantation is performed only on the NMOS region of the substrate to implant fluorine ions, carbon ions, or both in the gate dielectric or the semiconductor substrate in the NMOS region, with the PMOS region being covered by a mask layer. Thus, the doping concentrations obtained by the PMOS region and the NMOS region are different to compensate the side effect caused by the different equivalent oxide thickness and to avoid the Vt shift.
US08232603B2	Gated diode structure and method including relaxed liner A gated diode structure and a method for fabricating the gated diode structure use a relaxed liner that is derived from a stressed liner that is typically used within the context of a field effect transistor formed simultaneously with the gated diode structure. The relaxed liner is formed incident to treatment, such as ion implantation treatment, of the stressed liner. The relaxed liner provides improved gated diode ideality in comparison with the stressed liner, absent any gated diode damage that may occur incident to stripping the stressed liner from the gated diode structure while using a reactive ion etch method.
US08232588B2	Increasing the surface area of a memory cell capacitor Methods and apparatuses to increase a surface area of a memory cell capacitor are described. An opening in a second insulating layer deposited over a first insulating layer on a substrate is formed. The substrate has a fin. A first insulating layer is deposited over the substrate adjacent to the fin. The opening in the second insulating layer is formed over the fin. A first conducting layer is deposited over the second insulating layer and the fin. A third insulating layer is deposited on the first conducting layer. A second conducting layer is deposited on the third insulating layer. The second conducting layer fills the opening. The second conducting layer is to provide an interconnect to an upper metal layer. Portions of the second conducting layer, third insulating layer, and the first conducting layer are removed from a top surface of the second insulating layer.
US08232587B2	Method of forming a metal-insulator-metal capacitor A method of forming a metal-insulator-metal capacitor has the following steps. A stack dielectric structure is formed by alternately depositing a plurality of second dielectric layers and a plurality of third dielectric layers. A wet etch selectivity of the second dielectric layer relative to said third dielectric layer is of at least 5:1. An opening is formed in the stack dielectric structure, and then a wet etch process is employed to remove relatively-large portions of the second dielectric layers and relatively-small portions of the third dielectric layers to form a plurality of lateral recesses in the second dielectric layers along sidewalls of the opening. A bottom electrode layer is formed to extend along the serrate sidewalls, a capacitor dielectric layer is formed on the bottom electrode layer, and a top electrode layer is formed on the capacitor dielectric layer.
US08232584B2	Nanoscale sensors Various aspects of the invention relate to nanoscale wire devices and methods of use for detecting analytes. In one aspect, the invention relates to a nanoscale electrical sensor array device, comprising at least one n-doped semiconductor nanoscale wire and at least one p-doped semiconductor nanoscale wire, each having a reaction entity immobilized thereon. Binding of an analyte to the immobilized reaction entity causes a detectable change in the electrical property of the nanoscale wire. In some embodiments, the reaction entity can be a nucleic acid that may interact with other nucleic acids, proteins, etc. In a specific embodiment, the nucleic acid may interact with an enzyme such as telomerase, which can extend the nucleic acid. In other embodiments, the analyte to be detected can be a toxin, virus or small molecule. Systems and methods of using such nanoscale devices are also disclosed, for example, within a microarray.
US08232583B2	Field effect power generation device The objective is to develop a device that generates power with high efficiency and utilizes the obtained electrical energy effectively without external combustion energy such as fossil fuels or the like. Electrical energy is obtained by carriers passing through a potential barrier due to a field effect, and thus energy is pre-supplied to the carriers to increase the number of carriers contributing to electrical energy generation, whereby a highly efficient field power generation device can be realized.
US08232579B2	Semiconductor device and method for producing a semiconductor device A semiconductor device has a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type and a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type complementary to the first conductivity type arranged in or on the first semiconductor layer. Further, the semiconductor device has a region of the first conductivity type arranged in the second semiconductor layer. A first electrode contacts the region of the first conductivity type and the second semiconductor layer. A first trench extends into the first semiconductor layer, and a voltage dependent short circuit diverter structure includes electrically conductive material arranged in the first trench and coupled to the first electrode and a highly-doped diverter region of the second conductivity type. The diverter region of the voltage dependent short circuit diverter structure has the second conductivity type and is arranged to provide a diverter channel region of the second conductivity type between the diverter region and the second semiconductor layer in the event of a short circuit.
US08232565B2	Light emitting diode for AC operation The present invention discloses a light emitting diode (LED) including a plurality of light emitting cells arranged on a substrate. The LED includes half-wave light emitting units each including at least one light emitting cell, each half-wave light emitting unit including first and second terminals respectively arranged at both ends thereof; and full-wave light emitting units each including at least one light emitting cell, each full-wave light emitting units including third and fourth terminals respectively formed at both ends thereof. The third terminal of each full-wave light emitting unit is electrically connected to the second terminals of two half-wave light emitting units, and the fourth terminal of each full-wave light emitting unit is electrically connected to the first terminals of other two half-wave light emitting units. Also, a first half-wave light emitting unit is connected in series between the third terminal of a first full-wave light emitting unit and the fourth terminal of a second full-wave light emitting units, and a second half-wave light emitting units is connected in series between the fourth terminal of the first full-wave light emitting unit and the third terminal of the second full-wave light emitting unit.
US08232564B2	Wafer level phosphor coating technique for warm light emitting diodes Methods for wafer level fabricating of light emitting diode (LED) chips are disclosed with one embodiment of a method according to the present invention comprising providing a plurality of LEDs and then coating of the LEDs with a layer of first conversion material so that at least some light from the LEDs passes through the first conversion material. The light is converted to different wavelengths of light having a first conversion material emission spectrum. The LEDs are then coated with a layer of second conversion material arranged on the first layer of conversion. The second conversion material has a wavelength excitation spectrum, and at least some light from the LEDs passes through the second conversion material and is converted. The first conversion material emission spectrum does not substantially overlap with the second conversion material excitation spectrum. Methods according to the present invention can also be used in wafer level fabrication of LED chips and LED packages with pedestals for electrically contacting the LEDs through the conversion coatings.
US08232563B2	Light-emitting device A light-emitting device includes an LED chip emitting a primary light, and a phosphor deposited on the LED chip for absorbing the primary light to excite a secondary light, wherein the wavelength of the primary light is shorter than 430 nm and the LED chip is driven by current density greater than 200 mA/cm2. The wavelength-converting light-emitting device has a high light efficiency and a stable color temperature, wherein LED chip is diced from a wafer made by means of a phosphor-on-chip process.
US08232559B2	Controlling diamond film surfaces and layering A method comprising: providing at least one first diamond film comprising polycrystalline diamond, e.g., nanocrystalline or ultrananocrystalline diamond, disposed on a substrate, wherein the first diamond film comprises a surface comprising diamond asperities and having a first diamond film thickness, removing asperities from the first diamond film to form a second diamond film having a second diamond film thickness, wherein the second thickness is either substantially the same as the first thickness, or the second thickness is about 100 nm or less thinner than the first diamond film thickness, optionally patterning the second diamond film to expose substrate regions and, optionally, depositing semiconductor material on the exposed substrate regions, and depositing a solid layer on the second diamond film to form a first layered structure. Applications include for example dielectric isolation in the semiconductor industry, as well as surface acoustic wave devices, scanning probe microscope, and atomic force microscope devices.
US08232557B2	Semiconductor substrate with AlGaN formed thereon and semiconductor device using the same A semiconductor substrate includes: an AlN layer provided on a silicon substrate; an AlGaN layer that is provided on the AlN layer and has an Al composition ratio of 0.3 to 0.6; and a GaN layer provided on the AlGaN layer.
US08232549B2	Iridium complex containing carbazole-substituted pyridine and phenyl derivatives as main ligand and organic light-emitting diodes containing the same The present invention relates to a novel iridium complex into which carbazole-substituted pyridine derivatives and various substituents-substituted phenyl derivatives are introduced as main ligand and a electrophosphorescence diode containing the same as a dopant of a light-emitting layer. When the iridium complex according to the present invention is applied to an organic light-emitting diode, the heat-resistance property and the light-emitting property can be significantly improved as well as the light-emitting efficiency and the like can be significantly improved by doping the iridium complex compound into the light-emitting layer as compared to the conventional organic light-emitting diode.
US08232546B2	Fused polycyclic aromatic compound, process for producing the same, and use thereof In one embodiment of the present invention, a novel fused polycyclic aromatic compound of the present invention is (a) a compound including a benzodichalcogenophenobenzodichalcogenophene (BXBX) skeleton further having an aromatic ring(s) located outside the BXBX skeleton, or (b) a compound including a BXBX skeleton in which a benzene ring is substituted with a heterocyclic ring. The compound can strengthen intermolecular interaction due to greater π electron orbits. This improves an electron field effect mobility of an organic semiconductor device that is manufactured by use of the compound as an organic semiconductor material. Further, since the number of fused rings included in the compound is small, the compound does not cause problems that generally occur in compounds having an extremely large number of fused rings, i.e., poor solubility in solvent and poor atmospheric stability due to high affinity to oxygen. As a result, the fused polycyclic aromatic compound of the present invention can be preferably used as an organic semiconductor material.
US08232537B2	Radiation source, lithographic apparatus and device manufacturing method A radiation source for generation of extreme ultraviolet radiation or use in high resolution lithography includes a plasma formation site where fuel is contacted by a radiation beam to form a plasma generating EUV radiation. A mirrored collector collects and reflects the EUV radiation generated at a first focus towards a second focus. A contamination barrier is positioned such the periphery of the contamination barrier does not occlude more than 50% of the solid angle subtended by the mirror at the second focus, such that EUV radiation reflected by the collector mirror is not excessively attenuated by passing through the contamination barrier. The contamination barrier serves to trap fuel material such as ions, atoms, molecules or nanodroplets from the plasma to prevent their deposition onto the collector mirror where they reduce the mirror's effective lifetime.
US08232534B2	Wavelength conversion chip for use with light emitting diodes and method for making same A wavelength conversion chip is formed by depositing a wavelength conversion material on a substrate to form a layer, removing the resulting wavelength conversion layer from the substrate and then segmenting the wavelength conversion layer into a plurality of wavelength conversion chips. The wavelength conversion material can be annealed by thermal annealing or radiation annealing to increase the wavelength conversion efficiency of the chips or to sinter the wavelength conversion material to form a ceramic material. Optical coatings, vias, light extraction elements, electrical connections or electrical bond pads can be fabricated on the wavelength conversion chips.
US08232533B2	Photolytically and environmentally stable multilayer structure for high efficiency electromagnetic energy conversion and sustained secondary emission A multilayer structure for authentication that includes an energy conversion layer, at least one stability enhancement layer and at least one blocking layer is disclosed. Also disclosed are methods of creating and using the inventive multilayer structure for authentication.
US08232530B2	Solid state neutron detector The invention relates to a neutron detector for detection of neutrons in fields with significant γ- or β-radiation, comprising a neutron sensitive scintillator crystal, providing a neutron capture signal being larger than the capture signal of 3 MeV γ-radiation, a semiconductor based photo detector being optically coupled to the scintillator crystal, where the scintillator crystal and the semiconductor based photo detector are selected so that the total charge collection time for scintillator signals in the semiconductor based photo detector is larger than the total charge collection time for signals generated by direct detection of ionizing radiation in the semiconductor based photo detector, the neutron detector further comprising a device for sampling the detector signals, a digital signal processing device, means which distinguish direct signals from the semiconductor based photo detector, caused by γ- or β-radiation and being at least partially absorbed in the semiconductor based photo detector, from light signals entering the semiconductor based photo detector, after being emitted from the scintillator crystal after capturing at least one neutron, by means of pulse shape discrimination, utilizing a difference between the total charge collection time for scintillator signals from the total charge collection time for signals generated by direct detection of ionizing radiation in the semiconductor based photo detector, and means which distinguish neutron induced signals from γ-radiation induced signals in the scintillator crystal by discriminating the different signals via their pulse height, making use of the difference between the number of photons generated by neutron and γ-radiation in the field of interest.
US08232528B2	Nuclear medical diagnostic device By simultaneously administering a chemical using a nuclear species releasing a single photon (a first chemical) and another chemical using a nuclear species releasing a positron to a subject, the cumulative distributions of the respective chemicals are monitored. A plural number of γ-ray detectors, which are circularly located, and a collimator covering some of the γ-ray detectors and rotates along the front face of the γ-ray detectors are provided. Also, an energy discriminating means for discriminating signals having a single photon γ-ray energy (first signals) from signals having annihilation γ-ray energy (second signals) among all of the signals detected by the detectors is provided. Further, the cumulative position of the first chemical is specified based on the signals corresponding to the γ-ray detectors covered with the rotating collimator from the first signals. On the other hand, the cumulative position of the second chemical is specified by determining the signal almost simultaneously observed form the second signals and the positions thereof on the detectors.
US08232523B2	SEM imaging method A method of investigating a sample using Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), comprising the following steps: Irradiating a surface (S) of the sample using a probing electron beam in a plurality (N) of measurement sessions, each measurement session having an associated beam parameter (P) value that is chosen from a range of such values and that differs between measurement sessions; Detecting stimulated radiation emitted by the sample during each measurement session, associating a measurand (M) therewith and noting the value of this measurand for each measurement session, thus allowing compilation of a data set (D) of data pairs (Pi, Mi), where 1≦i≦N, wherein: A statistical Blind Source Separation (BSS) technique is employed to automatically process the data set (D) and spatially resolve it into a result set (R) of imaging pairs (Qk, Lk), in which an imaging quantity (Q) having value Qk is associated with a discrete depth level Lk referenced to the surface S.
US08232515B2	Imaging device having a radiation detecting structure disposed at a semiconductor substrate with a thermalizing material and a first radiation-reactive material sensitive to neutron radiation An imaging device suitable for detecting certain imaging particles and recording the detection of imaging particles, and as such can include certain recording devices such as a charge storage structure.
US08232510B2	Grilling device for properly and uniformly cooking foodstuffs A cooking device comprises a base and a heating element supported by the base. A cooking plate is heated by the heating element and includes at least a first cavity for receiving an item being cooked. At least a first temperature probe is disposed in the first cavity for piercing the item being cooked.
US08232501B2	Plasma arc power supply and control method therefor A plasma arc power supply with a simple structure and its control method enable shifting from a pilot arc to a main arc. A plasma arc power supply used in a plasma arc apparatus that processes a workpiece by forming a pilot arc between a main electrode and a nozzle electrode and subsequently forming a main arc between the main electrode and the workpiece includes N direct current power supply units (N≧2) having negative terminals connected to the main electrode and positive terminals to the workpiece, and a switch between the fourth power supply unit and the workpiece. The fourth power supply unit is connected to cause the nozzle electrode to have an opposite polarity to the main electrode. When the switch is open, the fourth power supply unit supplies a small current between the main electrode and the nozzle electrode while forming a pilot arc between them.
US08232500B2	Plasma torch assembly This application relates to a plasma torch assembly comprising a plurality of tubes; a collar integral with at least one tube comprising a first abutment surface; a base for holding the tubes during operation of the torch comprising a portion for receiving the collar and a second abutment; and co-operating interlocking portions for removably urging the first and second abutment surfaces together by relative rotation of the interlocking portions wherein the first and second abutment surfaces comprise a complimentary taper for aligning the collar in concentric formation with at least one other tube on the base by co-operation of the interlocking portions.
US08232499B2	Contactor assembly for switching high power to a circuit A contactor assembly is adapted for switching power to a circuit having a power source. The contactor assembly includes a housing, carry contacts, and arc contacts. The housing defines an interior compartment and includes internal chamber walls that laterally extend within the compartment to define a protection chamber. The carry contacts are disposed in the protection chamber of the housing. The carry contacts include conductive bodies that protrude from the housing and are configured to close the circuit. The arc contacts are disposed in the housing outside of the protection chamber. The arc contacts include conductive bodies that protrude from the housing and are configured to close the circuit. The internal chamber walls of the housing prevent material that is expelled from one or more of the arc contacts when an electric arc emanates from one or more of the arc contacts from contaminating one or more of the carry contacts.
US08232498B2	Short-circuit device for medium and high-voltage switching devices A short-circuit device is provided for medium and high-voltage switching devices, in which at least one moving contact is moved onto a fixed contact by means of a propelling charge. Two contact arrangements are provided in series to provide a higher dielectric strength. Each of the contact arrangements includes a fixed contact and a moving contact. A first fixed contact of a first one of the contact arrangements contains a mechanical ignition device for providing a propelling charge to a moving contact of the second one of the contact arrangements, such that when the moving contact reaches the fixed contact of the first contact arrangement, the propelling charge is mechanically ignited to cause the moving contact of the second contact arrangement to be propelled toward the fixed contact of the second contact arrangement.
US08232493B2	Operating device An operating device is provided having a supporting member, a button, an elastic member, and a bearing member. The supporting member has an opening which passes through the thickness direction of the supporting member. The button has a shaft and an engaging portion. The shaft is arranged such that the axial direction of the shaft is parallel to the thickness direction of the supporting member. The engaging portion projects parallel to the axial direction of the shaft. The elastic member is set onto the supporting member so as to cover the opening, and has a projecting portion which engages the end of the shaft. The bearing member is provided between the supporting member and the elastic member, which is provided around the opening and is located nearer to the shaft than the engaging portion in the direction orthogonal to the projecting direction of the shaft. The shaft may press the elastic member so that the elastic member is deformed so as to move along the thickness direction of the supporting member in the opening.
US08232485B2	Key assembly for an electronic device having a multi-character keycap A key assembly for use in an electronic device is provided. The key assembly includes a plurality of dome switches and a plurality of single-piece keycaps. Each keycap identifies a row of keyboard characters. Each keycap has a plurality of character-representing portions separated by deforming portions. Each character-representing portion is associated with a separate one of the plurality of dome switches. The key assembly further comprises a plurality of actuators for activating the dome switches. Each actuator has a first side which is engaged by one of the character representing portions of the keycap. Each actuator has a second side which engages the dome switch associated with that character-representing portion. In a rest state in which the keycap is not depressed, at least some of the actuators preload at least some of the dome switches by exerting a force upon the dome switches.
US08232484B2	Weighing sensor with a serial arrangement of force transfer levers to obtain a compact load cell The above described preferred embodiments are intended to illustrate the principles of the invention, but not to limit the scope of the invention. Various other embodiments and modifications to these preferred embodiments may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the scope of the present invention.
US08232468B2	Electronic musical apparatus for reproducing received music content A browser portion BR obtains a reproduction manner specifying file from a content distribution server 30, and delivers the same to a reproduction control portion CT. The reproduction control portion CT obtains from the content distribution server 30 a music content file designated by a reproduction content list in the reproduction manner specifying file. The reproduction control portion CT reproduces, in cooperation with a tone generating circuit 43, a music piece corresponding to the music content in a reproduction manner specified by the reproduction manner specifying file. The reproduction control portion CT displays the music content on a display device 42 in a display manner specified by a reproduction manner specifying file. When a user operates an input operation element group 41 for changing the display manner of the display device 42, the reproduction control portion CT changes the display manner of the display device 42. Stream-distributed music content is prohibited from being stored in recording medium (a non-volatile memory) 65a and from being outputted to the outside through output interface 67.
US08232467B1	Fret runner A colorized musical notation system could be embodied as a computer that can combine assigned colors representing musical notes with a scale degree pattern and visually display a selected portion of the result for the purpose of directing someone in a musical performance. The visual manifestation could be enhanced by including mnemonics along with interconnected fingerboard patterns that provide self-contained directions for playing common scales such as the major pentatonic, the minor pentatonic, and the blues scales, along with all seven modes. Chords could be constructed by playing selected scale degree tones simultaneously rather than consecutively as with scales. The computer could also present a means of suggesting tone combinations to create particular aural and psychological effects. An exhaustive selection of scales and chords may be constructed if one knows the proper formulas. The colorized notation system could be used to construct written musical notation.
US08232460B2	Soybean cultivar 94124374 A soybean cultivar designated 94124374 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 94124374, to the plants of soybean 94124374, to plant parts of soybean cultivar 94124374, and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar 94124374 with itself or with another soybean variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to soybean cultivars, or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean variety 94124374, to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 94124374, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing the cultivar 94124374 with another soybean cultivar.
US08232459B2	Soybean variety XB21D10 A novel soybean variety, designated XB21D10 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety XB21D10, cells from soybean variety XB21D10, plants of soybean XB21D10, and plant parts of soybean variety XB21D10. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety XB21D10 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic, mutant trait, and/or native trait into soybean variety XB21D10, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety XB21D10. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety XB21D10 are further provided.
US08232453B2	Promoter from sweet potato ran GTPase gene for the high level expression in plant-tissue culture and vector using the same Disclosed herein are a promoter (SEQ ID NO.: 1) inducing high level expression of a target gene in plant tissue cultured cells, derived from the sweetpotato gene of Ran GTPase, small GTP binding protein, a plant transformation vector for carrying the same and a method for expressing a foreign gene in plant cell using the vector. The activity of promoter according to the present invention is higher than that of universal CaMV 35S promoter in transgenic suspension cultured cell lines, calluses and adventitious roots. Thus, the promoter is useful in the generation of transgenic cell lines including cultured roots to produce valuable materials such as medicinal or industrial proteins in a large quantities with plant tissue cultured cells.
US08232439B2	Use of isoalkane mixtures for dedusting construction chemistry products The present invention relates to the use of isoalkane mixtures for reducing or minimizing the dust emission during the handling of pulverulent construction chemistry products, a process for the preparation of the pulverulent construction chemistry products, and hydraulically setting materials comprising the isoalkane mixtures according to the invention.
US08232438B2	Method and system for jointly producing and processing hydrocarbons from natural gas hydrate and conventional hydrocarbon reservoirs A method, system, and method for developing the system, for producing hydrocarbons from a plurality of hydrocarbon containing reservoirs is described. The system includes at least one conventional hydrocarbon reservoir and at least one natural gas hydrate reservoir. The system also includes a production facility, including water separation apparatus, which is in fluid communication with the at least one hydrocarbon reservoir and the at least one natural gas hydrate reservoir. The production facility can separate hydrocarbons and water concurrently received from the first conventional hydrocarbon and the second natural gas hydrate reservoirs. The at least one hydrocarbon reservoir and the at least one hydrate reservoir can be concurrently developed. Or else, the at least one hydrate reservoir can be developed later in time and then fluidly connected to the production facility.
US08232426B2	Aminoethylaromatic compounds suitable for treating disorders that respond to modulation of the dopamine D3 receptor The present invention relates to aromatic compounds of the formula I wherein Ar is phenyl or an aromatic 5- or 6-membered C-bound heteroaromatic radical, wherein Ar may carry 1 radical Ra and wherein Ar may also carry 1 or 2 radicals Rb; X is N or CH; E is CR6R7 or NR3; R1 is C1-C4-alkyl, C3-C4-cycloalkyl, C3-C4-cycloalkylmethyl, C3-C4-alkenyl, fluorinated C1-C4-alkyl, fluorinated C3-C4-cycloalkyl, fluorinated C3-C4-cycloalkylmethyl, fluorinated C3-C4-alkenyl, formyl or C1-C3-alkylcarbonyl; R1a is H, C1-C4-alkyl, C3-C4-cycloalkyl, C3-C4-cycloalkylmethyl, C3-C4-alkenyl, fluorinated C1-C4-alkyl, fluorinated C3-C4-cycloalkyl, fluorinated C3-C4-cycloalkylmethyl, fluorinated C3-C4-alkenyl, or R1a and R2 together are (CH2)n with n being 2, 3 or 4, or R1a and R2a together are (CH2)n with n being 2, 3 or 4; R2 and R2a are are independently of each other H, C1-C4-alkyl or fluorinated C1-C4-alkyl or R2a and R2 together are (CH2)m with m being 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5; R3 is H or C1-C4-alkyl; R6, R7 independently of each other are selected from H, fluorine, C1-C4-alkyl and fluorinated C1-C4-alkyl or together form a moiety (CH2)p with p being 2, 3, 4 or 5; and the physiologically tolerated acid addition salts thereof. The invention also relates to the use of a compound of the formula I or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof for preparing a pharmaceutical composition for the treatment of a medical disorder susceptible to treatment with a dopamine D3 receptor ligand.
US08232425B2	Process for heterogeneously catalyzed partial gas phase oxidation of propylene to acrylic acid A process for heterogeneously catalyzed partial gas phase oxidation of propylene to acrylic acid, in which the starting reaction gas mixture comprises cyclopropane as an impurity and the acrylic acid, after conversion from the product gas mixture into the condensed phase, is removed with the aid of a crystallative removal.
US08232420B2	Asymmetric catalyst and process for preparing optically active alcohols using the same The present invention provides an organic metal compound, a ligand, an asymmetric catalyst, and a process for preparing optically-active alcohols using the asymmetric catalyst. The organic metal compound of the present invention is expressed by the following general formula (1): wherein in general formula (1), R1 and R2 are a mutually identical or mutually different, unsubstituted or substituted alkyl group, aryl group, cycloalkyl group, or R1 and R2 are bound to form an alicyclic ring, R3 is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, R4 is a branched alkyl group or an alkyl group that does or does not form a ring by itself, or an unsubstituted or substituted aryl group, or an unsubstituted or substituted heterocyclic group, Ar is an unsubstituted or substituted cyclopentadienyl group that is bound to M via a π bond, or an unsubstituted or substituted benzene, X is a hydride group or an anionic group, M is ruthenium, rhodium or iridium, L is a solvent molecule or a water molecule, l is 1 or 2, m is an integer from 0 to 2, n is 0 or 1, and when n is 0, X does not exist, and * represents asymmetric carbon, wherein R4 is not a camphor group, a camphor derivative group, an isopropyl group or a phenyl group whenever R1 and R2 are both a phenyl group.
US08232418B1	Method for the preparation of lecithin This technology relates to a method of producing light color lecithin from a lecithin-containing oil, such as crude vegetable oil. The method comprises heating the oil to a suitable temperature, contacting the oil with a peroxide solution, separating the lecithin precipitate from the oil and drying the lecithin. In a specific embodiment, the lecithin produced by the process is corn lecithin.
US08232416B2	Method of manufacturing perfluorinated polyfunctional vinyl ether compound A method of manufacturing a compound represented by formula (2) is provided, the method including thermally decomposing a compound represented by formula (1) under a reduced pressure: wherein Rf1 and Rf2 each independently represents a fluorine atom or a perfluorinated monovalent substituent, Rf3 and Rf4 each independently represents a fluorine atom, a perfluorinated monovalent substituent or a perfluorinated divalent substituent, Rf3 and Rf4 may combine with each other to form a ring, each of Rf3 and Rf4 may combine with Rf5 to form a ring, and Rf5 represents a perfluorinated (n+1)-valent to (2n+2)-valent linkage group, provided that n represents an integer of 1 to 5.
US08232404B2	Pyridone GPR119 G protein-coupled receptor agonists Novel compounds are provided which are GPR119 G protein-coupled receptor modulators. GPR119 G protein-coupled receptor modulators are useful in treating, preventing, or slowing the progression of diseases requiring GPR119 G protein-coupled receptor modulator therapy. These novel compounds have the structure Formula I or Formula IA.
US08232401B2	4-oxoquinoline compound and use thereof as HIV integrase inhibitor An anti-HIV agent containing, as an active ingredient, a 4-oxoquinoline compound represented by the following formula [I] wherein each symbol is as defined in the specification, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The compound of the present invention has HIV integrase inhibitory action and is useful as an anti-HIV agent for the prophylaxis or therapy of AIDS. Moreover, by a combined use with other anti-HIV agents such as protease inhibitors, reverse transcriptase inhibitors and the like, the compound can become a more effective anti-HIV agent. Since the compound has high inhibitory activity specific for integrases, it can provide a safe pharmaceutical agent with a fewer side effects for human.
US08232396B2	Processes for the synthesis of opiates alkaloids with reduced impurity formation The invention provides processes for the production of opiate alkaloids. In particular, the present invention provides processes for the formation of opiate alkaloids that minimizes the formation of impurities.
US08232389B2	Method for crystallization of azetidinonecarboxylic acid The present invention relates to a method for crystallization of (2R)-2-{(3S,4S)-3-[(1R)-1-(tert-butyldimethylsilyloxy)ethyl]-2-oxoazetidin-4-yl}propionic acid, and is characterized in that crystallization is carried out by mixing a solution containing the compound with a substituted aromatic hydrocarbon solvent and/or a halogenated hydrocarbon solvent. The method can provide a crystal of the compound with a high purity and a high yield while the content of 2S isomer is kept at a low level.
US08232387B2	Process for the preparation of cladribine A process for the preparation of cladribine of API grade is provided by direct coupling of O-protected 2-deoxy-ribofuranose with silylated 2-chloroadenine followed by deprotection of the resultant protected nucleoside in a separate step and then a purification step. Following the coupling, the desired N-9-glycosylated β-anomer of the nucleoside is directly isolated as a solid from the coupling reaction mixture by filtration in relatively high purity and yield, and it does not require purification.
US08232381B2	Isolated nucleic acid molecules from transgenic papaya line 18-2-4 resistant to papaya ringspot virus and use thereof Provided is an isolated nucleic acid molecule having a right border flanking region, a left border flanking region and a transgene sequence between the right border flanking region and the left border flanking region, wherein the right border flanking region having at least 90% homology with the sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 30; the left border flanking region having at least 90% homology with the sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 32; and the transgene sequence having a papaya ringspot virus coat protein gene and a promoter operably linked to the papaya ringspot virus coat protein gene. Primers, probes and kit derived from the isolated nucleic acid molecule are proved to be useful for identifying the transgenic papaya line 18-2-4 in a specific, reproducible, sensitive and reliable way.
US08232376B2	Azo compound and method of preparing the azo compound An azo compound having the following formula (I): A(E)n (I) wherein A represents a residue of an azo compound, bonded with n pieces of E group through one or more heteroatom being N or O and forming a part of the residue A; E independently represents a hydrogen atom or —C(═O)—O—R1 wherein R1 represents a substituted or an unsubstituted alkyl group having 4 to 10 carbon atoms, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, a cycloalkyl group, a cycloalkenyl group or an aralkyl group; and n represents an integer of from 1 to 10.
US08232369B2	Device and method for precipitation of peptides The present invention relates to a method for precipitation of peptide where the mixing step of the peptide with the precipitation aid and the precipitation itself are specially separated.
US08232359B2	Process for preparing ethylene homopolymers or copolymers of ethylene with α-olefin by using the transition metal compound Provided are transition metal catalytic systems for preparing ethylene homopolymers or copolymers of ethylene with α-olefins. More specifically, provided are Group 4 transition metal catalysts, which is characterized in that the catalyst comprises around the Group 4 transition metal a cyclopentadiene derivative, and at least one aryloxide ligand(s) having a fluorenyl group or a derivative thereof (which is ready to be substituted at 9-position) that functions as an electron donor and serves to stabilize the catalytic system by surrounding an oxygen atom that links the ligand to the transition metal at ortho-position, and there is no cross-linkage between the ligands; catalytic systems comprising such transition metal catalyst and aluminoxane cocatalyst or boron compound cocatalyst; and processes for preparing ethylene homopolymers or copolymers of ethylene with α-olefins by using the same.
US08232357B2	Catalytic composition for producing 1-alkene and acrylates copolymer and method for producing 1-alkene and acrylates copolymer The present invention relates to a catalytic composition for producing a 1-alkene-acrylate copolymer that includes a metal nano catalyst, and a method for producing a 1-alkene-acrylate copolymer. In the catalytic composition for producing a 1-alkene-acrylate copolymer, since the content of the polar comonomer is high, it may be used to produce the 1-alkene-acrylate copolymer that has no crystallinity and is capable of being used as an optical material. The method for producing the 1-alkene-acrylate copolymer may be produced by using a simple process of a mild polymerization condition without a polymerization condition of high temperature and high pressure, and it is easy to control physical properties.
US08232349B2	Transparent thermoplastic resin and method for preparing the same Disclosed herein is a transparent thermoplastic resin comprising a rubber phase including an aromatic rubbery block copolymer resin, and a resin phase including a terpolymer comprising an aromatic vinyl compound, a vinyl cyanide compound and an unsaturated alkyl ester compound, wherein the rubber phase and the resin phase have a co-continuous phase structure.
US08232348B2	Masterbatch and polymer composition The present invention relates to a method of preparing a biodegradable polymer composition, said method comprising melt mixing a first biodegradable polyester and a masterbatch, wherein said masterbatch has been formed separately by melt mixing in the presence of a transesterification catalyst a polysaccharide, a second biodegradable polyester and a biodegradable polymer having pendant carboxylic acid groups.
US08232345B2	Method of making salt-sensitive binders and nonwoven webs A solution with a salt-sensitive polymer binder for use in fibrous webs, where the binder contains a copolymer of carboxylic acid monomer units and ethylenically unsaturated monomer units. The binder solution is prepared by emulsion-polymerizing a copolymer and then neutralizing the copolymer with base to make it water soluble. The binders provide a higher wet strength in concentrated salt solutions than in deionized water, and are particularly suitable for strengthening nonwoven fibrous webs in disposable articles such as wet-wipes, personal care products, diapers, and the like.
US08232336B2	Aqueous dispersion, its production method, and its use Aqueous dispersions including at least one thermoplastic resin; at least one dispersing agent; and water; wherein the dispersion has a pH of less than 12 are disclosed along with dispersions including at least one thermoplastic resin; at least one dispersing agent; and water wherein the dispersion has a volume average particle size of less than about 5 μm. Some dispersions include less than about 4 percent by weight of the dispersing agent based on the weight of the thermoplastic resin. Other dispersions include at least one propylene-rich alpha-olefin interpolymer; at least one dispersing agent; and water. Methods of making such dispersions are also described.
US08232331B2	Nonaqueous ink, ink set, image-forming method, image-forming apparatus and recorded article A nonaqueous ink, having: colorant particles, the colorant particles having an average particle diameter of 1 nm or more and less than 50 nm, and the value (D90−D10) of being 100 nm or less, a dispersant; and a cationically-polymerizable compound; wherein D90−D10 is a value obtained by subtracting D10 from D90; D90 and D10 represent respectively the particle diameters at cumulative colorant particle numbers of 0.9 (90 number %) and 0.1 (10 number %) in an integral value of the distribution function dG=F(D)dD; and G represents the number of the pigment particles; and D represents the diameter of the particles.
US08232323B2	Process for the manufacture of a colloid of iron oxide The invention concerns a two-stage process for the manufacture of a colloid of iron oxide, and results in the dispersion of the desired iron oxide particles within a carrier fluid by a mixture of mono- and polycarboxylic acids providing excellent properties to the colloid. The process also has the advantage of preserving the physical form of the iron oxide particles, allowing any desired properties of the iron oxide core (such as crystal form or magnetism) to be maintained within the colloid.
US08232317B2	Method for increasing hair growth The present invention provides a method for stimulating hair growth, which comprises applying a composition containing a combination of a creatine compound and carnitine. The composition may further comprise 5′-AMP and NADH. Such a composition is effective in stimulating cell proliferation in the hair bulb of hair plugs.

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