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US08312216B2	Data processing apparatus and data processing method The data processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a first processor; a second processor; and an external RAM to/from which the first processor writes/reads data, the first processor including a cache memory for storing data used in the first processor in association with an address on the external RAM, and the data being written to the cache memory by the second processor not through the external RAM.
US08312212B2	Systems and methods for attaching a virtual machine virtual hard disk to a host machine Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to systems and methods for “attaching” a virtual hard drive to the physical computer hardware by implementing a specialized disk controller driver for the host operating system that is recognized by the host operating system as a disk controller driver but which in fact also emulates the virtual hard disk it is “attached” to. When the host operating system sends requests to read and write sectors from the virtual hard drive, the specialized driver (the “virtual hard drive controller driver”) directly accesses and manipulates the back-end file mentioned above. Thus the virtual disk is “attached” and recognizable by the host operating system and can be manipulated thereby (and applications executing thereon).
US08312209B2	Digital device configuration and method A digital Storage Element is described. A device is configured including a Storage Element for access by a user responsive to a native control code. A processing arrangement executes a control program for controlling the overall device and executing at least a portion of the native control code as part of the control program for interfacing with the Storage Element. A programming arrangement is provided separate from the device for customizing a read channel within the Storage Element. Command, user interaction and data transfer execution are discussed for mitigation of potential mechanical shock effects. Status indications relating to the Storage Element are provided including head position and mechanical shock. Calibration, test and operational monitoring procedures, for using head position status, are described. Failure configuration monitoring is provided in tracking overall performance and design considerations.
US08312206B2	Memory module and memory module system A memory module and a memory module system are provided. The memory module system includes a plurality of memory modules each module comprising a plurality of memory blocks and a plurality of corresponding routers each storing a channel identification (ID) and a module ID corresponding to one or more memory blocks; and a controller configured to access the memory modules. During initialization, the controller reads and stores the channel ID and the module ID from each of the routers. The controller outputs a channel ID and a module ID that correspond to one or more memory blocks to be accessed.
US08312204B2	System and method for wear leveling in a data storage device The present disclosure provides a system and method for wear leveling. In one example, the method includes receiving first data to be stored to a first data storage medium and storing the first data to a first storage location in a nonvolatile data store of a second data storage medium comprising a solid-state memory. The method also includes setting a pointer to enable writing second data that is received to a next storage location in the nonvolatile data store. The next storage location comprises an address of the nonvolatile data store that is sequentially after an address of the first storage location. When the address of the first storage location is a last addressed location of the nonvolatile data store the pointer is set to enable writing the second data to a first addressed location of the nonvolatile data store. The method also includes writing the first data stored in the nonvolatile data store to the first data storage medium when a trigger occurs and preserving the pointer during the writing from the nonvolatile data store to the first data storage device such that the pointer enables writing the second data to the next storage location.
US08312199B2	High current multi-port USB hub A high-current Multi-Port USB hub has a microcontroller that selectively switches the hub between low current synchronizing state and high current charging state. During charging state in excess of two Amps of current can be provided to each device connected to the hub. Each USB port circuit includes a power FET to selectively provide current to the USB port according to the state of the hub. Current sensors on each of the USB ports detects an amount of current being drawn by a device connected to the USB port. Each USB port is provided with indicators to indicate the charged state of the device connected to that port. The charge state of the device is also provided to the microcontroller which provides a summary status indication of the set of devices connected to the USB hub.
US08312197B2	Method of routing an interrupt signal directly to a virtual processing unit in a system with one or more physical processing units The present disclosure relates to a method of processing an interrupt comprising a peripheral unit sending an interrupt, the interrupt being intended for a virtual unit executed by a processing unit, transmitting the interrupt to an interrupt control unit coupled to a processing unit, and the interrupt control unit storing the interrupt in an interrupt register. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the interrupt is transmitted to the interrupt control unit in association with an identifier of the virtual unit receiving the interrupt, the interrupt register in which the interrupt belonging to a set of registers is stored comprising one interrupt register per virtual unit likely to be executed by the processing unit, the interrupt being transmitted to the processing unit if the virtual unit receiving the interrupt is being executed by the processing unit.
US08312194B2	Method and apparatus for validation of continuous access to a data structure Method and apparatus for enabling continuous validation of a data structure by acquiring a first read lock for the data structure and processing the data structure under the first read lock. When the first read lock is relinquished and subsequently reacquired, the method provides for determining if a write lock was granted prior to reacquiring the first read lock. The data structure is further processed when a write lock was not granted and is revalidated when a write lock was granted.
US08312187B2	Input/output device including a mechanism for transaction layer packet processing in multiple processor systems An I/O device includes a host interface coupled to a plurality of hardware resources. The host interface includes a transaction layer packet (TLP) processing unit that may receive and process a plurality of transaction layer packets sent by a plurality of processing units. Each processing unit may correspond to a respective root complex. The TLP processing unit may identify a transaction type and a processing unit corresponding to each transaction layer packet and store each transaction layer packet within a storage according to the transaction type and the processing unit. The TLP processing unit may select one or more transaction layer packets from the storage for process scheduling based upon a set of fairness criteria using an arbitration scheme. The TLP processing unit may further select and dispatch transaction layer packets for processing by downstream application hardware based upon additional criteria.
US08312182B2	Data processing system having a channel adapter shared by multiple operating systems Data processing arrangements including a channel adaptor shared by a plurality of operating systems (OS's) for data transmission/reception, coupled to the PCI bus on a PCI bus side of the channel adapter, and including only one connecting port on an input/output (I/O) side of the channel adaptor. An input/output process is executed between each OS and the channel adaptor by using input/output process control data specifying I/O data each having an identifier. Configuration information is provided, defining the identifier of the input/output process control data which is usable by each respective OS. The channel adaptor can process a plurality of input/output process control data; and each OS uses the input/output process control data corresponding to a usable identifier and defined in the configuration information, and thereby, a plurality of OS's control input/output process control data have different identifiers relative to the channel adaptor to execute the input/output process.
US08312175B2	Virtual machine access to storage via a multi-queue IO storage adapter with optimized cache affinity and PCPU load balancing A method is provided for use in a system that includes a host machine that includes multiple physical CPUs (PCPUs) and at least two cache nodes that are shared by different sets of the PCPUs, comprising: creating in a memory device multiple sets of lanes each lane set associated with a respective PCPU set; tracking levels of processing activity of the PCPUs of each PCPU set; using an MSIX vector value to associate lanes with PCPUs; receiving a IO request from any given PCPU from among the multiple PCPUs; and assigning the IO request to a respective lane based at least in part upon the PCPU set associated with the lane and PCPU processing activity levels.
US08312172B2	Method and system for delta compression A method and system for providing delta compression, the method includes receiving request data from a user agent, communicating with a content server, wherein the communication includes transmitting the request data to the content server and receiving response data associated with the request data, generating key data associated with the response data, wherein the generated key data represents block data of the response data, storing the generated key data and the block data, and transmitting the block data to the user agent.
US08312170B2	Method and apparatus for managing a collection of portlets in a portal server The invention provides apparatus and methodology for displaying to a user a web portal for a web application, the web portal displaying a plurality of associated portlets, sharing information with each other, accessible by the user; including: a portal server for operating a web portal to provide access to the web application; a portlet application for operating on the portal server, for managing a collection of associated portlets; the portlet application includes: means to initiate portlets on requests of a user to access the web application; means to manage a portlet application session object for the portlets; and, a portlet application session object data store controlled by the portlet application session object for saving parameters from user requests for associating the portlets with the with the portlet application session object.
US08312164B2	Media quality enhancement among connected media communication devices In one aspect, a method includes collecting, at a sending device, information including first information regarding an amount of encoded media data produced by a media encoder, and second information regarding an amount of encoded media data passed to, but not yet transmitted by, a transport layer network protocol stack; calculating, from the first information, an intermediate quantity of produced encoded media data, and from the first information and the second information, a rate of encoded media data transmission by the transport layer network protocol stack; and if the intermediate quantity compares favorably to a current media rate set for media data provided to the media encoder, increasing the current media rate by a rate adjustment amount, if the rate of encoded media data transmission compares unfavorably to the current media rate, decreasing the current media rate, else, maintaining the current media rate.
US08312159B2	Methodology for fast file transfer protocol A methodology is provided for transferring a file from a first entity to a second entity over a network. The methodology may include receiving a first one of a plurality of blocks at the second entity, receiving a second one of said plurality of blocks at the second entity, receiving a last one of the plurality of blocks at the second entity, and assembling the first one of the plurality of blocks and the second one of the plurality of blocks into a single file at the second entity after receiving the last one of the plurality of blocks.
US08312158B2	System and method for providing multimedia digital rights transfer A method for transferring digital multimedia rights, the method including but not limited to receiving at a digital multimedia rights server, from a source end user device associated with a source end user, a request for a transfer of a source set of digital multimedia rights associated with the source end user; determining a destination end user associated with a destination end user device to which the digital multimedia rights will be transferred; requesting permission from the destination end user to transfer the digital multimedia rights to the destination end user device; and if the permission is received from the destination end user, canceling the source set of digital multimedia rights associated with the source end user and transferring the source set of digital multimedia rights associated with the source end user to the destination end user device. A system and computer program product are disclosed for performing the method.
US08312157B2	Implicit authentication Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and system for implicitly authenticating a user to access controlled resources. The system receives a request to access the controlled resources. The system then determines a user behavior score based on a user behavior model, and recent contextual data about the user. The user behavior score facilitates identifying a level of consistency between one or more recent user events and a past user behavior pattern. The recent contextual data, which comprise a plurality of data streams, are collected from one or more user devices without prompting the user to perform an action explicitly associated with authentication. The plurality of data streams provide basis for determining the user behavior score, but a data stream alone provides insufficient basis for the determination of the user behavior score. The system also provides the user behavior score to an access controller of the controlled resource.
US08312156B2	Communication method control system A communication method controlling system includes a control apparatus and a writing apparatus. The writing apparatus includes a function that employs plural communication methods. When a user selects content by manipulating an operation terminal, a control apparatus detects the content ID, and transmits corresponding content data and communication method information to the writing apparatus. Based on the received content data, the writing apparatus writes the contents data and displays a content image on electronic paper, and changes a communication method according to the received communication method information and uses an LED lamp, for example, to notify the user which communication method has been selected. When the user performs an operation according to the available communication method, information is transmitted from the writing apparatus to a port using the communication method.
US08312145B2	Traffic engineering and bandwidth management of bundled links Traffic engineering and bandwidth management of bundled links may, at times, require the selection of one of a plurality of component links in a bundled link to use in admitting a connection requiring admission. While performing the selection it may be determined that more than one of the component links has the resources required to admit the connection. An admission policy may then be selected from among a plurality of admission policies. Based on the selected admission policy, a particular component link may then be selected. Such bandwidth management, based on admission policies, may be seen to be well suited to balancing and component link recovery in traffic engineered, connection-oriented MPLS networks.
US08312136B2	Computer system management based on request count change parameter indicating change in number of requests processed by computer system A resource usage analysis tool (23) calculates a number-of-requests variation parameter indicating the variation of the number of processed requests and a resource variation parameter indicating the usage rate and/or variation of the usage amount of the resource of the computer system from a request classification log (31) in which the number of requests processed by the computer system in each measurement period is described and system logs (32 to 34) in which the usage of the resource of the computer system in each of the measurement periods is described. An asynchronous processing detecting module (51) detects at least one occurrence of a post-processing which is a processing to be performed after the return of a response in order for the computer system to process the requests and an unexpected processing which is a processing to be performed independently of the processing of the requests but not to be performed routinely from the number-of-requests variation parameter and the resource variation parameter.
US08312131B2	Method and apparatus for linking multimedia content rendered via multiple devices A method for delivering requested media content is provided. A requested media object requested by a user device is received, the requested media object including media of at least a first type. A first new media object is created, the first new media object having at least some of the media of the requested media object of the first type. A second new media object is created, the second new media object having at least some of the media of the requested media object of a second type, if any. At least one user interface mechanism is inserted into the second new media object, the at least one user interface mechanism corresponding to media of the requested media object of the first type included in the first new media object. The second new media object is delivered to the user device, and the first new media object is delivered to a secondary device separate from the user device. A first new media object indicator is caused to be generated in response to activation of the at least one user interface mechanism via the user device, the first new media object indicator indicating to a user media of the first new media object rendered on the secondary device.
US08312129B1	Using virtual networking devices to connect managed computer networks Techniques are described for providing managed virtual computer networks whose configured logical network topology may have one or more virtual networking devices, such as by a network-accessible configurable network service, with corresponding networking functionality provided for communications between multiple computing nodes of a virtual computer network by emulating functionality that would be provided by the networking devices if they were physically present. The networking functionality provided for a managed computer network may include supporting a connection between that managed computer network and other managed computer networks, such as via a provided virtual peering router to which each of the managed computer networks may connect, with the functionality of the virtual peering router being emulated by modules of the configurable network service without physically providing the virtual peering router, including to manage data communications between computing nodes of the inter-connected managed computer networks in accordance with client-specified configuration information.
US08312123B2	Address sharing network Network time techniques. An IP address can be assigned that is only valid for a specified time, so that the same IP address can be used for multiple different units, but each IP address is valid only for certain time periods. Another technique describes using the network to continually provide a time indication.
US08312121B2	Storage system comprising function for alleviating performance bottleneck A storage system has a first type resource and a second type resource, which are different types of resources having a relationship in which, when the load on one type of resource becomes higher, the load on the other type of resource becomes lower, and this storage system comprises a process controller. The process controller executes processing such that the load of the other type of resource becomes higher when the load on the one type of resource, of the first type resource and the second type resource, is high and the load on the other type of resource is not so high.
US08312120B2	Systems and methods for providing dynamic spillover of virtual servers based on bandwidth The present solution provides a spillover management technique for virtual servers of an appliance based on bandwidth. A network administrator may configure a bandwidth threshold for one or more virtual servers, such as virtual servers providing acceleration or load balancing for one or more services. The bandwidth threshold may be specified as a number of bytes transferred via the virtual server. The bandwidth threshold may also be specified as a round trip time or derivative thereof. A user may specify the bandwidth threshold via a configuration interface. Otherwise, the appliance may establish the bandwidth threshold. The appliance monitors the bandwidth used by a first virtual server. In response to detecting the bandwidth reaching or exceeding the bandwidth threshold, the appliance dynamically directs client requests to a second virtual server.
US08312114B2	Method and system for accessing network compatible devices utilizing internet-based beacon technology A system and method for accessing a network compatible device utilizing an Internet based beacon technology. A compatible host application can be installed on a client device and registered with a network by providing a user credential and a qualifying descriptor. The network compatible device can be configured to have access with the network in order to extract the information associated with the user accessing the compatible device. A list of users with the matching qualifying descriptor can then be displayed at a user interface associated with the compatible device. Upon authentication, the compatible device and the compatible host application installed on the client device can be connected and the network address associated with the compatible device and the client device can be accessed.
US08312101B2	Transaction accelerator for client-server communications systems Transactions are accelerated by the transaction handlers by storing segments of data used in the transactions in persistent segment storage accessible to the server side transaction handler and in persistent segment storage accessible to the client side transaction handler. When data is to be sent between the transaction handlers, the sending transaction handler compares the segments of the data to be sent with segments stored in its persistent segment storage and replaces segments of data with references to entries in its persistent segment storage that match or closely match the segments of data to be replaced. The receiving transaction store reconstructs the data sent by replacing segment references with corresponding segment data from its persistent segment storage.
US08312080B2	System and method for searching for specific types of people or information on a peer to-peer network The present invention provides a system and a method for searching for specific types of people or specific types of information on a Peer-to-Peer network, and in particular, using specific types of search terms as a means of profiling to find specific types of information or specific types of people on a Peer-to-Peer network. When a specific types of person or specific type of information is needed, a specific type of search term is issued on the Peer-to-Peer network. If that specific type of person or specific types of information is available a response will be received.
US08312079B2	Adaptive rendering for mobile media sharing A page to be delivered to a user device is stored as page components. Based on characteristics of the user device, a page profile, an ad-banner profile and a thumbnail profile are selected. The page components are rendered based on the selected profiles. Further customization may be provided from information stored in a registration profile of a sending user and/or a registration profile of a receiving user.
US08312077B2	Client apparatus for updating data A client apparatus receives first data from a server and later receives second data from the same server in response to a refresh invocation. The client apparatus parses the received data to generate logical structures representing the data and then compares the logical structures using a tree walking algorithm. Where a difference is found between the first data and second data, the first data is updated using the second data and rendered at the client apparatus.
US08312073B2	CAPTCHA-free throttling One embodiment provides a system that throttles access to a web resource. During operation, a throttle server receives a request to access the web resource. The request is associated with a computing device used by a user and is redirected from a server providing the web resource. The throttle server then determines whether the computing device has previously accessed a restricted resource different from the web resource corresponding to the request based on the presence or absence of a unique mark associated with the computing device. Based on the determination, the throttle server subsequently generates a response indicating whether the computing device meets a predetermined requirement for accessing the web resource, and sends the response to the server providing the web resource, thereby facilitating access throttling to the web resource.
US08312072B2	Universal Galois field multiplier An apparatus including a multiplier circuit and a multiplexing circuit. The multiplier circuit may be configured to multiply a first multiplicand and a second multiplicand based on a programmable base value and generate a plurality of intermediate values, each intermediate value representing a result of the multiplication reduced by a respective irreducible polynomial. The multiplexing circuit may be configured to generate an output in response to the plurality of intermediate values received from the multiplier circuit and the programmable base value.
US08312070B2	Speed-level calculator and calculating method for dynamic voltage scaling Disclosed is directed to a speed-level calculator and calculating method for dynamic voltage scaling. The speed-level calculator comprises a deadline counter, a shifter, and a fixed-point multiplier. The deadline counter calculates the residual time D from current time to each task deadline for completing an episode. The shifter generates a D′ value by shifting the D value to the right for e-m bits, and takes the decimal fraction part of the D′ value for m bits. The speed-level calculator further comprises a saturation control circuit to detect if an overflow occurs on the D′ value. According to a pre-calculated parameter αi corresponding to each task Ti, the fixed-point multiplier performs the multiplication of D′ and αi. After completing saturation and rounding on the multiplication result, a corresponding clock period is generated by taking the integer part. This clock period is used as speed-level to switch the processor voltage and frequency.
US08312069B2	Permute unit and method to operate a permute unit A permute unit includes permute logic and a crossbar working in cycles defined by clocking signals and generates one valid output vector per cycle by treating two parallel input vectors per cycle. The permute unit is double pumped by performing two inner cycles per outer cycle defined by the clocking signals. In the first inner cycle, first halves of both input vectors are treated. In the second inner cycle, second halves of both input vectors are treated and a valid output vector is generated from the results of the treatments within the first and the second inner cycles.
US08312064B1	Method and apparatus for securing documents using a position dependent file system Access to information or a document is secured by a central global positioning authority that evaluates access requests in accordance with predefined policies. One component of an access request includes location information regarding at least one of the requesting entity and location of the requested resource. Access is either allowed or denied as a function of at least the requesting entity, position information and the applicable policy or policies. An encryption/decryption scheme is implemented where the encryption key is a function of the resource's position.
US08312063B2	Method for storing data for retrieval and transfer Provided is a method, system and program for storing data for later retrieval and for transfer within a storage hierarchy. A data storage subsystem stores both individual user files and also managed files, each managed file comprising an aggregation of multiple user files. After receiving user files from a client station, the subsystem stores user files in a retrieval storage pool to facilitate file retrieval. Criteria are subsequently applied to the user files stored in the retrieval storage pool to delete low or lower priority files from the retrieval storage pool. In addition, user files are aggregated in managed files for transfer to another location within the storage hierarchy.
US08312060B2	Methods and apparatus for accessing process control data Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture for accessing process control data involve loading a client object and communicating a data access request from the client object to a real object configured to communicate with a server. The real object then communicates a query to the server based on the data access request and obtains process control data from the server in response to the query. The process control data is then mapped from a first data layout associated with a server schema to a second data layout associated with a client schema. The mapped process control data is then communicated to an application.
US08312035B2	Search engine enhancement using mined implicit links An implicit links enhancement system and method for search engines that generates implicit links obtained from mining user access logs to facilitate enhanced local searching of web sites and intranets. Embodiments of the implicit links search enhancement system and method includes extracting implicit links by mining users' access patterns and then using a modified link analysis algorithm to re-rank search results obtained from traditional search engines. More specifically, embodiments of the method include extracting implicit links from a user access log, generating an implicit links graph from the extracted implicit links, and computing page rankings using the implicit links graph. The implicit links are extracted from the log using a two-item sequential pattern mining technique. Search results obtained from a search engine are re-ranked based on an implicit links analysis performed using an updated implicit links graph, a modified re-ranking formula, and at least one re-ranking technique.
US08312033B1	Systems and methods for providing an integrated identifier Embodiments described herein provide systems and methods to streamline the mechanism by which data users access differently regulated data through the use of one or more integrated identifiers. The integrated identifiers lessen or eliminate the need to separately maintain one set of identifiers for regulated data and another set for non-regulated data. The methods and systems may be applicable in various credit and healthcare contexts where regulations over data use are prevalent. In one or more embodiments, a data user receives a unique integrated identifier for each of the data user's current or prospective customers, and the integrated identifiers can be used to persistently identify and track the customers over time and across applications that access regulated and/or non-regulated data. In the healthcare context, a healthcare provider may utilize a patient ID as the integrated identifier. To protect privacy, the integrated identifier may not include social security numbers or birthdates.
US08312030B2	Efficient evaluation of XQuery and XPath full text extension Techniques are provided for efficiently evaluating XML queries that conform to an extension of an XML language (e.g., XQuery or XPath). The extension allows XML queries to have full-text search capabilities. Such an XML query is compiled to generate a tree of nodes that correspond to one or more conditions in the full-text portion of the query. In one technique, the amount of memory for the execution state of the tree is determined at compile time and allocated only once throughout execution of the query. In another technique, to ensure at most a single scan of a document, all the words or phrases in the full-text portion of an XML query are located before any of the other conditions in the full-text portion are evaluated. In another technique, the elements of the full-text portion of an XML query are analyzed to determine, based at least in part on cost, which evaluation strategy, of a plurality of evaluation strategies, should be employed.
US08312028B2	Method and system for managing media assets There is provided a method for managing the lifecycles of one or more media assets. The method comprises importing the one or more media assets into a system for managing the lifecycles of the one or more media assets, determining one or more metadata tags for association with the one or more media assets by evaluating the one or more media assets with one or more tagging filters, associating the one or more metadata tags with the one or more media assets after determining one or more metadata tags for association with the one or more media assets, and grouping the one or more media assets according to the one or more metadata tags associated with the one or more media assets by evaluating the one or more metadata tags with one or more grouping filters to generate one or more media asset groups.
US08312014B2	Lateral search A search query is received. Personal information for a user is then determined. A search is performed in a general subdomain of general content using the search query. For example, the general subdomain of general content may be a WWW search. Then, a vertical subdomain is determined based on the personal information. A search is then performed in the vertical subdomain of specialized content using the search query. The search performed in the general subdomain and the search performed in the vertical subdomain generate general search results and vertical search results. The results may be combined and outputted to a client.
US08312011B2	System and method for automatic detection of needy queries The present invention relates to methods, systems, and computer readable media comprising instructions for identifying needy queries for which additional responsive content is needed. The method of the present invention comprises receiving a query comprising one or more terms and retrieving one or more content items identified as responsive to the query, the one or more content items ranked according to one or more ranking techniques. A score is generated for the one or more ranked content items identified as responsive to the query. A determination is thereafter made as to whether the query is needy based upon a comparison of the one or more scores associated with the one or more content items identified as responsive to the query and a needy query score threshold.
US08312009B1	Obtaining user preferences for query results One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that obtains user preferences for query results. First, in response to a query, the system presents a ranked list of query results to a user. The system then receives a request from the user to change the position of a query result in the ranked list of query results. Based on the change in position of the query result, the system infers at least one preference of the user between the query result and other query results in the ranked list.
US08312008B2	Docbase management system and implementing method thereof The present invention discloses a method for implementing a docbase management system, in which, an invocation from an application is parsed, the invocation is to build an intermediate form including objects and/or operations of a universal model; the intermediate form is converted into execution plans; a preferable execution plan is selected from the execution plans, the selected execution plan includes operations on physical storage according to an algorithm based on priorities of the experience rules; the selected execution plan is scheduled and executed.
US08312001B2	Determining content to be provided by an entity for rendering via a resource in a target document or notifying an alternative entity of the availability of the resource A method and system for allowing a resource associated with a target document usable for ad rendering by a first entity to be used for rendering of content by a second entity. Depending on one or more conditions, the first entity either uses the resource to render at least one ad or allows a second entity to use at least a portion of the resource to render content.
US08311995B1	Installation-free generic service-oriented architecture (SOA) asset importer, and/or associated systems and/or methods Certain example embodiments relate to importing assets into a service-oriented architecture (SOA) registry. An SOA system includes a repository for storing a plurality of files relating to real assets, and a registry containing metadata and/or other information about these real assets, including at least one registry asset per real asset. Each registry asset has a registry asset type. A generic import module is configured to (a) receive as input one or more import specifications, with each import specification defining how information from an external specification file of an asset type is to be extracted to create one or more registry assets of one or more corresponding target registry asset types, (b) generate one or more registry assets of one or more target registry asset types based on a corresponding import specification, and (c) register the generated one or more registry assets of the one or more target registry asset types.
US08311993B2	Controlling and recovering long-lived transactions Some embodiments of the inventive subject matter are directed to performing sub-transactions of a long-lived transaction (LLT) in a sequence (e.g., according to an LLT flow) and writing a log entry at the performance of each of the sub-transactions that specifies results of the sub-transaction. Some embodiments do not require generating any compensating transactions during performance of the sub-transactions. Some embodiments are further directed to detecting that an interruption occurs to the LLT and repeating, or initiating re-performance of the LLT from the beginning of the sequence following the flow of the LLT from its beginning. During the re-performance of the LLT, some embodiments are further directed to checking the log entry at each sub-transaction to determine whether the sub-transaction was performed successfully before the interruption. If the log indicates that the long-lived transaction completed successfully, some embodiments are further directed to skipping performance of the sub-transaction until reaching a sub-transaction that does not have a valid log entry, then returning an error and recovering the LLT using instructions for compensating transactions that are already written into the LLT flow.
US08311991B2	Creation of highly available pseudo-clone standby servers for rapid failover provisioning Near clones for a set of targeted computing systems are provided by determining a highest common denominator set of components among the computing systems, producing a pseudo-clone configuration definition, and realizing one or more pseudo-clone computing systems as partially configured backups for the targeted computing systems. Upon a planned failover, actual failure, or quarantine action on a targeted computing system, a difference configuration is determined to complete the provisioning of the pseudo-clone system to serve as a replacement system for the failed or quarantined system. Failure predictions can be used to implement the pseudo-clone just prior to an expected first failure of any of the targeted systems. The system can also interface to an on-demand provisioning management system to effect automated workflows to realize pseudo-clones and replacement systems automatically, as needed.
US08311990B2	Fragmented data file forensic recovery system and method A system and method of reassembly a file from fragmented data written onto digital storage media are disclosed. The data reassembling system and method is particularly useful for image data reconstruction, and in forensic data recovery. More particularly, the inventive concept allows for reassembling out-of-sequence data fragments.
US08311987B2	Data staging system and method A data staging system comprises an inbound staging area, data conversion logic, and a graphical user interface. The inbound staging area is configured to receive data records from a data sending computer system, including being configured to receive different versions of the same record. The inbound staging area stores the different versions of the same record pending further processing. The data conversion logic is configured to perform the further processing. The further processing reduces the number of different versions of the same record. The graphical user interface logic is configured to generate a display showing the records in the inbound staging area.
US08311983B2	Correlated media for distributed sources A method and a system of associating correlating metadata with data assets, such as video and audio files, so that the files are rendered as a combination presentation are described herein. The system includes a client a media capture device that provides on board storage, network connectivity, preprocessing, preview buffering, file management, and an eventing system. The method includes capturing the media, associating the media with other media via an identifier, and supports associating correlating metadata prior to time of media capture and during media capture on the capture device itself, and after media capture either on a local machine or on an on-line group. When the combination presentation is presented, additional associated advertising and annotations may be provided upon rendering.
US08311982B2	Storing update data using a processing pipeline A system has a processing pipeline with a plurality of processing stages, where each of the processing stages has one or plural processors, and where the processing stages are individually and independently scalable. A first of the processing stages of the processing pipeline provides a received date update into an update data structure, where the update data structure is accessible to process a query received by the system. One or more additional of the processing stages transforms the update data structure to allow for merging of the transformed update data structure into a database, where the transformed update data structure is accessible to process the query. Content of the transformed update data structure is stored into the database.
US08311980B2	Namespace consistency for a wide-area file system The invention is a system for and a method of maintaining namespace consistency in a wide-area file system. In one embodiment, a wide-area file system has a plurality of replicas for a file. Each replica of a file and parent directories for the file are at a node. An update to a replica of the file is propagated to other replicas of the file. In response to receiving a propagated update to a replica at a node, the replica for the file at the node is updated. A directory operation (e.g., rename, link or unlink) may affect a backpointer for a replica. When a backpointer for a replica at a node is not consistent with the parent directories for the replica at the node, the the parent directories are modified to be consistent with the backpointer. A modification may be performed at a node while an earlier inconsistent modification may be ignored. As a result, consistency is maintained among the replicas.
US08311978B2	Computer enabled methods to inhibit file and volume name copying and to circumvent same Provided here is a copy protection method and apparatus to confuse currently available personal computer software (and other content) copying packages by use of unexpected (“illegal”) special characters in the volume (or directory) name for the software or other content or data subject to being copied. This method can be used alone or with a broad range of other known copy protection technologies such as RipGuard (available from Macrovision Corp.). Also provided here is a method and apparatus to defeat the confusion method, thereby allowing copying of such copy protected software.
US08311974B2	Modularized extraction, transformation, and loading for a database Techniques exporting data and metadata from a source database environment to a target database environment are provided. The techniques include the steps of analyzing metadata that describes one or more items, the data for which is in a source database, where the one or more items include at least one of a view, a sequence, a dimension, a cube, an ETL mapping, and any database object for which the metadata is stored outside of the source and target databases. The data for each item resides in a data file associated with the source database. The data for each item is incorporated into the target database based on the metadata by providing the target database access to an incorporated data file, where the incorporated data file is the data file or a copy thereof. Techniques are also provided for exporting database data from the source database. The techniques include extracting metadata that describes one or more items, the data for which is in the source database, where the one or more items include at least one of the structures described above. The data for each item resides in a data file associated with the source database. After the exporting, a database server that manages the target database is provided access to an incorporated data file, where the incorporated data file is the data file or a copy thereof.
US08311973B1	Methods and systems for applications for Z-numbers Generally, decisions are based on information. To be useful, information must be reliable. Basically, the concept of a Z-number relates to the issue of reliability of information. A Z-number, Z, has two components, Z=(A,B). The first component, A, is a restriction (constraint) on the values which a real-valued uncertain variable, X, is allowed to take. The second component, B, is a measure of reliability (certainty) of the first component. Typically, A and B are described in a natural language, for example: (about 45 minutes, very sure). Z-number has many applications, especially in the realms of economics, decision analysis, risk assessment, prediction, anticipation, rule-based characterization of imprecise functions and relations, and biomedicine. Different methods, applications, and systems are discussed. Other Fuzzy concepts are also discussed.
US08311968B2	Apparatus and methods for isolating and reviewing data from multiple sources Methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture are disclosed for isolating and reviewing data. The data is provided via a data source, and subsequently a rule may be provided, as well as a metaphor, to a user for perception of said metaphor via a user interface.
US08311966B2	Tracking methods and systems that employ bayesian networks The present invention includes relational Bayesian network-based tracking methods. Various, distinct embodiments of the present invention include tracking methods for: real-time relational tracking of e-commerce segmentation and personalization, in-residence tracking of elderly and disabled people, real-time relational tracking for ground target tracking, and real-time relational tracking of satellites and satellite constellations.
US08311962B2	Method and apparatus that divides, clusters, classifies, and analyzes images of lesions using histograms and correlation coefficients There is provided a similar image providing device including: a lesion region extracting unit that extracts a lesion region from a subject diagnostic image; a local image feature extracting unit that extracts local image features; a quantizing unit that quantizes the local image features; a lesion classifying unit that classifies a lesion; a storing unit storing correlation coefficients between local image features and topic variables expressing degrees of progression or degrees of seriousness of lesions; an expected value estimating unit that acquires expected values of probabilities of occurrence of topic variables; an image storing unit that stores diagnostic images and the expected values; and a providing unit that provides diagnostic images corresponding to expected values of topic probabilities of occurrence that best approximate the expected values of the topic probabilities of occurrence.
US08311951B2	Computer-implemented personal information manager method and system A computer system for managing personal information. The computer system includes a dedicated computer configured to receive and store personal information transmitted by a user computer to monitor the use of the dedicated computer by a monitored individual to obtain an activity or inactivity status, and to automatically and electronically transmit an inactivity notification to the monitored individual based on the occurrence of an inactivity status to obtain a response to the inactivity notification. The computer system also includes a mortality tracking computer configured to receive mortality information based on a mortality database having one or more records and to search the mortality database records for a unique identifier of the monitored individual to obtain a mortality search result based on a lack of response to the inactivity notification.
US08311947B2	Online service syndication Embodiments described herein are directed to syndicating an online service to at least one syndication partner of a syndicator. In one embodiment, a computer system determines that a syndication relationship has been established between a syndicator and a syndication partner, where the syndication relationship is established to provide syndicated services to syndication partners and clients. The computer system indicates which services provided by the syndicator are available for syndication to the syndication partner and which type of usage information the partner is to provide in order to use the syndicator's services. The computer system receives usage information from the syndication partner specifying which services are to be syndicated and specifying parameters for those services indicating operating parameters specific to the use of the syndicated services. Based on the received usage information, the computer system provides the service to the syndication partner in the manner indicated by the received usage information.
US08311940B2	Conditional balance management for non-issuer debit instruments A computer receives information about a debit account controlled by a third-party issuer, a user owing the account and instructions for managing the account after a specified trigger date. Operating according the instructions, an unknown remaining balance in the account may be exhausted after the trigger date has passed, using a sequence of charges responsive to the initial balance, to the last charge amount completed or attempted, and to whether or not the last charge amount is accepted. In the alternative, or in addition, the account may be managed to convert the remaining balance to a non-monetary coupon (e.g., “virtual currency”) for use in an online computer game or the like, after the trigger date.
US08311935B2	Daylight overdraft tracking Techniques and systems are disclosed for calculating daylight negative balance fees charged to a user associated with a plurality of deposit account. The daylight negative balance fees may be customized (or adjusted) to the amount of time the user's aggregate accounts maintained a negative balance. As such, those users that spend more time with a negative balance during a business day may be charged higher fees than other users. Moreover, multiple deposit platforms may provide account data through feeds. As such a user with multiple accounts may be charged according to its aggregate negative balance amount rather than simply on each account individually. Additionally, enhanced reporting and billing features are disclosed.
US08311934B2	System and method for activity based margining A system and method for factoring in a trader's trading activity into the margin requirements is disclosed. In the securities arena, day traders are assessed different margins than non-day-traders, however, the specific profile of the trader is analyzed (that is, the same rule applies to all day traders).
US08311931B2	System and method for managing trading orders with decaying reserves A system comprises a memory operable to store a trading order for a particular quantity of a trading product, wherein a first portion of the particular quantity is a displayed quantity and a second portion of the particular quantity is a reserved quantity. The system further comprises a processor communicatively coupled to the memory and operable to disclose the displayed quantity to one or more market centers. The processor is further operable to identify a decay rate associated with the trading order. The processor is further operable to cause the reserved quantity to decay based at least in part on the identified decay rate.
US08311928B2	Fuel offering and purchase management system The present disclosure is directed towards apparatuses, systems and methods to facilitate the pricing, sales and delivery of a commodity fuel to a Customer. In one embodiment, the disclosure teaches a Fuel Offer Generator that facilitates the purchase and management of fuel offerings. The Fuel Offer Generator allows Customers interested in securing fuel to obtain an offer for fuel at lock-in prices for various tenors. Fuel Customers can buy these fuel offers such that they may later exercise the fuel offers so their fuel costs are locked-in at desired levels (e.g., they may be set to strike prices). The Fuel Offer Generator also can establish a Premium Price that will be part of the fuel offer. The Fuel Offer Generator may generate hedges to counteract fuel related risks stemming from fuel offer purchases. Ultimately, a customer that purchases a fuel offering can exercise their fuel offering order at a specified price and redeem any difference between the market price for their purchased fuel and the price specified in their fuel offering order. While the Fuel Offer Generator may place various constraints on redemption, it will determine which metrics are relevant to pricing the fuel offering and then employ those determined metrics to establish the pricing of fuel offerings.
US08311925B2	Online purchasing system supporting sellers with affordability screening A method of comparing financing options to facilitate the purchase and finance of products offered for sale. The method may include receiving personal or credit information relating to the potential buyer, to identify a plurality of financing options that may be used to finance the purchase of the product. These financing options may then be delivered for display to the buyer.
US08311923B2	System and method for analyzing analyst recommendations on a single stock basis A system and method for measuring and creating a score for the performance of one or more contributor recommendations on a single stock. According to one embodiment, the score may be derived via a payoff function that depends on a variety of factors. For example, the factors may include one or more of: i) the performance of the stock; ii) the performance of a selected benchmark; iii) the recommendation of the contributor for the stock; and/or iv) other factors. According to one embodiment the payoff function may be designed such that certain desired characteristics are satisfied.
US08311921B2	System and method for dynamic order management Disclosed herein are systems and methods for dynamic order management. A user can specify at an order originator system an underlyer price, a pricing model, and, in accordance with the pricing model, a desired derivative price and/or desired implied volatility in the form of one or more threshold conditions at which the user desires a trade to be executed. An order executor system receives the dynamic order and a data feed having a data feed underlyer price, and, if in accordance with the pricing model, the threshold condition(s) are satisfied at the data feed underlyer price, the dynamic order is identified as being executable.
US08311919B2	System and method for displaying risk data in an electronic trading environment An example graphical interface and method for displaying risk related data are described. One example graphical interface includes a data structure comprising a plurality of data nodes and at least one risk data point associated with each node, and further comprises a display grid. The display grid includes one or more cells that are used for displaying selected data nodes and risk data points. Each cell may be associated with a single data node, and may include one or more identifiers corresponding to risk data points of the data node. In one example embodiment, the identifiers are aligned along a single axis, and risk related data corresponding to each identifier is aligned with respect to each corresponding identifier.
US08311916B1	Systems and methods for administering return sweep accounts A method, system, and program product, the method comprising: accessing one or more electronic databases, comprising: (i) aggregated transaction account information; and (ii) client account information; allocating client funds of respective client accounts among more than one of aggregated deposit accounts, so that at least a portion of these client funds are maintained in the aggregated deposit account in a first depository institution and at least a portion of the client funds are maintained in an aggregated deposit account held in a second depository institution in a different financial institution; determining client funds to be withdrawn from the aggregated deposit account held at one of the depository institutions more than six (6) times during a month while preserving an insured and interest-bearing status of the aggregated deposit account; generating one or more instructions to transfer funds to or from one or more of the respective aggregated deposit accounts in the respective depository institutions in the program through an aggregated demand deposit and making a withdrawal and/or transfer from the one aggregated deposit account more than six (6) times during the month period; and updating the one or more electronic databases.
US08311911B2	Global foreign exchange system A computerized trading system permits global currency trading. The system preferably includes multiple affiliates at the local level, each in a different country, that act as introducing agents. Between these local affiliates there is a global exchange or hub, with the local affiliates and the global hub being arranged in a hub-and-spoke arrangement. Introducing affiliates are responsible for handling customer accounts and information, and accepting orders. The global exchange is responsible for routing orders to one or multiple foreign exchange liquidity banks to handle foreign exchange transactions to convert one currency into another.
US08311908B2	Conversion engine and financial reporting system using the conversion engine A computerized management system is provided. The system includes a routine for accessing journal entries stored in a memory and an automated journal entry generating routine for generating journal entries for a first set-of-books and for a second set-of-books based on the accessed journal entries. The journal entries for the first set-of-books are in accordance with a first reporting standard and the journal entries for the second set-of-books are in accordance with a second, different reporting standard.
US08311904B2	Architectural design for intra-company stock transfer application software Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for implementing a software architecture design for a software application implementing intra-company stock transfer of physical inventory. The application is structured as multiple process components interacting with each other through service operations, each implemented for a respective process component. The process components include a Supply and Demand Matching process, a Customer Requirement Processing process component, a Logistics Execution Control process component, a Site Logistics Processing process component, an Outbound Delivery Processing process component, an Inbound Delivery Processing process component, an Inventory Processing process component, a Production and Site Logistics Auxiliaries process component and a Freight Documents Processing process component.
US08311899B1	Handling communication services within web interfaces used by reselling agents In one embodiment, program instructions can cause a Web server to serve a set of Web interfaces over a network. The set of Web interfaces permit a reseller of communication services to establish profiles for a set of reselling agents. The set of Web interfaces can be used by the reselling agents who select, contract for, and manage communication services sold by the reselling agents to consumers using the set of Web interfaces. The communication services available through the Web interfaces are provided by a plurality of different service providers with whom the reseller of communication servers contracts. Details specific to the reselling agents, and the consumers who contract with the reselling agents are hidden from the different service providers.
US08311897B2	System and method of processing service product orders The disclosure is generally directed to a system and method of processing a service product order. The method includes receiving a service product package defining a service product offering from a service delivery platform. The method also includes receiving an order for the service product offering from a subscriber having a subscriber account. The method further includes associating a subscriber identity with the order and providing the subscriber identity and the order to the service delivery platform. The method also includes providing provisioning data to the service delivery platform and delivering, via the service delivery platform, a video item corresponding to the service product package. The method includes communicating a billing activation event from an order management system to a billing system, the billing system to create or modify a bill corresponding to the subscriber account and providing an order completion notification to the subscriber.
US08311894B2	Method and apparatus for interactive and synchronous display session A system for interactively displaying and distributing information. The information may relate to consumer products, any type of article of commerce, marketing and advertising layouts, floor plans, planograms or any other type of information that is capable of being illustrated graphically. A consumer engages in an Interactive Information Session with an attendant, such a help desk attendant. During the Interactive Information Session, the attendant and consumer see synchronized displays of images or animations of the information, which may be manipulated by either one of them. The attendant and the user can communicate interactively by voice or text during at least part of the Interactive Information Session. In another embodiment, two or more users of a system according to the invention can collaboratively design a product, marketing or advertising layouts, planograms, floor plans or other graphical information in an Interactive Design Session. During the session one of the users controls the design at any time. Different users may have control at different times. The users can engage in interactive voice or text communications during at least part of the Interactive Design Session.
US08311883B2	Method and system for sorting online advertisements A method and system for sorting online advertisements to enable users of online advertising networks, auctions, merchants, etc. to identify known or trusted parties are provided. Users designate other users as friends. When a user searches for or browses through advertisements, those advertisements posted by the user's friends are easily identified. Advertisements posted by members of the user's network (i.e., friends of the user's friends) are also easily identified.
US08311880B1	Supplier performance and accountability system A method and apparatus for measuring, managing and improving the quality and performance of supplied products and services across a large and potentially very diverse organization or enterprise. The invention provides a more accurate and comprehensive view of a supplier's overall quality and performance record than conventional systems and methods because it features real-time, interactive access to both quantitative and qualitative performance data throughout the entire life of the supplied product or service. The invention provides this real-time interactive access to the quality and performance data at multiple levels of detail according to user preference. In addition, the invention utilizes supplemental supplier performance indicators, such as customer satisfaction survey results and contract and diversity compliance statistics, to bring key supplier quality and performance issues into sharper focus, and provides corrective action plans to improve supplier quality, performance and accountability throughout and across an entire organization or enterprise.
US08311879B2	System and method for customer value creation A system and related methods used by an organization to collect, manage, analyze and act on data (i.e., manage “customer value creation” or “CVC”) from customers. The system may be used by organizations without depending on consultants to manage customer value creation. The system comprises an integrated dataset and schema, termed “Customer Value Creation Data,” which comprises three data types: Differential Value Proposition; Demand Influence; and Opportunities. Differential Value Proposition is the ability of the organization's products and services to positively impact their customer's bottom line relative to the organization's competitors. The ability to create a DVP can be correlated to the investments and strategies made by the organization on an ongoing basis. The connection between an organization's investments and strategies, and their customer's bottom line, comprises three parts: the investments and strategies that an organization makes (Value Attributes); the relative importance or impact each investment or strategy has on a customer's bottom line (Value Attribute Scores); and the combined, quantified economic or financial impact that all the Value Attributes have on a customer's bottom line or profitability (Differential Value Proposition Percentage, or “DVP %”). The system may be embodied in a computer program that implements modules in the appropriate order, collects and stores relevant data, and perform necessary calculations. The program may be run through an Internet web browser.
US08311870B1	Computer-implemented method and computer program to assist in managing supplier capacity A computer-implemented method to assist in managing supplier capacity to supply a supplied unit to at least a first user of the supplied unit by at least one supplier, for a series of periods, based on data as of a reference date, the series of periods being in the future relative to the reference date, comprising calculating a supplier capacity contingency ratio for each period, the supplier capacity contingency ratio for each period being a ratio between, a difference between the supplier future load for that period and the supplier reference-date available capacity for that period, and the supplier available capacity for that period. A computer-readable information storage device containing computer-executable instructions to carry out this method.
US08311865B2	Generating a resource allocation action plan Systems and techniques are provided for resource allocation planning. A future supply of resources and a future demand for resources may be identified for one or more future time periods and/or for one or more resource categories. The identified supply and the identified demand may then be combined to calculate gross gaps and surpluses in supply and demand for each of the future time periods and/or each of the resource categories. One or more resource allocation adjustments for addressing the gross gaps and surpluses in supply and demand may be received, and net gaps and surpluses for each future time period and or each resource category from the gross gaps and surpluses and the one or more received resource allocation adjustments.
US08311861B1	Development and maintenance synergy tracker A method of estimating synergy in a development process is provided. Project hours spent during a baseline time period by an adopted application in support of a phased-out application are estimated. Project hours spent during a subsequent time period by the adopted application in support of the phased-out application are estimated. Estimated project hours spent in the subsequent time period are subtracted from estimated project hours spent in the baseline time period to determine an indirect synergy result. Hours spent in the subsequent time period by the phased-out application are subtracted from hours spent in the baseline time period by the phased-out application to determine a direct synergy result. The direct synergy result is added to the indirect synergy result to create a combined synergy result to display to a development process user.
US08311859B2	Method and system for determining an optimal low fare for a trip A method for determining an optimal fare for a trip comprising a departure location, an arrival location, the method comprises the following steps: sending a request for the trip wherein the request comprises a departure location, an arrival location and a corresponding fare for the trip; automatically modifying the request by searching in a predetermined database to determine a set of additional requests wherein each comprises at least one of the departure location, the arrival location or one or more additional locations which may form at least a part of the requested route wherein the predetermined database comprises said additional requests and a corresponding fare for each additional request; selecting one or more additional requests to form one or more alternative requests which include at least on of the departure location or the arrival location as the request; calculating the up to date fares for each alternative request in order to determine a resulting fare for each alternative request; comparing the fare and the resulting fares in order to determine the lowest resulting fare for the trip.
US08311856B1	Communication of insurance claim data Aspects of the invention include methods and systems for a vehicle insurance claim management application which improves communication and streamline tasks between a vehicle repair shop and an insurance company system in three general task groups: assignment (comprising work requests, estimates/photos, and reinspections), financial management, and performance measurement. Aspects of the invention also provide interoperability with different types of estimating systems that do not necessarily follow an industry standard. This interoperability is provided through an adapter module with a claim processing system to communicate with the insurance company system and the vehicle insurance claim management application. The invention is preferably accessed by a user over a computer network such as the Internet, from a remote location such as a vehicle repair shop.
US08311830B2	System and method for client voice building Provided is a system and method for building and managing a customized voice of an end-user, comprising the steps of designing a set of prompts for collection from the user, wherein the prompts are selected from both an analysis tool and by the user's own choosing to capture voice characteristics unique to the user. The prompts are delivered to the user over a network to allow the user to save a user recording on a server of a service provider. This recording is then retrieved and stored on the server and then set up on the server to build a voice database using text-to-speech synthesis tools. A graphical interface allows the user to continuously refine the data file to improve the voice and customize parameter and configuration settings, thereby forming a customized voice database which can be deployed or accessed.
US08311823B2	System and method for searching based on audio search criteria A method of conducting a search includes tagging a user selected segment of audio content that includes search criteria to define an audio clip. The audio clip is captured from the audio content and transferred to a search support function to conduct a search based on the search criteria from the audio clip.
US08311821B2	Parameterized temporal feature analysis A method (1) for classifying at least one audio signal (A) into at least one audio class (AC), the method (1) comprising the steps of analyzing (10) said audio signal to extract at least one predetermined audio feature, performing (12) a frequency analysis on a set of values of said audio feature at different time instances, deriving (12) at least one further audio feature representing a temporal behavior of said audio feature based on said frequency analysis, and classifying (14) said audio signal based on said further audio feature. With the further audio feature, information is obtained about the temporal fluctuation of an audio feature, which may be advantageous for a classification of audio.
US08311820B2	Speech recognition based on noise level Presented is a method and system for speech recognition. The method includes determining a noise level in an environment, comparing the determined noise level with a predetermined noise level threshold value, using a first set of grammar for speech recognition, if the determined noise level is below the predetermined noise level threshold value, and using a second set of grammar for speech recognition, if the determined noise level is above the predetermined noise level threshold value.
US08311814B2	Efficient voice activity detector to detect fixed power signals The present invention is directed to a voice activity detector that uses the periodicity of amplitude peaks and valleys to identify signals of substantially fixed power or having periodicity.
US08311811B2	Method and apparatus for detecting pitch by using subharmonic-to-harmonic ratio A method and an apparatus for detecting a pitch in input voice signals by using a subharmonic-to-harmonic ratio (SHR). The pitch detection method includes performing a Fourier transform on the input voice signals after performing a pre-processing on the input voice signals, performing an interpolation on the transformed voice signals, calculating a normalized local center of gravity (NLCG) on a spectrum of the interpolated voice signals, calculating a cumulated sum of the calculated NLCG, calculating an SHR from the spectrum based on the calculated cumulated sum, and extracting the pitch based on the calculated SHR.
US08311810B2	Reduced delay spatial coding and decoding apparatus and teleconferencing system The delay in a multi-channel audio coding apparatus and a multi-channel audio decoding apparatus is reduced. The audio coding apparatus includes: a downmix signal generating unit that generates, in a time domain, a first downmix signal that is one of a 1-channel audio signal and a 2-channel audio signal from an input multi-channel audio signal; a downmix signal coding unit that codes the first downmix signal; a first t-f converting unit that converts the input multi-channel audio signal into a multi-channel audio signal in a frequency domain; and a spatial information calculating unit that generates spatial information for generating a multi-channel audio signal from a downmix signal.
US08311807B2	Periodically extracting and evaluating frequency of occurrence data of unregistered terms in a document for updating a dictionary A method and apparatus for updating a dictionary, by which documents of interest of a user are extracted through a network and a dictionary is updated with individual names and coined words extracted from the web documents, are provided. The dictionary updating method includes: extracting a document of interest of a user in each predetermined extraction period from a predetermined server connected to a dictionary updating system through a network, and extracting candidate unregistered words existing in the extracted document according to predetermined unregistered word extraction rules; based on information on appearance frequencies of the candidate unregistered words retrieved from the document, extracting unregistered words among the candidate unregistered words and extracting candidate semantic classes of the unregistered word; with usage examples of the unregistered word obtained through a searching unit, according to a predetermined unregistered word verification method, verifying the unregistered word and determining the semantic class of the verified unregistered word; and updating the dictionary updating system with the verified unregistered word and the semantic class of the verified unregistered word.
US08311800B1	Systems and methods for detecting incorrect translations of terms in a computing string A computer-implemented method for detecting incorrect translations of one or more terms in a computing string is described. A key term in a first language and a translation of the key term in a second language are retrieved. One or more compound terms in the first language that include the key term in the first language are identified. A computing string in the first language and a translation of the computing string in a second language are retrieved. The one or more compound terms in the first language are removed from the computing string in the first language. The key term in the second language is compared with one or more words included in the computing string in the second language. The translation of the one or more terms of the computing string are classified as incorrect based on the comparison.
US08311797B2	Viewing system that supports multiple electronic document types A method of interpreting electronic documents, e.g., an interactive technical manual, provides an interpreter responsive to at least one global navigational input data of a client user in order to generate a displayable output. The displayable output is generated from informational input and a contextual status. The method of interpretation includes a base semantics module and any number of extended semantics modules, a symbol table, and an output module. A plurality of global navigational data are received at the interpreter, which associates and processes the informational data received with the contextual status and outputs displayable data which is renderable by the display system into a current view. A system and computer medium are also disclosed.
US08311796B2	System and method for improving text input in a shorthand-on-keyboard interface A word pattern recognition system improves text input entered via a shorthand-on-keyboard interface. A core lexicon comprises commonly used words in a language; an extended lexicon comprises words not included in the core lexicon. The system only directly outputs words from the core lexicon. Candidate words from the extended lexicon can be outputted and simultaneously admitted to the core lexicon upon user selection. A concatenation module enables a user to input parts of a long word separately. A compound word module combines two common shorter words whose concatenation forms a long word.
US08311793B2	Method for evaluating a test program quality The disclosure relates to a method for rating the quality of a test program for integrated circuits simulated by means of a computer. The method includes provision of a first file which describes an integrated circuit; simulation of a mutated integrated circuit which is obtained by incorporating mutations into the integrated circuit described in the first file; supplying input values to the mutated integrated circuit and recording of the output values produced for these input values by the mutated integrated circuit; comparison of the output values produced by the mutated integrated circuit with expected values which are provided by the test program, where the expected values have been generated in a reference system; and rating of the quality of the test program on the basis of the comparison results.
US08311791B1	Method and system for simulating surgical procedures A system and method for converting static/still medical images of a particular patient into dynamic and interactive images interacting with medical tools including medical devices by coupling a model of tissue dynamics and tool characteristics to the patient specific imagery for simulating a medical procedure in an accurate and dynamic manner.
US08311789B2	Monte Carlo simulation of well logging data A system and method identify hydrocarbon productive reservoir zones using Monte Carlo numerical analysis to account for uncertainties in log measurements and petrophysical parameters. Random errors in logging tool responses and core measurements, as well as reservoir heterogeneity, are incorporated in a Monte Carlo simulation to output appropriate petrophysical models to calculate statistical distributions for saturation and permeability to define productive zones, non-productive zones and zones of undetermined productivity as a basis of deciding whether additional logging, core sampling or well test data are needed to reclassify the undetermined zones as either productive or non-productive. As uncertainties are quantified in the analysis, the degree of certainty in determining productive and non-productive zones is known and can be used to decide whether to further test, stimulate or abandon reservoir zones.
US08311784B2	Method for designing concentric axis double hot gas duct for very high temperature reactor Provided is a method of designing a coaxial dual-tube type hot gas duct for a very-high-temperature reactor. When determining the outer diameter of an inner tube and the inner diameter of a pressure tube, both of which defines an annular part of the hot gas duct having a dual-tube shape, one selected from hydraulic heads, flow rates, and hydraulic heads of very-high-temperature helium gas flowing to a very-high-temperature region and low-temperature helium gas flowing to a low-temperature region is taken into consideration as well as is a relation of about heat balance model, so that it is possible to minimize flow induced vibrations caused by the flow of a fluid.
US08311778B2	Industrial process control transmitter with multiple sensors An industrial process control transmitter includes a first input configured to couple to a first sensor, and a second input configured to couple to a second sensor. Measurement circuitry is configured to couple to the first and second sensors and provide an output related to a sensed process variable. A multiplexer is configured to selectively couple the first and second sensors to the measurement circuitry. An equalizer circuit is coupled to the first and second sensors and configured to equalize a voltage potential between the first sensor and the measurement circuitry.
US08311775B2	Defect repair apparatus and defect repair method A defect repair apparatus includes a defect detection unit, a database, a defect repair unit, and a control unit. The defect detection unit inspects a multilayer substrate on which a repetitive pattern is formed and extracts positional information on a defect in the repetitive pattern and feature information on the defect. In the database, a plurality of defect repair techniques are registered. The defect repair unit repairs the defect of the multilayer substrate by a defect repair technique specified. The control unit reads a defect repair technique for the defect detected by the defect detection unit and controls the defect repair unit that repairs the defect by using the defect repair technique.
US08311772B2	Outlier processing Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to acquire an original data set comprising a series of data points having an independent portion and a dependent portion, the dependent portion representing a measure of device performance that depends on at least one device characteristic represented by the independent portion. Additional activity may include identifying outlier data points in the series by determining, in comparison with all other members of the series, whether the outlier data points conform to a known trend of the series; transforming the original data set into a transformed data set by removing the outlier data points from the series; and publishing the transformed data set. Other apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
US08311753B2	Method and apparatus for measuring and monitoring a power source A system and method for monitoring power sources, such as the batteries making up a bank of batteries, is disclosed. There is provided a plurality of addressable sensors each adapted to communicate with one of the power sources, and to provide information concerning a characteristic of the power source in response to application of an event to the power source by the sensor. A controller that addressably communicates with the sensors, and that determines additional information, is also provided. In one embodiment, the sensor includes the power source, such as the battery.
US08311751B2	Device for determining deformation in a bearing roller Device for determining displacement, the device comprising at least two substantially parallel plates located at a distance from each other. The device is arranged to determine a displacement of at least two predetermined parts of each of the plates with respect to each other and the displacement are directed substantially perpendicular to a main surface of the plates, wherein the displacement is a result of bending of the plates. The device comprises at least one sensor for measuring the displacement.
US08311749B2	Transcutaneous analyte sensor The present invention relates generally to systems and methods for measuring an analyte in a host. More particularly, the present invention relates to systems and methods for transcutaneous measurement of glucose in a host.
US08311746B2	Methods for predicting fatty acid enrichment Methods and equations are provided for predicting the enrichment of polyunsaturated fatty acids in a canine based on a known diet. The methods and equations of the present invention can be used to predict the enrichment of linoleic acid and α-linolenic acid in plasma triglycerides and n-3 and n-6 type highly unsaturated fatty acids in plasma phospholipids and neutrophil phospholipids. The ability to accurately predict the enrichment of polyunsaturated fatty acids in a canine based on diet may be used to design specific diets to meet certain dietary needs.
US08311743B2	Method for generating an estimation of incremental recovery from a selected enhanced oil recovery (EOR) process A method is disclosed for generating an estimation of an incremental recovery that can be expected from an Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) Process, comprising: selecting a set of reservoir properties; selecting an EOR process that is associated with the selected set of reservoir properties; and generating the estimation of the incremental recovery that can be expected from the selected EOR process.
US08311738B2	Boom-mounted machine locating system A locating system for a machine having a boom is disclosed. The locating system has a first GPS unit and a second GPS unit. The first GPS unit is located on the boom.
US08311737B2	Automated prioritization of map objects Automatic map generation is enabled by assigning priorities to each city in a list of cities under consideration for display on a map. A mapping engine determines a reference count for each city, indicating how frequently the city appears in one or more corpora of documents. Based on the reference count, and optionally upon other data such as population and political importance, a priority score is assigned to each city. Each city is then assigned to one of a plurality of categories according to the city's priority score. A map is then generated including cities from a specified highest number of categories. In one embodiment, cities from a higher-scored category are presented in a more significant way, e.g., in capital letters, bold type, etc., than are those in the next-highest scored category.
US08311731B2	Robots with collision avoidance functionality A robot is provided with a motion control unit that avoids collision between segments of the robot or between segments of the robot and other objects. The motion control unit of the robot comprises a distance computing module, a whole body control module, a collision avoidance module, and a blending control unit. The distance computing module calculates two closest points of different segments of the robot connected to each other via at least one joint or a segment of the robot and another object. The collision avoidance module is provided with the information about the two closest points. The blending control unit combines the weighted output control signals of the whole body control module and the collision avoidance control module. The weight of the whole body control output signal is higher when the risk of collision is lower. The weight of the collision avoidance control output signal is higher when the risk of collision is higher. The collision avoidance module is designed to control a collision avoidance action only in the direction parallel to a line connecting between the two closest points.
US08311726B2	Ad-hoc mobile IP network for intelligent transportation system A method for intelligently managing a transportation network is provided. The method may include providing a roadside apparatus 18 to communicate with nodes 14A to 14D associated with vehicles 12A to 12D in a transportation network, the vehicle nodes being in a neighborhood range of the roadside apparatus. The roadside apparatus may dynamically detect the presence of a node 14A associated with a first vehicle 12A, and establish a mobile Internet Protocol (IP) network between the roadside apparatus and the first vehicle's node. The roadside apparatus 18 receives, in real-time, from the first vehicle's node 14A event data of events associated with the first vehicle 12A over the mobile IP network. The roadside apparatus 18 or nodes 14A to 14D may further receive or transmit real-time command data to control subsystems of a vehicle.
US08311723B2	Pressure energy conversion systems The present disclosure relates generally a fuel injector configured to inject fuel into a combustion chamber. The fuel injector includes a body having a base portion opposite a nozzle portion, wherein the base portion is configured to receive the fuel into the body, and the nozzle portion is configured to be positioned adjacent to the combustion chamber. The fuel injector also includes a valve assembly carried by the base portion of the body. The valve assembly may have a first valve coupled to a first actuator and a second valve coupled to a second actuator. The fuel injector further includes an igniter carried by the nozzle portion of the body and configured to ignite the fuel in the combustion chamber.
US08311720B2	Lost target function for adaptive cruise control An adaptive cruise control including a lost target function. The adaptive cruise control is operable in at least one of three modes: a normal mode, a following mode, and a lost target mode. In the normal mode, a user-set speed is maintained by the user vehicle. In the following mode, the adaptive cruise control detects a slower moving target vehicle and maintains a particular distance behind the target vehicle. In the lost target mode, the adaptive cruise control recognizes that a target vehicle is no longer detected and zeroes the acceleration of the user vehicle for a particular delay time. After expiration of the delay time, driver override, or detecting a target vehicle again, the cruise control exits the lost target mode.
US08311712B2	Method for the operation of a drivetrain A method of operating of a drivetrain, having at least a drive motor and an automatic transmission with at least five shift elements, to improve a shift speed such that during a first upshift or a first downshift, at least one required shift element is prepared such that, when a synchronization point is reached, the successive upshift or the successive downshift can be immediately carried out. The method comprises the steps of requiring, at most, two of the at least five shift elements be disengaged and a remainder of the shift elements be disengaged for each gear for transferring one of torque and force; and one of increasing and decreasing a torque of the drive motor, relative to a torque of the drive motor derived from a driver's wish, during one of the first upshift or downshift and the successive upshift or downshift to assist with an overlapped implementation of the successive upshifts or the successive downshifts.
US08311709B2	Implement initiated control of tractor power take-off (PTO) A control system for managing the operation of a tractor PTO using input conditions occurring in a connected baler. Baler conditions such as tailgate position, crop pickup position, bale wrapper status, and driveline torque are sensed in the baler, and communicated to an implement-mounted controller whereupon control signals are initiated and communicated to a tractor-mounted controller to manage operation of the tractor's PTO. Safety may be maintained through the use of operator acknowledgements in order to prevent unexpected engagement of the PTO and a manual override capability allows an operator to suspend automated operation at any time.
US08311708B2	Adjustable grill shutter system An adjustable grill shutter system is provided. In one embodiment, adjustment of the grill shutter system can be provided by a method of adjusting a grill shutter system for a vehicle, the method comprising adjusting opening of one or more grill shutters located at a front end opening of the vehicle in response to a non-driven vehicle condition.
US08311699B2	Automatic brake verification system A method of testing a braking device in a drivetrain of a vehicle which includes at least one tractive element coupled to a traction motor. The method includes: (a) applying the braking device to a tractive element of the vehicle; (b) using an electronic controller, causing the traction motor to apply a predetermined force to the tractive element; and (c) using the controller, monitoring the tractive element for movement while the force is being applied. A dynamic braking or “retarder” function may also be tested. A system for carrying out the method is provided.
US08311697B2	Impact assessment system and method for determining emergent criticality An impact assessment system and method for determining emerging criticality in a complex system is provided. The impact assessment system includes a component dependency model and an emergent criticality analyzer. The component dependency model describes the relationships between components in the system and their underlying dependency and criticality relationships. The impact assessment system receives component failure data from the complex system and uses the component dependency model and emergent criticality analyzer to determine the impact of the component failure on the criticality of remaining components in the system. The impact assessment system is thus able to determine how component failures in the complex system can impact the criticality of remaining components in the complex system and thus can assist in determining how those components may or may not be safely used in further operational activities.
US08311696B2	Optical tracking vehicle control system and method An optical tracking vehicle control system includes a controller adapted for computing vehicle guidance signals and a guidance subsystem adapted for receiving the guidance signals from the controller and for guiding the vehicle. An optical movement sensor is mounted on the vehicle in optical contact with a travel surface being traversed by the vehicle. The optical movement sensor is connected to the controller and provides vehicle movement signals thereto for use by the controller in computing vehicle position. The optical movement sensor can be either mounted on a gimbal for movement independent of the vehicle, or, alternatively, multiple optical movement sensors can be provided for detecting yaw movements. GNSS and inertial vehicle position tracking subsystems are also provided. Still further, a method of tracking a vehicle with an optical movement sensor is provided.
US08311688B2	Method for run-time incorporation of domain data configuration changes A method and apparatus for implementing a run-time configuration change for domain data in a database for an information systems where the domain data defines entities which are acted upon by the information system and where the reconfiguration of the domain data can take place without taking the information system offline and making it inaccessible to users.
US08311687B2	Method and system for vertical navigation using time-of-arrival control A method and systems for controlling an aircraft during descent are provided. The control system includes an input device configured to receive a speed margin for the vehicle and a processor communicatively coupled to the input device wherein the processor is programmed to automatically determine a flight path of the vehicle that is shallower than an idle flight path for the vehicle and generate a flight control surface control signal configured to maintain the determined flight path using the received speed margin. The control system further includes an output device communicatively coupled to the processor. The output device is configured to transmit the flight control surface control signal to a flight control system of the vehicle.
US08311684B2	Output flow control in load compressor A system and a method useful for determining and controlling flow in an engine load compressor 102 having an inlet 104 and an outlet 106. Means 108 are provided for measuring static pressure at one or more locations within the load compressor inlet 104. Means 108 are also provided for measuring static pressure at one or more locations within the load compressor outlet 106. The system further comprises means 112 for measuring temperature at at least one location within the compressor, and one or more processors 114 adapted for calculating ratios relating compressor outlet and inlet pressures, optionally normalizing the calculated pressure ratios according to any one or more of reference temperatures, inlet guide vane positions, and compressor speeds, and for determining, using the optionally normalized pressure ratios, desired load compressor output flow rates Q.
US08311679B2	Matrix converters for wind energy conversion systems The invention is an efficient matrix converter for wind energy conversion systems (WECS) using permanent magnet DC generators, incorporating control algorithms integrated with rotor aerodynamics, generator dynamics and the wind environment. Using a complete model of the system enables the design of an integrated control scheme for the WECS that improves the overall system efficiency. Estimates of wind velocity and rotor speed measurements are fed forward to the matrix converter subsystem for efficient switching.
US08311673B2	Method and apparatus for minimizing error in dynamic and steady-state processes for prediction, control, and optimization A method for providing independent static and dynamic models in a prediction, control and optimization environment utilizes an independent static model (20) and an independent dynamic model (22). The static model (20) is a rigorous predictive model that is trained over a wide range of data, whereas the dynamic model (22) is trained over a narrow range of data. The gain K of the static model (20) is utilized to scale the gain k of the dynamic model (22). The forced dynamic portion of the model (22) referred to as the bi variables are scaled by the ratio of the gains K and k. Thereafter, the difference between the new value input to the static model (20) and the prior steady-state value is utilized as an input to the dynamic model (22). The predicted dynamic output is then summed with the previous steady-state value to provide a predicted value Y.
US08311669B2	Tank-locking device, system for managing liquid supply and method using the same A system for managing liquid supply suitable for a process equipment with a liquid tank is disclosed. The system includes a host, a data-reading tool, a system controller and a tank-locking device. The host stores a built-in liquid database. The data-reading tool used for reading data related to the liquid tank is electrically connected to the host. The host receives the data related to the liquid tank from the data-reading tool, and the received data mapped with the liquid database. The system controller drives the tank-locking device according to the signal from the host to whether or not allow replacement of the liquid tank.
US08311662B2	Document profile detection Systems and method of processing one or more documents are shown and described. The orientation of a magnetic character is sensed on the document. The orientation is processed and used to control a sort processing device.
US08311652B2	Control method of refrigeration systems in gas plants with parallel trains An optimization method based on statistical modeling relating NGL plant process variables. The modeling may rely on input data from process history and modeled data. The method identifies process scenarios when a compressor from an associated propane/propylene refrigeration system may be deactivated and still allow the NGL plant to achieve product specification.
US08311646B2	Mechanism for, and method of, attaching a lead conductor cable to a lead electrode A cardio electrotherapy lead is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the lead includes a tubular body, a conductor cable and an electrode. The conductor cable longitudinally extends through the tubular body and includes a distal end. The electrode is located on the tubular body and includes an attachment mechanism mechanically coupling the lead distal end to the electrode.
US08311643B2	Spinal cord stimulation lead anchor Disclosed is an implantable anchor for anchoring a catheter, including (by way of non-limiting example) an implantable lead, such as may be used for spinal cord stimulation, to the body of a patient, along with a method for its use. The anchor comprises an elongate body have a central lumen extending through the body from its proximal end to its distal end, which central lumen is configured to snugly receive the catheter body. In addition to the central lumen, a second lumen is provided in the proximal end of the anchor and is configured to receive an injector so that adhesive may be injected into the anchor surrounding at least a portion of the catheter body. In doing so, the anchor may be fixed to the catheter body, such that when the anchor is sutured in place within the patient's body, migration of the catheter may be avoided.
US08311641B2	Method and apparatus for generating a localized heating A method and apparatus for generating a localized heating are provided, the method comprising: transmitting a spatially localized or shaped electromagnetic field via a plurality of coils to a subject and generating magnetic resonance signals; performing magnetic resonance imaging based on the magnetic resonance signals to generate an image of a region of interest of the subject; and controlling the plurality of the same imaging coils to radiate radio frequency (rf) energy to generate the localized heating on a region of interest. The invention provide a more efficient manner for generating localized heating and means for verifying the heating pattern without the need to measure temperature rises in the patient. This is useful to check the localization prior to the application of hyperthermia.
US08311640B2	Variable impedance bypass pathway for a tissue stimulating prosthesis A method and apparatus for neural stimulation are disclosed. The principle is that a conventional current path is used to deliver the stimulus to neural structures, but an alternative current path is provided to bypass the neural structures during the opposite polarity part of the current flow. As a consequence, charge balance can be provided at the tissue/electrode interface, while delivering stimuli which are not charge balanced to the neural structures.
US08311638B2	External charger for a medical implantable device using field inducing coils to improve coupling By incorporating magnetic field-inducing position determination coils (PDCs) in an external charger, it is possible to determine the position of an implantable device by actively inducing magnetic fields using the PDCs and sensing the reflected magnetic field from the implant. In one embodiment, the PDCs are driven by an AC power source with a frequency equal to the charging coil. In another embodiment, the PDCs are driven by an AC power source at a frequency different from that of the charging coil. By comparing the relative reflected magnetic field strengths at each of the PDCs, the position of the implant relative to the external charger can be determined. Audio and/or visual feedback can then be communicated to the patient to allow the patient to improve the alignment of the charger.
US08311635B2	Field focusing and mapping in a visual prosthesis The present invention is a system for mapping a high resolution image to a lower resolution electrode array and, by applying varying stimulus to neighboring electrodes, creating a perceived image greater in resolution than the electrode array. The invention is applicable to a wide range of neural stimulation devices including artificial vision and artificial hearing. By applying a sub-threshold stimulus to two neighboring electrodes where the sum of the stimuli is above the threshold of perception, a perception is created in neural tissue between the two electrodes. By adjusting the stimulus on neighboring electrodes, the location of stimulation can be altered. Further, noise can be applied to the stimulating electrode or its neighboring electrodes to reduce the threshold of stimulation.
US08311631B2	Systems and methods for improving heart rate kinetics in heart failure patients Adaptive rate pacing for improving heart rate kinetics in heart failure patients involves determining onset and sustaining of patient activity. The patient's heart rate response to the sustained activity is evaluated during a time window defined between onset of the activity and a steady-state exercise level. If the patient's heart rate response to the sustained activity is determined to be slow, a pacing therapy is delivered at a rate greater than the patient's intrinsic heart rate based on a profile of the patient's heart rate response to varying workloads. If determined not to be slow, the pacing therapy is withheld. Monitoring-only configurations provide for acquisition and organization of physiological data for heart failure patients. These data can be acquired on a per-patient basis and used to assess the HF status of the patient.
US08311626B2	Robotically controlled intravascular tissue injection system A robotic catheter system includes a controller including a master input device and instrument driver in communication with the controller. An elongate flexible guide instrument is operatively coupled to the instrument driver. A fluid injection needle may be advanced from, or retracted into, a distal portion of the guide instrument.
US08311616B2	Method and system for determination of physiological conditions and emotional states of a living organism A method and system for non-invasive determination of at least one condition of a living organism selected from physiological conditions and emotional states of the living organism are described. The method comprises sensing electromagnetic waves emanated from a skin portion in an extremely high frequency (EHF) band, and obtaining from the sensed electromagnetic waves at least one unique biometric signature of the living organism indicative of the organism condition. The system includes an antenna array unit configured for sensing the electromagnetic waves emanated from the skin portion; and a receiving unit configured and operable for obtaining the unique biometric signature. The sensed electromagnetic waves are indicative of bioelectric activity of neurally connected and electromagnetically interacting structures distributed in a skin portion of the living organism.
US08311614B2	Method of catheter tracking using image information An improved method of tracking a catheter's position within a human body does not rely on x-rays, but instead calculates the position of the catheter's imaging head by analyzing image data. Such an analysis is able to determine the position of the imaging head in 3 dimensional space, relative to an arbitrarily selected reference image. An image is compared with the reference image, correlation data between corresponding points on the two images are gathered, and a correlation loss rate in a particular direction is determined. This correlation loss rate is modeled to an exponential function, which is evaluated to estimate an angle of separation between the image and the reference image. One or more angles of separation are used to determine a position in three dimensional space of the image, relative to the reference image. By repeating this process for a series of images being gathered by a catheter, the position of the catheter can be determined. Additionally, a 3 dimensional map of lumens in the human body can be created.
US08311613B2	Electrode catheter positioning system A system for determining a position of a catheter is provided. An electrode is on a catheter. A plurality of reference electrodes are provided. Each of the plurality of reference electrodes are configured to transmit or receive a signal to or from the electrode, respectively. A processor is operable to determine a position of the catheter as a function of an electrical characteristic based on the signals. The plurality of reference electrodes are not positioned on or in a body surface along three mutually orthogonal axes.
US08311611B2	Method for performing multiple registrations in a navigated procedure A system can be used to navigate or guide an instrument or device into an anatomy of a patient. The navigation can occur with the use of image data acquired of the patient. The image data can be registered to the patient space for navigation. Registration can occur more than once to increase efficiency and speed of the procedure.
US08311607B2	Fluorescent fiberoptic probe for tissue health discrimination and method of use thereof A system and method for the in situ discrimination of healthy and diseased tissue. A fiberoptic based probe is employed to direct ultraviolet illumination onto a tissue specimen and to collect the fluorescent response radiation. The response radiation is observed at three selected wavelengths, one of which corresponds to an isosbestic point. In one example, the isosbestic point occurs at about 431 nm. The intensities of the observed signals are normalized using the 431 nm intensity. A score is determined using the ratios in a discriminant analysis. The tissue under examination is resected or not, based on the diagnosis of disease or health, according to the outcome of the discriminant analysis.
US08311603B2	Device for an electrode part for a wireless biopotential measurement unit A device for an electrode part for a wireless biopotential measurement unit for attaching to the body, the measurement unit comprising a signal processor and transmitter part, and the electrode part including at least one measuring electrode for measuring a biopotential, the at least one measuring electrode communicating with the signal processor and transmitter part, at least the electrode part being provided with, on its side facing away from the body, a substantially covering screen material which is electrically connected to an earth electrode, the earth electrode being in contact with the body. The measuring electrode is surrounded by and isolated from an electrically conductive material, which is earthed to the signal processor and transmitter part.
US08311595B2	Portable wireless communication device A portable wireless communication device includes a case having a waterproof structure and floating on water, an operation portion arranged in a front face of the case; and a wireless communication processing portion arranged inside the case, wherein a position of the center of gravity in the case is shifted to a rear face side opposite to the front face with respect to a center of the case, in a state where all components including the wireless communication processing portion are housed.
US08311592B2	Portable terminal having external module and method for displaying charged status thereof A portable terminal is provided having an external module that is capable of easily charging a battery of the external module, such as a bluetooth, and of easily checking the charged status thereof. The charged status of a second battery of the external module may be displayed through a terminal body as well as the charged status of a first battery, thereby being capable of easily recognizing when the external module is required to be charged.
US08311585B2	Synchronized helper system using paired computing device A helper system uses a computing device paired with a mobile computing device to provide help information associated with operation of the mobile computing device. The mobile computing device and the paired computing devices are synchronized so that the help information relevant to the current status of the mobile computing device is provided by the paired computing device. By providing the help information on the paired computing device, the user may conveniently access the user information without interrupting the use of application program running on the mobile computing device.
US08311584B2	Hands-free system and method for retrieving and processing phonebook information from a wireless phone in a vehicle A method is provided for creating a phonebook for a hands-free telephone system in a vehicle using phonebook entries retrieved from a remote phonebook of a mobile phone over a wireless communication link between a control module of the hands-free telephone system and the mobile phone. The method includes receiving a remote phonebook from the mobile phone, the remote phonebook including a plurality of entries, each entry including text data and numeric data, identifying the text data in each entry, generating an acoustic baseform for each entry based on the text data for each entry, storing the acoustic baseform for each entry in a baseform list, and storing the plurality of entries in a mobile phonebook associated with the baseform list.
US08311581B2	Apparatus and method for disabling RF signal transmissions from wireless network modems An apparatus and method is provided for disabling radio frequency signal transmissions from a wireless communications network modem when in proximity to sites where explosive devices are being detonated. The apparatus includes an input switch to signal a command to the modem to disable the transmitter portion of the modem or to tune the transmitter to a null gateway on the wireless communications network. By disabling transmissions from the modem, accidental detonation of explosive devices is prevented. When the modem is moved a safe distance away from the explosive devices, the transmitter is re-enabled automatically.
US08311579B2	Multi-mode mobile communication device with motion sensor and methods for use therewith A mobile communication device includes a motion sensor for generating motion signals in response to motion of the mobile communication device. A motion data generation module generates motion data based on the motion signals. At least one transceiver sends the motion data to a game device in a gaming mode of operation and transceives wireless telephony data with a wireless telephony network in a telephony mode of operation.
US08311578B1	Communication device A communication device comprising a voice communicating implementer, an OS updating implementer, a voice recognition implementer, a tag implementer, a target device location indicating implementer, an audio/video data capturing implementer, a caller ID implementer, a navigation implementer, a GPS search engine implementer, a word processing implementer, a start up software implementer, and a stereo audio data output implementer.
US08311573B1	Quality of service based downlink power allocation A first wireless device associated with a first profile is communicated with using a first transmitted power. A second wireless device associated with a second profile is communicated with using a second transmitted power. A third transmitted power is determined. The third transmitted power is associated with the first wireless device receiving data using a target modulation and coding scheme. A maximum transmitted power is determined to be exceeded if the third transmitted power is used to communicate with the first wireless device. The second wireless device is communicated with using a fourth transmitted power. The fourth transmitted power allows the third transmitted power to be used to communicate with the first wireless device without exceeding the maximum transmitted power.
US08311570B2	Method and system of setting transmitter power levels The invention relates to a method and system of setting transmitter power levels, particularly in a Local Network Node transmitter, providing a pico cell for private use. A User Equipment (UE) is used to make measurements of the transmission link properties, such as downlink power and round trip time. Based on the measurements made at one or a plurality of locations, the power of the Local Network Node can be determined such that interference is minimized with any overlying cells of a macro-network. Call handovers between the UE and the cell of a macro network can also be arranged based on properties measure by the UE.
US08311569B2	Radio channel control method and receiving apparatus A radio channel control method for controlling, in a radio communication system having a transmitter and a receiver, a radio channel from the transmitter toward the receiver. The method includes receiving a signal transmitted from the transmitter by the receiver, measuring reception quality of the signal, generating information which indicates increment or decrement of the reception quality, and controlling a modulation or coding for the radio channel based on the information.
US08311566B2	Communication apparatus, server apparatus, and communication control method A communication apparatus capable of reporting that there is group communication for which a start notice has been received, but no response has been sent and facilitating checking of whether the group communication is in progress and its communication control method is provided. When a communication unit receives a start notice of PTT (push to talk) communication, an operation reporting the reception of the start notice is performed. If no instruction to participate in the PTT communication is input from a key input unit with respect to this report operation, a message indicating that the PTT communication is in progress is displayed on the display unit until an end notice of PTT communication is received at the communication unit.
US08311560B2	Method of calling a vehicle and mobile terminal for the same A method of calling a vehicle and a mobile terminal for the same are discussed. According to an embodiment, the method includes: requesting vehicle information on each of at least one vehicle, which is located within a predetermined distance from a position of a mobile terminal and is available, from a vehicle calling server; receiving the requested vehicle information from the vehicle calling server; displaying, on a screen of the mobile terminal, a map on which a position of the mobile terminal and the vehicle information are indicated; when certain vehicle information is selected from the displayed map, generating by the mobile terminal a vehicle request for requesting a dispatch of a vehicle corresponding to the selected vehicle information; and transmitting by the mobile terminal the vehicle request to the vehicle calling server.
US08311554B2	Method and apparatus for performing dynamic shared spectrum allocation between two overlapping wireless communication systems Controlling spectrum use in a first wireless communications system which takes part in a spectrum assignment process, in which one of the first wireless communications system and a second wireless communications system assigns a portion of spectrum to the other of the first and second wireless communications system. The first wireless communications system includes a plurality of network elements some or all located within a cell associated with a particular network element of the second wireless communications system. The controlling includes coordinating network elements of the first wireless communications system to identify a portion of spectrum which is either available for assignment from the network elements of the first wireless communications system to the particular network element of the second wireless communications system, or required to be assigned from the particular network element of the second wireless communications system to the network elements of the first wireless communications system.
US08311550B2	Radio communication control method, base station apparatus and user apparatus The base station apparatus includes: a distributed transmission determination unit (12) configured to determine a number (NDRB) of resource blocks to be used for data transmission of a distributed transmission scheme for a user apparatus at predetermined time interval; and a division number determination unit (13) configured to variably determine a division number of one resource block according to the determined number of resource blocks of the distributed transmission scheme. As a configuration example, a control information generation unit (19) may be provided for reporting the determined division number to the user apparatus.
US08311548B2	Automatic association of wireless devices to point names A system and method automatically associate wireless devices to point names. An installation plan indicates that wireless devices are installed at designated locations. Each designated location in the installation plan includes an associated point name, each wireless device is configured to transmit a message indicating itself as the source of the message, and each wireless communication device is installed proximate to its designated location. Expected distances are determined between one or more pairs of designated locations on the installation plan. Range estimate data is gathered from the installed wireless devices for one or more pairs of the installed wireless devices. A unique identifier within a signal transmitted by one of the installed wireless devices is associated with a corresponding point name on the installation plan. The association is determined at least in part by the expected distances and the range estimate data.
US08311544B2	De-registration method, home NodeB (HNB), and home NodeB gateway (HNB GW) The present invention relates to the field of communication technology, and a de-registration method, a Home NodeB (HNB) and a Home NodeB Gateway (HNB GW) are disclosed. In an embodiment, the present invention provides a de-registration method, comprising: initiating, by an HNB GW, release of pre-registration resources corresponding to user equipment (UE) after the HNB GW receives indication information indicating that the UE moves to another cell from a source HNB. Applying the embodiment of the present invention can release pre-registration resources in time and reduce waste of resources.
US08311541B2	Mobile communication system for low power consumption, call control server and access gateway It is provided a mobile communication system comprising base stations, call control servers and access gateways. The call control servers cause a mobile terminal accommodated in one of the control server to transmit the location registration request so that the mobile terminal accommodates in another control server according to a processing amount of control signals. The base station selects a second call control server into which the one of the mobile terminals is to be newly accommodated. The one of the call control server switches to a power-saving state after the mobile terminal is accommodated into the another call control server.
US08311537B2	Systems and methods to dynamically provision subscribers in a network Systems and methods to dynamically provision subscribers in a network are disclosed herein. An example method to provision a subscriber in a communication network includes detecting that a location of the subscriber has changed from a first location to a second location, instructing a first customer profile repository to transfer a customer profile associated with the subscriber to a second customer profile repository corresponding to the second location in response to detecting the location change, and provisioning the customer profile at the second customer profile repository.
US08311533B1	Terrestrial based high speed data communications mesh network A network for providing high speed data communications may include multiple terrestrial transmission stations that are located within overlapping communications range and a mobile receiver station. The terrestrial transmission stations provide a continuous and uninterrupted high speed data communications link with the mobile receiver station employing a wireless radio access network protocol.
US08311529B2	Coordination operation method and mobile communication terminal A mobile communication terminal having a structure including a host section and an engine section is built compactly. —As a request for using a host-connecting device is received from an engine section 40, a host section 30 makes a judgment of whether or not a current state of an engine processor of the engine section 40 is an engine-mode state of controlling actively an operation of an engine-connecting device connected to the engine processor of the engine section 40, and the engine-mode state is estimated to be continued. Further, when a result of the judgment is affirmative, the host section 30 operates a host-connecting section, according to an operation mode specified by operation mode parameters. As a result, in a mode in which a request is made by an application executed by the engine processor, a specific host-connecting device which the application has desired to use is operated.
US08311515B1	System, method, and device for intelligence gathering and position tracking A mobile communication device that may be used by an investigator to secretly record a suspect and track the investigator's location includes a microphone for detecting sounds, a communication component for transmitting signals or data representative of the sounds to one of the portable computers via the wireless communication network, a display for displaying information related to operation of the device, a computing device, and a computer program implemented by the computing device. The computer program is operable to place the device in a stealth mode in which the display is turned off or otherwise deactivated to make the entire device appear to be turned off while the microphone continues to detect sounds and the communication component continues to transmit signals or data representative of the sounds to a surveillance or support team operating one of the portable computers.
US08311514B2	Prevention of accidental device activation The present application allows wake-up and unlock operations to occur using a single event, such as a single keystroke. Additionally, a check is made to ensure that activation was caused by human touch, not an object. In one embodiment, an area of a mobile device is designated as a wake-up area, which is separate from the touch screen. A user can touch the wake-up area to both activate the mobile device from a sleep mode and unlock the mobile device. In another embodiment, the wake-up area can be integrated into the touch screen, so that there is not an appearance of a separate button. Fingerprint checking and/or proximity sensors can also be integrated into the mobile device.
US08311513B1	Automated mobile system An automated mobile assistant system provides automated, proactive and anticipatory services for the user of the system. A scheduling system for a mobile device is described and can include a memory to store calendar events and a scheduler to automatically organize the events based on at least one of temporal, geographical, contextual availability, user-preference, past activities, usage pattern, proximity to other users or events, or combinations thereof. In an example, a customizable personal mobile device for communication and organization can include a core engine and a plurality of modules coupled to the core engine to perform a different one of a plurality of classes of functionality of the mobile device, where each said module includes a processing element and memory dedicated for use by said module. A time-based intelligence system provides robust storage, access, and processing of information on a mobile device.
US08311511B2	Data privacy on wireless communication terminal A wireless communication terminal in which items are stored that have been generated or received during use of the terminal is provided with a system for restricting access to private or sensitive information by unauthorized users in a user-friendly way that does not require entry of a password.
US08311505B1	Interference reduction for multiple signals The present invention reduces the degradation in performance of one or more radio signals that are co-transmitted with a first radio signal from the same transmitting antenna in the same frequency channel and received by the same antenna due to multipath or other shared interference, where the one or more radio signals can be separated from the first radio signal. All received signals are coupled to the same adaptive array or adaptive filter to reduce multipath or other shared interference of the first radio signal, which reduces multipath and other shared interference in the other radio signals before they are separated and processed by their respective receivers, or the individual radio signals are separated before the first signal enters the adaptive array or adaptive filter and each of the other signals coupled to an individual associated adaptive array or adaptive filter slave weighting network with weights slaved to the weights of the adaptive array or adaptive filter of the first signal to reduce the multipath and other shared interference in all the signals.
US08311500B2	Wireless communication device A wireless communication device that obtains an analog received signal by receiving a wireless signal, adjusts amplitude by a variable gain amplifier, converts the analog received signal into a digital received signal by an A/D converter and obtains user data by demodulating the digital received signal, including: a received signal strength indication detecting section that detects a received signal strength indication that fluctuates over time; a gain controlling section that controls a gain of the variable gain amplifier; a propagation environment judging section that judges a propagation environment level of the wireless signal, and a time constant controlling section that controls a time constant, based on the judged propagation environment level such that the time constant becomes larger as the propagation environment level becomes lower, the time constant regulating a change speed of the gain at the variable gain amplifier.
US08311496B2	Transmitter with digital up conversion and multimode power amplifier A voice, data and RF integrated circuit (IC) includes a transmitter processing module, coupled to receive outbound data and to produce processed data in accordance with a selected one of a plurality of protocols and that generates a control signal based on the selected on of the plurality of protocols. A digital up conversion module produces a digital up-converted signal from the processed data. A radio receiver front end includes a programmable power amplifier that produces a transmit signal from the digital up-converted signal in accordance with the selected one of the plurality of protocols, based on the control signal.
US08311494B2	Test unit for testing the frequency characteristic of a transmitter A test unit for testing the frequency characteristics of one or more components of a transmitter of modulated signals. The test unit includes a data source for generating a test pattern of data. A test unit output is connected to the data source and connectable to an input of one or more of the components, for inputting the test pattern of data to the one or more components. The test unit includes a memory in which a first predetermined data sequence and a second predetermined data sequence are stored. The data source is connected with an data input to the memory, and the data source is arranged to generating the test pattern of data including the predetermined data sequences. When a modulated signal is generated in accordance with the test pattern of data will include a first signal part with a first frequency spectrum caused by the first predetermined data sequence and a second signal part after the first signal part, which second signal part has a second frequency spectrum caused by the second predetermined data sequence.
US08311492B2	Simple block space time transmit diversity using multiple spreading codes A base station and user equipment (UE) for use in a CDMA communication system are disclosed. The base station includes a first and second antenna for transmitting first and second communication bursts. The first channelization device spreads data using a first channelization code and the second channelization device spreads the data using a second channelization code. The UE has a data detection device for receiving a signal including the first and second communication bursts.
US08311488B2	High frequency automatic link establishment communication system with wideband probe and related method An HF radio ALE communication system may include a first HF radio communications device including a first HF radio transceiver and a first controller coupled thereto, and a second HF radio communications device including a second HF radio transceiver and a second controller coupled thereto. The first controller may cooperate with the first HF radio transceiver and may be configured to use ALE to establish a narrowband communication link with the second HF radio communications device, and to communicate a wideband message probe to the second HF radio communications device. The second controller may cooperate with the second HF radio transceiver and may be configured to determine at least one channel characteristic based upon the wideband message probe. The first controller may cooperate with the first HF radio transceiver and may be configured to update the narrowband communication link based upon the at least one channel characteristic.
US08311485B2	Method and system for receiver nulling using coherent transmit signals A method and system are provided for canceling interference signals from a received signal. A ratio module receives as input a ratio of a filtered receiver output signal level and a filtered transmitter output signal level. A product module receives as inputs an output of the ratio module and a transmitter output. The product module calculates a product of the output of the ratio module and the transmitter output. An adjusted receiver signal module receives a difference calculated from the received signal level and the output of the product module. The method and system are suitable for use in a metal detection subsystem with a larger security system.
US08311480B2	Mobile device system and mobile device A mobile device system includes a plurality of mobile devices, each to which unique identification information is assigned, wherein each mobile device includes a location-information acquisition unit, a communication unit, and a group registration unit. The communication unit links location information acquired by the location-information acquisition unit of the mobile device and the identification information of the mobile device, sends the information to other mobile devices, and receives from the other mobile devices location information of the other mobile devices and identification information linked to the location information of the other mobile devices. The group registration unit detects other mobile devices located within a predetermined range of the mobile device on the basis of the location information of the other mobile devices and the location information of the mobile device and registers the identification information of the detected other mobile devices as a group.
US08311473B2	Bookbinding system, bookbinding method, and computer program product A bookbinding device receives a sheet on which an image is formed from an image forming apparatus. In the bookbinding device, a punching unit performs a punching process on a sheet; an aligning unit aligns a plurality of sheets on which holes are punched; and a ring binding unit mounts, in the holes of the sheets aligned by the aligning unit, a ring-shaped binding tool to create a booklet. A prohibiting unit, if a sheet received from the image forming apparatus is a punched sheet having a hole thereon, causes the punching unit not to perform the punching process on the punched sheet.
US08311468B2	Induction heated member Exemplary embodiments provide an induction heating member including a substrate and a heating layer disposed on the substrate. The heating layer includes carbon nanotubes and metal. An outer layer is disposed on the heating layer and includes a fluoropolymer.
US08311460B2	Image forming apparatus A visible image forming device is provided with an image carrier and a developing device that develops a latent image on the image carrier surface to form a visible image includes, a developer container that contains developer therein, a developer carrier carries the developer on a surface of the developer carrier and rotates oppositely to the image carrier, a first stirring member that is rotatably supported to be adjacent to the developer carrier inside the developer container and conveys the developer to be supplied to the developer carrier while stirring the developer, and a second stirring member that is rotatably supported to be adjacent to the first stirring member inside the developer container and circulates the developer by conveying the developer in the developer container oppositely to a conveyance direction of the first stirring member.
US08311459B2	Developing apparatus, image forming apparatus, image forming method, and toner A developing apparatus includes: a housing which contains toner; a toner supporting roller; and a regulating blade, wherein bias voltage is applied to the regulating blade, the toner includes, an insulating external additive and an electrically-conductive external additive, satisfies any of the following first to third conditions, the first condition: a volume average grain diameter of the electrically-conductive external additive is larger than a volume average grain diameter of the insulating external additive, the second condition: a volume average grain diameter of the electrically-conductive external additive is larger than a volume average grain diameter of the insulating external additive in which coverage in the toner is higher than that of the electrically-conductive external additive, and the third condition: coverage of the electrically-conductive external additive in the toner is higher than coverage of the insulating external additive that is larger in volume average grain diameter than the electrically-conductive external additive.
US08311458B2	Image forming apparatus having mechanism for preventing mixing of scattered toner between adjacent developing units In an image forming apparatus having a developing rotary, when a positive direction refers to a circumferential direction of the developing rotary in which the portion of the developing rotary facing a photosensitive drum moves in the same direction as the movement of the circumference of the photosensitive drum, a clear developing unit is farther from the developing unit positioned in the negative direction relative to the clear developing unit than from the developing unit positioned in the positive direction relative to the clear developing unit.
US08311450B2	End cover part, method of producing the same, image carrier, image forming assembly, and image forming apparatus An end cover part which is used to close an end of a cylindrical body, and transmits a driving force of a rotatable driving shaft to the cylindrical body, includes a cover member having a tubular portion into which the driving shaft is to be fitted, and a to-be-fitted portion which is disposed in a flange-like manner in a periphery of the tubular portion, and which is to be fitted into an end portion of the cylindrical body; cut surfaces which are disposed respectively on an inner circumference of the tubular portion of the cover member and an outer circumference of the to-be-fitted portion and concentrically about a common reference central axis; and a recess as defined herein.
US08311447B2	Toner container and manufacturing method for toner container A toner container includes a cylindrical container body, having a first opening in a first end thereof and a notch in a circumferential surface thereof continuous with the first opening in the first end, a flange member to engage the first opening and the notch in the container body and having a toner outlet therein through which toner in the container body is discharged, a shutter member disposed on the outer circumferential surface of the container body, a conveyance member, rotatably installed inside the container body to convey the toner from a second end of the container body opposite the first end to the toner outlet in the flange member, and a recessed portion in the container body that projects inward into the interior of the toner container 5 mm or less from an inner surface of the container body.
US08311446B2	Protective sheet, image forming unit and image forming apparatus An aspect of the present invention is a protective sheet including: a protective portion that can be inserted between a charging member which is in contact with an outer peripheral surface of a latent image carrier and the latent image carrier, and that can cover an image forming area formed on the outer peripheral surface of the latent image carrier; and a high friction portion that is connected to an end portion of the protective portion, that can be inserted between a pressing portion for being pressed against a background area formed on the outer peripheral surface of the latent image carrier and the background area of the latent image carrier, and whose dynamic frictional force when pulled out from the latent image carrier is higher than that of the protective portion.
US08311445B2	Image forming apparatus and image forming method An image forming apparatus includes: a latent image bearing member on which a latent image is formed; a developing unit that develops the latent image using a liquid developer; a transfer member onto which the image is transferred; a cleaning unit that cleans the latent image bearing member; a cleaning roller, to which a bias is applied, that cleans the transfer member by making contact with the transfer member; a blade that cleans the cleaning roller by making contact with the cleaning roller; a cleaning blade that cleans the transfer member cleaned by the cleaning roller by making contact with the transfer member; a holding unit that holds collected material scratched by the blade and the cleaning blade; an application unit that applies the collected material to the cleaning roller; and a transport channel that transports the collected material collected by the cleaning unit to the holding unit.
US08311441B2	Charging apparatus having cleaning device A charging apparatus includes a corona charger which includes a discharging wire and a grid electrode that are configured to charge a member to be charged, a cleaning device configured to clean an inner surface of the grid electrode, and a discharging device configured to electrically discharge the grid electrode before the cleaning device cleans the grid electrode.
US08311436B2	Image-forming apparatus and image-forming method for forming a density correction image An image-forming apparatus includes: a forming unit that forms an image on an image holder that is a rotating body holding an image; a measuring unit that measures a rotation amount of the image holder with reference to a certain position on the image holder; a determining unit that: identifies a position on the image holder from which an image is to be formed by the forming unit, according to the rotation amount measured by the measuring unit; if, while a plurality of images are successively formed on the image holder, an image for density correction is to be formed, postpones forming of the image for density correction until a timing arrives at which one image of the plurality of images is to be formed from a predetermined position on the image holder, and when the timing arrives at which the one image of the plurality of images is to be formed from the predetermined position on the image holder, determines to start forming of the image for density correction from the predetermined position, instead of forming the one image of the plurality of images; and a correction unit that obtains a reading result of the image for density correction formed by the forming unit from the predetermined position, and corrects a density of at least one of the plurality of images on the basis of the obtained reading result.
US08311433B2	Image forming device including a cleaning member and a method of operating the same An image forming device having an detachable image forming unit that has an image carrier and an opening that exposes a part of the surface of the image carrier includes a determination unit that determines a cleaning time for the image carrier; and a rotation control unit that rotates the image carrier by a rotation unit that is less than or equal to a width of the opening, during the cleaning time.
US08311430B2	Transfer device and image forming apparatus A transfer device comprising: a transfer section which forms a nip portion between the transfer section and an image carrier and transfers a toner image on an image carrier onto a sheet passing through the nip portion; an application section which applies a voltage to the transfer section; a determining section which determines a timing of applying voltage from the application section to the transfer section, wherein the control section controls the application section to apply a voltage having an opposite polarity to a transfer polarity to the transfer section until the timing determined by the determination section in a period since a leading edge of the sheet in a conveyance direction advances into the nip portion until a predetermined non image area of the sheet has passed through the nip portion, and then, at a timing determined, switch to apply a voltage having the transfer polarity.
US08311429B2	Image forming apparatus having development bias voltage generating circuit An image forming apparatus includes a charging device to electrically charge a photosensitive member, an exposure unit to expose the charged photosensitive member to light, a development device to develop, with a developer, a latent image formed on the photosensitive member by the exposure unit, and a development bias voltage generating circuit to apply a development bias voltage to the development device. The development bias voltage generating circuit includes a transformer, a capacitor connected to one end of the transformer, first-fourth switching elements, a power source to supply a voltage to the first and third switching elements, and a control unit to control an on and off action of the first to fourth switching elements and independently control the voltages applied by the power source to the first and third switching elements.
US08311427B2	Image forming device and method An image forming device and method improves image quality by detecting the density of a pattern and adjusting the voltage applied to a developer supply member if necessary in response to the detected density. The pattern can be a medium duty tone pattern, which is relatively sensitive to environmental changes that can affect image density. The density detection pattern can be produced and detected after every predetermined number of sheets are printed, to maintain an acceptable image density during large print jobs. The pattern is formed on the surface of a transferring unit, which transfers the sheets.
US08311413B2	High power efficiency optical-wireless transmitter Provided is a high power efficiency optical-wireless transmitter capable of solving problems of low power efficiency, signal distortion due to non-linearity of output, large number of connection terminals, and non-uniformity of optical power intensities of optical sources. The high power efficiency optical wireless transmitter includes: an amplitude-to-array coder converting an amplitude of an electric signal input from a baseband modulator into optical source control signals so as to generate an optical output power corresponding to the electric signal; optical source driver groups driving optical sources based on the optical source control signals of the amplitude-to-array coder; and MMRS (modified mixed radix system) or MMRR (modified mixed radix system with Redundancy) optical source group driven by the optical source driver groups to generate various optical power intensities.
US08311412B2	Distributed cable modem termination system Distributed CMTS device for a HFC CATV network serving multiple neighborhoods by multiple individual cables, in which the QAM modulators that provide data for the individual cables are divided between QAM modulators located at the cable plant, and remote QAM modulators ideally located at the fiber nodes. A basic set of CATV QAM data waveforms may be transmitted to the nodes using a first fiber, and a second set of IP/on-demand data may be transmitted to the nodes using an alternate fiber or alternate fiber frequency, and optionally other protocols such as Ethernet protocols. The nodes will extract the data specific to each neighborhood and inject this data into unused QAM channels, thus achieving improved data transmission rates through finer granularity. A computerized “virtual shelf” control system for this system is also disclosed. The system has high backward compatibility, and can be configured to mimic a conventional cable plant CMTS.
US08311411B2	Method and device for polarization of an optical radiation A method of stabilizing the state of polarization of an optical radiation comprises: 1) applying sequentially to the optical radiation a first and a second controllable phase retardation; 2) detecting an optical power of at least a first polarized portion of the optical radiation obtained after step 1; 3) applying sequentially to the optical radiation obtained after step 1 a third and a fourth controllable phase retardation; 4) detecting an optical power of a further polarized portion of the optical radiation obtained after step 3; 5) controlling, responsive to the optical power of said first polarized portion, the second controllable phase retardation so as to maintain the polarization state of the optical radiation obtained after step 1 at a defined great circle r on a Poincare sphere; 6) in case the second controllable phase retardation reaches a first limit value, commuting the first controllable phase retardation between first and second values; 7) controlling, responsive to the optical power of said further polarized portion, the fourth controllable phase retardation so as to maintain the polarization state of the optical radiation obtained after step 3 at a defined state of polarization; 8) in case the fourth controllable phase retardation reaches a second limit value, commuting the third controllable phase retardation between third and fourth values, keeping constant the first controllable phase retardation while the third controllable phase retardation is commuting between said third and fourth values. A polarization stabilizing device based on the method above is also disclosed.
US08311408B2	Method and apparatus for end of life of small form-factor pluggable (SFP) A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for visually indicating the remaining life of a small form factor pluggable (SFP) optical transceiver module. The total number of optical light pulse signals processed by an SFP are compared to a predetermined lifecycle number of signals that can be processed before the SFP enters a failed operating state. The remaining life of the SFP is calculated. A first display visually indicates that the total number of processed signals has not exceeded the lifecycle number of signals. A second display located on the SFP enclosure visually indicates the SFP has reached the end of its lifecycle.
US08311405B2	Image capture device with zoom lens An image capture device of the present invention includes: a zoom lens being caused by the operation of the zoom mechanism to move along the optical axis; an information acquisition part which acquires information about the amount of movement determined by the amount of movement of the zoom lens; a power supply part which supplies power to the information acquisition part; a controller which controls power supply; and a state detection part which detects a specific halt state in which the zoom mechanism stops the movement of the zoom lens when the zoom mechanism is in a predetermined operating position, the predetermined operating position being such that the zoom lens hardly changes its position despite the action of external force. The controller stops power supply from the power supply part to the information acquisition part when the state detection part detects the specific halt state.
US08311397B2	Method for supporting a still picture of data stream recorded in a disk recording medium In the method, video data is reproduced from the recording medium, and an I-picture and a number of P-pictures are output as a still picture based on the reproduced video data. The output data may then be received and decoded for display.
US08311381B2	Apparatus for providing support for a portion of an optical fibre extending from a substrate A support for an optical fiber partially submerged in a substrate is discloses in which the support is arranged with fiber fixing means for fixing a portion of the fiber to the support so that strain on the portion of the fiber external to the substrate and support member is at least partially diverted from the portion of the fiber internal to the support member.
US08311373B1	Capillary electrophoresis chemical sensor A detector is provided for sampling and identifying a material, such as a medium in which the detector is disposed. The detector includes an annular photonic crystal fiber, first and second electrodes, an electrical power supply, an illumination source and an analyzer. The fiber has opposite longitudinal ends, surrounds a center core tube and includes fused capillary tubes. The electrodes are disposed between the fiber's longitudinal ends. The electrical power supply connects between the electrodes. The illumination source emits light into the core tube from one of the opposite ends. The analyzer for compares an emission pattern from light transverse to the fiber against an established pattern, and indicates match in response to correspondence between the patterns. The annular structure has a two-dimensional optical photonic band-gap. The analyzer monitors the emission pattern by optical frequency domain reflectometry or optical time domain reflectometry.
US08311367B2	Image processing device Adaptive image processing device performs image processing with a simple configuration on a composite image including areas having different characteristics by changing a process depending on the number of combined images in each area of the composite image configured by combining a plurality of images. The image processing device acquires a plurality of images and generates a composite image. When the composite image is generated, the image processing device realizes a process of determining the number of combined images for detecting the number of images to be combined for each area of the composite image and holding the number as information about the number of combined images, and an image processing parameter switching process for switching a parameter of image processing to be performed on each area of the composite image according to the information about the number of combined images.
US08311365B2	Analysis method for regional image An analysis method for a regional image is disclosed for an image datum from a C-arm device. The analysis method includes: providing an indication module, reading the image datum, selecting a plurality of ROIs (Regions of Interest), calculating an average brightness of each of the ROIs, searching every of the steel ball image data, comparing each of the steel ball image data and analyzing each of the steel ball image data. By individually analyzing the regional image datum, the brighter or darker image signal can be excluded so that it can improve precision during searching the steel ball image data. Moreover, it is also more effective for comparing an image profile of the steel ball image datum with a real profile of the steel ball of the indication module. Thus, the steel ball image can be readily defined by its correspondence with the steel ball of the indication module.
US08311363B2	Image processing apparatus, method of controlling the same, and computer-readable storage medium This invention provides an image processing apparatus which handles process target image data as data of various kinds of layouts without storing image data of each layout in a memory, a method of controlling the same, and a computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program. To accomplish this, the image processing apparatus creates, from stored image data, output data complying with an output method. If the layout of the stored image data is not appropriate to the output method, the image processing apparatus executes a conversion process of the image data.
US08311361B2	Digital image enhancement Enhancement of an image includes adjusting its brightness and then adjusting the contrast of the brightness adjusted image. Adjusting the brightness uses an estimation of real world luminance. Contrast adjustment involves extracting background and contrast information, adjusting the contrast information by an adjustment factor based on the background information and combining the background corrected contrast information to obtain an output image.
US08311340B2	Document processing device, document processing system, computer readable medium, and document processing method A document processing device includes: an extraction unit that extracts a first image of an element from a read image of a medium to which the element is affixed; an accepting unit that accepts first information for specifying processing to be performed to a document, the first information being to be associated with the first image of the element; a determination unit that determines whether an image of an element identical to or similar to the first image of the element has been registered in a memory, or not; and a registration unit that registers the first image of the element and the first information for specifying the processing in association with each other in the memory when the determination unit determines that the image of the element identical to or similar to the first image of the element has not been registered in the memory.
US08311339B2	Method to robustly match images with similar body and head pose from image sequence During shopping, a shopper looks at herself in a mirror to evaluate clothing, jewelry, etc. because the mirror can provide a third-person view of the item. One thing a mirror cannot do is to show how two different items look at the same time, because only one item can be tried on at a time. Because of this, shoppers will often repeatedly try on items and must compare the look from memory. To enable self-comparison visually rather than from memory, embodiments can detect matches between images from two separate recorded single camera video sequences (corresponding to two different fittings). The matched images can then be played back to the user in close visual proximity for easy comparison shopping.
US08311335B2	Model-based comparative measure for vector sequences and word spotting using same An object comparison method comprises: generating a first ordered vector sequence representation of a first object; generating a second ordered vector sequence representation of a second object; representing the first object by a first ordered sequence of model parameters generated by modeling the first ordered vector sequence representation using a semi-continuous hidden Markov model employing a universal basis; representing the second object by a second ordered sequence of model parameters generated by modeling the second ordered vector sequence representation using a semi-continuous hidden Markov model employing the universal basis; and comparing the first and second ordered sequences of model parameters to generate a quantitative comparison measure.
US08311322B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer readable medium An image processing apparatus includes: an image dividing unit; a corresponding divided image extract unit; a difference extract unit; a first change unit; a second change unit; and an image output unit.
US08311317B1	Hierarchical spatial representation for multimodal sensory data The present invention creates and stores target representations in several coordinate representations based on biologically inspired models of the human vision system. By using biologically inspired target representations a computer can be programmed for robot control without using kinematics to relate a target position in camera eyes to a target position in body or head coordinates. The robot sensors and appendages are open loop controlled to focus on the target. In addition, the invention herein teaches a scenario and method to learn the mappings between coordinate representations using existing machine learning techniques such as Locally Weighted Projection Regression.
US08311307B2	Structure detection apparatus and method, and computer-readable medium storing program thereof A plurality of candidate points are extracted from image data. The plurality of candidate points are normalized, and a set of representative points composing form model that is most similar to set form is selected from the plurality of candidate points. Further, the candidate points and the form model are compared with each other, and correction is performed by adding a region forming structure or by deleting a region, or the like. Accordingly, the structure is detected in image data.
US08311306B2	System and method for image segmentation in generating computer models of a joint to undergo arthroplasty Systems and methods for image segmentation in generating computer models of a joint to undergo arthroplasty are disclosed. Some embodiments may include a method of partitioning an image of a bone into a plurality of regions, where the method may include obtaining a plurality of volumetric image slices of the bone, generating a plurality of spline curves associated with the bone, verifying that at least one of the plurality of spline curves follow a surface of the bone, and creating a 3D mesh representation based upon the at least one of the plurality of spline curve.
US08311305B2	X-ray diagnostic apparatus, image processing apparatus, and method of calculating filter coefficients used for image formation processing in x-ray diagnostic apparatus and the like A tomosynthesis image is generated by applying preprocessing to each image obtained by capturing a plurality of X-ray images at a plurality of X-ray tube positions and then performing filtering processing and backprojection. At this time, a proper filter coefficient used filtering is determined for each scan track, each image frame, and each pixel position in an image.
US08311303B2	Method and system for semantics driven image registration A method and system for automatic semantics driven registration of medical images is disclosed. Anatomic landmarks and organs are detected in a first image and a second image. Pathologies are also detected in the first image and the second image. Semantic information is automatically extracted from text-based documents associated with the first and second images, and the second image is registered to the first image based the detected anatomic landmarks, organs, and pathologies, and the extracted semantic information.
US08311302B2	Method for identification of dental caries in polychromatic images A method for identification of caries, executed at least in part on data processing hardware, obtains an original digital tooth image that has a plurality of color channels and generates an adjusted image by adjusting intensity values of the original digital tooth image to a range between a minimum value and a maximum value, wherein the adjusted image has at least a green channel image Iwgreen, a red channel image Iwred, and a blue channel image Iwblue. One or more tooth regions are segmented from gum and background regions within the adjusted image according to a relationship between two or more of the images Iwgreen, Iwred, and Iwblue to each other. One or more caries lesions is identified according to pixel intensity values from within the one or more segmented tooth regions, and the one or more tooth regions and the displayed and identified caries regions are highlighted.
US08311299B2	Method and system for intelligent qualitative and quantitative analysis of digital radiography softcopy reading The present invention describes a method and system for intelligent diagnostic relevant information processing and analysis. Information associated with a patient is processed via an image reading platform. Based on such processed information, a matrix of diagnosis decisions containing diagnostic related information is generated via a matrix of diagnosis decision platform. A diagnostic decision is made based on the diagnostic relevant information. The image reading platform and/or the matrix of diagnosis decision platform encapsulate information and toolkits to be used to manipulate the information.
US08311295B2	Avatars in social interactive television Virtual environments are presented on displays along with multimedia programs to permit viewers to participate in a social interactive television environment. The virtual environments include avatars that are created and maintained in part using continually updated animation data that may be captured from cameras that monitor viewing areas in a plurality of sites. User input from the viewers may be processed in determining which viewers are presented in instances of the virtual environment. Continually updating the animation data results in avatars accurately depicting a viewer's facial expressions and other characteristics. Presence data may be collected and used to determine when to capture background images from a viewing area that may later be subtracted during the capture of animation data. Speech recognition technology may be employed to provide callouts within a virtual environment.
US08311287B2	Validation and correction of map data using oblique images Technologies are described herein for validating and correcting map data using oblique images or aerial photographs taken at oblique angles to the earth's surface. Pixels within oblique images can be analyzed to detect, validate, and correct other sources of data used in generating maps such as vector data, elevation maps, projection parameters, and three-dimensional model data. Visibility and occlusion information in oblique views may be analyzed to reduce errors in either occluding or occluded entities. Occlusion of road segments due to foliage, z-ordering of freeways, tunnels, bridges, buildings, and other geospatial entities may be determined, validated, and corrected. A learning algorithm can be trained with image-based descriptors that encode visible data consistencies. After training, the algorithm can classify errors and inconsistencies using combinations of different descriptors such as color, texture, image-gradients, and filter responses.
US08311284B2	Incapacity monitor A method of monitoring incapacity of a subject which includes the steps of continuously monitoring eye and eyelid movement of at least one eye of the subject; analyzing eye and eyelid movements to obtain measures of ocular quiescence and the duration of an interval of no eye or eyelid movement; and if the duration of ocular quiescence exceeds a predetermined value providing a potential incapacity warning and requesting a response within a predetermined period, and applying an emergency procedure if no response is made within a predetermined interval.
US08311283B2	Method for detecting lane departure and apparatus thereof A method for detecting the lane departure of a vehicle includes an image recognition process and a deviation estimation process. The image recognition process includes the following steps: an image capturing step for capturing image frame data by using an image capturing unit; and a lane line recognition for analyzing the image frame data for determining the lane lines. By using a quadratic curve fitting equation, a plurality of lane line being detected so as to establish a road geometry estimation model. The road geometry estimation model is inputted into the deviation estimation process to detect the lane departure of the vehicle so as to alert the driver. Furthermore, an apparatus for detecting the deviation of the vehicle, comprising: an image capturing unit, a processing unit and a signal output unit.
US08311275B1	Selective viewing of a scene Among other disclosed subject matter, a computer-implemented method for performing selective viewing of a scene includes acquiring an image of a real scene using a camera. The method includes identifying, in the acquired image, a first object in the real scene located on a first side of a virtual plane defined for the real scene and a second object located on a second side of the virtual plane. The method includes modifying the acquired image by removing image content corresponding to the identified first object, wherein image content corresponding to the identified second object is not removed based on the second object being located on the second side. The method includes displaying the modified acquired image for a person to view the real scene.
US08311270B2	Device and method for arranging block of vessel A vessel block arranging device extracts image information on a vessel block loaded on a transporter, and determines whether to arrange the vessel block in an area in which the vessel block will be arranged by using location information of the arranged vessel block in the area and extracted image information, thereby reducing errors caused by determining the vessel block arrangement.
US08311269B2	Blocker image identification apparatus and method Frequency analysis is performed on an image signal on a pixel by pixel basis or on a block by block basis, each block including a plurality of pixels, for each frame of the image signal. Then, a motion level or blur level is calculated on a pixel by pixel basis or on a block by block basis in accordance with a result of the frequency analysis. After the calculated motion level or blur level is converted into a binary value, 2-dimensional continuous regions are detected and a large region is extracted from the detected regions. It is then determined whether the large region is a blocker part based on at least one of an area ratio, a shape, and a position of the large region.
US08311268B2	Image object separation Techniques and systems for segmenting one or more objects in a subject image resulting from subjecting one or more objects to imaging using an imaging apparatus are disclosed, such that limitations of image noise, object proximity, image intensity variations, shape complexity, and/or computational resources may be mitigated. Merely border edges of objects in a subject image can be generated, for example, by using edge detection and discarding interior edges. Geometric difference values of the identified boundaries of the objects in the subject image can be calculated. One or more transitions between objects can be identified by using the geometric difference values, for example, which may result in data that represents a location in the image of an object to be segmented.
US08311264B2	Ultra-thin speaker An ultra-thin speaker includes a metal upper casing, and a metal lower casing corresponding to the metal upper casing and capable of covering a vibrating membrane, a support frame, a magnet and a yoke between two corresponding internal surfaces of the metal upper and lower casings and forming a contact surface with the yoke, such that after the yoke conducts heat of a heat source to the metal lower casing, the heat is conducted to the metal upper casing through a connection and a contact of the metal upper and lower casings to increase a heat dissipating area, so as to overcome the heat dissipation problem and minimize the overall thickness of the speaker.
US08311255B2	Headset with microphone and connector co-location An electronic device is provided that includes a housing and a connector assembly coupled to the housing. The connector assembly can include a microphone port. The electronic device can further include a microphone mounted within the housing and a channel that fluidically couples the microphone to the microphone port. A joint connector and microphone assembly is also provided. The assembly can include a microphone with a top surface and side surfaces. The top surface of the microphone can include a microphone input. The assembly can include a microphone boot mounted to the microphone such that the boot interfaces with a portion of the top surface and the side surfaces to form a seal around the microphone input. The microphone boot can include a connector sealing portion and an aperture for fluidically coupling the microphone input to a microphone port. The assembly can include a connector plate mounted to the connector sealing portion.
US08311251B2	Electronic apparatus for connection to a hearing apparatus component with a two-part sleeve An electronic component and, in particular, an external receiver of a hearing aid, are intended to be capable of being configured to be simpler and more robust. To this end, it is proposed that the electronic apparatus, which has an electronic component and a cable which is connected to the electronic component, is equipped with a first sleeve which is arranged around a part of the electronic component and a part of the cable and mechanically connects the two, and a second sleeve, which surrounds another part of the electronic component. The first sleeve and the second sleeve are coaxially directly connected to one another such that both sleeves together also completely surround the electronic component in the axial direction. The two sleeves can possibly be connected to one another by laser welding.
US08311249B2	Information processing apparatus, method and program An information processing apparatus includes: a speaker setup section that sets up each of a plurality of speakers; and a display control section that controls display of information regarding arrangement of the plurality of speakers and setting of the plurality of speakers set up by the speaker setup section.
US08311238B2	Audio signal processing apparatus, and audio signal processing method An audio signal processing apparatus includes: a dividing section dividing each of audio signals of a plurality of channels into a plurality of frequency bands; a phase difference calculating section calculating a phase difference between the audio signals of the plurality of channels, for each of the plurality of frequency bands divided by the dividing section; a level ratio calculating section calculating a level ratio between the audio signals of the plurality of channels, for each of the plurality of frequency bands divided by the dividing section; and an audio signal processing section performing output gain setting with respect to divided signals obtained by the dividing section, on the basis of the phase difference and the level ratio for each of the plurality of frequency bands calculated by the phase difference calculating section and the level ratio calculating section.
US08311235B2	Communication control method, communication system and computer program A method of controlling communication in a communication system includes a plurality of communication devices and a controller that transmits multi-channel data to the plurality of communication devices, executed in a communication device group to which power is supplied without passing through the controller, the method comprising the steps of determining a master communication device in the communication device group that sends the multi-channel data received wirelessly from the controller to other communication device included in the communication device group, according to wireless connection conditions between the controller and each communication device included in the communication device group, and sending, by the master via a wired connection, the multi-channel data received wirelessly from the controller to the other communication device included in the communication device group.
US08311232B2	Method for predicting loudspeaker preference A general model is provided for predicting a loudspeaker preference rating, where the model's predicted loudspeaker preference rating is calculated based upon the sum of a plurality of weighted independent variables that statistically quantify amplitude deviations in a loudspeaker frequency response. The independent variables selected may be independent variables determined as maximizing the ability of a loudspeaker preference variable to predict a loudspeaker preference rating. A multiple regression analysis is performed to determine respective weights for the selected independent variables. The weighted independent variables are arranged into a linear relationship on which the loudspeaker preference variable depends.
US08311229B2	Reduction of clicking sounds in audio data stream Disclosed is a method of reducing clicking sounds in an audio data stream. The samples of the audio data are delayed by a predetermined amount in a sliding window containing a predetermined number of samples. The presence of a clicking sound in the delayed data within said sliding window is detected and the corresponding audio data replaced by substitute data derived from the audio data stream.
US08311221B2	Architecture for reconfigurable quantum key distribution networks based on entangled photons directed by a wavelength selective switch A system and method for securing communications between a plurality of users communicating over an optical network. The system utilizes a fixed or tunable source optical generator to generate entangled photon pairs, distribute the photons and establish a key exchange between users. The distribution of entangled photon pairs is implemented via at least one wavelength selective switch.
US08311220B2	AV data transmission apparatus and AV data transmission method Provided is an AV data transmission apparatus including two or more output channels, an encryption unit encrypting AV data using an encryption key, and an AV data transmission unit transmitting the encryption key and the encrypted AV data to AV data reception apparatuses from each output channel. The apparatus also includes an encryption key switching unit switching an encryption key generation scheme to another one for the encryption key transmitted through a selected output channel, an output suspension unit suspending output of the encrypted AV data transmitted through a selected output channel, and a control unit (i) causing the output suspension unit to select an output channel and suspend the output of the encrypted AV data through the selected output channel, and then (ii) causing the encryption key switching unit to select the same output channel and switch the encryption key generation scheme to another one for the output channel.
US08311210B1	Isolated high gain line amplifier circuit Systems and methods for a line amplifier circuit are disclosed. The line amplifier circuit generally includes a first microphone transmit line, a second microphone transmit line, and a light emitting diode with a controllable variable light output. A photo-resistor cell is coupled across the first microphone transmit line and the second microphone transmit line. The photo-resistor cell is operable to attenuate gain on the first microphone transmit line and the second transmit line responsive to the controllable variable light output from the light-emitting diode.
US08311197B2	Method and system for allocating, revoking and transferring resources in a conference system A method of allocating, revoking and transferring resources from a pool of conference resources provided by a conference system comprises assigning a guaranteed status to at least some participants to a conference to be hosted by the system. At least some of the resources may be reserved for the guaranteed status participants, to enable the guaranteed status participants to participate in the conference. When another participant to the conference is received, the other participant may be assigned a provisional status. Unused resources in the pool of resources may be allocated as provisional resources to the provisional status participant and the participant is admitted to participate in the conference utilizing the provisional resources. The provisional resources may be reserved for, but are at the time not used by a guaranteed status participant. Borrowed resources may be reclaimed and transferred to the guaranteed status participant.
US08311196B2	Automatic mute detection A system and methodology for managing a mute function muting a connection to a conference call or other communication is disclosed. The system is implemented when the mute function is activated on a line connected to a conference call through a telecommunications network. The method includes receiving a sound, determining whether the sound meets predetermined criteria and if the sound meets predetermined criteria then performing a mute status operation.
US08311195B2	Communication terminal apparatus The present invention provides a communication terminal apparatus comprising: an application execution unit operable to perform prescribed operations for communications; an address book updating unit operable to update first party information included in an address book to second party information, the address book being stored on an address book storage medium and including one or more pieces of party information and one or more names in one-to-one correspondence; and an application information updating unit operable to update a piece of party information that is stored on an application information storage medium and the same as the first party information to the second party information according to the updating by the address book updating unit, the application information storage medium storing thereon one or more pieces of party information and being referred to by the application execution unit.
US08311193B2	Charging method and control device for group main line service A charging method for group main line, GML, service is disclosed. For an outgoing call from an extension of the GML, the initiated call is identified by adding a prefix for group service before the called number. When an intelligent network, IN, finds that there is the prefix for group service before the called number, the call is processed as collectively paid by the GML. A service control point, SCP, generates a call record for the call and places a special identification code in the call record. An incoming call redirected through the GML is also processed as collectively paid by the GML. The SCP generates a call record for the call and places a special identification code in the call record. The present invention also discloses a service control device.
US08311190B2	Performing human client verification over a voice interface Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for verifying incoming telephone calls to a telephone services subscriber. An incoming telephone call from a caller is received. A time variable including one or more of a current date, a day-of-week, and a time-of-day is determined. One or more challenge questions is selected from a pre-defined schedule, in response to determining the time variable. The schedule includes challenge questions for different time variables. The caller is subjected to the one or more challenge questions. At least one challenge response to one or more of the selected challenge questions is received. It is determined whether the at least one challenge response was an expected correct response. If the at least one challenge response was correct, an action is taken with respect to the incoming telephone call.
US08311189B2	Method and device for enabling message responses to incoming phone calls A computing device is configured to receive an incoming communication from another computing device. The incoming communication may be for purpose of initiating a voice-exchange session. In response to receiving the incoming call, the computing device may identify or determine a message identifier of the other computing device. The message identifier is determined based at least in part on data provided with the incoming communication. The computing device may programmatically address a message to the other computing device using the message identifier determined from the incoming communication.
US08311185B2	Multi-energy x-ray source A system for generating image data includes a voltage supply configured for applying a first voltage to generate radiation at a first energy level, and for applying a second voltage to generate radiation at a second energy level, an imager for generating a first set of image data based at least in part on the radiation at the first energy level, and for generating a second set of image data based at least in part on the radiation at the second energy level, and a processor for creating composite image data using the first and the second sets of image data.
US08311182B2	System and method of notch filtration for dual energy CT An imaging system includes an x-ray source that emits a beam of x-rays toward an object to be imaged, a detector that receives the x-rays attenuated by the object, a spectral notch filter positioned between the x-ray source and the object, a data acquisition system (DAS) operably connected to the detector, and a computer operably connected to the DAS and programmed to acquire a first image dataset at a first kVp, acquire a second image dataset at a second kVp that is greater than the first kVp, and generate an image of the object using the first image dataset and the second image dataset.
US08311179B2	Methods for stabilizing a steam dryer assembly in a nuclear reactor pressure vessel A device and method for stabilizing a dryer assembly in a reactor pressure vessel of a nuclear reactor including a spring assembly dimensioned and positioned within the reactor pressure vessel for applying a stabilizing force to the dryer assembly relative to the reactor pressure vessel.
US08311178B2	pH adjusting apparatus A pH adjusting apparatus arranged above a water pit for refueling disposed in a reactor container that stores a nuclear reactor includes a pH adjuster, a basket 50 that contains the pH adjuster, and a basket housing container 51 that houses the basket 50 therein and has formed therein an inlet through which a solvent for dissolving or diluting the pH adjuster flows in and an overflow pipe 52 through which a pH-adjusted solution generated by dissolving or mixing the pH adjuster in the solvent flows out to the water pit for refueling. Consequently, even if it is difficult to dispose the basket 50 on a floor of the water pit for refueling, it is possible to suitably perform pH adjustment in the reactor container.
US08311176B2	Clock and data recovery employing piece-wise estimation on the derivative of the frequency A system and method for performing clock and data recovery. The system sets the phase of a recovered clock signal 30 according to at least three estimates of the rate of change of an offset between the frequency of the data transmitter clock and the frequency of a receiver clock 15.
US08311174B1	Persistent synchronization within a media oriented systems transport network A method of processing data within a controller for a network can include, while frame lock is not established, detecting a first preamble and a second preamble within a data stream of the network (1210, 1235). Biphase units between the first preamble and the second preamble can be counted (1215). Frame lock can be acquired on the data stream responsive to determining that the first preamble and the second preamble are separated by a number of biphase units corresponding to a frame (1235). A synchronization signal indicating that frame lock has been acquired can be output responsive to acquiring frame lock on the data stream (1240).
US08311161B2	Sphere detector performing depth-first search until terminated Systems and methods detect a communication received at receiving antennas from transmitting antennas. Each transmitting antenna transmits a symbol in a constellation. A sphere detector performs a depth-first search until the depth-first search terminates in response to a terminate signal requesting the result from the sphere detector. The depth-first search evaluates respective distances of one or mode leaf nodes in response to the communication received at the receiving antennas. The depth-first search selects the result from these nodes in response to the respective distances. The result includes a selected leaf node that identifies a corresponding symbol in the constellation for each transmitting antenna, with this symbol detected as transmitted by the transmitting antenna.
US08311160B1	Explicit beamformee method and apparatus for MIMO and MISO systems with single data stream Channel state information (CSI) is determined for a single data stream transmitted via a plurality of antennas. Cophasing angles are determined for the plurality of antennas using the CSI. The cophasing angles are quantized, and explicit beamforming feedback is generated based on using the quantized cophasing angles as indices into a look-up table.
US08311151B2	Pulse radio transmission apparatus and transceiver A radio transmission apparatus has a first duty adjustment circuit which changes a duty ratio of a clock signal, a second duty adjustment circuit which changes the duty ratio of the clock signal to a duty ratio different from the duty ratio of the clock signal changed by the first duty adjustment circuit, a first AND circuit which takes a logical product between a data signal and the clock signal having passed through the first duty adjustment circuit, and a second AND circuit which takes a logical product between an output signal of the first AND circuit and the clock signal having passed through inversion of the output of the second duty adjustment circuit to generate a pulse signal.
US08311150B2	Method for achieving transmission diversity in a multiple antenna system A method for achieving transmission diversity in a multiple antenna system is disclosed. The transmission diversity method includes selecting a column vector from a matrix DETERMINED according to a resource index and a current rank, and multiplying the selected column vector by a transmission symbol.
US08311138B2	Communication apparatus and communication method A wireless communication apparatus and a wireless communication method wherein even when the permissible delay amount of data is small, the permissible delay thereof can be satisfied. A data type determining part (101) determines whether the delay of transport data or control information should be allowed or not. A pilot signal insertion control part (102) decides, based on pilot insertion interval information and allowable delay information, that a pilot signal is placed adjacently to data that is not allowed to delay. A multiplexing part (106) multiplexes encoded and modulated transport data with the pilot signal generated by a pilot signal generating part (105) in such a manner that realizes the placement decided by the pilot signal insertion control part (102).
US08311135B2	Wireless communication apparatus A wireless communication device including a sending data amount determination unit, a data sending unit, a monitor function unit, a transmission control data producing unit, a transmission control data sending unit, a data reception unit, and an application I/F (interface) unit. The transmission control data sending unit includes a transmission control data separation unit, a transmission control data replication unit, and a data mapping unit.
US08311133B2	Method and apparatus for sensing signaling parameters in a wireless communications network A new channel is added to FLO networks that carries embedded signaling parameter information. The design is such that regardless of the actual values of the signaling parameters conveyed, a receiver will be able to demodulate this new channel. Moreover, the addition of the new channel does not render a FLO network that has been so configured to not be backwards-compatible with existing devices.
US08311130B2	Block distortion detection method, block distortion detection apparatus, block distortion removal method, and block distortion removal apparatus A video decoder is connected with a block distortion detector for specifying the boundary of blocks where block boundary occurs, using decoded image data and information of motion vectors, which are supplied from the video decoder; and a block distortion remover for subjecting pixels in the vicinity of the block boundary of the decoded image to filtering on the basis of the result of detection from the block distortion detector, thereby removing the block distortion. Therefore, block distortion is accurately detected when a compressed and coded image is decoded, and the detected block distortion is removed while minimizing the blurriness of the image.
US08311128B2	Method of processing a coded data stream A method of processing a coded data stream of a current image on a receiving device, the data stream being organized into packets, comprises a step of detecting a lost packet.It further comprises: a step of estimating, prior to the decoding of the current image, an importance criterion of the lost packet, the importance criterion being determined from at least one decoded preceding image; and a step of requesting retransmission of the lost packet depending on said estimated importance criterion. Use in particular for improving the transmission of a video.
US08311106B2	Method of encoding and decoding motion picture frames Provided is a method for encoding and decoding a motion picture frame, which achieve natural picture conversion of frames near an Instantaneous Decoding Refresh-I (IDR-I) frame. The decoding method includes: decoding a first frame which is a P frame that is to be displayed last among a plurality of P frames that are to be displayed before an IDR-I frame is displayed; decoding the IDR-I frame; decoding a second frame which is a P frame that is to be displayed first among a plurality of P frames that are to be displayed after the IDR-I frame is displayed; and maintaining a reference frame stored in a buffer, for decoding the first frame until the second frame is decoded. Therefore, by allowing frames near an IDR-I frame to access reference frames stored in a buffer, natural picture conversion is possible, and accordingly smooth picture conversion without flickering is possible.
US08311102B2	Bitstream switching in multiple bit-rate video streaming environments Bitstream switching for multiple bit rate video streaming uses a first algorithm to generate multiple encoded bitstreams of a piece of video at different bit rates. A different algorithm is used to generate multiple side bitstreams of the video. Each side stream is generated at respective ones of the different bit rates. The side bitstreams comprise switching frames to switch from a first bitstream encoded with the first algorithm at a first bit rate to a second bitstream encoded with the first algorithm at a different bit rate. At non-bitstream switching points, frames from respective ones of bitstreams generated with the first algorithm are streamed for presentation. At a bitstream switching point, a switching frame from a respective side bitstream is transmitted to a decoder to transition streaming from a first of the respective ones of the bitstreams to a second of the respective ones of the bitstreams.
US08311100B2	Information handling method for mapping information items to respective nodes An information handling method in which information items are mapped to respective nodes in an array of nodes by mutual similarity of the information items, such that similar information items map to nodes at similar positions in the array of nodes; a mapping relationship being defined between feature data relating to an information item and nodes in the array of nodes comprises the steps of: (a) for each of a group of information items: detecting feature data representing each of a set of properties of that information item; (b) for the ensemble of feature data corresponding to the group of information items: detecting more significant and less significant properties within the ensemble; discarding feature data relating to less significant properties, the remaining non-discarded feature data being associated so as to generate a reduced feature vector for each information item; (c) defining a mapping between the reduced feature vectors and nodes in the array of nodes.
US08311099B2	Method and apparatus for coding image information, method and apparatus for decoding image information, method and apparatus for coding and decoding image information, and system of coding and transmitting image information An image encoding method for encoding an image in an image encoding apparatus. The encoding process includes performing, in a quantization unit in the image encoding apparatus, quantization on a chroma component of transform coefficients using a chroma quantization parameter calculated on the basis of a luma quantization parameter weighted by an addition operation that adds a weight parameter; and encoding, in an encoding unit in the image encoding apparatus, a chroma component of quantized coefficients.
US08311097B2	Image processing method for adaptive spatial-temporal resolution frame An image processing method for RDO based adaptive spatial-temporal resolution frame is provided for significantly reducing distortion of the decoded video image, which is resulted from over-compression or over-quantization by the encoder in a low code rate. By employing such image processing method, when the encoder detects that the allocated code rate is below the critical point, most appropriated temporal resolution and spatial resolution in an allocated specific code rate are found automatically based on the principle of rate distortion optimization, then after the decoding of the decoder, the resolution of the input image is recovered according to a certain algorithm.
US08311093B2	Signal transmission apparatus and signal transmission method When transmitting an input image signal and an audio signal inputted in synchronization with the input image signal, each frame in the input image signal are divided into first, second, third, and fourth subimages and pixel samples of the subimages are mapped onto image data regions of two-channel HD-SDI signals, respectively, and the audio signal is mapped onto supplementary data regions included in horizontal ancillary data spaces of any of the two-channel HD-SDI signals onto which the subimages are respectively mapped. The pixel samples mapped onto the image data regions of the two-channel HD-SDI signals are multiplexed onto an image data region of a first transfer data stream and the audio signal mapped onto the supplemental data regions included in horizontal ancillary data spaces of any of the two-channel HD-SDI signals is multiplexed onto a horizontal ancillary data space of a second transfer data stream.
US08311082B2	Wideband digital radio with transmit modulation cancellation A microwave radio assembly is described including a directional antenna wherein the installation and aiming is simplified. The assembly is attached to the wall-mount fix via gimbals mechanism with one rotation axis for azimuth and one for elevation and the assembly preferably includes a sight mechanism including a pair of visual apertures is located in the radio assembly in a line parallel to the radio antenna radiation direction. The radio assembly further includes a modulation cancellation scheme in full duplex mode.
US08311079B2	Base station apparatus and radio communication method A wireless communication apparatus capable of minimizing the degradation in separation characteristic of a code multiplexed response signal. In this apparatus, a control part (209) controls both a AC sequence to be used in a primary spreading in a spreading part (214) and a Walsh sequence to be used in a secondary spreading in a spreading part (217) so as to allow a very small circular shift interval of the ZC sequence to absorb the interference components remaining in the response signal; the spreading part (214) uses the ZC sequence set by the control part (209) to primary spread the response signal; and the spreading part (217) uses the Walsh sequence set by the control part (209) to secondary spread the response signal to which CP has been added.
US08311078B2	Signal generating apparatus, transmission apparatus, signal generating method, transmission method, and communication system A signal generating apparatus includes a spreading device that respectively spreads data using spreading code that is based on an initial phase; a multiplexing unit that code multiplexes the data spread by the spreading device; a calculating unit that calculates a peak of a signal resulting from code multiplexing by the multiplexing unit; a changing unit that changes the initial phase of the spreading device in a predetermined order; a determining unit that each time the initial phase is changed by the changing unit, determines whether the peak calculated by the calculating unit is at most a threshold; and a transmission control unit that outputs the signal, if the determining unit determines that the peak is less than or equal to the threshold.
US08311075B2	Method for decoding digital data in a frequency hopping communication system An improved method is provided for decoding data in a frequency hopping communications system. The method includes: monitoring transition points between data bits in a demodulated data stream, where the data bits are transmitted to a receiver over different transmission frequencies; determining a frequency over which data bits are transmitted to the receiver; determining a reliability metric for each frequency over which data bits were received, where the reliability metric is based on transition points of data bits transmitted over a given frequency; and performing a decoding operation using the reliability metric for each frequency over which data bits were received.
US08311074B2	Low power, high resolution timing generator for ultra-wide bandwidth communication systems A data communication method is provided, comprising: processing high-speed digital data for communication to produce processed data; generating short impulse wavelets; constructing a digitally modulated ultra wideband signal from the short impulse wavelets in response to bits of the processed data, wherein the digitally modulated ultra wideband signal comprises a series of the short impulse wavelets, and the value of each bit of the processed data is digitally modulated onto the shape of at least one of the short impulse wavelets of the series, to produce a series of digitally shape modulated impulse wavelets; and transmitting the digitally modulated ultra wideband signal, including the series of digitally shape modulated impulse wavelets, via an antenna.
US08311064B1	Programmable pre-emphasis circuit for serial ATA A transmitter including an analog front end configured to receive a serial signal; a control circuit configured to generate a first gain signal and a second gain signal based on a characteristic of a serial channel; a first amplifier is configured to amplify the serial signal to generate a first amplified signal based on the first gain signal; a first delay device configured to delay the serial signal to generate a first delayed signal; a second amplifier configured to amplify the first delayed signal to generate a second amplified signal based on the second gain signal; and at least one summer is configured to sum the first amplified signal and the second amplified signal to generate an output signal. The output signal is transmitted on the serial channel.
US08311062B2	Method and arrangement for alignment of protocol data units in a wireless communication system The present invention relates to a method and arrangement for communicating a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) between a transmitter unit and a receiver unit in a wireless communication network. Said PDU comprising protocol headers associated with at least a first and a second protocol layers involved in the communication and a payload to be communicated. The method comprises the step of interacting between the at least first and second protocol layers, such that the sum of the bits of the protocol headers is n-bit aligned such as octet aligned independently of non-alignment of at least one of the protocol headers comprised in the PDU.
US08311054B2	Transmitting/receiving system, node and communication method A transmitting/receiving system includes a control field controlling a transmitting priority of a dynamic slot is included in each communication cycle, and a node of the transmitting/receiving system sets control information including a preferential usage request for a dynamic slot that the node transmits in the control field and notifies all nodes in the transmitting/receiving system of the preferential usage request for the dynamic slot.
US08311038B2	Instant internet browser based VoIP system The present invention is an instant Internet browser based VoIP system with a VoIP client in the form of temporary VoIP applets that can start in a Web browser and can establish an instant peer-to-peer connection with another web-based or hardware embedded/installed VoIP client using session initiation protocol (SIP) and real-time transport protocol (RTP) audio streaming. The applet is a small file that is easily loaded onto a user's browser and uses application program interfaces (APIs) that require no additional libraries. The applet is written in JAVA, although other programming languages may also be used to write the applet.
US08311035B2	Methods and apparatus for communicating internet protocol based control signaling through a communications system An embodiment of a method for communicating call control signaling information in a communications system that includes a user equipment (UE) and a base includes the UE formatting the call control signaling information, transmitting the call control signaling information over a first logical channel that is mapped to a first transport channel, and transmitting user traffic over a second logical channel that is mapped to a second transport channel. In an embodiment, the base receives the call control signaling information from the UE over the first logical channel, receives the user traffic from the UE over the second logical channel, and transmits the call control signaling information to a core network. In an embodiment, the communication system is an IP network in which information is exchanged between the UE and the base using a W-CDMA transmission protocol. The base may form a portion of a satellite-based radio network.
US08311032B2	Dynamically provisioning virtual machines Method and computer program for managing the network response times experienced by virtual machines. Traffic is routed within an Ethernet network through a network switch according to IP addresses identified within Ethernet frames. A plurality of compute nodes are each coupled to the network switch via a separate Ethernet link. A response time is determined for each virtual machine running on the compute nodes, wherein the response time for a particular virtual machine is the difference between a time stamp in a TCP/IP Request message and a time stamp in a TCP/IP Response message for an IP address assigned to the particular virtual machine. The particular virtual machine may then be migrated to a target compute node in response to a particular one of the virtual machines on a particular one of the compute nodes having a response time that exceeds a response time setpoint.
US08311031B2	Cell search method, forward link frame transmission method, apparatus using the same and forward link frame structure A method of and an apparatus therefor searching a cell in a mobile station of a communication system in which a plurality of cells are grouped into a plurality of cell groups, and each cell group includes at least two cells. The method includes detecting a primary synchronization signal and a secondary synchronization signal from a received signal, and identifying a cell based on a combination of the primary synchronization signal and the secondary synchronization signal. The secondary synchronization signal is related to the cell group to which the mobile station belongs and the primary synchronization signal is related to the cell to which the mobile station belongs within the cell group.
US08311025B2	Method, data structure and computer system for packing a worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX) frame A method of packing a Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) frame, characterised in that the method comprises the steps of: creating a matrix of substantially the same number of rows and columns as the WiMAX frame; mapping a first control message to a position in a first corner of the matrix; mapping a first data message to a position in a second corner of the matrix, wherein the second corner is opposite in a predetermined direction to the first corner; mapping a plurality of further control messages to the matrix in a first direction moving from the first corner towards the centre of the matrix; and mapping a plurality of further data messages to the matrix in a second direction that is different from the first direction, from the second corner of the matrix towards the centre of the matrix; until one or more of the further data messages meets one or more of the further control messages; copying the control messages from the matrix to a first area of the WiMAX frame; arranging the control messages in the WiMAX frame so that the first control message is located at the start of the frame; and copying the data messages from the matrix to a second area of the WiMAX frame, so that the first data message is located directly after the control messages.
US08311022B2	Method for accessing hybrid network, and gateway apparatus, wireless terminal and communication system thereof A method for accessing a hybrid network including a wide area network and a distributed network, a gateway apparatus, a wireless terminal and a gateway communication system are disclosed for reducing the power consumption of the wireless terminal which is an access gateway. The method comprises: sensing by a gateway apparatus a relay request slot on a downlink common control channel of the wide area network; transmitting by a wireless terminal a relay request signal requesting to relay a data packet to be transmitted, in the relay request slot on the downlink common control channel; and if the relay request signal from the wireless terminal is sensed in the relay request slot, establishing by the gateway apparatus a connection with the wireless terminal in a distributed network environment. As such, the gateway apparatus accesses the wireless distributed network only when the surrounding wireless terminals require data relay, without sensing signals on both networks simultaneously, in order to reduce the power consumption.
US08311020B2	Communication system allowing network nodes to efficiently establish communications with a controller A communication system is provided that includes a controller and a system to allow efficient transmission of information with a plurality of nodes. The information includes an alignment signal provided from the controller to enable the nodes to align their response signals. The information further includes node identification information. Once alignment and identification occur, nodes can then transmit packet data to the controller.
US08311014B2	Virtual care-of address for mobile IP (internet protocol) An IP (Internet Protocol) session for a mobile node is carried out through the use of a virtual care-of address. A foreign agent sends an agent advertisement to the mobile node to allow the mobile node to choose from a list of IP addresses of the foreign agent. To perform virtual care-of address services, the foreign agent ties the virtual care-of address to a mobile node so that an intelligent and dynamic selection of tunnels to be used for the IP session can occur. Therefore, traffic for an IP session is not limited to transmission over the single particular tunnel that corresponds to an IP address initially selected by the mobile node. Rather, the virtual care-of address shifts the tunneling decision from the mobile node to the foreign agent. Supporting multiple tunnels between home agent and foreign agent allows resilience, redundancy, and service-level differentiation to mobile node traffic without involving the mobile node in the process.
US08311013B2	Method for efficiently increasing hand-off and access reliability A method, a network base station, and a user communication device for transmitting control data are disclosed. A processor 210 may encode a rescue frame 502 of a set of frames with a higher rescue overhead to data ratio. The processor 210 may encode an ancillary frame 504 of the set of frames with a lower rescue overhead to data ratio. A transceiver 240 may transmit the set of frames.
US08310999B2	Mesh deterministic access (MDA) procedure in wireless mesh network and wireless device supporting the same Provided are a procedure for mesh deterministic access (MDA) in wireless mesh network and a wireless device supporting the procedure. In the method, an intended transmitter transmits an a mesh deterministic access opportunity (MDAOP) setup request message including information for specifying times of a new MDAOP set and information for identifying the new MDAOP set to intended receivers. In this case, the MDAOP setup request message is a setup request message for a broadcast MDAOP. And, the intended transmitter receives an MDAOP setup reply message including a reply code from the intended receivers. The reply code may indicate either accept or refusal of the request for the new MDAOP set.
US08310995B2	Systems and methods for wireless communication using SDMA In a wireless communication system for communicating with a plurality of stations at the same point of time with the same frequency using a Space Division Multiple Access (SDMA), wireless resources are allocated by a first decision unit which evaluates performance of each station obtained when the SDMA is used and which determines periods of time to be allocated to groups of stations formed according to the SDMA technique. Using a first evaluation unit and a second evaluation unit to evaluate performance required by each station and each application, the first decision unit allocates the wireless resources to the stations. It is therefore possible that the wireless resources are efficiently allocated to the stations while preventing an event in which the wireless resources are excessive or insufficient for required quality of service.
US08310993B2	Acknowledging communication in a wireless network A wireless network buffers and sends segments of transfer communication protocol (TCP) data to a user equipment (UE). The wireless network may count a number of the sent segments of the TCP data for allocation of uplink resources. The UE sends an uplink segment over the allocated uplink resources, which may include information indicating acknowledgment of receipt of the sent segments of TCP data.
US08310992B2	System and method of data access for mobile stations Method and apparatus for data access for a mobile terminal comprising a module for determining whether first and second modes of wireless network coverage is available, a module for selecting the first mode if available, a module for attempting access via the second mode on failure to establish access via the first mode and a module for monitoring availability of the first mode. Even when a connection is established via the second mode, availability of the first mode is monitored and access attempted, when second mode connection is idle.
US08310981B2	Common and dedicated modulation and coding scheme for a multicarrier system A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided in which at least one modulation and coding scheme (MCS) is determined based on feedback received for a plurality of downlink (DL) carriers and transmitted from a device. Data is modulated and coded, according to the at least one MCS, for transmission to the device on the DL carriers.
US08310975B2	Optimal beam scheduling for multicasting in wireless networks Systems and methods are disclosed to partition a multicast group into a plurality of partitions where each partition has a mutually exclusive subset of users or clients; scheduling beam transmission with switched beamforming antennas; and performing the multicast transmission in accordance with the beam scheduling.
US08310974B2	Apparatus and method for supporting multicast and broadcast service in a broadband wireless access (BWA) system An apparatus and a method for providing a MultiCast and BroadCast Service (MCBCS) in a Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) system are provided. The method includes receiving a message comprising information relating to a broadcast channel which carries a service guide, from a Base Station (BS), receiving service guides relating to one or more service providers over the broadcast channel using the information, when the received service guides are fragmented service guides having a certain size, generating a unified service guide by reassembling the fragmented service guides and when one service provider is selected, filtering only a service guide of the selected service provider in the unified service guide and displaying the filtered service guide in a display. Thus, the channel transition time can be reduced.
US08310971B2	Method of supporting operation of sleep mode in a wideband radio access system A method of indicating downlink traffic to a mobile subscriber station that is in a sleep mode includes transmitting a sleep request message to a base station (BS); entering the sleep mode in response to a sleep response message received from the BS, wherein the sleep response message includes a first SLPID; receiving a traffic indication message including a FMT field indicating formats for the traffic indication message from the BS during a listening interval of the sleep mode, wherein the FMT field indicates one of an SLPID bitmap based format and an SLPID based format, and the traffic indication message further includes a second SLPID when the SLPID based format is used; and terminating the sleep mode to receive the downlink traffic when the second SLPID in the traffic indication message is same as the first SLPID included in the sleep response message.
US08310965B1	Buffered audio system with synchronizing bus controller An audio system includes an audio client device and an access point. The audio client device includes a buffer, a clock generator, a bus controller, a bus receiver, and a control module. The buffer is configured to receive a stream of samples of audio data. The clock generator is configured to generate a first clock signal. The bus controller is configured to read samples from the buffer for transmission across a bus using the first clock signal. The bus receiver is configured to receive samples from the bus controller and output a sampling clock along with each sample. The control module is configured to analyze activity of the buffer and modify operation of the bus controller to synchronize the sampling clock with a remote sampling clock. The access point includes an audio content module, a decoding module, and a network interface that wirelessly transmits the stream of samples.
US08310952B2	Methods and apparatuses for generating network test packets and parts of network test packets Some aspects of the technology relate to the generation for test purposes of test packet ingredients by a microprocessor, ongoing with the generation for test purposes of test packets incorporating the test packet ingredients by a high-speed FPGA. Some aspects of the technology relate to the generation of outgoing test packets incorporating the test packet ingredients, at a programmable logic device such as an FPGA. These aspects are implemented as an apparatus, a method, computer readable medium, and a data structure.
US08310949B2	System and method for enhanced physical layer device autonegotiation A system and method for enhanced physical layer device autonegotiation. The autonegotiation process typically identifies the highest common denominator amongst various standardized modes of operation. Enhanced autonegotiation can be used to select a mode of operation that is not the highest common denominator. Enhanced autonegotiation can also identify a non-standardized mode of operation using next page messaging, additional physical signaling, or Layer 2 messaging.
US08310945B2	Method for coding and transmitting transport format combination indicator A method and matrixes for transmitting an transport format combination indicator is disclosed. The matrixes according to the invention comprising five column vectors of 32 elements of binary code derived from OVSF codes which are to be multiplied to the lower bits of a TFCI and one column vector of 32 elements of 1 when (32,6) codes are used.
US08310934B2	Method and device for controlling information channel flow A method for controlling information channel flow is provided according to the present invention, and includes: receiving information from multiple information channels of a data sending device, where the multiple information channels are divided into at least two channel groups, and a group number is set for the at least two channel groups respectively; determining an information channel requiring flow adjustment in the multiple information channels, and obtaining a group number of a channel group including the information channel requiring flow adjustment; generating flow operation information; and sending the flow operation information to the data sending device.
US08310933B2	Method and a device for reporting the number of correctly decoded transport blocks in a wireless system A method and a device for reporting the number of correctly decoded transport blocks in a wireless system. The maximum number of correctly decoded transport blocks within a reporting period is determined. Then the actual number of correctly decoded transport blocks is determined and cultivated into an indication thereof on the basis of the maximum number. The indication is sent to a network element capable of decoding it for analysis.
US08310926B1	Modem count based load balancing in a cable network Load balancing across RF channels in a cable plant is challenging where individual cable modems have multiple receive/transmit channels. Load balancing may be taken into account in the assignments of channels to requesting modems in a registration process. Requesting modems may be registered in a sequence of descending order defined by the number of channels requested. Channel sets may be selected to minimize a maximum delta metric of load balancing. It is preferred to normalize the “weight” of a modem on a channel based on the modem capabilities. The relative weight may be inversely related to the number of channels supported by the modem. Load balancing techniques disclosed may be applied to both upstream and downstream channels. Current load balance quality is estimated and reported to an operator.
US08310924B2	Method and apparatus for providing QoS for MP subscribers at the subscriber level A method for providing Quality of Service (QoS) for a Multilink Protocol (MP) subscriber at the subscriber level is described. In one embodiment of the invention, a network element fragments a packet destined for a subscriber into multiple fragments and adds any necessary encapsulations (e.g., MP protocol encapsulation, Point-to-Point protocol encapsulation, layer 2 encapsulations). The network element links the fragments together to form a MP batch packet. The network element sends the MP batch packet to a single egress queue associated with the subscriber. The fragments are distributively transmitted across the links associated with the subscriber. Other methods and apparatuses are also described herein.
US08310916B2	Data transmission apparatus and a data transmission method A data transmission apparatus of this invention includes a first transmitting unit, a second transmitting unit, and a switching unit. The first transmitting unit generates a first error correction information, outputs the first data and the first error correction information to the switching unit and transmits a timing information of the first data and a first specified information to specify the first data to the second transmitting unit. The second transmitting unit compares a second specified information to specify the second data and the first specified information and transmitting the a first comparison result of the second specified information and the first specified information to the switching unit. The switching unit transmits the first data and the first error correction information when the first comparison result is not indicating a match of the second specified information and the first specified information.
US08310914B2	Phantom use in DSL system Superimposing phantom-mode signals reinforces existing differentially driven DSL downstream signals in a vectored binder of DSLs or reinforces upstream vectored signals in a binder of differentially excited twisted pairs, thus expanding the extra transmission modes of the previous GDSL multi-wire two-sided-excitation invention to the case where coordination can only occur on one-side of the binder. Each pair is treated as a common-mode antenna with respect to earth ground, with some pairs selectively excited at the transformer center tap at the transmit end with respect to a common (earth or chassis) ground reference. Corresponding receivers on other non-excited pairs sense the signals between their center taps and a ground at the opposite ends of the lines to the exciting transmitters. A dual use with hybrid circuits allows the receiving circuit to also have an upstream transmitter and an upstream-sensing receiver on the center tap of the opposite side of an adjacent wire.
US08310908B2	Spherical aberration correction appropriate position search apparatus, and spherical aberration correction appropriate position search method A focus error amplitude obtaining device is configured to obtain amplitudes of a focus error signal. An error amplitude difference calculation device is configured to calculate an error amplitude difference which is a difference between the amplitudes of the focus error signal obtained at two different positions in a moving range of a spherical aberration correction device. An appropriate position search control device is in charge of overall control of structural elements; spherical aberration correction device movement control device, focus error amplitude obtaining device, and error amplitude difference calculation device. The appropriate position search control device decides an appropriate position of the spherical aberration correction device based on the error amplitude difference.
US08310901B1	Method and system for providing separate write and optical modules in an energy assisted magnetic recording disk drive An energy assisted magnetic recording (EAMR) transducer coupled with a laser is described. The EAMR transducer has an air-bearing surface (ABS) residing near a media during use. The EAMR transducer includes optical and writer modules. The optical module includes a waveguide and a near field transducer (NFT). The waveguide directs the energy from the laser toward the ABS. The NFT focuses the energy onto the media. The optical and writer modules are physically separate such that no portion of the waveguide is interleaved with a magnetic portion of the writer module. The writer module includes a write pole and coil(s). The write pole includes a pole-tip portion for providing a magnetic field to the media and a yoke. The pole-tip portion has an ABS-facing surface, a sloped surface, and a NFT-facing surface therebetween. The sloped surface is at least twenty-five and not more than sixty-five degrees from the NFT-facing surface.
US08310894B1	Write-assist and power-down circuit for low power SRAM applications Described herein are methods and apparatuses for write-assist voltage generation and power-down voltage scaling for static random access memory (SRAM) cells. According to various embodiments, an SRAM cell may include a local power supply voltage node for receiving a power supply voltage generated by a power supply voltage generator circuit, the generated power supply voltage being substantially equal to or less than a global power supply voltage provided to one or more transistors of the SRAM cell during a write-enable or power-down mode.
US08310892B2	Capacitive discharge method for writing to non-volatile memory A memory system includes a substrate, control circuitry on the substrate, a three dimensional memory array (above the substrate) that includes a plurality of memory cells with reversible resistance-switching elements, and circuits for limiting the SET current for the reversible resistance-switching elements. The circuits for limiting the SET current provide a charge on one or more bit lines that is not sufficient to SET the memory cells, and then discharge the bit lines through the memory cells in order to SET the memory cells.
US08310884B2	Semiconductor memory device A sense amplifier circuit senses and amplifies a signal read from memory cells arranged at intersections of word-lines and bit-lines. A write circuit reads first data held in a first memory cell of the memory cells, and writes second data corresponding to the first data in a second memory cell different from the first memory cell. A data latch circuit holds data read from the first memory cell. A logic operation circuit performs a logic operation using data read from the second memory cell and data held in the data latch circuit as input values and outputs third data as an operation value. A write-back circuit writes the third data back to the first memory cell.
US08310881B2	Semiconductor device testing memory cells and test method Disclosed are a semiconductor device capable of testing memory cells and a test method. The semiconductor device includes a plurality of terminals, each terminal being configured to receive similar data during a test mode, a plurality of buffers, each buffer being configured to receive data from a corresponding terminal and output either the data or changed data to a corresponding memory cells in response to a control signal, and a control unit configured to generate a plurality of control signals, each control signal being respectively applied to a corresponding buffer.
US08310880B2	Virtual channel support in a nonvolatile memory controller A controller uses N dedicated ports to receive N signals from N non-volatile memories independent of each other, and uses a bus in a time shared manner to transfer data to and from the N non-volatile memories. The controller receives from a processor, multiple operations to perform data transfers, and stores the operations along with a valid bit set active by the processor. When a signal from a non-volatile memory is active indicating its readiness and when a corresponding operation has a valid bit active, the controller starts performance of the operation. When the readiness signal becomes inactive, the controller internally suspends the operation and starts performing another operation on another non-volatile memory whose readiness signal is active and for which an operation is valid. A suspended operation may be resumed any time after the corresponding readiness signal becomes active and on operation completion the valid bit is set inactive.
US08310869B2	Nonvolatile memory device, system, and programming method A nonvolatile memory device stores program data in a first address area, determines whether the first address area is a most significant address area and whether the program data is reliable data, and upon determining that the first address area is not a most significant address area and that the program data is reliable data, additionally stores the program data in a second address area.
US08310866B2	MRAM device structure employing thermally-assisted write operations and thermally-unassisted self-referencing operations A thermally-assisted MRAM structure which is programmable at a writing mode operating temperature is presented and includes an anti-ferromagnet, an artificial anti-ferromagnet, a barrier layer, and a free magnetic layer. The anti-ferromagnet is composed of a material having a blocking temperature Tb which is lower than the writing mode operating temperature of the magnetic random access memory structure. The artificial anti-ferromagnet is magnetically coupled to the anti-ferromagnet, and includes first and second magnetic layers, and a coupling layer interposed therebetween, the first and second magnetic layers having different Curie point temperatures. The barrier layer is positioned to be between the second magnetic layer and the free magnetic layer.
US08310864B2	Self-aligned bit line under word line memory array A memory device is described that comprises a plurality of bit lines and an array of vertical transistors arranged on the plurality of bit lines. A plurality of word lines is formed along rows of vertical transistors in the array which comprise thin film sidewalls of word line material and arranged so that the thin film sidewalls merge in the row direction, and do not merge in the column direction, to form word lines. The word lines provide “surrounding gate” structures for embodiments in which the vertical transistors are field effect transistors. Memory elements are formed in electrical communication with the vertical transistors. A fully self-aligned process is provided in which the word lines and memory elements are aligned with the vertical transistors without additional patterning steps.
US08310863B2	Spin-current switchable magnetic memory element and method of fabricating the memory element A method of fabricating a magnetic memory element includes forming a plurality of magnetic layers having a perpendicular magnetic anisotropy component, in which the plurality of magnetic layers includes a first magnetic layer having an alloy of a rare-earth metal and a transition metal, and a second magnetic layer.
US08310858B2	Nonvolatile semiconductor memory device with no decrease in read margin and method of reading the same According to one embodiment, a plurality of memory cells, each composed of a variable-resistance element and a diode, are arranged at the intersections of a plurality of word lines and a plurality of bit lines. The sense amplifier compares a voltage corresponding to current in a memory cell selected from the plurality of memory cells with a reference voltage to detect data read from the selected memory cell. The controller generates the reference voltage according to the logical value of a signal output from the sense amplifier. The controller, before detecting data in the memory cell, adjusts the reference voltage on the basis of current flowing in one of a plurality of bit lines connected to a plurality of memory cells in a half-selected state detected by the sense amplifier.
US08310847B2	Secondary side post regulator of flyback power converter with multiple outputs A flyback power converter with multiple outputs has a transformer, a low-voltage output circuit, a high-voltage output circuit, and a secondary side post regulator circuit is provided. The transformer has a first secondary winding and a second secondary winding. The low-voltage output circuit has a low-voltage output capacitor and a rectifier unit, and is coupled to the first secondary winding to generate a low voltage output. The high-voltage output circuit has a high-voltage output switch and a high-voltage output capacitor, and is coupled to the second secondary winding to generate a high voltage output. The secondary side post regulator circuit adjusts on-time of the high-voltage output switch according to a feedback signal to have the energy stored in the high-voltage capacitor transmitted to the low-voltage capacitor to lower down the voltage level of the high output voltage.
US08310844B2	Electronic apparatus According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a first housing, a second housing, a third housing between the first housing and the second housing, a holder, and a harness. The third housing is rotatable with respect to the first housing and the second housing. The holder is attached to the third housing and includes a first cylinder inserted into the first housing and a second cylinder inserted into the second housing. The harness extends from the first housing to the second housing through the first cylinder and the second cylinder of the holder.
US08310842B1	Height reduction in portable devices Components within a portable device are arranged around a perimeter of a display component to reduce the height of the portable device. Components such as a battery, a main logic board, a wireless networking interface, and so forth may be distributed around a display component such as an electrophoretic display. Distribution of components around the perimeter of the display component rather than behind the display component reduces the height. Furthermore, the placement of components in the perimeter provides a structure for a user to grip the portable device or for placement of user actuable controls.
US08310841B2	Integrated circuit die stacks having initially identical dies personalized with switches and methods of making the same Integrated circuit die stacks having a first die mounted upon a substrate, the first die manufactured to be initially identical to a second die with a plurality of through silicon vias (‘TSVs’), the first die personalized by opening switches on the first die, converting the TSVs previously connected through the open switches into pass-through vias (‘PTVs’), each PTV implementing a conductive pathway through the first die with no connection to any circuitry on the first die; and the second die, manufactured to be initially identical to the first die and later personalized by opening switches on the second die, the second die mounted upon the first die so that the PTVs in the first die connect signal lines from the substrate through the first die to TSVs in the second die.
US08310839B2	Capacitive touch switch and domestic appliance provided with such switch A capacitive touch switch having a printed circuit board and a capacitive electrode connected to the circuit board is disclosed. The printed circuit board is transparent and is interposed between a planar light guide provided with a light source and a non-conductive transparent cover, the electrode being icon-shaped and supported by the printed circuit board.
US08310837B2	Circuit module and power line communication apparatus A circuit module is mounted with an IC that modulates and demodulates a multicarrier signal. The circuit module has a laminated board, which is provided internally with a plurality of conductive layers laminated having insulating layers in between, and an IC, which is provided with a plurality of ground terminals to be grounded. Of the plurality of conductive layers, a conductive layer provided proximate to the IC configures a ground layer electrically connected to the plurality of ground terminals.
US08310836B2	Mass storage device for a computer system and method therefor A method and mass storage device that combine multiple solid state drives (SSDs) to a single volume. The device includes a carrier board and at least two solid state drives having power and data connections to the carrier board. The carrier board includes a circuit board functionally connected to a control logic and at least two secondary connectors that are disposed at different edges of the circuit board and functionally connected to the control logic. The solid state drives are connected to the carrier board through the secondary connectors, and each solid state drive has a power and data connector directly connected to one of the secondary connectors of the carrier board. The solid state drives are oriented substantially parallel to the carrier board and to each other.
US08310827B2	Strap mechanism for drawing an electronic device from a cage A strap mechanism for drawing an electronic device from a cage in a first direction is disclosed. The strap mechanism includes a first rail. The first rail includes a first locking part for connecting with a lateral surface of the electronic device and disposed inside the cage in a slidable manner, and a first handle part connected to an end of the first locking part. A first slot is formed on the first handle part. The strap mechanism further includes a strap. A first end of the elastic strap is inserted inside the first slot. The strap is for contacting against the first handle part so as to provide a component force in the first direction and in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction to the first handle part when a deformation of the elastic strap is generated by being pulled in the first direction.
US08310825B2	Portable computing device with wireless capability while in folded position A portable computing device includes a display unit and a base unit coupled via a hinge such that a surface of the display unit is parallel to a surface of the display unit when the portable computing device is manipulated into a folded position. The display unit includes a display panel and a radiating element of an antenna, the radiating element disposed at an end of the display unit that is distal to the hinge. The base unit includes one or more information handling components and a metal base chassis, the metal base chassis defining a keep out aperture at a distal end of the base unit that is substantially devoid of metal material from the metal base chassis. The keep out aperture is axially displaced from a position of the radiating element when the portable computing device is manipulated into the folded position.
US08310822B2	Computer A computer includes a display assembly, a base, a stand, and a keyboard. The base includes a supporting board and an engaging board. The stand is located on the base supporting the display assembly. The keyboard includes a main body and an extension board extending from the main body. The main body has a key area. The extension board is fixed to the engaging board to help stabilize the display assembly.
US08310815B2	High voltage and high efficiency polymer electrolytic capacitors A capacitor, and method of making a capacitor, is provided wherein the capacitor has exceptionally high break down voltage. The capacitor has a tantalum anode with an anode wire attached there to. A dielectric film is on the tantalum anode. A conductive polymer is on the dielectric film. An anode lead is in electrical contact with the anode wire. A cathode lead is in electrical contact with the conductive polymer and the capacitor has a break down voltage of at least 60 V.
US08310814B2	Stacked capacitor with positive multi-pin structure A stacked capacitor with positive multi-pin structure includes a plurality of capacitor units, a substrate unit and a package unit. Each capacitor unit has a positive electrode that has a positive pin extended outwards therefrom. The positive pins of the capacitor units are divided into a plurality of positive pin units that are separated from each other, and the positive pins of each positive pin unit are electrically stacked onto each other. Each capacitor unit has a negative electrode, and the negative electrodes of the capacitor units are electrically stacked onto each other. The substrate unit has a positive guiding substrate electrically connected to the positive pins of the capacitor units and a negative guiding substrate electrically connected to the negative electrodes of the capacitor units. The package unit covers the capacitor units and one part of the substrate unit.
US08310813B2	Sealing material for electrolytic capacitor and electrolytic capacitor employing the sealing material An electrolytic capacitor sealer is formed of a modified butyl rubber composition obtained by using an organic peroxide to crosslink a modified butyl rubber composition which has been modified by reacting butyl rubber with a compound (a) having in the molecule a nitroxide free radical that is stable at room temperature even in the presence of oxygen, a radical initiator (b), and a bifunctional or higher radical polymerizable monomer (c), and of a modified butyl rubber composition obtained by compounding a radical polymerizable monomer (c) with a modified butyl rubber composition that has been obtained by reacting butyl rubber with a compound (a) having in the molecule a nitroxide free radical that is stable at room temperature even in the presence of oxygen and a radical initiator (b), and then crosslinking the composition thus obtained with an organic peroxide.
US08310795B2	Power factor correction type switching power supply unit A power factor correction type switching power supply unit can change reference values of an overcurrent limit at an optimum timing at a time of an overcurrent protection of a step-up type converter, so that no sudden change occurs in an inductor current. A detection level selection circuit selects one of first and second threshold values with a selection signal, and outputs it as an overcurrent detection level to an overcurrent detection circuit. An input voltage monitoring circuit determines the selection signal in such a way that the larger of two threshold values is selected when an alternating current input voltage exceeds a first reference voltage, and the smaller threshold value is selected when the alternating current input voltage does not exceed a second reference voltage, and outputs the selection signal to the detection level selection circuit at a timing at which the alternating current input voltage approaches a zero.
US08310791B2	Magnetoresistive effect element and magnetic disk device A magnetoresistive effect element is structured in the manner that the antiferromagnetic layer interposed between the upper and lower shields is eliminated and the antiferromagnetic layer is positioned in a so-called shield layer. Therefore, it is realized to solve a pin reversal problem and to allow narrower tracks and narrower read gaps.
US08310781B2	Disk device According to one embodiment, a disk device rotates a disk information storage medium to record and reproduce information on the information storage medium by use of a head that slides in contact with a lubricant coated on the information storage medium, wherein a sliding speed U, area A and normal force N are set to cause U×A/N to fall within a monotonously increasing region in which a coefficient of friction associated with a frictional force occurring in a contact area of the head that faces the information storage medium monotonously increases as U×A/N increases, where the sliding speed U represents a sliding speed at a sliding time of the head, the area A represents the contact area of the head, and the normal force N represents a normal force applied to the contact area of the head.
US08310780B2	Method and apparatus for bipolar servo marks writing with high output A method and apparatus for bipolar servo marks writing with high output. The method includes providing a servo write head having first and second write gaps; and applying a varying current comprising either (i) abrupt changes in current in combination with current ramps or (ii) patterns of high-frequency current pulses before and after writing servo marks to a medium proximate to and moving past the first and second write gaps. The apparatus includes a bipolar servo write driver configured to generate a varying bipolar current signal having both negative and positive polarity currents and a servo write head having a first write gap and second write gap spaced apart, the varying current signal comprising either (i) abrupt changes in current in combination with current ramps or (ii) patterns of high-frequency current pulses before and after low-frequency pulses and a component to move a medium proximate to and past the first and second write gaps.
US08310779B2	Head assembly having a sensing element A head or slider having a sensor element to detect changes in head-media spacing is disclosed. In illustrated embodiments the sensor element includes a piezoelectric sensor layer or similar layer that provides acoustic emission or vibration responsive to changes in head-media spacing. In illustrated embodiments, the sensor element is located proximate to the close point of the head and slider. In embodiments described in the specification, output from the sensor element is utilized to energize a heating element or microactuator to control pole tip protrusion or actuation of transducer elements responsive to changes in head-media spacing.
US08310778B2	Dual actuator for a read-write data storage device A data storage device includes a first head module independently moveably mounted relative to the storage device. The first head module includes at least one of a read element and a write element. In addition, the data storage device includes a second head module independently moveably mounted relative to the storage device. The second head module includes at least one of a read element and a write element operatively associated with the at least one of a read element and write element of the first head module. The second head module is selectively shiftable relative to the first head module in order to align the at least one of the read element and the write element of the first head module and the at least one of the read element and the write element of the second head module to one another.
US08310773B2	Toric motor and lens barrel having the same incorporated therein A toric motor includes a toric stator, a toric rotor configured to rotate along the stator, and a bearing configured to support the rotor so as to be rotatable relative to the stator, the bearing comprising a single-row four-point-contact angular ball bearing.
US08310772B2	Method and arrangement for reducing thermal effects in compact adjustable optical lenses The present invention provides thermal compensation for a lens assembly comprising a polymer lens body. Polymers do have different thermal expansion coefficients which makes it necessary to compensate for thermal expansions to keep optical characteristics of such lenses within specifications when used under different environmental conditions. Also, it is necessary to provide thermal compensation during manufacturing of such lenses due to high temperatures during manufacturing steps.
US08310759B2	Diffusing film having micro lens pattern and embossed pattern A diffusing film may have a microlens pattern and an embossed pattern on the surface thereof. The diffusing film includes a light entrance plane for receiving incident light, a light exit plane opposite the light entrance plane, the light exit plane for transmitting light, a plurality of microlenses on a surface of the light exit plane of the diffusing film, microlenses of the plurality of microlenses being spaced apart from one another, and a separation plane between the plurality of microlenses, the separation plane having an embossed pattern on a surface thereof.
US08310746B2	Method and an apparatus for displaying three-dimensional image using a hologram optical element The image display device including a lighting unit having a plurality of light source units, a hologram optical unit, which reproduces light to form a plurality of screen images spatially apart from each other when light is incident from the lighting unit, and a display panel, which modulates light reproduced by the hologram optical unit according to image signals.
US08310735B2	Image capture module support In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a transparent platen supported over an inside of a tub, an elongated member situated in the tub in a horizontal plane, a plurality of biasing members operatively connected to the elongated member, and a plurality of gap-maintaining members operable to connect to an image capture module and operatively connected to the platen. The elongated member is movable within a tub in a vertical plane, to movably support an image capture module in a horizontal plane. The biasing members are operable to urge the elongated member towards the platen. The gap-maintaining members are operable to maintain a constant distance between platen and an image capture module.
US08310727B2	Method to generate random and density controllable dot patterns on an optical device A method to generate random and density controllable dot patterns on an optical device includes steps of dividing a 2D domain into multiple cell units; determining dot density in each cell; creating at random initial location of dots in each cell; solving the force operation cut radius of the dot; setting up a residual force; solving the force control parameter in the cell; performing the force operation for the cell; making the dots in the cell to achieve balanced positions after repeated operation; completing the generation of a dot pattern within a 2D domain; and transferring the dot pattern to the optical device by a transfer printing equipment.
US08310721B2	Inkjet recording apparatus, color correction method and computer-readable medium An inkjet recording apparatus includes: a treatment liquid deposition device which deposits a treatment liquid insolubilizing or aggregating inks of a plurality of colors, onto a recording medium; a recording head which has a plurality of nozzles ejecting the inks onto the recording medium on which the treatment liquid has been deposited; a data acquisition device which acquires density data of an image with respect to each color, the density data corresponding to the plurality of colors; a higher-order color correction device which corrects the density data, wherein when the inks of different colors are ejected in ejection order so that a preceding ink ejected precedingly to form a lower layer and a subsequent ink ejected subsequently to form an upper layer overlap each other, the higher-order color correction device corrects the density data for a nozzle ejecting the subsequent ink according to the density data for a nozzle ejecting the preceding ink; and an ejection controller which controls ejection of the inks from the recording head according to the density data that the higher-order color correction device has corrected in such a manner that the image is formed on the recording medium.
US08310712B2	Image forming controlling apparatus, image forming controlling method, and image forming controlling program embodied on computer readable recording medium To facilitate per-page setting for data to be printed in an MFP, a PC controlling the MFP includes a print instruction accepting portion to accept data including pages and page setting information having, for each page, a parameter set for a page setting item which can be set per page, an HDD which stores in advance setting information in which a first parameter which can be set for the page setting item is associated with a second parameter which can be set for a subordinate item selected from option items which can be set for printing in the MFP, and a command generating portion to generate, for each page, a command to cause the MFP to perform printing, based on the first parameter set for the page setting item in the accepted page setting information and the second parameter associated with that first parameter by the stored setting information.
US08310701B2	Print system having printer drivers that are installed in server device and client-terminal device and that restrict print functions, client-terminal device, and print-control method A terminal-server-printer driver generates job-ticket data including function-restriction information set by a manager. Upon receiving a print instruction, the job-ticket data is added to print-job data and the print-job data is transmitted to a print-control module. The print-control module selects a first printer driver and/or a second printer driver for processing based on details on the print-job data, and outputs the print-job data and the job-ticket data in accordance with the first printer driver and/or the second printer driver. The first printer driver and/or the second printer driver rewrites the print-attribute settings thereon without fail on the basis of the job-ticket data, and transmits drawing data generated on the basis of the rewritten print-attribute settings to a printer.
US08310694B2	Information processing apparatus and control method thereof An information processing apparatus for communicating with an external apparatus via a network is provided that includes a generating unit for generating identification information capable of specifying a service in order to launch the service, a receiving unit for receiving input information input by a user with the external apparatus from the external apparatus via the network, a judging unit for judging whether or not the input information received by the receiving unit corresponds to the identification information generated by the generating unit, and a notifying unit for notifying the external apparatus of address information indicating an address of the information processing apparatus if the judging unit judges that the input information corresponds to the identification information.
US08310692B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method, computer-readable medium and computer data signal An image processing apparatus includes an image receiving unit, an extraction unit, a determination unit, an area conversion unit and an image concealing unit. The image receiving unit receives an image. The extraction unit extracts a portion having been additionally written in the image received by the image receiving unit. The determination unit determines an area to be concealed in the received image based on the additionally written portion extracted by the extraction unit. The area conversion unit converts the area determined by the determination unit. The image concealing unit conceals the area determined by the determination unit in the received image using an area obtained by the conversion of by the area conversion unit.
US08310672B2	Method for generating and for detecting a Raman spectrum A method and a device for generating and for detecting a Raman spectrum enables an automated, or automatable, and at the same time quantitative SERD spectroscopy (for example concentration measurement series). To this end, during the SERD spectroscopy, a first spectrum and a second spectrum are standardized in relation to one another in terms of intensity values and a first difference spectrum is subsequently calculated, a second difference spectrum is calculated, the first difference spectrum is converted into a first transformation spectrum, the second difference spectrum is converted into a second transformation spectrum, and the Raman spectrum is calculated by adding the first transformation spectrum and the second transformation spectrum.
US08310663B2	Methods and systems for calibrating an adjustable lens A system for calculating intrinsic properties and an entry pupil location of an adjustable camera lens is disclosed. The system includes a camera and a calibration target. Methods for calculating intrinsic properties and an entry pupil location of an adjustable camera lens are also disclosed.
US08310662B2	Method for detecting misalignment of a vehicle headlight using a camera A method for detecting misalignment of a vehicle headlight using a camera system is specified. For this purpose, the headlight is in a predefined position and the camera system is arranged on or in the vehicle and is oriented in such a manner that the light distribution pattern of the headlight in front of the motor vehicle is detected. With a predefined headlight position, an actual light distribution pattern of the headlight is recorded using the camera system and is compared with a desired light distribution pattern for the predefined headlight position. If the actual light distribution pattern differs from the desired light distribution pattern, misalignment of the headlight is detected.
US08310661B2	Cable installed state analyzing method and cable installed state analyzing apparatus An image of an installed state of an optical fiber is captured by a camera. The optical fiber is provided with position marks at fixed intervals, the position marks each indicating a distance from a predetermined position and a direction of the optical fiber. An installed state analyzing apparatus performs image processing on the captured image and analyzes the installed state of the optical fiber by using the optical fiber installation tools and the position marks.
US08310658B2	Method and apparatus for identifying reticulocytes within a blood sample A method and apparatus for identifying reticulocytes within a blood sample is provided. The method includes the steps of: a) depositing the sample into an analysis chamber adapted to quiescently hold the sample for analysis, and the chamber has a known or determinable height extending between the interior surfaces of panels, which height is such that at least one red blood cell, or an aggregate of red blood cells, within the sample contacts both of the interior surfaces; b) admixing a supravital dye with the sample, which dye is operable to cause reticulin to fluoresce when excited by light of one or more predetermined wavelengths; c) imaging the sample using light that includes the one or more predetermined wavelengths that cause reticulin to fluoresce; d) imaging the sample using light that is absorbed by hemoglobin to produce values of optical density on a per image unit basis; and e) identifying reticulocytes within the sample using the image of the sample created with light that causes the dyed reticulin to fluoresce, and using the per image unit optical density values.
US08310651B2	Lithographic apparatus, method and device manufacturing method In an embodiment, a lithographic apparatus includes an illumination system configured to condition a radiation beam; a support constructed to support a patterning device, the patterning device being capable of imparting the radiation beam with a pattern in its cross-section to form a patterned radiation beam; a substrate table constructed to hold a substrate; a projection system configured to project the patterned radiation beam onto a target portion of the substrate, and a passive noise damper configured to dampen gas borne noise caused by movement of a movable part of the lithographic apparatus.
US08310649B2	Display apparatus and process for producing the same Provided is a process for producing a display apparatus, which comprises (a) a step of forming a seal part made of e.g. a double-sided adhesive tape 12 on the edge of a surface of a display device 50 (a first plate), (b) a step of supplying a liquid photocurable resin composition 14 to a region enclosed by the seal part, (c) a step of laminating, in a reduced-pressure atmosphere of not more than 100 Pa, a transparent plate 10 (a second plate) on the photocurable resin composition 14 thereby to obtain a laminated precursor having the photocurable resin composition 14 hermetically sealed, and (d) a step of curing the photocurable resin composition 14 in such a state that the laminated precursor is placed in a pressure atmosphere of not less than 50 kPa to form a resin layer.
US08310644B2	In-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device An in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device includes first and second substrates facing each other, a gate line and a data line arranged on the first substrate crossing each other and defining a pixel region, a switching device at a crossing of the gate line and the data line, a common electrode and a pixel electrode alternately disposed in the pixel region, at least one of the common electrode and the pixel electrode including a multi-layer having a conductor layer and a reflectance reducing layer, and a liquid crystal layer formed between the first and second substrates.
US08310634B2	Liquid crystal display device comprising a first optical compensating member between the liquid crystal layer and one of the first and second polarizing layers A liquid crystal display device includes first and second substrates with first and second polarizing layers, a liquid-crystal layer, a matrix-driven electrode group; and a rear-illuminating device. Between the first polarizing layer and the liquid-crystal layer, a first optical compensating member is disposed without a birefringent medium sandwiched between the liquid-crystal layer and the first optical compensating member, and the first optical compensating member is constructed so that when a refractive index thereof in a slow-axis direction in a plane parallel to the substrate is taken as n1, a refractive index in a fast-axis direction in the plane parallel to the substrate is taken as n2, and a refractive index in a thickness direction is taken as n3, the first optical compensating member satisfies n1≈n3>n2, and a slow axis thereof in the plane parallel to the substrate is substantially vertical to an optical axis of the liquid-crystal layer.
US08310633B2	Liquid crystal display having particular biaxial compensation plate A liquid crystal display (LCD) including a LCD panel, a first polarizer and a second polarizer respectively disposed at two sides of the LCD, a first a-plate and a second a-plate disposed between the polarizers and LCD panel, a biaxial compensation plate and a c-plate is provided. The biaxial compensation plate is disposed between one of the polarizers and one of the a-plates. The main axis refractive indexes nx, ny and nz of the biaxial compensation plate satisfy the formula of Nz=(nx−nz)/(nx−ny), wherein nx>ny and −0.5
US08310625B2	Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device (100) according to the present invention includes: a scattering liquid crystal panel (110) including a scattering-type liquid crystal layer (140) which is capable of taking a transparent state; and a scattering state and a retroreflection plate (150). The scattering liquid crystal panel (110) before being combined with the retroreflection plate (150) satisfies the relationship of 0.45≦log(I0-10/I20-30)≦1.48, where, regarding light which enters through a rear face (110b) of the scattering liquid crystal panel (110) and goes out through a front face (110a), I0-10 represents a mean value of scattering intensity of light which goes out at an angle in a range from 0 degrees to 10 degrees with respect to a normal direction of the front face (110a), and I20-30 represents a mean value of scattering intensity of light which goes out in a range from 20 degrees to 30 degrees.
US08310622B2	Optical plate, method of manufacturing the same and liquid crystal having the same An optical plate having improved light scattering power, a method of manufacturing the same and a liquid crystal display having the same. An optical plate includes a base material layer, and a lens portion having a plurality of unit lenses formed on one surface of the base material layer, each of the unit lenses having a convex shape, wherein a diffusion portion is formed in each of the unit lenses. The amount and cost of the light diffusing agent can be reduced, light transmittance can be improved, light uniformity can be enhanced without occurrence of bright lines, and intensity of light to be viewed is improved, thereby enhancing luminance.
US08310609B2	Liquid crystal device, electronic apparatus, and method of manufacturing liquid crystal device Provided is a lateral electric field mode liquid crystal device including: a first substrate; a second substrate; a liquid crystal layer and pixel electrodes and common electrodes. A lateral electric field mode liquid crystal device drives the liquid crystal layer by an electric field generated between the pixel electrodes and the common electrodes, a light shielding layer is formed on a surface of the second substrate disposed close to the liquid crystal layer. A coloring layer is also formed so as to overlap with the pixel electrodes. An overcoat layer protects the coloring layer, and an alignment film is formed. An electrostatic shielding layer is formed of a transparent conductive material on a surface of the overcoat layer.
US08310600B2	Supplying broadband HRC networks with non-harmonically related carriers Non-harmonically related carriers may be provided for signals entering a harmonically related carrier (HRC) network. A modified carrier frequency may be assigned for any and/or all harmonics of a reference frequency. The modified carrier frequency may be computed by determining a nearest multiple of an index frequency value to the nominal harmonic frequency. The modified carrier frequency may then be used to carry video signals into the HRC network.
US08310598B2	Apparatus for splitting signal and video device using the same An apparatus for splitting a signal and a video device using the same are disclosed. The apparatus includes a first splitting unit to split an inputted broadcast signal into a first broadcast signal and a second broadcast signal, and to supply the first broadcast signal to a first broadcast signal processing element, and a second splitting unit to split the second broadcast signal into a third broadcast signal and a fourth broadcast signal, and to supply the third broadcast signal to a second broadcast signal processing element. With this construction, the apparatus can distribute and provide a broadcast signal with a noise figure (NF) lower than that of other broadcast signals, to an element, which requires a broadcast signal with a low noise figure. In addition, the apparatus can split the inputted broadcast signal without using an active element, such as an amplifier or the like, thereby allowing the split broadcast signals to lower the NF thereof and to uniformly maintain a gain thereof. Also, the apparatus can prevent interferences, which are generated between adjacent ports.
US08310593B2	Television apparatus According to one embodiment, the apparatus has a first block configured to be connected to a receiving block for a television signal and a second block independent from the first block, configured to be connected to a network. A bypass route is configured to lead a bypass stream including an image signal from the first block to the second block. A processor is configured to generate a return stream by inserting the image signal from the network into the image signal on the bypass stream, at the second block. A return pass is configured to return the return stream to the first block. And a converter is configured to convert the image signal included in the return stream into a signal for output and display, at the first block.
US08310581B2	Solid state imaging device having improved dynamic range A row scanner selects an arbitrary row in an pixel array unit. Per-column AD converters separately convert voltage signals respectively outputted from a column of a plurality of unit pixels in the selected arbitrary row into digital signals. A column scanner sequentially outputs the digital signals by a column-scanning operation thereof. An AD conversion result adjuster judges whether or not the digital signals reach a predetermined judgment value or the status equivalent to the digital signals reaching the predetermined judgment value is generated, and fixes the digital signals to digital pixel values set in accordance with the predetermined judgment value when a result of the judgment is positive.
US08310578B2	Image sensors and methods with column readout circuits An image sensor includes a pixel array, a plurality of column readout lines, and a plurality of column readout circuits. The pixel array includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns. Each of the plurality of column readout lines is connected to a corresponding at least two pixels of the plurality of pixels. Each of the plurality of column readout circuits is connected to a corresponding column readout line of the plurality of column readout lines and includes an amplifier, a first capacitor connected between the corresponding column readout line and an input of the amplifier, and a second capacitor connected between the corresponding column readout line and the input of the amplifier.
US08310572B2	Computer readable storage medium, image correction apparatus, and image correction method An image correction apparatus includes an exposure-level calculating unit that calculates an exposure level using information on an image capturing unit, which captures image data, at the time of capture of an image, a brightness calculating unit that calculates brightness of the image using information on the image data captured by the image capturing unit, and an image correction unit that corrects the brightness of the image data in accordance with the exposure level calculated by the exposure-level calculating unit and the brightness of the image calculated by the brightness calculating unit.
US08310567B2	Methods of modeling an integrated noise in an image sensor and methods of reducing noise using the same A method is for processing a Bayer domain signal of an image sensor to model an integrated noise in the image sensor. The method includes receiving the Bayer domain signal of the image signal, setting a plurality of noise models using the Bayer domain signal, and determining an integrated noise level in the image sensor based on the plurality of noise models. The noise models include a dark-current noise model, a shot noise model and a fixed-pattern noise model.
US08310566B2	Image pickup system and image processing method with an edge extraction section An image pickup system for processing a signal from a CCD includes a noise reducing unit for performing a noise reduction processing on the signal from the CCD, an edge direction detection unit for detecting an edge direction from the signal having been subjected to the noise reduction processing, and an edge extraction unit for extracting an edge component from the signal from the CCD on the basis of the edge direction.
US08310557B1	Camera arrangements with back lighting detection and methods of using same The present invention relates to camera arrangements with backlighting detection. The camera arrangements are capable of simultaneously capturing real scene data from various viewpoints. This data may include illumination data impinging the scene. The illumination data may then be utilized to alter the apparent illumination of a second image, either real or virtual, which is to be superimposed over the real scene so that the illumination across the entire superimposed scene is consistent. The camera arrangements may utilize combinations of umbilical cables and light tubes to expand or contract the field of capture. The camera arrangements may also include in-line signal processing of the data output.
US08310556B2	Offloading processing of images from a portable digital camera Images are offloaded from a portable camera automatically to a network server at the time the images are taken, transparently to a user of the camera. The server executes processing functions on the images and returns the output of the processing over the network to the camera and/or other user-defined destination device to thereby relieve the camera processor of potentially complex processing chores.
US08310554B2	Method and apparatus for performing coordinated multi-PTZ camera tracking A system for tracking at least one object is disclosed. The system includes a plurality of communicatively connected visual sensing units configured to capture visual data related to the at least one object The system also includes a manager component communicatively connected to the plurality of visual sensing units. The manager component is configured to assign one visual sensing unit to act as a visual sensing unit in a master mode and at least one visual sensing unit to act as a visual sensing unit in a slave mode. The manager component is further configured to transmit at least one control signal to the plurality of visual sensing units, and receive the visual data from the plurality of visual sensing units.
US08310545B2	Apparatus and method for analyzing road view A road view analyzing apparatus and a road view analyzing method that can obtain an accurate analysis result on a road view in front of a vehicle are provided. The road view analyzing apparatus includes a camera that is mounted on the vehicle to photograph a view in front of the vehicle, image dividing means for dividing the image of the view in front of the vehicle photographed by the camera into a plurality of areas with diagonal lines, and analyzing means for separately analyzing content of the image in each of the plurality of areas.
US08310537B2	Detecting ego-motion on a mobile device displaying three-dimensional content A method of measuring ego-motion speed of a mobile device is described. The linear motion of the device is measured using an image sensor component, thereby creating linear motion data. The rotational or angular motion of the device is measured using an inertial sensor component, thereby creating rotational motion data. The rotational and linear motion data of the device are used to calculate the ego-motion speed of the mobile device. This ego-motion speed can then be used to control a virtual camera control module for adjusting the view of 3D content viewed by the user on the mobile device as the user moves the device, changing the position of the virtual camera.
US08310516B2	Light scanning apparatus, light scanning method, image forming apparatus, color image forming apparatus, and recording medium having program A light scanning apparatus having plural light sources includes a light source control unit configured to control the light sources to form L (L≧2) light beam arrays aligned in a sub scanning direction each of which L light beam arrays are formed by causing M ((N−1)≧M≧1) light sources out of N (N≧2) light sources assigned to each of the L light beam arrays to emit light as M light emitting sources, wherein each of the L light beam arrays forms a pixel and a total of L pixels aligned in the sub scanning direction are formed.
US08310515B2	Exposure apparatus and image forming apparatus provided with the same An exposure apparatus which exposes an object includes an exposure member which has a plurality of blinking sections and which is elongated in a predetermined longitudinal direction; a support frame which supports the exposure member; a holder which supports the support frame to be movable relative to the holder; and a pressing member which is provided between the holder and the support frame and which presses the support frame in a direction away from the holder. Accordingly, the exposure apparatus can suppress the deformation of the exposure member.
US08310514B2	Line head control method, image forming method, and image forming apparatus A control method of a line head including a first image forming system; a first light emission element which emits light for forming an image by an image forming lens of the first image forming system; a second image forming system disposed in a first direction of the first image forming system; and a second light emission element which emits light for forming an image by an image forming lens of the second image forming system is disclosed. The method includes, when the first light emission element emits light at a time t0 and then emits light after a time t1 from the time t0, and also when the second light emission element emits light after a time t2 from the time t0, controlling the time t1 and the time t2 such that t2≠n·t1 (n: 2 or larger integer) holds.
US08310510B2	Printer A printer including a containing unit, first and second heads, a separation member, a cutting member, and a collecting unit. The containing unit is configured to contain a printing medium separable into front and rear surfaces. The first head is configured to print first data on the front surface of the printing medium. The second head is configured to print second data on the rear surface of the printing medium. The separation member is configured to separate the front surface from the printing medium passing through the first and second heads. The cutting member is configured to cut a printed portion of the front surface separated by the separation member. The collecting unit is configured to collect the printing medium of the rear surface remaining after the front surface is separated in order to preserve the rear surface.
US08310507B2	Display device drive circuit Provided is a display device drive circuit capable of setting an optimum drive performance for each output amplifier without increasing the chip size. The display device drive circuit includes: at least two bias lines having different reference potentials; a selector that selects one of the bias lines based on a grayscale signal; and an output amplifier that is supplied with a reference potential of the one of the bias lines selected by the selector, generates a display signal, and supplies the display signal to a data line.
US08310506B2	Optical disk device This output device includes a read means which reads in image data of a first aspect ratio from an input port or from a medium. Moreover, this output device includes an image synthesis means which creates combined image data of a second aspect ratio by adding mask bands at the sides of, or above and below, an image which is based upon the image data of said first aspect ratio. Furthermore, this output device includes an output means which outputs this combined image data at said second aspect ratio. And the output means is connected to a display device which processes said combined image data which has been outputted at said second output ratio, and displays the result upon a screen. Moreover, the image synthesis means changes the color of said mask bands to a different color at a predetermined timing during a predetermined time period.
US08310494B2	Method for reducing graphics rendering failures A method and electronic device employing the method of processing a frame of graphics for display is provided that includes developing a frame in a first software frame processing stage following a first vertical blanking (VBL) heartbeat, issuing a command indicating the first stage is complete, and performing a final software frame processing stage without waiting for a subsequent VBL heartbeat. The method may alternatively include performing the final software frame processing stage regardless as to whether a target framebuffer is available, performing all but final hardware frame processing stages regardless as to whether the target framebuffer is in use, and performing the final hardware processing stage if the target framebuffer is not in use.
US08310491B2	Asynchronous notifications for concurrent graphics operations A method and an apparatus for notifying a display driver to update a display with a graphics frame including multiple graphics data rendered separately by multiple graphics processing units (GPUs) substantially concurrently are described. Graphics commands may be received to dispatch to each GPU for rendering corresponding graphics data. The display driver may be notified when each graphics data has been completely rendered respectively by the corresponding GPU.
US08310484B2	Efficient processing of operator graphs representing three-dimensional character animation An operator graph representing three-dimensional animation can be analyzed to identify subgraphs of the operator graph in which operators are not required to operate in a serialized manner. Such a condition may arise, for example, when two operators are not dependent on each other for data. This condition may arise when the operators are operating on different elements in a scene. Such operators may be evaluated in parallel. To identify these operators, a dependency graph is created. The dependency graph indicates which operators have inputs that are dependent on outputs provided by other operators. Using this graph, operators that are independent of each other can be readily identified. These operators can be evaluated in parallel. In an interactive editing system for three-dimensional animation or other rich media, such an analysis of an operator graph would occur when changes are made to the animation. The creation and use of the dependency graph enables faster processing of a scene while changes to the scene are being made.
US08310471B2	Display apparatus and method for driving the same A display apparatus includes a first scanning line disposed in a first direction, a second scanning line disposed to accompany the first scanning line, and a first signal line crossing the first and second scanning lines. The display apparatus also includes a first pixel electrode connected to the first signal line via a first switching element having a terminal that is connected to the first scanning line so that the first pixel electrode is applied with a gray scale signal under control of the first switching element, and a second pixel electrode connected to the first pixel electrode via a second switching element having a terminal that is connected to the second scanning line so that the second pixel electrode is applied with a gray scale signal through the first pixel electrode under control of the first switching element and the second switching element.
US08310470B2	Display apparatus and electronic equipment Disclosed herein is a display apparatus including: an available pixel section; a plurality of scan lines; a plurality of capacitor lines; a plurality of signal lines; a driving circuit; a monitor circuit having a first monitor pixel section and a second monitor pixel section; at least two of following three correction systems of a capacitor-signal correction system, a video-signal correction system and the second monitor pixel section, and a common-voltage correction system; and a switch for selectively supplying pixel electric potentials detected by the first monitor pixel section and the second monitor pixel section to a desired one of the two or three correction systems.
US08310468B2	Control display positioning system A control display positioning system includes three vertically oriented hinges and a horizontally oriented hinge attached to the back of the control display. Two arms are used to connect the three vertically oriented hinges one to another. In each vertically oriented hinge is a central space for the passage of electrical cables therethrough. Also in each vertically oriented hinge is a washer stack that provides the necessary friction forces for the control display positioning system to remain in a selected position after being repositioned by a user.
US08310464B2	Simultaneous multiple location touch systems Various apparatuses, methods and systems for detecting simultaneous touches at multiple locates are disclosed herein. For example, some embodiments provide an apparatus for detecting a touch, the apparatus including a resistive touch screen and a controller connected to the touch screen. The touch screen includes a number of electrically conductive columns and rows. In various embodiments, the touch screen is an analog matrix, with the overlapping columns and rows forming a matrix of cubics that can each detect one touch at a time, and with the location of the touch detectable in an analog fashion within each cubic. The resolution of the analog matrix in these embodiments is thus higher than that of the columns and rows. The controller includes an analog to digital converter switchably and sequentially connected to each of the columns and rows. The controller also includes a voltage source switchably and sequentially connected to each of the columns and rows. The controller is adapted to connect the voltage source to one of the rows when the analog to digital converter is sequentially connected to each of the columns and to connect the voltage source to one of the columns when the analog to digital converter is sequentially connected to each of the rows.
US08310463B2	Capacitive touch panel with low coupling capacitance and display device using the capacitive touch panel A capacitive touch panel and a display device using the capacitive touch panel are provided. The capacitive touch panel includes a plurality of first direction electrode strings and second direction electrode strings. Each first direction electrode string has a plurality of first electrodes while each second direction electrode has a plurality of second electrodes. In order to reduce the lateral capacitance between adjacent electrodes, width of the first electrode is reduced from the middle to two sides of the electrode along a second direction. In addition, the first electrode has a perimeter surrounding itself. Each quarter of the perimeter of the first electrode facing the adjacent second electrode has a first slope change rate and a different second slope change rate.
US08310454B2	Translucent touch screens including invisible electronic component connections Disclosed is a touch screen of semi-transparent mesh that may be utilized by, for example, a mobile communication device. The mesh may be utilized for both a touch screen and an electrical circuit for an electronic component attached to it. That is, the mesh may be in part a touch screen, and in part an electrical circuit. The touch surface includes mesh composed of a conductive material configured to provide input signals from activation points of the touch surface to the control circuit of the device. The mesh of a conductive material also includes an electrical circuit configured to provide audio signals from the control circuit of the device to the speaker. Since the disclosed semi-transparent mesh acts an electrical circuit, artwork to hide electrical circuits from the electronic component to the controller is not necessary. A switchable ground eliminates interference between the touch screen and the electrical circuit.
US08310447B2	Pointing device housed in a writing device A method for controlling a pointing icon in a computer, including the steps of (A) establishing a wireless connection between a pointing device and the computer, (B) generating directional information through one or more three dimensional movements of the pointing device, (C) transmitting the directional information from the pointing device to the computer and (D) translating the directional information into movements of the pointing icon on a screen of the computer using a device driver program stored on the computer.
US08310441B2	Method and system for writing data to MEMS display elements Charge balanced display data writing methods use write and hold cycles of opposite polarity during selected frame update periods. A release cycle may be provided to reduce the chance that a given display element will become stuck in an actuated state.
US08310435B2	Liquid crystal display device capable of automatically switching to a mode and method for driving the same A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel including a first substrate having a display region and a non-display region, a liquid crystal layer, and a second substrate; a backlight unit opposite a surface of the first substrate that illuminates light onto the liquid crystal display panel; a plurality of gate lines arranged to cross a plurality of data lines on the first substrate; a plurality of first and second sensor lines substantially parallel to the data lines; a plurality of first sensors at crossings of the gate lines and the first sensor lines in a first region of the first substrate to sense ambient light; and a plurality of second sensors at crossings of the gate lines and the second sensor lines in a second region of the first substrate to sense light from the backlight unit.
US08310434B2	Apparatus and method for driving displays Generally, displays, like liquid crystal displays (LCDs), use a DC-free addressing voltage in order to prevent decomposition of the display. Here, an integrated circuit (IC) is provided that compensates for temperature dependencies. This IC typically uses a thermistor or temperature varying element to measure the temperature of the display and adjusts the common reference voltage in response to the measured temperature.
US08310432B2	Gate driving circuit, display device having the same, and method for manufacturing the display device A gate driving circuit having improved driving capability and maintaining reliability even after a prolonged period of use includes a shift register having a plurality of stages cascaded to one another, each of the plurality of stages including a pull-up unit, a pull-down unit, a discharging unit, and a holding unit, wherein at least one of the discharging unit and the holding unit includes an amorphous silicon thin film transistor and a polysilicon thin film transistor connected in parallel to each other.
US08310429B2	Discharge circuit and liquid crystal display using the same An exemplary discharge circuit (220) includes a first input terminal (2202); a transistor (2204) having a gate electrode, a drain electrode, and a source electrode; a resistance (2205); and a control circuit (2203) provided to control a voltage applied to the gate electrode of the transistor. The source electrode of the transistor is connected to the first input terminal, and the drain electrode of the transistor is grounded via the resistance. Electric charge from the first input terminal is discharged through the transistor and the resistance under control of the control circuit. A liquid crystal display (LCD) (2) employing the discharge circuit exhibits few or no residual images.
US08310428B2	Display panel driving voltage output circuit A driving voltage output circuit for a matrix display panel includes high-side voltage followers and low-side voltage followers. Each voltage follower includes a differential input stage, a control stage, and an output stage. First and second transistors in the differential input stage receive non-inverting and inverting inputs and produce first and second potentials that control the control stage. Third and fourth transistors of different channel types in the control stage are connected in a push-pull configuration between high-side and low-side power supply potentials to generate a control potential. Fifth and sixth transistors of identical channel types in the output stage are connected in series between an intermediate reference potential and one of the power supply potentials, and are controlled by the first potential and the control potential to generate an output potential. The output potential is fed back as the inverting input.
US08310425B2	Resistance dividing circuit A resistance dividing circuit includes a resistive element formed in an area in a first line segment and a second line segment which are set on a substrate and arranged in parallel to each other; and a tap portion connected to the resistive element at a predetermined position of the first line side. A cutout in which the resistive element does not exist is formed in a place corresponding to the predetermined position in a lengthwise direction of the resistive element. In such a structure, a deviation of an actually generated divided voltage from a design value thereof can be reduced so that a highly correct gray-scale display can be achieved.
US08310424B2	Liquid crystal display apparatus and method for driving the same A liquid crystal display device according to the present invention includes an LCD panel 10 including a liquid crystal layer, electrodes for applying a voltage to the liquid crystal layer, and a pixel, of which the luminance varies according to a display signal voltage supplied through a transistor. The pixel includes a first subpixel to have a first luminance and a second subpixel to have a second luminance, which is different from the first luminance, in response to at least one display signal voltage supplied. The device further includes: a source driver 40 for supplying the display signal voltage to a source bus line connected to the source of the transistor; a gate driver 30 for supplying a scan signal voltage to a gate bus line connected to the gate of the transistor; and luminance switching circuitry 60 for switching a first mode, in which the first luminance is higher than the second luminance, into a second mode, in which the first luminance is lower than the second luminance, or vice versa, thereby increasing the reliability of a liquid crystal display device with a pixel division structure.
US08310419B2	Display device and driving method thereof The present invention relates to a display device and a driving method thereof. The display device includes a light emitting device, a capacitor connected between a first electrical contact and a second electrical contact, a driving transistor, a switching transistor being controlled by a scanning signal to be connected between a data voltage and the first electrical contact, a first compensation transistor being controlled by a first compensation signal to be connected between the first electrical contact and a first voltage, and a second compensation transistor being controlled by a second compensation signal to be connected between the second electrical contact and a second voltage. The driving transistor includes an input terminal that is connected to a driving voltage, an output terminal that is connected to the second electrical contact, and a control terminal that is connected to the first electrical contact.
US08310415B2	Medical devices using bistable displays The invention relates to a novel display system for a drug delivery device that reduces power consumption and permits the user of the device to see messages when the device is not in a powered state or when the device has encountered an error condition. By using a bistable display, the medical device is able to maintain messages that can been seen by the user even when the device's power supply is exhausted or when the device has encountered an error that interrupts its normal operation. The use of such a display also improves the battery life by eliminating the need to provide power to the display screen when it is not being updated.
US08310413B2	Electroluminescent display devices An active matrix display device comprises an array of display pixels, with each pixel comprising an EL display element, a light-dependent device for detecting the brightness of the display element and a drive transistor circuit for driving a current through the display element. The drive transistor is controlled in response to the light-dependent device output so that ageing compensation can be implemented. The light-dependent device is located laterally of the area of light emitting material of the EL display element. In this way, the light-dependent device does not cause step coverage problems and can be integrated into the pixel layout without affecting the pixel aperture. Furthermore, the light dependent device can extend alongside the full length of the area of light emitting material so that it receives light input from a large part of the display element area.
US08310407B2	Emergency provision when using a large display A large display is provided for the representation of medical images. The large display comprises at least a first and a second zone which can be controlled and operated independently of each other. Furthermore, an image configuration is provided which describes the representation on the large display during normal operation. Also provided is an emergency image configuration which describes the representation in the second zone of the large display in the event of failure or fault of the representation in the first zone. In the event of a fault, provision is made for switching over to an emergency operating mode in which the representation in the second zone is determined by the emergency configuration. The present embodiments have the advantage of providing protection against a failure of the large display, failure of which would disrupt medical operation.
US08310405B2	System of diversity dipole antennas The present invention relates to a diversity antennas system comprising at least two antennas of the dipole type each formed by a first and a second conductive arm, supplied differentially wherein the two antennas comprise a common arm called first arm forming at least one cover for an electronic card and each one a second arm mounted in rotation at one extremity of the first arm.
US08310400B2	Mobile apparatus A mobile apparatus is provided. The mobile apparatus includes an antenna and a ground plane. The antenna is used to receive or transmit a radio frequency signal and includes a grounding part having a first ground terminal and a second ground terminal. Wherein, a distance between the first ground terminal and the second ground terminal is associated with a wavelength of the radio frequency signal. The ground plane is electrically connected to the grounding part of the antenna through the first ground terminal and the second ground terminal. The present invention effectively reduces a specific absorption ratio and a required height for setting the antenna such that a bandwidth of the antenna is increased.
US08310398B2	Dual-band planar micro-strip antenna To meet the requirements including dual-band, a high gain, and a broadside radiation formation, a dual band planar micro-strip antenna utilizing antenna array is provided. One array element includes a rectangle-shaped micro-strip antenna and an arrow-shaped micro-strip antenna. A first resonant frequency is determined by a length of the rectangle-shaped micro-strip antenna. Slots are dug for satisfying a second resonance frequency. Curved surfaces of the arrow-shaped micro-strip antenna designed according to an ellipse equation so that a frequency resonance is reached under both the first resonant frequency and a second resonant frequency, and a broadside radiation formation is thus generated. A T-shaped jointer distributes power between antenna elements according to the output impedances of the antenna elements. An L-shaped band-stop filter located on the T-shaped jointer is utilized to suppress frequency resonance resulted from multiples of the first resonant frequency.
US08310397B2	System and method for effectively performing enhanced mobile-device location procedures A system and method for effectively performing enhanced device location procedures to determine the current physical location of a mobile device includes a plurality of satellites that wirelessly transmit satellite beacon signals, a plurality of base stations that wirelessly transmit pilot signals, and a plurality of access points that wirelessly transmit access-point beacon signals. A location detector of the mobile device coordinates a device location procedure by measuring the satellite beacon signals, the pilot signals, and the access-point beacon signals to generate corresponding satellite information, base station information, and access point information. The location detector analyzes the satellite information, the base station information, and the access point information to select an optimal system configuration from the most effective satellites, base stations, and access points. The location detector then utilizes the optimal system configuration to accurately calculate the current physical location of the mobile device.
US08310389B1	Hysteretic inductive switching regulator with power supply compensation A system including is plurality of resistors, a plurality of comparators, and a decoder module. The resistors are connected in series between a supply voltage and a common voltage. A first input of each comparator is connected to a reference voltage. A second input of each comparator is respectively connected to one of a plurality of nodes between the resistors. The decoder module is configured to receive an output from each comparator and to output a plurality of bits based on the output of each comparator. Each of the plurality of bits indicates a different one of a plurality of voltage ranges. A present value of the supply voltage lies in one of the plurality of voltage ranges.
US08310388B2	Subrange analog-to-digital converter and method thereof The configurations and adjusting method of a subrange analog-to-digital converter (ADC) are provided. The provided subrange ADC includes a X.5-bit flash ADC, a Y-bit SAR ADC and a (X+Y)-bit segmented capacitive digital-to-analog converter (DAC).
US08310352B2	Relay apparatus, communication system, and communication method While ECUs are connected with a distribution apparatus via a communication line, each of the ECUs sends status notification representing own status to the distribution apparatus. The distribution apparatus creates status information representing status of the ECUs in accordance with status notifications received from the ECUs connected with the distribution apparatus. This status information is sent to other distribution apparatuses together with data for synchronizing a database. The other ECUs perform similar operations to those of the ECUs, while the other distribution apparatuses perform similar operations to those of the distribution apparatus. Therefore, each of the distribution apparatuses can recognize the status of all the ECUs.
US08310351B2	Apparatuses, methods, and systems for an electronic device with a detachable user input attachment An electronic device (100) is configured to be operable with the user input attachment (102) so as to provide a user with the option of using a touch sensitive display (101) alone, or in conjunction with the control device or keypad having physical keys to enhance the tactile user experience. The electronic device (100) includes a touch sensitive display (101) and the controller (104) it is operable with a touch sensitive display (101). When the user input attachment (102) is coupled to the touch sensitive display (101), and identification module (106) is configured to identify the user input attachment (102) by way of a temporal signature signal (110). Once identified, and adaptation module (107) is configured to reconfigure the electronic device (100) in response to the user input attachment (102) being attached.
US08310344B2	Long range radio frequency identification system A method, apparatus and system for radio frequency identification provides an on-off keyed amplitude-modulated illumination signal containing a sequence of bits configured to illuminate a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag, The illumination signal is received at the RFID tag, rectified to generate a wake signal for waking a processor which is subsequently powered by a battery. The received illumination signal is sampled and subjected to a thresholding process. Mobile telephone band interference is countered by correlating the sampled illumination signal to determine its bit sequence and then correlating the bit sequence against a predetermined key. An identification signal from the RFID tag is sent in response to a match.
US08310343B2	Binary tree method for multi-tag anti-collision A binary tree method for avoiding collision of multiple tags, comprising: during inventorying tags, a reader sending a re-splitting instruction to the tags and entering a next time slot for reception if the reader does not receive any reply information from the tags in a specified time slot and one of the following conditions is satisfied: the reader received incorrectly reply information from the tags in the former time slot, or a re-splitting instruction was sent in the former time slot; and when the tags receive the re-splitting instruction, for tags whose counter values are not 1, the counter values remaining unchanged, and tags whose counter values are 1 splitting into two subsets 0 and 1, and those counter-0 tags replying to the reader. With the present invention, the inventorying flow of Binary Tree is optimized, the inventorying efficiency is improved, and the whole flow becomes more reasonable.
US08310330B2	Dry-type transformer A dry-type transformer includes at least one high-voltage winding and one low-voltage winding. The windings are operatively connected to one another by an electromagnetic field, and each winding is constructed from winding conductors, wherein the high-voltage winding and the low-voltage winding have a defined distance from one another, and spacers are arranged between the windings and maintain the defined distance.
US08310329B1	Interleaved common mode transformer with common mode capacitors The interleaved common mode transformer is a transformer particularly well suited for providing low voltage, high current dc outputs. Improving the efficiency of low voltage, high current transformer circuits requires a multi-faceted approach. Ac terminations and ac currents in connecting circuitry are particularly troublesome, so the input and output terminations of the transformer are dc. To utilize the winding fully, a common-mode push-pull configuration with common mode capacitors is used. Stray capacitance is less of a concern than leakage inductance at low voltages, so the windings are highly interleaved. Separate parallel secondary windings are used, an ac winding primarily for the ac currents, and a dc winding primarily for dc currents and heat sinking. The ac windings are thin; approximately two times the penetration depth. The dc windings are substantial, for low voltage drop and good heat sinking. For economical construction with minimum height, plated circuit board fabrication methods and materials are used for the windings. 100 percent duty-ratio switching is preferred to minimize core losses and reduce filtering requirements, as the filters are lossy.
US08310314B2	Signal amplification circuits for receiving/transmitting signals according to input signal One exemplary signal amplification circuit used for processing an input signal includes an input stage, a plurality of output stages, and a selecting stage. The input stage has an input node for receiving the input signal and an output node for outputting an intermediate signal. The output stages are coupled to a plurality of output ports of the signal amplification circuit, respectively. Each of the output stages generates a corresponding processed signal to a corresponding output port according to a gain and a signal derived from the intermediate signal of the input stage when enabled. The selecting stage is arranged for selectively coupling the output node of the input stage to at least one of the output stages.
US08310313B2	Highly efficient class-G amplifier and control method thereof A highly efficient class-G amplifier includes an amplifier circuit coupled between a positive power rail and a negative power rail to amplify an audio input signal of the class-G amplifier, and a boost inverting power converter to convert a supply voltage to a positive rail voltage and a negative rail voltage on the positive and negative power rails. The boost inverting power converter includes a boost inverting power stage coupled to the positive and negative power rails, and a controller to switch the boost inverting power stage between a boost mode and an inverting mode. An audio level detector detects the audio input signal for the controller to adjust the positive and negative rail voltages. The class-G amplifier has higher efficiency and requires lower cost because it does not need a charge pump.
US08310309B2	Noise-canceling for differential amplifiers requiring no external matching A differential Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) includes a first stage of resistive feedback amplifiers and second stage of complementary amplifiers, where the outputs of the first stage are coupled to the inputs of the second stage in a cross-coupled fashion. An inductive load, such as a transformer, combines signals output from the complementary amplifiers of the second stage. In one example, the LNA has an input impedance of less than 75 ohms, a noise factor of less than 2 dB, and a gain of more than 20 dB. Due to the low input impedance, the LNA is usable to amplify a signal received from a source having a similar low impedance without the use of an impedance matching network between the output of the source and the input of the LNA.
US08310305B1	Tapered-impedance distributed switching power amplifiers A distributed power amplifier may include a plurality of switching power amplifier sub-circuits, and a plurality of connection network sub-circuits, each of the plurality connection network sub-circuits having a characteristic impedance, wherein each of the plurality of connection network sub-circuits combines two or more of the plurality of switching power amplifier sub-circuits into a parallel or series configuration, wherein the plurality of switching power amplifier sub-circuits, the plurality of connection network sub-circuits and the characteristic impedance of each of the plurality of connection network sub-circuits are configured to present each of the plurality of switching power amplifier sub-circuits with a substantially equivalent load impedance.
US08310298B2	Ratioed feedback body voltage bias generator A design structure embodied in a machine readable medium used in a design process includes a current mirror circuit that includes a reference current source that generates a reference current, a reference transistor, a mirror transistor and a ratioed body bias feedback unit. The reference transistor has a first node that is coupled to the output of the reference current source, a gate that is coupled to the first node and a second node coupled to a common voltage. The mirror transistor has a gate coupled to the first node. The ratioed body bias feedback unit generates a body bias voltage coupled to the body of the reference transistor and the body of the mirror transistor. The ratioed body bias feedback unit is configured to adjust the body bias voltage in relationship to the common voltage so that the reference transistor and the mirror transistor each have a threshold voltage within a predefined range.
US08310296B2	Driving transistor control circuit A control circuit controls a driving transistor connected in series with an electrical load between a power supply voltage and a ground. The control circuit includes a pull-up resistor connected at one end to a power supply voltage side of the driving transistor, a current detection resistor for detecting an electric current flowing from the driving transistor to the ground, a current mirror circuit including a starting transistor connected between the pull-up transistor and the current detection resistor. The current mirror circuit supplies a mirror current of the electric current. The control circuit further includes a current source circuit for supplying a driving current to a control terminal of the driving transistor in accordance with the mirror current to turn ON the driving transistor in response to an external control signal.
US08310295B2	Systems and methods for lowering interconnect capacitance through adjustment of relative signal levels Methods and circuitry for lowering the capacitance of interconnects, particularly Through Wafer Interconnects (TWIs), using signal level adjustment are disclosed. Embodiments of the invention seek to bias the midpoint voltage level of the signals on the TWIs towards inversion, where at high frequencies capacitance is at its minimum. In one embodiment, reduced swing signals are used for the data states transmitted across the TWIs, in which the reduced swing signals use a midpoint voltage level tending to bias the TWI capacitance towards inversion. In another embodiment, signals are AC coupled to the TWI where they are referenced to an explicit bias voltage directly connected to the TWI. This allows signals to propagate through the TWI while the TWI is biased towards inversion. In a third embodiment, the potential of the substrate is explicitly lowered with respect to the TWI potential. Regardless of the particular embodiment used, raising the midpoint-voltage level of the signals on the TWIs relative to the substrate decreases capacitance, which increases the frequency of the data which can propagate through the TWIs while potentially reducing the signaling power.
US08310282B2	Apparatus and method for providing multi-mode clock signals Apparatus and methods for providing multi-mode clock signals are disclosed. In some embodiments, a multi-mode driver configured to receive a first clock signal, and to selectively output a different clock signal in response to one or more signals from a controller is provided. The driver can include an H-bridge circuit without substantial increases in the size of the design area. Advantageously, lower jitter and improved impedance matching can be accomplished.
US08310275B2	High voltage tolerant input/output interface circuit An IO interface circuit for use in a high voltage tolerant application is provided. The IO interface circuit includes a signal pad and at least a first parasitic bipolar transistor having an emitter adapted for connection to a voltage return of the interface circuit, a base adapted to receive a first control signal, and a collector connected directly to the signal pad in an open collector configuration. The interface circuit further includes a MOS control circuit coupled to the parasitic bipolar transistor and being operative to generate the first control signal. The IO interface circuit may further include an active pull-up circuit connected between a voltage supply of the interface circuit and the signal pad.
US08310260B2	Connecting device A connecting device for connecting pins of a DIP chip to a test device comprises two each of half frames, columns of testing pins, connecting screws, fixing screws, and four holding plates. The two columns of testing pins are arranged respectively on the two half frames parallel to the lengthways direction of the half frame. The distance between two adjacent testing pins in the same column is equal to that between the two adjacent pins in the same column of the DIP chip. The two connecting screws screw into the half frames perpendicular to the lengthways direction of the half frame. Two of the holding plates extend down from each of the half frames and are aligned with short sides of the corresponding half frame. The fixing screws fix the two holding plates on the same half frame along a direction parallel to the lengthways direction of the half frame.
US08310259B2	Silicon carrier space transformer and temporary chip attach burn-in vehicle for high density connections A silicon carrier space transformer assembly includes one or more silicon structures, which provide space transformer scaling to permit interconnection for fine pitch input/output interconnections with a semiconductor die or wafer, and fine pitch test probe tips connected to the one or more silicon structures.
US08310254B2	Probe pin There is provided a material having an excellent conductivity and oxidation resistance as well as a sufficient hardness for probe pins. The present invention provides a probe pin material including Au, Ag, Pd and Cu, wherein the concentration of Au is 40 to 55% by weight, the concentration of Ag is 15 to 30% by weight and the total concentration of Pd and Cu is 15 to 40% by weight. This material can further include 0.6 to 5% by weight of any one element from among Ni, Zn and Co. Furthermore, this alloy can be precipitation-hardened by being heated at 300 to 500° C., enabling provision of a material having a higher hardness.
US08310253B1	Hybrid probe card A hybrid probe card and methods are provided. A plurality of uniform sized probe pins are provided in a probe card for performing wafer probe testing. The probe card also includes at least one enlarged probe pin having a current carrying capacity that is at least 25% greater than the current carrying capacity of the uniform sized probe pins. The enlarged probe pins are provided, e.g., to prevent damage to the probe pins caused by large current flow. Methods for identifying the probe pin locations where the enlarged probe pins should be deployed are described.
US08310251B2	System for assessing pipeline condition A method and system for assessment of a pipe (110) is provided. The system can include a probe (100) having first (120) and second (130) electrodes and a processor (200) in communication with the probe (100). The probe (100) can be in a medium (140) proximate to a section of the pipe (110) to be analyzed. The section of the pipe (110) can have a coating (115) thereon. The processor (200) can measure a difference in potential between the first (120) and second (130) electrodes. The processor (200) can determine a local impedance with respect to the section of the pipe (110) based at least in part on the difference in potential. The processor (200) can evaluate a condition of the coating (115) on the section of the pipe (110) based at least in part on the local impedance or a parameter derived from the local impedance.
US08310231B2	NMR device for detection of analytes This invention relates generally to detection devices having one or more small wells each surrounded by, or in close proximity to, an NMR micro coil, each well containing a liquid sample with magnetic nanoparticles that self-assemble or disperse in the presence of a target analyte, thereby altering the measured NMR properties of the liquid sample. The device may be used, for example, as a portable unit for point of care diagnosis and/or field use, or the device may be implanted for continuous or intermittent monitoring of one or more biological species of interest in a patient.
US08310222B2	Method of forming a power supply controller and structure therefor In one embodiment, a power supply controller forms a compensation current modulates a value of the feedback signal responsively to a value of a timing control signal used to form a clock signal.
US08310217B2	Power conversion circuit for decentralizing input current A power conversion circuit for decentralizing input current includes a capacitor, a first inductor, a first switching circuit, a first discharging circuit, a second inductor, a second switching circuit, a second discharging circuit, and a control circuit. Under control of the control circuit, the first switching circuit and the second switching circuit are alternately conducted, and the second switching circuit is successively conducted when the first switching circuit is shut off.
US08310216B2	Synchronous rectifier control for synchronous boost converter A synchronous boost DC/DC conversion system comprises an input for receiving a DC input voltage, an output for producing a DC output voltage, a power switch controllable to adjust an output signal of the conversion system, and an inductor coupled to the input. A synchronous rectifier is configurable to create a conduction path between the inductor and the output to provide the inductor discharge. A control circuit is provided for controlling the synchronous rectifier as the input voltage approaches the output voltage, so as to adjust average impedance of the conduction path over a discharge period of the inductor.
US08310212B2	Control device for automobile battery-charging generator This invention provides a control device for automobile battery-charging generators, adapted to supply a plurality of sets of specifications in a highly reliable and stable form by simple switching between electrical characteristics assigning and limiting functions so as to meet various needs of users. In accordance with a voltage of a battery B, a voltage control IC regulator 120 controls a field current flowing through a field winding FL. The voltage control IC regulator 120 has a plurality of functions for assigning electrical characteristics limits or electrical characteristics beforehand. The voltage control IC regulator 120 also has switch terminals SW1 and SW2 that switch the plurality of functions that assign the electrical characteristics limits or the electrical characteristics. Electric potential levels of the switch terminals SW1 and SW2 can be changed by cutting cutoff portions CP1 and CP2 of an intermediate terminal 150 or leaving these cutoff portions connected. Thus, an effective or ineffective state of the functions that assign the electrical characteristics limits or the electrical characteristics can be switched.
US08310211B1	Auto-regulated motion power system An auto-regulated motion power system apparatus that may be used to generate usable electricity from disparate energy sources includes a combination of a variable frequency alternator driven by a primary mover and coupled to a load. An energy control module includes a closed-loop feedback system coupled to a pulse width modulation controller and a switch mode rectifier. The alternator has a modulated control signal input having the ability to vary in frequency and voltage with an output having a controlled voltage and varying frequency. The switch mode rectifier accepts variable AC voltages from the alternator and outputs a constant predetermined DC voltage both to one side of the windings of the alternator and to a first side of a high frequency switch. An output on the pulse width modulation generator is connected to a switch control so that when the switch is closed, current flows through the windings of the alternator and when the switch is open, no current flows through the windings. This modulation of current flow (or lack thereof) regulates the magnetic field strength inside the alternator to produce a stable voltage over a wide range of RPMs.
US08310209B2	Battery charger and method for charging a battery The present invention relates to a battery charger for charging a battery (10), said battery charger comprising an AC/DC power supply means (1), a pulse width modulation controlled DC/DC converter (2) and a control unit (3) that is connected to the AC/DC power supply means (1) and the PWM-controlled DC/DC converter (2). The battery charger has a maximum output power while avoiding to blow up small battery packs if the control unit (3) is adapted to measure at least a voltage and a current at terminals of the battery (10) to be charged, calculate a power at the battery (10), compare the calculated power and the nominal maximum power of the AC/DC power supply means (1), and transmit a signal to the PWM-controlled DC/DC converter (2) to adjust a charging current supplied to the battery (10) based on the comparison result. A temperature at the battery can also be measured.
US08310200B2	Inductive chargers and inductive charging systems for portable electronic devices An apparatus is provided for wirelessly charging a portable electronic device. An embodiment of the apparatus includes an inductive charger with a housing having an internal compartment, wherein the internal compartment has a first lateral dimension, and a primary coil disposed within the internal compartment. The primary coil has a second lateral dimension that is less than the first lateral dimension, and the primary coil is slidably engaged within the internal compartment.
US08310198B2	Lithium ion secondary cell charge method and hybrid vehicle Provided is a lithium ion secondary cell charge method including: a step S1 which judges whether a physical amount value corresponding to an accumulation amount of a lithium ion secondary cell is lowered to a first predetermined value; a step S2 which judges whether a hybrid vehicle is in a travel stop state; and charge steps S5 to SA which divide a charge period K into two or more divided charge periods KC1, KC2 and a non-charge period KR between the divided charge periods, so that charge is performed during the divided charge periods KC1, KC2 while the hybrid vehicle is in the travel stop state and charge stop or discharge is performed during the non-charge period KR, wherein each of the divided charge periods KC1, KC2 is not shorter than 40 seconds.
US08310195B2	Method for improving motion times of a stage Methods and systems for, in one embodiment, accelerating a stage through a clearance height in a first direction and decelerating the stage in the first direction while accelerating in a second direction are shown. The stage is moved in a third direction and a determination is made whether the stage movement in the second direction is below a threshold value before continuing to move the stage further in the third direction. The first direction is perpendicular to the second direction and is parallel and opposite to the third direction.
US08310181B2	Motor drive system using potential at neutral point According to input parameters, a controller carries out: generation of a voltage command value for each of d- and q-axes; conversion of the voltage command value for each of the d- and q-axes into a voltage command value for each of the multiphase windings; and control of a multiphase inverter based on the voltage command value for each of the multiphase windings. The controller adds, to the voltage command value for the q-axis, a first compensation voltage value for compensating torque ripples to thereby output a compensated voltage command value for the q-axis. The first compensation voltage value contains m-th harmonic components in the AC motor and varies depending on the rotational angle of the rotor, the m corresponding to the number of phase of the multiphase windings. The controller uses, as the voltage command value for the q-axis, the compensated voltage command value for the q-axis.
US08310179B2	Patient-lifting-device controls Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which in some multisensory implementations, a patient-lifting-device is controlled by voice recognition using a background noise filter, keyboard text input, synaptic control and/or a tongue tactile input commands. In some implementations, the command is rejected or accepted in reference to an analysis of the command, the analysis including an analysis of the authority of operator, competency and/or the state of mind of the operator.
US08310175B2	Modular lamp system Modular lamp system comprises a base unit comprising a power supply, and at least one pair of external electrical contacts arranged on said base unit and electrically connected with said power supply; and at least one light unit comprising at least one first pair of external electrical contacts, arranged on said light unit and arranged to mate with the at least one pair of electrical contacts of the base unit or another substantially identical unit, at least one second pair of external electrical contacts, arranged on said light unit and arranged to mate with the at least one first pair of electrical contacts of another substantially identical unit, and at least one LED lamp arranged on said light unit, said at least one first pair of external electrical contacts and said at least one second pair of external electrical contacts, and said lamp being electrically connected with each other.
US08310174B2	Lighting method and lighting apparatus for a high pressure discharge lamp, a high pressure discharge lamp apparatus, and a projection-type image display apparatus After discharge has begun in a high pressure discharge lamp, constant current control is performed so a lamp current becomes 4 [A]. Then, the current supplied to a pair of electrodes in the lamp is controlled so an electrode tip temperature t [degrees C.] at this time and an electrode tip temperature T [degrees C.] during stable lighting satisfy the relationship t [degrees C.]<=1.1 T [degrees C.]. When a power of the lamp reaches a rated power value, power control is changed to constant power control. This method enables suppressing an excessive rise in the temperature of the electrode tips in an initial lighting interval from lighting commencement until stable lighting, thereby preventing an increase in arc length due to melting of the electrode tips. Accordingly, illuminance does not readily decrease, particularly in a lamp unit including a high pressure discharge lamp mounted to a reflecting mirror.
US08310171B2	Line voltage dimmable constant current LED driver A programmable LED constant current driver circuit for driving LEDs at constant current and dimming the LEDs using standard, off-the-shelf dimmers is provided. The current driver circuit of the present disclosure includes a temperature compensation feature which controls the on time for the LEDs based on a measured temperature of the current driver and associated circuits. In another embodiment, the current driver circuit is designed to receive a 24 VAC input and drive one or more LEDs in a transformer-based system dimming system.
US08310169B2	Power conversion driving circuit and fluorescent lamp driving circuit A power conversion driving circuit is provided. The power conversion drive circuit includes a converting circuit, a control circuit and a load circuit. The converting circuit is coupled to an input voltage. The control circuit is coupled to the converting circuit for controlling the converting circuit to convert the input voltage to an output voltage. The load circuit includes a load detecting unit and a load. The load is coupled to the output voltage, and the load detecting unit is coupled to a detecting voltage source. The load detecting unit generates a load detecting signal to re-start the control circuit when the load circuit is inserted into the power conversion driving circuit.
US08310166B2	Lighting device and lighting fixture using the same A lighting device receives an output of a power supply phase detector and performs a lighting control of a lighting load by a trigger signal to be output from a load controller to a switching element (a load drive unit) at an arbitrary conduction angle. The load controller includes a determination unit that turns on the switching element at a phase of a conduction angle of a commercial power supply in which any lighting load (an incandescent lamp, a bulb-type fluorescent lamp, and an LED lamp) can be turned on during a predetermined period after turning on a power supply, so as to determine a type of the lighting load during the period. The load controller switches to a predetermined operation mode depending on a type of the lighting load determined by the determination unit.
US08310160B1	Anti-arcing circuit for current-fed parallel resonant inverter An arc protection circuit is provided for a current-fed, parallel-resonant inverter ballast, the circuit having a lamp signal sensing circuit coupled across one or more lamps and designed to detect a signal through the lamps, a shutdown circuit coupled to the sensing circuit and operable to disable the ballast in response to a disturbance such as an arc in the detected signal, at least a portion of the shutdown circuit defining a first time delay from detection of the disturbance in the signal during which the ballast operates normally, and after which the ballast may be disabled in response to the disturbance; and an automatic restart circuit coupled to the shutdown circuit and operable to enable restarting of the ballast, at least a portion of the restart circuit defining a second time delay during which the ballast remains disabled, after which the ballast may be restarted.
US08310153B2	Organic light emitting diode display device and method of fabricating the same An organic light emitting diode display device and a method of fabricating the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, the organic light emitting diode display device includes i) a base substrate including a first device region and a first encapsulation region, ii) an organic light emitting diode (OLED) disposed on the first device region, iii) an inner filler formed over the OLED and the first device region, iv) a light transmission layer formed on the inner filler, v) an encapsulation substrate including a second device region and a second encapsulation region corresponding to the first device region and first encapsulation region, respectively, wherein the second device region is formed over the light transmission layer and vi) an encapsulation agent disposed on the first and second encapsulation regions, and configured to encapsulate the base substrate with the encapsulation substrate.
US08310149B2	Transparent OLED device employing a mirror layer having a pattern of nontransparent and transparent zones Disclosed is an OLED device including an organic layer disposed between an anode and a cathode, and a mirror layer on the anode or cathode. The organic layer is structured into electroluminescent zones and inactive zones, while the mirror layer is structured into nontransparent zones and transparent zones. Via an at least partial alignment of these structures, the OLED device can be made transparent for environmental light and simultaneously emissive in a dominant direction.
US08310146B2	Organic electroluminescent device, liquid crystal display and illuminating device This invention provides an organic electroluminescent element that has a thin and compact sealing structure and is excellent in heat resistance in sealing, particularly a high-brightness organic electroluminescent element comprising a phosphorescence emitting substance, and a liquid crystal display device and lighting equipment using the same. The organic electroluminescent element comprises a substrate and a first electrode, one or more organic layers including a luminescent layer, and a second electrode provided on the substrate. An adhesive layer is disposed on the whole area of a light emitting surface and remote from the light takeout side in the organic electroluminescent element, and a flexible film having a barrier film is applied thereto to form the light emitting surface. The organic electroluminescent element is characterized in that at least one of the luminescent material contained in the luminescent layer is phosphorescence emitting substance, and not less than 80% by mass of the organic material constituting the organic layer has a glass transition temperature of 100° C. or above.
US08310138B2	Actuator An actuator includes an ion-conductive polymer layer made of a first ion-conductive polymer, a pair of electrode layers provided one on each side of the ion-conductive polymer layer and made of a second ion-conductive polymer and conductive powder, and ions contained in the ion-conductive polymer layer and electrode layers. The first and second ion-conductive polymers differ in functional group type from each other.
US08310136B2	Piezoelectric thin film element, and piezoelectric thin film device A piezoelectric thin film element, comprising a piezoelectric thin film lamination with at least a lower electrode, a piezoelectric thin film represented by a general formula (NaxKyLiz)NbO3 (0≦x 1≦, 0≦y≦1, 0≦z≦0.2, x+y+z=1), and an upper electrode disposed on a substrate, wherein the piezoelectric thin film has a crystal structure of a pseudo-cubic crystal or a tetragonal crystal or an orthorhombic crystal, or has a composition in which one of these crystals exists or at least two or more of them coexist, and is preferentially oriented to a specific axis smaller than or equal to two axes of these crystals, and in the ratio of component (001) to component (111), volume fraction of the component (001) falls within a range of 60% or more and 100% or less, and the volume fraction of the component (111) falls within a range of 0% or more and 40% or less, in a case that the total of the component (001) and the component (111) is set to be 100%.
US08310128B2	High precision silicon-on-insulator MEMS parallel kinematic stages MEMS stages comprising a plurality of comb drive actuators provide micro and up to nano-positioning capability. Flexure hinges and folded springs that operably connect the actuator to a movable end stage provide independent motion from each of the actuators that minimizes unwanted off-axis displacement, particularly for three-dimensional movement of a cantilever. Also provided are methods for using and making MEMS stages. In an aspect, a process provides a unitary MEMS stage made from a silicon-on-insulator wafer that avoids any post-fabrication assembly steps. Further provided are various devices that incorporate any of the stages disclosed herein, such as devices requiring accurate positioning systems in applications including scanning probe microscopy, E-jet printing, near-field optic sensing, cell probing and material characterization.
US08310127B2	Connected energy converter, generator provided therewith and method for the manufacture thereof A high-output energy converter of an output-improving thermionic generator, thermally connected to other generators without moving parts that utilize the residual energy from the thermionic generator. The thermionic generator comprises a rαultilayered vacuum diode, the layers of which are very thin and the gaps between the layers are also thin and kept at a distance from one another by selectively flexible spacer elements. Piezo elements or heating elements can precisely adjust the height of the gaps.
US08310118B2	Packaging improvement for converter-fed transverse flux machine A transverse flux machine has at least three phases, each provided by a stator core and phase windings. Each of the at least three phases is captured within a common housing. Parallel lines extend from the at least three phases, and a current source converter is created on each of the parallel lines by inductors, a switching network, and communicating capacitors, which are received within the common housing.
US08310117B2	Electric propulsion system useful in jet-type model airplanes and UAVs A power plant for a jet-type model airplanes and UAVs includes an electric motor and a cover. The cover receives a portion of the electric motor and a sleeve into which the electric motor is inserted. The sleeve has a plurality of fins to dissipate heat and create openings into the cover. Air from the fan rotor passes through the openings to cool an electronic speed control member and exits a rear opening in the cover. The cover may also have additional openings for air to enter into the cover.
US08310113B2	Multiple armature linear motor/alternator having magnetic spring with no fringe fields and increased power output An electromagnetic, reciprocating linear motor or alternator having at least two armatures that are adjacent along an axis of reciprocation. The armatures have gaps that are linearly aligned along a gap path parallel to the axis. Field magnets reciprocate within the gap path. The field magnets include a main field magnet associated with each armature, each main field magnet having a magnetic polarization in the same direction across the gap path. A secondary magnet provides a centering spring force and is interposed between the main magnets. The secondary magnet extends in an axial direction from within a gap of one armature core to within an adjacent gap of an adjacent armature core. The secondary magnet is magnetically polarized in a direction opposite the polarization of the main magnets.
US08310110B2	Power switch circuit A power switch circuit includes first and second power switches, first to fourth inverters, first and second diodes. An input of the first inverter is connected to a first positive terminal of the first power switch. An input of the second inverter is connected to an output of the first inverter. A cathode of the first diode is connected to an output of the second inverter. An anode of the first diode is connected to a power-on terminal of a motherboard. An input of the third inverter is connected to a second positive terminal of the second power switch. An input of the fourth inverter is connected to an output of the third inverter. A cathode of the second diode is connected to an output of the fourth inverter. An anode of the second diode is connected to the power-on terminal.
US08310109B2	Power management DC-DC converter and method for induction energy harvester A system for managing AC energy harvested from a harvesting device (1) including a coil (4) including switching circuitry (S1-S4) coupled between first (7A) and second (7B) terminals of the coil. The switching circuitry includes first (S1), second (S2), third (S1), and fourth (S4) switches. A switch controller (17) closes the second and fourth switches to allow build-up of current (ILh) in the coil, opens one of the second and fourth switches, and closes a corresponding one of the third and first switches in response to the built-up inductor current reaching a predetermined threshold value (Ihrv) to steer the built-up inductor current through the corresponding one of the third and first switches to a current-receiving device (24 and/or RL, CL).
US08310108B2	Non-contact electric power supplying equipment, non-contact electric power receiving device, and non-contact electric power supplying system Electric power supplying equipment and an electric power receiving device include a primary self resonant coil and a secondary self resonant coil, respectively, resonating through an electromagnetic field to allow the electric power supplying equipment to supply the electric power receiving device with electric power in a non-contact manner. A control device controls a high frequency electric power supply device to control supplying electric power from the primary self resonant coil to the secondary self resonant coil. The control device estimates a distance between the primary self resonant coil and the secondary self resonant coil from an S-parameter S11 varying with the distance between the primary self resonant coil and the secondary self resonant coil, and controls supplying electric power, based on that estimated distance.
US08310107B2	Power transmission control device, power transmitting device, non-contact power transmission system, and secondary coil positioning method A power transmission control device used for a non-contact power transmission system includes a power-transmitting-side control circuit that controls power transmission to a power receiving device, and a harmonic detection circuit that detects a harmonic signal of a drive frequency of a primary coil. A resonant circuit (leakage inductance and resonant capacitor) that resonates with the harmonic of the drive frequency of the primary coil L1 is formed in the power receiving device so that harmonic resonance occurs. The harmonic detection circuit detects the harmonic resonance peak of the drive frequency of the primary coil.
US08310106B2	Magnetizing inrush current suppression device and method for transformer To suppress the magnetizing inrush current occurring when supplying power of three phases of the transformer are performed simultaneously using three single-phase circuit breakers or a non-phase segregated operation-type circuit breaker, without providing a circuit breaker with a resistor or other equipment. A magnetizing inrush current suppression method for transformer suppresses a magnetizing inrush current occurring at the start of energizing of a three-phase transformer 300, when a three-phase power supply 100 is input to a terminal of each phase by means of a three-phase circuit breaker 200. In the method, by integrating phase voltages or line-to-line voltages on the primary side or the secondary side or the tertiary side when three-phase AC voltages are applied in a steady state to the transformer 300, steady-state magnetic flux 4, 5, 6 for each phase of the transformer is calculated, and the polarity and magnitude of the residual magnetic flux 7, 8, 9 of each phase of the transformer after the circuit breaker 200 shuts off the transformer are calculated, and the three-phase circuit breaker is caused to close simultaneously in a region 13 in which three phases overlap, each of the three phases having the polarity of the steady-state magnetic flux 4, 5, 6 equal to the polarity of the residual magnetic flux 7, 8, 9 for each phase of the transformer.
US08310104B2	Substantially bumpless transfer grid synchronization This disclosure includes systems and methods for managing the interaction between inverter-based DC and other power systems. In one embodiment, a 3-phase isolation transformer is fluxed to create a 3-phase rotating field from the output of a source inverter. An inductive filter turns that output into three sine waves. A secondary inverter regenerates the system, sometimes after the isolation transformer is fluxed, and by advancing or retarding the secondary inverter's phase, current (and, thus, the DC voltage and power direction) is controlled. In another embodiment, an inverter is supplied by a DC source. The inverter is controlled to match its output voltage, current, and phase to a live AC grid, then the two are connected. The inverter frequency is then driven to advance the phase of the inverter in relation to the grid. Alternatively, the inverter voltage is then driven at a level greater than that of the grid.
US08310100B2	System and method for a redundant power solution A redundant power solution system, including at least a first and second input module, each configured for receiving input power, an output converter, wherein a first output line from the first input module and a second output line from the second module both feed into the output converter, and a control mechanism associated with the first and second input modules, wherein the control mechanism monitors the input power received by the first and second input modules and dynamically selects at least one of the first and second input modules to feed power into the output converter.
US08310094B2	Power supply system A power supply system capable of smoothing photovoltaic generation output, and enabling time shift is provided. A power supply system including a DC power supply string in which a storage battery is connected in parallel to a DC power supply; and a DC/AC power conversion device for connecting the DC power supply string to a power system or a load is provided. A switch is connected between the DC power supply and the storage battery, where an output power of the DC power supply or a combined output power of the DC power supply and the storage battery is switched and supplied to the DC/AC power conversion device by the switch. The photovoltaic generation output is thereby smoothed, and time shift is enabled.
US08310092B2	Outdoor electrical power receptacle and control system thereof Disclosed is an outdoor electrical power receptacle, comprising a main body, a mounting member, and an extension power cord, wherein an upper end of the mounting member couples to the main body. The extension power cord, couples to each of controllable power outlets disposed on the main body and extended out of the main body for connecting to an external power source. Herein, the main body further includes a power switching module, a wireless transceiver, and a microprocessor. The power switching module couples to each controllable power outlet. The wireless transceiver receives a control signal. The microprocessor coupled to the wireless transceiver and the power switching module, drives the power switching module so as to control each of the controllable power outlets to be conducted in response to the control signal. A control system of the outdoor electrical power receptacle according to the present invention is also provided.
US08310089B2	Power sharing network communications device A set of network communications devices shares available power among themselves to meet overall system power loading. An individual device is configured to include a local power supply delivering power to a local power bus at a local supply voltage varied in response to a voltage control signal. A protection component is connected between the local power bus and an external power cable used to connect the device to another device for sharing power. The protection component provides an interruptible low-impedance DC path for carrying current based on direction and magnitude of a voltage difference between the local power bus and the external power cable. Control circuitry is used to: (a) drive a current-sharing bus connected among the devices to influence a value of a system current-sharing signal indicating a level of system power loading among the devices; (b) generate a difference signal indicating a difference between local power loading of the local power supply and the system power loading reflected by the system current-sharing signal; and (c) generate the voltage control signal based on the difference signal to achieve a predetermined sharing of the system power loading by the local power supply.
US08310086B2	Vehicular power system A vehicular power system, which has an operating switch for making the transition among an ON state in which an IG power is ON or a vehicular power source is ON, an ACC state which is different from the ON state and in which an accessory power is ON, and an OFF state in which the vehicular power source and the accessory power are OFF, wherein when the operating switch is operated while a shift lever is in a parking position in the ACC state after the transition from the OFF state, the transition is made from the ACC state to the ON state.
US08310084B2	Device and method for controlling a power shunt circuit, hybrid vehicle having same A device for controlling a power shunt circuit of a hybrid vehicle, including inverters, including DC sides linked to a DC voltage storage unit and AC sides intended to be linked to polyphase electrical machines. The polyphase electrical machines are able to operate in engine/engine or generator/generator modes. A control unit controls chopping switches of the second inverter in a way that is temporally offset relative to chopping switches of the first inverter in such a case, the control unit of the inverters controlling their chopping switches by pulse width vector modulation.
US08310079B2	Tidal energy system A tidal energy capture means connects a turbine to its anchor by telescopic members which pivot about the anchor as axis in the plane of the tidal flow and whose combined length depends upon the force of this flow. These members can be locked at prescribed lengths by a remote signal, to control the level of the turbine during this movement. The anchor consists of a plug and socket, with buoyancy means for positioning the plug in the socket, and the telescopic members can be a rotatable shaft which drives equipment in the plug.
US08310075B2	Shadow control of wind turbines A rotor of a wind turbine may cast an intermittent shadow onto an object in the vicinity of the turbine. A shadow-control system stops the wind turbine, based on a shadow-related shut-down condition. The condition is based on a result of a comparison between a direct-light intensity and an indirect-light intensity being beyond a direct-to-indirect light threshold. A set of light sensors measures the direct- and indirect-light intensities. A sensor measures the direct light intensity when irradiated by the sun, and the indirect-light intensity when not irradiated by the sun. The set of light sensors to provide the measured direct- and indirect-light intensities for the comparison consists of two sensors, an eastward-oriented sensor and a westward-oriented sensor.
US08310073B2	Wind turbine arrangement and method for aligning a wind turbine with the wind direction A method for aligning a wind turbine with the wind direction is provided. The method includes measuring at least one first pressure at a first side of the wind turbine's nacelle, determining the pressure difference between the measured first pressure and a second pressure, and rotating the nacelle in dependence to the determined pressure difference. A wind turbine arrangement including a nacelle, a yaw alignment controller, and a yaw drive is also provided.
US08310072B2	Wind power installation, generator for generation of electrical power from ambient air, and method for generation of electrical power from ambient air in motiion The present invention relates to a wind power installation (1) for generation of electrical power by means of ambient air, having a flow channel (3) through which the ambient air is passed by an air flow being formed, with the flow channel (3) having an outer casing (6) delimiting it, and also having: a first section (7) with an essentially constant cross section, into which the ambient air can be introduced, with an air acceleration device (39) being provided in the first section (7), a second tapered section (9) which is in the form of a Venturi nozzle (10), a third section (11) which follows the second section (9) and in which a rotor (60) is arranged which is caused to rotate by the air flowing through it, and whose rotation is used to generate electrical power, a fourth flared section (13) which is in the form of a Laval nozzle (12), and a fifth section (15) which has a second air acceleration device (85) used as the exhaust for the air which has been introduced into the flow channel (3).
US08310070B2	Method and system for generating electricity A method for generating electricity along a roadway is provided. The method includes actuating an energy transfer assembly coupled to the roadway, wherein the energy transfer assembly is actuated by a force acting upon the roadway. The method also includes generating electricity at a generator coupled to the energy transfer assembly, the generator being driven by actuation of the energy transfer assembly.
US08310067B2	Ball grid array package enhanced with a thermal and electrical connector A package is provided. The package includes a substrate having first and second surfaces, a stiffener coupled to the first surface of the substrate, and a thermal connector coupled to the second surface of the substrate that is configured to be coupled to a printed circuit board.
US08310047B2	Solder layer, heat sink using such a solder layer and method for manufacturing such a heat sink A heat sink (10) is disclosed which comprises a substrate (1), an electrode layer (2) formed on the substrate (1) and a solder layer (3) formed on the substrate (1) wherein the solder layer (3) provides a bonding strength of not less than 30 MPa and a shear strain of not less than 0.07. The heat sink may be a sub-mount which comprises a sub-mount substrate (1), an electrode layer (2) formed on the substrate (1) and a solder layer (3) formed on the substrate (1) wherein the electrode layer (2) is formed with a window portion (2A) having the solder layer (3) embedded therein and is connected to an outer peripheral area of the solder layer (3). A sub-mount that has a high strength of bonding between the solder layer (3) and a semiconductor device is provided at a reduced cost.
US08310046B2	Wafer stacked package waving bertical heat emission path and method of fabricating the same A wafer stacked semiconductor package (WSP) having a vertical heat emission path and a method of fabricating the same are provided. The WSP comprises a substrate on which semiconductor chips are mounted; a plurality of semiconductor chips stacked vertically on the substrate; a cooling through-hole formed vertically in the plurality of semiconductor chips, and sealed; micro holes formed on the circumference of the cooling through-hole; and coolant filling the inside of the cooling through-hole. Accordingly, the WSP reduces a temperature difference between the semiconductor chips and quickly dissipates the heat generated by the stacked semiconductor chips.
US08310039B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device having a through electrode excellent in performance as for an electrode and manufacturing stability is provided. There is provided a through electrode composed of a conductive small diameter plug and a conductive large diameter plug on a semiconductor device. A cross sectional area of the small diameter plug is made larger than a cross sectional area and a diameter of a connection plug, and is made smaller than a cross sectional area and a diameter of the large diameter plug. In addition, a protruding portion formed in such a way that the small diameter plug is projected from the silicon substrate is put into an upper face of the large diameter plug. Further, an upper face of the small diameter plug is connected to a first interconnect.
US08310038B2	Integrated circuit packaging system with embedded conductive structure and method of manufacture thereof A method of manufacture of an integrated circuit packaging system includes: providing a package carrier; mounting an integrated circuit device to the package carrier; mounting an embeddable conductive structure, having a non-horizontal portion between a lower portion and an elevated portion and a hole, to the integrated circuit device with the lower portion over the integrated circuit device; mounting an interposer to the lower portion and below the elevated portion; and forming an encapsulation having a recess exposing the interposer and the elevated portion.
US08310034B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device having a digital region and an analog region embedded therein has an annular seal ring which surrounds the outer circumference of the digital region and the analog region in a plan view; a guard ring which is provided in the area surrounded by the seal ring, between the digital region and the analog region, so as to isolate the analog region from the digital region, and so as to be electrically connected to the seal ring; and an electrode pad which is electrically connected to the guard ring in the vicinity of the guard ring.
US08310031B2	Semiconductor and solar wafers A silicon-on-insulator or bonded wafer includes an upper portion having a trapezoid shape in cross-section and a lower portion having an outer peripheral edge having a curved shape.
US08310029B2	Group III nitride semiconductor free-standing substrate and method of manufacturing the same, group III nitride semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same A group III nitride semiconductor free-standing substrate includes an as-grown surface, more than half of a region of the as-grown surface including a single crystal plane. The single crystal plane includes an off-angle inclined in an m-axis or a-axis direction from a C-plane with a group III polarity, or in a c-axis or a-axis direction from an M-plane.
US08310020B2	Non-volatile magnetic memory with low switching current and high thermal stability A non-volatile current-switching magnetic memory element includes a bottom electrode, a pinning layer formed on top of the bottom electrode, and a fixed layer formed on top of the pinning layer. The memory element further includes a tunnel layer formed on top of the pinning layer, a first free layer formed on top of the tunnel layer, a granular film layer formed on top of the free layer, a second free layer formed on top of the granular film layer, a cap layer formed on top of the second layer and a top electrode formed on top of the cap layer.
US08310012B2	Semiconductor device having metal gate and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a gate dielectric layer formed on the semiconductor substrate, and at least a first conductive-type metal gate formed on the gate dielectric layer. The first conductive-type metal gate includes a filling metal layer and a U-type metal layer formed between the filling metal layer and the gate dielectric layer. A topmost portion of the U-type metal layer is lower than the filling metal layer.
US08310008B2	Electronic device including a gate electrode having portions with different conductivity types An electronic device can include a gate electrode having different portions with different conductivity types. In an embodiment, a process of forming the electronic device can include forming a semiconductor layer over a substrate, wherein the semiconductor layer has a particular conductivity type. The process can also include selectively doping a region of the semiconductor layer to form a first doped region having an opposite conductivity type. The process can further include patterning the semiconductor layer to form a gate electrode that includes a first portion and a second portion, wherein the first portion includes a portion of the first doped region, and the second region includes a portion of the semiconductor layer outside of the first doped region. In a particular embodiment, the electronic device can have a gate electrode having edge portions of one conductivity type and a central portion having an opposite conductivity type.
US08310006B2	Devices, structures, and methods using self-aligned resistive source extensions Devices, structures, and related methods for IGBTs and the like which include a self-aligned series resistance at the source-body junction to avoid latchup. The series resistance is achieved by using a charged dielectric, and/or by using a dielectric which provides a source of dopant atoms of the same conductivity type as the source region, at a sidewall adjacent to the source region.
US08310002B2	Semiconductor device and method of forming the same A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a first diffusion region, a gate insulating film, a gate electrode, a second diffusion region and a contact plug. The semiconductor substrate includes a base and at least a pillar. The first diffusion region is disposed in the base. The gate insulating film covers a side surface of the pillar. The gate electrode is separated from the pillar by the gate insulating film. The second diffusion region is disposed in an upper portion of the pillar. The contact plug is connected to the second diffusion region. The contact plug is connected to the entirety of the top surface of the pillar.
US08309997B2	Photoelectric conversion device, method for manufacturing the same and image pickup system An object of the present invention is to provide a photoelectric conversion device, wherein improvement of charge transfer properties when charge is output from a charge storage region and suppression of dark current generation during charge storage are compatible with each other. This object is achieved by forming a depletion voltage of a charge storage region in the range from zero to one half of a power source voltage (V), forming a gate voltage of a transfer MOS transistor during a charge transfer period in the range from one half of the power source voltage to the power source voltage (V) and forming a gate voltage of the transfer MOS transistor during a charge storage period in the range from minus one half of the power source voltage to zero (V).
US08309993B2	Pixel of image sensor and method for fabricating the same A pixel of an image sensor includes a polysilicon layer, and an active region which needs to be electrically coupled with the polysilicon layer, wherein the polysilicon layer extends over a portion of the active region, such that the polysilicon layer and the active region are partially overlapped, and the polysilicon layer and the active region are coupled through a buried contact structure.
US08309990B2	Integrated devices on a common compound semiconductor III-V wafer A III-V compound semiconductor structure comprises epitaxial structures that include an integrated pair of different types of active devices. The semiconductor structure includes a semi-insulating substrate of a compound semiconductor III-V material and a first compound semiconductor III-V epitaxial structure disposed on the substrate. A concentration profile of dopant material in the semiconductor structure decreases substantially smoothly across an interface between the substrate and the first epitaxial structure in a direction from the first epitaxial structure toward the substrate, and continues to decrease substantially smoothly from the interface with increasing depth into the substrate despite the presence of silicon or oxygen contaminant at the interface. The interface is substantially free of a second contaminant that was present, during formation of the first epitaxial structure, in a chamber in which the first epitaxial structure was formed.
US08309982B2	Group-III nitride semiconductor light-emitting device, method for manufacturing the same, and lamp Provided is a group-III nitride semiconductor light-emitting device which has a high level of crystallinity and superior internal quantum efficiency and which is capable of enabling acquisition of high level light emission output, and a manufacturing method thereof, and a lamp. An AlN seed layer composed of a group-III nitride based compound is laminated on a substrate 11, and on this AlN seed layer, there are sequentially laminated each layer of an n-type semiconductor layer, a light-emitting layer, and a p-type semiconductor layer respectively composed of a group-III nitride semiconductor, wherein the full width at half-maximum of the X-ray rocking curve of the (0002) plane of the p-type semiconductor layer 16 is 60 arcsec or less, and the full width at half-maximum of the X-ray rocking curve of the (10-10) plane is 250 arcsec or less.
US08309975B2	Semiconductor light emitting element and semiconductor light emitting device using the same In a semiconductor light emitting device, in which a light emitting layer is formed on one surface of a conductive substrate, and an n-type electrode and a p-type electrode are formed on the same side as the light emitting layer, there has been the problem that, if larger electric power is applied, heat is generated near the n-side electrode to reduce luminous efficiency. The n-side electrode has a predetermined length at a corner portion or along an edge of the substrate to disperse a current flowing from the n-side electrode into the substrate, thereby avoiding heat generation near the n-side electrode. In this type of semiconductor light emitting element, the existence of the n-side electrode reduces a light emitting area. Therefore, the length of the n-side electrode preferably ranges from 20% to 50% of the entire peripheral length of the substrate.
US08309974B2	Light emitting diode package To provide a light emitting diode package of which the height of protrusion of a thermal via is decreased without decreasing the flexural strength of an insulating substrate.A light emitting diode package comprising a light emitting diode element mounted on a substrate, wherein the substrate is obtained by firing a glass ceramic composition containing a powder of glass containing, as represented by mole percentage, from 57 to 65% of SiO2, from 13 to 18% of B2O3, from 9 to 23% of CaO, from 3 to 8% of Al2O3 and from 0.5 to 6% of at least one of K2O and Na2O in total, and a ceramic filler.
US08309972B2	LEDs with efficient electrode structures Aspects include electrodes that provide specified reflectivity attributes for light generated from an active region of a Light Emitting Diode (LED). LEDs that incorporate such electrode aspects. Other aspects include methods for forming such electrodes, LEDs including such electrodes, and structures including such LEDs.
US08309970B2	Vertical structure LED device and method of manufacturing the same A method of manufacturing a vertical structure light emitting diode device, the method including: sequentially forming a first conductivity type III-V group compound semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second conductivity type III-V group compound semiconductor layer on a substrate for growth; bonding a conductive substrate to the second conductivity type III-V group compound semiconductor layer; removing the substrate for growth from the first conductivity type III-V group compound semiconductor layer; and forming an electrode on an exposed portion of the first conductive III-V group compound semiconductor layer due to the removing the substrate for growth, wherein the bonding a conductive substrate comprises partially heating a metal bonding layer by applying microwaves to a bonding interface while bringing the metal bonding layer into contact with the bonding interface.
US08309960B2	Display device A display device includes a plurality of thin-film transistors formed on a substrate on which a display area is formed. At least one of the plurality of thin-film transistors includes a gate electrode, agate insulating film formed to cover the gate electrode, an interlayer insulating film formed on an upper surface of the gate insulating film and having an opening formed in an area where the gate electrode is formed in plan view, a pair of heavily-doped semiconductor films arranged on an upper surface of the interlayer insulating film with the opening interposed therebetween, a polycrystalline semiconductor film formed across the opening and formed in the area, the polycrystalline semiconductor film being electrically connected to the pair of heavily-doped semiconductor films, and a pair of electrodes formed to overlap the pair of heavily-doped semiconductor films, respectively, without overlapping the polycrystalline semiconductor film.
US08309955B2	Devices having high dielectric constant, ionically-polarizable materials An electronic or electro-optic device has a first electrode, a second electrode spaced apart from the first electrode, and a dielectric layer disposed between the first and second electrodes. The dielectric layer has electrically insulating planar layers with intercalated ions therebetween such that the electrically insulating planar layers provide a barrier to impede movement of the intercalated ions to the first and second electrodes under an applied voltage while permitting a polarization of the dielectric layer while in operation.
US08309953B2	Transistor structures and methods of fabrication thereof An electronic device is presented, such as a thin film transistor. The device comprises a patterned electrically-conductive layer associated with an active element of the electronic device. The electrically-conductive layer has a pattern defining an array of spaced-apart electrically conductive regions. This technique allows for increasing an electric current through the device.
US08309948B2	Nitride semiconductor device In the nitride semiconductor device of the present invention, an active layer 12 is sandwiched between a p-type nitride semiconductor layer 11 and an n-type nitride semiconductor layer 13. The active layer 12 has, at least, a barrier layer 2a having an n-type impurity; a well layer 1a made of a nitride semiconductor that includes In; and a barrier layer 2c that has a p-type impurity, or that has been grown without being doped. An appropriate injection of carriers into the active layer 12 becomes possible by arranging the barrier layer 2c nearest to the p-type layer side.
US08309945B2	Programmable metallization memory cell with planarized silver electrode Programmable metallization memory cells having a planarized silver electrode and methods of forming the same are disclosed. The programmable metallization memory cells include a first metal contact and a second metal contact, an ion conductor solid electrolyte material is between the first metal contact and the second metal contact, and either a silver alloy doping electrode separates the ion conductor solid electrolyte material from the first metal contact or the second metal contact, or a silver doping electrode separates the ion conductor solid electrolyte material from the first metal contact. The silver electrode includes a silver layer and a metal seed layer separating the silver layer from the first metal contact.
US08309939B2	Particle beam treatment apparatus and particle beam treatment method When a predetermined region of a target volume is divided into multiple layers in a depth direction of particle beams and particle beams are irradiated, dose calibration is carried out separately for the divided layers.
US08309934B2	High radiation environment tunnel monitoring system and method In accordance with the principles of the present invention utilizing a first radiation monitoring module, radiation information associated with the first radiation monitoring module within a tunnel is wirelessly transmitted to a second radiation monitoring module. The second radiation monitoring module is able to receive radiation information from the first radiation monitoring module for relay of the received radiation information to a central monitoring system. The radiation monitoring modules of the present invention allow long term monitoring of a tunnel's radiation levels with maintenance simply requiring replacement of a non-operational tunnel monitoring module by a robot.
US08309930B2	Method of local electro-magnetic field enhancement of terahertz (THz) radiation in sub- wavelength regions and improved coupling of radiation to materials through the use of the discontinuity edge effect A method and apparatus for enhanced THz radiation coupling to molecules, includes the steps of depositing a test material near the discontinuity edges of a slotted member, and enhancing the THz radiation by transmitting THz radiation through the slots. The molecules of the test material are illuminated by the enhanced THz radiation that has been transmitted through the slots, thereby producing an increased coupling of EM radiation in the THz spectral range to said material. The molecules can be bio-molecules, explosive materials, or species of organisms. The slotted member can be a semiconductor film, a metallic film, in particular InSb, or layers thereof. THz detectors sense near field THz radiation that has been transmitted through said slots and the test material.
US08309926B2	Pulsed-laser beam detector with improved sun and temperature compensation A pulsed-laser beam detector with improved sun and temperature compensation. The detector includes a plurality of photo detectors, an ambient temperature sensor, a sun exposure filter and a mirroring circuit, a microcontroller unit that includes pre-stored values in a database and an algorithm—decision logic, a time base circuit that feeds microcontroller, an adjustable gain amplifier, a threshold setting circuit, a peak detector circuit, a comparator circuit, and a noise cancellation circuit. The gain of the amplifier is adjustable in real time to predetermined values, and the gain depends on the measured values from the detectors, and temperature sensor, that are preprocessed if necessary, and compared with the values already stored in the microcontroller unit and subjected to the program logic stored in the microcontroller that determines the gain of the amplifier.
US08309911B2	Methods and apparatus for filling an ion detector cell In a mass spectrometer, a dual stage axial extraction field is applied to transport ions from an accumulator to a detector cell. Ions of a same mass may be transported to the detector cell or a point axially preceding the detector cell at the same time. This may be done by selecting the relative strengths of a first axial electric field applied to the accumulator and a second axial electric field applied to a shutter located at an exit end of the accumulator. This may also be done by selecting relative axial lengths of the accumulator, shutter, and an ion guide located at an exit end of the shutter. A dual stage decelerating field may also be applied to slow ions down prior to and after entering the detector cell.
US08309909B2	AtomChip device An AtomChip device and a method for trapping, manipulating and measuring atoms in ultra high vacuum chamber, and for increasing the lifetime of the trapped atoms, the AtomChip device including at least one conductive element, made of metal, wherein at least part of the metal is a dilute alloy metal, and wherein the at least one conductive element has a low working temperature.
US08309895B2	Device for clamping and unclamping a tool through inductive warming of a tool holder A device for clamping and unclamping of tools comprising a tool shaft, by which device a sleeve section (2) of a tool holder (1) comprising a centric receiver opening (4) for a shaft (5) of a rotation tool is inductively heated, which sleeve section retains the shaft (5) of the tool seated in the receiver opening (4) in a press fit, and releases it upon heat up, which device comprises an induction coil assembly with at least one induction coil (6), which can be fed by an electric current for heating the sleeve section (2), and which comprises a concentrator body (11), which is magnetically conductive and electrically nonconductive or substantially electrically nonconductive, which concentrates the magnetic flux of the induction coil (6) onto the portion of the tool side end of the sleeve section (2), wherein the concentrator body (11) supports an induction attachment (14) made of electrically conductive material.
US08309884B2	Laser irradiation apparatus The present invention is to provide a laser irradiation apparatus for forming a laser beam which has a shape required for the annealing and which has homogeneous energy distribution, by providing a slit at an image-formation position of a diffractive optical element, wherein the slit has a slit opening whose length is changeable.The laser irradiation apparatus comprises a laser oscillator, a diffractive optical element, and a slit, wherein the slit has a slit opening whose length in a major-axis direction thereof is changeable, wherein a laser beam is delivered obliquely to a substrate, and wherein the laser beam is a continuous wave solid-state, gas, or metal laser, or a pulsed laser with a repetition frequency of 10 MHz or more.
US08309879B2	Processing apparatus using ultrashort pulse laser The present invention relates to an ultrashort pulse laser processing device. The ultrashort pulse laser includes a stage a transfer member, a front confocal microscope, a front laser generating unit, and a front highpowered lens. A sample is provided on the stage to be processed, the transfer member transfers the stage, and the front confocal microscope is provided above the stage. The front laser generating unit is provided between the front confocal microscope and the stage to generate an ultrashort pulse laser, and the front high-powered lens focuses the laser provided from the front laser generating unit.
US08309875B2	Apparatus and method for making bores in an edge of a turbine blade An apparatus for making bores in a turbine blade edge is provided. The apparatus includes a drilling device and a guide for the drilling device. The guide includes a bearing element with a gap which is delimited by bearing faces and has the shape of a turbine blade edge. Further, the apparatus includes two guide modules which lie opposite one another and are brought to bear with a side face of the turbine blade and which together form a tension device for fixing the guide on the turbine blade. Furthermore, a method for making bores in a turbine blade edge using such an apparatus is provided.
US08309874B2	Gas heater A method and apparatus for heating or cooling a fluid. An inlet conduit coupled to a plurality of distribution nozzles in fluid communication with a channel at the periphery of the apparatus. An insert and a sleeve cooperatively define a thin gap, in fluid communication with the channel, through which the fluid flows. Thermal inserts near the thin gap generate heat flux into or out of the fluid, which exits through an outlet conduit.
US08309866B2	Weight checking apparatus having measuring and processing portions Apparatus for changing a position of device for measuring a weight of an object. The apparatus includes a conveyor portion, a measuring portion which also conveys the object and measures a weight of the object, and a pair of rails which extend along a conveying direction of the object and onto which the conveying and measuring portions are movably attached.
US08309858B2	Electrical device including a functional element in a cavity A substrate includes a functional element. An insulating first film forms a cavity which stores the functional element, together with the substrate, and includes a plurality of through-holes. An insulating second film covers the plurality of through-holes, is formed on the first film, and has a gas permeability which is higher than that of the first film. An insulating third film is formed on the second film and has a gas permeability which is lower than the second film. An insulating fourth film is formed on the third film and has an elasticity which is larger than the third film.

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