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| US08412465B2 |
Microarray-based gene copy number analyses
This invention contemplates an accurate and efficient estimation of gene copy number using oligonucleotide microarrays. The method integrates gene copy number data obtained from perfect match and mismatch probe sequence structure intensities and probe binding affinities. In one embodiment, an accurate determination of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) sequences is obtained. In another embodiment, an accurate detection and determination of DNA copy number alteration is obtained. In another embodiment, an accurate estimation for RNA gene expression is obtained. |
| US08412458B2 |
Determining fluid rate and phase information for a hydrocarbon well using predictive models
Physical models of wells are used to determine rate and phase composition for fluid produced from or injected into the wells on a near real time and continuous basis. The method can be used to alert operators or others of conditions in a well or field to permit more immediate response. The method can be more tolerant of sensor faults, sensor drift, anomalous data or other occurrences which could otherwise lead to incorrect output. More than one model can be used to permit a hierarchy of calculation such that the rate and phase determination is more tolerant of anomalous data. The calculated rate and phase values from one or more wells can be reconciled against facility data. |
| US08412457B2 |
Method and apparatus for setting destination in navigation terminal
A method and apparatus are provided for setting a desired destination in a navigation terminal. A position information message is received. Position coordinates corresponding to the position information included in the position information message are set as the position coordinates of a desired destination related to a certain route. |
| US08412456B2 |
Loosely-coupled integration of global navigation satellite system and inertial navigation system: speed scale-factor and heading bias calibration
Techniques for loosely coupling a Global Navigation Satellite System (“GNSS”) and an Inertial Navigation System (“INS”) integration are disclosed herein. A system includes a GNSS receiver, an INS, and an integration filter coupled to the GNSS receiver and the INS. The GNSS receiver is configured to provide GNSS navigation information comprising GNSS receiver position and/or velocity estimates. The INS is configured to provide INS navigation information based on an inertial sensor output. The integration filter is configured to provide blended position information comprising a blended position estimate and/or a blended velocity estimate by combining the GNSS navigation information and the INS navigation information, and to estimate and compensate at least one of a speed scale-factor and a heading bias of the INS navigation information. |
| US08412454B2 |
Selective control of an optional vehicle mode
Exemplary methods, systems and components enable selective control of an operational mode for a vehicle that is subject to an administrative standard. In some instances a qualified person or entity may attain a preferred consequential result related to a user-selected vehicle operation mode that may involve a vehicle operation paradigm and/or a vehicle travel route and/or a vehicle travel destination. In some embodiments, implementation of the selected vehicle operation mode may modify a conformity status of the vehicle relative to the administrative standard. |
| US08412452B2 |
System serving a remotely accessible page and method for requesting navigation related information
A system serving a remotely accessible page includes a server and the remotely accessible page operatively connected to the server. The remotely accessible page includes a first activation option for initiating a navigation function utilizing no starting point or a starting point entered by a user, and a second activation option for initiating a navigation function utilizing a starting point obtained by the system from a vehicle. |
| US08412451B2 |
Telemetry-based regeneration strategy for an engine exhaust after-treatment device
A method for timing performance of a maintenance function, in particular the timing of regeneration of a diesel particulate filter (22) to conserve fuel as a motor vehicle (10) travels along a projected travel route. Certain road data about roads in a roadway system is processed to develop data for anticipating certain modes of vehicle operation during travel of the vehicle along the projected travel route. The data for anticipating certain modes of vehicle operation along the anticipated route of travel and data geographically tracking vehicle travel along the projected route are interactively used to control timing of performance of the maintenance function as the vehicle travels along the projected route. |
| US08412444B2 |
Engine control apparatus
There is provided an engine control apparatus that makes it possible that, even in the case where an abnormality occurs in a microcomputer and the operations of the injectors in a series of cylinders are interrupted, there is obtained continuous driving without interruption of the engine, when the microcomputer is restored to normal condition. The microcomputer stores in a backup RAM the injection cylinder and the injection fuel amount at a time when a main fuel injection control means sequentially outputs a drive signal to each of the injectors of the cylinders. After the microcomputer 11 is reset due to detection of an abnormality therein and then is restarted, the post-resetting injection cylinder determining means 31 in the microcomputer determines cylinders into which fuel could not be injected during reset period, based on an fuel injection cylinder that has been stored in a backup RAM 11a at a time immediately prior to the resetting, and fuel is immediately and asynchronously injected into the determined cylinders at an injection fuel amount that has been stored in the backup RAM 11a at a time immediately prior to the resetting. |
| US08412441B1 |
Mixed cycle compression ignition engines and methods
Mixed cycle compression ignition engines and methods of operating a camless compression ignition engine by establishing a number of operating cycles for operating the engine, each for a particular engine load range and storing a respective algorithm and engine operating parameters for each operating cycle in a lookup table, receiving engine operating information, including piston position when compression ignition occurs, receiving a power setting for the engine, selecting from the lookup table, an algorithm and operating parameters for an operating cycle for the engine applicable to that power setting, operating the engine using the selected algorithm and operating parameters, and adjusting the engine operating parameters based on received engine operating information. Various operating cycles are disclosed. |
| US08412440B2 |
Pressure sensor failure diagnosis method and common rail type fuel injection control apparatus
It is possible to perform a failure diagnosis of a pressure sensor with a simple structure without installing a dedicated circuit for the failure diagnosis. In a common rail type fuel injection control apparatus, a pressure control valve 12 is provided in a fuel return path from a common rail 1, and a rail pressure detected by a pressure sensor 11 can be controlled to match a target rail pressure through drive control of the pressure control valve 12 by an electronic control unit 4. The target rail pressure is calculated based on operational information of an engine 3. In the common rail type fuel injection control apparatus, learning processing is performed, in which a correction coefficient Cv is stored and updated as a learning value to correct energization characteristics of a median product of the pressure control valves 12 that are stored in the electronic control unit 4. At the same time, it is determined whether the learning value of the correction coefficient Cv is within a predetermined range. When it is determined that it is not within the predetermined range, the pressure sensor 11 is diagnosed as having a failure. |
| US08412438B2 |
Dual state liquefied petroleum gas engine assembly
An engine assembly may include an engine structure, an intake manifold, and a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) fuel assembly. The engine structure may define a combustion chamber and the intake manifold may be in communication with the combustion chamber. The LPG fuel assembly may include a LPG fuel tank containing LPG fuel, a liquid LPG fuel injection system in communication with the LPG fuel tank and the combustion chamber, and a vapor LPG fuel injection system in communication with the LPG fuel tank and the intake manifold. |
| US08412436B2 |
Hill start assistance method for motor vehicles
A hill start assistance method for a user of a vehicle having a braking system and an electronic braking control, provided with at least one master cylinder pressure sensor, whereby the pressure on each caliper of the vehicle can be controlled. The method includes: estimating the torque transmitted by the clutch, recording information corresponding to the value of the master cylinder pressure resulting from a user's actuation of the brake pedal, and recording the information recorded corresponding to the value of the master cylinder pressure when the user actuates the brake pedal again by pressing harder on the pedal or partially releasing same. When the user releases the brake pedal fully, the braking system maintains the pressure on the calipers for a predetermined period of time, as a function of a pressure set value equal to the value of the last item of information recorded. |
| US08412430B2 |
Multiple clutch transmission control apparatus and multiple clutch transmission control method
A multiple clutch transmission control apparatus performs gear changing smoothly by improving clutch torque control precision, without reducing the speed of gear changing, in a vehicle or the like including a multiple clutch transmission. With this control apparatus, a control unit switches the transmission gear from the previous gear to the next gear by changing the torque transfer path by controlling the first clutch and the second clutch in a clutch changeover period. In the clutch changeover period, the control unit changes the torque transfer path by raising the clutch torque capacity of whichever of the first clutch and the second clutch is the next-gear-side clutch to reach a target value, and then lowering the clutch torque capacity of the previous-gear-side clutch. |
| US08412429B2 |
Driving power distribution apparatus and method for controlling torque coupling
A vehicle 1 has a torque coupling 8, which is located in a driving power transmission system for transmitting the torque of an engine 2 to front and rear wheels 13f, 13r. The torque coupling 8 changes the torque distribution by adjusting the frictional engaging force of an electromagnetic clutch 16. The vehicle 1 also has a 4WD ECU 21 (CPU), which controls the operation of the torque coupling 8 based on the driving state. The 4WD ECU 21 (CPU) estimates a transfer case oil temperature Tptu. When the transfer case oil temperature Tptu is higher than or equal to a first predetermined transfer case oil temperature KTptu1, the 4WD ECU 21 executes overheat prevention control. When the deviation ΔA between an estimated vehicle acceleration Ae, which is computed based on a predetermined vehicle weight M and a driveline torque τd of the engine 2, and the actual vehicle acceleration Av is greater than or equal to a first predetermined deviation KΔA1, the 4WD ECU 21 (CPU) estimates the transfer case oil temperature Tptu to be higher. This allows the control mode of the torque coupling 8 to be smoothly switched to the overheat prevention control. |
| US08412426B2 |
Multi-mode hybrid transmission and method for performing a quasi-asynchronous shift in a hybrid transmission
Improved methods for executing a clutch-to-clutch quasi-asynchronous shift in a hybrid transmission, and a hybrid transmission using the same, are presented herein. The method includes: pre-filling the on-coming clutch; determining if the shift is completed using the on-coming or off-going clutch; slipping the off-going clutch first if the shift operation uses the off-going clutch; determining on-coming clutch slip speed and acceleration profiles; determining if the on-coming clutch is filled and whether the slip sign is correct; if using the off-going clutch, locking the on-coming clutch and exhausting the off-going clutch if the on-coming clutch is filled and the slip sign is correct; if using the on-coming clutch, determining whether the on-coming clutch slip is less than a slip threshold and exhausting the off-going clutch if the on-coming clutch is filled and the slip sign is correct; and locking the on-coming clutch if the slip is less than the slip threshold. |
| US08412419B1 |
System for mapping GIS layers
A system obtains agricultural attribute data from the field. The agricultural attribute data is classified into a plurality of spatially distributed regions across the field. Samples are obtained to provide a second set of agricultural attribute data. A subset of the second set of agricultural attribute data is associated, by georeferencing, with one class of the spatially distributed regions. The subset is subclassified into respective zones, as may be done by interpolation to define contours. The classification process operates without regard to data that is not in the subset but is also taken from the second set of agricultural attribute data, i.e., the subclassification ignores data in the second set that is georeferenced to classes other than the class associated with the subset. The subclassification is repeated for all classes. An agroproduct prescription map is prepared for the application of agroproducts to the respective zones. |
| US08412413B1 |
Vehicle windshield display with obstruction detection
A vehicle windshield display system for detecting obstruction of a vehicle operator's field of view by a windshield display. The system provides closed-loop feedback to perform a visual check of what is actually being displayed on a windshield display in order to avoid obstructing an operator's field of view. The system includes a windshield display configured to be installed into a vehicle and configured to display a graphic in a field of view of an operator of the vehicle, a camera configured to determine an image of the graphic displayed by the windshield display, and a controller configured to determine if the image indicates that field of view is obstructed. The camera is used to monitor the windshield display and provide feedback to the controller so that appropriate adjustments to the graphic being displayed can be made. |
| US08412388B2 |
Assisted piloting method and device for an aircraft for use in the event of a first limit indicator breaking down
An assisted piloting method for an aircraft having at least two engines (2, 3) includes monitoring a set of parameters (Ng, T4, Tq) of the engines. A first limit indicator (10) displays information relating to a value of a limiting parameter of the engines. The limiting parameter is the parameter (Ng, T4, Tq) of the engines that is the closest to its limit. An assisted piloting mode is activated during which each parameter (Ng, T4, Tq) is maintained below a predetermined threshold whenever the first limit indicator is not in a position to display the information. |
| US08412376B2 |
Tension distribution in a tendon-driven robotic finger
A method is provided for distributing tension among tendons of a tendon-driven finger in a robotic system, wherein the finger characterized by n degrees of freedom and n+1 tendons. The method includes determining a maximum functional tension and a minimum functional tension of each tendon of the finger, and then using a controller to distribute tension among the tendons, such that each tendon is assigned a tension value less than the maximum functional tension and greater than or equal to the minimum functional tension. The method satisfies the minimum functional tension while minimizing the internal tension in the robotic system, and satisfies the maximum functional tension without introducing a coupled disturbance to the joint torques. A robotic system includes a robot having at least one tendon-driven finger characterized by n degrees of freedom and n+1 tendons, and a controller having an algorithm for controlling the tendons as set forth above. |
| US08412375B2 |
Medication dispensing apparatus
A medication dispenser provides automation to the steps of locating and acquiring medications or supplies to be administered to a patient. The medication dispenser includes one or more modules housing one or more compartmentalized drawers. Access to each drawer is controlled by a lockable door, and each the drawer may only be slid from the module housing the drawer in response to a signal. A series of lights direct the user to the appropriate drawer and the appropriate compartment of the relevant drawer to remove the appropriate medication or supply. |
| US08412373B2 |
Conveying system
A conveying system, includes control devices for controlling the operation of the conveying system. The conveying system also includes a central control. The central control is arranged to select from a plurality of the different operating modes of the conveying system the operating mode to be used at any given time. The central control is connected to the control devices with a communications channel for indicating the operating mode selected to the control devices. |
| US08412364B2 |
Method and device for sending and playing streaming data
A method and a device for sending and playing the streaming data are disclosed in embodiments of the present invention. The method for playing the streaming data includes: receiving the streaming data from the client and buffering the data; and exporting the buffered streaming data according to the predefined rhythm. The statistics about the streaming data in the buffer is collected; and the rhythm is adjusted according to the amount of streaming data. The transmitting end can send the streaming data to the client as soon as possible and buffer only a little data; the client controls the rhythm to reduce the effect of network jitter on delay, thus shortening the delay of streaming play. |
| US08412361B1 |
Remote identification and verification of a function prior to use thereof
Methods, systems and apparatus for enabling function identification to allow an end-user verify that a identified function is a desired function prior to activation or implementation thereof. A signal is sent from an initiating control to a receiver for identifying a particular function associated with the initiating control. An end-user is notified of this identified function and determines if the identified function is a desired function prior to activation thereof. If it is the desired function, the end-user may actuating a control associated with the initiating control to activate the function. If it is not the desired function, the end-user may stop the process or select another initiating control for repeating the process. |
| US08412354B2 |
Controllable light source having a plurality of light elements
A light source having a plurality of light elements and a control system for controlling the light elements. The control system comprises a plurality of light element controllers, each connected to a respective light element, and arranged to obtain light element data; and a bus interface, which is connected to the light element controllers via a light source bus. The bus interface provides the light element controllers with a general command, and the light element controllers generate light element drive signals on basis of the general command and the light element data. |
| US08412351B2 |
System and method for shunting induced currents in an electrical lead
An implantable medical device (IMD) can include a cardiac pacemaker or an implantable cardiac defibrillator (ICD). Various portions of the IMD, such as a case or device body, the lead body, or the lead tip, can be provided to reduce or dissipate a heat production due to a current induced by various external environmental factors. According to various embodiments, features or portions can be incorporated into the lead body, the lead tip, or the IMD body to reduce the creation of an induced current, or dissipate or increase the area of dissipation of thermal energy created due to an induced current in the lead. |
| US08412345B2 |
System and method for mapping arbitrary electric fields to pre-existing lead electrodes
A method and system for stimulating tissue using a plurality of electrodes is provided. Desired electrical parameter (e.g., field potential) values are determined at a plurality of spatial points. A plurality of constituent current sources is selected at the locations of the electrodes. The relative strengths of the constituent current sources that, when combined, result in estimated electrical parameter (e.g., field potential)|values at the spatial points that best matches the desired electrical parameter values at the spatial points are determined. The polarity and percentage of electrical current to be associated with each of the electrodes is selected based on the determined strengths of the constituent current sources. Electrical current is conveyed through the plurality of electrodes in accordance with the selected electrical current magnitudes to stimulate the tissue. |
| US08412329B2 |
Hemostasis valve and guidewire pacing system
Systems and methods for temporarily pacing a patient's heart are provided. One system includes a hemostasis valve with an adjustable electrical connection, the adjustable electrical connection having one or more adjustable contacts. The adjustable contacts have a first, radially expanded configuration and a second, radially constricted configuration. In the radially constricted configuration, the adjustable contacts are configured to pierce through a layer of an elongate medical device that is disposed in the hemostasis valve. The elongate medical device has a distal electrode and a conductor extending along a portion of the elongate medical device. The adjustable contacts pierce through and make contact with the conductor, providing an electrical pathway to the distal electrode. Also provided are vascular access systems including hemostasis valve and a guide catheter, guide wire torquers with adjustable contacts and methods of temporarily pacing a patient's heart. |
| US08412317B2 |
Method and apparatus to measure bioelectric impedance of patient tissue
A device to measure tissue impedance comprises drive circuitry coupled to calibration circuitry, such that a calibration signal from the calibration circuitry corresponds to the current delivered through the tissue. Measurement circuitry can be coupled to measurement electrodes and the calibration circuitry, such that the tissue impedance can be determined in response to the measured calibration signal from the calibration circuitry and the measured tissue impedance signal from the measurement electrodes. Processor circuitry comprising a tangible medium can be configured to determine a complex tissue impedance in response to the calibration signal and the tissue impedance signal. The processor can be configured to select a frequency for the drive current, and the amount of drive current at increased frequencies may exceed a safety threshold for the drive current at lower frequencies. |
| US08412314B2 |
Location and displaying an ischemic region for ECG diagnostics
A method for locating an ischemic region in the heart of a subject includes establishing three dimensional coordinates axes with respect to the torso of the subject as a reference; establishing as a reference a multi-dimensional representation of the heart defining at least three dimensional coordinate axes of the heart, the multi-dimensional representation defining at least the base of the heart and a middle section of the heart to thereby prescribe a surface of the heart on the reference multi-dimensional representation of the heart; and orienting the three dimensional coordinate axes of the heart from an initial position offset with respect to the three dimensional coordinates with respect to the torso of the subject to an imaginary position wherein at least one axis of the heart is parallel to or coincident with at least one of the three dimensional coordinate axes with respect to the torso of the subject. Corresponding displays are disclosed also. |
| US08412306B2 |
Voltage standing wave suppression for MR-guided therapeutic interventions
A system and method of tracking a medical device and generating an image of a target area. The medical device includes a tracking device to create an imaging field-of-view that extends beyond the tip of the medical device while allowing the tip of the medical device to be visualized. The medical device further includes an imaging/visualization device to create an imaging field from the point of view of the medical device. A voltage standing wave suppression device is formed on the exterior surface of the medical device to prevent the formation of voltage standing waves and localized tissue heating. The voltage standing wave suppression device includes two cable traps spaced apart from one another with each cable trap being formed of a closely packed coiled region of a conductor extending the length of the medical device. |
| US08412300B2 |
Arterial flashback confirmation chamber
The present invention relates to an arterial flashback confirmation chamber. Generally, the confirmation chamber is used with a vascular access device to allow an operator to see active arterial flashback confirmation for a period of time that is long enough to permit the operator to properly place the cannula of the vascular access device within a patient's artery. In some instances, the confirmation chamber comprises a flashback compartment, means for prolonging active arterial flashback confirmation, and a vent. Some examples of suitable prolonging means comprise a flashback compartment with a relatively large internal volume, circuitous tubing, an absorbent material, an orifice and/or tubing with a smaller inner diameter than the inner diameter of the cannula, and the like. Where the vascular access device comprises a catheter assembly, the catheter assembly and confirmation camber are optionally used with a guide wire and/or a blood sensor. |
| US08412299B2 |
Biological information measurement device capable of accurately conducting measurement, that can safely be used
A biological information measurement device is constituted of an upper cover and a lower cover and a main body portion. Then, the upper cover and the lower cover are assembled such that they partially overlap with each other. A fingertip insertion portion is formed of a holding member, on which a substrate and a line of the main body portion are placed. By covering the whole main body by assembling the upper cover and the lower cover, the substrate and the line of the main body portion arranged on a side surface of the main body in the inside cannot externally be seen. |
| US08412291B2 |
Detection, selection and provision of external antennas for a mobile device
A mobile device can detect, select and use an external antenna supported by an attached accessory device. The mobile device queries the accessory device whether it supports an external antenna and receives an indication of whether the accessory device supports external antennas. The indication can comprise a list of accessory device pins operatively coupled to supported external antennas. The mobile device selects an external antenna for use by the mobile device. The selection can comprise selecting a mobile device pin operatively coupled to the selected external antenna. The selected mobile device pin can be a predetermined pin or a pin that is both operatively coupled to a supported external antenna and configured to operate as an external antenna pin. The mobile device can use the selected external antenna. The mobile device can switch between an internal antenna and an external antenna operatively coupled to a selected mobile device pin. |
| US08412285B2 |
Speaker module of portable terminal and method of execution of speakerphone mode using the same
A speaker module of a portable terminal and a method of execution of a speakerphone mode using the same are provided. The speaker module includes a nondirectional microphone, a directional microphone, at least one speaker, and a controller. The nondirectional microphone is applied to one side of the portable terminal. The directional microphone is applied to another side of the portable terminal. The at least one speaker is installed in the same direction near the directional microphone. When the portable terminal is in a speakerphone mode, the controller controls to detect voice signal levels and/or frequency characteristics input to the two microphones, sets a transmission/reception mode of the portable terminal, and mute-processes a corresponding microphone. |
| US08412284B2 |
System and method for spoken caller identification in a cellular telephone headset
A spoken caller identification system comprises a headset and mobile communication device. The mobile communication device sends the caller identification to the headset upon a determination that the headset is in communication with the mobile communication device. |
| US08412281B2 |
Portable terminal device
A mobile phone of the present invention includes a first cabinet; a second cabinet that is slidable along an upper surface of the first cabinet; a first touch sensor that enables input by touching the upper surface; a projection that projects from the second cabinet toward the upper surface; a second touch sensor that detects a position of contact of the projection with the upper surface; and a CPU that controls input by the first touch sensor in accordance with output from the second touch sensor. The CPU enables input by the first touch sensor when the second cabinet is in a first position or OP position where the second case exposes a detection area of the first touch sensor to the outside, and disables input by the first touch sensor when the second cabinet is out of the first position. |
| US08412277B2 |
Gravity axis determination apparatus and mobile terminal apparatus using the same
A gravity axis determination apparatus which can determine the gravity direction in a short time. The apparatus is low in cost and has a simple construction. Data values of acceleration data trains in a same time zone are mutually compared and one of the three axes is determined as a gravity axis. |
| US08412275B2 |
Method and system for communicating feedback information in a multiple user multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) communication system
A method and system for communicating feedback information in a multiple user multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) communication system are presented. In one aspect of the method and system, a beamformer station may communicate a feedback information request to a plurality of beamformee stations. The feedback information request may request feedback data for a plurality of RF channel bands. The RF channel bands may form a multichannel. The beamformer may subsequently transmit a plurality of signals utilizing the RF channel bands within the multichannel. Each of the beamformees may receive the plurality of subsequently transmitted signals. A beamformee may generate the requested feedback data for each RF channel band within the multichannel. The beamformee may generate a beamforming report, which comprises the feedback data, which is generated across the plurality of RF channel bands in the multichannel. The beamformee may transmit the beamforming report to the beamformer. |
| US08412262B2 |
System including bluetooth module and wireless LAN module and control method thereof
An embodiment of the disclosure provides a control method between a Bluetooth module and a wireless LAN module, for an electronic device with a Bluetooth module and a WiMAX module. The method comprises: determining whether the priority of the Bluetooth module is higher than that of the WiMAX module; determining whether data transmitted or received by the WiMAX module has to be protected; and when the priority of the Bluetooth module is not higher than that the WiMAX module and the data transmitted or received by the WiMAX module has to be protected, setting the Bluetooth module to be in an inactive mode. |
| US08412258B1 |
Method and system for forward link and/or reverse link power control
Methods and systems for adjusting a transmit power of a forward link or reverse link signal make use of variable adjustment parameters. The wireless signal is received to obtain a received signal. An observed signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and an observed frame error rate (FER) for the received signal are determined. In an outer loop process, an adjustment increment is selected based on how much the observed FER differs from the target FER, and the target SNR is adjusted by the adjustment increment. In an inner loop process, a power adjustment command is selected based on a comparison between the observed SNR and a target SNR. The power adjustment command instructs the transmitter of the wireless signal to either increase or decrease the transmit power of the wireless signal. The power adjustment increment may also depend on the observed FER. |
| US08412256B2 |
Inter-cell interference coordination method and apparatus for wireless communication system
An inter-cell interference coordination method and apparatus is provided for mitigating inter-cell interference in a wireless communication system by using interference coordination information exchanged among neighbor base stations. The method includes receiving, at a serving base station, power control messages transmitted by neighbor base stations, receiving incoming interference coordination messages transmitted by neighbor base stations, each message including interference indicators of resource blocks, allocating the resource blocks with transmission power per resource block to user equipments served by the base station based on the power control and interference coordination messages, generating outgoing interference coordination messages for the respective neighbor base stations based on the resource block allocation result, and transmitting the interference coordination messages to the neighbor base stations, respectively. |
| US08412254B2 |
Intelligent wireless dispatch systems
Intelligent wireless dispatch systems are provided. In one embodiment, the system includes a dispatch computer and mobile data terminals positioned on a vehicle and in wireless communication with the dispatch computer. The system displays a plurality of drivers arranged in a driver stack, receives exception information from each mobile data terminal, displays a formatted driver icon corresponding to each driver in the driver stack, and sorts the drivers in the driver stack by prioritized exception information. The system is configured to display a driver assignment list for each driver including one or more assignments and to wirelessly transmit an assignment message to the mobile data terminals according to an update to a driver assignment list. The mobile data terminals are configured to display the assignment message for acceptance or rejection. Additional embodiments may also include voice-over-IP capability for two-way communication between the dispatcher and driver. |
| US08412252B2 |
System and method using rate split scheme based on cooperation between receivers
Each of a first transmitter and a second transmitter uses a rate split scheme. Each of the first transmitter and the second transmitter may transmit at least four sub-messages, and different transmission powers may be allocated to the at least four sub-messages. Also, each of receivers may cooperate with each other, may share sub-messages that act as interferences, and may extract desired messages using the shared sub-messages. |
| US08412247B2 |
Method for generating a coexistence value to define fair resource share between secondary networks
Method, apparatus, and computer program product embodiments are disclosed to provide coexistence values for wireless resource sharing on a fair basis between heterogeneous wireless networks to enable coexistence of secondary networks. An example embodiment of the invention includes a method, comprising the steps of: determining a coexistence value for a wireless network based on parameters associated with the wireless network, including at least one of a number of nodes in the wireless network, a current resource allocation utilization rate of the wireless network, coexistence assistance by the wireless network to assist in operation of other networks, and/or a priority of the wireless network, wherein the coexistence value characterizes eligibility of the wireless network to wireless spectrum resources available to secondary networks; and communicating the determined coexistence value of the wireless network to an associated network controller. The resulting embodiments provide for wireless resource sharing on a fair basis between heterogeneous wireless networks to enable coexistence of secondary networks. |
| US08412245B2 |
Scheduling information method and related communications devices
In a method of providing scheduling information for use at the mobile radio communications network device for UL resource allocation at the mobile radio communications device between a plurality of Radio Bearers, wherein each Radio Bearer has a Prioritized Bit Rate and at least one Radio Bearer comprises a Guaranteed Bit Rate Radio Bearer.The mobile radio communications device estimates the average bit rate transmitted for each of the plurality of Radio Bearers over a time period and generates rate control data responsive to determination of one or more of the following parameters: for each Guaranteed Bit Rate Radio Bearer whether a maximum Bit Rate has been reached; for each Guaranteed Bit Rate Radio Bearer whether the Prioritized Bit Rate has been reached; whether one or the Guaranteed Bit Rate Radio Bearers has been served during the said time period; whether a total estimated data rate for at least one Guaranteed Bit Rate Radio Bearer does not exceed an Aggregate Maximum Bit Rate value; for each Non-Guaranteed Bit Rate Radio Bearer whether the Prioritized Bit Rate is achieved; whether at least one Non-Guaranteed Bit Rate Radio Bearer is served during the said time period. |
| US08412243B2 |
Power control method and apparatus for inter-cell interference removal
A power control method performs a scheduling on user terminals and then allows the user terminals to calculate power of interference by neighboring sectors, generates interference information to indicate how much the base stations in neighboring sectors, which interfere with each other, reduce transmission power based on the calculated power of interference, and informs a serving base station thereof. The base stations calculate throughput gain and throughput loss based on the interference information, and determine whether the reduction of the transmission power is performed based on the calculated throughput gain and throughput loss. |
| US08412237B1 |
Method and system for launching and preparing applications on mobile computing systems based on geo-location data
A user mobile computing system is provided and geo-location data indicating the position of the user mobile computing system is monitored. When an application or feature is activated or used on the user mobile computing system, activation/use data indicating the application or feature activated and use location data indicating the position of the user mobile computing system at the time of the activation/use of the application or feature is obtained and linked, mapped, and/or otherwise associated with each other, and stored. When, and if, current geo-location data for the user mobile computing system later indicates the user mobile computing system is within a defined distance of the use location associated with the application or feature, the application or feature is automatically launched and any preparation required for use of the application or feature are performed so that the application or feature is ready for use when the user mobile computing system reaches the use location. |
| US08412230B2 |
Configuring relations between cells in different radio access networks
In a Circuit Switched Services over Long Term Evolution via Generic Access Network, CSoLTEvGAN architecture (600), relations between E-UTRAN cells (9201) and Generic Access Network, GAN cells (9101) are configured manually in a generic access node controller, GANC (910). This may become a tremendous burden for the operator. The current invention overcomes this by automatically build the needed relations. This is accomplished by determining at the GANC (910), cell identification information for an E-UTRAN cell (9201) and cell identification information for a GERAN or UTRAN cell (1101) overlaying the E-UTRAN cell (9201). The GAN cell (9101) is determined based on the cell identification information for the GERAN or UTRAN cell (1101). An entry within a translation table (1000) is created so that the cell identification information for the E-UTRAN cell (9201) is mapped to the cell identification information for the GAN cell (9101), or vice versa. |
| US08412224B2 |
RSSI estimation in multi-technology communication terminals
A method used in a receiver includes measuring first Received Signal Strength Indications (RSSIs) in respective first communication channels, which are located in a given frequency band and which each have a first channel bandwidth. Based on the first RSSIs, second RSSIs are computed for respective second communication channels, which are located in the given frequency band and which each have a second channel bandwidth that is larger than the first channel bandwidth. At least one of the first and second communication channels over which to receive signals at the receiver are selected using the first and second RSSIs. |
| US08412222B2 |
Broadcast-multicast transmission with rate adaption
Techniques for supporting broadcast/multiple transmission to multiple terminals with feedback and rate adaptation are described. In an aspect, a combination of HARQ and at least one shared feedback channel may be used to support broadcast/multicast transmission. In one design, a base station may send at least one transmission of a packet to multiple terminals, one transmission at a time. The base station may receive feedback information (e.g., NAK) for the packet from the terminals on the shared feedback channel(s). The base station may determine whether to terminate the packet early and/or may select at least one transmission parameter for another packet based on the feedback information for the packet. In another aspect, a transport format for a broadcast/multicast transmission may be selected based on CQI information from terminals receiving the transmission. The terminals may send CQI information at a slow rate and/or only certain terminals may send CQI information. |
| US08412214B2 |
Initial connection establishment in a wireless communication system
A method, user equipment, network equipment and a system for initiating a wireless connection and subsequent communication over a shared physical resource in a wireless communication system between user equipment and network equipment comprising: processing a UE-derived temporary identifier; determining a set of channels that the user equipment will monitor; implicitly or explicitly communicating this channel set; communicating the temporary identifier as an identifier to the network equipment; communicating a downlink message on a channel belonging to the determined channel set conveying the temporary identifier and a description of a scheduled resource on a shared channel, the scheduled resource comprising a resource allocated to the user equipment by the network equipment; and communicating data on the scheduled resource in response to the downlink message. |
| US08412198B2 |
Method and system for configuring IP address in a wireless communication system
An apparatus and method for providing a seamless communication service in a wireless communication system. The method includes transmitting a first message to a base station when an IP subnet has been changed due to movement of the portable terminal, the first message including a Medium Access Control (MAC) address of the portable terminal, receiving IP address information from the base station, which can be used in a new IP subnet, and configuring a new IP address based on the received IP address information. |
| US08412196B2 |
Method of notifying function identification information and communication system
There is disclosed a notification method in a communication system of notifying specific multifunctionality information between terminal stations. An expansion code is generated from both a user input code and a function identification code corresponding to a specific function. A transmission frame including the expansion code is also generated and transmitted to at least one of the terminal stations. |
| US08412193B2 |
Method of DCR operation in a broadband wireless communication system
The present invention relates to a broadband wireless access system, and more particularly, to a method for a mobile station to save power for prescribed duration without performing a paging procedure and apparatus therefor. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method of a DCR (deregistration with content retention) mode operation of a mobile station in a broadband wireless access system includes transmitting a first message including a first code indicating an entry request at the DCR mode to a base station, receiving a second message including a second code indicating whether to allow the entry request from the base station, and if the second code is set to a value indicating an allowance of the entry request, operating in the DCR mode while a preset timer is valid. |
| US08412177B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving system information in broadband wireless communication system
A method and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving System Information (SI) of a femto base station in a wireless communication system are provided. In the method, an SI transmission point is determined using unique identification information of a femto base station itself and unique identification information of a macro base station with which the femto base station is associated. Each of user equipment and the macro base station generate a measurement gap pattern representing an SI reception point using the unique identification information of the femto base station and the unique identification information of the macro base station. SI is received from the femto base station according to the generated measurement gap pattern. |
| US08412176B2 |
Method for configuring mobile units
The present invention provides a method involving a base station and at least one mobile unit. The mobile unit is configured for communication with the base station using a first wireless communication medium. The method includes providing, over the first wireless communication medium, information indicating a modification to at least one configuration profile of the mobile unit. The configuration profile is associated with the first communication medium and the modification can be implemented by the mobile unit without user intervention. |
| US08412174B2 |
Call note management on communication device
Displaying call note information on a communication device having stored thereon telephone call log information identifying telephone calls made to or from the communications device, the telephone call log information including the time and date of the telephone calls, wherein associated call note data is stored on the communications device for at least some of the telephone calls, including: detecting an input at the communication device requesting display of a call note history; and displaying on a display of the communication device, after detecting the input, a call note history list that lists telephone calls from the telephone call log information that have associated call note data stored on the communications device, wherein the telephone calls in the call note history list are listed according to the time and date of the telephone calls. |
| US08412173B2 |
Method and system for providing a contact attempt service
A method for providing a contact attempt service includes detecting an attempt of a first user to contact a second user through a first communication method and detecting contact between the first user and the second user through a second communication method. The method also includes removing a contact attempt indicator associated with the attempt of the first user to contact the second user through the first communication method. |
| US08412172B2 |
Method and apparatus for interactive audience participation at a live entertainment event
The present invention relates to a method for providing interactive audience participation at live entertainment events. The method includes use of an interactive device that presents a promotional message and includes a user interface, broadcasting audio programming to the audience member through the interactive device, querying the audience members, wherein answers to the querying may be entered by the audience member via the user interface of the interactive device, transmitting the answers to a central processor, storing the answers as audience data, processing the audience data into results, storing the results of the processing of the audience data and broadcasting the results of the processing of the audience data. |
| US08412169B2 |
System and method for providing mobile device services using SMS communications
An enhanced services platform has an interface for receiving a communication from a user requesting a desired data. An automated response module parses the communication and retrieves the desired data. The enhanced services platform arranges the desired data into a response message that is sent to the user, where the response message includes an embedded code corresponding to a link allowing the user to re-contact the enhanced services platform. An operator assistance module receives communications from the user initiated via the link to provide further assistance regarding the user's request. |
| US08412162B2 |
Systems and methods for providing enhanced voicemail services
A method for managing accessibility to a visual voicemail (VVM) service from a mobile device includes detecting that a first SIM has been inserted into a slot interface of the mobile device and establishing a data session with a VVM system to create a first VVM account. The first VVM account is configured to receive and store voicemail messages directed to a subscriber identified by the first SIM. The method further includes the mobile device receiving a voicemail message from the VVM system and storing the voicemail message in a memory. The method further includes the mobile device detecting the first SIM being removed and a second SIM being inserted into the slot interface. Upon insertion of the second SIM, the mobile device prevents access to the voicemail message associated with the first VVM account and communicative access to the first VVM account. |
| US08412159B2 |
Method, apparatus and computer program product for security configuration coordination during a cell update procedure
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for maintaining synchronization with respect to the security configurations of the network and a mobile terminal, even during a cell update procedure. A method may include causing a cell update message to be provided during performance of a cell update procedure and including, with the cell update message, a security configuration information element indicating that a mobile terminal has applied an updated security configuration in an instance in which the mobile terminal has applied the updated security configuration. The method may also include, with the cell update message, the information element indicating that the mobile terminal has reverted to a prior security configuration in an instance in which the mobile terminal has reverted to a prior security configuration. Corresponding apparatuses and computer program products are also provided. |
| US08412154B1 |
System and method for managing a mobile device
A system and method for managing a mobile device(s) to provide for a notification(s) when specified thresholds are reached and/or execute defined rules for the mobile device(s). The rules can relate to any function of the mobile device(s), including but not limited to, notification when a percentage of voice/data/SMS is reached during a billing cycle, notification when a mobile device(s) leaves a geo-fence, and restrict a mobile device(s) when a threshold is reached. The system provides a versatile management system allowing a user to effectively control use of a mobile device(s) and manage costs. |
| US08412149B2 |
System and method for providing contact information of an out of area mobile device to a reverse 911 database
A system and method for registering the contact information of mobile devices with a service 911 service is presented. In one embodiment, a mobile switching center receives the contact information of a mobile device. If the mobile switching center determines that the mobile device is not located within a particular wireless sub-network, such as, but not limited to, a wireless sub-network associated with an area code registered to the mobile device, the mobile switching center generates a reverse 911 registration text message and transmits the reverse 911 registration text message to the mobile device. A user of the mobile device may then transmit the reverse 911 registration text message to a local reverse 911 database to have the contact information associated with the mobile device added to the local reverse 911 database. |
| US08412146B2 |
Mutual awakening system and method thereof between a handheld device and a wireless communication module
A mutual awakening system and method thereof between a handheld device and a wireless communication module are disclosed. The system and method are applicable to the case that the wireless communication module is inserted and electrically coupled to the handheld device. The system includes a communication control line and a host control line which are used for electrically coupling the handheld device and the wireless communication module. When the handheld device is to transmit data, a second voltage signal of the communication control line is raised in value, which triggers a communication interrupt routine of the wireless communication module to awaken the wireless communication module from a sleep state. When the wireless communication module is to transmit data, a first voltage signal of the host control line is raised in value, which triggers a host interrupt routine of the handheld device to awaken the handheld device from a sleep state. |
| US08412144B2 |
Architecture and method for supporting ZIF or LIF/IF systems
Architecture for supporting ZIF or LIF/IF systems includes 4N pins, 2N ADCs, a determination unit and a processing unit, N being a positive integer. The 2N ADCs include a y-th ADC for converting a differential analog signal received by a (2y−1)-th pin and a 2y-th pin into a y-th digital signal, y being positive integers ranging from 1 to 2N. The determination unit determines whether the digital signals are ZIF signals, LIF signals or IF signals. The processing unit performs an ZIF system processing on the ZIF signals, performs a LIF system processing on the LIF signals, and performs an IF system processing on the IF signals. |
| US08412140B2 |
Method of canceling noise contained in received signal
A multiplication section multiplies a signal output from a GPS antenna by a local oscillation signal generated by a local oscillation signal generation section to down-convert the signal output from the GPS antenna into an intermediate-frequency signal. A sampling circuit section samples a generated signal generated by a portable electronic circuit using a sampling clock signal having a frequency lower than a frequency of the generated signal. An attenuation section generates a cancellation signal by attenuating the sampled signal, and an addition section adds the cancellation signal to the signal output from the multiplication section to cancel in-band noise superimposed on the received signal. |
| US08412134B2 |
Filter circuit, wireless transmitter, and wireless receiver
According to one embodiment, a radio transmitter comprises a passive mixer that mixes the radio-frequency signal and a local oscillation signal, and outputs a mixed signal to the frequency response device, thereby shifting the frequency characteristic of the frequency response device to high frequency by a local oscillation frequency of the local oscillation signal and applying the frequency characteristic shifted to high frequency on the radio-frequency signal. |
| US08412129B2 |
Techniques to enhance diversity for a wireless system
A system, apparatus, method and article to manage diversity for a wireless multicarrier communication system are described. An apparatus may include a diversity agent to couple to a transmitter, the diversity agent to convert a determined number of input bits into symbols, interleave the symbols across multiple spatial streams, and map the symbols to tones for each spatial stream. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US08412127B2 |
Hybrid phase sweeping for mobile transmit diversity
An improved method and apparatus for Mobile Transmit Diversity (MTD), or Uplink Transmit Diversity (ULTD) is disclosed. The mobile device either selects the best antenna at any given time, or transmits from both antennas using the best beam forming phase without feedback from the base station on which antenna to transmit from or which phase to use if using two antennas. Essentially operating in Open Loop MTD, a Hybrid Phase Sweeping algorithm requires testing of a fraction of phase hypotheses resulting in improved base station performance and higher data rates for the user. |
| US08412126B2 |
Communications systems including adaptive antenna systems and methods for inter-system and intra-system interference reduction
Methods of forming a downlink beam in an adaptive antenna system of a communications system that may reduce inter-system and/or intra-system interference include receiving vectors of signals including signals transmitted by user terminals of the communications system and signals transmitted by transceivers of an independent communications system, obtaining spatial information for the user terminals of the communications system and the transceivers of the independent communications system, generating complex transmitting weights that form spatial nulls directed at the transceivers of the independent communications system, and transmitting a downlink communications signal using the complex transmitting weights. Related systems are also disclosed. |
| US08412125B2 |
Wireless communication system with transmit diversity designs
An apparatus for enabling a base station to transmit radio frequency signals with a transmit diversity technique comprises a first antenna implemented in the base station; and a second antenna implemented in the base station, and placed apart from the first antenna by a predetermined distance. The first antenna utilizes a first frequency band of a predetermined frequency spectrum for transmitting signals, and the second antenna utilizes a second frequency band of the predetermined frequency spectrum for transmitting signals. The first and second frequency bands do not overlap. |
| US08412124B2 |
Multi-band peak power reduction
Peak power reduction in transmit chains of multi-band radiocommunication devices is performed. By using knowledge of the phase transformations which occur at the upconverter to determine how baseband signal samples will combine at the higher (upconverted) frequency, peak prediction and corresponding baseband signal modification can be performed in a way that reduces peak power of the combined signal. |
| US08412121B2 |
Circuit integrating a tunable antenna with a standing wave rate correction
An integrated electronic radio-frequency transceiver circuit, including: at least one terminal intended to receive a signal to be transmitted or to transmit a received signal; at least one planar antenna, with a settable resonance frequency; at least one bidirectional coupler having a primary line interposed between the terminal and the antenna and having the respective terminals of a secondary line providing data representative of the transmitted power and of the power reflected on the primary line side; at least one detector of the transmitted power and of the reflected power; and a circuit for selecting the resonance frequency of the antenna according to the ratio between the transmitted power and the reflected power. |
| US08412120B2 |
Phase-locked circuit and radio communicating device
Disclosed herein is a phase-locked circuit including: a phase-locked section including a voltage controlled oscillator having a capacitance bank and changing oscillation frequency according to voltage information, the phase-locked section phase-locking an oscillating signal of the voltage controlled oscillator to a reference signal; and a calibration section having a voltage correcting function for supplying an appropriate calibration voltage to the voltage controlled oscillator in performing frequency calibration for the voltage controlled oscillator; the calibration section including a counter circuit, a first storage circuit and a second storage circuit, a comparator circuit, a control circuit, a voltage generating circuit, and a processing circuit. |
| US08412118B2 |
Analog received signal strength indication in an RF transceiver
An integrated circuit radio transceiver and method therefor comprises a receiver front end that further includes a plurality of in-phase and quadrature phase receive processing block operable at first and second frequency bands wherein each of the receive processing blocks defines an ingoing signal path and further includes a plurality of filtering and amplification blocks disposed within the corresponding ingoing signal path, a plurality of RSSI blocks coupled to receive an ingoing analog signal from a corresponding plurality of nodes disposed throughout the ingoing signal path, each of the plurality of received signal strength indicator blocks producing a signal strength indication, and wherein a baseband processor is operable to receive a selected signal strength indication and to produce at least one gain setting to at least one amplification block within the in-phase or quadrature phase receive processing blocks. In operation, the baseband processor receive a signal strength indication from each RSSI block to determine a total amount of gain and appropriate gain distribution within the receive signal path. |
| US08412115B2 |
Radio apparatus, and method and program for controlling spatial path
A PDMA terminal establishes communication by forming a plurality of spatial paths to another single radio apparatus. A plurality of antennas constituting an array antenna are divided into a plurality of subarrays corresponding to the plurality of spatial paths respectively. An adaptive array processing unit can perform an adaptive array processing for each of the plurality of subarrays. A memory stores in advance information on the number of antennas associated with the number of spatial paths that can be formed by the array antenna. A control unit controls a processing to transmit possible multiplicity information to another radio apparatus at a prescribed timing. |
| US08412114B2 |
Adaptive method of transmitting and receiving a signal in a multi-antenna system, corresponding transmission and reception devices, computer program products and signal
A method is provided for receiving a signal, corresponding to a data signal transmitted by a transmitter to a receiver via a transmission channel. The method includes the following steps: analyzing the signal received, delivering an information item representative of the transmission channel; determining, periodically and/or as a function of a variation of the transmission channel: at least one distribution of the transmission antennas into at least one group of at least one antenna as a function of the information item representative of the transmission channel, wherein at least one group includes at least two transmission antennas for at least one of the determinations; and specific efficiencies assigned respectively to each of the groups of antennas for each distribution as a function of the information item, and transmitting to the transmitter a parameterization signal defining the at least one distribution and the specific efficiencies. |
| US08412111B2 |
Testing voice-based office equipment for immunity to interference from wireless devices
According to some embodiments, a method includes placing a device under test (DUT) in a test chamber and applying a pulse-modulated RF wireless test signal to the DUT in the test chamber. The method further includes detecting an acoustic output of the DUT. In addition or as an alternative to applying the pulse-modulated test signal, the test signal strength may be at a level of 30 V/m or 90 V/m. If the DUT is a telephone, it may be coupled via a voice signal path to another telephone, and an output of the other telephone may also be detected. |
| US08412109B2 |
Method for characterizing the radio link of RFID tags
The method relates to a method of characterizing a radio link. In the method, a radio frequency interrogator and a first radio frequency transponder, the response of which in an essentially anechoic chamber is known, are utilized. According to the invention, the response of the first radio frequency transponder is measured in a target environment in the chosen interrogator-transponder geometry and the responses of the radio frequency transponder in the target environment and in an essentially anechoic chamber are compared for characterizing the actual radio link. The invention provides information on multi-path propagation of radio waves characteristic to the target environment, which can be further taken into account in, for example, RFID system design. |
| US08412108B2 |
Apparatus, methods and computer programs
A method including: processing at a first processing frequency, such that each instance of processing is separated by a first processing time period, at least a first signal; increasing the processing frequency to a second processing frequency and switching from processing the first signal to processing a second signal; determining a parameter indicative of the quality of the second signal; and determining, within the first processing time period measured from the last instance of processing the first signal at the first frequency, which one or more signals to process at the next instance of processing by comparing respective parameters of at least the first and second signals. |
| US08412105B2 |
Electronic devices with radio-frequency collision resolution capabilities
Electronic devices such as portable electronic devices contain electronic components. The electronic components may include radio-frequency transceiver circuitry. The radio-frequency transceiver circuitry may be used for handling data communications and cellular telephone voice communications. One or more adjustable clock sources may be provided within the electronic device. The adjustable clock sources may be based on phase-locked-loop circuits. A clock manager may determine which frequencies are being used by the radio-frequency transceiver circuitry and other components in the electronic device. The clock manager may use this information to compute a list of safe fundamental clock signal frequencies. Based on the list of safe clock signal frequencies, the clock manager may dynamically adjust the clock sources to avoid collisions between harmonics of the clock signals from the clock sources and the frequencies used by the transceiver circuitry and other components. |
| US08412100B2 |
Wireless communication system using custom earmold
An apparatus for an ear of a user comprising a custom-fitted, in-the-ear earmold, receiver electronics detachably connected to the earmold and amplifier electronics detachably and electrically connected to the receiver electronics. In some embodiments, the amplifier electronics include a wireless communications module with wireless communications electronics disposed in the wireless communications module, wherein the wireless communications electronics support wireless communications between the user and a device. Such teachings in various examples are applied to occluding and non-occluding hearing device embodiments. Additional systems and apparatus can be found in the specification and as provided by the attached claims and their equivalents. |
| US08412097B2 |
Methods, electronic devices, and computer program products for coordinating bluetooth and wireless local area network communication
An electronic device may be operated by providing Bluetooth communication duty cycle information to a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) module. A determination is made, based on the Bluetooth communication duty cycle information, if there is sufficient time during a current Bluetooth inactive communication interval to complete a WLAN communication. If it is determined that there is not sufficient time to complete the WLAN communication during the current Bluetooth inactive communication interval, then the WLAN transmission is postponed to a subsequent Bluetooth inactive communication interval. |
| US08412089B2 |
Image forming apparatus and guide therefor capable of reducing toner scattered on recording medium
An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a transferor, a fixing unit, and a guide. The image carrier carries a toner image. The transferor opposes the image carrier to form a transfer nip and transfers the toner image on the image carrier onto a recording medium at the transfer nip. The fixing unit fixes the toner image on the recording medium. The guide guides the recording medium bearing the toner image from the transferor toward the fixing unit and includes a surface portion directly contacting the recording medium. The surface portion includes a material for charging the recording medium to have a polarity opposite to the polarity of a toner forming the toner image. |
| US08412087B2 |
Methods, apparatus, and systems for controlling a gloss of an image fixed by warm-pressure fixing
A fixed image gloss control system outputs a warm pressure-fixed image having a low gloss level. The image is alterable to change the low gloss level to a high gloss level or an intermediate gloss level. The fixing system includes a pressure roll and a fixing roll that together form a fixing nip. The pressure roll has a polyurethane contact surface. A polishing mechanism may polish the fused image to achieve a desired gloss level. |
| US08412086B2 |
Image forming apparatus, clear layer forming apparatus, and image forming system
An image forming apparatus has an image forming section which transfers a toner image according to image data onto a recording sheet, a first fixing section which fixes the toner image with heat of the first fixing roller, a clear layer forming section which forms a clear layer on the toner image which the first fixing section has fixed, a second fixing section which fixes the clear layer with heat of the second fixing roller and a control section which controls the clear layer forming section to increase the thickness of the clear layer in a recording sheet area corresponding to a fixed area during the second revolution of the first fixing roller on the recording sheet, compared with a recording sheet area corresponding to a fixed area during the first revolution thereof. |
| US08412084B2 |
Fixing device provided with temperature sensor
There is provided a fixing device for thermally fixing a developing agent image to a sheet. The fixing device includes: a tubular flexible member having an inner peripheral surface defining an internal space; a nip member disposed in the internal space and having one surface, the inner peripheral surface being in sliding contact with the one surface; a heater disposed in the internal space: a reflection plate configured to reflect a radiant heat from the heater toward the nip member; a backup member providing a nip region in cooperation with the nip member for nipping the flexible member between the backup member and the nip member; and a temperature sensor disposed in the internal space to detect a temperature of the reflection plate. |
| US08412081B2 |
Belt meandering preventing device and image forming apparatus including the same
A belt meandering preventing device includes a belt displacement detection unit detecting the amount of displacement in a belt width direction of an endless belt rotatably stretched over support parts; and a belt meandering correction unit correcting the displacement in the belt width direction of the endless belt based on the amount of displacement detected by the belt displacement detection unit. The belt displacement detection unit includes a moving part moving in association with the displacement of the endless belt or an edge of the endless belt in the belt width direction and optical sensors outputting signals with output levels corresponding to the proportions of the moving part in optical paths of the optical sensors. The optical sensors are arranged such that the output levels of the optical sensors change as the endless belt is displaced in the belt width direction in a predetermined high-resolution detection range. |
| US08412080B2 |
Developing roller manufacturing method, developing roller, developing device, and image forming apparatus
A method of manufacturing a developing roller, including: a first rolling process for forming a first inclined groove which is continuous in a helical shape, by rotating a first die having blades inclined with respect to an axial direction and a circumferential direction, and a non-bladed die, and feeding an unprocessed developing roller between the first die and the non-bladed die; and a second rolling process for forming a second inclined groove which is continuous in a helical shape and intersects with the first inclined groove, by rotating a second die having blades inclined with respect to an axial direction and a circumferential direction in the direction opposite to that of the first die, and the non-bladed die in the same direction opposite to that in the first rolling process, and feeding the developing roller between the second die and the non-bladed die. |
| US08412074B2 |
Charging roller for image forming apparatus and manufacturing method thereof
Disclosed is a charging roller for an image forming apparatus capable of preventing the formations of surface scratches. The charging roller includes a roller shaft, a roller body formed on the roller shaft and a scratch prevention layer formed on the roller body. The scratch prevention layer contains inorganic crystal of polysilicate. |
| US08412052B2 |
Surface mount (SMT) connector for VCSEL and photodiode arrays
Self alignment of Optoelectronic (OE) chips, such as photodiode (PD) modules and vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) modules, to external waveguides or fiber arrays may be realized by packaging the OE chips directly in the fiber optic connector. |
| US08412050B2 |
Coaxial free space optical telescope and systems using the same
Example embodiments may include a coaxial Free Space Optical (FSO) telescope providing a simplified and more precise structure. Example embodiment telescopes include a prism structure having at least two parallel surfaces associated with a filter and mirror. The filter may reflect or transmit optical signals based on their electromagnetic characteristics. Example embodiment systems include example embodiment coaxial FSO telescopes and transmitters and receivers for receiving and transmitting optical signals. A V-groove and/or lens array may be included in example embodiment FSO systems. |
| US08412046B2 |
In-service optical dispersion determining system and method
A system and method for in-service optical dispersion determination are provided. Optical dispersion is determined by splitting a first optical signal into two components, introducing a time delay between the two components such that corresponding pulses of the two components partially overlap, combining the two components to generate a combined optical signal comprising a first component and a second component, determining power of the combined optical signal while applying a plurality of dispersion compensation values, in order to determine a dispersion compensation value that results in a minimum detected power of the combined optical signal. Polarization Mode Dispersion is determined by adjusting the time delay that is introduced until the power of the combined optical signal is substantially equal for all of the plurality of dispersion compensation values. |
| US08412037B2 |
Image photographing apparatus and method of controlling the same
A method of controlling an image photographing apparatus includes checking a photographing mode of the image photographing apparatus, displaying a characteristic curve indicating a relationship between photographing conditions and a recommended region if the checked photographing mode is a manual mode to manually adjust the photographing conditions, and changing the photographing conditions if a user specifies any point of the characteristic curve or the periphery of the characteristic curve. Accordingly, it may be possible to implement the user interface which is conveniently and easily controlled. |
| US08412031B2 |
Camera with a function of automatically setting shooting conditions and shooting method
A camera with a function of automatically setting shooting conditions, is provided with a memory storing plural pieces of feature information of an object corresponding to different positions, respectively, the feature information of an object representing features of the object, a judging unit for, when a shooting operation is performed with the camera at a position to obtain an image, obtaining from the memory feature information corresponding to the camera position and judging whether or not an object corresponding to the obtained feature information is found in the image obtained in the shooting operation, and a shooting-operation controller for changing shooting conditions depending on the judgment made by the judging unit. |
| US08412027B2 |
Display controlling apparatus for playing back moving image and control method for the same
Information regarding frames of a moving image, which are included in a predetermined segment that includes the current playback position and a segment that has not been played back yet, is displayed in a time-series indicator region along with the moving image that is being played back. Furthermore, a segment indicator that indicates the start position and end position of a fixed segment that includes the current playback position is displayed in the time-series indicator. For example, in the case where moving image data at a position corresponding to the segment indicator is generated as a separated moving image file in accordance with a moving image copy instruction that has been given, the user can become aware ahead of time what kind of moving image file would be generated if such an instruction were given. |
| US08412020B2 |
Data processing apparatus and its control method, program, and storage medium
This invention provides a disk playback apparatus which can shorten a time from when a power switch is turned on until a startup operation is completed. Even when the power switch of the main body is OFF, if exchange of a disk-like recording medium is detected, management data of the disk is read out and is stored in a buffer memory. When the power switch is turned on for the next time, the management data is read out from the buffer memory without accessing the disk-like recording medium. |
| US08412011B2 |
Optical fiber cable
It is an object of the present invention to provide an optical fiber cable which can reliably prevent increased transmission loss due to damage of the optical fiber as a result of the egg-laying behavior of cicadas. The cable includes at least an optical fiber 1, tension members 6 and a sheath 3. The sheath 3 has a shore D hardness of 55 or more and a minimum distance L from a surface of the optical fiber 1 to an outer surface of the sheath 3 of greater than 0.3 mm. Further, in the cable, the surface of sheath 3 has a coefficient of friction of 0.45 or less and the sheath 3 has a shore D hardness of 57 or more. In addition, the cable is made by using a specific flame retardant composition (P) as the sheath material. |
| US08412000B2 |
System and method for reducing motion artifacts by displaying partial-resolution images
A method for reducing motion artifacts and the systems for implementing the same are provided. The method includes receiving a full-resolution image at a first time point; extracting a first partial-resolution image from the full-resolution image; and calculating a second partial-resolution image for a second time point after the first time point. The first and the second partial-resolution images are complementary. |
| US08411996B2 |
Method and apparatus for generating panorama
A method and an apparatus for generating a panorama are provided. In the present method, a plurality of raw images of a scene is captured. A coarse motion estimation is executed on the raw images to obtain a coarse motion estimation result of the scene. In the meantime, the raw images inside a window of interest (WOI) are cropped to obtain a plurality of cropped images, and a fine motion estimation is executed on the cropped images according to the coarse motion estimation result of the scene, so as to obtain a fine motion estimation result of the scene. The raw images are stitched and blended according to the fine motion estimation result, so as to generate the panorama. |
| US08411994B2 |
Apparatus and method for image processing and computer-readable storage medium
An input pixel value setting circuit sets at least two different input pixel values in a subject area of an input image. A dynamic range transforming circuit performs a process for transforming pixel values of the input image using a dynamic range transformation function in which output pixel values corresponding to the two different input pixel values become set output pixel values. |
| US08411990B1 |
System and method for decomposing an image into reflectance and shading components
Various embodiments of a system and methods for decomposing an image into reflectance and shading components are described. An image decomposition module may represent an image as a product of the reflectance and shading components of the image. Data representing the image may be transformed into an image gradient containing both reflectance and shading component gradients. A normal vector perpendicular to the direction of the reflectance component gradient may be determined, based on a difference between the color channels of the image gradient. The image gradient may be modified according to the normal vector to eliminate the reflectance component gradient. The shading component gradient may be determined from the modified image gradient. The shading component gradient may be transformed into the shading component. The reflectance component may be determined by substituting the shading component into the representation of the image which is a product of the reflectance and shading components. |
| US08411988B2 |
Image processing apparatus and method for managing margin data
An image processing apparatus partitions entered image data into first partitioned image data and appends margin data to the first partitioned image data. The image processing apparatus corrects the first partitioned image data other than the margin data to second partitioned image data and processes the second partitioned image data and the margin data. |
| US08411982B2 |
Universal blurriness measurement approach for digital imagery
Systems and methods of performing quantitative measurements of image blur in digital images and digital image sequences that are computationally efficient, and that employ no reference information in the measurement process. Each of the image blur measurements is performed using a Markov Chain, where a gradient image array is calculated for a pixel array derived from a given digital image, and a transition probability matrix is constructed for the transition probabilities between adjacent elements in the gradient image array. The transition probability data contained in the transition probability matrix can be pooled or otherwise accumulated to obtain a quantitative measurement of image blur in the given digital image. |
| US08411975B2 |
Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding key value data of coordinate interpolator
A method and an apparatus for encoding/decoding key value data of a coordinate interpolator used in a three-dimensional graphic animation are provided. The apparatus for encoding key value data of a coordinate interpolator representing the position of each vertex of an object using coordinates of each of the vertices including x, y, and z components includes a quantizer, which quantizes a coordinate interpolator input thereinto with predetermined quantization bits, a DPCM processor, which performs a DPCM operation of a predetermined mode on each component of each vertex of the quantized coordinate interpolator and generates differential data based on the temporal variation of the coordinates of each of the vertices and differential data based on the spatial variation of the coordinates of each of the vertices. |
| US08411974B2 |
Image processing apparatus, method, and program for detecting still-zone area
An image processing apparatus detecting, from an input image, a still-zone area disposed at an edge of the input image and displaying a same image continuously, the apparatus including: a difference calculation mechanism calculating a difference between pixel values of pixels located at a same position of the input image in different frames with each other for each pixel of the input image; a pixel-motion-information generation mechanism generating pixel-motion information indicating whether there is a change in the pixel values of the pixels of the input image on the basis of the difference; and a first detection mechanism comparing the pixel-motion information of a plurality of the pixels arranged in a first direction in the input image, and detecting a boundary position in the first direction between the still-zone area and an effective area excluding the still-zone area in the input image. |
| US08411972B2 |
Information processing device, method, and program
An information processing device includes a storage storing information indicating a first region subjected to moving-image compression and transmission; an identification unit identifying a second region where the update amount of an image is greater than or equal to a threshold value; a determination unit determining whether the image of the second region being associated with the moving image of the first region is to be transmitted, based on an overlapping relationship between the first region and the second region; and a transmission unit transmitting an image of a region including a portion of the second region, following the transmission of the image of the first region, with the image of the region being subjected to moving-image compression, and transmitting information indicating a display position of the image subjected to moving-image compression, when the second region is to be transmitted with being associated with the first region is determined. |
| US08411971B1 |
Method and apparatus for normalizing perceptual quality in media compression
Embodiments include a computer implemented method and apparatus for normalizing perceptual quality in media compression. In one embodiment, a computer implemented method for normalizing perceptual quality in media compression includes determining a maximum bit rate for a target media file, determining a quality setting for the target media file, and compressing the media file to a bit rate equal to the specific percentage of the maximum bit rate multiplied by the maximum bit rate using the computer. The quality setting is a specific percentage of the maximum bit rate. |
| US08411968B2 |
Album creating apparatus, method and program that classify, store, and arrange images
An album creating apparatus for crating an album by automatically selecting an appropriate image to be laid out in an image layout frame arranged in a template and laying out the selected image in the image layout frame is provided. The album creating apparatus according to the present invention includes: a classification method storage section for classifying images into groups in association with the kind of album; an image input section; a kind of album determining section for determining the kind of album to be created; an in image classification section for classifying the images into the groups based on the classification method stored in the classification method storage section in association with the kind of album; a template storage section for storing a template in which the image layout frame with which the classified group is associated is arranged; and an album creating section for laying out in an image layout frame the image classified into the group associated with the image layout frame to create the album. |
| US08411967B2 |
Constraint-based ordering for temporal coherence of stroke based animation
A renderer allows for a flexible and temporally coherent ordering of strokes in the context of stroke-based animation. The relative order of the strokes is specified by the artist or inferred from geometric properties of the scene, such as occlusion, for each frame of a sequence, as a set of stroke pair-wise constraints. Using the received constraints, the strokes are partially ordered for each of the frames. Based on these partial orderings, for each frame, a permutation of the strokes is selected amongst the ones consistent with the frame's partial order, so as to globally improve the perceived temporal coherence of the animation. The sequence of frames can then, for instance, be rendered by ordering the strokes according to the selected set of permutations for the sequence of frames. |
| US08411965B2 |
Image processing method and apparatus for detecting an edge of an object within an image
An image processing method and apparatus capable of easily detecting an edge of an object from an input image, in which the edge is detected using one step, without a pre-processing step, and a complicated trigonometric function is not used for gradient detection. The image processing method includes setting a window within an input image, analyzing the window to determine directions of edges of objects within the image included in the window, detecting edge information including the edge directions, and processing and outputting the window using the edge information. |
| US08411964B2 |
Method and apparatus for analyzing nudity of image using body part detection model, and method and apparatus for managing image database based on nudity and body parts
A method for analyzing nudity of an image using a body part detection model includes: extracting a skin blob from an image; calculating a first probability value, which indicates a probability of determination on harmfulness of at least one of the image and the skin blob, using a harmfulness detection model; classifying the skin blob as a specific body part using a body part detection model, and calculating a second probability value which indicates a probability of certainty of said classifying; and rating nudity of the image based on the first probability value and the second probability value. |
| US08411963B2 |
Methods and apparatus to count persons in a monitored environment
Methods and apparatus to count persons in a monitored environment are disclosed. An example apparatus to count the number of people in a monitored environment is described, which includes an image sensor having a plurality of pixels, a pseudorandom number generator to generate pseudorandom coordinates, a reader to read first pixel data generated by a first pixel of the image sensor at a first time, the first pixel corresponding to the pseudorandom coordinates, a comparator to compare the first pixel data with second pixel data generated by the first pixel at a second time different from the first time to generate a change value, and a counter configured to generate a count of persons based at least on the change value. |
| US08411962B1 |
Robust image alignment using block sums
A computing device may select a source tile from a source image. From the source tile, the computing device may select a first rectangular feature and a second rectangular feature. Based on the first and second rectangular features, the computing device may calculate a source feature vector. The computing device may also select a search area of a target image, and a target tile within the within the search area. Based on the target tile, the computing device may calculate a target feature vector. The computing device may determine that a difference between the source feature vector and the target feature vector is below an error threshold, and based on this determination, further determine a mapping between the source image and the target image. The computing device may then apply the mapping to the source image to produce a transformed source image. |
| US08411953B2 |
Tagging images by determining a set of similar pre-tagged images and extracting prominent tags from that set
An image can be compared with a set of images, each including pre-existing tags. A similar image set can be determined from results of the comparing. Pre-existing tags can be extracted from the similar image set. Prominent tags can be determined from the extracted pre-existing tags. At least one of the determined prominent tags can be added to a tag set associated with the image. |
| US08411947B2 |
Video processing to detect movement of an object in the scene
A method of processing video comprising a succession of images of a scene to detect movement of an object in the scene, comprising storing a matrix of bytes each representing the difference in intensity of a respective pixel between temporally adjacent images, creating from those bytes a histogram of the frequency at each of a range of positive and negative values of the intensity difference, locating the limits of a central peak of the frequency distribution in the histogram so as to include in the central peak changes due to illumination change and repetitive motions in the background of the scene, determining the proportion of bytes in the remainder of the distribution that are in tails of the distribution on each side of the central peak, repeating the aforesaid process for each successive pair of temporally adjacent images, and providing an output indicative of a moving object and not indicative of illumination change or repetitive motions, in the event that that proportion meets a predetermined criterion. |
| US08411946B2 |
Color conversion system and method
Provided is a color conversion system and method. The color conversion system which converts the color of a filmed image includes: an image separation unit configured to receive a reference image including a color reference table and an action image, and separate the reference and action images from each other; a color data extraction unit configured to output color values of the color reference table included in the reference image; a control unit configured to detect change values obtained by comparing color values included in the reference image with those included in the color reference table, and generate a look-up table for converting the colors of the color reference table included in the reference image into desired colors; and an image conversion unit configured to perform color correction by converting the color values of the action image into coordinates in pixels, using the look-up table outputted from the control unit. |
| US08411944B2 |
Color processing apparatus and method thereof
A spatial CAM forward conversion unit forward-converts XYZ data of the input side into JCh data based on input viewing condition parameters including parameters, which are used to determine field sizes of an input image based on the viewing angle. A Gamut mapping algorithm unit converts the JCh data into those in a color reproduction range of an output device by gamut mapping according to the color reproduction range of the output device. A spatial CAM inverse conversion unit inversely converts the JCh data in the color reproduction range of the output device into XYZ data of the output side based on output viewing condition parameters including parameters, which are used to determine field sizes of an output image based on the viewing angle. |
| US08411939B2 |
Image noise correction
An image noise correction method is provided. For at least one target pixel having a determined pixel value, for each pixel in a window of pixels surrounding the target pixel, a weighting factor for the pixel is estimated based on the value of the target pixel and at least one pixel value in the window. An average of pixel values for the pixels in the window is calculated, with each pixel value being weighted by the weighting factor corresponding to the pixel. A new value is assigned to the target pixel based on the average of pixel values that is calculated. Also provided is an image noise correction device. |
| US08411922B2 |
Reducing noise in images acquired with a scanning beam device
Methods and apparatus for reducing noise in images acquired with a scanning beam device are disclosed. A representative method may include scanning a beam of light over a surface in a scan with a variable velocity. Light backscattered from the surface may be detected at different points in time during the scan at a substantially constant rate. Reduced-noise representations of groups of the detected light that each correspond to a different position in an image of the surface may be generated. The reduced-noise representations may be generated for groups having multiple different sizes. The image of the surface may be generated by representing the different positions in the image with the reduced-noise representations of the corresponding groups. Other methods and apparatus are disclosed. |
| US08411919B2 |
Fluid dynamics approach to image segmentation
A method for segmenting image data within a data processing system includes acquiring an image. One or more seed points are established within the image. An advection vector field is computed based on image influences and user input. A dye concentration is determined at each of a plurality of portions of the image that results from a diffusion of dye within the computed advection field. The image is segmented into one or more regions based on the determined dye concentration for the corresponding dye. |
| US08411918B2 |
Image processing apparatus and image processing method
A system control unit causes a diagnosis monitor to display a plurality of sample images generated by changing one or more image processing parameters used in image processing of an X-ray image. When an operator designates a mixing ratio, at which the sample images are mixed, after the plurality of sample images are displayed on the diagnosis monitor, the system control unit sets one or more image processing parameters to be used when image processing of an X-ray image is performed based on the designated mixing ratio. An image processing unit performs image processing of an X-ray image input from an image input unit based on the set image processing parameter. |
| US08411912B2 |
Face recognition using face tracker classifier data
A method of determining face recognition profiles for a group persons includes determining with a multi-classifier face detector that a face region within a digital image has above a threshold probability of corresponding to a first person of the group, and recording probability scores which are analyzed for each classifier, including determining a mean and variance for each classifier for the first person. The process is repeated for one or more other persons of the group. A sub-set of classifiers is determined which best differentiates between the first person and the one or more other persons. The sub-set of classifiers is stored in association with the first person as a recognition profile. |
| US08411910B2 |
Computationally efficient feature extraction and matching iris recognition
A method and system for uniquely identifying a subject based on an iris image. After obtaining the iris image, the method produces a filtered iris image by applying filters to the iris image to enhance discriminative features of the iris image. The method analyzes an intensity value for pixels in the filtered iris image to produce an iris code that uniquely identifies the subject. The method also creates a segmented iris image by detecting an inner and outer boundary for an iris region in the iris image, and remapping pixels in the iris region, represented in a Cartesian coordinate system, to pixels in the segmented iris image, represented in a log-polar coordinate system, by employing a logarithm representation process. The method also creates a one-dimensional iris string from the iris image by unfolding the iris region by employing a spiral sampling method to obtain sample pixels in the iris region, wherein the sample pixels are the one-dimensional iris string. |
| US08411889B2 |
Hearing system with positioning device and corresponding positioning method
A hearing aid can be inserted deep inside an auditory canal without the risk of injury. The hearing system has a hearing device that can be completely inserted into a human auditory canal, and a positioning device, which is attached to the hearing device in a self-retaining manner. The positioning device can be detached from the hearing device, when the latter is in the state where it is inserted into the auditory canal, and cannot or can only partly be inserted into the auditory canal because it serves as a stop on a section of the concha when the hearing device is being positioned. The positioning device is decoupled from the hearing device after placement and removed from the auditory canal. |
| US08411882B2 |
Electronic device with electret electro-acoustic transducer
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing and an electro-acoustic transducer disposed on the inner surface of the housing. The electro-acoustic transducer includes an electret diaphragm, a conductive plate and at least one spacer. The electret diaphragm is positioned on the inner surface of the housing and has a film body and an electrode layer. The film body has static charges and the electrode layer is formed on the lower surface of the film body. The conductive plate has a plurality of openings and is stacked on the upper surface of the film body. The spacer is positioned between the electret diaphragm and the conductive plate to keep a predetermined distance therebetween. |
| US08411871B2 |
Echo cancellation
Implementations related to echo cancellation are depicted and described herein. |
| US08411870B2 |
Electronic apparatus
According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a speaker, a terminal, an amplifier, a battery, a power supply circuit, and a controller. The terminal is configured to input an audio signal from an external device. The amplifier is configured to amplify the audio signal which is input from the terminal, and to output audio from the speaker. The power supply circuit is configured to supply power from the battery to the amplifier. The controller is configured to control the power supply circuit, based on a residual capacity of the battery and a preset battery level, in order to supply the power to the amplifier when the electronic apparatus is in a non-operative state. |
| US08411869B2 |
Method and apparatus for processing a media signal
An apparatus for processing a media signal and method thereof are disclosed, by which the media signal can be converted to a surround signal by using spatial information of the media signal. The present invention provides a method of processing a signal, the method comprising of generating rendering information by using spatial information indicating features between multi-sources and filter information having a surround effect; and generating a surround signal by applying the rendering information to a downmix signal generated by downmixing the multi-sources, wherein a tab number of a filter used in applying the rendering information to generate the surround signal is variable. |
| US08411863B2 |
Full volume encryption in a clustered environment
Full volume encryption can be applied to volumes in a clustering environment. To simplify the maintenance of keys relevant to such encrypted volumes, a cluster key table construct can be utilized, where each entry of the cluster key table corresponds to an encrypted volume and comprises an identification of the encrypted volume and a key needed to access that volume. Keys can be protected by encrypting them with a key specific to each computing device storing the cluster key table. Updates can be propagated among the computing devices in the cluster by first decrypting the keys and then reencrypting them with a key specific to each computing device as they are stored on those computing devices. Access control requirements can also be added to the entries in the cluster key table. Alternative access control requirements can be accommodated by assigning multiple independent entries to a single encrypted volume. |
| US08411855B1 |
Size optimization for large elliptic curve cryptography scalar multiplication acceleration tables
A computer program product and method are provided for optimizing the size of an Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) scalar multiplication table. Steps include (a) receiving, from a user interface, a set of integer multipliers, (b) choosing a subset of a given set of target integers, the chosen subset defining an index set, such that elements of the index set generate all elements of the given set of target integers using a target generation function, and (c) modifying the index set by removing an element from the index set which is not necessary to generate an element of the given set of target integers using the target generation function. Additional steps are also included depending on the embodiment. |
| US08411850B2 |
Password searching method and system in multi-node parallel-processing environment
Provided are a method and a system for decrypting a password in multi-node parallel-processing environment including a master node and a plurality of work nodes. The master node receives information on encrypted file selection from a user. The master node generates password candidate information generation information and transmits the password candidate to the plurality of work nodes together with a password decryption command. The password candidate generation information allows the plurality of work nodes to have different password candidate ranges using password decryption information comprising a maximum password length, a minimum password length, and a string set constituting the password. The work node decrypts the password using the password candidate generation information. The work node transmits the password decryption result to the master node. |
| US08411847B2 |
Acoustic echo canceller
Disclosed methods and systems measure acoustic responses to training signals activated prior to communication sessions. Profiles related to the acoustic responses are saved and adapted during communication sessions. Training signals may have uniform frequency distributions over a frequency range and may be in response to user inputs, timeouts, or predetermined events. In the next excessive divergence is detected, an adapted profile may be substituted by an original, trained profile. |
| US08411839B1 |
System and method for providing enhanced client satisfaction during phone interactions by intelligent automatic call routing
A system and method for providing enhanced client satisfaction during phone interactions by intelligent automatic call routings to a relevant client support agent. The invention includes methods to automatically determine and anticipate client needs based on the information the host has about the client. |
| US08411838B2 |
Call amount estimating method
A management server 10 stores past record data regarding the call volume by collecting from an exchanger, classifies the past record data in accordance with segments: a 7-day period in a month starting from the beginning of a month; a day of the week; and a predetermined period of time in a day, for a predetermined term in the past, obtains a multiple regression equation having the call volume as an objective variable, based upon the past record data thus classified, by performing a multivariate analysis for each day of the week, and calculates the call volume in a term that is specified by a user based upon the multiple regression equation. |
| US08411827B2 |
Method and system for implementing multimedia ring back tone service
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and system for implementing a multimedia ring back tone service. The method comprises: establishing a connection to a multimedia ring back tone platform when it is determined that either the calling party or the called party of a call is a user to the multimedia ring back tone service during call connection, and completing a media capability negotiation between a calling terminal and the multimedia ring back tone platform; acquiring a first media content and a second media content according to a multimedia ring back tone information of the user, and generating a streaming media from the first media content and the second media content; and playing the streaming media to the calling party. The present invention is capable of further improving existing multimedia ring back tone techniques to better meet the communication users' requirement for personalization. |
| US08411823B2 |
Radiation grid and radiographic apparatus provided with the same
This invention has an object to provide an X-ray grid without obstructing travel of direct X-rays by arranging regularly absorbing foil strips having a maintained linear shape. The X-ray grid of this invention has an absorber. The absorber maintains its shape through integration with the first seat cover via the first joining member. Moreover, the X-ray grid of this invention has sufficient strength. That is because the first joining member has a thickness larger at both ends thereof in the x-direction than the center portion between the both ends. |
| US08411822B2 |
Methods and systems for determining the average atomic number and mass of materials
Disclosed herein are methods and systems of scanning a target for potential threats using the energy spectra of photons scattered from the target to determine the spatial distributions of average atomic number and/or mass in the target. An exemplary method comprises: illuminating each of a plurality of voxels of the target with a photon beam; determining an incident flux upon each voxel; measuring the energy spectrum of photons scattered from the voxel; determining, using the energy spectrum, the average atomic number in the voxel; and determining the mass in the voxel using the incident flux, the average atomic number of the material in the voxel, the energy spectrum, and a scattering kernel corresponding to the voxel. An exemplary system may use threat detection heuristics to determine whether to trigger further action based upon the average atomic number and/or mass of the voxels. |
| US08411820B1 |
3D x-ray microscopy imaging system
The present disclosure presents, in various aspects and embodiments, a 3D X-ray microscopy imaging technique. Some aspects are directed to various embodiments of an apparatus for use in such a technique, such as an X-ray microscopy imaging system. Other aspects are directed to various embodiments of a method for use in such a technique, like a method for generating an X-ray image that has a grayscale response proportional to range. Some, though not all, aspects of the technique are computer-implemented, and so include encoded program storage media, programmed computing apparatuses, and computer-implemented methods. |
| US08411813B2 |
Method for carrying out reactor internal
A method for carrying out a reactor internal, comprising steps of: forming a first opening portion in a ceiling of a reactor building at a position directly above an equipment pool in said reactor building; cutting a cylindrical reactor internal surrounding a core in a reactor pressure vessel disposed in said reactor building, at one position in an axial direction; surrounding said cut cylindrical reactor internal with a radiation shield; and carrying out said cylindrical reactor internal surrounded by said radiation shield out of said reactor building through said first opening portion. |
| US08411810B2 |
Receiving circuit with adaptive synchronization and method thereof
A circuit with adaptive synchronization and a method thereof is provided. The synchronous receiving circuit adaptively adjusts the timing of a clock signal generated therein for receiving data without accompanying a clock signal for synchronization. The synchronous receiving circuit includes a clock generator, an edge detector, a synchronization unit and a latch. The clock generator generates a first clock signal according to an input data signal. The edge detector detects edges to generate an indication signal. The synchronization unit is coupled to the clock generator and the edge detector, and adaptively adjusts the first clock signal according to the indication signal. The latch latches the input data signal according to the adjusted first clock signal. |
| US08411803B2 |
Method and apparatus for modulation recognition in communication system
A method and an apparatus for modulation recognition in communication system are provided. First, a plurality of constellation corresponding different modulation types are provided, wherein each constellation has a plurality of points. An input signal is de-mapped to find out a nearest point located nearest to a position of the input signal in each constellation. The distances from the nearest points to the position of the input signal are respectively counted to obtain a plurality of distance statistics values corresponding to different modulation types. The apparatus compares the distance statistics values for recognizing the modulation type of the input signal. |
| US08411802B2 |
Iterative estimator and method of channel and noise variance for multiple input multiple output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system
A reception apparatus including: a detection unit detecting extrinsic information based on an output of a tentative symbol decision unit, an output of a channel estimation unit, and an output of a noise variance estimation unit that are obtained from a previous iteration process; a Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) aided channel decoding unit outputting an encoded and interleaved bit, or a posteriori information thereof based on the extrinsic information; the tentative symbol decision unit determining a tentative transmission symbol based on an output of the CRC aided channel decoding unit; the channel estimation unit estimating a channel based on an output of the tentative symbol decision unit or a pilot symbol; and the noise variance estimation unit estimating a noise variance or an initial noise variance based on the output of the tentative symbol decision unit and the output of the channel estimation unit is provided. |
| US08411801B2 |
Apparatus and method for estimating inverse channel of repeater's receiving channel
Provided is an apparatus and method for estimating inverse channel of a repeater's receiving channel, which ensures stability and causality by generating a time-domain filter coefficient having information on an inverse channel of repeater's receiving channel from a signal transmitted from a main transmitter or another repeater. The apparatus includes: a channel estimator for estimating a channel established by a transmission path from a received signal; an inverse minimum phase filter coefficient generator for generating inverse channel of a minimum phase channel from the estimated channel, and converting the inverse channel of the minimum phase channel into a time-domain filter coefficient; an inverse group delay filter coefficient generator for generating a time-domain filter coefficient by using the estimated channel and the minimum phase channel; and a combiner for generating an inverse channel of a receiving channel in a time domain by combining the filter coefficient and the filter coefficient. |
| US08411797B2 |
Frequency offset compensation in a digital frequency shift keying receiver
A digital nonlinear adaptive mechanism for frequency offset compensation for use in a digital Frequency Shift Keying (FSK) receiver such as a Bluetooth GFSK receiver. The mechanism is intended to aid in the recovery of a frequency-modulated signal in the presence of an unknown additive frequency offset, which could be greater than the peak frequency deviation and which must be suppressed to enable proper data recovery in the receiver. The mechanism utilizes a demodulator to convert the frequency offset into a digitally represented DC level. This level is extracted by a non-linear estimator based on peak detectors and filters. Active suppression of the DC level is achieved by feed-forwarding the estimated value into a subtractor that removes it from the digital signal. A gear shift mechanism incorporated within the DC estimation block enables the dynamic control of the DC estimation process. Charge and discharge coefficients are configured dynamically to provide fast frequency offset compensation during the reception of the redundant header at the beginning of a packet and relatively slow frequency offset compensation during the subsequent reception of the payload portion of the packet, thus minimizing both the acquisition time and the payload's BER in the receiver. |
| US08411789B2 |
Radio communication apparatus and method
A radio communication apparatus includes a clock reproducer unit which repetitively detects a symbol timing from a Nyquist point in detection-result data. A symbol generator unit controllably generates or non-generates a to-be-transmitted symbol or symbols at every symbol timing detected by the clock reproducer unit, converts the to-be-transmitted symbol or symbols into modulating data pieces, and outputs the modulating data pieces to a FIFO buffer. A D/A converter reads out modulating data pieces from the FIFO buffer at a predetermined rate and converts the read-out modulating data pieces into an analog modulating signal for use in modulation of a carrier. A controller unit controls a number of the to-be-transmitted symbol or symbols generated by the symbol generator unit at every symbol timing to hold a number of modulating data pieces in the FIFO buffer in a predetermined range. |
| US08411772B2 |
OFDM system with reverse link interference estimation
A new method of performing interference estimation to allow the data packets to be efficiently delivered in an OFDM system. The interference estimation is performed on average over each frame for each mobile station individually in both frequency and time domains. Based on the estimated interference, the CIR can be determined by the BTS based on channel response estimates made by the BTS, or by the MS based on channel response estimates made for the uplink assuming a symmetrical channel. Numerical results show that the CIR estimation error could be very small if a sub-channel is considered as the minimum transmission unit. In terms of the aggregate throughput, the interference estimation method can provide a significant gain. |
| US08411763B2 |
Cable reduction
The present invention provides combining and separation circuitry, which allows multiple signals in different frequency bands to travel in either direction over a single cable and be combined and separated as desired. In one embodiment, the combining and separation circuitry includes first, second, third, and fourth ports. The first port is configured to send or receive signals in a first frequency band, the second port is configured to send or receive signals in a second frequency band, and the third port is configured to send or receive DC signals, baseband signals, or a combination thereof. The fourth port is configured to be coupled to a cable in which the signals in the first and second frequency bands, as well as the DC and/or baseband signals, can be sent in either direction. |
| US08411758B2 |
Method and system for online remixing of digital multimedia
Systems and methods have been developed for manipulating media assets in a networked computing environment where processing power, bandwidth and/or storage capacity may be limited. More specifically, systems and methods have been developed whereby low-resolution media assets may be created that are optimized for transfer over low bandwidth networks and for editing and manipulation in an environment with low processing power and low storage capacity, and a high-resolution media asset may be created for playback. |
| US08411753B2 |
Color space scalable video coding and decoding method and apparatus for the same
A color space scalable video coding and decoding method and an apparatus for the same are disclosed that can adjust color components or color depth according to the performance of a decoder side. The color space scalable video coding method includes generating transform coefficients by removing the temporal redundancy and spatial redundancy of input video frames, quantizing the transform coefficients, generating a bit stream by entropy coding the quantized transform coefficients, and generating a color space scalable bit stream that includes the bit stream and position information of luminance data in the bit stream. |
| US08411747B2 |
Intra prediction mode selecting apparatus and method thereof
An intra prediction mode selecting method is disclosed. First, a compress profile and a frame resolution of a frame data are received. Next, a plurality of corresponding prediction modes are selected according to the compress profile and the frame resolution, and the selected prediction modes are scheduled for sequentially calculating a plurality of corresponding cost functions. Finally, the cost functions are compared to select one of the prediction modes to serve as a prediction mode of the frame data. |
| US08411742B2 |
Soft decision and iterative video coding for MPEG and H.264
A method of encoding video data using soft decision quantization makes use of iterative encoding to provide the ability to optimize encoding across different functional elements in a hybrid video encoder. Iterative encoding is used to allow quantization step size, motion prediction and quantization levels to be optimized despite their interrelated nature. |
| US08411739B2 |
Bitstream conversion method, bitstream conversion apparatus, bitstream connecting apparatus, bitstream splitting program, bitstream conversion program, and bitstream connecting program
A bitstream conversion apparatus for converting a bitstream of a first format, containing content data, into a bitstream of a second format includes: a splitting unit which splits the bitstream of the first format in time sequential fashion into a plurality of split bitstreams of the first format; a plurality of conversion units which convert the plurality of split bitstreams of the first format into a plurality of split bitstreams of the second format; and a connecting unit which connects the plurality of split bitstreams of the second format to one another. |
| US08411737B2 |
Transmission of physical layer signaling in a broadcast system
Aspects of the invention provide apparatuses, computer media, and methods for supporting the broadcast of extended signaling data over a network. With an aspect of the invention, all of the extended signaling data may be distributed over multiple data frames. With another aspect, only dynamic signaling redundancy data is distributed over different data frames, where systematic information (for example, configurable signaling data) is transmitted in accordance with traditional systems. In addition, backwards compatibility with traditional systems may be supported, in which extended signaling is contained in an extension field. Error correction code may be applied to the extended signaling in concert with different codes. With another aspect, only extended signaling is supported without backwards compatibility with traditional systems. |
| US08411731B2 |
Device and method for processing a real subband signal for reducing aliasing effects
In order to process a subband signal of a plurality of real subband signals which are a representation of a real discrete-time signal generated by an analysis filter bank, a weighter for weighting a subband signal by a weighting factor determined for the subband signal is provided to obtain a weighted subband signal. In addition, a correction term is calculated by a correction term determiner, the correction term determiner being implemented to calculate the correction term using at least one other subband signal and using another weighting factor provided for the other subband signal, the two weighting factors differing. The correction term is then combined with the weighted subband signal to obtain a corrected subband signal, resulting in reduced aliasing, even if subband signals are weighted to a different extent. |
| US08411725B2 |
Channel geometry detector
Adaptive reconfiguration of a wireless receiver is enabled based on channel geometry. According to an embodiment, the wireless receiver includes a geometry factor processing module and signal processing modules, e.g. such as but not limited to an SIR estimation module, a power estimation module, a despreading module, a low-pass filter, a combing weight generation module, a coefficient estimation module, a synchronization control channel interference canceller module, etc. The geometry factor processing module determines a geometry factor for the channel over which signals are transmitted to the wireless receiver, the geometry factor being a measure of the ratio of total transmitted power received by the wireless receiver to total interference plus noise power at the wireless receiver. One or more of the receiver signal processing modules are reconfigurable based on the geometry factor. |
| US08411719B2 |
3D optoelectronic packaging
An optoelectronic (OE) package or system and method for fabrication is disclosed which includes a silicon layer with a wiring layer. The silicon layer has an optical via for allowing light to pass therethrough. An optical coupling layer is bonded to the silicon layer, and the optical coupling layer includes a plurality of microlenses for focusing and or collimating the light through the optical via. One or more first OE elements are coupled to the silicon layer and electrically communicating with the wiring. At least one of the first OE elements positioned in optical alignment with the optical via for receiving the light. A second OE element embedded within the wiring layer. A carrier may be interposed between electrical interconnect elements and positioned between the wiring layer and a circuit board. |
| US08411707B2 |
Low power, high speed multi-channel data acquisition system and method
In a data acquisition system, digitizing circuitry (2A) is powered up by a control signal (ADC_CONVST), superimposing a glitch (42-1) on a first multiplexed and amplified signal value (VINF) received by the digitizing circuitry. Sampling and holding of the first multiplexed and amplified signal value occurs during a delay provided between the glitch and a beginning of a first A/D conversion of the first multiplexed and amplified signal value to allow settling of the glitch. After the first conversion begins, a second multiplexed and amplified signal value is generated. The digitizing circuitry performs the first A/D conversion during initial settling of the second multiplexed and amplified signal value and then is powered down while the second multiplexed and amplified signal value continues to settle. |
| US08411701B2 |
Inter-working of EFM-OAM and CFM-OAM for mobile backhaul networks
On a first network element in a radio access network (RAN), supporting operations, management and administration (OAM) between network elements that support Ethernet in the first mile (EFM) and network elements that support connectivity fault management (CFM) in the radio access network by receiving an EFM message from a second network element that supports EFM, wherein the second network element is in the RAN and wherein the EFM message includes OAM data; converting the OAM data from the EFM message into a sub-type-length-value (sub-TLV) of a CFM message; and transmitting the CFM message including the OAM data in the sub-TLV to a third network element that supports CFM, wherein the third network element is in the RAN, whereby an end-to-end OAM sublayer is provided in the RAN by conversion of OAM data from EFM to CFM. |
| US08411699B2 |
Communication method, communication apparatus, and communication system
A communication apparatus communicates with another communication apparatus connected to a transmission channel and sharing a communication band. The communication apparatus includes: a receiving unit that receives, through the transmission channel, data including time information based on a transmission time when a synchronous signal is transmitted to the transmission channel from a synchronous signal transmitting apparatus at a given cycle, the synchronous signal for synchronizing a plurality of communication apparatuses; a transmitting unit that transmits data to the transmission channel; and a transmission control unit that estimates a synchronous signal non-existing period in which there is no synchronous signal on the transmission channel on the basis of the time information received by the receiving unit and the given cycle, and controls the transmitting unit to transmit data within the estimated synchronous signal non-existing period. |
| US08411697B2 |
Method and arrangement for improving media transmission quality using robust representation of media frames
In a method of improved media frame transmission in a communication network. Initially a plurality of “original” or regular media frames are provided for transmission. According to the invention, robust representations of the provided regular media frames are generated and stored locally. Subsequently, one or more of the regular media frames is/are transmitted. The invention detects an indication of a loss of a transmitted media frame, and the idea is to transmit, in response to a detected frame loss, a stored robust representation of the lost media frame and/or a stored robust representation of a subsequent, not yet transmitted, media frame to increase the media quality. |
| US08411696B1 |
Systems and methods for communicating with multiple distribution points of a network
The present disclosure generally pertains to systems and methods for communicating data. In one exemplary embodiment, a system has a high-speed channel, such as an optical fiber, between a network facility, such as a central office (CO), and a first intermediate point between the network facility and a plurality of customer premises (CP). Digital communication links, such as DSL links, are used to carry data between the first intermediate point, such as a feeder distribution interface (FDI), and a second intermediate point, such as the Distribution Point (DP). Non-shared links may then carry the data from the second intermediate point to the CPs. The links between the two intermediate points are bonded to create a high-speed, shared data channel that permits peak data rates much greater than what would be achievable without bonding. In some embodiments, multicast data flows may be prioritized and transmitted across a set of connections to each of the intermediate points. In addition, it is possible to power components at the intermediate points from one or more of the CPs. |
| US08411685B1 |
Managing the allocation of internet protocol addresses in a wireless network
Methods are described for managing the allocation of IPv6 addresses to mobile devices. More specifically, the network portions of IPv6 addresses are dynamically allocated to mobile devices by a home agent. In one embodiment, a request is received to allocate a network portion of an IPv6 address. It is determined whether a network portion is stored in a database in association with the mobile device. If so, that network portion is allocated to the mobile device so that the mobile device can establish a communication session. If not, the home agent is asked to allocate a network portion that is currently available. |
| US08411681B2 |
Multicasting method in network including T-MPLS network and WDM network and apparatus therefor
A multicasting method and apparatus in a network including a transport multiprotocol label switch (T-MPLS) network and a wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) network are disclosed. At least one of first switches, connected to the T-MPLS network, second switches connected to the WDM network, and a switch hub establishes a multicasting path by using a label switch path (LSP) ID and a label switch router (LSR) ID, in which the first switch on the multicasting path multicasts a T-MPLS signal, the switch hub converts the T-MPLS signal into an optical multicasting signal and multicasts the converted optical multicasting signal, and the second switch receives the optical multicasting signal and multicasts it in units of the T-MPLS signal. |
| US08411680B2 |
IP multicasting system and a method based on the mobile network
An IP multicast system includes: an IGMP proxy unit set in an access network which provides information of a multicast group to which a terminal belongs. The IGMP proxy unit receives data sent from a multicast data source, and sends the data to a base station which then sends the data to the terminal. The IGMP proxy unit simplifies IP multicasting in the mobile network and makes the transfer of multicast data transparent with respect to the core network of the mobile network. This system can support mobile communication networks as WCDMA, CDMA2000, GSM and TD-SCDMA. |
| US08411678B2 |
Method and a gateway for providing multiple internet access
The present invention concerns a gateway and a method at a gateway for providing multiple accesses to an IP based network, the gateway comprising an interface to a first network, an interface to a second network, the gateway being connected to the IP based network with a first network provider on a first connection through the second network. The method comprises the steps of detecting a request from a device located on the first network to connect to the IP based network with a second network provider, setting up a second connection to the IP based network through the second network with a second network provider, and connecting the device to the IP based network with the second connection. |
| US08411674B2 |
Method and device for session control in hybrid telecommunications network
Combinational networks may provide simultaneous connectivity over networks of different type between terminals. Communication sessions on different network types such as Circuit switched and Packet switched, belonging to the same user equipment can be correlated. In case a communication session on a circuit switched network is halted by a supplementary service e.g. at an event such as acceptance of Call Hold, a communication session on a correlated packet switched network should be halted as well. A user equipment that detects the event sends a halt message to the circuit switched network and a message to the packet switched network or a session state manager node. The session state manager node either forwards the halt-message to the packet switched network, or sends a halt-message to the packet switched network when the packet switched network does not notify that a halt has occurred. |
| US08411671B1 |
Loss adjustment control in a tandem media communication network
An originating device coupled to an originating network requests a media call to a terminating device coupled to a terminating network. In between the originating and terminating networks, a tandem network receives a signaling message for the media call transferred by the originating network. The tandem network retrieves and processes numbers for the originating device and the terminating device from the signaling message to determine a loss adjustment for the media call and to select the originating device or the terminating device to make the loss adjustment. The tandem network transfers a loss instruction indicating the loss adjustment to the originating network or the terminating network for delivery to the selected device. The selected device receives the loss instruction and responsively makes the loss adjustment. |
| US08411669B2 |
Distributed transcoding on IP phones with idle DSP channels
Idle DSP channels of an IP phone can be used to respond to a request to transcode a codec of an incoming call in a distributed IP phone system but only if sufficient idle channels remain available to the phone to handle basic call functions and a possible non-basic call feature (such as conferencing) of the phone. |
| US08411665B2 |
System and method of routing voice communications via peering networks
A method of routing voice communications is disclosed and includes receiving network event data at a telephone number mapping (ENUM) server of an originating network from a plurality of peering border elements associated with a plurality of peering communication networks. The network event data indicates a health status of each of the peering communication networks. The method also includes determining a network weight related to each of the peering communication networks based on the network event data, wherein each network weight indicates a proportion of calls that are to be routed from the originating network via the related peering communication network. The method further includes dynamically assigning a plurality of preference field values to session initiation protocol (SIP) addresses of the peering border elements within a plurality of naming authority pointer (NAPTR) records, based on the network weights. |
| US08411660B2 |
Apparatus and method for performing resource allocation and communication in a wireless communication system, and system using same
A method for allocating resources in a wireless communication system using Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA). The method includes dividing entire frequency resources into sub-bands each having a number of sub-channels, setting at least one sub-channel in each of the sub-bands as a wide-band resource, and providing the sub-band and wide-band information to mobile stations; and determining one of the sub-band resource and the wide-band resource as an allocated resource according to channel condition with a particular mobile station when there is a need for communication with the mobile station. |
| US08411652B2 |
Method of operating a mobile radio network
A method of operating a mobile radio network for adjusting the counter states of the packet data units to be transmitted in the convergence protocol layer protocol units of network entities of the mobile radio network. User data is transmitted from a first network entity of the mobile radio network, in particular a mobile station, to a second network entity of the mobile radio network, in particular a higher-level network unit, the user data is combined prior to transmission into at least one packet data unit in a first convergence protocol layer protocol unit of the first network entity; and the at least one packet data unit is transmitted from a first radio link control layer protocol unit of the first network entity to a second radio link control layer protocol unit of the second network entity. If the transmission of the at least one packet data unit fails, the first radio link control layer protocol unit transmits an error message to the first convergence protocol layer protocol unit after receiving a confirmation message confirming the failure from the second radio link control layer protocol unit. |
| US08411650B2 |
Method and system for providing virtual private network services through a mobile IP home agent
A method for providing a virtual private network by home agent in a mobile IP environment includes providing a home agent operable to receive a registration request from a foreign agent and negotiate conditions of attachment of a mobile node to the foreign agent and further operable to store an IP address of the foreign agent in response to the negotiated conditions. The method also includes receiving, at the home agent, from the foreign agent, a registration request for the mobile node. The method also includes determining, by the home agent, a virtual private network membership of the mobile node based on a characteristic associated with the mobile node. The method further includes mapping the mobile node to an identifier associated with the home agent and transmitting the mapping to the foreign agent. The identifier is indicative of the virtual private network membership of the mobile subscriber. The method also includes receiving packets containing the identifier from the foreign agent and, in response, directing the packets to an IP address associated with the virtual private network. |
| US08411635B2 |
Mobile station apparatus and control channel decoding method
A wireless communication base station apparatus that allows the number of times of blind decodings at a mobile station to be reduced without increasing the overhead caused by notifying information. In this apparatus, a CCE allocation part (104) allocates allocation information allocated to a PDCCH received from modulation parts (103-1 to 103-K) to a particular one of a plurality of search spaces that is corresponding to a CCE aggregation size of the PDCCH. A placement part (108) then places the allocation information in one of downstream line resources, reserved for the PDCCH, that is corresponding to the CCE of the particular search space to which the allocation information has been allocated. A radio transmission part (111) then transmits an OFDM symbol, in which the allocation information has been placed, to the mobile station from an antenna (112). |
| US08411633B2 |
Method and apparatus for indicating deactivation of semi-persistent scheduling
A method and apparatus for performing semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) deactivation in a wireless mobile communication system are disclosed. A base station (BS) transmits a downlink control channel to a user equipment (UE), and deactivates the SPS when a binary field indicating resource allocation information contained in the downlink control channel is entirely filled with ‘1’. |
| US08411629B1 |
Dynamic admission control of wireless video to a wireless network
Techniques are provided herein for computing a video admission control metric used to determine whether to admit a new video stream to a wireless network. The video admission control metric is computed using several measurable parameters of the wireless network. The dynamic nature of this process takes into account many real-time factors that affect admission control, such as traffic load, channel conditions, and overlapping basic service set (BSS) interference. |
| US08411603B2 |
Method and system for dual digital microphone processing in an audio CODEC
Methods and systems for dual digital microphone processing in an audio CODEC are disclosed and may include demultiplexing one or more received time-multiplexed digital audio signals from one or more digital microphones, and separately processing each of the demultiplexed digital audio signals. The digital microphones may include microelectromechanical (MEMS) microphones. The demultiplexed digital audio signals may be level-converted, downshifted, and/or filtered. The filtering may include a finite impulse response (FIR) filter. A sampling rate of the one or more demultiplexed digital audio signals may be converted by repeating the demultiplexed digital audio signals. Audio beamforming and/or diversity processing may be performed utilizing the digital microphones. |
| US08411600B2 |
Method and apparatus for acknowledging a reception of a data packet in a CDMA communication system
In a communication system (100), a method and an accompanying apparatus provide for acknowledging reception of a packet of data. A receiver (400) at a serving base station (101) receives a message on an acknowledgement channel (340) for indicating the reception of the packet of data at a mobile station (102), and may determine an erasure of the message. A non-serving base station (160) may also receive the message on the acknowledgement channel (340) from the mobile station (102), determines a value of the message, and communicates the value of the message to the serving base station (101). The serving base station (101) changes the erasure to the value of the message, and terminates a transmission of a remainder of data units of the packet of data to the mobile station (102) when the value of the message is a positive acknowledgment from the non-serving base station (160). |
| US08411592B2 |
Communication apparatus, communication method therefor, and program
A communication apparatus searches for another network after a network is created, participates in another network in accordance with a role, in communication parameter setting processing, of a communication apparatus existing in another network, and executes the communication parameter setting processing. After the communication apparatus decides to receive the communication parameters from another communication apparatus, the communication apparatus determines an activation state of a providing function of a provider apparatus of the communication parameters, and requests the provider apparatus to provide the communication parameters in accordance with the determination. |
| US08411590B2 |
Mesh network remote control device
The mesh network remote control device is able to dynamically exchange information with other mesh network devices via a mesh network, partial mesh network, ad-hoc network or with an non-mesh network such as the Internet or an intranet. The mesh network remote control device controls devices connected to such mesh or non-mesh networks. The mesh network remote control device accepts commands from mesh network devices, non-mesh network devices, non-mesh communications networks (e.g., URLs, device commands, social networking logins, etc.), stores the original commands and transforms the original commands into simple display commands that are used by a user to control remote mesh network or non-mesh network devices. |
| US08411588B2 |
Methods and apparatus to manage wireless device power consumption
Example methods and apparatus to manage wireless device power consumption are disclosed. In accordance with a disclosed example method a data frame exchange is initiated with an access point of a wireless network. In response to not successfully completing the frame exchange with the access point, the access point is designated as providing the wireless terminal with fringe wireless signal coverage. |
| US08411578B2 |
Systems and methods for proactive management of a communication network through monitoring a user network interface
Systems and methods for proactive management of a communication network through monitoring a user network interface are disclosed. An example method disclosed herein to proactively monitor user network interfaces comprises obtaining first information related to operation of a physical port, determining that the physical port implements both a first user network interface and a second user network interface, combining the first information with second information related to operation of a first logical port implementing the first user network interface, but not implementing the second user network interface, to assess performance of the first user network interface, and combining the first information with third information related to operation of a second logical port implementing the second user network interface, but not implementing the first user network interface, to assess performance of the second user network interface. |
| US08411577B2 |
Methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture to perform root cause analysis for network events
Example methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture to perform root cause analysis for network events are disclosed. An example method includes retrieving a symptom event instance from a normalized set of data sources based on a symptom event definition; generating a set of diagnostic events from the normalized set of data sources which potentially cause the symptom event instance, the diagnostic events being determined based on dependency rules; and analyzing the set of diagnostic events to select a root cause event based on root cause rules. |
| US08411569B2 |
Method of splicing encoded multimedia data streams
The present invention provides a method of splicing data streams flowing between an encoder and a decoder. The method includes accessing a first encoded data stream. The first encoded data stream is encoded by the encoder based upon a first buffer size associated with the decoder. The method also includes delaying the first encoded data stream by an offset determined based on a second buffer size associated with the decoder. The second buffer size is larger than the first buffer size. The method further includes splicing one or more second encoded data stream(s) into the delayed first encoded data stream. |
| US08411567B2 |
Swarm intelligence based methods to enable cooperative communication in a mesh network
A mesh network implements swarm intelligence for cooperative communication between nodes in the mesh network. In particular determination is made at a node in the mesh network, and cooperation occurs with other nodes in forwarding messages and packets in the mesh network in an independent and distributed manner without real time handshake. |
| US08411565B2 |
Broadband network for coaxial cable using multi-carrier modulation
A broadband local area data network uses coaxial cable wiring for interconnection of terminal devices. Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) with bit loading is used to overcome channel impairments and provide a path for terminal devices to transmit to and receive from other terminal devices. Probe messages are sent between devices to characterize the communication channel and determine optimum bit loading. The data network shares the cable spectrum with other services and uses frequency bands not used by other services. Adaptive power control can be used to maintain signal to noise ratio in a communication between terminal devices. Frequency coordination can be used to avoid interference between the LAN communications and other services transmitted on the cable. |
| US08411562B2 |
Network system and method for providing an ad-hoc access environment
Network system and method for providing an ad-hoc access environment. A network system capable of providing an ad-hoc access environment comprises a controller unit connected to the network for receiving access requests from a device; and an authority unit for providing an authorization assertion to the controller unit; wherein the controller unit carries out an authorization process based on an access control policy including at least one rule based on which the controller unit contacts the authority unit and the authority unit provides an authorization assertion. |
| US08411558B1 |
Stateful home agent recovery protocol (SHARP)
A method and system for resilient mobile communications in a network when network elements are removed, upgraded or fail are provided. A mobile device communicates with an endpoint through foreign and home agents communicatively connected to the network. An active home agent stores communication information for the mobile node and multicasts the communication information to non-active home agents associated with the active home agent. When an active home agent is removed, upgraded or fails, the mobile device is able to maintain mobile communications with the endpoint through one or more non-active home agent. A non-active home agent having a high priority is transitioned to active status to maintain communication service between the mobile node and endpoint. |
| US08411548B2 |
Optical pickup and optical disc apparatus
An optical pickup includes a light source emitting a light beam, a diffraction element diffracting the light beam to separate it into a main beam and a sub beam, an objective lens focusing the main and sub beams onto a desired recording layer of an optical disc, a lens moving section moving the objective lens in focusing and tracking directions, a light-separating element separating a reflected light beam, formed by reflecting each of the main and sub beams at the recording layer, into multiple beam components and allowing the reflected light beam to travel without rotating an image thereof, and a light-receiving element having multiple light-receiving regions that optically receive the reflected light beam and generating a light reception signal based on the amount of received light to allow a signal processing section to generate a focus error signal and a tracking error signal based on the light reception signal. |
| US08411546B2 |
Information storage medium, record reproducing device, and record reproducing method
Provided is an information recording medium including a plurality of recording layers. Each recording layer may comprise at least one optical power control (OPC) area, and each OPC area is allocated so as not to overlap an adjacent layer in a given radius. |
| US08411543B2 |
Recording apparatus and control method
A recording apparatus including: a light-illuminating/receiving-unit illuminating an optical-disc-recording-medium through a common object-lens with recording-light and ATS-light and receiving reflected-ATS-light; a rotation-driving-unit driving rotation of the medium; a tracking-mechanism driving the lens in a tracking-direction parallel to the radial direction; a tracking-error-signal-generation-unit generating a tracking-error-signal; and a tracking-servo-controller performing tracking-servo-control on the lens based on the tracking-error-signal, wherein the tracking-servo-controller includes: a servo-calculation-unit based on the tracking-error-signal in a feedback-loop as a tracking-servo-loop; and a feed-forward-controller calculating an estimated control-target-value of the tracking-servo-control based on an estimated illumination-spot-position value of the ATS-light obtained in a first-filter-process emulating a transfer-characteristic of the tracking-mechanism on an output of the servo-calculation-unit and a distance between the illumination-spot-positions and applies a control-signal generated in a second-filter-process on the estimated value for suppressing a transfer-characteristic-gain of the tracking-servo-loop to 0 dB or less in the entire band to the tracking-servo-loop. |
| US08411541B2 |
Optical recording medium having read-only storage area and writable storage area and recording/reproducing apparatus and method therefor
An optical recording medium having a read-only storage area and a writable storage area and a recording/reproducing apparatus and method therefor. The optical recording medium is a hybrid disc having both the read-only storage area, which is suitable for mass production of information having the same contents, and the writable storage area on which data can be recorded, updated or added at a user's option. The read-only storage area has a structure that is completely compatible with a digital versatile disc read only memory (DVD-ROM) specification, and the writable storage area is compatible with the recording/reproducing characteristics of a writable DVD specification so that an existing reproducing-only apparatus can read information from the read-only storage area, and data can be recorded in the writable storage area using an apparatus obtained by minimally changing an existing recording/reproducing apparatus while maintaining the physical recording characteristics of the existing recording/reproducing apparatus. |
| US08411538B2 |
Optical information storage medium reproduction apparatus and control method of the same
In an optical information storage medium reproduction apparatus (10) for reproducing an optical information storage medium including a plurality of information recording layers each including a recording mark having a length shorter than an optical system resolution limit, reproduction laser power for reading an information recording layer closest to a reproduction-laser-incident surface of the optical information storage medium is set to be lower than reproduction laser power for reading an information recording layer farthest from the reproduction-laser-incident surface but not lower than minimum reproduction laser power that satisfies a reproduction signal characteristic that the optical information storage medium reproduction apparatus (10) requires. With the arrangement, it is possible to prevent that the information recording layer closest to the reproduction-laser-incident surface is irradiated wrongly with reproduction laser having high reproduction laser power, thereby making it possible to obtain successful reproduction quality. That is, it is possible to realize the optical information storage medium reproduction apparatus (10) that can set optimum reproduction laser power and perform stable super resolution reproduction. |
| US08411533B2 |
Crystal-bezel assembly unit for a timepiece and process assembly
The invention relates to a process for assembly of a crystal and a bezel for use of the crystal as vibrating and radiating element, according to which unconnected junction zones are determined and form the only mechanical link for transmission of vibrations of the bezel to the crystal, on which zones the crystal is secured on the bezel to transmit to the crystal any vibration communicated to the bezel. Outside these zones the crystal is held without direct contact with the bezel.The invention also relates to a crystal-bezel assembly unit for a timepiece comprising junction zones that form the only mechanical link for transmission of vibrations from the bezel to the crystal to cause the crystal to resonate under the action of the vibrations, and outside said junction zones the crystal has no direct contact with the bezel.The invention also relates to a timepiece comprising such a unit. |
| US08411532B2 |
Distance sensor for vehicle with electrical connector
A distance sensor equipped with a mount for mounting the sensor in a mount hole of a bumper of a vehicle. The mount includes a casing with a sensor holder, a bezel, and a resin-made retainer. The bezel is made up of a cylindrical member joined to the sensor holder and a flange having an outer diameter greater than an inner diameter of the mount hole. The retainer includes an annular base joined to the bezel, a plurality of arms, and a plurality of protrusions. The protrusions extend from ends of the arms radially outward of the base and serve to establish a snap-fit on a peripheral edge of the mount hole, thereby nipping a wall of the bumper between the protrusions and the flange tightly to secure the distance sensor to the bumper. |
| US08411529B2 |
Walkaway VSP calibrated sonic logs
Methods and related systems are described relating to processing subsurface sonic and seismic data. The described techniques use anisotropy estimates derived from a walkaway VSP to calibrate elastic properties derived from sonic logs. An empirical relationship between the sonic derived anisotropy parameters is modified until the upscaled elastic properties from the sonic log data best matches the anisotropy parameters measured with the walkway VSP. The result is a set of elastic constants consistent with the walkaway VSP measurements. |
| US08411525B2 |
Memory circuits having a diode-connected transistor with back-biased control
A memory circuit includes at least one memory array. At least one sleep transistor is electrically coupled between the at least one memory array and a first power line for providing a first power voltage. At least one diode-connected transistor is electrically coupled between the at least one memory array and the first power line. A back-bias circuit is electrically coupled with a bulk of the at least one diode-connected transistor. |
| US08411524B2 |
Techniques for refreshing a semiconductor memory device
Techniques for refreshing a semiconductor memory device are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for refreshing a semiconductor memory device may include applying a plurality of voltage potentials to a memory cell in an array of memory cells. Applying a plurality of voltage potentials to the memory cell may include applying a first voltage potential to a first region of the memory cell via a respective source line of the array. Applying a plurality of voltage potentials to the memory cells may also include applying a second voltage potential to a second region of the memory cell via a respective local bit line and a respective selection transistor of the array. Applying a plurality of voltage potentials to the memory cells may further include applying a third voltage potential to a respective word line of the array, wherein the word line may be spaced apart from and capacitively to a body region of the memory cell that may be electrically floating and disposed between the first region and the second region. Applying a plurality of voltage potentials to the memory cells may further include applying a fourth voltage potential to a third region of the memory cell via a respective carrier injection line of the array. |
| US08411519B2 |
Selective retirement of blocks
Systems and methods are provided for selectively retiring blocks based on refresh events of those blocks. In addition to refresh events, other criteria may be applied in making a decision whether to retire a block. By applying the criteria, the system is able to selectively retire blocks that may otherwise continue to be refreshed. |
| US08411517B2 |
Delay locked loop circuit including delay line with reduced sensitivity to variation in PVT
A delay locked loop circuit is disclosed. The circuit includes a phase detector for comparing the phase of an input clock signal with the phase of a feedback clock signal that is fed back into the phase detector, and for outputting a detection signal. The circuit also includes a control circuit unit for controlling a delay line in response to the detection signal, a delay line for delaying the input clock by a predetermined amount of delay in response to output impedance calibration codes applied to the delay line, and a replica circuit configured to have the same delay conditions as those of an actual clock path to a circuit of the semiconductor device, to receive a delay clock signal of the delay line, and to generate the feedback clock signal. |
| US08411513B2 |
Techniques for providing a semiconductor memory device having hierarchical bit lines
Techniques for providing a semiconductor memory device having hierarchical bit lines are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a semiconductor memory device including a plurality of memory cells and a plurality of local bit lines coupled directly to the plurality of memory cells. The semiconductor memory device may also include a multiplexer coupled to the plurality of local bit lines and a global bit line coupled to the multiplexer. |
| US08411510B2 |
Flash memory device, memory system and method of operating the same
A memory system includes a memory device and a data converting device. The memory device includes a memory cell array which includes a plurality of memory cells. The data converting device includes an encoding device. The encoding device converts input data into converted data by changing a bandwidth corresponding to the input data, and provides the converted data to the memory device. Accordingly, the memory system is capable of improving the reliability of programmed data by changing the bandwidth corresponding to data to be programmed. A method of storing data in a memory system is also disclosed. |
| US08411503B2 |
Method of operating semiconductor memory device
A method of operating a semiconductor memory device includes applying a program pass voltage to unselected word lines, applying a program voltage of a third level to a selected word line in order to raise threshold voltages of third memory cells, decreasing a level of the program voltage from the third level to a second level and discharging channel regions of second cell strings including second memory cells in order to raise threshold voltages of second memory cells, and decreasing a level of the program voltage from the second level to a first level and discharging channel regions of first cell strings including first memory cells in order to raise threshold voltages of first memory cells. The cell strings are disconnected from a bit line while a voltage level of the unselected word lines rises to a level of the program pass voltage. |
| US08411499B2 |
Recording method for magnetic memory device
[Object] To provide a recording method for a magnetic memory device including a recording layer that is capable of changing a magnetization direction and holds information as a magnetization direction of a magnetic body and a magnetization reference layer that is provided with respect to the recording layer with an insulation layer interposed therebetween and becomes a reference of the magnetization direction, the magnetic memory device being recorded with information by a current flowing between the recording layer and the magnetization reference layer via the insulation layer, the recording method being capable of maintaining, even when a write pulse considerably higher than an inversion threshold value is applied, a write error rate of 10−25 or less that is obtained when a write pulse a little larger than the inversion threshold value is applied.[Solving Means] While taking time of 2 ns or more, write power injected at a time a write pulse falls is reduced gradually. At this time, it is favorable to keep a rate of decline of a voltage of the write pulse at the time of the fall small until the voltage of the write pulse at the time of the fall becomes smaller than an inversion threshold voltage of the magnetic memory device. |
| US08411488B2 |
Nonvolatile semiconductor memory device
A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array for storing user data provided by arranging memory cells each having a variable resistive element having a first electrode, a second electrode, and a variable resistor made of a metal oxide sandwiched between the first and second electrodes. The first and second electrodes are formed of a conductive material forming ohmic junction with the variable resistor and a conductive material forming non-ohmic junction with the variable resistor, respectively. The variable resistor changes between two or more different resistance states by applying a voltage between the electrodes. The resistance state after being changed is maintained in a nonvolatile manner. The variable resistive elements of all memory cells in the memory cell array are set to the highest of the two or more different resistance states in an unused state before the memory cell array is used to store the user data. |
| US08411482B2 |
Programmable read only memory
A memory cell includes a fuse and at least one transistor. The transistor is used to control the programming or sensing of the fuse. A program voltage is applied to a stack of first and second conductive layers. A first portion of the stack couples the program voltage to a terminal of the transistor in a cell. A second portion of the stack couples the program voltage to a terminal of the transistor in another cell. |
| US08411478B2 |
Three-dimensional stacked semiconductor integrated circuit
Various embodiments of a three-dimensional, stacked semiconductor integrated circuit are disclosed. In one exemplary embodiment, the circuit may include a master slice, a plurality of slave slices, and a plurality of through-silicon vias for connecting the master slice to the plurality of slave slices. At least one of the plurality of through-silicon vias may be configured to transmit an operation control signal from the master slice to the plurality of slave slices. The at least one of the plurality of through-silicon vias is configured to be shared by the plurality of slave slices. |
| US08411473B2 |
Three-phase power supply with three-phase three-level DC/DC converter
A three-phase power supply with a three-phase three-level DC/DC converter includes a full-bridge thyristor converter with three-set four in-series power switch elements, a three-phase isolated transformer, a full-bridge rectifier, a rectifying circuit, and a low-pass filtering circuit. The three-phase power supply is used to deliver power energy from the AC input voltage to the load. The power switch elements, which separated to each other at 120-degree phase differences, are controlled through a phase shift scheme. Therefore, the three-level circuit structure is provided to reduce withstanding voltage of the power switch elements, further the zero-voltage switching (ZVS) is achieved by the isolated transformer and the power switch elements to increase the efficiency of the DC/DC converter. |
| US08411470B2 |
Synchronous rectification control device, method for synchronous rectification control, and insulated type switching power supply
A synchronous rectification control device achieves high power conversion efficiency without supplying additional signal to a secondary side from a primary side. An insulated type switching power supply provides such a synchronous rectification control device. An output power is regulated based on a phase difference between two half bridges in the primary side. In the secondary side of the full bridge converter circuit, a center tap is lead out from the secondary windings of a transformer to obtain two symmetrical sections of windings. A device for detecting winding voltage observes winding voltages at terminals of the sections of windings. The synchronous rectification control circuit controls transistors and MOSFETs connected to the secondary windings to make the transistor in the ON or OFF state depending on the current flow in the secondary windings. |
| US08411467B2 |
Ultra-low voltage boost circuit
A circuit for boosting the voltage from a very low level voltage source to a higher level voltage output utilizing self-oscillation. |
| US08411462B2 |
Noise reduction apparatus of mobile terminal
A noise reduction apparatus of a mobile terminal improves reception sensitivity by creating a electrical closed loop. The mobile terminal has a main circuit board and a slide hinge. The mobile terminal also includes a flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) that includes a first end coupled to the main circuit board and a second end fixed and coupled to a portion of an upper surface of the slide hinge. A noise reduction apparatus is installed between the main circuit board and the slide hinge to form an electronic closed loop that includes the main circuit board, the FPCB, the slide hinge, and the noise reduction apparatus. Noise is reduced by inducing noise abandoned to a slide hinge through a FPCB to an electrical close loop formed by the noise reduction apparatus, thereby improving reception sensitivity. |
| US08411453B2 |
Motherboard fixing device and computer having same
An exemplary motherboard fixing device is for fixing a motherboard onto a case plate inside a computer case. The motherboard fixing device is fixable on the case plate, and includes a first fixing strip and a second fixing strip. The first fixing strip includes a first, second, and third flat plates. The second flat plate is between the first and third flat plates. The first and second flat plates cooperatively define a slide groove for receiving an edge of the motherboard. The second fixing strip includes a bottom plate and a lateral plate. The third flat plate and the bottom plate include first latch hooks. The first latch hooks is engagable in corresponding through holes of the case plate, such that the first and second fixing strips are fixed on the case plate. The lateral plate includes second latch hooks for being latchable on an opposite edge of the motherboard. |
| US08411448B2 |
Security protection device and method
A security protection device includes a cover circuit board, at least one inner wiring layer being included within the cover circuit board. The device also includes a base circuit board, at least one inner wiring layer being included within the base circuit board. The device further includes a security frame between the base circuit board and the cover circuit board, at least one electrically conductive wire being wound and included within the security frame to form at least one winding protection layer around sides of the security frame. The cover circuit board, the security frame, and the base circuit board form an enclosure enclosing a security zone, and the at least one inner wiring layer within the cover circuit board, the at least one inner wiring layer within the base circuit board, and the at least one electrically conductive wire within the security frame are connectable to a security mechanism configured to detect an intrusion into the security zone. |
| US08411433B2 |
Flat panel display device
In a flat panel display device according to the present invention, a stand is made up of a base part and a supporting column part erected on the base part, and the stand is fastened to a device main body in a state where a front surface of the supporting column part of the stand opposes a rear surface of the device main body. An approximately horizontal receiving surface for receiving a bottom surface of the device main body is formed more forward than the front surface on the supporting column part of the stand. |
| US08411431B2 |
Electronic device having heat dissipation airflow path
An exemplary electronic device includes a cover, a motherboard and a driving module both disposed at an inner side of the cover, an electronic component fixed on the motherboard, and a fan duct mounted on the motherboard and covering the electronic component. The driving module has a rotating shaft for supportively driving an optical disk rotating. The fan duct guides hot air therein toward the driving module. |
| US08411430B2 |
EMI shielding device and fixing apparatus for hard disk drive having same
An electromagnetic interference shielding device includes a frame, two first shielding members, and two second shielding members. The first shielding members respectively extend forwards from top and bottom sides of the frame. Each first shielding member includes an elongated first plate, and a number of longitudinally spaced first engaging portions protruding from an outer side of the first plate. The second shielding members are slidably and respectively coupled to front sides of the first shielding members. Each second shielding member includes an elongated second plate, and a number of longitudinally spaced second engaging portions protruding from an outer side of the second plate. The second shielding members are slid relative to the corresponding first shielding members, to allow the second engaging portions of the second shielding members to respectively align with or stagger from the first engaging portions of the corresponding first shielding members. |
| US08411428B2 |
Portable storage device
A portable storage device includes a case, a USB plug, a sliding button, a delete button, a controller and a memory module. The delete button is electrically coupled with the controller. Data stored in the device can be deleted through operation of the delete button without a host device. |
| US08411426B2 |
Information processing device and display device
An information processing device has: a support stand having a base that lies flat and a pole that stands on the base; a processing unit that performs data processing; a display panel that displays an image; and a storage unit that stores information. The device further has an adaptor that supports the processing unit and the storage unit, when the adaptor is attached to the support stand. The adaptor also supports the display panel such that the processing unit and the storage unit are hidden behind the display panel. |
| US08411422B2 |
Resin overcap provided with IC tag
[Problem] To provide a resin overcap provided with an IC tag that can be used as an overcap being fitted onto a metal cap and having an IC tag that is so provided that the transmission and reception of signals will not be disturbed by the metal cap.[Means for Solution] A resin overcap used being fitted onto a metal cap, comprising a top panel and a cylindrical side wall hanging down from the circumferential edge of the top panel and in which the metal cap is fitted, wherein a step or a protrusion is formed on an upper portion on the inner surface of the cylindrical side wall to prevent the upward motion of the metal cap fitted in the cylindrical side wall, and an IC tag provided with an IC chip is mounted on the top panel in a manner of maintaining a predetermined distance D to a top plate of the metal cap fitted into the cylindrical side wall. |
| US08411417B2 |
Solid electrolytic condenser with enhanced volumetric efficiency
A solid electrolytic condenser includes a condenser element, an anode wire including one end inserted into the condenser element, a cathode drawing layer formed on outer side of the condenser element, terminal reinforcements arranged respectively under opposite side portions of a bottom surface of the condenser element, a liquid epoxy resin filled in spaces between the terminal reinforcements and between the bottom surface of the condenser element and top surfaces of the terminal reinforcements, a molding part surrounding the condenser element while exposing the other end of the anode wire, an end portion of the cathode drawing layer, and bottom surfaces of the terminal reinforcements, and anode and cathode terminals formed by a plating layer provided on the bottom surfaces of the terminal reinforcements and on opposite side surfaces of the molding part. The liquid epoxy resin includes fillers of a smaller size than those in the molding part. |
| US08411409B2 |
Ceramic electronic component and manufacturing method therefor
When an external terminal electrode of a ceramic electronic component such as a laminated ceramic capacitor is formed by plating, plating growth may be also caused even in an undesired location. The ceramic surface provided by a component main body is configured to include a high plating growth region of, for example, a barium titanate based ceramic, which exhibits relatively high plating growth, and a low plating growth region of, for example, a calcium zirconate based ceramic, which exhibits relatively low plating growth. The plating film constituting a first layer to define a base for an external terminal electrode is formed in such a way that the growth of a plated deposit deposited with conductive surfaces provided by exposed ends of internal electrodes as starting points is limited so as not to cross over a boundary between the high plating growth region and the low plating growth region toward the low plating growth region. |
| US08411401B2 |
Method for current conditioning, in particular on a fault current limiter
A method for current conditioning, comprising transporting a primary current (1) through a primary coil (2), coupling a secondary coil (3) to the primary coil (2) via a common magnetic flux, wherein the secondary coil (3) comprises a superconductor capable of quenching, with the quenching causing a transition of the superconductor from a low resistance superconducting state to a high resistance quenched state, and in the low resistance superconducting state of the secondary coil (3), guiding a major fraction (8) of the common magnetic flux of the primary coil (2) and the secondary coil (3) within a ferromagnetic medium (5a), is characterized by upon quenching, switching the common magnetic flux such that a major fraction (17) of the common magnetic flux is guided outside the ferromagnetic medium (5a) in the high resistance quenched state of the superconductor. An economic and efficient method for current conditioning is thereby provided which reduces harmonic distortions. |
| US08411397B2 |
Power supply apparatus and method
A power supply apparatus and method are provided. A conversion component outputs a first current having a predetermined phase region, an output component outputs a load voltage, a sense component senses a second current value, and a switch element allows current to flow in a first state and impedes current in a second state. The switch element changes between states based on a drive signal forcing the switch into the second state when the first current is in the predetermined phase region and the second current value exceeds a threshold indicating an overcurrent condition. A region determination circuit determines whether the first current is in the predetermined phase region and produces a phase region signal. An overcurrent detection circuit senses the second current value, determines whether it exceeds an overcurrent condition threshold, and produces an overcurrent signal. A protection circuit causes the drive circuit to switch the drive signal. |
| US08411396B2 |
Preventing metal oxide varistor (MOV) from releasing smoke, smell, and/or sound
A system includes an electrical component, a MOV, a voltage sensor, and a circuit. The MOV is connected in parallel to the electrical component. The voltage sensor detects a voltage over the MOV and the electrical component. The circuit removes power in response to the voltage sensor detecting the voltage over the MOV and the electrical component being greater than a threshold voltage for a length of time greater than a threshold length of time. Removing power prevents the MOV from releasing one or more of smoke, smell, and sound. The MOV is thus not damaged as a result of a power surge. The system may be a power supply, or another type of electrical system. The electrical component may be a capacitor, or another type of electrical component. |
| US08411389B1 |
Disk drive fluid dynamic bearing spindle
Described herein is a disk drive with a fluid bearing having a sleeve defining a bore that extends through a portion of the sleeve along an axis defined by the bore. The sleeve can have a first contact surface that extends in a direction transverse to the axis. A spindle is rotationally received within the bore, and the spindle and the sleeve permit relative rotational movement when the spindle is positioned within the bore. The spindle has a stopper with a second contact surface that extends in a direction transverse to the axis when the spindle is positioned within the bore. A portion of at least one of the first and second contact surfaces includes a softer material than that of the spindle and the bearing sleeve, and the first and second contact surfaces are configured to engage each other upon relative axial movement between the spindle and the sleeve. |
| US08411376B2 |
Imaging lens
An imaging lens includes an aperture stop, a positive first lens with a biconvex shape, a negative second lens; a negative third lens, a positive fourth lens, and a negative fifth lens arranged in this order from an object side. When the whole lens system has a focal length f, focal lengths and Abbe's numbers of the first and the second lenses are f1, νd1, f2, and νd2, focal lengths of the fourth and fifth lenses are f4 and f5, a composite focal length of the first lens L1 and the second lens L2 is f12, and a distance from a surface of the first lens L1 on the object side to a surface of the fifth lens L5 on the image side is Σd, the imaging lens satisfies the following conditional expressions: 0.7 |
| US08411375B2 |
Method and apparatus providing gradient index of refraction lens for image sensors
A lens and its method of making. The lens includes a material having a lower index of refraction and a material having a higher index of refraction arranged in a pattern such that the lens has a gradient effective index of refraction. |
| US08411365B2 |
Image-pickup display device having optical element provided with diffraction element portion
An image-pickup display device includes an optical system which guides lights from a display element 1 to an exit pupil 3 and from an external to an image-pickup element 2. The optical system includes an optical element 10 which is filled with a medium having a refractive index larger than 1. The optical element includes a first surface 7 at an external side and includes a diffraction element portion 13. The optical system guides the light from the display element to the exit pupil via reflection on a second surface 5 and the first surface and via transmission on the second surface, and diffracts the light from the external in the diffraction element portion to be transmitted through the first surface to enter the optical element, and is reflected on the second surface to be transmitted through a third surface 5 to be guided to the image-pickup element. |
| US08411355B2 |
Reflective optical element and method of manufacturing the same
A reflective optical element e.g. for use in EUV lithography, configured for an operating wavelength in the soft X-ray or extreme ultraviolet wavelength range, includes a multilayer system (20) with respective layers of at least two alternating materials (21, 22) having differing real parts of the refractive index at the operating wavelength. Preferably, at least at an interface from the material (21) having the higher real part of the refractive index to the material (22) having the lower real part of the refractive index, a further layer (23) of a nitride or a carbide of the material (22) having the lower real part is arranged. Particularly preferably the material (22) having the lower real part of the refractive index is lanthanum or thorium. Preferably, the layers (21, 22, 23) of at least one material are applied in a plasma-based process for manufacturing a reflective optical element as described. |
| US08411341B2 |
Actuator, optical scanner, and image forming device
An actuator includes: a first oscillatory system including a frame-shaped driving member and a pair of first axial members holding the driving member from both ends so as to allow the driving member to rotate around an X-axis; a second oscillatory system including a movable plate provided inside the driving member and a pair of second axial members holding the movable plate to the driving member from both ends so as to allow the movable plate to rotate around a Y-axis perpendicular to the X axis; and a driving unit including a permanent magnet provided on the driving member, a coil provided so as to face the permanent magnet, a voltage applying unit applying a voltage to the coil, and the permanent magnet has a relief section to avoid making contact with the movable plate. |
| US08411338B2 |
Image's chromatism correction apparatus
A reference pixel PB is specified for a specified pixel P0 whose (luminance) value is below a threshold, for example, in the RGB data obtained in image pickup. The reference pixel PB should be on a straight line passing through the specified pixel P0 and the center O of the image and spaced from the specified pixel P0 by a distance, dr, depending on a reduction or expansion rate of a blue component (or B) image of the optical image corresponding to an optical zoom magnification in the image pickup. Only when the B value of the specified pixel P0 is greater than that of the reference pixel PB, the B value of the specified pixel P0 is replaced with that of the reference pixel PB. By expanding or reducing the blue component image alone for the original RGB data, image data is obtained in which the magnification chromatism is corrected. Thus, a chromatism correction apparatus that corrects a chromatism in the picked-up image without using a special lens in the optical system, and a program for use in implementing such apparatus are provided. |
| US08411336B2 |
Image reader, image forming device having the same, and computer-readable storage medium for the same
An image reader is provided, which includes a feeder feeding a document sheet, a first reading sensor, a first reference member, a moving mechanism moving the first reading sensor to a document reading position to read an image of the document sheet and a reference reading position to read an image of the first reference member, and a controller that controls the moving mechanism to move the first reading sensor to the reference reading position, controls the first reading sensor to read the image of the first reference member, and controls the moving mechanism to move the first reading sensor to the document reading position after the first reading sensor reads the image of the first reference member. The controller controls the feeder to start feeding the document sheet to the document reading position before the first reading sensor reaches the document reading position from the reference reading position. |
| US08411334B2 |
Paper-sheet recognition apparatus
A paper-sheet recognition apparatus includes a base plate; and one or a plurality of line sensors engaged in the base plate. An engaging portion between the line sensor and the base plate has a concave-convex engaging structure in which a concave-convex portion provided in the line sensor and a concave-convex portion provided in the base plate are engaged with each other, a convex portion of the concave-convex portion provided in the line sensor has the same size as a convex portion of the concave-convex portion provided in the base plate in the direction perpendicular to the paper-sheet transport direction, each of the concave-convex portions is formed having an inclined surface that extends downwardly from a horizontal plane, and edges of end faces of the concave-convex portions and boundaries between a horizontal plane of the base plate and the inclined surfaces of the concave-convex portions are round chamfered. |
| US08411321B2 |
Printing apparatus, layout adjustment method, program and recording medium
Disclosed is a printing apparatus including an image input unit, a first image narrowing unit, and gives a high weight for image data photographed during a time period in which the number of shots is large, a second image narrowing unit, and gives a high weight for image data photographed during a time period in which the number of shots is large, a weight synthesis unit, a layout decision unit, an image data extraction unit, an image assignment unit, an image color determination unit, and an additional information adjustment unit. The first image narrowing unit counts a group of a plurality of image data photographed at a predetermined time under a specific setting as one group including a number of shots, and calculates the number of shots for each predetermined time period based on the shooting date and time of the image data. |
| US08411314B2 |
Image forming apparatus for forming an image by transferring an image onto an intermediate transfer member, image forming method, and storage medium
Controlling an image forming apparatus includes transferring an image of a first page onto an intermediate transfer member, determining whether the image of a second page, which follows, can be transferred side by side with the image of the first page during a time period in which the intermediate transfer member is rotated to a transfer position for the image of the second page, controlling, if a result of the determination is negative and predetermined information has been received, the image of the second page to be transferred side by side with the image of the first page after rotating the intermediate transfer member at least one revolution, and controlling, if the predetermined information has not been received, the transferred image of the first page to be transferred onto the sheet, without transferring the image of the second page side by side with the transferred image of the first page. |
| US08411310B2 |
Methods and systems for scanning and processing an image using the error diffusion screening technology
Disclosed is a method for scanning and processing an image using the error diffusion screening technology, comprising: (1) scanning each pixel Mi of an nth line in an original image one by one and then storing a scanning result of the pixel Mi to an ith storage location; and (2) processing the stored result of the pixel Mi by using error diffusion and scanning pixels of an n+1th line in the original image until all pixels of the nth line have been processed and all pixels in the n+1th line have been scanned and stored, wherein once processing for the pixel Mi is completed, a scanning result of a pixel of the n+1th line is stored to the ith storage location previously occupied by the pixel Mi. Based on the method, the capacity for storing is only required to be able to store the data of one line in an image in the scanning direction, which saves the storage for bidirectional scanning. The method can optimize the hardware used to implement error diffusion and improve the operating efficiency. Also disclosed is a system for achieving the method. |
| US08411305B2 |
System and method for identifying a record template within a file having reused objects
A system and method is disclosed for identifying a record template within a file having reused objects. The method discloses: identifying, in the input file, a reused object and a set of pages upon which the reused object is located; computing a page distance between at least two adjacent instances of the reused object; generating an object recurrence pattern for the reused object; and reconstructing a record template, based on the object recurrence pattern, thereby identifying the records in the input file. The system discloses a processor, a profiler module, a pattern identification module, and a template reconstruction module for effecting the method. |
| US08411303B2 |
Method and system for tracking data based on governance rules and policies
A method and system suitable for controlling output capabilities of a plurality of multifunction devices (MFDs), including a data module for analyzing data related to a plurality of tasks sent to the plurality of MFDs by a plurality of users; and a storage station for storing the data gathered from the plurality of tasks sent to the plurality of MFDs; wherein the data is analyzed based on preexisting output governance rules related to the plurality of users and the plurality of MFDs. |
| US08411302B2 |
Printing system, printing apparatus and print control method therefor
When an instruction to transfer a print job, which has been issued from a print data source to Device A, to Device B is made, a transfer request for the job is issued from Device A to Device B (1502). Device B then spools the transfer request in a print queue and issues a job data transmission request for the print job to Device A at a timing at which Device B can execute the transfer request (1503). In response to the transmission request, Device A transmits job data to Device B (1504), and Device B prints the job data (1505). Through this, an unnecessary transfer of job data from a device to another device can be eliminated, and thus throughput during transfer of job data is improved. |
| US08411290B2 |
User interface apparatus, image processing apparatus, and computer program product
In a user interface apparatus, when a selected position of a to-be-processed image displayed on a display screen is detected through an area detecting unit, a menu display unit displays, in response to the detection of the selected position on the to-be-processed image, a link to at least one setting item being displayed in response to the selected position, the at least one setting item corresponding to a setting available for a setting area which corresponds to the selected position, where an order of display priority of the at least one setting item is determined by a size of the setting area. A determining unit determines that the setting item is specified, and an accepting unit accepts the setting corresponding to the setting item for the to-be-processed image. A preview display unit displays a preview indicating a result of processing the to-be-processed image based on the setting item. |
| US08411288B2 |
Method and a device for measuring the edge of optical lenses
A method and an arrangement for determining the coordinates K of at least one point P1 on an edge of an optical lens, wherein the lens is held/can be positioned, by a retaining device, with the edge which is to be measured in an optical path of an optical micrometer, whereby the lens is held/can be positioned with the edge in the optical path, a coordinate Za is determined for the point P1, a variation of the relative position between the lens and the optical path is made, which is based on a pivotal axis S, a coordinate Zb is determined in the new position B for the point P1, and the coordinates Ya and Yb are determined. |
| US08411287B2 |
Metrology method and apparatus, lithographic apparatus, device manufacturing method and substrate
A metrology apparatus is arranged to illuminate a plurality of targets with an off-axis illumination mode. Images of the targets are obtained using only one first order diffracted beam. Where the target is a composite grating, overlay measurements can be obtained from the intensities of the images of the different gratings. Overlay measurements can be corrected for errors caused by variations in the position of the gratings in an image field. |
| US08411279B2 |
Remote seismic surveying systems and methods
Remote seismic surveying systems and methods are disclosed. At least some embodiments illuminate a water or ground surface with a beam from a coherent electromagnetic wave source. Reflected electromagnetic energy is focused onto an image plane where it combines with a reference beam to form an interference pattern. Electronics track the intensity versus time for multiple points in the image and derive displacement signals for various physical locations in the survey region. These displacement signals are associated with seismic source firing times and locations before being stored as seismic traces in a survey database. Some variations use the reflected electromagnetic energy to create multiple interference patterns that vary due to different path length differences, thereby eliminating signal phase ambiguities. |
| US08411267B2 |
Polarimetric hyperspectral imager
A hyperspectral sensor or imager comprising a laser for illuminating a scene and a detector for detecting light emitted by the laser and transmitted through the scene, wherein the laser is a chirped laser arranged to output multiple pulses having different wavelength ranges, the multiple pulses being used to form an extended continuous spectrum for illuminating the scene. |
| US08411262B2 |
Downhole gas breakout sensor
A downhole fluid analysis tool has a housing and a flow passage for downhole fluid. A device disposed in the tool housing relative to the flow passage has a one or more sources, one or more sensing optics, one or more detectors, and control circuitry. The source generates an input signal. The sensing optic has a refractive index (RI) higher than crude oil and other expected constituents. A sensing surface of the optic optically coupled to the source interfaces with a downhole fluid. When the variable RI of the downhole fluid reaches a defined relationship to the optic's RI, the input signal interacting with the sensing surface experiences total internal reflection, and the reflected signal from the sensing surface remains in the sensing optic and reflects to a detector. The control circuitry monitors the detector's response and indicates gas break out if the response is above a threshold. |
| US08411261B2 |
System for determining the length of an optical fiber unwound from/remaining on a storage reel particularly housed in an underwater weapon
A system is provided that determines the length of an optical fiber unwound from or remaining on at least one storage reel. The fiber is used as a medium for transmitting information between a weapon and an underwater vehicle, from which the weapon was fired. The determination system measures the backscattered light power in the fiber, analyzes this power signal in order to detect a backscattered light power discontinuity that corresponds to the location of the fiber where the fiber leaves the reel, localizes this location along the fiber, and determines from this localization and from the length of fiber initially wound on the reel, the length of fiber unwound from or remaining on the reel. |
| US08411259B2 |
Optical time-domain reflectometer
A optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR) which sends and receives pulses for multiple frequencies down a fiber under testing (FUT). These frequencies can include frequencies for testing a live FUT and frequencies for testing a dark FUT. The pulses of the various frequencies are sent and received through a single optical connection with the FUT. The number of connections necessary to test the fiber is thus reduced. The OTDR may also include a built in passive optical network (PON) power meter, which measures the power level of the fiber over the same single optical connection. |
| US08411257B2 |
Folded path laser rangefinder architecture and technique incorporating a single circuit board for mounting of both laser emitting and detecting elements
A handheld, folded-path, laser rangefinder architecture and technique incorporating a single circuit board for mounting of both the laser emitting and detecting elements is disclosed. The architecture disclosed provides an efficient and low cost design for a laser rangefinder, and by eliminating the conventional provision of separate circuit boards for the laser transmitting and receiving elements, reduces the overall size of the unit and its cost of manufacture by concomitantly eliminating unnecessary interconnecting cables and the like. |
| US08411255B2 |
Pattern forming method
A method of forming a pattern with dots or holes arranged in a two-dimensional period by illuminating, with illumination light, a mask having a light-shielding portion pattern on a translucent substrate, and performing projection and exposure of an object to be exposed through a projection optical system. The illumination light is an effective light source of multipole illumination. A first exposure process is performed with the mask placed at a first position relative to the object to be exposed, and a second exposure process is performed with the mask placed at a second position. The mask has line patterns having lines with a line width a [m] arranged in parallel at a pitch of P. The line patterns are arranged in a mesh such that the line patterns intersect one another at 60° in three directions, and the illumination light is an effective light source of hexapole illumination. The second exposure process is performed, after the first exposure process, with the mask placed at a second position displaced from the first position by 2P/3 [m] in a direction perpendicular to any line of the line patterns. A third exposure process is performed, after the second exposure process, with the mask placed at a third position further displaced from the second position by 2P/3 [m] in the direction, to thereby form a dot pattern in a two-dimensional period having a pitch of P/3 [m]. |
| US08411252B2 |
Lithographic apparatus and device manufacturing method utilizing a substrate handler
A substrate handler is provided. The substrate handler includes a support surface configured to carry a substrate and a pre-conditioning unit configured to pre-condition the substrate. The substrate handler is configured to move the substrate relative to a substrate table. |
| US08411249B2 |
Surface position detecting apparatus, exposure apparatus, surface position detecting method, and device manufacturing method
An apparatus is provided with a light-sending optical system which makes first light from a first pattern and second light from a second pattern incident to a predetermined surface to project intermediate images of the first and second patterns onto the predetermined surface respectively; a light-receiving optical system which guides the first and second light reflected on the predetermined surface, to first and second observation surfaces to form observation images of the first and second patterns, respectively; and a detecting section which detects position information of the observation images of the first and second patterns on the first and second observation surfaces respectively and which calculates a surface position of the predetermined surface, based on the position information. The light-sending optical system projects the intermediate image of the second pattern as an inverted image in a predetermined direction relative to the intermediate image of the first pattern. |
| US08411246B2 |
Resist coating and developing apparatus and method
A resist coating/developing apparatus includes: a resist film-forming unit configured to apply a resist onto a substrate to form thereon a resist film; a resist developing unit configured to develop the resist film after exposure to pattern the resist film; a solvent gas generator configured to generate a solvent gas containing a vapor of a solvent having a property of dissolving the resist film; a solvent gas conditioner connected to the solvent gas generator and configured to condition the solvent gas generated in the solvent gas generator; a processing chamber configured to house the substrate having thereon the resist film which has been developed and patterned in the resist developing unit, and connected to the solvent gas conditioner so that the solvent gas, which has been conditioned in the solvent gas conditioning section, is supplied to the substrate housed in the processing chamber; and an exhaust system connected to the processing chamber to evacuate the processing chamber to a reduced pressure. |
| US08411243B2 |
Display device
A display device is provided and includes pixel electrodes, each including a plurality of electrode sections which are arranged parallel to each other. Each electrode section is bent approximately in the middle along its extension direction in plan view. The pixel electrodes include a center connection portion adapted to connect together the electrode sections at their bent portions, and include end connection portions adapted to connect together the electrode sections at their end portions, and include protruding portions each of which is formed by extending the end connection portion in such a manner as to protrude from the arranged electrode sections. The display device also includes a substrate on which the pixel electrodes are arranged, an opposed substrate provided to face the side of the substrate on which the pixel electrodes are formed, and a liquid crystal layer filled and sealed between the substrate and opposed substrate. |
| US08411241B2 |
Liquid crystal display device
A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate. The first substrate includes a sheet-like first electrode formed of a transparent conductive film, a first insulator formed to cover the sheet-like first electrode, a plurality of linear second electrodes formed by a transparent conductive film on the first insulator so as to overlap the sheet-like first electrode, and a second insulator formed on the first insulator so as to cover the plurality of linear second electrodes. The first substrate and the second substrate interpose liquid crystal therebetween and are arranged to be opposed to each other. The sheet-like first electrode, the first insulator, and the plurality of linear second electrodes are provided in a pixel region on a surface of the first substrate of a side of the liquid crystal. The second insulator is made of the same material as the first insulator. |
| US08411237B2 |
Liquid crystal device, method of manufacturing liquid crystal device, and electronic apparatus
A liquid crystal device includes display pixels corresponding to at least a color of white or non-coloring and one color different from the color of white or non-coloring. Each of the display pixels corresponding to one color have a transmissive region and a reflective region. Each of the display pixels corresponding to the color of white or non-coloring have only a transmissive region. Colored layers are provided in the display pixels that correspond to one color, and cell-thickness-adjusting layers are included in the reflective region of each of the display pixels corresponding to one color and the transmissive region of each of the display pixels corresponding to the color of white or non-coloring. For the display pixels corresponding to one color, a thickness of a layer crystal layer corresponding to the transmissive region is larger than a thickness of the liquid crystal layer that corresponds to the reflective region. |
| US08411228B2 |
Light emitting module, backlight unit and liquid crystal display device
A plurality of LEDs (12) include an LED group (12G) wherein the LEDs are arranged in a row, and at least one LED (12T) not in the row. The position of the LED group (12G) in a row on a light guide plate (41) is specified by bringing the LED (12T) into contact with the light guide plate (41). |
| US08411226B2 |
Flat panel display having integral housing
In a flat panel display having a first housing and a second housing, features of a frame and a plastic support and a top support, which support, position, and fix each component, are incorporated into the outer top and bottom case, such that no additional structure component is needed for the flat panel display. The first housing has supportive parts and side portions for assembling and supporting each component of the flat panel display and the second housing is then assembled to the first housing for completion of the assembling of the flat panel display. |
| US08411217B2 |
Active device array substrate with protecting electrostatic discharge circuit having switching devices
An active device array substrate including a substrate, a pixel array, pads, first switching devices, and second switching devices is provided. The pixel array is disposed on a display region of the substrate. The pads, the first and the second switching devices are disposed on a peripheral circuit region of the substrate. The pads and the pixel array are electrically connected. The first and the second switching devices are at the outside of the pads. Each first switching device is electrically connected to one of the pads and has a source, a drain, and a gate electrically connected to the source and the pad. Each second switching device is electrically connected to two adjacent first switching devices and has a gate, a source, and a drain. The source and the drain are electrically connected to the drain and the source of the adjacent first switching device, respectively. |
| US08411211B2 |
Projection type video display device
A projection type video display device is provided, which is capable of displaying a plurality of kinds of input videos with different aspect ratios without requiring cumbersome adjustment operations. The device includes a light source (11), a display element (13) for displaying a display video in a display area based on a video signal and modulating illumination light (12) from the light source based on the video signal to form an optical image (14), a projection lens (17) which includes a zoom lens (16) and a focus lens (15), for projecting the optical image on a screen (2), a lens drive part (23) for adjusting the position of the zoom lens and the position of the focus lens, and a projected video control part (31) for controlling a projected video (3) projected on the screen, and the projected video control part drives the lens drive part in accordance with the aspect ratio of the input video, based on the lens position information regarding the zoom lens and the lens position information regarding the focus lens, determined by the aspect ratio of the input video in the video signal. |
| US08411209B2 |
Display device and method for labeling AV signal input sources
A method for labeling input sources in a display device includes connecting to a plurality of input sources, at a plurality of input terminals within the display device, and then controlling display of a main input menu listing the input terminals and corresponding ones of the input sources. An image from one of the input sources or input terminals selected from the main input menu is displayed with a name of the input source and a name of the input terminal corresponding to the selection made from the main input menu. The main input menu may not be displayed when the image and names of the input source and input terminal are displayed. |
| US08411208B2 |
Attached device control on television event
A television includes at least two inputs and at least one connected device (component). Upon a system event such as changing from one input to another input, the television signals the at least one connected device to change at least one operating parameter of the device. |
| US08411195B2 |
Focus direction detection confidence system and method
An apparatus and method for determining confidence in focus direction detection, including the steps of capturing a plurality of images, calculating sets of matching errors and blur difference estimations relating to the images, capturing a plurality of object images; calculating sets of matching errors and blur difference estimations relating to the images, calculating a confidence indicator as a function of either the matching errors or blur difference estimations, and automatically adjusting a focus control element in response to said confidence indicator exceeding a threshold value. |
| US08411189B2 |
Multi-purpose architecture for CCD image sensors
A charge-coupled device (CCD) image sensor includes multiple vertical charge-coupled device (VCCD) shift registers and independently-controllable gate electrodes disposed over the VCCD shift registers and arranged into physically separate and distinct sections that are non-continuous across the plurality of VCCD shift registers. The CCD image sensor can be configured to operate in two or more operating modes, including a full resolution charge multiplication mode. |
| US08411183B2 |
Solid-state imaging device and driving method as well as electronic appartus
A solid-state imaging device includes: a CMOS image sensor including a plurality of pixels disposed in an array and each including a light reception element, a discharging unit, a charge accumulation section, a transfer unit, a reset unit, an amplification unit, and a selection unit; and a control unit adapted to generate a selection pulse for rendering the selection unit operative to control operation of the CMOS image sensor. |
| US08411181B2 |
Image pick-up apparatus for controlling generation of an electronic shutter pulse signal based on one of a detected brightness of an imaging object and an obtained current exposure value, and method and non-transitory computer readable recording medium therefor
The digital still camera 1 has CCD 33 with an electronic shutter for controlling an exposure amount, and a timing generator 34 and a vertical/horizontal driver 35 for driving CCD 33. Under control of a controlling unit 42, the timing generator 34 and a vertical/horizontal driver 35 generate an electronic shutter pulse signal once every time plural periods have come each for reading charge of one line from CCD 33. Power consumption can be reduced in controlling exposure using the electronic shutter. |
| US08411158B2 |
Image sensing apparatus and storage medium
An image sensing apparatus includes an image sensing unit which sequentially generates still image data, a holding unit which holds a plurality of still image data, a display unit which displays the still image data, a setting unit which sets a predetermined state as the start timing of shooting by the image sensing unit, a determination unit which determines whether the predetermined state has been obtained, a shooting control unit which causes the image sensing unit to start shooting when the determination unit determines that the predetermined state has been obtained, a display control unit which causes the display unit to sequentially display, at a display speed lower than an actual time, the still image data, a selection unit which selects one of a plurality of image data displayed on the display unit, and a recording unit which records the selected image data. |
| US08411157B2 |
Solid-state image pickup device and image pickup device
A solid-state image pickup device includes a pixel unit in which pixels are arranged in a two-dimensional manner, the pixels including a photoelectric conversion element, a charge holding unit, a transmission unit, and a first output unit and a second output unit; a second processing unit; and a control unit configured to control exposure of the pixels such that exposure periods for still images of all pixels constituting an area to be read are equal to one another, and control reading of the still image signal and reading of the moving image signal in units of fields, the all pixels constituting the area to be read being divided into a plurality of fields, in such a manner that the still image signal is to be read from both the first output unit and the second output unit in units of fields. |
| US08411150B2 |
Image processing apparatus, method of controlling the same, and storage medium
In an apparatus, object information and information on a transmission destination representing the transmission destination of image data are registered in correspondence with each other. An object in the image data is identified. The image data is transmitted to a transmission destination represented by information on a transmission destination corresponding to identified object information. The transmission status of the image data by a transmission unit is displayed on a display unit together with the image data. |
| US08411142B2 |
Intellectual surveillance system and monitoring method thereof
The present invention relates to an intellectual surveillance system and a monitoring method thereof. The intellectual surveillance system comprises a camera module and a terminal computer module, wherein the camera module is capable of monitoring and reacting various sudden situations, and then the camera module transmits images and messages of the situations to the terminal computer module through at least one BNC connector and at least one coaxial cable, further that, the terminal module is able to display the images and show a alert so as to complete a secure monitor without any RS-485 series communication port and digital IP camera. Besides, the intellectual surveillance system can control the actions of monitoring and reacting such situations automatically by using the monitoring method. |
| US08411136B2 |
Video display apparatus and video display method
In general, according to one embodiment, a video display apparatus includes a backlight, a signal processing module, a transmission-type display panel, and a lighting timing generation processing module. The signal processing module is configured to process an input video signal and output an output video signal for 2D display or 3D display. The transmission-type display panel is configured to control transmission of light supplied from the backlight according to the output video signal. The lighting timing generation processing module is configured to switch between a backlight lighting period for the 2D display and a backlight lighting period for the 3D display in such a manner that a time of a center of gravity of a figure formed by a response level-time curve in the backlight lighting period is later in the 3D display than in the 2D display. |
| US08411131B2 |
Portable pan-tilt camera and lighting unit for videoimaging, videoconferencing, production and recording
The present invention is a portable camera and lighting unit for standalone use in videography to create a high-resolution well-illuminated video feed from a vast array of camera angles and positions, the illumination source always inherently tracking with the camera. The unit may also be used as a satellite in combination with a primary video conferencing and production station (VVPR) for multi-camera production and teleconferencing capabilities. The portable camera and lighting unit includes a portable base, a mast extending upward from the base, and an articulating boom that is fully-pivotable and extendable. A remote control Pan-Tilt-Zoom camera is mounted at the end of the boom for overhead images of healthcare procedures, and an adjustable beam light source is mounted directly on the camera for lighting. The mast is equipped with a color monitor coupled to the camera for operator previewing at the portable unit, and the remote control camera provides a single video feed that can be teleconferenced, recorded, and even mixed with other cameras when used as a satellite adjunct to the primary VVPR, thereby allow full production capabilities for live interactive broadcasts, all in real time by a single operator from a single point of control. The portable unit is mobile and offers more diverse lighting and camera angles than previously possible. |
| US08411127B2 |
Method and apparatus for connecting video call in dual standby mobile communication terminal
A method and apparatus for video call connection in a dual standby mobile communication system are provided. A method for video call connection in a dual standby mobile communication terminal including a dual Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card includes, when a paging signal requesting a video call is received from a network, identifying a system in which a first SIM card corresponding to the video call is camping, and, when the first SIM card is camping in a 2nd Generation (2G) system, identifying a system in which a second SIM card is camping, and, when the second SIM card is camping in a 3rd Generation (3G) system, requesting the network to forward the video call to the second SIM card. |
| US08411126B2 |
Methods and systems for close proximity spatial audio rendering
Disclosed herein are multimedia-conferencing systems and methods enabling local participants to hear remote participants from the direction the remote participants are rendered on a display. In one aspect, a method includes a computing device receives a remote participant's image and sound information collected at a remote site. The remote participant's image is rendered on a display at a local site. When the local participant is in close proximity to the display, sounds generated by the remote participant are played over stereo loudspeakers so that the local participant perceives the sounds as emanating from the remote participant's location rendered on the display. |
| US08411120B2 |
Generation of color images
Methods for generating a color image are provided which include a multi-layer construction in which at least one of the layers is a thermally activatable layer that includes a thermally activatable composition. The thermally activatable composition includes a non-linear light to heat converter composition and a color forming compound. Upon activation with a light source an image forms. |
| US08411119B2 |
Printer module including movable blade module and fixed blade module
A printer module for use in a printer apparatus having a rotationally openable lid includes a fixed blade module having a fixed blade, a movable blade module having a movable blade and configured to be joined to the fixed blade module such that the movable blade and the fixed blade face each other, and a positioning unit configured to position the movable blade module relative to the fixed blade module such that an angle between the movable blade and the fixed blade becomes optimum upon joining the movable blade module to the fixed blade module, wherein the movable blade module is configured to be movable relative to the rotationally openable lid upon being mounted on the rotationally openable lid of the printer apparatus. |
| US08411116B2 |
Method, system and apparatus for power saving backlight
A method and system for displaying an image on a liquid crystal display (LCD) that may reduce power consumption. The method and system can include calculating a luminance for pixels in an image in a LCD based upon a light spread function and brightness values of light emitting diodes (LEDs). The method and system can also include changing a brightness of an LED based upon a consideration of the gray value of the pixels and the distance of the pixels from a dominant LED. The method and system can further set the brightness of the LED units to a brightness or brightness value substantially greater than or equal to a gray value of each pixel of the image. |
| US08411108B2 |
Rotational display system
The present invention provides a system which integrates unique lighting technologies, switching systems, mounting systems, information delivery systems and power supply systems within a support such as vehicular wheel to provide an advanced, high quality visual display apparatus in various surfaces of rotation. A displayed image may be three dimensional. These technologies, and their many unique applications, provide for a novel and useful series of video display devices that are small, lightweight, efficient and can have the capability of producing a clear, bright, high definition image that is equivalent to that of a modern day TV or high quality computer monitor. |
| US08411101B2 |
Preview data generating apparatus, method to generate preview data, and computer usable medium therefor
A preview data generating apparatus to generate preview data, which is used to display a preview image representing an image to be printed on a recording medium, in reflection of a color of the recording medium, is provided. The preview data generating apparatus includes a base color input unit to input a base color being the color of the recording medium, a print data input unit to input print data in a printable format, which is used to print the image, a data conversion unit to convert the print data into a displayable format suitable for a display device, and a base color incorporated data generating unit to generate the preview data representing the image to be printed by incorporating the displayable-formatted data and the base color. |
| US08411098B2 |
Display device modulation system
Arrangements and methods are provided that modulate various display device outputs in response to detected changes in environmental conditions affecting a display screen. The arrangement responds to changing environments to maximize the quality of the display. A sensor that is responsive to the changing environment, such as changes in ambient light, is provided to modulate the display accordingly. The arrangement contains logic for utilizing the sensing input and user preferences to provide the best display under the prevailing conditions. |
| US08411088B2 |
Accelerated ray tracing
Methods, systems and computer program code (software) products executable in a computer processor element include computing, in the processor element, a minimal axis-aligned bounding box of the intersection of a given axis-aligned bounding box and a triangle under linear motion, and/or traversing, in the processor element, a ray tracing acceleration hierarchy for a given set of rays, wherein the traversing includes computing decisions for a representative form of the rays, without requiring a traversing of all rays in turn. |
| US08411085B2 |
Constructing view compositions for domain-specific environments
Visual items may each be constructed and placed in position using logic defined by a view component corresponding to each visual item, where that logic may depend on one or more values populated into parameter(s) of the view component. Some of those parameter values may correspond to known model parameter values. Others, however, may have been solved for using a model that defines analytical relationships between the model parameters. In one embodiment, which of the model parameters are known, and which are unknown, may not be predetermined. Accordingly, a solver might be prepared for multiple solve operation paths even using a single model. The view composition process may be entirely data-driven, and may include a mechanism for canonicalizing input data, and binding canonicalized input data to the model parameters. The view composition framework may operate the same regardless of the domain. |
| US08411084B2 |
Analysis model generation program, analysis model generation apparatus, analysis model generating method, and method for manufacturing apparatus with analysis model generating method
A program stored in a storage medium directs a computer to perform the processes of: receiving a three-dimensional geometric model; referring to attribute information about fastening between the parts; extracting a fastening portion at which a first and second parts are fastened based on the attribute information and the three-dimensional geometric model; dividing each of the first and second parts into a first geometry in proximity of the fastening portion and one or more second geometries corresponding to a remaining portion in the three-dimensional geometric model; and with respect to each of the first geometries obtained by dividing the first and second parts respectively, referring to a parameter depending on the attribute information and a property value depending on a material of the part, calculating an equivalent property value reflecting fastening based on the parameter and the property value, and assigning the equivalent property value to the first geometry. |
| US08411081B2 |
Systems and methods for enhancing symmetry in 2D and 3D objects
Systems and methods for enhancing symmetry in 2D and 3D objects are disclosed. At least some embodiments include a computer-readable storage medium including software (executable on a processor) to symmetrize a modeled physical object that causes the processor to identify a plurality of clusters (each including a plurality of symmetric point pairs each derived from a plurality of sampled surface points of the object), and to calculate and apply each of a first plurality of displacement value pairs to corresponding sample positions of the symmetric point pairs within at least one cluster, increasing the symmetry of the cluster. The software further causes the processor to calculate a second plurality of displacement value pairs, to contract the cluster using the second plurality of displacement value pairs, to merge two or more clusters within the transformation space, and to present a graphical representation of the symmetrized modeled physical object to a user. |
| US08411079B2 |
Unit circuit, control method thereof, electronic device, electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus
A unit circuit includes a capacitive element having a first electrode, a second electrode, and a dielectric layer; a transistor having a gate electrode connected to the first electrode, a first terminal, and a second terminal connected to a driven element; a first switching element controlling electrical connection between the gate electrode of the transistor and the second terminal; and a second switching element connected to the second electrode. A potential of the first electrode is set to a predetermined potential higher by a threshold voltage of the transistor than a first potential by turning on the first switching element, and the potential of the first electrode is set to the first potential by supplying a first operation signal to the second electrode through the turned-on second switching element in a state that the first electrode is electrically isolated from the predetermined potential by turning off the first switching element. |
| US08411070B2 |
Infrared sensor integrated in a touch panel
An infrared source is configured to illuminate the underside of one or more objects on or above a touchable surface of a touch panel. Infrared light reflected from the underside of the object(s) is detected by an infrared sensor integrated in the touch panel below the touchable surface. |
| US08411068B2 |
Method for detecting users' pressing action and optical operating unit
A method for detecting users' pressing action is applied to an electronic apparatus which has at least an optical operating unit for an user to operate the electronic apparatus. The method includes the steps of detecting a deformation of a forcing object which forces the optical operating unit; and determining whether the user performs a pressing action according to a deformation degree of the forcing object. Further, an optical operating unit using the method is provided. |
| US08411066B2 |
High speed noise tolerant multi-touch touch device and controller therefor
A touch-sensitive device includes a touch panel, a drive unit, a sense unit, and a measurement unit. A touch applied to a node of the panel changes a capacitive coupling between two electrodes (a drive electrode and a sense electrode) of the touch panel. The drive unit delivers a drive signal, which may comprise one or more drive pulses, to the drive electrode. The sense unit couples to the sense electrode, and generates a response signal that includes a differentiated representation of the drive signal, which is then fed through a resistor. The amplitude of the response signal is responsive to the capacitive coupling between the electrodes, and is measured to provide an indication of a touch at the node. |
| US08411056B2 |
Apparatus and method for touch input in portable terminal
An apparatus and method for setting a control command in response to a touch area and controlling an application in a portable terminal through a simple touch input is provided. The apparatus includes a control command determination unit and a control unit. The control command determination unit detects a control command of an application corresponding to an area touched by a user when a touch input is sensed while the application works. The control unit controls an operation of the working application by using the control command detected by the control command determination unit. |
| US08411051B2 |
Liquid crystal display screen
A liquid crystal display screen includes an upper board, a lower board opposite to the upper board, and a liquid crystal layer located between the upper board and the lower board. The upper board includes a touch panel. The touch panel includes a plurality of transparent electrodes. At least one of the transparent electrodes includes a carbon nanotube structure. |
| US08411048B2 |
Touch panel with parallel electrodes
The disclosure discloses a touch panel with parallel electrodes. The parallel electrodes mainly include a pair of parallel electrodes in x-axis and a pair of parallel electrodes in y-axis, further forming a ring structure by means of a series connection of eight corner resistances. The ring structure is the improvement of the electrode design, and is formed on the conductive layer of touch panel with a chain of series resistances. The voltage support of the conductive layer of the ring structure is provided by the corner electrodes on the conductive layer for touch detection. |
| US08411044B2 |
Touch panel, method for making the same, and display device adopting the same
A touch panel includes a substrate, a transparent conductive layer, and at least two separate electrodes. The substrate includes a first surface. The transparent conductive layer is formed on the first surface of the substrate. The transparent conductive layer includes a carbon nanotube layer, and the carbon nanotube layer includes a plurality of carbon nanotubes entangled with each other. The electrodes are separately disposed on a surface of the transparent conductive layer and electrically connected with the transparent conductive layer. Further, a method for making the touch panel and a display device adopting the same are also included. |
| US08411040B2 |
Operating device of a motor vehicle and method for recording user inputs
In an operating device of a motor vehicle and a method for recording user inputs in a motor vehicle, the operating device includes a control unit and at least one operating element coupled to the control unit, via whose operation a user input is able to be recorded, an approach sensor system being coupled to the control unit, using which an approach of an actuating element, e.g., of a body part, for example, of a finger of a user to the at least one operating element is able to be recorded before the operation of the at least one operating element occurs. The control unit is adapted to, in response to a recorded approach of the actuating element to the at least one operating element, output information in connection with an operation of the operating element before an operation of the operating element occurs. |
| US08411039B2 |
Computer keyboard
A computer keyboard comprises a touch control display panel comprising a display unit, a plurality of touch sensing units, and a display control unit. The display unit is utilized for displaying icons of control keys. The touch sensing units are utilized for sensing pressed status of the control keys, and transmitting pressure sensing signals and position signals to a host. The display control unit is utilized for receiving icons of the control keys from the host, and making the display unit display icons of the control keys. When an external force presses one of the control keys of the touch control display panel, a specific touch sensing unit senses pressed status of a position corresponding to the pressed control key, and make the host start or terminate an executable program according to link of the executable program corresponding to the pressed control key. |
| US08411025B2 |
Lighting apparauts
Disclosed is a lighting device. The lighting device includes: a light source unit; a first optical exciter and a second optical exciter converting lights emitted from the light source unit into lights having different color temperatures from each other and different color coordinates from each other; a third optical exciter emitting light having a color coordinate and a color temperature which are different from those of the light converted by the second optical exciters; a sensor outputting a first component signal, a second component signal and a third component signal, each of which corresponds to light quantities of a first component, a second component and a third component, respectively, of the light output from the first optical exciter, the second optical exciter and the third optical exciter; a controller controlling light quantity of the light source unit such that a color coordinate of the light emitted from the first optical exciter, a color coordinate of the light emitted from the second optical exciter, and a color coordinate of the light emitted from the third optical exciter are placed within an area formed by the color coordinates of the first optical exciter, the second optical exciter and the third optical exciter; and a power supplier supplying voltage changing the light quantity of the light source unit under the control of the controller. |
| US08411024B2 |
Image display device
An image display device comprises a liquid crystal display panel, panel driving circuits, a backlight configured to include a plurality of light source blocks, and a controller configured to modulate input data to generate image data synchronized with N multiple frame frequency, control the panel driving circuits such that same image data are displayed every two consecutive frame periods, control the light source blocks to be sequentially turned on during a light source scanning period, and control the light source blocks to be simultaneously turned off during a light source blinking period between neighboring light source scanning periods. |
| US08411023B2 |
Image displaying apparatus having an image correcting section and luminance adjusting section
An image displaying apparatus includes a displaying section capable of performing a luminance adjustment, an image correcting section performing a luminance correction on each of a plurality of images at a time of a dynamic display continuously displaying the plurality of images on the displaying section at a constant interval, a luminance adjusting section performing a luminance adjustment at the displaying section displaying the images to which the luminance correction is performed based on the luminance correction at the image correcting section, and a display controlling section performing a control at the luminance adjusting section within a shorter period than the constant interval when switching from the dynamic display to a static display displaying an image different from the plurality of images. |
| US08411020B2 |
Hysteresis-type controlling method for backlight of portable electronic device
A method for controlling backlight of portable electronic device in hysteresis manner pre-sets the portable electronic device in a default mode and senses a background brightness. The portable electronic device is operated at a daylight mode when the sensed background brightness is larger than a first threshold. When the portable electronic device is operated at the daylight mode and the sensed background brightness is smaller than a second threshold, the portable electronic device is again operated at the default mode, where the second threshold is much smaller then the first threshold to provide hysteresis effect. Therefore, the backlight can be turned off when the background brightness is sufficient. A rapid switch between default mode and daylight mode can be prevented by the hysteresis-manner control and user dizziness caused by rapid modes switch can also be prevented. |
| US08411014B2 |
Signal processing circuit and method
A signal processing circuit includes: multiple digital-signal processing units operating in parallel each including a selecting unit for selecting one of multiple systems of input picture signals, a double-speed converting unit for writing the data equivalent to one field of the picture signal selected by the selecting unit in field memory, and simultaneously reading the data equivalent to one field from the field memory twice at double speed, thereby converting the frequency of the picture signal into double speed, a reading unit for reading the picture signal converted into double speed by the double-speed converting unit and temporarily stored in line memory, and a correction processing unit for subjecting the picture signal read by the reading unit to predetermined correction processing; and a control unit for performing the selection control of the multiple systems of picture signals, and the read position control of a picture signal from the line memory. |
| US08411006B2 |
Display device including scan signal line driving circuits connected via signal wiring
In a display device having a plurality of scan signal line driving circuits, its display quality is improved. The display device comprises a plurality of scan signal lines, a plurality of image signal lines, and a plurality of scan signal line driving circuits for generating scan signals for driving the scan signal lines. Each of the scan signal line driving circuit internally generates a driving signal having the waveform of such potential variation that the potential decreases with a slope from a high potential to an intermediate potential between the high potential and a low potential. Each of the scan signal line driving circuits further includes a signal wiring for connecting the scan signal line driving circuits to one another and applying the driving signal. |
| US08411005B2 |
Liquid crystal display apparatus and driving method therefor
A liquid crystal display (LCD) apparatus includes an LCD section and a driving section. The driving section provides the LCD section with a compensated gradation datum based on a first gradation datum of an (n)-th frame, a second gradation datum of an (n+1)-th frame and a third gradation datum of an (n−1)-th frame. The driving section provides the LCD section with a sum total of a pre-tilt value that is varied in accordance with the gradation and the first gradation datum when the gradation of the second gradation datum is higher than that of the first gradation datum. The driving section provides the LCD section with the first gradation datum when a gradation of the second gradation datum is lower than that of the first gradation datum. |
| US08410988B2 |
Dual mode rotary joint for propagating RF and optical signals therein
A dual mode rotary joint as described herein can be utilized in an electromagnetic communication system such as a radar system. The dual mode rotary joint can be used to rotatably couple an antenna architecture to its mounting structure. One embodiment of the dual mode joint includes a waveguide configured to propagate radio frequency (RF) signals, and endcaps coupled to the ends of the waveguide. Each endcap is reflective for RF signals and transmissive for optical signals. |
| US08410979B2 |
Digital front end in system simultaneously receiving GPS and GLONASS signals
A receiver for receiving both GPS signals and GLONASS signals is provided. This receiver includes an analog front end (AFE), a GPS digital front end (DFE) and a GLONASS DFE for receiving an output of the AFE, and a dual mode interface (DMI) for receiving outputs of the GPS and GLONASS DFEs. Search engines are provided for receiving outputs of the DMI. Notably, certain front-end components of the AFE are configured to process both the GPS signals and the GLONASS signals. |
| US08410978B2 |
Shape measurement instrument and shape measurement method
A shape measurement instrument includes a plurality of transmitters 1 to 4 which radiate signals having different waveforms or phases, receivers 31 to 34 which receive signals reflected from an object O, correlation units 41 to 44 which obtain correlation waveforms between waveforms of the signals received by the receivers 31 to 34, and the signal radiated by a transmitter radiating the received signal of the transmitters 1 to 4, and a shape estimation unit 5 which extracts a quasi-wavefront based on the correlation waveforms obtained by the correlation units 41 to 44 and estimates a shape of the object O based on a relationship between the quasi-wavefront and the object O. As a result, a period of time required to measure an object shape can be significantly reduced. |
| US08410977B2 |
Methods and systems for identifying hazardous flight zone areas on a display
Systems and methods for representing a weather hazard without also including a large percentage of non-hazard area. An exemplary system includes a memory that stores radar reflectivity data in a three-dimensional buffer, a display device and a processor that is in data communication with the memory and the display device. The processor receives a two-dimensional shape based on a portion of the data stored in the three-dimensional buffer, then finds a center of the shape. Next the processor finds the furthest away point of the shape in a plurality of regions sharing the center as a common point and generates a polygon based on the furthest away points. The display device displays the generated polygon. The shape is associated with hazardous weather information determined from the radar reflectivity data stored in the three-dimensional buffer. The display device is an aircraft weather radar display. |
| US08410973B2 |
Activating motion detectors
A method and apparatus for activating a motion detector. An electromagnetic signal is transmitted in a form of a beam. The beam is configured to activate the motion detector when the beam encounters the motion detector. The beam is moved to a location in which the motion detector is present such that the motion detector activates. |
| US08410970B2 |
Programming a universal remote control via direct interaction
A method and system for programming a universal remote control (URC) to operate with a remote-controlled device is disclosed. Programming codes for the remote-controlled device may be transferred from an original remote control using a programming interface. The transfer may be performed directly with the URC. The transfer may also be performed using consumer-premises equipment of a multimedia content distribution network. The URC may be configured to use at least one of the programming codes to remotely control the remote-controlled device. |
| US08410965B2 |
Dynamic element matching method and system thereof
A dynamic element matching method and system thereof is provided. The method includes grouping a plurality of switches into a plurality of groups; allocating a plurality of to-be-turned-on switches of the switches for an input signal to the groups; and maintaining a switch activity of each of the groups at a predetermined value. Accordingly, mismatch noise and harmonic noise are effectively reduced. |
| US08410963B2 |
Data converter circuit and method
In an embodiment, an oversampled data converter includes a lowpass filter having a filter stage comprising a dynamic limiter, where the dynamic limiter having a limit set by an signal level at an input to the oversampled data converter. The oversampled data converter also includes a quantizing block comprising an input coupled to an output of the lowpass filter and an output coupled to an input of the lowpass filter. |
| US08410961B2 |
Semiconductor integrated circuit
In combining an analog terminal of an A/D converter with a digital terminal, the effect of the noise from the digital terminal is reduced. A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a high-speed external terminal, a low-speed external terminal, a high-speed analog switch, a low-speed analog switch, and an A/D converter. The high-speed external terminal is coupled to an input of the A/D converter via the high-speed analog switch, and the low-speed external terminal is coupled to the input of the A/D converter via the low-speed analog switch. A plurality of inputs of a plurality of low-speed digital input buffer circuits and a plurality of outputs of a plurality of low-speed digital output buffer circuits are coupled to a plurality of low-speed external terminals. The output of any digital output buffer circuit is not coupled to a plurality of high-speed external terminals, but a plurality of inputs of a plurality of high-speed digital input buffer circuits is coupled to a plurality of high-speed external terminals. Between a plurality of low-speed external terminals and the input of the A/D converter, a low-speed separating resistor with a high resistance value is coupled, respectively. |
| US08410953B2 |
Wireless power transmission system
The wireless power transmission is a system for providing wireless charging and/or primary power to electronic/electrical devices via microwave energy. The microwave energy is focused to a location in response to receiving a beacon signal from a beacon device by a power transmitter having one or more adaptively-phased microwave array emitters. Rectennas within the device to be charged receive and rectify the microwave energy and use it for battery charging and/or for primary power. |
| US08410948B2 |
Recreational vehicle holding tank sensor probe
A wastewater holding tank sensor probe for use in determining the presence of a conductive liquid held within a wastewater holding tank in a recreational vehicle is disclosed. The probe is less sensitive to the presence of conductive residue as a result of an improved geometry and/or choice of materials that reduce the leakage currents between the probe tip and the sensor probe attachment surface, typically the wall of the tank. This reduction in sensitivity to conductive residue buildup can be measured by a geometrically determined resistivity factor between the probe tip and the mounting surface of the probe. The reduction in sensitivity can also be measured by the length of the path through the conductive residue between the probe tip and the mounting surface of the probe. A variety of geometries and material choices to reduce the sensitivity of electrical conductance based sensor probes to conductive residue are disclosed. |
| US08410947B1 |
Leak detection system for pressurized pipeline
A leak detection system for a pressurized pipeline used in conjunction with a fluid control valve having an electric actuator or with an alarm signaling device. The leak detection system includes a chamber surrounding the pipeline. A normally flat or planar thin sheet of material has a pair of opposed ends brought together to form a cylinder around the pipeline so that the sheet has a spring force when in a cylindrical position to a normal flat position. A seal between the cylinder and the pipeline forms a closed chamber around the pipeline. At least one fastener holds the opposed ends of the sheet together in the cylindrical position unless the force overcomes the fastener. A switch detects movement of the cylinder toward the flat position and the switch is connected to the actuator in order to close the valve. |
| US08410940B2 |
Transceiver unit in a measurement system
A measurement system may comprise a sensor wire and a transceiver unit. The sensor wire may comprise an insertable portion configured to be inserted in a blood vessel of a patient's body and a sensor disposed within the insertable portion at a distal end of the sensor wire. The sensor is configured to measure a parameter when inserted inside the patient. The transceiver unit may comprise: a housing adapted to be connected to a proximal end of the sensor wire; and a first communication module within the housing adapted to wirelessly communicate by a communication signal with an external second communication module in order to transfer information to the external second communication module. |
| US08410939B2 |
Analyte meter including an RFID reader
A glucose monitoring system, includes a glucose sensor strip or package of strips. The strip includes a substrate and a glucose monitoring circuit that has electrodes and a bodily fluid application portion of selected chemical composition. An antenna is integrated with the glucose sensor strip. A RFID sensor chip is coupled with the glucose sensor strip and the antenna. The chip has a memory containing digitally-encoded data representing calibration and/or expiration date information for the strip. |
| US08410923B2 |
Single MCU-based motion detection, local alarm and supervisory arrangement for alarm system
A device with single MCU-based motion detection, local alarm and supervisory arrangement for alarm system controlled by an alarm control panel (ACP) is disclosed. The device includes a sensor component to monitor environment, an output component to generate warning messages, a power supply component to provide power, and a microcontroller to communicate with sensor component, drive output component and monitor the status of ACP. The device can detect when intruders break in and make alarm warnings even when the ACP is destroyed. Plurality of devices and said ACP form a local warning matrix network (LWMN) to increase the detection area and scary effect to intruders. Each device of LWMN works independently when the ACP is destroyed. |
| US08410921B1 |
Vehicle gate status indicator
A wireless device that provides a visual indication to an operator of a pick-up truck sitting in the driver's seat that a tailgate is deployed or unsecured if in a lowered position is herein disclosed. A sensor is installed on the tailgate which will send a wireless signal to an indicator light mounted on a user selected area of the dashboard. Such a system will provide safety and protect the truck from potential damage to its tailgate and bed. |
| US08410906B1 |
Battery assisted RFID system RF power control and interference mitigation methods
The present invention discloses battery assisted RFID system RF power leveling methods that optimize the amount of transmitted power and interference from a reader in relation to the sensitivity of the RFID tags, their ranges from the reader, and the unique physics of the backscatter RFID radio link. These methods enhance system reliability when employing battery assisted RFID tags that operate with sensitive transistor based square law tag receivers and highly sensitive RFID readers intended to take advantage of outstanding tag sensitivity. Further enhancement is achieved via design of system command sets and tag state machine behavior that optimally support the power level operations, power level operations that span across tag hibernation and normal modes, and that otherwise control system interference. Embodiments of the present invention are also enhanced with receiver training and synchronizing methods suited to the high tag sensitivity and need for dynamic range state switching. These enhancements may employ pseudo-random sequence based receiver training, activation signaling, and frame synchronizing. |
| US08410905B2 |
RFID reader cancelling leakage signal
A radio frequency identification (RFID) recorder for cancelling a leakage signal includes a digital unit calculating and storing an amplitude and a phase of the leakage signal, and a leakage cancellation circuit generating a leakage cancellation signal to cancel the leakage signal in response to a control of the digital unit. |
| US08410904B2 |
Wireless remote control lighting unit and wireless remote control lighting system and control method thereof
The present invention discloses a wireless remote control lighting unit and a wireless remote control lighting system and a control method thereof. The wireless remote control lighting unit comprises a power on detection circuit, which detects and counts the power on times of a power source during a predetermined period. When the power on times reach a threshold number, the wireless remote control lighting unit enters an address setting mode to set its address. |
| US08410901B2 |
Assigning controlled access to securable devices
Controlled access to a securable device is assigned whereby a kiosk is operable to assign an authorized user an ability to access a securable device selected from among a plurality of securable devices located remotely from the kiosk. The kiosk associates a unique personal identification number (PIN) with the authorized user and with the selected securable device, and is operable to transmit the unique PIN to the selected securable device, inform the user of the unique PIN; provide the user with location information of the selected securable device. The selected securable device is adapted to accept entry, at the securable device, of a PIN, and permits access upon entry of the unique PIN. |
| US08410896B2 |
Occupancy sensors programmed to determine loss of lamp life as lamp is used
Programmable occupancy sensors that control the on/off operation of a fluorescent lamp automatically determine loss of lamp life as the lamp is used. The programmable occupancy sensors can provide lamp life status and can automatically alert a user when a lamp is nearing its end of life and should be replaced. The occupancy sensors are also programmable to automatically improve lamp life and energy savings by selecting an optimal time delay from among a number of selectable time delays at which to operate the sensor. The selection is based on an occupancy pattern sensed by the sensor over a given period of time. The optimal time delay, which prevents the lamp from turning off immediately after last sensing occupancy, extends lamp life by limiting the number of lamp off/on transitions, which shortens lamp life, in view of overall energy usage and lamp usage. |
| US08410891B2 |
Electrical multilayer component
The electrical multilayer component includes a base body with external electrodes and internal electrodes. A ceramic varistor layer is provided with the first internal electrode, and a dielectric layer adjoins the varistor layer. The dielectric layer has at least one opening filled with a semiconducting material or a metal. |
| US08410890B2 |
Combination wire connector and current transformer
A transformer assembly for mounting a current transformer to an electrical apparatus. The generally toroidal current transformer senses electrical current in conductors of the electrical apparatus and has a housing. A mechanical lug for conductors of the electrical apparatus is mounted directly to the housing of the current transformer, within the central opening of the toroid. The mechanical lug has one or more conductor bores located within a main body of the mechanical lug for receiving respective conductor wires. |
| US08410886B2 |
Multilayer coil component
A multilayer coil component is provided to have high reliability and in which internal stress arising from the difference in firing shrinkage behavior and/or thermal expansion coefficient between ferrite layers and internal conductor layers is alleviated without forming conventional voids between the ferrite layers and the internal conductor layers. A method of manufacturing a multilayer coil includes a step of isolating interfaces between internal conductors and surrounding ferrite by allowing a complexing agent solution to reach interfaces between the internal conductors and the surrounding ferrite through side gap portions from side surfaces of a ferrite element including a helical coil. The complexing agent solution contains at least one selected from the group consisting of an aminocarboxylic acid, a salt of the aminocarboxylic acid, an oxycarboxylic acid, a salt of the oxycarboxylic acid, an amine, phosphoric acid, a salt of phosphoric acid, and a lactone compound. |
| US08410881B2 |
Material magnetizer systems
A system for improved magnetization of flexible magnetic sheet material, such as magnetic rubber. More particularly, this invention relates to providing a system for magnetization of printed or printable flexible magnetic sheet material. |
| US08410874B2 |
Vertical quasi-CPWG transmission lines
In one example embodiment, a coplanar waveguide signal transition element transitions high-speed signals between vertically stacked coplanar waveguide transmission lines. The signal transition element comprises one or more dielectric layers and a plurality of electrically conductive vias extending through at least a portion of the one or more dielectric layers. The vias include one or more signal vias and one or more ground vias that are configured to transition signals between the vertically stacked coplanar waveguide transmission lines. The signal transition element also comprises a ground plane disposed within the one or more dielectric layers and electrically coupled to the one or more ground vias. The ground plane has one or more openings through which the one or more signal vias respectively pass. |
| US08410869B2 |
Elastic-wave filter device having a band-pass filter and a band-reject filter
In an elastic-wave filter device that includes a band-pass filter and a band-eliminate filter connected to the band-pass filter, insertion loss in a pass band is significantly reduced and attenuation in a stop band is significantly increased. The elastic-wave filter device has a pass band and a stop band at frequencies higher than the pass band. The band-pass filter and the first band-eliminate filter are connected in series between an input terminal and an output terminal. A first parallel-arm resonator of the first band-eliminate filter includes a first resonance frequency in the stop band. A second parallel-arm resonator includes a second resonance frequency in the stop band, the second resonance frequency being higher than the first resonance frequency. An impedance value of the first parallel-arm resonator is larger than an impedance value of the second parallel-arm resonator. |
| US08410867B2 |
Filter, especially for filtration of electromagnetic interference
A filter for filtering of electromagnetic interference, with a base element, with at least one electrical filter component and with at least two input terminal contacts and at least two output terminal contacts for connection of an electric line, the input terminal contacts being connected to the output terminal contacts by conductor paths located on the base element. In the filter, a simple configuration and flexible use are ensured by each conductor path having at least two longitudinal contacts, via which a filter component can be electrically connected to a conductor path such that the electrical connection of the conductor path leads between the two longitudinal contacts by the filter component, and each conductor path has at least one cross contact so that two conductor paths are electrically connected to one another by way of a filter component when the filter component is electrically connected to the cross contacts. |
| US08410859B2 |
Microwave generator and processes thereof
A microwave generator and/or methods thereof. A microwave generator may include a plurality of connected sequential sections in cascade. A microwave generator may include a first section and an output section. Each section may include an intermediate conductor, an upper conductor and a lower conductor. A first isolating material having a first thickness may be connected between an intermediate conductor and an upper conductor. A second isolating material having a second thickness may be connected between an intermediate conductor and a lower conductor. A switch may be connected between an intermediate conductor and an upper conductor and/or a lower conductor, forming a switched thickness and an unswitched thickness. The unswitched thickness of an output section is larger than the unswitched thickness of the first section and the increase in unswitched thickness from the first section to the output section includes a monotonic increase. |
| US08410858B2 |
Electronic circuitry
Electronic circuitry comprising operational circuits of active switching type requiring timing signals, and conductive means for distributing said timing signals to the operational circuits, wherein the timing signal distribution means includes a signal path that has different phases of a drive signal are supplied via active means at different positions about the signal path where that path exhibits endless electro-magnetic continuity without signal phase inversion or has interconnections with another signal path having different substantially unidirectional signal flow where there is no endless electromagnetic continuity between those signal paths and generally has non-linear associated circuit means where the signal path is of a transmission line nature. |
| US08410855B2 |
Method and apparatus for controlling power supply of audio amplifier
A method of controlling power supply voltage of an audio amplifier delays an input audio signal; estimates, with a digital signal processor, an audio output level of the delayed input audio signal based on correlations between the delayed input audio signal level and audio level change factors; sets a value of power supply voltage supplied to a power switching circuit unit in correspondence with the estimated audio output level prior to outputting the delayed input audio signal on which the estimated audio output level is based; and amplifies the delayed audio input signal to provide an audio output signal by variably controlling the power supply voltage supplied to the power switching circuit unit according to the set value of power supply voltage. |
| US08410854B2 |
Semiconductor integrated circuit device
A semiconductor integrated circuit device constituting an inverting amplifier employs a cascode current source as a current source. In the semiconductor integrated circuit device, a high-potential-side transistor of the cascode current source and a low-potential-side transistor constituting an amplification portion are shared. The configuration can not only make an output impedance of the cascode current source high and improve current source characteristics but also make a minimum potential at a minimum potential point of the amplification portion low and ensure a sufficient power supply voltage margin. |
| US08410852B2 |
Drive amplifier
A drive amplifier having improved linearity while being characterized by low current consumption. The drive amplifier includes first and second transistors having a gate to which first and second differential Radio Frequency (RF) voltages are respectively input; a third transistor which has a drain connected to a drain of the second transistor and a source connected to the gate of the first transistor, and a drain-source current which increases with an increase in the second differential RF voltage; and a fourth transistor which has a drain connected to a drain of the first transistor and a source connected to the gate of the second transistor, and a drain-source current which increases with an increase in the first differential RF voltage. |
| US08410849B2 |
Systems and methods of RF power transmission, modulation, and amplification, including blended control embodiments
Embodiments of the present invention enable a blended control approach to generate a desired output waveform in an outphasing-based system. Embodiments of blended control according to the present invention combine outphasing with bias and/or amplitude control to yield an accurate, practical, and producible system with substantially comparable performance to that of a theoretical ideal outphasing system, but without the isolation and accuracy requirements of outphasing alone. |
| US08410846B2 |
Variable gain amplifier
A variable gain amplifier includes an integrator having an input, an output and a feedback loop connected between the input and output, a plurality of input chains connected in parallel between the amplifier input and the input of the integrator, each input chain including a resistor and a first switch and a plurality of second switches, each second switch connected between an intermediate node between the resistor and first switch of a respective input chain and the feedback loop of the integrator, wherein the resistance of the resistors in the input chains is scaled by a scaling factor with respect to one another and the on-resistances of the first and second switches connected to each intermediate node are scaled by the corresponding scaling factor. |
| US08410838B2 |
Nonvolatile latch circuit and logic circuit, and semiconductor device using the same
To provide a novel nonvolatile latch circuit and a semiconductor device using the nonvolatile latch circuit, a nonvolatile latch circuit includes a latch portion having a loop structure where an output of a first element is electrically connected to an input of a second element, and an output of the second element is electrically connected to an input of the first element; and a data holding portion for holding data of the latch portion. In the data holding portion, a transistor using an oxide semiconductor as a semiconductor material for forming a channel formation region is used as a switching element. In addition, an inverter electrically connected to a source electrode or a drain electrode of the transistor is included. With the transistor, data held in the latch portion can be written into a gate capacitor of the inverter or a capacitor which is separately provided. |
| US08410831B2 |
Low-voltage high-speed frequency divider with reduced power consumption
A low-voltage high-speed frequency divider substantially reduces the power required to generate a half-rate in-phase clock signal and a half-rate quadrature-phase clock signal by reducing the number of pairs of transistors that respond to a full-rate clock signal and a full-rate inverse clock signal. |
| US08410817B2 |
Driver circuit
A level switch circuit receives a digital input signal, and generates a level signal having a voltage level that corresponds to the value of the input signal thus received. A buffer circuit receives a level signal, and outputs the level signal via an output terminal thereof. A bias current generating circuit generates a bias current including a DC component having a constant level and a variable component that changes according to the input signal, and supplies the bias current thus generated to a buffer circuit. The bias current generating circuit detects an edge of the input signal, and raises the bias current by a predetermined amount for a predetermined period of time after the edge thus detected. |
| US08410811B2 |
Input circuit and semiconductor storage device
According to one embodiment, an input circuit includes an input buffer, a control unit, a holding unit, a feedback unit. The input buffer receives a signal input from an outside. The input buffer includes a plurality of CMOS inverters connected in parallel. The plurality of CMOS inverters includes a plurality of PMOS transistors and a plurality of NMOS transistors. The control unit selects one or more PMOS transistors from the plurality of PMOS transistors so as to enter an operable state. The control unit selects one or more NMOS transistors from the plurality of NMOS transistors so as to enter an operable state. The holding unit holds a level of a signal transferred from the input buffer in synchronization with a clock signal. The holding unit outputs the held signal level. The feedback unit feeds the level of the signal output from the holding unit back to the control unit. |
| US08410810B2 |
System for testing power supply performance
A system for testing a DC power supply performance includes a load module electrically coupled to the DC power supply, a switch module electrically coupled to the DC power supply, a control module electrically coupled to the load module and the switch module respectively, and an indication module electrically coupled to the control module. The control module includes a judge module and a comparison module. The judge module is configured for receiving DC voltage signals from the DC power supply; wherein the judge module is capable of turning on when the DC power supply is normal. The comparison module is configured for comparing the DC voltage signals with a reference voltage; wherein the comparison module is capable of outputting a control signal when the DC voltage signals are greater than the reference voltage. The indication module is configured for receiving the control signal and indicating status of the DC power supply. |
| US08410809B2 |
Under-voltage and over-voltage detection circuit and driving method thereof
A low-voltage and over-voltage detection circuit receives a power source voltage, generates a shift voltage by shifting the received voltage to a predetermined level, and fixes the shift voltage as a clamping voltage when the shift voltage is higher than a predetermined clamping voltage. The low-voltage and over-voltage detection circuit includes a first transistor and a second transistor. The first transistor generates a regulator voltage that varies according to the power source voltage and performs a switching operation according to the shift voltage and the regulator voltage, and the second transistor is connected in parallel with the first transistor and generates hysteresis. The low-voltage and over-voltage detection circuit determines whether the power source voltage is a low-voltage or an over-voltage by using a drain voltage generated according to currents flowing to the first and second transistors. |
| US08410804B1 |
Measurement system with high frequency ground switch
A system for making high frequency measurements on a DUT includes a high frequency measurement instrument; a plurality of DUT probes; a first coaxial cable having a center conductor and a coaxial conductor for connection between the instrument and a first DUT probe; and a second coaxial cable having a center conductor and a coaxial conductor for connection between the instrument and a second DUT probe, at least one of the first and second cables being selectively shortable between the respective center conductor and coaxial conductor at a location near the respective DUT probe. |
| US08410803B2 |
Test apparatus of semiconductor device and method thereof
A test apparatus according to the present invention includes a probe card recognition unit that recognizes positions of at least two probe card marks formed to a probe card and assumes a probe card mark connection line connecting the positions of the probe card marks, a backing material recognition unit that recognizes positions of at least two backing material marks formed to a backing material where a semiconductor chip is fixed thereto and assumes a backing material mark connection line connecting the positions of the backing material mark, a positional relationship recognition unit that recognizes a positional relationship between the probe card and the backing material according to the probe card mark connection line and the backing material mark connection line, and a correction unit that corrects the position of at least one of the probe card and the backing material according to the positional relationship. |
| US08410802B2 |
System including thermal control unit having conduit for dispense and removal of liquid thermal interface material
Systems and methods including testing of electronic components are described. One system relates to a system including a thermal control unit adapted to control the temperature of at least a portion of an electronic component during testing. The system includes at least one conduit extending through a portion of the thermal control unit, the conduit sized to permit the flow of a thermal interface material therethrough, the thermal interface material comprising a liquid. The at least one conduit is positioned so that the thermal interface material can be delivered through the conduit and onto the electronic component. The system also includes a device adapted to control the flow of the thermal interface material through the conduit, wherein the flow can be controlled to deliver the thermal interface material to the electronic component and to remove the thermal interface material from the electronic component. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US08410801B2 |
Pressure detection apparatus
A pressure detection apparatus has a pressure-sensitive resistor whose first resistance varies according to pressure and a change of its own temperature, a temperature-sensitive resistor which has a same resistance-temperature coefficient as the pressure-sensitive resistor and whose second resistance varies according to the change of the temperature, a current source supplying first and second constant-currents to the pressure-sensitive and temperature-sensitive resistors respectively, and a pressure signal generation output section. The current source adjusts the first and second constant-currents so that when the pressure is an initial pressure, a reference first voltage appearing across the pressure-sensitive resistor and a reference second voltage appearing across the temperature-sensitive resistor become equal to each other. The pressure signal generation output section outputs a first voltage signal corresponding to the pressure on the basis of a difference voltage between a first voltage of the pressure-sensitive resistor and a second voltage of the temperature-sensitive resistor. |
| US08410800B2 |
Method for determining the size and shape measure of a solid material in an arc furnace, an arc furnace, a signal processing device and program code and a memory medium
In a method for determining the size and shape value (M) for a solid material (S), in particular scrap metal, in an arc furnace (1), an electrode flow fed to an electrode (3a, 3b, 3c) for forming an arc furnace (L) between the electrode (3a, 3b, 3c) and the solid (S) is measured (30) and from the measured electrode flow (I (t)), an effective measurement value of the electrode flow is determined (31) and from the measured electrode flow (I (t)) (32), a flow part associated with a frequency range of the measured electrode flow is determined (32), and a quotient of the flow part and an effective measurement value is formed as a measurement of the shape and size value of the flow (M). Thus, a method is provided that enables a property of a fusible element introduced into one of the arc furnaces to be determined. |
| US08410779B2 |
Contrast agent-free MR angiography with SSFP sequences
In a method to generate an MR angiography image of an examination region of a subject without the use of contrast agent, a first MR image of the examination region is acquired with a first imaging sequence in which a gradient-induced phase development for unmoved and moved spins is essentially completely rephased at the end of a repetition interval TR, and a second MR image of the examination region is acquired with a second imaging sequence in which the gradient-induced phase development for unmoved spins is likewise essentially completely rephased at the end of the repetition interval TR and a rest phase φrest for moved spins remains at the end of the repetition interval TR. The second MR image is subtracted from the first MR image to generate the MR angiography image. |
| US08410778B2 |
Magnetic resonance method and apparatus to acquire multiple image data sets from a subject
In a magnetic resonance (MR) method and apparatus for the acquisition of a first image data set and a second image data set of an examination subject, a series of excitation pulses is radiated into the examination subject, and after each excitation pulse, a first echo signal is detected after a first echo time TE1 and a second echo signal is detected after a second echo time TE2, with TE2 greater than TE1, and the first echo signal is entered in a first raw MR data set and the second echo signal is entered in a second raw MR data set. A first image data set is acquired from the first MR data set on the basis of magnitude information contained in the first MR data set. A second image data set is acquired from the second MR data set on the basis of phase information contained in the second MR data set. The first and second image data sets are stored on at least one memory device.This manner of data acquisition and processing delivers results that typically are obtained from two different data acquisition and processing procedures, one for each desired image data set. |
| US08410776B2 |
Detector module for an emission tomography scanner
An emission tomography detector module and an emission tomography scanner are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the emission tomography detector modules includes a scintillator to capture an photon, the scintillator emitting a scintillating light on capturing the photon; a first type of solid-state photodetector to detect the scintillating light; and a second type of solid-state photodetector to detect the scintillating light, wherein the first type of solid-state photodetector and the second type of solid-state photodetector are different with respect to a detecting property. |
| US08410748B2 |
Removable photovoltaic charging pack including a device compartment and container including a receiving compartment with a transparent panel to hold the charging pack
A portable container having an exterior surface and defining an interior compartment. The portable container includes a photovoltaic (PV) charging pack and a receiving device coupled to the exterior surface for detachably coupling the PV charging pack to the exterior surface. The PV charging pack includes a PV panel and defines a compartment for containing a portable electronic device. The PV panel is oriented away from the exterior surface when the PV charging pack is coupled to the receiving device. |
| US08410745B2 |
Controller for motor, and vehicle
When a short-circuit failure of any of switch portions (13) including switch elements (11) and parallel-connected feedback diodes (12) of an inverter circuit (7) is detected during the operation of a motor (1), a switch portion (13) where the short-circuit failure has occurred is checked for whether it is on the positive polarity side or the negative polarity side. The switch elements (11) are so controlled that all the switch portions (13) on the same polarity side as where the short-circuit has occurred are brought into a conducted state and all the others are disconnected. This prevents a large electric current from flowing into each switch portion of the inverter circuit without requiring any switch to block the power distribution between a motor and the inverter circuit when a short-circuit failure of the switch portion of the inverter circuit occurs. |
| US08410735B2 |
Torque ripple suppression control device for permanent magnet motor and electric power steering system
A torque ripple suppression control device for a permanent magnet motor includes a current command conversion unit that outputs a current command value, a position detector that detects a rotational position of the permanent magnet motor, a current detection unit that detects a current at the permanent magnet motor, an induced voltage coefficient setting unit that outputs an information signal related to an induced voltage coefficient for an induced voltage at the permanent magnet motor, a torque ripple suppression operation unit that outputs a current correction command value for the permanent magnet motor, a current control operation unit that outputs a voltage command value based upon addition results obtained by adding together the current command value and the current correction command value and the current detection value, and a power converter that outputs a voltage with which the permanent magnet motor is to be driven. |
| US08410730B2 |
Device and method for fast beam current modulation in a particle accelerator
The present invention relates to a circular particle accelerator capable of modulating the particle beam current exiting the circular particle accelerator. The circular particle accelerator includes: an ion source for generating the particle beam; Dee electrode and counter-Dee electrode separated from each other by gaps for accelerating the particle beam, the counter-Dee electrode being grounded; a generator capable of applying an alternating high voltage to the Dee electrode, so as it is possible to have an electric field between the gaps; means for measuring the current intensity of the particle beam exiting the circular particle accelerator. It also comprises a regulator capable of modulating the Dee electrodes voltage amplitude (VD) by comparing a given set point (I0) of the current intensity of the particle beam and the measured value of the current intensity (I′M) of the particle beam. |
| US08410729B2 |
Special purpose modes in photonic band gap fibers
Photonic band gap fibers are described having one or more defects suitable for the acceleration of electrons or other charged particles. Methods and devices are described for exciting special purpose modes in the defects including laser coupling schemes as well as various fiber designs and components for facilitating excitation of desired modes. Results are also presented showing effects on modes due to modes in other defects within the fiber and due to the proximity of defects to the fiber edge. Techniques and devices are described for controlling electrons within the defect(s). Various applications for electrons or other energetic charged particles produced by such photonic band gap fibers are also described. |
| US08410724B2 |
Lighting control console for controlling a lighting system
Various embodiments of the invention relate to a lighting control console for controlling a lighting system comprising wherein digital adjusting commands, which can be transferred to the lighting devices of the lighting system via data connections, are generated in the lighting control console, and wherein the lighting control console comprises at least one housing, in which the hardware components are arranged so as to be protected from external influences, and wherein the lighting control console comprises a plurality of operating elements, in particular pushbuttons, slide controls and/or rotary controls, which are arranged at the upper side of the housing and by means of which operating commands can be input, and wherein the lighting control console comprises at least one display device, at which a user interface can be displayed. |
| US08410715B2 |
Method of driving light sources, device for driving light sources, and display device having the same
One or more embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for driving light sources, a device for driving light sources and a display device having the device for driving the light sources. Power information is read based on position information on the light sources to output a light source control signal transmitting the power information. The power information determines a level of power applied to each of the light sources. Externally provided input power is changed into a plurality of driving powers having a level changed based on the light source control signal. The driving powers are applied to the light sources, respectively. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, uniformity of luminance distribution of a display panel may be improved. |
| US08410713B2 |
Lamp end of life (EOL) detection circuit
A lamp driver circuit to selectively energize one or more lamps is provided. The inverter circuit has a transformer with primary and secondary windings to provide voltage to the lamps. A filter is connected to the primary winding to receive a primary winding signal representative of the voltage across the primary winding. The primary winding signal has a frequency spectrum and the filter detects a particular characteristic of the frequency spectrum that is indicative of an end of life (EOL) condition of the one or more lamps. A control circuit is connected to the inverter circuit and to the filter. The control circuit is configured to discontinue energizing of the one or more lamps by the inverter circuit when the particular characteristic of the frequency spectrum of the primary winding signal is detected by the filter. |
| US08410708B2 |
Structure of an LED decoration lamp
A dual colored LED decoration lamp which includes a lamp string combined of multiple dual colored LED lights and a controller connected between the power supply and the lamp string. The lamp string includes lamp groups combined of multiple LED lights with two different colors and with their anodes and cathodes cross-linked. The multiple lamp groups are then connected in series, and each LED light in every lamp group is connected in same direction with the same colored LED light in the next lamp group. The controller controls the variation of the direction of current in aforementioned lamp strings. Thus, the lamp string is able to emit light with different colors by varying the current direction in the same lamp string through the usage of controller, and there is no need to set with multiple lamp strings. |
| US08410706B2 |
Method of calibrating a daylight sensor
A wireless lighting control system comprises a daylight sensor for measuring a light intensity in a space and a dimmer switch for controlling the amount of power delivered to a lighting load in response to the daylight sensor. For example, the daylight sensor may be able to transmit radio-frequency (RF) signals to the dimmer switch. The system provides methods of calibrating the daylight sensor that allow for automatically measuring and/or calculating one or more operational characteristics of the daylight sensor. One method of calibrating the daylight sensor comprises a “single-button-press” calibration procedure during which a user is only required to actuate a calibration button of the daylight sensor once. In addition, the daylight sensor is operable to automatically measure the total light intensity in the space at night to determine the light intensity of only the electrical light generated by the lighting load. |
| US08410700B2 |
Electrodeless lighting system and control method thereof
An electrodeless lighting system and its control method are disclosed. When the electrodeless lighting system starts, a larger amount of filament current of a magnetron is applied to stably drive the magnetron, and when the electrodeless lighting system operates normally, a smaller amount of filament current is applied, thus avoiding interference with a wireless LAN, lengthening a life span of the magnetron, reducing noise, and improving an operational efficiency of the electrodeless lighting system. |
| US08410697B2 |
Light source device
A light source device which can also advantageously control the growth of the projection using the DMD type is achieved in a light source device which has an ultrahigh pressure discharge lamp) in which the silica glass discharge vessel is filled with greater than or equal to 0.15 mg/mm3 mercury and bromine; a feed device; an oval reflector; and a color wheel by the electrode on the side of the opening of the oval reflector of the discharge lamp having an increased diameter, and the relation 0.06 |
| US08410682B2 |
Organic light emitting display and method of fabricating the same
An organic light emitting display (OLED) and a method of fabricating the same are provided. The method includes forming the OLED having upper and lower substrates that emit different colors from each other, and coupling the upper and lower substrates together. |
| US08410678B2 |
Liquid metal wetting of micro-fabricated charge-emission structures
Described is a micro-fabricated charged particle emission device including a substrate and a plurality of charged particle emission sites formed in the substrate. A path extends between each emission site and a source of liquid metal. Each path is coated with a wetting layer of non-oxidizing metal for wetting the liquid metal. Exemplary non-oxidizing metals that may be used to make the wetting layer include gold and platinum. The wetting layer is sufficiently thin such that some liquid metal is able to flow to each emission site despite any chemical interaction between the liquid metal and the non-oxidizing metal of the wetting layer. |
| US08410675B2 |
Thermionic electron emission device
A thermionic electron emission device includes an insulating substrate and one or more lattices located on the insulating substrate. Each lattice includes a first, second, third and fourth electrode down-leads located on the insulating substrate to define an area. A thermionic electron emission unit is located in the area. The thermionic electron emission unit includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a thermionic electron emitter. The thermionic electron emitter includes a carbon nanotube film structure. The carbon nanotube film structure includes a carbon nanotube film. The carbon nanotube film includes a number of carbon nanotubes joined end to end along axial directions of the carbon nanotubes by contacting with each other directly. |
| US08410674B2 |
Spark plug with a center electrode having a space-forming portion
A spark plug includes a tubular metallic shell; a tubular insulator in the tubular metallic shell located at a front end of the metallic shell and having an axial hole extending in the axial direction; and a center electrode inserted into the axial hole. The center electrode has a space-forming portion which forms, in cooperation with a wall surface of the axial hole, an annular space open frontward in the axial direction, and a main body portion extending rearward from the rear end of the space-forming portion. The thickness of the insulator is 0.6 mm or less as measured on a cross section and contains the front end of the metallic shell. The axial distance between the boundary portion and the front end of the metallic shell is 0.4 mm or greater, where the boundary portion is formed between the space-forming portion and the main body portion. |
| US08410669B2 |
Piezoceramic transducer and method for manufacturing the same
A piezoceramic transducer (PZT transducer) and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The PZT transducer includes a piezoceramic substrate and an electrode unit. The piezoceramic substrate has a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, and has a mechanical quality factor (Qm) greater than 1400. The electrode unit has a first electrode and a second electrode. The first electrode is disposed on the first surface and has a first diameter. The second electrode covers the second surface and extends to cover a part of the surface at a periphery of the first surface, and the part of the second electrode covering the second surface has a second diameter. The ratio of the first diameter to the second diameter is 0.498 to 0.502. The PZT transducer has a large mist amount and a long service life. |
| US08410666B2 |
Ultrasonic probe and method of manufacturing the same
According to one embodiment, an ultrasonic probe includes a plurality of piezoelectric elements, a first electrode, a plurality of second electrodes, a plurality of stacked flexible printed circuit boards, and a plurality of connection portions. The plurality of piezoelectric elements are arrayed. The first electrode is provided on the emitting surface side of the plurality of piezoelectric elements. The plurality of second electrodes are respectively provided on the rear surface sides of the plurality of piezoelectric elements. The plurality of stacked flexible printed circuit boards respectively include a plurality of terminals. The plurality of connection portions electrically connect the second electrodes to the terminals. At least one of the flexible printed circuit boards extends longer than the flexible printed circuit board serving as an upper layer. |
| US08410664B2 |
Method for changing ultrasound wave frequency by using the acoustic matching layer
The method of changing ultrasound wave frequency by using the acoustic matching layer presents a replaceable acoustic matching layer to offer an effective means of filtering the original broadband frequency of an ultrasonic transducer into certain composite discontinuous frequencies. The filtering effect could be improved by connecting the electrodes of the acoustic matching layer when it is made of a poled piezoelectric material. This method may provide novel applications for commercial ultrasonic transducers. |
| US08410663B2 |
Piezoelectric actuator unit having a stress relieving layer and method for manufacturing the same
A piezoelectric actuator unit which undergoes less change in the amount of displacement and shows high durability in continuous operation under a high voltage and a high pressure over a long period of time is provided.The piezoelectric actuator unit including a multi-layer piezoelectric element having piezoelectric layers and metal layers with the piezoelectric layers and the metal layers being stacked one on another, and a case which houses the multi-layer piezoelectric element, wherein at least one of the plurality of metal layers is stress relieving layer which consists of a plurality of partial metal layers that are scattered throughout the entire region between two piezoelectric layers which adjoin the partial metal layers in the direction of stacking, and voids, and a peel-off section is formed at least in a part of the interface between the stress relieving layer and the piezoelectric layer that adjoins therewith. |
| US08410648B2 |
Motor
There is provided a motor including a sleeve supporting a shaft; a sleeve holder allowing the sleeve to be fixed to an inner circumferential surface thereof and having a coupling rack protruding downwardly from a bottom surface in an axial direction; and a base plate having a sleeve holder insertion hole provided therein such that the sleeve holder insertion hole has a curvature defined by an inner circumferential surface thereof, in contact with an outer circumferential surface of the coupling rack of the sleeve holder, and a bottom surface thereof, in contact with a coupling portion of the coupling rack. |
| US08410645B2 |
Power tool
A power tool has a casing and a motor assembly installed in the casing. The motor assembly comprises a motor and a heat dissipation device. The motor comprises a housing and magnets or windings disposed at an inner surface of the housing. The heat dissipation device is arranged at an outer surface of the housing and a window is formed in the casing to expose the heat dissipation device. Preferably, the heat dissipation device comprises an annular heat absorbing section fitted to a radially outer surface of the motor housing and a plurality of fins extending from the heat absorbing section and into the window. |
| US08410636B2 |
Low AC resistance conductor designs
Described herein are improved configurations for providing a stranded printed circuit board trace comprising, a plurality of conductor layers, a plurality of individual conductor traces on each of the said conductor layers, and a plurality of vias for connecting individual conductor traces on different said conductor layers, the vias located on the outside edges of the stranded trace. The individual conductor traces of each layer may be routed from vias on one side of the stranded printed circuit board trace to vias on the other side in a substantially diagonal direction with respect to the axis of the stranded printed circuit board trace. In embodiments, the stranded printed circuit board trace configuration may be applied to a wireless power transfer system. |
| US08410635B2 |
Systems and methods for deactivating a matrix converter
Systems and methods are provided for deactivating a matrix conversion module. An electrical system comprises an alternating current (AC) interface, a matrix conversion module coupled to the AC interface, an inductive element coupled between the AC interface and the matrix conversion module, and a control module. The control module is coupled to the matrix conversion module, and in response to a shutdown condition, the control module is configured to operate the matrix conversion module to deactivate the first conversion module when a magnitude of a current through the inductive element is less than a threshold value. |
| US08410631B2 |
Method for transmitting and/or receiving signals for at least a first and a second different service, particularly in a vehicle
In a method for transmitting and/or receiving signals for at least one first and one second different service, particularly having a large range in a vehicle, at least one first antenna 25′ transmits and/or receives signals for the at least one first or second service, depending on a detectable event, and an antenna module performs this method. |
| US08410630B2 |
Powerline communication control of light emitting diode (LED) lighting fixtures
A powerline communication control system for controlling a lighting unit, such as an LED lighting unit, including a master controller for receiving lighting unit control inputs from a lighting controller and generating corresponding lighting unit command outputs in a lighting system command format and transmission mode and superimposing the lighting unit command outputs onto the power distribution system and at least one lighting slave unit for receiving the lighting command signal, separating the lighting command signal from the power signal and for providing lighting unit control commands to the at least one lighting unit to control illumination thereof. |
| US08410626B2 |
Submersible power generating plant, driven by a water flow
There is provided a power generation plant for obtaining electrical power from a water flow. The power generation plant includes a revolving unit having a water turbine, a directly driven electrical generator having a coaxial configuration with a generator rotor and generator stator, a gondola housing having a housing part to form a cylindrical internal opening where the generator stator is situated, a support element for supporting the revolving unit which is situated coaxially and radially inside the cylindrical internal opening to bear the generator rotor, and a bearing configuration for the running of the support element in the cylindrical internal opening. The electric generator of the power generation plant is situated asymmetrically in relation to the longitudinal extension of the cylindrical internal opening in the gondola housing and is also displaced toward the support structure carrying the gondola housing. |
| US08410623B2 |
Wind power electricity generating system and relative control method
A wind power electricity generating system having a nacelle; a rotary assembly rotating about an axis with respect to the nacelle; and an angular speed detection device having at least one image sensor facing a surface of the rotary assembly. |
| US08410619B2 |
Granular epoxy resin composition for encapsulating semiconductor, semiconductor device using the same and method for producing semiconductor device
Disclosed is a granular epoxy resin composition for encapsulating a semiconductor used for a semiconductor device obtained by encapsulating a semiconductor element by compression molding, wherein, in the particle size distribution as determined by sieving the whole epoxy resin composition for encapsulating a semiconductor using JIS standard sieves, the ratio of particles having a size of 2 mm or greater is not more than 3% by mass, the ratio of particles having a size of 1 mm or greater, but less than 2 mm is from 0.5% by mass or more to 60% by mass or less, and the ratio of microfine particles having a size of less than 106 μm is not more than 5% by mass. |
| US08410594B2 |
Inter-stacking module system
An inter-stacking module system is provided by mounting an integrated circuit on a first substrate, the first substrate having a first bond pad, mounting an inter-stacking module substrate over the integrated circuit, forming an inter-stacking module bonding pad on the inter-stacking module substrate, and connecting bond wires between the inter-stacking module bonding pad and the first bond pad. |
| US08410590B2 |
Device including a power semiconductor chip electrically coupled to a leadframe via a metallic layer
A device including a power semiconductor chip. One embodiment provides a power semiconductor chip having a first electrode on a first surface and a second and a third electrode on a second surface opposite to the first surface. A leadframe includes a carrier and a first lead, the power semiconductor chip placed over the carrier with the first surface of the power semiconductor chip facing the carrier. A metallic layer includes a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The metallic layer is placed over the second surface of the power semiconductor chip with the first surface of the metallic layer facing the power semiconductor chip. The second surface of the metallic layer and a surface of the first lead lie within a common mounting plane. |
| US08410587B2 |
Integrated circuit package system
An integrated circuit package system includes a leadframe with leads configured to provide electrical contact between an integrated circuit chip and an external electrical source. Configuring the leads to include outer leads, down set transitional leads, and down set inner leads. Connecting the integrated circuit chip electrically to the down set inner leads. Depositing an encapsulating material to prevent exposure of the down set inner leads. |
| US08410586B2 |
Semiconductor package and method of assembling a semiconductor package
A semiconductor package includes a semiconductor component including a circuit carrier with a plurality of inner contact pads, a semiconductor chip, and a plurality of electrical connections. An adhesion promotion layer is disposed on at least areas of the semiconductor component and a plastic encapsulation material encapsulates at least the semiconductor chip, the plurality of electrical connections and the plurality of the inner contact pads. Surface regions of the semiconductor component are selectively activated. |
| US08410585B2 |
Leadframe and semiconductor package made using the leadframe
Metal leadframes, semiconductor packages made using the leadframes, and methods of making the leadframes and packages are disclosed. In one embodiment, the leadframe includes a rectangular frame. A chip pad and a plurality of leads are within the frame. The lower side of the chip pad and the leads includes one or more vertically recessed horizontal surfaces. The upper side of the chip pad may include a groove around a chip mounting region. In a package, the chip pad supports a semiconductor chip electrically connected to the leads. The lower side of the chip pad and leads are exposed at an exterior surface of the package body. Encapsulant material underfills the recessed lower surfaces of the chip pad and leads, thereby locking them to the encapsulant material. A wire may be reliably bonded to the chip pad within the groove formed in the upper side thereof. |
| US08410577B2 |
Semiconductor device
The invention provides a semiconductor device which has a capacitor element therein to achieve size reduction of the device, the capacitor element having larger capacitance than conventional. A semiconductor integrated circuit and pad electrodes are formed on the front surface of a semiconductor substrate. A second insulation film is formed on the side and back surfaces of the semiconductor substrate, and a capacitor electrode is formed between the back surface of the semiconductor substrate and the second insulation film, contacting the back surface of the semiconductor substrate. The second insulation film is covered by wiring layers electrically connected to the pad electrodes, and the wiring layers and the capacitor electrode overlap with the second insulation film being interposed therebetween. Thus, the capacitor electrode, the second insulation film and the wiring layers form capacitors. |
| US08410575B2 |
High voltage semiconductor devices and methods of forming the same
High voltage semiconductor devices and methods of fabrication thereof are described. In one embodiment, a method of forming a semiconductor device includes forming first trenches in an insulating material. A trap region is formed in the insulating material by introducing an impurity into the first trenches. The first trenches are filled with a conductive material. |
| US08410573B2 |
SOI (silicon on insulator) structure semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same
In a SOI structure semiconductor device using a SOI substrate, a lattice distortion layer is formed by implanting Ar ions into a silicon substrate as an active layer. The lattice distortion layer is capable of serving as a gettering site. The dose amount of Ar ions is adjusted in such a manner that tensile stress in the lattice distortion layer is equal to or greater than 11 MPa and equal to or less than 27 MPa. Thus, the lattice distortion layer can prevent occurrence of a leakage current while serving as the gettering site. |
| US08410570B2 |
Photodiode with interfacial charge control and associated process
A photodiode includes a first doped layer and a second doped layer that share a common face. A deep isolation trench has a face contiguous with the first and second doped layers. A conducting layer is in contact with a free face of the second doped layer. A protective layer is provided at an interface with the first doped layer and second doped layer. This protective layer is capable of generating a layer of negative charge at the interface. The protective layer may further be positioned within the second doped layer to form an intermediate protective structure. |
| US08410567B2 |
Solid image-pickup device with flexible circuit substrate
An improved solid image-pickup device is so formed that its semiconductor device has on its surface an image-pickup area having a plurality of light sensors arranged thereon. A plurality of bonding pads are formed on the surface of the semiconductor device and arranged around the image-pickup area. A plurality of through holes are formed through the semiconductor substrate, extending from the lower surfaces of the bonding pads to the back surface of the semiconductor substrate and each of the through holes is filled with an electrically conductive material, thereby effecting an electric connection between the bonding pads and the copper wire of the flexible circuit substrate bonded to the back surface of the semiconductor substrate. |
| US08410562B2 |
Methods, apparatuses, and systems for micromechanical gas chemical sensing capacitor
A capacitive chemical sensor, along with methods of making and using the sensor are provided. The sensors described herein eliminate undesirable capacitance by etching away the substrate underneath the capacitive chemical sensor, eliminating most of the substrate capacitance and making changes in the chemical-sensitive layer capacitance easier to detect. |
| US08410559B2 |
Selectively self-assembling oxygen diffusion barrier
A shallow trench isolation structure is formed in a semiconductor substrate adjacent to an active semiconductor region. A selective self-assembling oxygen barrier layer is formed on the surface of the shallow trench isolation structure that includes a dielectric oxide material. The formation of the selective self-assembling oxygen barrier layer is selective in that it is not formed on the surface the active semiconductor region having a semiconductor surface. The selective self-assembling oxygen barrier layer is a self-assembled monomer layer of a chemical which is a derivative of alkylsilanes including at least one alkylene moiety. The silicon containing portion of the chemical forms polysiloxane, which is bonded to surface silanol groups via Si—O—Si bonds. The monolayer of the chemical is the selective self-assembling oxygen barrier layer that prevents diffusion of oxygen to a high dielectric constant material layer that is subsequently deposited as a gate dielectric. |
| US08410558B2 |
Semiconductor device with field plates
A semiconductor device includes source fingers and drain fingers provided on an active region of a nitride semiconductor layer alternately, gate fingers having a side edge and a distal edge, a first insulation film provided on the nitride semiconductor layer and covers a top face, the side and distal edges of the gate fingers, field plates provided on the first insulation film between the gate fingers and the drain fingers, a minimum distance between the side face of the first insulation film located on the side edge of the gate fingers and the field plate being at least 100 nm, and field plate interconnections provided on the first insulation film and located outside of the active region and electrically connected with the source fingers and the field plates, a minimum distance between the side face of the first insulation film located on the distal edge of the gate fingers and the field plate interconnections being at least 100 nm. |
| US08410555B2 |
CMOSFET device with controlled threshold voltage and method of fabricating the same
There is provided a CMOSFET device with a threshold voltage controlled by means of its gate stack configuration and a method of fabricating the same. The CMOSFET device comprises: a semiconductor substrate; am interface layer grown on the silicon substrate; a first high-k gate dielectric layer deposited on the interface layer; a very thin metal layer deposited on the first high-k gate dielectric layer; a second high-k gate dielectric layer deposited on the very thin metal layer; and a gate electrode layer deposited on the second high-k gate dielectric layer. |
| US08410554B2 |
Method, structure and design structure for customizing history effects of SOI circuits
A design structure is embodied in a machine readable medium for designing, manufacturing, or testing a design. The design structure includes a structure which comprises a high-leakage dielectric formed in a divot on each side of a segmented FET comprised of active silicon islands and gate electrodes thereon, and a low-leakage dielectric on the surface of the active silicon islands, adjacent the high-leakage dielectric, wherein the low-leakage dielectric has a lower leakage than the high-leakage dielectric. Also provided is a structure and method of fabricating the structure. |
| US08410553B2 |
Semiconductor structure including high voltage device
A high voltage device includes a substrate with a device region defined thereon. A gate stack is disposed on the substrate in the device region. A channel region is located in the substrate beneath the gate stack, while a first diffusion region is located in the substrate on a first side of the gate stack. A first isolation structure in the substrate, located on the first side of the gate stack, separates the channel and the first diffusion region. The high voltage device also includes a first drift region in the substrate coupling the channel to the first diffusion region, wherein the first drift region comprises a non-uniform depth profile conforming to a profile of the first isolation structure. |
| US08410542B2 |
Charge-trapping nonvolatile memory devices having gate structures therein with improved blocking layers
Nonvolatile memory devices include a tunnel insulating layer on a substrate and a charge storing layer on the tunnel insulating layer. A charge transfer blocking layer is provided on the charge storing layer. The charge transfer blocking layer is formed as a composite of multiple layers, which include a first oxide layer having a thickness of about 1 Å to about 10 Å. This first oxide layer is formed directly on the charge storing layer. The charge transfer blocking layer includes a first dielectric layer on the first oxide layer. The charge transfer blocking layer also includes a second oxide layer on the first dielectric layer and a second dielectric layer on the second oxide layer. The first and second dielectric layers have a higher dielectric constant relative to the first and second oxide layers, respectively. The memory cell includes an electrically conductive electrode on the charge transfer blocking layer. |
| US08410539B2 |
MOS transistor with a settable threshold
A MOS transistor comprising a conductive extension of its source region, insulated from its substrate, and partially extending under its channel. |
| US08410532B2 |
Solid-state imaging device including a multilayer wiring layer, color filters, lenses, and waveguide groove and manufacturing method for the same
The present invention provides a solid-state imaging device comprising: a semiconductor substrate having a pixel region and a peripheral circuit region; a multilayer wiring layer including layers of wiring and an interlayer film interposed therebetween, and disposed above the semiconductor substrate to cover the pixel region and the peripheral circuit region except areas above the photoelectric conversion elements; a waveguide member filling the areas above the photoelectric conversion elements (waveguides) and covering the multilayer wiring layer at least within the pixel region; and an optical structure (composed of a color filter material and a lens material) disposed above the waveguide member within the pixel region, wherein a groove is formed by removing a portion of the waveguide member from an area within the pixel region that is in a border between the pixel region and the peripheral circuit region. |
| US08410530B2 |
Sensitive field effect transistor apparatus
The invention discloses a sensitive field effect transistor apparatus, which uses an inorganic membrane to sense hydrogen ions. The invention adopts the membrane with high deformation stress. The sensitivity of the sensitive membrane to hydrogen ions is adjusted through altering the membrane thickness and changing the substrate type and doped concentration. A differential amplifier is used to read a signal to form the inorganic Ion Sensitive Field Effect Transistor/Reference Field Effect Transistor apparatus. |
| US08410525B2 |
Compound semiconductor substrate and device therewith
A semiconductor device is formed on a semiconductor substrate, which is comprised of: a base substrate; and a multilayer being formed on the base substrate and having a surface serving for an interface with the semiconductor device, the multilayer including alternating layers of a first compound semiconductor and a second compound semiconductor materially distinguishable from the first compound semiconductor, one selected from the group consisting of the first compound semiconductor and the second compound semiconductor being doped with one selected from the group consisting of carbon and transition elements. |
| US08410518B2 |
Organic light emitting diode display and method for manufacturing the same
In one aspect, an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display that includes: a substrate; an organic light emitting element on the substrate; a thin film encapsulation layer on the substrate and covering the organic light emitting element; a polymer carpet layer directly on the thin film encapsulation layer; and a cover film directly on the polymer carpet layer is provided. |
| US08410513B2 |
Light emitting device package
Provided is a light emitting device package. The light emitting device package comprises a first conductive type package body, an insulating layer comprising an opening on the package body, a plurality of compound semiconductor layers disposed on the package body through the opening of the insulating layer, an electrode electrically connected to the plurality of compound semiconductor layers, a first metal layer electrically connected to the package body and disposed on a part of the insulating layer, and a second metal layer electrically connected to the electrode and disposed on the other part of the insulating layer. |
| US08410504B2 |
LED module
The present invention relates to a LED module which converts pump light from a LED chip (120) to light at another wavelength, which is emitted from the module. The conversion takes place in a portion of a luminescent material (124). The color purity of the LED module is enhanced by reducing any leakage of pump light using a reflector in combination with an absorber. In one embodiment, the absorber is integrated as one or several thin absorbing layers between the layers of a multi-layer reflection filter (126); this may yield an even higher reduction of pump light leakage from the module. |
| US08410501B2 |
Light source
A light source that restricts the heat accumulation in the phosphor. The light source includes: a substrate 5; LED elements D21, D22, D23, D41, D42 that have been implemented on a main surface of the substrate 5; projections 11 that have been formed in areas of the main surface of the substrate 5 in which any of the LED elements D21, D22, D23, D41, D42 have not been implemented; and a translucent sealing member 7 that has been formed on the substrate in a state that the LED elements D21, D22, D23, D41, D42 and the projections 11 are covered and sealed with the sealing member 7. The sealing member 7 includes a phosphor 13 that converts light from the LED elements D21, D22, D23, D41, D42 into light of a predetermined color. The heat conductivity of the projections 11 is higher than the heat conductivity of the sealing member 7. |
| US08410494B2 |
Light emitting diode package and lamp with the same
An LED package comprises a substrate, a constant current die, an LED die and an encapsulation body. The substrate has a plurality of internal conductive contacts and a plurality of external conductive contacts. The constant current die is electrically connected to the internal conductive contact, and comprises a constant current circuit and a protection circuit in parallel, wherein the constant current circuit allows a first current to flow through and the protection circuit allows a second current, in an opposite direction to the first current, to flow through. The LED die is electrically connected to the internal conductive contact. The encapsulation body encapsulates the constant current die, the LED die and the internal conductive contacts of the substrate. Having a small volume, the LED package can be applied to a compact lamp and prevents the LED from being damaged. An LED lamp comprising the LED package is also disclosed. |
| US08410492B2 |
Light-emitting element, light-emitting device and an electronic device, which include two layers including same light-emitting organic compound
The present invention provides a light-emitting element including an electron-transporting layer and a hole-transporting layer between a first electrode and a second electrode; and a first layer and a second layer between the electron-transporting layer and the hole-transporting layer, wherein the first layer includes a first organic compound and an organic compound having a hole-transporting property, the second layer includes a second organic compound and an organic compound having an electron-transporting property, the first layer is formed in contact with the first electrode side of the second layer, the first organic compound and the second organic compound are the same compound, and a voltage is applied to the first electrode and the second electrode, so that both of the first organic compound and the second organic compound emit light. |
| US08410488B2 |
Micropipe-free silicon carbide and related method of manufacture
Micropipe-free, single crystal, silicon carbide (SiC) and related methods of manufacture are disclosed. The SiC is grown by placing a source material and seed material on a seed holder in a reaction crucible of the sublimation system, wherein constituent components of the sublimation system including the source material, reaction crucible, and seed holder are substantially free from unintentional impurities. By controlling growth temperature, growth pressure, SiC sublimation flux and composition, and a temperature gradient between the source material and the seed material or the SiC crystal growing on the seed material during the PVT process, micropipe-inducing process instabilities are eliminated and micropipe-free SiC crystal is grown on the seed material. |
| US08410485B2 |
Pixel structure
A pixel structure including a scan line, a data line intersecting the scan line, a first gate, a second gate, a third gate, a semiconductor layer, a source, a first drain, a second drain, a first pixel electrode, and a second pixel electrode is provided. The dataline and the scan line are interlaced disposed. The semiconductor layer is disposed on the scan line to define the first gate and the second gate. The source is directly connected to the data line and located between the first gate and the second gate. The first gate is located between the first drain and the source. The second gate is located between the second drain and the source. The third gate is electrically connected to the scan line. The first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode are respectively electrically connected to the first drain and the second drain. |
| US08410482B2 |
Semiconductor device, light emitting apparatus and electronic device
Disclosed in a semiconductor device including a substrate, a first transistor, a second transistor, and a first source electrode and a first drain electrode of the first transistor are arranged along a first direction and a second source electrode and a second drain electrode of the second transistor are arranged in a reverse order of the first source electrode and the first drain electrode along the first direction, the first source electrode and the second source electrode are connected by a source connecting wiring, the first drain electrode and the second drain electrode are connected by a drain connecting wiring, a first gate electrode and a second gate electrode are connected by a gate connecting wiring and the source connecting wiring and the drain connecting wiring are provided at positions except a region overlapped with the first gate electrode, the second gate electrode and the gate connecting wiring. |
| US08410480B2 |
CMOS-MEMS cantilever structure
The present invention discloses a CMOS-MEMS cantilever structure. The CMOS-MEMS cantilever structure includes a substrate, a circuit structure, and a cantilever beam. The substrate has a circuit area and a sensor unit area defined thereon. The circuit structure is formed in the circuit area. The cantilever beam is disposed in the sensor unit area with one end floating above the substrate and the other end connecting to the circuit structure. With the above arrangement, the manufacturing process of CMOS-MEMS cantilever structure of this invention can be simplified. Furthermore, the structure of the cantilever beam is thinned down and therefore has a higher sensitivity. |
| US08410479B2 |
Transistors, electronic devices including a transistor and methods of manufacturing the same
Transistors, electronic devices including a transistor and methods of manufacturing the same are provided, the transistor includes an oxide semiconductor layer (as a channel layer) having compositions that vary in one direction. The channel layer may be an oxide layer including a first element, a second element, and Zn, which are metal elements. The amount of at least one of the first element, the second element, and Zn may change in a deposition direction of the channel layer. The first element may be any one of hafnium (Hf), yttrium (Y), tantalum (Ta), zirconium (Zr), gallium (Ga), aluminum (Al) or combinations thereof. The second element may be indium (In). The channel layer may have a multi-layered structure including at least two layers with different compositions. |
| US08410477B2 |
Organic light emitting device, lighting apparatus and organic light emitting display apparatus
An organic light emitting device having increased outcoupling efficiency, a lighting apparatus including the organic light emitting device, and an organic light emitting display apparatus including the organic light emitting device. The organic light emitting device includes a substrate, a first electrode layer that is uniformly patterned on the substrate, a low refractive conductive layer disposed on the first electrode layer, and having a conductive material with a lower refractive index than a refractive index of an organic layer that is disposed on the low refractive conductive layer, and a second electrode layer formed on the organic layer. |
| US08410468B2 |
Hollow GST structure with dielectric fill
A memory cell structure, including a substrate having a via therein bound at first and second ends thereof by electrodes. The via is coated on side surfaces thereof with GST material defining a core that is hollow or at least partially filled with material, e.g., germanium or dielectric material. One or more of such memory cell structures may be integrated in a phase change memory device. The memory cell structure can be fabricated in a substrate containing a via closed at one end thereof with a bottom electrode, by conformally coating GST material on sidewall surface of the via and surface of the bottom electrode enclosing the via, to form an open core volume bounded by the GST material, optionally at least partially filling the open core volume with germanium or dielectric material, annealing the GST material film, and forming a top electrode at an upper portion of the via. |
| US08410451B2 |
Neutron fluorescence with synchronized gamma detector
Method and apparatus for minimizing signal noise (20, 22) in thermal, epithermal, and cold neutron fluorescence processes using neutron flux modulation and gamma ray detector pulse gating synchronized to neutron time of flight (NTOF). The apparatus includes a source (12) of thermal, epithermal, and/or cold neutrons, optionally switched between flux or power settings in various embodiments, a gamma ray detector (14) or detection system capable of either being turned ON and OFF, in some embodiments, or else being told to regard or disregard gamma ray signals (20, 22) in other embodiments, a control mechanism (24), and either a target range detector (26) or a prior measurement of target range, in embodiments where the range remains fixed. The gamma ray detector (14) is synchronized to the NTOF by the control mechanism (24) so that it remains switched OFF during the pulse period of the neutron source (12) and for the subsequent NTOF so that any nuisance signals (20, 22) arriving at the detector (14) during these times are not detected or considered. |
| US08410438B2 |
Charged particle beam device
A charged particle beam device has a tilt detection unit that detects a tilt of a sample surface and an E×B deflector in which an electric field and a magnetic field are overlapped with each other and which causes, according to the detected tilt of the sample surface, the sample surface to be perpendicularly irradiated with an irradiation charged particle beam while, at the same time, aligning the trajectory of the charged particle beam with the optical axis centers of an irradiation optical system and an imaging optical system; thereby, the charged particle beam device can prevent problems possibly occurring in cases where a sample stage is tilted or a sample surface is undulating and can enable an accurate image to be acquired. |
| US08410434B1 |
Thermo-stabilized nano- and micro- flow LC/ESI-MS interface and a method thereof
A liquid chromatography interface is provided having an integrated column/ESI tip assembly including a liquid chromatography separation column, an ESI tip for generating ions having at least one emitting channel, and a temperature-controlled enclosure surrounding the liquid chromatography separation column. The enclosure has at least one opening and the ESI tip is exposed outside the enclosure through the opening. The enclosure has a heating or cooling device providing a substantially homogeneous distribution of temperature throughout an internal space of the enclosure where the liquid chromatography separation column is disposed. The enclosure includes at least one gas flow mixing element to permit heat exchange by directing a flow of gas toward the ESI tip. The integrated column/ESI tip assembly resides within a thermo-stabilized volume of substantially the same temperature from an entrance of the liquid chromatography separation column to the outlet of the ESI tip. |
| US08410428B2 |
Methods for detecting dihydrotestosterone by mass spectrometry
Provided are methods for determining the amount of dihydrotestosterone (DHT) in a sample using mass spectrometry. The methods generally involve ionizing DHT in a sample and detecting and quantifying the amount of the ion to determine the amount of DHT in the sample. |
| US08410423B2 |
Nuclear gauges and related methods of assembly
Nuclear gauges, their components and method for assembly and adjustment of the same are provided. The nuclear gauges are used in measuring the density and/or moisture of construction-related materials. The nuclear gauge can include a gauge housing having a vertical cavity therethrough and at least one radiation detector located within the housing. The nuclear gauge can include a vertically moveable source rod and a radiation source operatively positioned within a distal end of the source rod. The nuclear gauge can also include a radiation shield assembly. |
| US08410420B1 |
Semiconductor travelling-wave evanescent waveguide photodetector
An optoelectronic structure includes a waveguide region, a detector region that is weakly evanescently coupled to the waveguide region, and a dielectric layer interposed between the waveguide region and the detector region and configured to provide the weak evanescent coupling. |
| US08410416B2 |
Reduction of delay between subsequent capture operations of a light-detection device
Disclosed are a system, a method and an apparatus of reduction of delay between subsequent capture operations of a light-detection device. In one embodiment, a light-detection circuit includes an avalanche photodiode implemented in a deep submicron CMOS technology. In addition, the light-detection circuit includes a passive quench control circuit to create an avalanche current that generates a high voltage at an output of a second inverter gate of the circuit. The light-detection circuit further includes an active quench control circuit to reduce a dead time of the circuit. The light-detection circuit also includes a reset circuit to create a low voltage at an output of the second inverter gate and to create an active reset through a PMOS transistor of the light-detection circuit. |
| US08410407B2 |
Formed component heater element
A heater element for formed components is disclosed, along with the final formed component itself. The heater element is produced by photochemically etching a suitable heater track pattern from porous metallized fabric such a nickel coated woven polyester. The heater element is located within a mold. Thermo-formable material is then applied to the mold and the final component is shaped according to the shape of the mold. The final component has a heater element located within it. The component may have microencapsulated agents for initiation by operation of the heater element. Furthermore, the final component may have one or more digital images printed onto the surface for the purposes of decoration or personalization. |
| US08410406B1 |
Helical wire heating coil assemblies and methods for assembling helical wire heating coil assemblies
Helical wire heating coil assemblies and methods of assembling helical heating coil assemblies are provided. In one example, a helical wire heating coil assembly includes first and second support frames that are detachably coupled together by a first plurality of insulating standoffs coupled to the first support frame, a second plurality of insulating standoffs coupled to the second support frame, and a helical wire heating coil coupled to both the first plurality of insulating standoffs and the second plurality of insulating standoffs. |
| US08410390B2 |
Grinding machine with a device for conditioning a grinding wheel and a method of conditioning a grinding wheel
A grinding machine for grinding a workpiece comprises a machine frame, a bearing device provided on the machine frame and movable along guides, in which a cup-shaped grinding wheel is rotatably drivable about a grinding wheel axis and electrically insulated. The grinding wheel is electrically connected to a generator. The device for profile dressing, sharpening and cleaning the grinding wheel consists of a single cup-shaped electrode, which is drivable about its central axis and is placed on a slide, which allows a working gap to exist between the machining surface of the cup-shaped electrode and the annular abrasive surface. A spark erosion discharge occurs in the gap when a voltage is applied. The grinding wheel can thereby be optimally conditioned by electric discharge machining. |
| US08410389B2 |
Remote drive for disconnector/isolator used in switchgear
A remotely controlled, motorized drive system for a disconnector used in switchgear. An operator pushes a button on a remote control, which signals a receiver in the disconnector to engage a motor that is coupled to a drive shaft. The drive shaft causes movable contacts of the disconnector to be moved into engagement or out of engagement with sets of fixed contacts in the switchgear that are connected to the line supply and to the circuit breaker that is bolted into the switchgear. One set of contacts is electrically coupled to the line supply, which can carry up to three phases of current. Another set of contacts is connected to corresponding terminals of the circuit breaker. A second motor controls movement of a grounding bar that grounds the circuit breaker to earth. Indicator lights on the switchgear panel indicate the position of the disconnector for visual confirmation of the same. |
| US08410376B2 |
Printed wiring board and method for manufacturing the same
A printed wiring board includes an interlayer resin insulation layer having a penetrating hole for a via conductor, a conductive circuit formed on one surface of the interlayer resin insulation layer, a via conductor formed in the penetrating hole and having a protruding portion protruding from the other surface of the interlayer resin insulation layer, and a surface-treatment coating formed on the surface of the protruding portion of the via conductor. The via conductor is connected to the conductive circuit and has a first conductive layer formed on the side wall of the penetrating hole and a plated layer filling the penetrating hole. |
| US08410373B2 |
Printed circuit substrate and method of manufacturing the same
Disclosed herein are a printed circuit substrate and a method of manufacturing the same. The printed circuit substrate includes an insulating layer, and a circuit layer that includes a circuit pattern disposed on the insulating layer and a barrier layer that is disposed to cover at least one surface of the circuit pattern and suppresses electrochemical migration from the circuit pattern, thereby making it possible to achieve high-density and secure reliability, and the method of manufacturing the same. |
| US08410365B2 |
Wire harness and method of installation thereof
A wire harness includes a cable and a clamp. The cable has an end portion at which a connection terminal is provided. The connection terminal is electrically connected to a connecting portion. The clamp is attached with the cable so as to be movable with respect to the cable in a direction in which the cable extends. The clamp is fixed to a fixing portion disposed adjacent to the connecting portion in a state that the connection terminal is electrically connected to the connecting portion. |
| US08410362B1 |
Fixing structure for the faceplate ventilation screen of a power source supplier
A fixing structure for the faceplate ventilation screen of a power source supplier includes a faceplate body and at least one ventilation screen. The faceplate body has an inner side formed with at least two first extension portions protruding out vertically in the same direction, and the two first extension portions have their opposite inner sides respectively provided with a first position-limiting member extending oppositely at a location adjacent to the faceplate body. The first position-limiting members are parallel to the faceplate body, and a first gap is formed between the first position-limiting members and the faceplate body for receiving two ends of the ventilation screen. The first position-limiting members can be deformed by external force toward the faceplate body for firmly fixing the ventilation screen on the faceplate body. |
| US08410360B2 |
Sealing structure for wire lead-out hole
A sealing structure for wire lead-out hole is provided with a wire lead-out hole (11) formed in a case (10), a resilient seal (20) to be mounted into the wire lead-out hole (11), and a bracket (40) for retaining the resilient seal (20) in the wire lead-out hole (11) by being fixed to the case (10). The resilient seal (20) includes a seal main body (21) including a plurality of wire insertion holes (22) for allowing insertion of wires (Y), outer lips (24) formed on the outer peripheral surface of the seal main body (21), inner lips (23) formed on the inner peripheral surfaces of the wire insertion holes (22), and a wire protecting portion (25) provided on the seal main body (21). |
| US08410358B2 |
Electronic device enclosure
An electronic device enclosure includes an enclosure body, a bezel, a resilient locking clip, and an unlocking clip. An opening is defined in the enclosure body. The bezel assembly is mounted to the enclosure body and covers the opening. The resilient locking clip is attached to the enclosure body. A protrusion is located on the resilient clip. The unlocking clip is attached to the bezel assembly and is operable along a first direction. The unlocking clip is capable of being rotated from a first position to a second position. In the first position, the resilient locking clip blocks the bezel assembly from moving along the first direction. In the second position, the resilient clip is disengaged from the bezel by the unlocking clip. |
| US08410356B2 |
Photoelectric conversion element and solar cell
Provided is a photoelectric conversion element for which a novel compound (dye) exhibiting excellent adsorption to an oxide semiconductor and exhibiting high photoelectric conversion efficiency is used, and also provided is a solar cell employing the photoelectric conversion element. Disclosed is a dye-sensitizing type photoelectric conversion element possessing at least a pair of facing electrodes, a semiconductor layer possessing a semiconductor and a sensitizing dye supported on the semiconductor, and a charge transport layer, wherein the semiconductor layer and the charge transport layer are provided between the facing electrodes, and wherein the sensitizing dye comprises a compound represented by the following Formula (1). |
| US08410355B2 |
Thin film photoelectric conversion device having a stacked transparent oxide and carbon intermediate layer
This invention intends to develop a technique for forming an interlayer with excellent optical characteristics and to provide a photoelectric conversion device having high conversion efficiency. To realize this purpose, a series connection through an intermediate layer is formed in the thin-film photoelectric conversion device of the invention, and the interlayer is a transparent oxide layer in its front surface and n pairs of layers stacked therebehind (n is an integer of 1 or more), wherein each of the pair of layers is a carbon layer and a transparent oxide layer stacked in this order. Film thicknesses of each layer are optimized to improve wavelength selectivity and stress resistance while keeping the series resistance. |
| US08410354B2 |
Photoelectric conversion device and manufacturing method thereof
Higher conversion efficiency and productivity of photoelectric conversion devices. A semiconductor layer including a first and second crystal regions grown in the layer-deposition direction is provided between an impurity semiconductor layer containing an impurity element imparting one conductivity type and an impurity semiconductor layer containing an impurity element imparting a conductivity type opposite to the one conductivity type. The first crystal region is grown from the interface between one of the impurity semiconductor layers and the semiconductor layer. The second crystal region is grown toward the interface between the semiconductor layer and the other of the impurity semiconductor layers from a position which is away from the interface between the one of the impurity semiconductor layers and the semiconductor layer. The semiconductor layer including the first and second crystal regions which exist in an amorphous structure forms the main part of a region for photoelectric conversion. |
| US08410343B1 |
Maize variety hybrid X8N313
A novel maize variety designated X8N313 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof, produced by crossing Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. proprietary inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprises crossing hybrid maize variety X8N313 with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X8N313 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety X8N313, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X8N313. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X8N313. |
| US08410330B2 |
Composition to control acid rock drainage
A composition to control acid rock drainage is provided. The composition includes a slurry made from water and solids, the solids containing powders of limestone, clay and magnesium oxide or magnesium hydroxide. In some instances, the slurry is thixotropic and contains between 10 to 75 weight percent of solid powders. The solid powders can include between 40 to 75 weight percent limestone, 10 to 35 weight percent clay and 10 to 30 weight percent magnesium oxide or a proportional concentration of magnesium hydroxide. |
| US08410317B2 |
Process for the preparation of 1,4-cyclohexanedimethanol
Disclosed is a process for the preparation of 1,4-cyclohexanedimethanol from terephthalic acid. Terephthalic acid is esterified with (4-methylcyclohexyl)methanol and the terephthalate ester hydrogenated to 1,4-cyclohexanedimethanol in a 2-stage process. The (4-methylcyclohexyl)methanol that is formed during the hydrogenation step is recycled to the esterification reaction. After removal of the (4-methylcyclohexyl)methanol from the crude hydrogenation product, the 1,4-cyclohexanedimethanol product can be recovered and purified by a phase separation and distillation. |
| US08410315B2 |
Method for producing olefinically unsaturated carbonyl compounds by oxidative dehydrogenation of alcohols
A process for preparing olefinically unsaturated carbonyl compounds by oxidative dehydrogenation in an oxygenous atmosphere over a supported catalyst which comprises gold and optionally further noble metals at temperatures in the range from 50 to 240° C. |
| US08410310B2 |
Trypsin-like serine protease inhibitors, and their preparation and use
The invention relates to inhibitors of trypsin-like serine proteases of the general formula (I) which, as well as plasmin, also inhibit plasma kallikrein, and to their preparation and use as medicaments, preferably for treatment of blood loss, especially in the case of hyperfibrinolytic states, in organ transplants or heart surgery interventions, in particular with a cardiopulmonary bypass, or as a constituent of a fibrin adhesive. |
| US08410306B2 |
Method of producing a carboxylic alkyl ester
The present invention relates to a novel process for preparing alkyl polycarboxylates from an aqueous solution of an ammonium salt of the polycarboxylic acid by reactive distillation, and to a process for hydrogenating the alkyl carboxylates prepared in this way. |
| US08410302B2 |
Methoxyimino compounds and fungicide composition comprising same
The present invention provides a methoxyimino compound, and a fungicide composition comprising same as an active ingredient. The methoxyimino compound of the present invention, which has an excellent antifungal activity against a wide spectrum of fungi even at a low application rate, can be used to protect various crops. |
| US08410301B2 |
Methods for the synthesis of organic sulfides by using sulfides and organic sulfur-indium complexes
The present invention relates to a novel synthesis method for the formation of carbon-sulfur bonds by the reaction of an organic sulfur-indium complex with nucleophile in the presence of a palladium catalyst. The present invention provides a synthesis method to prepare several kinds of organic sulfides which are difficult to be prepared by the conventional synthesis methods. A short reaction time and quantitative yield are the advantages of this method. In addition, several kinds of organic sulfide can be prepared by the selection of nucleophile and organic sulfur-indium complex to be used. |
| US08410300B2 |
Protease inhibitors
The present invention provides HIV protease inhibitors of formulas I, IA, IB, Ib or II, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein R2 may be, for example, 2-pyridyl-CH2—, 3 -pyridyl-CH2—, 4-pyridyl-CH2—, a sulfonyl group as described in the formulas herein including benzenesulfonyl or thiophenesulfonyl groups, R2a—CO—, R2a being selected from the group consisting of piperonyl, 2-pyrazinyl (unsubstituted or substituted with H, or an alkyl of 1 to 4 carbon atoms) or a picolylamine group as described herein, wherein R3 may be, for example, a phenyl group or diphenylmethyl group as described herein, and wherein Cx may be, for example, COOH, CONR5R6, CH2OH or CH2OR7. |
| US08410294B2 |
Method for preparing highly pure anhydrous crystalline docetaxel
A method for preparing highly pure anhydrous crystalline docetaxel is provided. The method for preparing highly pure anhydrous crystalline docetaxel enables preparation of anhydrous crystalline docetaxel that has purity of 99.5% or more, and is useful as an anticancer agent due to remarkably low residual solvent content compared to the standard of residual solvents in drugs. |
| US08410289B2 |
Spirocyclic 3'-alkoxytetramic acids and-tetronic acids
The invention relates to novel 3′-alkoxy spirocyclic tetramic and tetronic acids of formula (I), wherein A, B, D, Q1, Q2, G, W, X, Y and Z are as defined in the description, to several methods and intermediate products for the production and the use thereof in the form of pesticides and/or herbicides and/or microbicides, to selective herbicide agents, 3′-alkoxy spicrorylic tetramic and tetronic acids and to at least one compound which improves cultivated plants compatibility. |
| US08410287B2 |
Hydrated sodium salt form of celecoxib
Hydrated celecoxib sodium salt forms and processes to prepare hydrated celecoxib sodium salt forms are disclosed. The celecoxib sodium salt forms are particularly useful and suitable for pharmaceutical applications. |
| US08410282B2 |
Compounds as adenosine A1 receptor antagonists
This compounds correspond to the formula (I), where: R1 represents and aryl or heteroaryl group optionally substituted by one or more substituents selected from the group consisting of halogen atoms, straight or branched optionally substituted lower alkyl, cycloalkyl, hydroxy, straight or branched, optionally substituted lower alkoxy, cyano, or —CO2R′, wherein R′ represents a hydrogen atom or a straight or branched, optionally substituted lower alkyl group; R2 represents a group selected from: a) a straight or branched lower alkyl group substituted by one or more carboxylic groups (—COOH) and optionally substituted by one or more halogen atoms; b) a cycloalkyl group substituted by one or more carboxylic groups (—COOH) and optionally substituted by one or more halogen atoms; c) a straight or branched alkylcycloalkyl or cycloalkylalkyl group substituted by one or more carboxylic groups (—COOH) and optionally substituted by one or more halogen atoms. Formula (I). |
| US08410277B2 |
Method for manufacturing heterocycle substituted pyridine derivatives
It is an object of the present invention to provide an efficient method for manufacturing heterocycle-substituted pyridine derivatives. The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a compound represented by the following formula (I): the method including reacting a compound represented by the following formula (III): and a compound represented by the following formula (II): in a solvent and in the presence of a palladium catalyst and a base, wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom, etc.; R2 represents a hydrogen atom, a C1-6 alkyl group, an amino group that may be protected with a protective group, etc.; one of X and Y represents a nitrogen atom and the other represents a nitrogen atom or an oxygen atom; Q represents a leaving group; the ring A represents a 5- or 6-member heteroaryl ring or a benzene ring, which may have one or two halogen atoms or C1-6 alkyl groups; Z represents a single bond, a methylene group, an ethylene group, an oxygen atom, etc.; R represents a hydrogen atom or a C1-6 alkyl group, etc.; R3 represents a hydrogen atom or a halogen atom, etc.; and R4 represents a hydrogen atom or a halogen atom; provided that when Z represents a single bond, or when R3 represents a hydrogen atom, then R1, R2, and R4 cannot all be a hydrogen atom at the same time. |
| US08410274B2 |
Solid forms of N-[2,4-bis(1,1-dimethylethyl)-5-hydroxyphenyl]-1,4-dihydro-4-oxoquinoline-3-carboxamide
The present invention relates to solid state forms of N-[2,4-bis(1,1-dimethylethyl)-5-hydroxyphenyl]-1,4-dihydro-4-oxoquinoline-3-carboxamide (Compound 1), pharmaceutical compositions thereof and methods therewith. |
| US08410272B2 |
Pyrazolylbenzothiazole derivatives and their use as therapeutic agents
Pharmaceutical compositions and compounds are provided. The compounds of the invention have use as therapeutic agents, e.g., they demonstrate anti-proliferative, anti-inflammatory, anti-angiogenic, anti-migration activities. In one embodiment of the invention, formulations of the compounds in combination with a physiologically acceptable carrier are provided. The pharmaceutical formulations are useful in the treatment of, e.g., anti-inflammatory, renal, and hyperproliferative disorders. The compounds of the invention are pyrazolylbenzothiazole derivatives of the following formula (1) wherein X, R1, R2, R3 and R4 are described herein. |
| US08410271B2 |
Chromen-2-one derivatives and their use as monoamine neurotransmitter re-uptake inhibitors
This invention relates to chromen-2-one derivatives useful as monoamine neurotransmitter re-uptake inhibitors.In other aspects the invention relates to the use of these compounds in a method for therapy and to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds of the invention. |
| US08410268B2 |
Process for the preparation of ziprasidone
The present invention relates to a process for preparing Ziprasidone of formula I, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or a solvate or a hydrate thereof; comprising the steps of reacting 1-(1,2-benzisothiazol-3-yl) piperazine of formula II or its salt: with 5-(2-haloethyl)-6-chloro-oxindole of formula III: wherein X is leaving groups like fluoro, chloro, bromo, iodo or sulphonyl; in the presence of a dispersing agent and a base in a solvent to form ziprasidone of formula I; and optionally converting the ziprasidone formed into a pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salts of ziprasidone; or a solvate or a hydrate thereof. |
| US08410264B2 |
Heterocyclic oxime compounds
The invention relates to compounds of formula (I) and salts thereof: wherein the substituents are as defined in the specification; a compound of formula (I) for use in the treatment of the human or animal body, in particular with regard to c-Met tyrosine kinase mediated diseases or conditions; the use of a compound of formula (I) for manufacturing a medicament for the treatment of such diseases; pharmaceutical compositions comprising a compound of the formula (I), optionally in the presence of a combination partner, and processes for the preparation of a compound of formula (I). |
| US08410263B2 |
High-purity texaphyrin metal complexes
Disclosed herein are the methods and compositions for the improved synthesis of texaphyrin metal complexes. The improved synthesis results in high-purity compositions of texaphyrin metal complexes in which more than about 98% of the texaphyrin metal complexes in the composition have the same structure and/or the same molecular weight. Further described herein are pharmaceutical compositions comprising such high-purity compositions, and the use of such high-purity compositions in the treatment of cancer and cardiovascular diseases and disorders. |
| US08410262B2 |
Process for the preparation of hydroxy polymer esters and their use
This invention covers a novel method for the preparation of hydroxy polymer esters of amino, alkylamino and quaternary ammonium acids and their use in several fields of industry, including the use as additives in the manufacture of paper or paperboard. The esterification of the hydroxy polymer, preferably starch, is performed under semianhydrous conditions by heating homogenized mixtures of the hydroxy polymer and reagents. |
| US08410260B2 |
Double-stranded RNA oligonucleotides which inhibit tyrosinase expression
Novel double-stranded RNA oligonucleotides are useful for decreasing tyrosinase expression, have cosmetic and/or pharmaceutical applications, for example are useful skin depigmenting or anti-browning agents, and can be associated with cationic particles less than or equal to 1 μm in size, having a zeta potential of from 10 to 80 mV. |
| US08410255B2 |
Dark quenchers for donor-acceptor energy transfer
The present invention provides a family of dark quenchers, termed Black Hole Quenchers (“BHQs”), that are efficient quenchers of excited state energy but which are themselves substantially non-fluorescent. Also provided are methods of using the BHQs, probes incorporating the BHQs and methods of using the probes. |
| US08410252B2 |
ULBP2 polypeptides
The invention is directed to purified and isolated novel ULBP polypeptides, the nucleic acids encoding such polypeptides, processes for production of recombinant forms of such polypeptides, antibodies generated against these polypeptides, fragmented peptides derived from these polypeptides, and the uses of the above. ULBP polypeptide can be found on the surface of human B cell lymphomas. Mammalian forms of ULBP polypeptide in isolated or purified forms are provided. In addition, isolated nucleic acids encoding ULBP polypeptides and expression vectors comprising a cDNA encoding ULBP polypeptides are provided. The ULBP polypeptides can be isolated or synthesized and used to prepare antibodies, and in particular monoclonal antibodies, against the polypeptides. The antibodies, in turn, are useful for detecting the presence of ULBP polypeptides in human cell samples, which can be correlated with the existence of a malignant condition in a patient. ULBP polypeptides stimulate IFN-γ production, NK cell proliferation, and CTL activity. |
| US08410250B2 |
Anti-FGFR3 antibodies and methods using same
The invention provides FGFR3 antibodies, and compositions comprising and methods of using these antibodies. |
| US08410248B2 |
HWBAO62 polypeptides
The present invention relates to human secreted polypeptides, and isolated nucleic acid molecules encoding said polypeptides, useful for diagnosing and treating diseases, disorders, and/or conditions (such as immune, cardiovascular, cancer, and other proliferative diseases, disorders, and/or conditions) related to said human secreted proteins. Antibodies that bind these polypeptides are also encompassed by the present invention. Also encompassed by the invention are vectors, host cells, and recombinant and synthetic methods for producing said polynucleotides, polypeptides, and/or antibodies. The invention further encompasses screening methods for identifying agonists and antagonists of polynucleotides and polypeptides of the invention. The present invention further encompasses methods and compositions for inhibiting or enhancing the production and function of the polypeptides of the present invention. The invention further relates to diagnostic and therapeutic methods useful for diagnosing and treating diseases, disorders, and/or conditions related to these novel human secreted proteins. |
| US08410244B2 |
Vibration-damping film
Vibration damping film comprising a composition obtained by dispersing titanium dioxide (Y) and mica flakes (Z) in a polyester resin (X) comprising dicarboxylic acid units and diol units, satisfying conditions (I) to (III), and having a thickness in the range of 20 to 200 μm : (I) Content of polyester resin (X), titanium dioxide (Y) and mica flakes (Z) in the composition is in the range of 35 to 60% by mass, in the range of 5 to 15% by mass and in the range of 30 to 55% by mass, respectively, (II) Average particle diameter of the mica flakes (Z) in the resin composition is in the range of 5 to 80 μm, and (III) Elongation at failure point of the resin composition measured according to JIS K7127 is in the range of 30 to 70%. |
| US08410239B2 |
Organopolysiloxane compositions crosslinkable into elastomeric silicone foams
Novel organopolysiloxane compositions crosslinkable into elastomeric foams (or “silicone foams”) have a low density, that is, less than 0.20 g/cm3 and also have good mechanical properties. |
| US08410230B2 |
Polymerization processes for broadened molecular weight distribution
Provided are methods of producing polymers with broadened molecular weight and/or composition distribution in a continuous homogeneous polymerization system utilizing reactor temperature gradients, reactor polymer concentration gradients, monomer concentration gradients, catalyst concentration gradients, and combinations thereof in the polymerization reactor. Such methods are particularly suitable when utilizing metallocene catalysts and other single-site catalysts, which generally produce polymers with narrow molecular weight and composition distribution. |
| US08410229B2 |
Polyurethane-modified acrylic resin and preparing method thereof
A polyurethane-modified acrylic resin and a preparing method thereof are disclosed. The polyurethane-modified acrylic resin is prepared through the following steps: preparing a monomer with double bond and urethane group by means of a reaction of isocyanate, hydroxylalkyl acrylate and aliphatic alcohol, and then copolymerizing the monomer with acrylate monomer. The polyurethane-modified acrylic resin of the present invention contains a urethane structure, has the features of both polyurethane and acrylic resin, and is soluble in alcohol or ester solvent. An ink, a laminating adhesive, a metal surface-protective coating and a gloss varnish for woodware produced from the resin as well as the preparing methods thereof are also disclosed. |
| US08410226B2 |
Two-step process for brominating butadiene copolymers
Butadiene copolymers are brominated using certain quaternary ammonium tribromides as the brominating agent in a first step, and then with elemental bromine in a second bromination step. The bromination process proceeds easily under mild conditions, and produces a brominated product that has excellent thermal stability. The bromination proceeds to high conversions in shorter reaction times, when the bromination is performed using only the first bromination step. |
| US08410221B2 |
Process for producing water-absorbing polymer particles with low caking tendency and high absorption under pressure
A process for producing water-absorbing polymer particles with low caking tendency and high absorption under pressure, comprising polymerization of a monomer solution or suspension, drying of the resulting polymer gel, grinding, classifying, thermal surface postcrosslinking and coating with silicon dioxide, wherein the water-absorbing polymer particles have been coated, before, during or after the surface postcrosslinking with aluminum cations. |
| US08410215B2 |
Thermoplastic resin composition and molded article obtained from the same
A thermoplastic resin composition contains (i) a polylactic acid, (ii) a polyolefin, and (iii) a compatibilizer (functional group-containing polymer that includes a functional group selected from functional groups X including a carboxyl group, an acid anhydride group, an epoxy group, a (meth)acryloyl group, an amino group, an alkoxysilyl group, a hydroxyl group, an isocyanate group, and an oxazoline group). The thermoplastic resin composition contains (iii-1) a functional group-containing hydrogenated diene polymer and (iii-2) a functional group-containing olefin polymer as the component (iii). |
| US08410213B2 |
Primerless two-part polyurethane adhesive
A two-part polyurethane adhesive comprising a prepolymer having the reaction product of a non-ionic surfactant and an allophanate modified isocyanate and a curative having a urethane modified high molecular weight polyol, a urethane modified cross-linking compound and a non-urethane modified low molecular weight chain extending compound. The curative has less than 5 equivalent percent total amino and hydroxyl groups having an equivalent weight greater than about 200. The two-part polyurethane adhesive may be used to adhere one or more substrates and can generally be applied without primer or any significant surface preparation. |
| US08410212B2 |
Alcohol-soluble resin and a method for preparing the same
An alcohol-soluble resin and a method for preparing the same, in which the content of vinyl acetate monomer in polymeric raw material is 50% to 90%. In addition, acrylic ester monomer and other reactive functional group-containing compounds have been mixed in the raw material to ensure the performance of resin for special requirements in application. Also provided are products produced by using the resin, such as alcohol-soluble ink, composite adhesive, lustering oil for printing, glazing lacquer for woodware, superficial decorating coatings for plastic materials, safeguard coatings of metal surface and hair colorant, as well as preparation methods. |
| US08410209B2 |
Anti abrasion layer
The invention relates to an anti-abrasion layer, comprising a mixture of irregular particles of hard material and round particles essentially free of cutting edges embedded in a matrix material and the use thereof for the production of anti-abrasion surfaces on wood materials, decorative paper, or wood fiber sheets printed with patterns for the production of parquet floors, floor laminates, furniture surfaces or work boards and for the production of wear-resistant surface layers on support materials made from metal, glass, ceramics, plastic concrete or other materials. |
| US08410205B2 |
Matting agent composition containing low molecular weight polytrimethylene ether glycol
The present invention is directed to a matting agent for reducing gloss of a coating. The matting agent comprises: a) a silica component; b) a polytrimethylene ether glycol; c) one or more solvents; and d) optionally, one or more polymers. This invention is further directed to a matting agent comprising components derived from renewable resources. |
| US08410204B2 |
Hardener composition, adhesive system and method of gluing
The invention relates to a hardener composition for use in an amino resin based adhesive system, comprising an aliphatic alpha hydroxy- mono-, or di-, carboxylic acid, and polyvinyl alcohol. It also relates to an adhesive system and a method of gluing wooden materials. |
| US08410193B2 |
Silane coating process for high alkali bioactive glasses
A method of preparing a ceramic-resin composite material for bone repair, including preparing a predetermined amount of pH controlled substantially anhydrous coupling agent by mixing a liquid silane material, alcohol and organic acid, producing particulate bioactive glass having a desired particle size of less than about 53 mesh, measuring a desired quantity of the particulate bioactive glass into a mixing vessel, heating the mixing vessel and particulate bioactive glass to about 100 degrees Celsius, mixing the heated quantity of particulate bioactive glass and spraying a predetermined amount of substantially anhydrous coupling agent into the heated quantity of particulate bioactive glass to define an admixture, mixing the admixture for sufficient time to define a quantity of substantially evenly coated particles, heating the quantity of substantially evenly coated particles for sufficient time to evolve excess solvent therefrom, and incorporating the quantity of substantially evenly coated particles into a resinous matrix to define a bone replacement medium. |
| US08410188B2 |
Sealant for one-drop fill process
A sealant for a one drop fill process is characterized by curing through two steps consisting of photocure using visible light from which 400 nm or shorter wavelengths are cut off and thermal cure and, when in contact with a liquid crystal composition, is less contaminating to the liquid crystal composition with a photo radical initiator, and exhibits high adhesive strength to a substrate. The sealant contains (1) a titanocene photo radical initiator, (2) a photocuring resin, (3) a latent epoxy curing agent and, if necessary, (4) a monomer having at least two glycidyl ether groups per molecule as a thermosetting resin. |
| US08410186B2 |
Process for manufacturing porous epoxy with open pores and porous epoxy made therefrom
The present invention relates to a process for manufacturing a porous epoxy network, especially a porous epoxy membrane. The process according the present invention comprises the steps of: providing a reactant solution comprising an epoxy resin, a solvent and a curing agent; performing a first curing process to transform the reactant solution to a gel; and performing a second curing process to essentially remove the remaining solvent and transform the gel to form a porous epoxy network with open pores; wherein the curing agent is a tertiary amine. |
| US08410183B2 |
Method for producing bio-fuel that integrates heat from carbon-carbon bond-forming reactions to drive biomass gasification reactions
A low-temperature catalytic process for converting biomass (preferably glycerol recovered from the fabrication of bio-diesel) to synthesis gas (i.e., H2/CO gas mixture) in an endothermic gasification reaction is described. The synthesis gas is used in exothermic carbon-carbon bond-forming reactions, such as Fischer-Tropsch, methanol, or dimethylether syntheses. The heat from the exothermic carbon-carbon bond-forming reaction is integrated with the endothermic gasification reaction, thus providing an energy-efficient route for producing fuels and chemicals from renewable biomass resources. |
| US08410170B2 |
Use of isothiocyanates compounds in treating prostatic diseases and skin cancer
A method for preventing and treating prostatic diseases and skin cancer using naturally or artificially synthesized isothiocyanates compounds or the derivatives or metabolites thereof. |
| US08410161B2 |
Thioxanthone ring system derivatives
A thioxanthone ring system derivative compound is provided. The thioxanthone ring system derivative compound is represented by a formula (I): wherein X is a substituent being one selected from a group consisting of halogens, wherein R1 is a substituent being one selected from a group consisting of sulfur and sulfur dioxide, wherein R2 is a substituent being one selected from a group consisting of C1˜C10 alkyl group, C3˜C10 branched alkyl group, C3˜C10 cyclic alkyl group, phenyl group, phenyl alkyl group, and wherein hydrogen of phenyl group can be partially substituted by halogens, alkoxyl group, C1˜C10 alkyl group, nitro group or amine group. |
| US08410153B2 |
Naphthalene isoxazoline invertebrate pest control agents
Disclosed are compounds of Formula 1, wherein R1 is halogen, C1-C2 haloalkyl or C1-C2 haloalkoxy; R2 is H, halogen or cyano; R3 is H, halogen or CF3; R4 is H, C2-C7 alkylcarbonyl or C2-C7 alkoxycarbonyl; and R5 is C1-C6 alkyl or C1-C6 haloalkyl, each substituted with one substituent independently selected from hydroxy, C1-C6 alkoxy, C1-C6 alkylthio, C1-C6 alkylsulfinyl, C1-C6 alkylsulfonyl, C2-C7 alkylaminocarbonyl, C3-C9 dialkylaminocarbonyl, C2-C7 haloalkylaminocarbonyl and C3-C9 halodialkylaminocarbonyl. Also disclosed are compositions containing the compounds of Formula 1 and methods for controlling an invertebrate pest comprising contacting the invertebrate pest or its environment with a biologically effective amount of a compound or a composition of the invention. |
| US08410152B2 |
Thiazolhydrazides for treatment of neurodegenerative diseases
Described are compounds having a thiazolhydrazide scaffold, pharmaceutically acceptable salts of these compounds and pharmaceutical compositions containing at least one of these compounds together with pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, excipient and/or diluents. Said thiazolhydrazide compounds can be used for prophylaxis and/or treatment of neurodegenerative diseases and conditions. |
| US08410139B2 |
Prodrugs of a piperidinyl derivative as modulators of chemokine receptor activity
The present application describes prodrugs of the compound of formula (I): or stereoisomers or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. In addition, methods of treating and preventing inflammatory diseases such as asthma and allergic diseases, as well as autoimmune pathologies such as rheumatoid arthritis using the prodrug compounds of the invention are disclosed. |
| US08410131B2 |
Cancer treatment
Rapamycin derivatives have interesting effects in the treatment of solid tumors, optionally in combination with a chemotherapeutic agent. |
| US08410129B2 |
Treatment for paresis/paralysis
The present invention relates to a novel use of opioid compounds for treatment of a neurologic or neurogenic disorder. Such neurologic or neurogenic disorders include lingual, pharyngeal, laryngeal, esophageal, urinary bladder sphincter, lumbar and lumbo-sacral spine, and pelvis and pelvic limb paresis/paralysis. The invention provides a unique method of treating a specified disorder or syndrome by administering to a subject in need of such treatment a therapeutically effective amount of an opioid compound. |
| US08410127B2 |
Substituted tetrazol-1-yl-phenoxymethyl-thiazol-2-yl-piperidinyl-pyrimidine salts
Crystalline salts of 5-ethyl-2-{4-[4-(4-tetrazol-1-yl-phenoxymethyl)-thiazol-2-yl]-piperidin-1-yl}-pyrimidine, compositions thereof, methods for their preparation, and methods for their use are disclosed. |
| US08410124B2 |
Deuterated etravirine
This disclosure relates to novel di-aryl-pyrimidine (DAPY) compounds and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. This disclosure also provides compositions comprising a compound of this disclosure and the use of such compositions in methods of treating diseases and conditions that are beneficially treated by administering a non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI). |
| US08410100B2 |
Pteridinone derivatives as PI3-kinases inhibitors
New compounds of Formula (1) are provided which by virtue of their pharmaceutical activity as PI3-kinase modulators may be used in the therapeutic field for the treatment of inflammatory or allergic diseases. Examples of these include inflammatory and allergic respiratory complaints, inflammatory diseases of the gastro-intestinal tract and motor apparatus, inflammatory and allergic skin diseases, inflammatory eye diseases, diseases of the nasal mucosa, inflammatory or allergic conditions involving autoimmune reactions or inflammations of the kidney. |
| US08410095B2 |
Thiazolopyrimidinone derivatives as PI3 kinase inhibitors
This invention relates to novel compounds of formula (I): and derivatives thereof useful for the modulation, notably the inhibition of the activity or function of the phosphoinositide 3′ OH kinase family (hereinafter PI3 kinases), suitably, PI3Kα, PI3Kδ, PI3Kβ, and/or PI3Kγ. |
| US08410094B2 |
Amide compounds, their pharmaceutical compositions, their preparation method and their uses
The present invention pertains to the field of pharmaceutical chemistry and discloses 8-(3-aminopropyl)-3-exo-8-azabicyclo[3.2.1]octane-3-amino amide compounds represented by formula I, the pharmaceutical compositions, the preparation method and the use thereof. Such compounds or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof can be used as an antagonist of CCR5 in preparing medicaments for treating diseases mediated by CCR5, particularly HIV infection, asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, autoimmune diseases and chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD). |
| US08410082B2 |
Fluorinated diaryl urea derivatives
This invention relates to novel diaryl urea compounds, their derivatives, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. This invention also provides compositions comprising a compound of this invention and the use of such compositions in methods of treating diseases and conditions that are beneficially treated by administering an inhibitor of multiple kinases. |
| US08410076B2 |
Cationized hyaluronic acid and/or salt thereof, method of producing the same, hair modifying agent, cuticle repairing agent, skin modifying agent, and cosmetic preparation each using the same
A cationized hyaluronic acid and/or a salt thereof includes a quaternary ammonium group-containing group, and has a degree of cationization of 0.15 to 0.6. |
| US08410075B2 |
Mannich base N-oxide drugs
Disclosed are Mannich base N-oxides of drugs containing acidic N—H groups. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising a therapeutically effective amount of Mannich base N-oxides, or a N-oxide rearrangement product, pharmaceutically acceptable salt or prodrug thereof, are also disclosed. Further, disclosed are methods of using the compounds, alone or in combination with one or more other active agents or treatments. |
| US08410073B2 |
Methods and compositions for prevention or treatment of RSV infection
Methods and compositions are provided for the prevention or treatment of RSV infection in a human. The methods include administering one or more doses of a composition comprising an siRNA. The dose can be formulated for topical or parenteral administration. Topical administration includes administration as a nasal spray, or by inhalation of respirable particles or droplets. The siRNA comprises a sense strand of ALN-RSV01 and an antisense strand of ALN-RSV01. |
| US08410072B2 |
Use of a growth-stimulating protein
This invention relates to the inhibition of a newly discovered growth-stimulating protein in an individual. Further, the invention relates to a method for preventing or treating a cancer, or preventing or treating cancer growth, invasion or metastasis, or preventing or treating other hyperproliferative diseases in an individual, by down regulating the expression of said growth-stimulating protein or by inactivating said protein. Still further, the invention concerns a method for diagnosing cancer or other hyperproliferative diseases in an individual based on said growth-stimulating protein. |
| US08410069B2 |
Oligoribonucleotide inhibitors of Nrf2 and methods of use thereof for treatment of cancer
The invention provides novel double stranded oligoribonucleotides that inhibit the Nrf2 gene. The invention also provides a pharmaceutical composition comprising one or more such oligoribonucleotides, and a vector capable of expressing the oligoribonucleotide. The present invention also relates to methods and compositions for treating or preventing the incidence or severity of a cancerous disease, particularly various lung cancers. |
| US08410068B2 |
Compounds for the treatment or alleviation of edema, and methods for their use
Isolated and substantially purified oligonucleotide compounds have been shown to be effective in reducing swelling and edema. Novel methods and substances are presented for the prevention, alleviation or treatment of edema of various aetiology. |
| US08410061B2 |
Functional antagonists of hedgehog activity
Variants of hedgehog protein that contain N-terminal modifications are described that can block hedgehog function; thus allowing these variants to serve as functional antagonists. These peptides have a primary amino acid sequence lacking the ability to elicit a hedgehog-dependent response in C3H 10T1/2 cells but having the ability to bind to the hedgehog receptor, patched-1. Methods for producing such functional antagonists and methods of using the functional antagonists are also described. |
| US08410057B2 |
Method of inducing T cell apoptosis by administering Altered Peptide Ligand
The present invention is related with the field of the medicine, particularly with the use of an APL peptide or its analogues derived from the human heat shock protein of 60 kDa, for the manufacture of a pharmaceutical composition for the treatment of Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis and diabetes mellitus type 1. This peptide is biodistributed into the gastrointestinal tract and also promotes the induction of apoptosis in activated intestinal lamina propria and peripheral blood T cells of patients with Crohn's disease. Furthermore, this peptide induces apoptosis in mononuclear cells of patients with diabetes mellitus type 1. |
| US08410055B2 |
Skin wound healing compositions and methods of use thereof
A wound healing composition comprising an amount of heat shock protein effective to promote wound healing and a method thereof to apply the composition. A preferred heat shock protein is either full-length hsp90α or the middle domain plus the charged sequence of hsp90α. The composition is topically applied to skin wounds, covering the outer surface of the wound. The heat shock protein acts by promoting migration of both human epidermal keratinocyte and dermal fibroblasts to the wound in order to close, heal, and remodel the wound. |
| US08410053B2 |
Methods for treating autoimmune disorders, and reagents related thereto
The invention generally relates to improved methods for treatment or prophylaxis in animal subjects (including humans) of autoimmune disorders including Type I diabetes, septic shock, multiple sclerosis, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and Crohn's disease. |
| US08410040B2 |
Azeotrope-like compositions of 1,1,1,2,3-pentachloropropane and hydrogen fluoride
An azeotrope-like composition consisting essentially of 1,1,1,2,3-pentachloropropane and hydrogen fluoride is provided, as well as methods that involve such an azeotrope-like composition. |
| US08410037B2 |
Conditioning composition for hair comprising an alkyl glyceryl ether and quaternized silicone
The present invention is related to aqueous conditioning composition for hair comprising at least one alkyl glyceryl ether and at least one silicone compound with at least one quaternary ammonium group in its molecule. Conditioning composition of the present invention can be in the form of a shampoo, cleansing—conditioning composition, or in the form of a conditioner used after washing hair with cleansing compositions. It has surprisingly been found out that a composition comprising at least one alkyl glyceryl ether and at least one silicone compound with at least one quaternary ammonium group in its molecule gives hair shine, volume and body and hair treated with such a composition looks attractive and has its natural excellent shine, volume and body, elasticity, smoothness and it is easily manageable. Accordingly, present invention is on a conditioning composition for hair comprising at least one alkyl glyceryl ether and at least one silicone compound with at least one quaternary ammonium group in its molecule. |